 We just threw together these Aztec wood wall art pieces using illustrator the glow forge and then some unicorn spit And we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back do you like to do it build it or make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week We're diving in headfirst right into the unicorn spit. Yep. We're looking at bringing some additional Like home decor items to the farmers market. So we you know, we just started that a couple of weeks ago We have some outdoor signs We have some front porch leaners But I want to put a couple things on the table and bring some farmhouse signs and I wanted to get into the unicorn spit Yeah, so we decided that this week we're gonna do a geometric pattern And we're really gonna test out some of this unicorn spit because the colors are so vibrant and beautiful And I'm so excited that we have a really cool project to try them out on these are going to pop Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies Really just needed some eighth inch birch plywood and picked up from the home improvement shop Yep, and some quarter inch mdf. We'll use this for the backer in the frame And unicorn spit that's the key In all the colors however today, we're just gonna try and keep well Garrett just informed me before we hit record that he's got his own idea So I'm trying to keep mine a little I don't know monotone maybe or a little low key and of course he doesn't do anything low key So the colors I'm using are blue thunder lemon kiss Zia And white What does that say? Ning white Ning A white me I'm using the same, but I'm gonna throw in some of this sparkle. What is this? It's right here on the back. Sorry Dolly firebird Dolly firebird Step two, we're gonna make our designs that is the motion for design making Does not compute we're gonna jump into illustrator. I'm gonna show you a real quick easy way to make some geometric shapes We're just gonna use the line tool. It's a whole lot of line tool really All right, let's start with a box that's 10 inches high 18 inches wide I'm gonna draw a line using my pen tool I'm gonna click it hold shift and then I'm gonna click when I'm done and escape to cut my line I'm gonna switch back over to my select tool. I'm gonna make this line slightly taller Then the box I'm gonna copy paste I'm gonna hold shift and I'm gonna tilt it I'm gonna go ahead and make this slightly wider than the box Now I'm just gonna select everything center it vertical center it horizontal There my box should be locked now or my set Zoom in on the bottom right square and let's make these lines blue. So I'll be able to see them a little better And back to the pen tool I'm gonna click it. I'm gonna hold shift. This should keep it on a 45 and I'm gonna click it Now I'm gonna hit escape And hit my select tool again. Let's make these red I'm just gonna copy and paste Let's move it in a little bit I'm thinking about half inch wide. What's about half inch wide to me and do another one I'll do a couple of these and then I'm gonna copy them all and paste them again four four looks good All right, let's copy all these and paste them all and Copy paste I'm just gonna keep copying and pasting the lines until I flip this whole little bottom corner You know what? I'm gonna draw a box and make it like a half inch wide And I'm gonna use this as a guide to make sure all of my lines are spaced evenly I think this will be the easiest way Make it a half inch Tilt it on a 45 by holding shift And just giving it a boop I'm just gonna use this to line up all of my little All of my little lines Just shift them all over a little bit Make sure they're all spaced correctly Now to make sure these are all the right size. I'm gonna use my selection tool I'm gonna grab a corner hold shift and just line it up with the blue lines Grab a corner hold shift and line it up with the blue line I'm gonna do this for all of them. Just make sure they just touch the blue line Like in the middle of the blue line, I guess All right, let's use this box again We're gonna use this box over here as a guide to know where to put our vertical and horizontal lines Hold shift make it straight again vertical Let's place it in here And steal one of these lines in the middle Copy paste And then we're gonna hold shift and make it vertical again All right Now I'm gonna place it over here and I'm gonna just going to shrink these down I'm gonna use this as a guide and shrink all of these lines down until they intersect the Lines that are going out of 45 And just kind of make a pattern going through placing these little vertical and horizontal lines through here making uh What I think is a cool pattern cool pattern Zoom in and make sure everything touches now I'm gonna get real close and make sure all of our lines touch all of everything lines up and intersect So that we don't have to cut it out with an exacto later on Looks good. Now. Let's group all of our lines. We'll select them all We'll click group Now we can use the mirror tool But I like to start in the bottom right and it likes you to start in the bottom left. So It doesn't work Control z Brings us back. I'm gonna do a copy And paste I'm gonna slide it into place top right then I'm going to go to object Object transform And reflect and I'm going to reflect it Horizontal Zoom in to make sure my lines are all lined up Zoom out Copy both sections the top and the bottom Then I'm going to do a paste and then I'm going to go back to object transform Reflect vertical Let's scooch all these in place make sure the lines line up everything is where it's supposed to be and export it as an svg Step three. We're going to make all of our cuts. I took that eighth inch piece of plywood Out and I cut it into two pieces so it'll fit in the glow forge And then I'm just going to use the settings inside glow forge to make my cuts And you could use that same svg that you just created and use that on a cricket as well So a couple of years ago. We did something very similar and in cricket design studio I think this pattern actually came from cricket design studio But you can make your own and we used faux leather to cut ours and we mounted it just to a piece of what was this Um a one by what is this one by 12 a one by 12 And we just cut it square and then we mounted we cut the leather and then we mounted it here So you can use that same svg for your cricket check out that video over here. I'll put it over kim's head All right But this time we're using the unicorn spit. That's right Up in our game This 12 inch masking tape is a lifesaver. It covers the board I don't have to worry about overlapping any masking tape It covers a glow forge board in one go and it prevents that burning and charring on the surface of the boards The eighth inch birch plywood is pretty soft. So I will just use the thick bass plywood And that usually cuts it Now we stay in I'm gonna spray my board first and then stain it Kim's going in to make it right. It just says For the boldest color use right out of the bottle. So that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna wet my board and see if I can make it look a little translucent little Poppy First we have to pull all the masking off It's not that bad And give it just a little spritz of water just to dampen the boards a little bit We do have some gloves because This stuff does stain your hands Garrett has one up to my design over here with a million little pieces. Yeah, I might have gone a little Garrett will see you tomorrow morning when he finishes his I might have gone a little deep, huh? Color is yours. I hope you have enough color for all your pieces over there Yeah, me too We're gonna glue it down. We're gonna glue it to the backer and kind of just glue it all together I guess glue the frame on and everything I'm gonna paint my board with glue and just transfer my image onto the whole glued board What say you Kim? Well I Dude, I do not agree with I think I'm gonna use my gorilla contact cement. All right The race is on then Like evil kaneval. Yeah, good. I love evil kaneval. You do. Can you imagine? Can't you just see it? Evil kaneval was one of Garrett's childhood heroes. Totally. Totally. Oh fun fact. So I did. I love evil kaneval Everything was evil kaneval or Fonzie for the longest time Anyway, we got on evil kaneval because that's what he said. That's what his artwork looks like I thought it looked like it's caper Yeah, it kind of does look like it's cape Board down and then I put it on and I noticed it went on A lot more even it looks like Like yours looks good But it's very opaque. I'm surprised. I hope opaque it is Yeah, well I through this process I learned that Um It would lead as it dried it left streaks So with this foam brush, so I felt that dabbing it seemed to to work better It left it left fewer brush marks. So And I think I mean I'm okay It came out a little more pink than I'd like. Yeah, I could see that. I was really going for evil kaneval But now it's a little more less evil Yeah, it's it's pink and blue. Yeah, it turned out pink and blue, but it's a pretty cool design I think you could blow it up and really make it huge. We didn't make them big I would love to make this one huge It's kind of what I was thinking though Be bigger and stain them. I I would say I mean I know we used a lot of colors here because I really wanted to try that unicorn spit But I think some You know coffee or jacobine and some grays and doing some real like kind of keep them earth toning Yeah, rustic looking. I think some whitewash. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, those would look very classy Very classy. This may not be as classy with the pink in it and all but All right, it's about that time Oh Would you like some more kim and garret? We appeared on a podcast this week. Oh, yeah, it's because we make podcasts with vincent ferrari and uh Looks like we're a bad out of time So if you're not going to join us for the after show We will see you next week where we'll do it build it make it again It's like every week Do it every week Can you guys hear a cat meowing at the door? I don't suddenly she's starving. We're doing it building it and making it I might put a word on mine. Hey, yeah, you know what? Yeah, I think that might be cool But I don't want to hide it all that cool pattern. You know, yeah a little word Is we are