 We just made these super easy laser cut name puzzles and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do it? Build it or make it? So do we. And we have new videos each week. This week we got another great beginner or really easy laser craft project to help you pay off that laser. We're making name puzzles. Now if you've ever been to a craft show, I know you've seen this craft and you will be surprised at how easy you can make this yourself with your laser. Personalized toys are great gifts from grandparents, aunts, they're a great purchase. You can make a whole booth out of just name puzzles. People love personalization. Who's down with PLP? You know me. And this idea came from a bunch of comments we received on the themed layer name video and this one's even easier than that. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. We're going to use some quarter inch Baltic birch plywood, some star bond thick for glue, hold it all together. We're going to be painting our letters with some of our Foxy Hughes acrylic paints and join us over on Patreon. We're going to include some bonus content where we're going to add some supplemented accents and we're going to cut that out of this quarter inch Eucalyptus board. Step two, we're going to make our design. We're going to do the entire design in Lightburn, so we'll meet you over there. Here we are in Lightburn and since it's going to be an easy design, we'll do all of our design work inside Lightburn. Yeah, it's a great beginner project here. So we're going to start by selecting a text tool and we'll just put my name out there and all caps, G-A-R-R-E. Garite. This is his French spelling. This is my French name, Garite. All right, I'm going to grab a corner, stretch it out, make it a little bit bigger so I can see it. Now you're holding the shift key while you do that? Nope, I just grabbed one of these corner pieces. If I grab a corner, it will keep its perspective. If I grab a side, I can stretch it. Oh, okay. Control-Z. All right, this is too squared off, so we're going to go get another font. The font that I like for this is called TT. Oh, there it is. TT around Nouveau. Here it is. That's one of these. I'll take this bottom one. A bold? Yeah, I did do it. Bold, extra bold. Give it a little something to grab onto. All right, we're going to make our letters three inches high. There, and now we'll start to do some magic to it. Let's first give it an outline or an offset. We're going to give it a hefty offset. Outer shapes only, and then we'll select resulting object. So let's kick this up until it looks pretty fat. What do you think, like a little over half inch around here? Yeah, I guess it looks good to me. All right, we'll say okay. That's selected. We'll change this to red so I can tell them apart. I'm going to draw a box real quick. See, there's a gap in this T in the TT. I'm going to try to fill in that gap a little bit by drawing a box. Looks good. Now with that box selected, I'm going to hold shift and grab the offset. Now over here, I'm going to merge or boolean union them. Wow. Yeah, I got rid of the gaps in the middle. Perfect. So this is going to be my backer piece. I'm going to need a second one. So I'm going to go control D, which made a copy. I'm going to grab this copy and hold shift. So I'll drag it all the way down pretty even. I'm going to do it one more time. Control D, I'll drag this one down. So duplicate. Yep, duplicate. But these two are going to be my cutouts. So I'm going to make these red. I'm going to have two layers of letters so that the kid can grab it. And this will be my backer. This one will be my frame. That's it. We're done. That's how easy it was. So the red lines are going to be my cut lines and the blue lines are my score lines. I left the score lines in there so we can put the center of the A and the two Rs back. The whole thing is 20 inches wide. I got a big name, Kim. Yeah, you do. Now, if you wanted to do this with a square backer, you could do it just as easily, right? Just draw a rectangle around it. Just draw a rectangle around everything. And the letters would just sit right in there. And how do you round the corners? Because you probably wouldn't want it pointy. Can I round the corners on that thing? I don't know why you're asking me these tough questions. Oh, so you want me to round the corners? That's pretty easy to do. So with my item selected or my object selected, I'm going to go to window, shape properties, and this will open a tab over here on my cut move camera variable tabs. So I have shape property. Again, with my object selected, I can go to corner radius and I can just start tweaking it a little bit. Oh, perfect. So I'm just going to get like 125.125. There, there you go. Round it. So then I'd be able to take like my name. We'll duplicate it and put it inside the box. There, now I have rounded corners. So kid won't cut himself. I think he can still poke himself in the eye, though. Got to give him something to play with. I made a couple of other names that I wanted to try cutting out. So over here, we have some shapes. This is a dump truck. I'm going to put my name inside a dump truck. I thought that would be cool. And then here are some that have some accents that we're going to try to sublimate on. Step three, we're going to make all of our cuts. I'm going to take this big sheet of birch plywood over to the AI Nova 14 and throw the whole thing in there and cut out all of our designs. We're also going to cut out those shapes using our eucalyptus board. This is eighth inch. And we're going to throw this into the Nova 14 as well. But all of these projects can be cut on your desktop laser. Let's get ready to cut. All of my red lines are going to be cut lines. All of my blue lines are going to be score lines. I want my red lines to cut first. So they're up at the top and I'm going to use 15 millimeters per second, 50 percent power. For my score, I'm going to go a hundred millimeter, 200 millimeters per second with 20 percent power. No offset. No offset. I don't know why tabs are so likely to grab everything and we'll send it to the laser. Little pieces here and we're going to take our sublimation pieces over that eucalyptus board and we're going to sublimate those. But we're going to paint all of our little pieces right now with this trusty foxy hues paints. This is our outdoor acrylic paint. This is great for your outdoor signs, but it works just as well for your indoor projects because it is acrylic paints. Project, you can find the unfinished kit where you can make it yourself or the digital file in our store at k&gmakeit.com. Or you can join us over on Patreon where you get access to all of our files and a whole community of like-minded laser crafters like yourself. And we love our patrons. Step five, time to assemble it. We're going to bring it all together with some of this starbound thick. We're going to glue this frame onto the backer with the score marks. And then we're going to glue the letters, the ones that we painted, on top of the ones that are not painted. So it forms two layers so you can pull it back out of the hole by having to dump the puzzle over. But first we're going to hit everything with a little sanding block, knock off the char, kind of round off some of the edges too. Make sure nobody gets any splinters. Yeah, they don't want any splinters. So now I'm going to glue my frame to my backer and then start gluing all my little letters together. Flares and materials, a little bit of labor to paint them. They're super easy to paint and glue together. And we think we'll sell them for $25 at The Craft Show. So a great, high profit, easy craft to sell. Design time was about five minutes. Cut time was about five minutes. Super easy, super fast. At a time! So if you're not going to join us for The Patron After Show, we will see you next week where we'll do it building and make it again. And I'm going in with the truck right on his headlight. We'll see if those letters fall out. You know it's a puzzle, right? Yeah, that's why it's got to be a super balance. They're not stuck in there. I think that they are, but they're not. Yeah, I'll just tip it forward.