 Hey guys, it's Jen from MyCrateCrafts. In today's video, I'm going to show you how to create these cute little socks using sublimination printer and ink. They were so much fun to create and the possibilities are endless on what else to create. These are just little Paw Patrol socks that I made for my cousin for his birthday coming up. I definitely like this a lot better than the regular vinyl I will show you. I did this one with HTV and you can totally see the difference on these, how much softer these are. It's just printed right into the material itself rather than having something hard on top of it. So I really, really like how these turned out. This is never gonna come off and this was my first time doing sublimination and I really love how they turned out. I love the color, I love the texture of it. Everything was amazing. So in this tutorial, I will show you exactly how to do these socks step by step and you can take this and turn it into anything, into t-shirts, into bags, whatever you have that you wanna subliminate. I will teach you how to do it in this video. So stay tuned. All right, so I'm starting in design space and these are the ones that I'm going to be cutting out. I'm so excited to try this. I've actually never done sublimination before but I've done a lot of research on this. My husband actually bought me a sublimination printer and I'm so excited to use it. So I'm gonna show you really quick. These designs here, I just went into upload. I actually purchased a whole bunch of SVG files from Etsy. So I'm going to upload and I'm gonna go into view all and I'm gonna go up to the top here and type in paw. I'm just trying to find paw patrol stuff that I purchased. Like I said, I bought a bunch of stuff off of Etsy. So I just clicked on the ones that I wanted here. I'm actually gonna take this one too as well. So I'm gonna click to put to canvas and then it's gonna bring it up really quick. Sorry, my voice is going to just get over cold. I'm just gonna shrink it down first. Sorry, shrink it down first and then you make it to the size that you want. So I'm making little socks for a two-year-old. So I resize these to the size that I wanted. So it's two by 2.28. So the way I did that is just type... Baxter! So all I did was type in up here too. I leave it locked so it doesn't skew it anyway and it'll automatically do the height for me. So I just changed this to two and then I pushed enter and then it automatically changes the height for me. As you see, it matches all of these other ones. So that's how I did that. Same thing with the Marshall, the Chase and the Rubble. I just typed in 2.3 and then I just automatically let it do the height for me. Otherwise, if you unlock it here, I'll show you real quick, you unlock it and then you change it to be two by, let's say three, even like that would be better. Just skew it. So I like how it does it automatically for you. So I'm gonna delete this one since I don't need it. And what I need to do actually, all right, I'm gonna start all over because that didn't work. All right, guys. So I'm starting in design space and I'm gonna show you how I do this. My husband actually bought me a sublimination printer for Christmas. So this is the first time I'm doing this but I've done a lot of research on this. So I'm gonna go to upload here cause I'm gonna find some images that I want. I'm gonna click on view all here and I'm gonna go up here to the search image bar. I'm gonna type in paw. I'm doing little socks for my cousin's son. So my little cousin, he's so dang cute. So he loves paw patrol. So I'm gonna grab a couple of these and put them in. I purchased these from Etsy. You can purchase it from anywhere you want. I can leave the link below for the ones that I purchased here. But I'm just gonna grab a couple of these. Those ones, I think I might do the paw print as well. And I'm gonna grab their names up here too. Trying to match them up cause I know the different colors here. So we'll see if I got those correct. So I'm gonna go down here, click to add to canvas and then it's gonna bring them up rather large. So you're gonna have to resize these to whatever size you want. Like I said, I'm putting these on little toddler socks. So I thinking like two by two might work really well. All right, so it brings it up all here. They are rather large. I'm just gonna keep it selected altogether and just make them smaller for now so we can see them on the screen. And then I'm just gonna take each one and move them so we can see what each one of them look like. Kind of put them where they're supposed to go. This one, I don't think I have that one. Just trying to match the colors up here. Whoops. So, hmm, looks like I'm missing a tracker and a Rocky. I must have not put those in with the SVG file. So I'm just gonna get rid of those guys and maybe I think I'm just gonna work with these three here. I'll get rid of this one as well. So I'm gonna work with these three. So I'm gonna show you what I'm gonna do. So I wanna change the size on these and I also wanna do it so I print some cuts so that I can print it on my sublimination printer. But the first thing I wanna do is actually change the size. Like I said, I want the socks to be about a two by two or I'm sorry, the image to be a two by two. What I used to do in the past was go up here, unlock it and change it to be a two by two. But I've noticed that skews things a lot. So from now on, I always just leave it locked and change the height on here. So I'm gonna leave it to, I'm gonna put it to two and then it's automatically gonna change the height to make it look better. So I'm gonna change each one of these just to two and let it automatically change the height for me. So we go here and just push two. And as you can see, they look much better. They look really similar. You can go up here and kind of see the height difference on here is 2.242, 2.28. I mean, so it's a little bit smaller for this one but I'm not gonna skew it and change it. And I actually like how large these are. I'm just gonna make sure they're roughly the same size. So this one's 2.72. Maybe what I'll do is I'm gonna copy this 2.72 and I'm gonna change it for this first one and then also the second one and let it do its job figuring out the height. So there, so there at least the width is the same and the height is just a little difference but that is okay. So I really like how these look. So the next thing I wanna do is flatten this. So you just wanna select it, go down here to this flatten button and then that will automatically change it to a print then cut as you can see up here. So I'm gonna grab this and I'm just gonna go to flatten. And I'm wondering actually if I'm gonna cut all these out if I can just select them all and then just do it flatten. Yeah, here we go. But it's telling me it's too large because they're all one piece. So I'm gonna have to undo what I just did. So select it all, go up to the back button. And the reason for that is just because it's telling me that the image was way too large to cut all like that. So I'm gonna have to do each one individually but just for future reference if you have something smaller you can do it that way rather than keep going in and doing each one of them. But it is not going to let me. So we are just gonna go to each one of these, click on them and click flatten. So you can see here, they all say print then cut. That is exactly what we want. We wanna print this on our sublimination printer and then cut it out on our Cricut machine. So I'm gonna go up here to make it. I was gonna bring it to this. This is what it's gonna look like when it cuts this out. I like to just maybe move them a little bit that I can get it a little bit easier out when it cuts it. So this is going to cut. This is what it's going to look like when it cuts out on your sublimination printer. So you wanna make sure that you have your sublimination printer paper. So I have a Epson 2720 sublimination printer. It isn't actually a sublimination printer. What makes it sublimination is the ink. You wanna make sure that you put the sublimination ink in the printer and not use the regular ink that it comes with. And I'm also using, it's called A sub sublimination printer paper. It's eight and a half by 11. So I'm gonna leave links for everything that I use down below. I, like I said, this is my first time. I'm really excited to do this and show you guys exactly how it's gonna go. So this is going to cut out on the sublimination printer. One thing you wanna do before you do anything else is go over here and near this. It's just like HTV heat transfer vinyl. You wanna make sure you mirror. It's a turn your mirror on because if you don't do this part, you're gonna have to cancel everything and redo it again. Meaning that if I push the continue button here, it's gonna tell me to send to printer. And then if I went, oops, I forgot to turn on the mirror. It won't let you for whatever reason. I've seen lots of videos on this and people are like, no, you gotta go back and cancel it. So I'm not, I'm gonna try it. Make sure you please make sure that you turn your mirror on. I'm gonna send it to printer and go up here. Make sure your wifi is connected to it. So I have the Epson 2720, but make sure you're going to the right one. This is just a black and white printer that I have. This one is a colored printer that I have. As you see, they're two different Epson ones. So this one was a regular printer, but we put sublimination ink inside of it. So I wanna make sure I click on the right one. I'm gonna go ahead and push print and it's gonna send it to my printer behind me. So I'm gonna go ahead and print this out and then I'll show you the next step. All right guys, so I printed out my sublimination paper. Now what I need to do is put it on my green mat and make sure it's nice and flat. And I'm gonna pick a material here that I am thinking that it's going to work the best. So this paper is not too thick. It's kind of light, but I'm afraid that if I use the copy paper, 20 pounds that it's not gonna cut through enough. So I'm actually gonna grab this one here, this card stock, heavy card stock. And if you don't have that on your materials, you just go to here to browse all materials and then you can just type it in card stock and then you can find it here. You can do card stock for intricate cuts, heavy card stock here is the one that I use. I just put a star by it because I do use it a lot for all of my, a lot of my cuts that I do. So I'm just gonna push done. So this, that was the one that I used. So whoops, a lot of luck. So it somehow put corrugated cardboard. So I don't want that. So I'm gonna go back here and push the heavy card stock, gonna cut on this. So you can see it right here. I'll push edit. So this is exactly what it's gonna look like. I'm gonna put it on my green mat and I'm gonna lay it really flat. And what your Cricut's gonna do is it's gonna make a little funny noises if you never did the print and cut before. And it's actually gonna look for these register lines. So it's gonna do a little funny things first and then it's gonna go ahead and cut it out for you. So again, make sure that your image is mirrored. So you can see here that it is backwards actually. So I'm gonna click done. I'm gonna put this through my machine and then I'll show you what it looks like when it's all done. And I actually do have my heat press set at 380 degrees for 60 seconds. So during this time, if you have a heat press or a mini press or anything or even an iron, whatever you're going to be using, I would suggest preheating it right now. So I'm gonna go ahead and cut this out next with the Cricut and then I'll get set up with my camera by my heat press. All right guys, so here it is. I printed it off. I'm gonna show you what it looks like before I take it off here. So this is the sublimination print paper. I'm gonna save this. And then here are the pieces. You can see that they are backwards. So I did mirror them. And then these are the little socks that I'm going to be using. I just purchased these at Walmart. One thing I did read a lot about is you don't want to just put them down. You wanna take something hard. So I cut out a piece of cardboard and I'm just gonna put it on the inside of this. I think there are actually things that you can buy online that go with the sizes of things like t-shirts and socks and stuff, but you know what? I'm frugal, so I'm trying to do it myself. So I just cut a little piece that's gonna fit the inside of here. I'm just trying to match the sides up so that it's even on both sides that I get the center. Or you could always take your sock and put it flat wise. You get a line down the middle. I'm just gonna start with the one. I'm just gonna show you how this goes. So I'm just gonna leave it like this. I'm gonna press it just for a couple seconds just to get it hot and to get it flat. I do have my heat press set at 380 for 60 seconds. You do need a lot of pressure for this. If you have a heat press, make sure you put it on a high, high pressure. So I'm just gonna take the first one, just this little red one here, and you wanna flip it upside down. And now you wanna find the center of your sock or whatever you're doing. You can do this with t-shirts or whatever you might have. And I'm just trying to find the center wherever you like it. And I'm gonna leave it right here. And then normally you take tape and you put it on here, but for such a small piece, I'm not really worried about it moving too much. Plus I'm only doing one at a time to show you. So I'm just taking a piece of parchment paper. You can use butcher paper. You can use whatever you want. So I lay that down next. And then I'm going to put over this thicker paper. And here is where the tape would come in handy if you wouldn't move it. But I'm just being very careful and putting that on top of it. So then I'm just gonna press this. And make sure if you do have a heat press that you have it on a lot of pressure. So I just have it set, like I said, for 300, 380 degrees for 60 seconds. So I'm gonna let this go. And then I can show you what it looks like. And then I'll do the finish of, finish the rest of them and show you what they look like. Here we go. So, pull this up. And if you don't have a heat press, I highly, highly recommend getting one of these. I absolutely love this. So I'm just pulling everything away. And then I'm gonna pull my little transfer away. And that's how it turned out. Wow, it really did turn out. One thing I do see on the sock, now I definitely see where tape does come in handy. Unfortunately, it did move a little bit. I don't know if you see it on here, but it did move. But I don't have the specific tape for this. And I was really excited to try this out. So I'm just pulling the cardboard out. And you have to be careful. Obviously, it's very hot. But I'm really excited how, whoop, how this turned out. Look at that. And I know it's gonna stretch a little bit on the sock and on the, I mean on the feet when they go on. But that's okay. So I guess I would highly suggest using the tape. Like I said, this is my first time. So you kind of live and learn. So learn with me, use the tape. So I'm gonna do the same thing for the rest of these guys. I'm gonna open this up, put the piece of cardboard in here. I think I'm actually gonna cut some more cardboard pieces out because I don't wanna do one at a time. I'm kind of anxious to get these done. So I'm just doing the same thing. Putting the sock on the cardboard. Finding the center. And then I'll just give it one good press. Get it warm and then get any wrinkles or anything out in there. And then just do the same thing. I wish I did have some tape. I think when I go back to the store, I'll be getting some of the tape. But I'm gonna go ahead and do the little bone here to go with the other one that we did. So just again, flipping it upside down. I feel like a dummy, guys. My dummy, I should have known better to put the tape on it, but I don't have the specific tape. It is specific tape for this. You can't just use like scotch tape or anything. So I'm just gonna line it up the best I can. Do the same thing. Again, you live and learn. Please learn from me. But again, I'm putting this parchment paper over it. And then the Teflon paper. I think that's where I messed it up last time as I let it slide. So it's my first one. I think it's not too bad. So I'm gonna finish these up. This is at 380 degrees for 60 seconds. A lot of pressure on here. I read that that's really important is a lot of pressure. So you wanna make sure you do that. So I'm gonna go ahead and finish these guys up and then I'll show you what they look like when they're all complete. All right, so I'm gonna show you really quick. So I did these before. This is with HTV. So you can't stretch them really and they're pretty tough. Like when you put your foot in here, you're gonna feel all that on the inside. So I'm really impressed by these. There's like, it's like printed on there. So it's totally different. Here is the shirt I actually made for him. It's a little Chase one. Honestly, this one took me a couple of hours to do from start to finish. There are so many layers on here. Couple different browns, the black, the blue, the pink, it was awful to do. And it's hard. You know, white kid wants a hard shirt. And then I put his name on the back here. And then also, same thing. It's just really hard. I don't know if you guys can hear that. So I would rather do a sublimination on this. So I think I'm gonna actually grab another shirt from Walmart. I'm gonna do the same process, but I'm gonna do a sublimination. And I'm gonna show you guys that. So if you're interested in that, stay tuned, that's gonna be the next video. But I did these and I just don't like them as much. I used to like HTV. And as you can see, I made a oopsie on here. HTV is not too given when you heat press it down. It did not wanna come up. So it kind of actually came up and didn't stick so well. So yeah, I'm in love with this. 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