 Have you ever wanted to make laser cut liquid filled keychains? We did, and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do like to do it, we're going to make it. So do we. And we have new videos each week, every Tuesday and Friday. This week, we're dipping our toes into some liquid filled laser cut acrylic keychains. That's right. We're continuing our acrylic series. We did an acrylic video last week. We're going to continue this week with some acrylic. And what's the first thing that comes to mind when you're thinking acrylic? It's keychains. At least it is for me. So we're going to do some keychains. I think that's like a number one thing to do with acrylic. Well, I think it's an easy one. It's a small and they're great sellers. Yes, but we're going to take it up a notch. It's just it's not going to just be acrylic keychain. We're going to do liquid filled acrylic keychains. Of course we have to take it to the next level and make these things super cool. But we figured out all the tips and tricks. And so we're going to show you how to do it first try. Yeah. We did all the testing so that we can show you the easiest way to make these things. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. This is a long list of supplies because Kim put together a smorgasbord of things that can go inside these things. But don't worry, the full list is in the description below. We're going to give you a kind of quick rundown right now. We needed some acrylic because we're making acrylic keychains. We're going to fill our so we're going to need something to fill them. We're going to use glycerin and baby oil. We're going to need some glue. We're going to use testers acrylic cement. This will bond everything together and to seal it after we've filled it. We're going to use some UV resin. And then, of course, we can't forget all of the goodies. So this is what I was saying is in the description. We've got some glitter. We're going to use some black diamond pigment powders. Glow in the dark glitter. We're going to use dark powders. Little clay pieces here. These are tiny, tiny clay pieces used for nail art. We're going to add these inside. Yes. We're going to add those on the inside. I mean, there's a ton of them. There's so many. There's just a ton of things. I don't know how it's all going to fit these keychains. And then, of course, we need some key rings and, you know, some accent pieces. Yeah. And then, of course, like the strap and stuff for the key chain. Step two, we're going to make our design. We're going to do all of our design work today inside Xtool Creative Space. Xtool Creative Space is Xtool's free design software. They're always making updates. Garrett's going to show you a quick little like shortcut update that they made recently around how to move things around and zoom in and zoom out. Yeah, quickly. So let's head on over to creative space. Here we are in Xtool Creative Space. And we're going to get started by importing one of these PNGs. We'll do the cat. So we just pulled some silhouette images off of the internet. This was a cat head. We're just going to trace the image. I'm not going to do anything. It looks great. I'm not going to adjust any of these little settings. No. I'm just going to hit save. I'm going to put that one. Boom. I got my little cat head. I don't need this anymore. Delete. So here's our little cat head. Let's bring them down a little bit. So a bit big. Key chain. Yeah. Key chain. Okay. So this will be our front or our back because it's a solid piece. We're going to control C, control V. And that will be our other front or back. Yeah. We'll top and bottom again. We'll top and bottom. We're going to make this liquid filled. So now we need a cavity in there. So we're going to make two more pieces, but we're going to make them a frame or like a little cavity piece. So control C, control V, make another copy. Let's bring it up here. Now we're going to go over to outline. We don't want add inner outline for bitmap. That has such an awkward phrase. We're going to get rid of that. And we're going to go negative on this frame. We want the frame to be on the inside. Right. So we're creating a frame, but like he said, we want it in the inside. So we're going to put it into negative point two. Two. That's right. That's a good size frame. It's in between quarter inch and eighth of an inch. And show me they're still the same. So this one is still 3.5. All right. And here's our little cavity. Now we're just going to select both and I'm going to subtract overlap. So now it's all one piece. So the inside frame, you subtracted that from the outside frame. So now the whole inside of that cat head is empty. It's technically gone. Yes. It's technically empty. So if I were able to fill this, it would just be this frame piece that would get filled. Okay. All right. Now let's give a little place for us to add it to our key chain. We're going to insert a circle. I'm going to hold shift. That's a big circle. Let's take it down to a half inch. Now we're going to grab this again. Now we're going to add outline. But again, we're going to bring it inside. That's a tiny circle. Right. I was wondering, do we need to put it on the outside? Because it's going to be so small. Well, I'm just going to control C, control V. Put it over top. And we'll just make this one quarter inch. It'll snap in the center. Okay. I guess that's one way to do it. That's one way to do it. I'm going to add a trapezoid. So I give this thing a little meat to grab on to. Oh, hey. Did you know that if you held down control and you're using a mouse and then used your scroll button in your mouse, you'll be able to zoom in and out? Or if you hold your little space bar, it'll give you a tiny hand. And then you can push on your scroll button to move your canvas around. Oh, that's quick. Little tip. All right. So let's shrink this down a little bit. I just want to be able to stick this in here. So this little tab will have a little more meat to grab on to our subject. Should it have the wide end at the top? Should it? Should it? Should it? All right. Let's merge the outer circle and my little trapezoid. Just combine, unite. Now I'm going to subtract my circle in the middle. Again, right now they were just laying on top of each other. Yeah, there's just two objects that just happen to be one inside the other. So I'm going to subtract overlap. There you go. Now it's all in one piece. We'll put it down here in the cat head. Yeah. Put it down here in the cat head. Hey, look at some. He's doing some cat with a hat. I was a tiny hat. I'm going to use this one later. It's a copy paste. I'll set that guy aside. We'll grab them both. We're going to combine, unite. Bing. Excellent. Now let's make a copy because we want a lot of liquid in this thing. So we're going to make a copy. Now I still need to fill this thing with liquid. So we need to give it a whole insert rectangle. Control tiny rectangle with like less than a eighth of an inch. What do you think? Yes. So like 0.1. Yes. A little needle will fit in there. That'll fit in there. All right. Right. This is just a break in the frame so that we can add the liquid. We're going to have to, after we add the liquid, we're going to have to fill this hole so it doesn't leak. Well, here, let me make another one of these guys copy paste. What do we say? The frame was 0.2. 0.2 high. Oops. It should be able to fit right back in there. Plug up the hole when we're done. Okay. All right. There we go. There's the four pieces we need. We have a front piece, which is solid. A middle frame, a middle frame. A middle frame with a little hole in it so we can fill it. And then the back or the other solid front piece. Can I ask a question? Shoot. Why do we need that second fill hole at the bottom? Why wouldn't you just put that plug piece right there so that it makes all of those cuts? Would it be overlapping? I mean, would it leave to you to get me? Yeah. I mean, I guess we can find this little piece and put it back in because it should cut perfect. This little piece in here, it will cut out and we'll have a little overlap right there and a little overlap right there. Yeah, I guess I don't need this plug piece. That was more of a security thing, I guess. And I might want to use the inside, Kat. Can you not take a notch out of it? Yeah, I'm going to get rid of that thing now that you mentioned it. Okay. I don't need this little plug. We'll just use the plug that's left over. Okay. Now we're done. Step three, we're going to make all of our cuts. We're going to bring the acrylic over to our X-Tool P2 55 watt desktop CO2 laser and make all of our cuts. We're going to leave the film on the acrylic while we're cutting it out and we won't remove it until we're ready to glue it together. We're just going to use some of this Tester's Plastic Cement and we're going to glue everything together. We have a backer, then we have a frame with a little notch taken out and we have a little frame and then the front piece. We're just going to sandwich them all together. Now the first thing we're going to do is the backer. We're going to glue the two frame pieces to the backer and then we'll fill them with the little trinkets and things. With the trinkets and then we'll put the top on. One step at a time. Let's glue the bottom three layers, right? Yes. And we have removed the protective coating on the acrylic. So we're ready to glue. So we do have two different bottles. They're the same thing. They come with this fine pointy tip. One of them comes with the fine pointy tip. One of them comes with a brush. You can find these over by the model section, you know, where you're putting together little model cars and... Is that what you call them? I think so. Model model cars, airplanes, it's all in the model section. That's how you bond it together. I almost missed it. And once this is glued, this isn't glued. These are going to become like one piece. It melts the plastic and welds it back together. Now we tried the star bond and that was a little bit of a disaster. That was a fiasco. The fingers are so stuck they hurt. They hurt? We glued our fingers. You know what? It sticks really well with star bond. Your skin to the acrylic. It's so fast. It sticks so good and so fast. Don't even mess with that star bond and this acrylic. Yes, don't. We tried it. It doesn't work. It makes a mess. And you'll glue your fingers together instantly. And that's minutes of your life you're not getting back. And it's not doing a good job at gluing the acrylic. So this is what we found is the best stuff this testers. Now we're going to add all the little tiny little chachki pieces. These little pumpkins, skulls, ghosts. Got a bunch of stuff. These are so fun. These are like I said these are nail art pieces. They're made of clay and it's just tiny little clay pieces. You can get them for every season. Like these are strawberries and this is moons and stars. I hope I make a lot of keychains because I got all. She got all the stuff. I couldn't help it. Everything. If it said glow in the dark she got that too. Oh yes, yeah. Well that's the whole reason why I got that pack. Because it came with a glow in the dark bottle of things. So we're going to fill it with all the dry stuff right now. No liquid, just dry. So we have the backer, the frame piece and the other frame piece all assembled. We're going to sprinkle in our dry stuff right now and then put the... And then we're going to glue our top on. That's right. That's because this glue takes two hours to dry. So you'll want to go ahead and completely assemble this so that all layers can dry for that two hours. And then you'll come back and add the liquid and then we're going to use a little resin to quick cure it. Yeah. Dry stuff is in there. It's looking very sparkly. Now we're going to put the tops on everything and give it two hours to totally cure and become one. Now I will tell you I did check this after half an hour to see if I could shorten the process. No. And then I checked at an hour and no, it wasn't set yet. And then I checked at an hour and a half and it wasn't set yet. And then I checked at two hours and it was set. So I think you really do have to wait the full two hours. No shortcut now. I tried. I tried. Come up you got them. Now it's time to key chains with all the little holes. We're going to use this syringe and we're going to mainly be using some of this baby oil. We'll feel nice and silky smooth for a few days. And then we're going to put some of these. What are these things? Prism, well... It's like these mica powders. Yeah, mica powders. Yes, thank you. We got some glow in the dark ones. Pigment powders is what it says. Pigment powders. You can put them in resin or we're going to put them in some of this baby oil. And then for my knife, I'm just going to put a little bit of this food coloring and then some of this clear baby oil. We're using baby oil. That way it won't get all cloudy and gunky looking later on. Right. So, you know, this is really our first time doing this as well. And we found that doing some research that water will get cloudy over time. So if you do use water, some people do use distilled water. Baby oil will not get cloudy over time and it's a little thicker. So your stuff will move a little bit slower in there. It's kind of like a snow globe. Yes. Like a snow globe on your hip. So here's what we're going to do now. I'm going to suck this up with the syringe. I'm going to plunge it into this thing. Then those little caps that we kept from before, those little tiny acrylic pieces. We're going to put back in the hole with some UV resin. Hit it for one minute with the light. It should be good to go. Here, let me wipe the tip off so you don't get oil. Here's another tip. Don't get oil in your hole. Your hole. In your hole. You don't want oil in your fill hole. In your fill hole. I'm going to just drop it in a little bit of this UV resin. We're going to put a little UV resin right in here. This cap will drop this in. And then you'll use your tweezers once it's coated to put it back in its little fill hole. All right, go ahead and shine on me, baby. I feel like that was a pretty good job getting it in that little tiny hole. I mean, I'm going to get me to. It's not as dark as I'd like it. Yeah. I think you get to see the little things that are in there. Okay, I like it. Pretty cool. All right. So we put a little water in the baby oil. I think you need a little bit more blood. I lost the plug for the knife. I can't find it. We did find a plug, but it's too big. It's not fitting in. We're going to go in with some resin. This will be a good test because we filled all the others with the plug. In case you wanted to know, can you just fill it with resin? Yeah. We're going to find out. 57 Mississippi, 58 Mississippi, 59 Mississippi, 60 Mississippi. So what happens when my watch dies? Step six. And now we have the accents. Some tassels that we're going to put on these jams. And some bracelets. Bangles. There's silicone. And they already have like a little hook on them. And a little gold hook. And I was saving these. You know, not everyone wants like a plain old bangle. It's too boring. So I got these. Oh, a lot of stuff going on on each one of these things. This one totally belongs with the cat, right? They came like this. They came like this. So I got these on Amazon. I think they were $10 each. But when you add this, I think you can sell them for a lot more. Yeah, I'm saying if you add that. Yeah, definitely sell it for a lot more. It comes with a hand sanitizer. A little thing for like pepper spray. Mine comes with a bottle opener. Pepper spray. Or something right here, right? Yeah, mine's got some kind of alarm. Should I pull the plug? Yeah. This is also a silicone bracelet. It's stretchy. A little puff ball. Yeah, mine has a tassel on it. In the emergency, I have the emergency noise. There you go. And then all you have to do is hook. And it's got a combination. I think this one totally goes with like this. The cauldron. Let's use these for the cat and the cauldron. Yeah, the cat and the cauldron. I think this one totally goes with that. If you got a tassel it matches or something. No. Maybe just a black tassel. Yes. Black tassel like a... Or maybe this black tassel. Like a hearse. Like a hearse. Alright, well let's put the... These are a little bit... We got a little bit of baby alone though. Do I use this one that's open? It looks like they're all hooked to the tassel. You could probably do some personalization. Drop people's names and stuff in there. Who would be sure you could do like people's faces. Put them on a shrinky dink. Put people's faces in these things. Yes. Yes, we did see that and we just didn't have time to create our own accents from the shrinky dinks. Just needs more stuff now that I see this. What is this? It's... This is really a statement. You really want them to see you coffin. Yeah, I love coffins. I think this thing needs to be tasseled up. Step seven. Profit. So these are a great little item to sell that's got a good, better best to them. Like you can come in with just the key ring. Good. This is good. I think you're all in for this for about $2. You could probably sell it for about $5. So that's good. Then you have your better, which is the bangle, little tassel, and the liquid filled guy. I think you're all in with the bangle and everything and all the little glitter inside. What do we decide? About $7. Yeah, the bangles are about $3.20 each. Comes with their key ring and everything. And then these tassels are, what do I say, like $0.05? Yeah, $0.05. And then maybe a couple dollars in acrylic. Two. So you're at like $7 total. I think I said $2 for acrylic. $2, oh, for the like clay accents. Oh yeah. It's not even that. I mean, I would put like five in there and some glitter. So you're less than $2 and your little accents inside. I'd say they would go for about $15. Yeah. $15, that's a pretty good one. There we have Best. This has all the bells and whistles and sirens. Literally bells and whistles. Yeah. There you have. I think you're all in on this one for about $14. Uh huh. Including the little $9 bundle of goodies here. Yes, because yes, the whole bundle of goodies was $10. And then we're going to add our little cat to it. And then we can up the price of that. What did we say? Just the acrylic itself and the goodies inside is maybe less than $4. $3. $3. And then this is $10. So you're around $13 for the whole thing. And you can sell it for $20, $25. Yeah. I would even go $30 if you had a little personalization up in there or something. $30 easy. Yeah. This just has, this has all the little goodies to it. Like I said, all the little bells and whistles. Don't forget to hit that like button. And if you're not yet subscribed, subscribe and tick that bell to be notified of our new videos each week. Big thank you to all of our patrons. We love you guys. Thanks for helping us out and smashing that like button helps us out too. With that, we are about out of time. We will see you next week where we'll do it, build it and make it again. Don't forget to join us on Tuesdays for test cut Tuesday. Oh, you're spinning now. Let's do it at the same time. Okay. Ready? One, two, three. No. You're getting me. Why are you hitting me? 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