 It's good to be back with some more bee themed things This be a door hanger And I be making this using the glow forge And I will be using the cricket to make mine, and we will be layering some vinyl and using some slicing techniques I'll show you how we do it right now What is up a welcome back do you like to do it a little make it so do we and we have a New video each week this week it be spring so we're gonna make a bee themed door hanger Yep, we're gonna do two two methods. We're gonna use our glow forge for one, and then I'm gonna use the same as VG Did I say that as VG? This is VG as VG. Maybe it was there. Maybe I said it with an accent It was an Italian accent. It was good. I like that I'm gonna cut mine out of vinyl and use an 18 inch door round. Yep. I'm gonna use a glow forge And c'est moi. We'll be cutting it out of the cricket Before we get started. I'm gonna do a little house cleaning Is that it housekeeping tips here to let you know that our spring merch our t-shirt campaign here ends on this Sunday The 21st March 21st, so if you're interested in picking up one of our Spring merch this does a limited time design is because after that it'll be gone It's just a campaign that you run We're using bonfire, and we're running a t-shirt campaign and it lasts for I don't know What was it two weeks and And the end ends this Sunday the 21st if you're interested. It'll be in my drawer forever Right, let's get this project started Step a one now we're gonna gather all of our supplies and kick the tape off the shelf. I Just needed some quarter-inch MDF and some paint and I'm gonna use some glue some vinyl a little bit of paint for my backer and An 18 inch round. We'll be using an MDF round that I already have cut here So we do offer these like blank rounds in our store Anywhere anywhere Step two, we're gonna make all of our cuts I'm gonna bring the quarter-inch MDF over to the glow forge and cut it out using the pass through It's a little large, but I'll make a version of the SVG that will fit inside a basic or a plus And I'm gonna use the same SVG and I'm gonna cut mine out on the Cricut using the vinyl But this I'm gonna show you a couple of techniques here one We're gonna slice that image because his has a backer attached to a branch And we're gonna remove that backer because we don't need it because we're using the 18 inch round So I'm gonna show you how to slice that out and remove that piece I'm also going to show you a little bit techniques on layering vinyl nothing to it But if you're using this permanent 651 vinyl you can and as long as it's not on top of glitter vinyl It's very easy to layer stickers on stickers on stickers. Yeah, pretty much I should have had this side out. Isn't that much prettier? What a brown match Okay, here we are in design space we've imported our image it comes in groups, so we're gonna ungroup it We're gonna select just our words and attach those together They become their own layer and now everything else is on one layer So we want to ungroup that layer so that we can see all of our different colors And get our branch by itself. So we're gonna hide everything but the branch and the backer And now we're gonna add some shapes We want to cover we don't have a hive shape So we're gonna add these little circles here and we're gonna add multiple circles to cover up all of the hive Make this one oval. We're gonna get this other last little slice out right here And now we're gonna hide our branch backer And get that out of the way for a moment We're gonna select all of our shapes and we're gonna weld them together and make them one shape So it's kind of a beehive shape now Now we've got one circle one backer and we're gonna slice those We're gonna delete everything that we don't want which is the hive the circles leaving just our branch here Now our branch is longer than a 12 inch mat. So we're gonna add a 12 inch square here lay it over and We're going to Select the branch and the square and then we're gonna hit slice and delete all of the pieces we don't want Now this will fit on our mat We're gonna bring back everything Unhide all of our little layers here All right, it looks good. I'm gonna hit make it Oh Right over here. You can see we have a triangle here. That's indicating that Our image is too large for our mat. So we're just gonna keep shrinking our image until the Error goes away. I'm gonna bring it back. We're gonna ride the line here. There we go. Perfect We'll hit make it and Now all of our Multicolor pieces show up on their multicolor mats perfectly This air up here is just saying that our branch is a little longer than 12 inches. That's okay We want to be able to use this SVG inside a glow forge basic or plus So we're gonna do some resizing and our own slicing and dicing So first we're going to resize it because I don't feel like taking this hive piece and making this both a puzzle piece I'm just gonna do the back branch So let's resize it until this hive will fit inside the glow forge Now it's all you could go inside the glow for just actually 10.93. So let's hold shift and take it down What do I got what am I at? Oh? 11.1 so close like don't Take it down a smooch a little sketch. What do we add? Still 11 select all Scooch it on down What do we got 10.96 almost there just another Smidge oh there we go. What are we at? 10.928. Oh, I mean, I don't think we can get any better than that. Alright, let's hide everything We don't want to slice. So let's go to layers And hide our little little cut circles here Now I want to slice this tree branch back here I'm gonna go up here over to my rectangle tool I'm gonna draw a rectangle That's the same color that one. Let's make it yellow. I want it right underneath that branch get right up under here All right, now I'm gonna hold shift and select the tree branch and The rectangle I'm gonna go to my pathfinder window. I'm gonna open my pathfinder window by going to window Pathfinder and I'm gonna go to divide divide I need to ungroup it ungroup I'm gonna select the rectangle piece delete Now you see the bottoms yellow. I need a way to connect them. Let's go get a puzzle piece And we'll connect them with puzzle piece connectors. All right, there's one I'll give me another one Looks good. Select them both. Make sure they're aligned at the top Zoom in let's see how we are. Oh, I'm pretty close. All right Back from down a smooch. Oh, right there. All right. Looks good Now I'm gonna select the path for the two puzzle pieces select and then I'm gonna hold shift select I'm going to duplicate selection. I'm gonna hide the duplicated selection All right, let's select the branch and the puzzle pieces We're gonna go back to our pathfinder window and this time we're going to minus front Hey, look at that. We got half of a puzzle Let's unhide the other two puzzle pieces Select the other part of the branch the puzzle pieces and this time we're going to unite them There you go. I Got a puzzle. Let's put everything back Bam, bam, bam All right, let's separate it to get it inside the glue forage so the glue forage Anything that touches it considers one item. So we have to make sure everything is separated So let's move the words over here Let's get the leaves out of the way Go on these Let's get the leaves out of the way These leaves leave All right Now these two pieces can't touch otherwise you'll cut them twice Well, you'll cut the top section then they'll cut the box at the bottom section and your puzzle won't fit together correctly So let's separate them. We'll select all We don't want any fill in anything and we'll give everything a stroke of red We'll select the top branch Make sure everything's grouped Now we'll give that a different stroke. So it'll come in on a different layer. We'll make this one a royal birdie And we'll make the bottom one its own layer. So we'll give this one like purple Purple sounds good All right, we're just gonna export this as an SVG and go test this cut on the glue forage Now we paint bounce, but it came across I'm gonna use all my country sheet colors. I think I'm going in with a I need a brown need my dark roast That's right Getting my dark roost. I'm starting to learn the color names doing my backer into some dark roast Although you might not want to use dark roast that might be too dark You think so don't don't have a warmer brown. Do you have a warmer brown? Oh, that's that I think it is. Canape is your warm brown. Canape. I think that's what you want. Is this what I want? Yeah, dark roast is very dark brown Nah And then canape is more of a real like a canate like a milk chocolate brown I mean, that's definitely the color. I'm thinking when I hear canape. Yes. I'm like, oh, yeah And because I'll be using vinyl. I'll just be painting my backer and I Guess I could use canape to from my backer. I'll make it look like a tree branch. Oh Right, but I want to add the brown tree branch. Yes, so Okay, now I remember why I had chosen this. I don't each other because it's changing it on the fly I'm gonna use pop the bubbly which is a really light brown because I'm gonna put a dark brown branch on there You don't want to paint like a sky behind there with some nice puffy clouds Maybe a little happy tree. I'm not that good I have my backer painted I'm gonna apply that more MDF Don't you put the black in there? I'll put black in there The great thing about layering vinyl is you can just stack them one right on top of the other as long as There's no glitter vinyl underneath because it won't layer on top of glitter vinyl Glitter vinyl can layer on top of everything else, but it cannot be a base layer and With this 651 permanent vinyl you can just stack them right on top of each other and the great thing about this SVG is we're using the Branch as a backer so it really shows you the placement for each of these leaves It was really easy to line them up and our last layer here is the The most difficult Yes, who would design something like that cool evil person That's where it lives now. Here's the other thing about vinyl When you're layering it once it sticks a stick it's done and it just slipped out of my hand and I dropped it Recutting really it looks good, but we got so far. Not bad. Let's see if I can just put it down Oh, I think you saved it by George. I think she saved it It's saved Good save good save very lucky. Oh now you don't have room for your your beehole Well, I might go put my beehole. I put this to my hive. Just put it right here, right? Yeah, sure You're gonna do it again. Yeah, it's gonna be off to the side Just have to hang that way Right Well, she's putting her beehole down. I forgot to make mine black. So I'm gonna cover my whoa It's not dry it What are you doing good? Oh, I just move the whole thing in this There's the great thing about vinyl once it's down is down I was thinking after I did this and I didn't have this thought until after the fact I think because this is chalk paint I think it would have been better to coat this in a poly acrylic first and Seal that chalk paint in and then add the vinyl on top. This is weather resistant vinyl This is a type of vinyl the 651 permanent vinyl is what they'll use to make cardi cows out of so you don't really have to worry about it Getting wet and I will spray this with poly acrylic after the fact But you know do as I say not as I do add the poly acrylic first and then add your vinyl on top And we have the accents. It's really just a ribbon So I have some black and white ribbon. I think I'll use these I would love to find something cute with the With a B theme to it, but I think the yellows will be hard to match So I don't think I could really use a yellow ribbon So I'll stick with the black and white this one is a black and white stripe and actually has some gold flex in it Yeah, like a big cute and then this one is obviously polka dot. We're cutting about 20 to 22 inches about 20 inches Yep The length of my arm. Maybe it's the length of your arm And then we'll just Fold it in half and feed it through these little well. We always add these slats in our rounds and Garrett can't really tie his yet. His is still wet. So I'm still wet. I'll show you with mine My glue is still wet Just tie a little knot in the back Russell with it a little bit and we use the wire ribbon to give it a little structure make it a little stiff Oh We supposed to have wire ribbon, you don't have to have wire ribbon feel like I brought nine wire I think yours will be fine Yes, yours looks great when it finally dried, but I think this one with the vinyl looks great, too Yeah, no, I think they both look cool. Yours looks cool, too. I like the polka dots. I Do like the polka dots a little better than my My ribbon now that I see it I think it's fine. You know what you could do. It's fine. You could do it like up turn it over Black side show What do you think leave me a boat and down below it's Garrett Garrett's is cool. I mean, I can't I can't deny it But if you don't have a glow forager, you didn't want to purchase this kit Which will be available in our store and the SVG you could always buy the SVG and create it yourself Little something for everybody something for everybody Whatever level you're on So we're about out of time So if you're not gonna join us on the patron after show We will see you next week where we'll do it building and make it again and again every week Making it again See There you go from leaf going upside down and on the leaf