 I was going to say, I don't know, because this is, uh, maybe use a, uh... Okay, bud. What's wrong? Because this is so, I wonder if, just a grillo pad. You can just rip a corner. Can you refresh that? So, you guys, um, today we're going to be decaling all of our these. Some of them will be a challenge because the molds were on the cheaper side. So there's, like, for example, this one has a dip. And I've never put resin over whatever the quick white Illumilite is. Um, I know it, it wasn't sticking to the paper. So I don't know how well doing my little flood fill will stick or bond. And I don't want it to delaminate. So I'm just scuffing the bottom of the dishes before we get rolling with the decals. Actually, what's essentially going to happen is I'm going to sand and pass it along. Well, it's going to take longer to place the decals than it is for me to scuff the bottoms of these. So I'm just going to sand a stack at a time and then wipe them out with 91% isopropyl alcohol. I am using a 220 grit sandpaper. Um, I could TG, but it's marketed as an epoxy. So I'm sure ultimately this will be fine. The areas that have floating gold like this, I'm not going to sand because floating gold. If you sand it, it will kind of dull it out and my little rock star boy is wanting his seat. It's okay. It's not hot today. You have to stay over here. Okay, right there. So I'm going to sand over here because I don't want him really breathing anything in. What's up everybody? If you're new here, hi, hello. I'm Erica and that's my husband Jeff and we are artists till death. We go live most every day at 6pm central except for on Tuesdays at 2pm central and on special occasion days. It's a mystery time such as today. Um, there's some interesting weather in town and also we're trying to go watch the hockey game tonight. So we're early. This one has a lot of floating gold in the base. So I'm just going to stand around it. I mean, if you end up sanding the floating gold off, all it's going to do is make it look a brown shade. So for this application, it wouldn't be that detrimental. It would still look classy. But if you're wanting gold to stay gold, then I'm going to go get his fan. So I can blow it the alcohol in another direction. Hi, canvas. So good girl. Get to art. All right. A fan. Yeah. Got to move Austin. I'll move those things back. All right. We're all set up. So we've got his fan. He's up high. Fan is blowing all the smells away and keeping him cool. So what I want to do, I left these two strips to kind of demonstrate how if you have trouble transferring your cut letters, it doesn't really matter what cut it. I use the, what is that? A U.S. cutter. Whatever cutter you use, it doesn't matter. As long as you've got your letters out and your transferred paper. Some people use paper. The others use the roll. I get this stuff at my vinyl plate and it comes in, what, 15 by 36 inches? Three feet. And some, when I first started, I didn't understand how, if you wanted to, if there was a sticker this long, that you would have to take this stuff, pull it off and hopefully press it down and it goes on evenly. I'm sure everybody else does this now, but I just thought, why don't I try to cut a little bit of the protective paper, this stuff here. First of all, let's get however much paper we're going to use. So we have the amount of paper we're going to use. Now, all you want to do is just peel off just a little bit. Get your scissors. What you're going to do is you're going to cut this protective paper. They're, I guess, transferred from, I don't know, I don't know what carrier paper. That's what it is. This is like, you know, so what you're going to do, make sure this sticky side does not touch any of your sticker, on any sticker, on any, whatever you're doing for vinyl like this. So what you're going to do is you're going to hold it. You're going to put this on the, you're going to put this side without the sticky side on the very end of where you're going to be sticking this transfer tape. Now, my letters are just a smidget too big right here, but it's not going to matter because each one of them are going to be individually cut and stuck down. So there's no big deal. Now, if there was a longer part that was sticking out, you'd want to have a little bit more transfer tape. So what you're going to do, you can make sure every side is just perfect. Like I said, it's not going to matter if this is all sticking or if this end isn't sticking because these are just the barely the ends. So we have everything lined up, top, bottom, back, and then the front. So you do just stick that, make sure everything's stuck on there. Pick this up and literally all you're going to do is just take your, take your hand. If you have this type of stuff, if you have more of the paper than you're, you're just going to, you'll probably pull it, but this stuff comes off really easy. And you're just going to pull it in a straight line just like this. And voila, you've got your transfer tape on your stickers. Just like that. And I'll tell you what, I'm not going to do it on these because this is a single one. But let's say you want to put this somewhere. It's basically the same, the same deal. You want to, you want to take this up, make sure everything's stuck. Take it up, cut off a little, cut off a little bit of the end. So that's, you know, you have a little bit of sticky. Wherever you're putting this, that way you can arrange it nice and perfect. And then put this side down, do the same thing. Lift that up and just pull that, pull the, the transfer, the carrier sheet right from under. And it should just go on straight and even. Yeah. A little helpful tip there by, I did all of these at once. Like I cut them out so that I wouldn't be wasting a lot of this transfer tape. I cut them all out and then just kind of lined them up, put that transfer tape and did them all in one time, which was pretty impressive on my behalf, I think. All right. So we're not going to start with any of the S's. I guess we could. It doesn't really matter. There's no order. There's no, like, so what we're going to do is just cut each one of these out. Check it out. Yeah. There's a little scuffy. Some of these are like a little wavy. Oh, I saw my glasses on. I guess some of them are super wavy. So here we go. I guess I should have, I didn't do this on all of it. Do we want to do it like that or like this? Like this? I like that. I like this. People will probably put them like this. Yeah. So try to center it. I don't think it really matters too much. Karen, those color boxes came from our fairy art mother, Judy, but she got them from Sarah Renee Clark.com. And yeah, after I decal them, I'm going to fill them just up to that first rim with resin to seal in the decal. However, I don't know that that's actually necessary. Is she chewing on something in there? No, she's playing with a tree ball. It's just the Cricut Master. Actually, we have a Cricut. Why is there purple on so many of these? I have no clue. I mean, that was, that's the color of that, but I didn't, I don't see it. Okay. We'll get a bunch of alcohol. Sand it. I don't know. I shouldn't be any purple on there. I didn't know that sandpaper can transfer. He is the vinyl cutter master, but the cutter we have is a US cutter. Not sponsored, but if you're watching, what's up? So, does anyone have any questions about the decal process? B, do you have any tips, tricks, and otherwise fun facts about using a cutter? I don't. I mean, I wouldn't know what to tell anybody, like, unless, unless they, you know, had a question. All right. It's like, I love my US cutter because of the surface and how big you can cut and how fast and, and all the options. I've learned to use it. I think in a way that it's not like, you know, when you, when you, when you get, when you get something back in the day or now or, and you don't really know how to use it. But you learn, you learn on your own. And then you kind of do stuff where you're like, I wonder if anybody else does this because you've kind of said, you know, you found a cheat code or, or some sort of backdoor little trick that is not like, for instance, when I used to make my shirts or flyers. I used, was it Microsoft Word? No, I use Microsoft Word. I didn't use paint. Like paint was like, I swear you don't need to do this. No, it was, it was, it was word, you know, when they give you the options, all the different colors and the different style of, if you could type it on. I don't know. I just did a bunch of, I know that it had to been unorthodoxed. Whoa. That was a big word. So it's kind of like that. Like you kind of, you just kind of learn on your own and do, do stuff that works for you basically. That's, that's kind of how this big old cutter I have kind of has worked for me. I'm not a very computer savvy person. That's why I never got into Adobe, like Photoshop and whatnot, which I'm sure that's a lot more difficult than a lot of other things, but I just taught myself how to use it. I YouTubeed a couple different things on like how to make a, how to cut out a contour sticker. Which came in real handy. And then you kind of learn to manipulate that. But otherwise, I mean, I like my cutter. Look at that. I like this because it looks like it's circled. Did you have to weed that? I did. And I like all these whole things. I just did it all at once. Like I cut them out. It was a 15 by 36 sheet. They were all cut out. And I just, I cut each line out and then weed it that way. Because if I were to try to weed that whole thing at once, it would have been a nightmare. I'm saying they like the V's. The other V's are nice. The R's and the K's are really nice too. What do the letters represent? So these were commissioned for a private party for graduation. And these represent the 90 people that are students that are graduating that are going to be in attendance. And so the letters are the first name of the student. Nope. The letters are the first letter of the first name of each student. It makes me want caramel vanilla ice cream. I don't know how, but this one has a little green dot in it. So if you could do something to cover that would be superb. What would your guess Nancy? So the device should be don't pick a font. The device should be don't pick font. That is really loopy because weeding is a nightmare. That is 100% true. And not only being loopy, but putting it on here is tricky. Because these are kind of like domed a little bit just because of the mold. So you want a thinner letter. Like if these would have been big fat, you know, what would that be like a university letter? It probably wouldn't have worked as well. Like it definitely would have. The letters would have gapped and folded. They would have been creased or not laying down flush. Is it coed school? I'm sure. There are 90 of these. Reverse weed, I don't even know what that means. That's above my favorite. Taking out the letter and making it square. Leaving a negative space basically. Which? A stencil. Yeah. You wouldn't be able to do that with these. I guess you could do it like this. It's strange that there are so many V's. There are some letters that I would have thought there would be at least one of 90. There's no T's. There's no T's. There was another letter that I was like, no way. Have any of you guys done assembly line artwork? Projects, crafts. Getting ready for an art show festival. Right TG, no T's. Super weird. There was another letter that I was like, are we sure? Two times. It's starting to stall on my side. Was it G? No, there's a couple G's. Wouldn't that have been crazy if T and G were left out? This is a little bit easier because I'm not worried about these things sticking together because some of the transfer paper overlaps. We do cut them out. And it's a little easier. Not being so messy. Must be last names. Could be. Yeah, it would have to be last names because this is just strange. So many N's. There's 23 A's. There's like a little bit of green in this one too. There we go. You can almost not even see it because I singled it. I say because of all the V's. There's a lot of Veronica's at this school. Which is possible. I mean, Mark Cuban is going to be there with his family because his daughter is in the same graduating class. What does that have to do with these? Because Veronica is like a hoity-toity name. Hoity-toity. Yeah, hoity-toity. By the way, I have no problem with the hoity-toity thing. Because all of the V names I can think about in my brain are like picturing somebody with a glass of champagne. Veronica's drink champagne. Vanessa's drink champagne. Vivian's drink champagne. And that's like all the V names I can think of off the top of my head. Victor. Yeah. Victor's drinking. Veronica Val. Oh yeah, Valerie. Vernon. Vernon is not a name anymore. I don't know. I think that's like only grandparents' names. Yes, I graduated high school in a town called Vernon. Hi, Jerry. Susan's drink champagne is the same. Same. Will you put a little sparkle on the top coat? I am not sure. Only because when you add abalone, milky way, diamond dust, it can kind of dull or cloud black. This one's coming up. So the answer is maybe. How long did it take you to make all of them? Actually, it should have taken me a long time. But Illumilite sent me some stuff called Illumilite White. And it was like in the nick of time. Like I didn't even know I needed it. I took this gig not knowing it was a thing. And then I got it and each round of six coasters took like 10 minutes to pour and demold. So it didn't take long. I think it took six hours. The school has an independent secular college preparatory day school for girls. Bam. You're like, I don't even know what school. She goes to. All right. She does the Google cost 30,000 to 40,000 a year. Yeah. So our kid won't be going there. At least not the first year. I don't know if you guys want to sit here and watch me do. This is all of these. We're so boring. It is boring and tedious. So probably once I get all these sanded, I'll take you guys in the other room and we will pour a couple of the bases so I can show you guys that process and what products I'm using to do that. Yeah, I do. For sure. I heard you mentioned that one was lifting here. My two cents after. Done before resin brush a little poly acrylic on top of the resin. So it was only coming up because he just didn't press it down. But that's a good tip. You're all just trying to add to the. I don't think I have any poly in the house anyways. So what's your favorite letter that we've done so far? Still the V's. We've been on M for a while. So they're probably over the M. How many M's are there? 15, I want to say. Yeah, 15 M's. That's the most letter. Oh, no. There's 23 A's. Is there a trick to getting it center? No. It's just the corners are, you know, I'm hoping that it's centered. But I don't, I think I probably maybe a little bit off a couple, but it's not that noticeable because these letters are so loopy-loo and they're little sticky outies and what not. Brilliant, Karen, thank you. What's up, Lori? Better late than never. I agree. Eyeball. You guys saw an eye in that one? Any time a siren just starts outside of our window, which is not rare because of where we live, makes me jump just a little bit. Lava here coming, no problem. I've only got like 15 more to send and then we'll go start laying out resin. Oh, good eyes, key to center. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm glad you guys said that because I would have been searching the M's to see which one had an eyeball. Well, these look like T's because they are not T's. I wanted to make the letters a little bit bigger, but some letters are a lot bigger than other letters like the M has that little arch and the K, one of those letters that like the G, the K, the R, they're like, you know, they come down a little bit more and I didn't want to risk making the regular letters as big as I can and then those letters not fit. So I just made them all a little bit smaller than the largest. Yeah, Brenda. It's like getting here. I'm sure it will be before too long. I don't think that it's going to, I think it'll rain. I think it will get some rain, but I don't think it's going to be bad. Like I said, it kind of goes around. It kind of builds and then it goes like southeast and then it gets bad up that way. Looks perfect the way it is. L for my granddaughter, let's see. That's my niece's name. She's my baby niece. Ugh. You had hail in Florida. Wow. I saw that. I saw so many posts like, what is up with Florida? Last act of sand. Lovely. Loving this. What's up, Shannon? Anybody from Minnesota in the room? Well, we're happy you're here, Brenda. Gary the wind was serious. Yes. Her whole name is, I mean, like her whole first name is Alexis. Alexis, stage one. Let's go. No. Hey. Alexis and Chevelle. No. She's going to be friends with Chevelle. Yeah. Easy. I have no idea. L for love. I don't know. It's from that movie, The Guy and the Thing. Oh, The Guy and the Thing. Yeah. Dodgeball. They were at some tournament. Oh, you're a loser. Yeah. Because I don't know what that means, love. L for love. Yeah, L for love. I get these wiped out. I'm going to go make sure all the lights are on and everything is prepared. Come get everybody to go over and under. We'll start adding resin. So you're going to be the one talking to people for a minute. I don't like all that. I won't be answering any questions. And if I say something under my breath and I forget I have this mic on, don't be mad because I never have the mic on. So we got anybody new? Any first-time watcher? First-time chatter? Long-time watcher? Anybody new from a new state? A new country? Anybody from any country outside of the U.S. or Australia? And high Australia? Yeah, I don't think we got any Minnesotaites in here. TG. And if you guys notice on Facebook, all the people that are coming out now like doing floors, like, hey, we haven't even done a floor. Who's just starting out doing floors? Like, you just can't pour resin on a floor and it'd be good, like, in the long run. People are all trying to be professional now. Like, maybe I'm just jelly because I've never done a floor. But I would love to do a floor. I just don't know how to prep a floor. I know there's a lot that goes in a floor. Like, you know, concrete sweats and doesn't want stuff to stick to it. You know what I'm saying? Other GFs is favorite initials are art. My son's initials are art. And yes, I meant that to happen. Speaking, I wonder if he's going to go watch the hockey game with us tonight. That would be really awesome. The kid's going to be 30 this year. Get out of town. Like, I don't ever see him. He's always up in, like, Plano or past Plano or some crazy town outside of Dallas. I'll epoxy everything. Yeah. I would love to do a floor, man. That would be so much fun. This is a fun one to take a lot of a lot of white and then just a teeny bit of gold coming through there. What if we turned all these into them and they were like, not anyone with a W here? Because that they'd look at the end of the second. Yeah. I'm always like, I'm chilling. I'm going to do the bathroom outdoors. That's cool. Yeah. One lonely eye. Is that a J? Why did I think those were the eyes? This is just a regular hole. The person who admitted the eyes really was a little lazy. The H's are fun. The G's are fun. I am hungry, y'all. I need some food. G's are nice. My Aunt Geneva would like this G. You know what's crazy? I'll tell you a little crazy story. I'm thinking of my son. His name is Austin. He lives just outside of Dallas. He's a sports guy, like big into sports. Anyways, he was born on his aunt's birthday. And the funny story with that, because it's funny, I was born on my aunt's birthday. I know y'all wanted to know that, so that's why I told you. No big deal. That Austin was born on his aunt's birthday and I was born on my birthday? How did they put all of these letters on such a long vinyl piece? That's the good thing about using the U.S. cutter. You can cut up to like, I can cut up. It says 24, 26 inches, 28 inches, but the cutter doesn't go the distance, you know? So it's technically about 24 inches. And up to, you know, 5 feet, 6 feet I think. I haven't cut anything that big, but you can put a roll of paper in there and bada bing. I want to do beach floor so bad. All right, I wish Mike would do one of his bathrooms up there. We come out and do it. That would be so fun in Hawaii. Can you imagine an entire bathroom floor just like a beach? Paint a shark underneath there. Stingray. A turtle coming up. Like, that would be so fun. And I've only seen one beach floor that was worth anything, if we're honest. Like, I've only seen one that I was like, okay, you're awesome. You know what's funny? Every time I start to put these letters on and I know that it's like, I do it like this. I see vamp, like just ready to be like, it's crooked. And I know she's smiling right now or laughing, saying shut up. She probably has already typed shut up. She's laughing. What's up Megan? A Thomas Kincaid theme of what? Does anyone in this room? Okay, so there's, oh yeah, that would be good Megan. So if you put 30 people in a room, at least two of them will have the same birthdays. Who in here has a December 2nd birthday? There are 39 people in here. That's true Susan. What is Dev doing with all these bowls? So these are- I like cereal. Dev eats a lot of cereal. I don't anymore. I like totals. Therefore a graduation party and therefore all the girls will drink it dish souvenirs party favor to take with. So apparently it's not that expensive to do floors. I thought it'd be like super expensive, but you can like day rent the prep machinery from like Home Depot. A grinder? Yeah. Or like 60 bucks. I don't even know. So you grind it, then you have to sand it? Then you have to, I don't know, paint it, seal it? Yeah, you have to put a seal coat down. I haven't hand mixed resin in so long. What about that look nice? Pink, light blue, purple, and white. Arlene, it's a student from a preparatory school having graduation party and we were commissioned to do these 90s. These 90 dishes. Or them their students. That will be in attendance. I'm going to stir this over hot water to get it out from. If you ask why she stirs it over hot water. Because hot water thins out. Present. Be careful doing that. Because if you get it too hot and stir it too long in hot water it will definitely activate it. You don't want that. I may just not do the rest of them. I don't know why I don't like it. I'm just saying. I think there might be an extra A. So we'll see. I know we have four or five extras. Sorry for all the movement kids. Ooh, I didn't know you guys were zoomed in that much. I bet that was a real rough ride. My bad. So I can't see what you guys are saying right now. So if you guys have a question or amazing, amazing mods will answer it. And if it's a question that I need to address and just hang out until I get this resin poured and I will get right to it. Also little prayers for round out to feel better and for Clara's mom to feel better. Or if you're not into prayer, like good vibes. Positive thoughts. All right, I went ahead and mixed up. 10 ounces of the. Illumina like quick coat. This is a UV resist. Nope. Yep. It's got UV blockers in it. It's got halls. It's got all things to make it not yellow anytime soon in it. You can get it from illuminlight.com. I have that linked down below and you can use the code YALL10. You'll get 12% off your order. I think. I know. I told her she was stupid. She needs to actually rest. All right. I feel like super specific with how I pour this out. I don't want to fill the bottom of it. I think it'll look fine. So I'm going to go ahead and just pour out some resin in all of them because this is a quick coat. This is a fast setting epoxy and the longer you keep it in a big bucket like this, the faster it's going to heat up and start to cure my bed. I'm trying not to get any drippies anywhere, but it's being quite difficult. Quite difficult. Oh my goodness. I just spilled all over that one. I'll have to wipe it off with a rag in just a moment. I'm going to do these on this side. Why is this so stressful? It just is YALL. I have a little bit left in case anything isn't full coverage, but I still have to get it out as soon as possible. Okay. If you guys don't know, I hate storms. I had a bad experience in Alabama with a tornado. It's been a problem ever since. Hate them. Hate them. Hate them. Hate everything about them. Make sure we have all of everything covered, and then it'll just self-level on its own. Oh, it's about to be another... Dang it! Hate it. Hate it all. Hate everything about it. Did you guys hear that? Slash feel it. Slash see it. I'm just pushing all the resin up slightly to the edge. I want it to coat, but not fill. That makes any sense. Don't like that. Don't like any part of that. All that ruckus outside. Not my fave. So just like regular resin, this is going to self-level. It is a one-to-one. So you just mix equal parts of the A and the B. In order to save time, I'm just going to pick these up and check them out, and then move them to the back. I need to heat them. Looks good. But it... Huh? No, not really. The ones that are super domed, I'm just... I'm still just coating them. So I'm hitting it with just a little flame to pop the bubbles. I'm swirling it around just a bit so that I can see and make sure everything is coated. I think that one was not. I need to remind myself that some of these have more resin and then than others. When I pick it up and tilt it around to see if there's anything gapping, it may pour out a little bit. It is starting to set, so I'm trying to pick up the paste some. There are some of these that I haven't touched like this one. Make sure everything is covered. Luckily, though, when I hit it with some heat, it'll thin it out and make it movable for just a little bit longer. It doesn't give me a lot of extra working time, but it'll give me just enough. But if you can get an alcohol rag, I got some resin on some of these, like the lip, and it's starting to cure on me. I'm not going to have time to clean it them off. This one has some right here. Thanks. You want to set it like, all right, it is. It's quick coat. It's curing. That's why I was saying if you could help me get these just here. If I can just get it coated everywhere, then it will self level and fill out. Also, be careful not to use too much heat because it is quick coat. You'll be able to smell it if you burn it, just like all resins. But in my opinion, it's worse with, except for one of them. Toss them. Will you just help me concentrate on these for right now? I'm just trying to get Bowie to be up here. Perfect. I thought it was a good idea. That one's good. That one's good. This one is not good. This is the bottom where I'm on this side. I got you. I got some on the outside lip of this one right there. There's a hair right there. I got stuff on more of these than not. Let me just go through and make sure I've got everything coated in these and then I will start helping clean them up. Let me start wiping as well. I'm just trying to scoot in and wipe these inside corners or wherever there may be some sticky where it shouldn't be. It probably won't even make a difference. But I'll know and therefore unacceptable. Luckily, this resin gives me just slightly more working time than real quick coat does. And I'm sure it doesn't hurt that I have it poured so thin so it's going to take longer for it to start to cure anyways. So all these need something. Here you go. No. I think so. No. Still no. The downside to doing resin is like flooding resin like this is that now I have to be concerned with little tiny baby hairs landing in it. I'm trying to pick out any little fuzzies as I go while it's still fluid enough for me to do so. As you guys know, no matter how dust-free your area is, it's not just a little fun fact and our new really big dust-free zone isn't quite ready yet, but soon. I think these dishes turned out okay. What do you guys think? I've lost my assistant. It sounds like a fake rainforest, doesn't it? Now that it's starting to cure up some, it's not flowing as much. So I can hold it kind of more vertical and it's not really moving. Wow, that's a perk. It also means running low on time to get this done. Right. These bad boys are done. Oh, thanks, Kathy. Thank you, Jillian. Cardboard, huh? Good idea, mates. They said to put cardboard over it. I happen to be in possession of quite a lot of cardboard. Yeah, but like after you put them on there, I just, I'm going to do this. All right, you guys. Fun times to be had. Honeycomb them then cardboard and put next layer. It did work. So you guys, I'm going to let you go because it's not the most fun to watch me do this. So we're going to stack them a honeycomb style and then cover them with some boxes. I'm about to do that many. And so yeah, that's what I'm about to do. I hope you guys have an awesome evening. Oh, we don't lose power. And yeah, let me know down in the comments below which letter was your favorite. And have an awesome evening. We'll see you guys this day Friday. And we'll see you guys on Monday. Monday. You guys have an awesome night. Be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through. And always remember, we do the test. So you don't have to, including bowies because they're so cute. You guys are amazing. Have an awesome and safe weekend. We love you guys so much. Please subscribe if you haven't. And leave me a comment after the video posts. See y'all Monday at 6 p.m. Central. Bye. Oh my goodness, look how big she is. She can like reach him now. He's thrilled about it. That's it.