 Hi guys, my name is Jan. Welcome to I Create Crafts. In today's video I'm going to show you how to sublimate mugs. This was super, super simple to do. I have my gloves on because I just created this one and it's very hot. I also created this one. It's a Montello Theater. You can create anything you want with mugs. I will tell you everything what you're going to need in this video tutorial. I'm using my new HTV Runt Press and I absolutely love it. I cannot say enough about it so I'm going to get started to tell you everything you're going to need in this video. We're going to have a lot of fun and you're going to make a bunch of money making mugs. Let's get started. I'm starting in design space. This first one is one that I'm going to be using. I own a small town theater and I sell these cups at my theater and they go really, really well. I'm going to make some more of these but then I want to show you some other ones. I'm going to go to upload and then view all. I purchased some of these from Design Space. I'm going to use this one here. I'm going to add that to Canvas. Then I'm going to get rid of that and we're going to see what else. I'm going to do this one too. I'm going to add this to Canvas. Add that one to Canvas and then I'm going to go down here and click View. Here they all are here. You just have to resize these. Depending on what size cup you have, mine are actually 15 ounces. It's going to be a little bit different for each cup that you're going to be using. I'm just going to grab one of these, make it a little bit smaller and then grab another one, make it a little smaller so we can see it. I purchased these from Design Space. I get pretty much all of my SVGs from Design Space. I really love it there. Again, depending on what size mug you have, I have a 15 ounce. It's going to be different for every size mug that you have. Another thing that I've been noticing is, although it says on the side here, print then cut. I tried this one before and it actually doesn't. What it does is it cuts out all the letters and the image itself. I don't know why it was doing that. I had to actually put a box around it. Just in case, I'm going to show you really quick how I did that. For this one, I'm not sure. It says the same thing, print then cut. You see a little notice here. It says low resolution. I'm going to try it anyway and see what it looks like. Then I thought this one was really cool. We're going to do that one. I want to resize it to about the size of this. This one is 9.143 by 4.251. I'm going to resize each one of these really quick. Then I want to put a box around this one that I can tell Cricut that I want to print this part out but then cut the box around it. This one I know actually does it by itself so I don't have to worry about this one. I just have to resize it. I'm just going to go for the size of this up here. I'm going to copy the size here really quick and I'm going to change it to this one down here. I have it unlocked and I'm just going to paste that there and then take this one, copy that and then paste that one down here. I didn't push enter so I forgot you have to push enter after each one. I'm going to go back in here and push enter. These are the same exact size that I want it to be. These two are done but I want to show you with this one really quick. You have to be careful because like I said even though it says print then cut I've already tried this one and for whatever reason it just cuts out everything and it doesn't even create a box behind it. I'm going to show you really quick how I did that. I had to do that for this one as you can see there is a box around it already so when you cut it out and you let Cricut know how you got to cut it it's not going to cut like all the letters out. You'll see what I mean in a second. So I'm just going to actually go to shapes here and I'm going to grab a square and then I'm going to just drag the square to make it as large as my piece is and don't worry your image is still there. It's going to move the box and we're going to take this and move it forward. So you want to arrange bring to front so then now you'll see it's right here so now I can actually go ahead and resize this box to fit around it but I want it a little bit larger than the image itself. So if we move this we will see I want to make sure everything is getting on here. I'm looking down here at the bottom and I'm also looking at the top part there. So you just want to resize it so it's just a little bit larger than your image itself so the Cricut will know to cut this out and then when you print this. So I'll show you what it means when it's done printing but I just want to take this and make it just a hair larger and then get it around it. So once you have it where you want it you select both of them and then you go to align and then you just center it. So there so now it's all centered. The other thing you're going to want to do is just change the color of the square and you want to make it white. So we're going to I grabbed it over here on the layer section and I'm going to go up to the color box and I'm going to change it to white. The reason I changed it to white is because I don't want that to print and your printer is not going to print white so you will not see that. The other thing you're going to want to do is select it all again and click flatten. That will make it cut out all as one piece now. So now we're going to look here it still tells us there's a little thing so it says image poorly will print. We're going to see how this prints out anyway. So the last thing I have to do with this is just change the size and again I'm going to take the size of this one and change it to this. Again please don't use my size. I have a 15 ounce mug so if you're using 11 ounce or 9 ounce or whatever you might have it's going to be different than mine and when I like to do mine I like mine to be way up at the top and the bottom so the whole cup gets full of the image. So I'm just going to go ahead and copy this and put it on this one really quick. Whoops I pushed the wrong button. Let's do it one more time. I'm just pushing control C and control V so there's then I put it in push enter and then I'll go back here control C go over here push control V but for some reason it's still didn't catch this first one so we're going to do it one more time. Hopefully this is it guys and control V and there we go. So here they are all the same size as you can see. So you can see the kind of the how it this one's going in front of this one. It's because that white box is over it's the same thing with this one. I have a white box over that one as well. This one I'm just going to use for another time. I'm going to delete that one and I'm just going to use these ones and kind of show you how they turn out. So I have them all the size how I want them to be sized up so then I'm just going to go to make it. I'm going to cut this out and I'm going to show you the next step at my heat press. I have the new HTV Ront tumbler press. I really really love it but using it for a while now. So I'm here I'm in material size. I'm going to click eight and a half by eleven. I don't know why it automatically goes to the larger size but I always change it. The other thing you're going to want to do is just mirror your image. Anytime you're using heat press you always want to mirror your images. So I'm just going to go ahead and mirror those. Then I'm going to go ahead and push continue because I like how it is. Then I'm going to go to center printer and everything that I'm going to be using I will leave in the description box below. I actually have two printers. I have this print colored printer here and then I have an Epson Eco Tank 2800 that I changed into be a subbing printer. It's the same printers as the colored one except for I use subbing ink when I first started it rather than regular ink. Very easy to do. You don't need an actual sublimation printer. So I'm going to go ahead and click on that. I'm going to click get rid of the ad bleed and I'm going to print it and I'm going to do it for each one of these. So I'm going to go back here. Once that tells me it's done I'm going to go to this next one. I like to print them all at once and just get it over with. So I'm going to click on that change that take off the bleed print and then I'm going to do the last one and then I'll show you what setting I use for the Cricut machine. So just one more here really quick just makes it easier for me if I do them all at once and then I'll tell me set your material. So I use this heavy card stock material the hundred pounds. If you don't have that on your favorites you just go to browse all materials and you type in card stock. So that's what I use and it works great for me. Now all I have to do is put it on a mat send it through the Cricut machine and then I will meet you guys at my heat press next. Alright so here is my heat press. I'm using the new HTV Ront mug press and I absolutely love this. I'm going to see if I can show you this really quick. So I have it set at 390 degrees for 240 seconds. You have to be very careful because the inside of this is very hot. You can put your hands here and you won't get burnt because you can feel the heat there. So here is one image that I was using. This is for my theater. This is for the Montella Theater. It is backwards. Obviously it's weird so you can't read it. But I wanted to show you what it look like. A couple of things with your mug. So you want a sublimation mug. I'm going to show you really quick what mine look like. So I get them like this. They come in a bag. You just take it out of the bag. Very very important that you clean it first with some alcohol. So you want to just take some alcohol, a little cotton pad or something. Go ahead and clean it. It's what I did with these. Then the next step you're going to want to do is you're going to want to use your heat tape. And this is going to sound silly but the more tape you use the better it is. Please believe me because I've ruined a couple of these cups already because I did not make a nice perfect edge on here. So as you can see I went nuts on the whole thing. I'm going to be honest. I'm not sure how this one is going to turn out. There is a little bit of a gap right here. I don't know if that shows up. But I cannot get that out of there for the life of me. I cannot get it out. So I'm going to show you guys what it looks like. And I'm going to leave it that way. I'm going to keep it for my personal use. This one went on a lot better. But I taped everywhere. The whole thing. One suggestion is maybe I did my image a little bit too big. So I'm going to go back on the next image and make it a little bit shorter up here. I'm just trying to get the most out of it. I see cups that have a whole big space right here. I don't like that. Then they have a big gap at the top. I've never liked that. So I think I made this a little bit too big. But we're going to see together what it looks like. I have a pair of gloves here. So when I need to pull it out, I can do that. But the thing with this is you can put two of these mugs in here. You want to put it in like this. So I'm going to show you really quick. So I'm going to take both of my mugs and I'm going to put them in towards each other. So I'm going to start with this side. And just carefully put this in here. Just watch your fingers that you don't burn it on the side. And then I'm going to take my other one and put that in this side. And I'm going to put them so they're touching each other. And I want the handles up straight because when it goes and you push it, it will squeeze them together. So I'm making sure that I have enough room on both sides that it's not sticking out. And then all you have to do with this, because this is the HTV Ront heat press, just like my other heat press that's over there, is it's just a push of a button. So I set it at 390 for 240 seconds. It sounds like a lot. But when you're subbing, you want very high temperature for a long time. All I have to do is push this little R here and it's automatically going to close it and do the pressure for me. There's nothing that I have to do on there. So again, you want to get a subbing mug. You need some heat tape just like this and then your image. And I will leave all the supplies down below in the description. I use the A-sub paper. I have a printer that I changed into a subbing printer. Basically all you do is you buy a printer. Instead of putting the ink in that it comes with, you buy the subbing ink and you put that in instead. But I will leave it all in the description down below. Make sure you clean them really well. Let them dry and go nuts with your tape. Believe me, I didn't and I had ghosting on quite a few of them because it wasn't tight enough. Like I said, I'm being honest with this other one. We're going to see together what this one looks like because it did have a gap in it. But I want to show you guys. I hate those other people who are fake and like, oh, this is perfect and this did wonderful. No, I'm always honest with you. If I make a mistake, I'm going to show you. If I make a mistake, I'm going to tell you. So you guys are going to learn with me. I've only used this a couple of times. I did have some ghosting because of that issue. But this machine is awesome. I have two actually actually two other tumbler heat presses. And this is by far the easiest. You put the temperature, the time you push the button and that's it and it goes. So I'm going to let this count down. It's got 154 seconds left. I'm not going to waste your guys' time. I will come back right before it finishes. Alright, so I just missed it, but it did actually open up by itself. So we're going to check. I have my pretty gloves on. I'm going to take this out carefully and set it down for a couple of seconds. And then I'm going to peel it and show you guys what it looks like. And I was working on another one really quick. I just wanted to show you with the taping. Let me take these gloves off again. I clean this really well. And then I just started taping. So what I did is I took the edge here, I folded over, put the tape on, and then you have the gap here. And then I tried to estimate the gap in between here to get the center. And then I just really tightly pulled this one, put tape on it. So the next step is what I'm going to do is take the top and just go around the whole top and then the same thing with the bottom. And it is a lot bigger down here. So I think my design was just a little bit too long on here. So I'm going to go back and change that. But I want to show you guys what this one looks like. So I'm going to put my gloves back on and I'm going to show you what this looks like. I have no patience. I have to see what it looks like right away. So we're going to see together. So this is the Montello Theater one. Like I said, I own a small town movie theater with my family. And I make extra income when I saw the mugs there. So we're going to see what this looks like together. Okay, so that's pretty good. Peeling the sides is still really warm. So I'm being careful. So that one turned out absolutely beautiful. No ghosting, no nothing on here. It looks wonderful. I can get all the tape off. There we go. So here's what it looks like. Here's the other side. So again, I do sell these. They sell really well at my theater. If you're interested, check it out. But this turned out really awesome. This other one, however, which I was a little bit worried about because like I said, it had a little extra kind of bubble on the bottom. So we're going to take a look and see, okay, it's not too bad. So this design itself actually looked like it had a little ghosting. So I'm going to show you guys together with me what it looks like. So it's okay. The bottom has a little ghosting, like I said, was probably going to happen because my image was a little bit too long. But you know what? It's really not bad because the image, the way it looks, that's not bad. So there's a little bit of ghosting right there. This is very hot. Be careful. And then a little bit of ghosting there. But other than that, this turned out really well. So maybe when you're doing your images, I would suggest making it just a little bit smaller than what I said and always kind of check to see what size yours is because this is a 15 ounce mug. They have all different sizes, but I chose a 15 ounce because I think it's nicer when you have a little bit of a bigger one. But now, besides vinyl, this is much better because you can put this in the dishwasher, and you can wash it by hand, you can put in the microwave. As long as your cup says microwave safe, this one is microwave safe. So is dishwasher and microwave safe. And anybody can use it with vinyl, you could never throw it in the dishwasher. Obviously, the vinyl will come off. So this will never ever come off, no matter how many times you wash it. So pretty cool. I'm gonna finish up this one. I think when I do the design again, I'm gonna go a little bit smaller at the top part on each end, the top and the bottom. But I like how it fills up the whole thing. As you can see, I try to get all the way to the bottom. So I like that a lot better. So again, HTV runs heat press. I absolutely love it. Just a subbing mug and some images of your own. You can buy Motha Etsy, you can get them from Design Space, you can make your own. Like let's say if you wanted to make one with your kids faces on it or your grandkids or whatever you want. You can also do it that way. Very, very simple. So I hope you guys like this video tutorial. Give me a thumbs up, hit that subscribe button. If you're not subscribers of mine already as I'm gonna have a bunch more videos coming up and leave any comments or questions down below. I am still learning with this. So if you know about subbing, please let us all know. But I'm having fun. I'm gonna keep going, make a whole bunch more of these. But thanks for watching guys. Have a wonderful day.