NO MESS Patterned Glitter Tumbler…SAY WHAT?! 🤯 Epoxy Free!!

Welcome back to the Mica's Gonna Learn YouTube channel. I don't know why I've been doing that official intro. YouTube channel. The Mica's Gonna Learn YouTube channel. How's everybody doing today? It's Lauren and Alisha back with a fun. Back again. Back again with a fun new craft. We're gonna be sublimating. Oh, did I tell a secret? I don't know. Did you tell a secret? Oh, we're gonna be showing you a mess free glitter tumbler. Yes, and we are going to be sublimating. I already said it, so whatever. This is a really fun way to do glitter tumblers if you are not into glitter. But you love how they look because I know, you know what they say about glitter. You know, you know what they say. I know what they say. So once you catch it, you can't get rid of it. Right, right. So something Clorox runs uphill from. Right. So we're gonna show you all how to do it today is like the most easiest thing ever. We're gonna show you where you can get the tumblers we're using. It's actually pretty, I mean, I love it. These look really good. They really do. And I feel like the thumbnail doesn't do it justice. So I'm hoping whenever I show y'all like overhead, they can really see it. Yeah, it's really pretty in real life. So anyways, there's that. Hello everybody. Hello. Howdy. We got a howdy. We have 39 with us right now. Drop us an emoji if you are. Actually, drop us where you're visiting us from. That's one thing I feel like I talked about a lot like months ago, but I love seeing like the reach that we have on our channel. It always blows my mind how far y'all are away from us. It really does. I was actually trying to convince Alicia to use our new sublimation adhesive spray. Yeah. Y'all. Makes me nervous. I've used it and y'all, I don't think I'll ever go back to tape. Well, what? Okay, so say I did. Okay. Say I was doing a tumbler wrap. Y'all have sublimated and you've wrapped a tumbler. Well, what if I put my, line it up and it ain't lined up? Because it dries like pretty fast, right? It does. Can you spray it and then spray it with window? Like spray your tumbler with it? No, I've not tried that. That wouldn't work. I would think that it would be the easiest to spray it, put it on the tumbler, line up like one edge of it, like the top and the bottom, and then just turn the tumbler on and let it roll. Okay. And it adhered to it. I also wonder if it would be really good for like not full wraps. Like if you. It would be great for not full wraps. Right. But I also think that it would work. I'm gonna be testing it for full wraps. Yeah, we should test it for full wraps. I think already we could, like if this weren't a full wrap, we could use it today and it'd be like nothing. You know what I'm saying? I'm really curious to see how it works though. So I would like to play around with it. Lots of people from Canada, Pennsylvania, Anaheim, California, Canada. Yeah. Yeah, cool. Love it. I love it. So we're still running our half-off monthly member special, right? Yes, we still are. So if you are new to our channel, first of all, if you're new and you don't know what we do, we are a craft education channel where we bring you inspiration, motivation, and education to not only get your Cricut and other things out and use them, but to also master them. So we have a our website. We have all kinds of education like booklets, the 30-day semester Cricut challenge courses. There's a silhouette course, a Brother Scanning Cut course, all kinds of different things that is available to you once you become a member. Monthly members, you all get the same as a yearly member. The only difference is our yearly members get access to our yearly member summit, which has exclusive projects and they also get a little bit more of a discount. But if you just want to get your toes wet before you really jump in full force, getting that at the monthly membership at half-off for $9.99 is really the way to go. Because you also get commercial licenses. Right, which is just new. Like we just now started doing that. We haven't done that for the whole time. So which commercial licensing basically means that you can make and sell stuff with our stuff on it. There's like very, there's probably like a handful of files that you can't use to resell, which they're marked on our website. But there's like thousands of other cut files that you can use. So lots of options. Patrick's here with us today. Hi Patrick. Hi friend. How are you? Did you see, did you see our unboxing? Oh, he did see our unboxing. Yeah, we cut with the Juliet yesterday. If you all are unfamiliar, the Juliet is the new Siser die-cutting machine. It's gorgeous. It's so good. It's so good. We were, Sadie was laughing at me because I said I could cut this beside my baby's crib and like she wouldn't wake up. Yeah, because it's so quiet. So we've been playing around in the software for that. Marina asked how was the test on the Juliet? We cut through, you all know we did on Monday, we did the Tech Wrap. Yes. Review, which we realized on the Cricut like the settings were a little off. We had to go in and make custom settings and I think that really helped it. She didn't even change the settings on the Juliet. And it was metallic. Butter. Yeah, butter. I cut a metallic Tech Wrap vinyl without changing any settings on the Juliet and it cut so clean. If I was using regular vinyl, it would have been even better. Like it would have just slid right off. So I'm really excited to keep playing around with it. I'm really, I can't wait for the final software product. Like I'm ready for like a final stage of the software to be done because that's gonna really do it for me. If that's amazing, like it's gonna be, I'm gonna be like secretly in there using the Juliet. I'll be like, can I get this on the Cricut? Well, anyways, Carol's running and gardening. Carol's always in the garden. Listen, is there ever, is there an off gardening season? Like or do you, so like you don't garden at all? No one gardens in the winter? I mean, if you have a greenhouse, you can. Oh, you can't garden outside at all? I don't think so. Everything's dead. Oh, well, I don't know. I'm not a gardener. I'm not, I feel like you still like harvest and do stuff in the winter. I don't know. Carol, let us know. I need some tips, obviously. The only gardening I do is I plant tulips in the fall because tulips are my favorite and all I have to do is dig a hole and stick a bulb in and nature takes over. Nature doesn't run its course. Yeah, I don't have to do anything at all. So, that's so funny. Yes, we should not be quick to judge. We're not quick to judge. But we do, we did end up really liking TechRoute. We just had to adjust the settings. If you're using TechRoute for the first time, make sure and check that video out because you definitely need to go in there and change your settings. Otherwise, you're going to be disappointed. We were very quick to judge. We missed a step. Yes. And we changed our mind after we fixed it. Yeah. So, anyways, we're converted. But, I guess, should we go ahead and start? I think so. Okay, let's get into it. This is really, like, not a super, super difficult craft today. But if we'll go overhead, I'll show you all everything that you're going to need to complete this craft. So, this is the final product right here. This is something I designed in Canva. I'm a little obsessed with this design. If you want me to be honest, I'm kind of proud of it. Uh-huh. Personally, I'm pretty sure that's going to be my cup. This is Lauren's Christmas cup. I made it especially for her. But I really want you all to be able to see this glitter here, okay? Like, I don't know if y'all can see it like this. Can you see that? Sparkly, sparkly. So, it's like a shimmer sparkle. And you can even see it on the bottom here. I've got some heat tape left over. But you can kind of see on the bottom here, this is glittery. I'm hoping that it's translating well to you all because it's really gorgeous in real life. This is the blank ones that we have. It's not translating as well as I, like now that I've seen it, it's caught up. You can see it, but for some reason, it's not translating as well over the camera as it is in person. Right. This is like a iridescent, like holographic glitter. Yes. I would say. It's very very pretty. Um, it's not flat. I mean, you can tell it's glittery. So, this is our little hack. So, this is actually a sublimatable tumbler. Um, they are from jpplus.com and they actually have, they've got white, they have a discontinued purple one that they're still selling on the website. There's a mint and a pink and so they're all glitter. And you can sublimate on them, which I think is really cool. Um, and you like don't have to seal it. You don't have to deal with glitter. It's like totally mess free, which is amazing. Um, but the links are for those. The links for those are below if you all are interested in checking out these tumblers. I want to say they're like $6.95 or $7.95 a piece, which is not that bad. Um, especially if you're just literally sublimating the markup on these, if you're going to sell them like you're going to profit like $40. Because I could sell this for $50. I have no doubt in my mind I could sell this for $50. What do you think? I think $50 is a little steep. Okay. $30. Okay, let's say we sold it for $30. I would I would be comfortable selling it $35 to $40. Okay. $35 or $40. They're probably more realistic really. Probably more on the $35 side and the only reason I say that is because normally the very um, very intricate like epoxy tumblers that have different layers are more on the $50 side. You're right. So this is more like a $35 tumbler, I think. Right. But still, you think of the markup. So if you bought it, how much did you say it was per tumbler? $6.95. $6.95. So let's just say after tax and shipping $8, $9. Right. Let's say $9 on the high side, um, after tax and shipping and everything else and then you turn around and sell it for $35 you're still making about $25 $26 profit. Right. So like not bad. That is a 200% profit at least. Not only that, but like you can pump these out like so fast. Do you know what I'm saying? Like you get your convection oven on, like print out 10 of these and then sublimate 10 of them right back to back. You can do two. I haven't done more than two tumblers in the convection oven, but I think you can. You definitely can. You have to consider like putting more in there. It's going to disperse the heat a little bit more so the times may be different. But what I'm trying to say is you could do a bunch of these and sell them at a pretty decent profit margin. So what you're going to need besides the tumbler, I've got a tape measure here. Um, I've got heat tape. I have a paper cutter. You can use scissors or a paper cutter. A paper cutter is going to give me more of an exact, um, cut. And then I've got our design already printed, but I'm going to walk you all through exactly how to um, print this design. This file is already created and linked for you all below. So you're not, I think it should be linked now. I texted Courtney before and I was like, did we link that? Because I made it and I didn't want you all to have to go through the process of making this entire thing. Um, I did use the Maker's Gonna Learn, uh, fonts for this. Um, but I designed it in Canva and it was kind of a process. So I was like, we'll just make it into a file and that way y'all don't have to worry about it. And then I've got shrink wrap. Now, lots of people ask where to get the shrink wrap. I think you can buy it separately, but every time that I buy sublimation tumblers, they send me shrink wrap every time. Before we used shrink wrap, I was like, why do they keep sending me shrink wrap? And then we figured it out. You definitely need to look. Some of the boxes that I've seen, it's just the tumbler. Like it doesn't, for some reason, doesn't come with a straw or other things. Oh yeah. But you can buy the shrink wrap by itself. Now. Yeah. One thing I do, and I saw this in the Facebook group, and one thing I want to address with you guys, if you are not doing a full wrap, which means you're not, you don't have the paper on the full tumbler. Right. You need to cover your, cover your tumbler with butcher paper or another sheet. Or copy paper. Copy paper, anything. Yeah. Before you put that shrink wrap on your tumbler because if you don't, when you put it in the oven, it's going to melt to your tumbler. Yeah, and it don't come off. I mean, unless y'all got a tip on how to get that off, it does not come off. And these are true straight sided tumblers. Oh yeah. We don't listen. We don't buy tapered, if we have tapered tumblers in here, it's on accident. Or it's a Starbucks cup. Yeah. But we use the straight edge. I did do a tutorial on how to make like the template for a tapered edge on the layering vinyl project that I did. There's a website where you can go and you can make like a template for a tapered tumbler. But listen, just don't get tapered tumblers. Just don't do it. It just makes your life harder. Especially with sublimation. If I am doing sublimation, I'm going to get a straight edged tumbler. It's just easier. Especially if I'm doing a full wrap. And then I have over here a little container full of ice water. Y'all are probably like, what are you doing with that? Unless you've been to a sublimation tutorial with us. We use this after we pull it out of the oven. I'll show y'all how to do that. I've got our trusty convection oven as well as gloves. And that's all you need. Okay. That's all you need. So we did have somebody ask, do we have to use shrink wrap? Let's address that. Okay. So we used to never, like we used to not really ever use shrink wrap. And we had to make sure, for one, we're using a convection oven, so we had to make sure that our paper was fitted on there really tightly. Because when you sublimate, you need pressure and heat. If you just have heat and no pressure, you're going to get a lot of ghosting in spots where you don't want it. The shrink wrap basically hugs your design onto your tumbler. And then when you put it in the heat, you've got heat and pressure, which is what you need, and your design is a lot more flawless. Yes. So I feel like I've talked about this before, but I'm going to talk about it again, just because I want to make sure you all really understand it. So sublimation ink, it, what happens is when it is heated up, the ink turns into a gas. The gas then adheres to the polymers. Right. In whatever you're doing. So you can even coat stuff with polycrylic. Now, for example, I coated a tile, an arabesque tile ornament, where we've been playing around with some different things here in the studio to see if I could sublimate and make a tile ornament using a coating of polycrylic. Which you can, because it has polymers in it. Now, but anyway, back to what I'm getting at. It has to have the polymer to stick to. So that ink heats up, turns into a gas. From there, the gas moves to, and it tries to find the closest polymer. So if there is a wide area between your paper and your cup, it's kind of going to bounce around until it finds the closest. So it's going to look faded. If it is hugged up against it, and there's nowhere else for it to move, it's going to go from the paper to the cup and be crisp, clean, and perfect. Right. Okay. That was a great explanation. I'm trying to get logged into Canva. Hold on. You're fine. Marianne asked, if I have a tumbler press, do I need shrink wrap? So I don't think that you do because it gives you that pressure. However, I'm not going to say a hundred, because we actually bought a heat press, a tumbler press, the other day because I'm going to be, I've been working on an update for, I have been working on an update for our sublimation course, just so you guys know, and I'm going to be testing out that tumbler press. I have not yet, but I'm going to be testing with shrink wrap without shrink wrap, so stay tuned. Stick around. I will for sure let you know, but if it was just me, if I was just thinking, hey, I've got a tumbler press, it gives me the pressure, I would try it without it first. My computer just died. I was trying to see what email we use to log into Canva because for some reason we're logged out. Normally we're like just permanently logged into everything. Do you know? Let me look. Okay. My computer just, I've been logged in all morning. It's not like super necessary, but I would really like to show you the image in Canva. See, I normally use my personal Canva. Okay. A little craft in your day. A little craft in your day. That's what I was thinking. Okay, continue with email. Let's try here. Hold the phone everybody at gmail right dot com. Carol says I need to wear a scientist lab coat. Listen, I don't know if you all have kind of figured it out by now, but my degree is actually in education. That's what I went to school. I went to school to be a teacher. Science and math were always my favorite subjects. We're opposite in that way. I'm a nerd. Listen, I love the preciseness of science and math, which is odd. If you all, like Alicia knows me on a personal level. I'm not a very precise person, but for some reason, the preciseness with science and math just always fascinated me. It's so funny because me and Lauren are really opposite in that way. Like in terms of I was in English, like I was always really good at English and spelling and stuff like that. Then Lauren became a teacher and I became a nurse. Now we're here. Also, well no, we're both pretty extra about our crafts. I was going to say I'm a little bit more like anal retentive about things, but we're pretty equally anal retentive. Honestly. I'm pulling this up. Here's my file. Somebody real quick. Somebody asked why isn't their reindeer cut vial available on Maker's Going to Learn. Please explain which reindeer you're talking about. If it's this one we're talking about. Explain. If the file is not there, it will be there before the end of the day because it was supposed to be in there before we started, which I thought it was, which is totally fine. We have it. It's here. What I've done here, I've already designed this in Canva so whenever you open it, you can open the file up in Canva or whatever design software that you're using. It doesn't necessarily have to be Canva. It's just a PNG file. I've got my PNG here and then I'm printing onto I've printed into the SureColor printer which automatically it's Epson, right? Epson SureColor? It prints it reflected. Like the sublimation printer prints it reflected so I don't actually have to reflect my image, but if you're not using that specific printer you're going to want to go ahead, change your file name to whatever you're going to be able to remember. My measurements for this let's just go up here. If I select resize, so my width is 9.625 and my height is 8 inches. That is the measurements of my tumbler. Whatever tumbler you get, you need to make sure that you're measuring the top circumference so not the lid. We're just measuring the top circumference here all the way around and let's see what it goes to. I'm trying to line it up to the top edge as best as I can and we've got a little bit right at 9.5. There's 9.5 and then you're going to measure this way from the top to the bottom and we've got a little under 8. Make sure whenever you go back into Canva you have your image set to exactly the size that your tumbler is. What I'm going to do next is I am going to download my image. I'm going to go download. I've got it as a PNG and then I'm going to select download here and that's just going to load and then we'll open it back up. It's going to pop down here. We've had a couple people say that they need a Canva tutorial. Correct me if I'm wrong but are you not working on one? I already filmed one. That's what I thought. I already filmed one. It's just not been released. Right. I don't know when it's planning to come out but it is coming out just to ask why. Yes, I filmed a Canva. It's Canva beginners for sublimation too so I kind of go over how to flip your image and all that. That should be coming out but we've done a little tidbits. If you watch our sublimation videos like our free content, you're going to be able to see us doing this type of thing and showing you all how to reflect your images and different things you can do in Canva but this video tutorial that I made, it's like all encompassing so you don't have to go to like 15 different videos to find all the tips. Also they said that it was the one listed in the supply list and I went down to the bottom and I actually clicked that link and it worked for me. Oh, it did? It did. Okay, cool. So what you'll do before you print, I'm trying to let's see file, print, okay and then what I'm going to do is go to this drop down menu and open in preview again which sounds crazy but I can flip my image here. So what I'm going to do is find it Why is my brain not working? I want to flip my image. Hold on. Is it not popping up? Am I crazy right now? What are you looking for? I'm just trying to flip my image from preview. I mean, oh, I guess we could do it here. Nope, that's going to rotate it. Let's see. Make sure that that's selected because sometimes it could be in the front and not be selected. Maybe. Okay, let's go file Hold on everybody. Hold the phone. Normally what I do is open it in preview and then I flip my image. You all have seen me do this like a thousand times. That's why I'm like, am I missing something here? Oh, see there right here. Normally this is my option. Let's see if we can flip it here. Oh yeah, okay. So let me start from the beginning. So you've got your file. We saved our file. I'll just save it again. We're going to download. We're going to save it. We're going to open it back up and whenever I open this, I can go to tools and I can flip horizontally. That's going to mirror my image. If you are new to sublimating, you need to make sure that you're mirroring your image every single time before you print because whenever we apply it to our piece it's going to apply the correct way. So you need a mirrored image right here. That's what we've got. And then you're going to send it to your printer. Quick question. Okay. We had someone ask just so you guys know, this file is already created for you, but we had someone ask, do you remember specifically what fonts we use? We can go into Canva and look. Let's see here. I've got Constellation. Is this Dancer? Every other font. So Dancer, Vixen, Tequila, and Blitzen. Those are all Constellation. And then Ambrosia. Gotcha. I should have linked those, but I bet I didn't because we're using the file. But it's Ambrosia and Constellation. Honestly, best font combination I've used in a really long time. It is great. It's like very whimsical and fun. Yes. I really like it. So what you're going to do, where's my image? Where'd she go? Okay, so we've got a reflected image here. And then you're going to go File, Print, and we're going to pick whatever printer you're using. We're going to use US letter size, 8.5 by 11. And I'm not going to scale it. I'm just going to keep it exactly how it is. What you can do sometimes, depending on where you're printing it from, or printing it to, I'm just going to keep that on auto select, but I always want to select Best. That way we're printing at the highest quality. And then you're going to print. And that's it. That's all she wrote. And then, so if we go overhead, this is my image here. And I've got something like on it. I don't know what happened there, but this is my image. This is what it looks like. And my green looks a little dark, so I'm wondering if our SureColor is low in ink, or if it's just going to be different when I sublimate it. Okay, so if you printed that from the SureColor, did you do color matching, or did you let it just automatically... Probably just let it automatically, because I didn't change anything. Okay, so the SureColor, it prints darker if you do not do color matching. Okay, well... So my green is going to be darker. Well, I think we should just sublimate it anyways and see what happens. And see what it looks like. Yeah. So, I'm going to turn my oven on. So... The good thing about this one is you don't have to have your large format printer. Right. You can just print this on a regular. We just printed this on 8.5x11 paper. Okay. I'm going to pump my time up to like forever. Okay, some people are saying that they've tried the reindeer names file, and it says it can't be found, but I keep clicking it, and it takes me right to it. Refresh your... If it's not working for you, refresh your screen and try to click it again and see what happens. It may just be like where we just uploaded it. That could probably be it. Okay, so I'm going to let this heat up. I've got it at 385. I just put it on a random time because this thing won't... Like, I haven't... This confuses me, so I always turn the time up really high so that it preheats without turning off. And then what we're going to do while that's heating up is measure our paper. So, I've got... Well, not measure it, but cut it. So I've got my paper here. I'm going to move this out of the way. I'm going to tell y'all exactly what to search in our cut files for that. Okay, so I'm going to... We've had multiple people say... That's so weird. Okay, I'm just going to be trimming off all of these white edges. Ooh, I love a paper cutter. Mm-hmm. This makes my life so much easier. We're going to slide this in just like so. Okay. I wonder... I'm going to double check with our customer service team because when I go to try to search it, it's not searching correctly, and I wonder if they published it. Like, if I have access to it because... And that's why it's working. For me and not for everybody else. Right. Okay, so we're going to get that taken care of. Okay, we'll get the file ready for y'all. So, I'm just trimming this up, making sure everything is nice and clean. Okay. I'm going to actually take scissors. I've got a little edge right here that I want to cut off. My paper cutter is shredding my paper. Should I buy a new blade? Probably. Yeah. If you... Excuse me. If you can, I would. Yeah. Okay, so after I cut it, what I like to do is see if... I'm going to take the lid and straw out of my tumbler, and I'm going to try and line this up. I'm just going to line it up. I didn't grab my lint roller. Uh-oh. Who am I? Oh, Sadie restocked our drawers, so we have things on hand at all times. Look, it's working. It's working for us. Okay, so before I do this, because if I get it perfectly lined up, I'm going to tape it. I'm going to take a lint roller and roll it over my tumbler to make sure that if there's any debris or like any oils or anything like that, it's going to come off. You could also clean this with alcohol. I know lots of people like to do that. Okay. There is hair wrapped around this. That's nice. Probably mine. It's real life though, you know? It's a dark hair, like black hair almost. Once again, probably mine. I think mine's the darkest in the office. Oh my gosh. Listen, I worked at the movie theater like for years in high school. Me and my husband actually both worked there. But one time these people, okay, I'm usually the only redhead. Like it's just, I feel like it always happens like at work or wherever. So I'm like working. I just clocked in. I literally just clocked in and somebody comes up to the counter and they're like, there's a red hair in my popcorn. And I was like, is there Karen? Because I literally just walked in. There's nobody else here. There's no one else here. She's like, yeah. Like if I'm over there, she's like, yeah, there's a red hair. And like she's talking to the manager. I don't even know you. Like I don't even know you. I just got here. I didn't even, I haven't served any popcorn. Like there's literally no way. But anyways, I loved working at the movies. That was my most favorite job I ever had. Besides this one, of course. Okay. I'm just lint rolling the heck out of this. Then I'm gonna sit this back into the drool. Okay. Let's try to line it up. Can y'all see what I'm doing here? I'm just gonna line her up. And I have a feeling it's gonna be a little bit long. So we may end up having to trim it. But I just grab that edge. I can already tell I'm a little bit crooked. Man, I'm telling y'all, getting tumblers straight is a process. It's a skill. It is a process. Process. Okay. So right now, this isn't perfectly lined up. But also, not only that, we have a pretty big lip here. Excuse me. So what I'm gonna do, I wanna say, I can even measure that because I want to trim this little lip off. I mean, it's hardly even. It's like a quarter of an inch. Not even. Oh my gosh. Okay. I'm just gonna trim off a little bit off of this edge. Just a little bit. I'm trying to get really good at my seams. It's a work in progress. I'm not that great. I won't even lie. So we have had people, first of all, Jackie. She says she's had a whole case of tumblers from around Christmas and haven't even opened. What are you doing? Come on. Open them up. Open them now. I dare you. Dare you. That's hilarious because Jacqueline said I'm going to dare myself to sublimate today. Oh my gosh. You don't have to dare yourself, girl. We dare you. We dare you. Listen, y'all. I think I just cut it too short right after I said. Patrick says I double dare you. I want a one-up. Patrick, I double dog dare you. Double dog dare you. You heard it first, people. Okay. I think I cut it short, but let's just see. That is a great question. Crystal said, what would happen if you didn't trim it? Okay. So if I... Y'all, I might have just done a really good job at that seam. I'm like, oh, I made it too short and it's like literally perfect. Literally perfect. If I did not, you would likely get lots of ghosting. This one I cut too short. But you can see ghosting on here, right here. And you can also see where I cut my paper too short and so there's a white line all the way around. So that's kind of what would happen. But what I'm going to do today, I've got hope in myself. I'm going to try to do this one better than the first one. Always try to be better than I was before. You know what I'm saying? I'm just going to line this up as good as I can. Oh, I think Carol may have just figured, like, I think she may have hacked the system. Okay, what? She says I use a imprint sees wad of sticky stuff from the ATG gun to hold the sheet in place until I line up the paper. It sticks and unsticks so easy and then I can use the tape once it's lined up. Oh, that's smart. Smart girl. Yeah, that's awesome. Okay, so I'm feeling good about this. I'm feeling good. Jim says she overlaps her seams just a little bit. The only issue is if it's a little crooked. This is, that's what I'm doing right now. That's why I'm feeling like it's going to work because I'm overlapping it just a little bit and also whenever you all go to tape, make sure that you are completely covering that seam just to prevent any ghosting. Taping all the way down. There it is. Okay, Jill, thank you so much. Jill said the cut file is showing up now. If you can't find it per the link, then you need to search drinking reindeer. Drinking reindeer. Drinking reindeer. Okay, once this is taped, I'm going to take my fingernail and go up the seam. This is going to really seal this in and prevent any ghosting. The less bubbles you have in your tape is also going to be very helpful in preventing ghosting. We're just going to make sure and do that. I'm going to go ahead and add some tape around the top edge. Not as much as I used to. I used to go ham. If y'all watched my first sublimation tutorial, then you know that was also before I used shrink wrap. Shrink wrap is where it's at. I'm also just going to fold this paper so it's at least touching the edge. Then whenever I apply the shrink wrap, it's really going to hug it in there. The bottom is always hard to not ghost. Honestly, what I should do is probably trim up the bottom so there's not so much over the edges, if that makes sense. I'm just going to tape this down. I know this is a lot. I'm feeling hopeful in this tumbler, though. I'm feeling like I want this to look better than the last one. Not that the last one was bad. It was good. Just not like my best work, you know? You know what I didn't grab, Lauren? What? The heat gun. Oh, wait. Come in here, Sadie. Oh my gosh. This one's fine. The mini one will work. Okay, so I've got a heat gun here for my shrink wrap. I meant to tell you all you might need that if you're using shrink wrap. You can also use a hair dryer. Yep. Hair dryer will work just fine. Okay, that's another good question. Is there any way you, is there any way to take the image off if you mess up the first time? So, Alicia actually did a video. Was it a live or a video? It's a video. Has it been released yet? Mm-hmm. It did. It was. Last week. Yes. So, she did a video where she is correcting a messed up tumbler. So, you can actually bake sublimation off to an extent. Right. You can bake it off and then re-sublimate over it with a dark color. Yes. Okay, so you can't do excuse me, you cannot what am I trying to say? Words are hard. You can't do a dark pattern and then try to sublimate over a dark pattern with a light pattern. Right. Thank you. Okay, I'm taped up. I'm as taped as I'm going to be. I've got the oven preheating to, it's at 385 and I don't have it on a specific setting. I just kind of turned it on to 385 and then we are going to shrink wrap our cup. I've got a shrink wrap sleeve. We use the Epson SureColor to print ours but we also use an Epson WorkForce 7710 which by the way, we got that years ago like I want to say Tanner said like 2018 when printers were, when that printer was not a thousand dollars. Right. I would keep an eye out on Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, resale places. It's going to be, if you want the wide format like the WorkForce that's what I would do. I actually think we may be in the process of buying one that's already been in use like a pre-owned one. Yes. This is so satisfying right here. Shrink wrapping. Jill said I've seen a video where people put the shrink wrap cup into the oven loose and the heat from the oven tightened it. Have you tried it? No. We have not tried it. We just do it this way so we know for a fact like it's not going to move. I don't want my sublimation process to fully start until I stick it in the oven like until this is on it if that makes sense. I'd be scared of ghosting. It might work though. I just, I mean obviously I'm applying heat to it but not like 385 degrees of direct heat. So I've got this shrink wrap just like so. Yes. We also had somebody ask what function temperature and time on the convection oven. So did you hit the convection like no. I literally turned it on which is what I normally do. Okay. Because Christina said I have some she has the same oven and hers bakes differently if she doesn't choose convection. Well I've been sublimating with this convection oven for months now and I've never picked a setting. But if yours does better that way keep doing it because I don't like everything's going to be a little bit different and your process may be a little bit different so I don't want to be like no don't do that anymore or whatever. This is just what works for me. Right. Someone said earlier do not put shrink wrap in the oven. We're putting this in here for four total minutes and I've never had an issue. Yeah. I didn't see that. Okay. So what I'm going to do is put this in for two minutes just like so. Can you set a timer Lauren? Yes. Okay. So I'm going to put it in here for two minutes. Okay. Start it. And then once it dings we're going to rotate it for we're going to rotate it 90 degrees and do two more minutes and then we're going to back it. So that's going to be fun. I also want to mention something about the Epson printer. Can I mention my firmware problem? Yeah. Go ahead. This is for the workforce by the way. So we use the Epson workforce for sublimation the 7710 the really expensive one. If you are like in the market for one I just want to say if you are using sublimation ink and you're not using the standard cartridges whenever you go to update your firmware on the printer it could potentially lock you out of using your printer. So what we're saying do not update your firmware. Right. So it's going to prompt you it's going to be like you need to update your firmware. Well that sounds like what you should do because to me I was like yes do that. No. Now it's saying ink cartridges are not recognized and it's not letting me use the printer like my ink cartridges are full. I have made sure they're not clogged. I'm telling you I have done literally everything and they're just not working and so now I'm in the process of installing chipless firmware and this may be like y'all are like I don't care. Well if you have an Epson printer then you should care because especially if you're using it for sublimation just don't update your firmware. Just don't ever update. If you get it converted and you need to use it like don't update your firmware ever. You can even I don't know exactly how to turn it off I need to. Like using the beta version. Right or you want to basically just use it how it is. If it prompts you to update it that's and you're having problems and it's like update your firmware just don't. It's not the firmware that's the problem it's probably just something else. Yeah. Because that was what happened with us and now I'm locked out of the printer. So I've been working on trying to get that fixed for three days. Yeah it's been a good fun time. Okay you're after two minutes. Anyways so shoot let me turn it. There's like a class action lawsuit out about it right now so. Just FYI. Just FYI. Okay I'm just going to turn this. Would the air from the convection setting help move those gases around better? Potentially. So here's the thing. I know that if you have the same printer or the same convection oven as us. I know Christina said and then we had someone else say that it burned theirs as well if they did not have it on the convection setting. This is literally just like everything else. Like every other oven it can be the exact same oven but they're still different and they're going to for some reason they cook different. So you have to learn your oven. Learn what works, what doesn't work. We're telling you what we've done and we hope and pray that it's the best thing and it works for you if you have the exact same one. However when it comes to manufacturing these ovens sometimes I don't know what it is. They're just different. They're the same. We're at 53 seconds. Oh gosh I'm like is it time? No it is not time. What about updates on the F-170? So that is a SureColor printer that is a specific sublimation printer. Your ink goes straight into like there are no cartridges that you have to take out and refill. You basically refill the printer. Which is how it should be anyway. That one would be fine. That one we've not had zero issue. The only downfall with the SureColor is that I really just wish they had that wide format. I know we love a 13x19. I love a 13x19. I do. How many more seconds? You've got 20 more seconds. Chill. I'm stressed. I'm stressed. It felt like longer than two minutes. I don't know. I think that April made a good point. I don't understand why Epson wants to destroy printers because they're being used as sublimation printers. They're still making money by selling so many of them. You are after two minutes. They want that money, honey. That's it. Okay. Ice bath. Can y'all hear it? I'm going to scooch. It looks cray cray. I'm worried that this is over sublimated. No. I promise you it is. The printer settings it's the colors. So we know the green is going to be a little different and maybe the red but I still feel like I over sublimated it. I just have a feeling. The sublimation feeling. I think you've let it I don't know. We're about to find out. Let's dump the water out. Move the electrical stuff. There's ice stuck in there. I do remember Tanner does say to choose the convection setting. Maker's going to sublimate. It may work better. Christina said that she forgot to choose it one time and it did burn. That might be what if you feel like it over sublimated that might be the issue. Maybe. I've done them in the past without it. We should standardly use the same settings especially when we're teaching you all. We should. If that's the case I'm just going to start doing it. Okay. I'm just going to pull this off. Can you do this tumbler with this pattern without sublimation? I don't have a sublimation printer. The only issue that I would see running into this, you could probably do it with Is that red? Burnt red? I can't see it yet. I can't see the exposed color yet. Anyway. Oh yeah. Oh snap. It's pretty. I like it. It's actually prettier red than See that's the one thing. There are certain colors. When it comes to the Epson SureColor printer, there were a couple things that I sublimated that I let it do the smart color matching. It's like the smart color sync I think is the name of it. They come out super deep and beautiful. Other colors were not what I wanted them to be. This green is so pretty. It's not the green that I chose but the color is really pretty. We did not over sublimate so that's good. My ghosting isn't as bad on the bottom. Okay. I just splashed myself with water. My seam is much better you guys. I'm proud of myself for that seam. It could be better but like it's not it's not like the last one. I mean that's pretty much it. The ghosting is not as bad. I wonder if you all can see. Well, it's about the same on the bottom. This right here is like one of the harder parts about sublimating tumblers is getting that ghosting on the bottom to not be there and then the seam line. Other than that, I mean she's cute. Okay, so some people said I heard that placing it in cold water after taking it out of the oven can potentially cause cracking in the tumbler. That is with like a glass or a ceramic mug, tumbler, whatever. If you are using stainless, it's fine. Yes, it's fine. That blue come out. Not blue. Oh, it did didn't it? It's white. It's weird because the red is beautiful. The green looks brown. This is the original right here. This is the new one. I use different printers though. Yeah, different printers and different settings. So each printer and settings are going to be completely different too. Do you all have any questions about that? Any questions? The color doesn't change as the tumbler cools. No. The reason the color is different once again is because she used a different printer and with that SureColor printer, you have to go in and click color matching, not the smart color because the color matching it's exactly what you see on the screen. This is like borderline over sublimated. I don't know if you all can tell. I can see it from here. Like how white that one side is. This is the original. This is the new one. This is a little bit more brown and my words are a little bit more fuzzy and that is because we kept it in the oven for a little bit too long. Just a little bit. It doesn't take much. It really doesn't. But you can see my words are much crisper over here. But they still look good. They're still really cute. We'll set them over here. But it also one thing that I was noticing how white that looks compared to that looks gold. Right. But it doesn't look like. If this were a not glitter tumbler you may be able to tell a lot more. Yeah. Is what I think. The glitter kind of disguises it a little bit. Yeah. Still cute. They're still really cute and fun. I'm definitely going to be using this. Yes. For sure. Maybe with all of it in there. When I say over sublimated I'm meaning that it's been in the oven a little bit too long. Yes. And so basically those particles are just like floating around in the heat and they're under the pressure and they're just like floating around. When I pull it out and dip it in the ice they're like they just stop. But if I don't those particles go in and then they start to fizzle back out. They go into the polymers and then they fizzle back out and so you get ghosting and burntness. But what she also means by the over sublimating I don't know if y'all can see it really well. But this one right here the white portion looks a little bit like beige. I guess you could say and this looks more white. So what has happened is and it could be because we didn't use the convection setting. It could have burnt. So when it burns it like turns yellow. Right, right. So total minutes in the convection oven we do 2 minutes or 385 2 minutes. Rotate it 90 degrees 2 more minutes. And that's it. And you pull it out and dunk it in the ice. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. How many minutes total is 4. Yep. Is what we did. 2 and 2. But that's once again playing around with your settings. If we were to do this one again I would probably tell you turn it at like 130 or 145. Listen, I don't ever change the setting and I do it 2 minutes and 2 minutes and it's always fine. This one I made the exact way today but what I think is we got a little extra seconds in there because I had you set a timer. Oh yeah. That's what I think happened. Probably. Honestly y'all it makes a difference like right when you put it in there start the timer. Right when you rotate it start the second timer. Just like have your phone open ready to go or just use the timer on your convection oven. Marina said I just purchased a new tumbler tool from Etsy called Pinch Perfect waiting to get it and see if it helps wrap tight and easier to tape. Oh. We may have to look into that. Yeah, that would be really nice. If I could find something that could help. I need like another set of hands, you know? Yes. I need a taping hand and a holding hand and another holding hand. Oh no. They have this oven and it burned the shrink wrap. I'm reading all of this. The seam on this one came out really nice. Much better. Really nice. Do you see it? Much better. Do you not see it? Do you see it? It's still not perfect but it's getting there. It's still good. I'm not a pro tumbler maker but you know I'm here doing it like y'all are. Is the black ink showing black or is it different? It's showing It's still pretty black. It's a little more brown-y. Brown-ish. Yeah. It's more on the brown side. It's still black but more on the brown side of black. Toasted black. Yeah, toasted black. Oh, it's so funny. Can this be done without sublimation? It won't be glittery. What I was getting at a while ago is the file. That's where I think people are going to be have issues downloading this file because it's a PNG. I don't think we have the SVG version. Do we? No. But you all can take the fonts. We use Ambrosia and Constellations. Yes. And you can use basic shapes in Canva to make all of it. I literally use three stacked rectangles and then the black lines can be skinny rectangles and then I don't know if this comes with the basic shapes or if you have to have Cricut Access to get this shape but you can pull this shape in and then every other word is Constellations, every other word is Ambrosia and just plug it in. You can pick your colors of vinyl and put it on and then put resin on it and it would be really cute. Actually I think the inspiration for this one that I saw had this gold like beautiful gold washi tape outlining everything and it was so pretty. It was so pretty but it was not a sublimated tumbler. It was like an epoxy tumbler. I wish I knew where the original one was that inspired it but. So Jen says so even with seam issues I'm not like not super noticeable so this one I would call not super noticeable seam issues. This one might be more noticeable. She then asks would you still charge the same price or would you discount a bit? This one would for sure for sure if it was not burnt. If it wasn't burnt. If it was not burnt it would be full price. This one I might knock off a couple dollars. You know what I mean? Yes. Honestly the normal person is not necessarily going to notice it I wouldn't say but I just wouldn't feel comfortable selling something. You know what I mean? I wouldn't feel comfortable selling something that I know wasn't my best. So you don't have to do this in Canva. Well if you're doing it for a tumbler if you're sublimating yes you do need to do it in Canva. That way you can get your exact measurements. If you are doing it with vinyl if you wanted to create like the same saying with these fonts whatever then you would do it in design space so you could cut your vinyl. That's the difference. And honestly y'all if you've got printable vinyl I would print the names. I would do the design of the names and print that design with the like this ticket shape right here with the names I would print that on printable vinyl because it's going to be a nightmare trying to weed those words. A nightmare. It would take forever. So if you could even do basic shapes for these and then do this on printable vinyl you'll be good to go. It won't take you hardly any time to put that on there. If y'all do that show us pictures I would love to see it. Well please. I know we had some more questions. DTV on tumblers? What do you want? Have you tried DTV on tumblers? No. We can't. Is it fabric only? It's textiles. Textiles only. Yep. Okay. I'm trying to go back. Oh somebody asked air fryer versus convection. Convection. Don't use an air fryer. I mean it can be done but don't. It seems dangerous. We have done it but don't. It seems so dangerous. Can you go into Word to do the sublimation? I've never used Word for sublimation. I've never. First of all Word does not work really well with Macs. I don't think you can pull PNGs into Word. You can pull JPEGs but not PNGs. So maybe if you design it just use Canva. It's free. It's literally free. You have to sign up. If you don't have Canva, go ahead and sign up for Canva. They have very good options for just the free Canva. You don't need to have fancy Canva. Just get regular. You can use this file on there and do everything that we just did. No charge. Let's see. Yolanda used it. We'll have to see. Once again Word is not as compatible with a Mac as it is a Windows. When I had a Windows computer I used Word for like everything. So converting over to Mac, I've not used Word since. Can you even do Word on Mac? It's very complicated. But you can. I don't want to play around with that. I have Canva. Okay, cool. Perfect then. Word was easier for me but now if you're getting into sublimation you really should start to get comfortable with Canva because it's more designer friendly and it can be intimidating at first but I think once you get into it and learn where everything is, it gets a lot easier. It's just getting in there and making yourself use it. Because when I first did it I was like, I don't really want to be in here. But once you learn how to do it it's like so easy. And that video that's coming out is very helpful. It's like very cut and dry, step by step how to use it. Alright, well we will be back, well if you're a member, we're going to be having a Q&A in the Facebook group tomorrow. And then next Tuesday we will be back here with a live for you all. Maybe even Monday with a little mini live. We'll see. So, if you are a member get your questions ready. Actually, if you are a member and you have some questions, go ahead and shoot those over to hi at makersgonnalearn.com for us. That way we can get your answers and we can be ready to answer whatever you have. We can be ready to answer your questions but that way we can also we'll answer your live questions as well. But that way we can be a little bit more prepared. Right. Having all of the stuff ready. So, if you are going to be joining us tomorrow on our Facebook page for the live Q&A, make sure you send those over. Time for that tomorrow? 1.30. Normally when we do it on Facebook, we do it at 1.30. So, tomorrow at 1.30. We will see you all next time. Megan says you can drag and drop PNGs into words. She just would not recommend it. Oh, okay. Well, good to know. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Okie doke. We will see you all tomorrow for the live Q&A. Alright. Bye. Bye.