🚨HONEST REVIEW - TECKWRAP VINYL🚨Is it REALLY worth the HYPE?!

Hello, welcome back to our channel The maker's gonna learn channel and surprise. It's Monday. We're having a live. It is Monday Me and Lauren are like just barely making it. Okay, we're just barely hanging on. Oh, hold on my volumes up Rookie I know it's terrible. So starting now in October And I apologize if I sound a little bit different y'all the fall of the year Traveling everything else has my head completely like you sound better right now this morning. I do sound better now Yeah, but if I am during the live I keep going Just please I'm forewarning you. I apologize. I'm apologizing ahead of time. I'm really trying here. So Anyway, I'm starting this month. We are doing what we are calling many lives So that's where we're probably not gonna go into like a full tutorial Right or a full project, but we are going to answer a lot of your questions that we have been getting repeatedly Yes, so one example One of our many lives is How to know when and not to when to seal and when not to sell your project Yes, we get that question all the time like the number one question number one so That mini live is going to be just kind of walking you through when to when not to Probably not gonna jump into a full tutorial, right? But you know, so our mini lives are probably gonna be a little bit shorter 30 45 minutes. Not the full hour But we're still wanting to come to you and bring you all of the great content answer all of your questions You all always have some really great questions. What are some of the other many lives that we've got? Oh Gosh, now that you asked me. I want to say it's like simple things like um, I Mean like reviews are a good one. Yeah, we have a list of them like an ongoing list of them somewhere Yeah, but they'll be on Mondays more than likely. Yes, that's kind of the plan. So Mondays We're gonna test out our mini lives. Yes, Lindsey. I absolutely missed you guys on Saturday as well I missed being here with you all. I heard you all had a great time. It was really fun Lots of lots of twists and turns lots of laughs. I heard I missed a a big spill Like I really hate like I'm gonna have to go back and watch it just for that. I'll have to yes It was a good time though. We had a good time We've got lots of Christmas crafts done and I've seen everyone's posts in the Facebook group like People have completed all the projects we did over the weekend I did I have seen I did get to see a lot of this stuff in the Facebook group So I'm thankful that I mean I was on and off social media all weekend So like I got to see a few things. I've not really had a chance to like really jump back in. But yeah, yes, so Today we're gonna be reviewing tech crap. So yeah, I've been asking about this a lot We have opinions and I would love to hear what other people think about it that have used it also Right before the live me and Lauren found this little sheet little cheat sheet and it was telling us how to Cut it and I'm wondering if we've had issues because our cut settings may not be what they recommend Yeah, I have opinions about their cut settings also though. So that's great. We'll talk about it. Yeah, we will talk about it But before we jump into that One thing that we do have going on right now We are doing the half off for monthly members If you are not a member yet, or you want to join But you do don't really want to jump in full force with the yearly just yet You kind of want to get your feet wet So you test the waters first and you might want to do a monthly membership right now We have a sale going on no code needed and you can get that monthly membership for half off You still get commercial license and if you have not started if you want to make money using your cricket and you haven't started for The holiday season y'all it's not too late. Definitely need to jump on that now It's gonna be getting pretty close to being too late, but you're not too late now So jumping in with that monthly membership if you have been on the fence about it thinking about it, that's a great way to start And a great sale we've got going on to get you started. Yes Lindsay says we've been waiting on our opinions. But first before we buy it I Think I saw where Carol said the same thing. I've really been waiting for this video before you buy. So Let me just bring some over and me and you can talk about it before I jump in because I feel like once I get Over to the craft table. Yeah, like we're just gonna it's we're doing simple cuts today. Yeah Well, I thought we'll give you our opinion over here. Yeah, and We'll go from there. I'm gonna scooch this over So I can see the comments still Okay So let's bring it here. All right, let's talk about it take her a bottle The packaging is very nice packaging. Love it It's very convenient because I can keep my stuff like they have color changing and holographic and even what you can't hear me Can you hear me clearly? Okay I like the packaging because I can keep my stuff. Yeah, right. I'd like my colors and all of those things So this is the actual color changing the cold color changing. I think it's a cool color changing sheet So Alicia's just put it right back in here. So we know what it is. And I do love that. Yeah, it comes with it Labeled on the back telling you exactly what each one is. This must be their Transfer transfer because remember I found some out there earlier and I was like, what is this? They come with transfers and I don't you I use them one time They're very very sticky very sticky extremely sticky and I'm like that's a little aggressive because when you go to transfer something on it's like Okay, like it's too sticky. Do you know what I'm saying? So let's talk about their there I guess this is their glitter vinyl first, right? This is what they call their glitter vinyl. Oh, yeah It's like a shimmer beautiful. It's more like a shimmer rather than a glitter You don't have glitter coming off of it, there's no like true glitter on it, but it kind of gives you the glitter look Yeah Let me pull out the black one because I know there's a black one in here somewhere And also, don't you feel like these feel so different you can touch a tech wrap vinyl and no, it's tech wrap Like yes it the back Feels so different than anything that we've used before It's not bad. It feels good. It feels very good quality When you say like when you touch it, it feels really good quality. Um So this is the black as you can see, maybe not the best. I cut something over here Y'all this black was very hard to see and very hard to like Tell where anything is at I feel like I should be maybe but anyway, and also their vinyl is silver on the back Yeah, and we can look at that when we get to the craft table. Yeah Yeah, they're they have a lot of variety I Absolutely. Love the variety that they have. Yes, so they have your this is the like High shine like super holographic. I'm upset. I love it. I love it Um, this is another one as you can see I tried to cut on it once again Didn't give me the best result. Yeah Same thing with that black. It didn't give me great results Holographic then they have some beautiful just like plain matte color They're solid colors are so good. They're so pretty they have very like on trend color schemes if you're looking to see what the latest color schemes are tech wrap is very up-to-date on the trends as far as Color schemes go and like just popular colors in general And that's why I wanted to buy them initially. I was like no No one is getting the colors I want but tech wrap has it and so we got it and I was just Excited after I tried to cut it. Yeah, they've got some cool patterns This is a holographic pattern. They even have textured So this is a textured vinyl one of their textured vinyls that they have that I love we had this in the gold We have we use this for the fall cup and I didn't have any issues out of it I know because I think in the beginning I had issues from the get Lauren liked it in the beginning and then was like Slowly over time like and I think the reason so this is my honest opinion Completing 100% honest. Is it worth it? If there is an is if there is a color that you a specific color that you have to have for a project Yeah to buy a small lot of it to buy. I like a small pack of it. Yes to get that color Yeah, however, it does not give me the same results Every time and that is why yeah, I'm not a hundred percent sold on it just yet but we're gonna use the settings that they They recommend we're gonna cut something today. We're gonna see I still think that it's gonna be hard to Completely change my mind, but I have had such Issues with it. Yeah, and that could be that that could be a personal error I'm just saying that there have been times so many times that I've gone to cut something and it's not cut correctly Well, and a lot of people like some people are saying they love it more than Cricut vinyl will Cricut vinyls terrible so the comparison for tech wrap for me would be Caesar and Caesar so good. Okay, so Personal opinion we're talking about permanent vinyl because we don't have they don't have they don't have do they have heat transfer vinyl Yeah, they just have permanent vinyl I don't know I don't know I'm gonna look I would think that they would well Let's just say I'm gonna rank my vinyls and you tell me what you think. Okay, we're just talking about permanent vinyls here Not HTV not HTV top for permanent vinyl for me Starcraft Oh 100 for 100% Yeah for a permanent vinyl it is every time you get the same result it weeds good it sticks good it transfers good Perfect everything Starcraft. This is once again. We are talking about permanent vinyl Starcraft up here. Okay My next one, I don't know. I don't really know or cow would yes for sure or cow would be next Can you tell that we use Starcraft or cow? Tech wrap Paper studio I'm just not a fan. Yeah, I don't know. I would put paper studio above Cricut vinyl Yeah, maybe Cricut vinyl is just not where it's at for me I'm just gonna be honest with you all and just because it's name-brand doesn't always mean it's the best If y'all haven't got on Starcraft, you need to get now if we're talking about heat transfer Oh up top Caesar takes the cake. Oh for sure. There's no compare. I need to see Okay, let I'm gonna look and see if tech wrap has HTV. I'm pretty sure I want to say they do Like why not, you know, yeah, I know they have the UV color-changing. Yeah, that's permanent The UV color-changing is very very cool So while you look that up, let's just hop over here. Let me go over to the craft table. They do have HTV Well, we've not used it. So I can't say if I like it or not. They've got puff HTV Pattern all the kinds glow-in-the-dark all of it. Well, so we might have to try that I have to review that one too. So this is the little cup that we're gonna make we'll just go overhead We're just gonna make we got these cups from Walmart I don't know that they're linked in the description because I don't know that Walmart has them anymore. We've had them for a while Yeah, I just found them and fell in love and had to buy them all. Yeah, they were like what $1 $2 Yeah, they were very cheap. Yeah, so I don't know that we have these cups linked in the description because like I said I don't know that Walmart has them But anyway, we're just gonna do a Just a quick tutorial on cutting this if you can see Let me see if I can put my hand in it right here on the top of this vinyl. Can they see that? So I had to tear it Because it didn't cut through right? Yeah, and you can't you can't see it if you didn't know it Yeah, but and I'll just that's just me being a completely transparent with you guys I did have to like I had to tear that and I don't I don't like that Like I feel like this is a very simple shape. I shouldn't have to worry about it not cutting through right, right? So Anyway, let's go ahead and let me show you what the backing looks like I mean we were talking about this earlier and I didn't know if you could see it So the backing of the tech wrap vinyl, I'm not gonna say all of it. Is that silver? Most of it is but a lot of it. Well the matte colors, right? So the solid colors Do not have that silver backing, but let's just go ahead see this once again should have been a pretty simple cut But it's like it's just not weeding away like it should do you remember what cut settings you use? It's tearing I'm Probably glitter glitter Just glitter vinyl. Yeah, but more pressure of it. Are y'all seeing this like I'm trying to get this torn away here It's just like if this is a word This is the last name, this is a J for Jarnagan and then it's just like tearing and like stretching Stretching is the no As far as stickiness at April ask how sticky it is So here it is. I'm pushing it on my thumb It feels good quality. Oh, yeah It's it's nice. It feels like very high-end vinyl when you know Because I don't care to mess this up, let's try this just stickiness do a stickiness test and try to take this up off of this and Like even whenever if you get it in your hands, it's very thick and no stickiness 10 out of 10 Definitely going to give it a 10 out of 10 on the stickiness as I say that that little air that must have had an Air bubble right there, but that little area popped up But still I'm I'm giving it Good amounts of pressure. Yeah coming up. It's stretching the vinyl before it will come up. That's good. That's so Carol so that doesn't look sticky at all. I like I said, um, oh Yeah, it's it's it's tearing before it like this right here That tore before it come up come up off the cup. Yeah, so I'd say I'd say stickiness Good good on the stickiness part So we There it does come with The Tech-rep craft bottle and it does have you know test cut recommended blah blah blah on the back It has the different vinyl tops and the settings that you would use for each of these now We don't have that doesn't have the maker three on there But I'm it's I'm assuming it's the same as the maker so this is your actual pressure settings They say do basically use everything that they have on premium vinyl holographic So I will say I cut my you know, I made these little Like file boxes. I posted them on the members Facebook group. Yes, and that was all tech right? That was when we first got it. I Spent an hour Cutting my daughter's name out. Yeah, and I used two solid colors. I could not I recut it I would not remove it from the machine until it was cut all the way through. I bet I cut it four times Yeah, and I was like, I don't know what I'm doing, which I was cutting it on premium vinyl more pressure Y'all know I use more pressure for everything. So maybe we just need to change everything to holographic Listen, if y'all ain't getting a good cut change it to holographic glitter or what? What was I using another day? That was cutting so well holographic Holographic glitter. I don't remember anyway one other thing that I wanted to show you guys about this specific vinyl So some of them especially your shiny vinyls like this Make sure that you come in and like rub your fingers on the corner because look Yeah, it'll get you every time it has a film over top of it And that's just to protect the vinyl and I appreciate that To an extent I appreciate that they're trying not to scratch it because this is a very Very holographic vinyl and I get not wanting to scratch it because it could get scratched up pretty easy because Okay, take a look at this one. For example, you see that? Yeah how scratched up it is because the Film has been taking off taking off I mean double check and make sure now that I said that the what I don't like it because I forget about it and then I go to cut it and I'm like, why is it not cutting? Yeah. No I'm not saying I don't forget about it. Y'all I forget about it all the time Every sheet is the clear cover sheet. Um, no matter what no, no, these do not Oh the glitters don't you do not have the clear cover sheet, but they're like the solid. Um, I Don't think this one does either though. Alicia. I want to say maybe then it's like the metallics and yeah Now the metallics are they do the metallics do I don't think the mats do Or the glitter ones, I don't know see that's why I just get so confused because I'm trying to pull one off of this one And I'm not seeing one either Like some of them do some of them don't Well all the solid colors do like I'm just basic solid colors I had them one on every one that I used and I forgot on like all of them Does that one have one? I'm trying to see I Lauren I also want to say that I may have potentially pulled them off as I Okay, okay Because I pulled them off. Yeah, I don't remember I got the I got a bunch of tech wrap a long time ago like a bunch I got like every color every design obviously y'all can see that we have so much. Yeah, there's that gold We used yeah on the pumpkin spice. Yes, so cute. They are so pretty. They are so pretty. That's why I'm just like Yeah, it's a pain I don't know as you want them to I want them to work I want to use them and yeah use the correct cut setting. So with that being said Let's go ahead Let me get this computer on and we'll just go ahead and we will create ability These are this one is that purple is tech wrap this one is Yeah, it is you are correct Lauren can tell but by feeling it that's how she's like knowing Yeah, so like you can when Alicia was talking about the backing are we at camera one? When Alicia was talking about the backing like you can kind of see how this backing shines Whereas let me grab another piece a lot of vinyls have like a paper backing So you see how that one is not like paper like this has a paper backing and you can feel it whereas the tech wrap has more of a Plasticky it is not a plastic. Yeah plastic. It's slick slick. Yes more slick Yeah, me packs. Is that a lord? Oh lordy. I don't know. I got that I got the variety pack of every color. Yeah, so that we have got like eight We got like eight different packs of all the colors. Yeah Um, maybe what's this computer comes on so I've used HTV wrong holographic and I absolutely loved it worked very great for me Um, lots of people are asking about HTV wrong and we have not used a whole lot of that No, but I did get some HTV wrong clear HTV That I'm going to be testing and using with sublimation. So stick around for that. And that's very exciting. Yeah So now we're going to let's Some one was Recommending to cut with premium textured metallic setting. We're gonna cut it on the setting Yeah, they recommended to us and the little pack which we didn't see previously We're gonna see how it works because it's not just standard premium vinyl. No, and so it's even telling us that your Regular like 001 series, which I guess is you're just regular colors. Yeah to cut it on holographic premium vinyl holographic I personally feel like that's gonna be very hard on your machine I feel like if you're cutting if I only use tech wrap all the time and I'm cutting on that setting It's gonna be very hard on my housing right or like on my little tool holder, right? I'm on the machine, but I don't know. We'll see. Okay. So now we're just gonna hop over into design space As you can see we already have this Created so all we did which this whoa Nelly is one of our fonts this font is Groovy moves that's it groovy moves. So we'll go over here to system fonts groovy moves Now we did use a different software to do this kind of warp. Look I've got a tutorial coming out on it Yes, Alicia has a tutorial on how to do this So we'll just do and we'll just do my name this time that way you all can kind of see so all we've done You're gonna color this whatever color you want to so you can separate it out on mats Whatever color we'll start with Start with white and then what all we did is we just come in here and we just added an offset. So Start with 0.25 will apply I kind of want a thicker offset because it is a we have some room and I want to be able to see all The other ones so then we're gonna add another offset. We'll apply that We're going to change that color so we can see the difference and then we'll add the third offset apply and That is all we've done to create. I mean other than the software which we used Photopea I think is the name of the software like we said At least you'll be doing a tutorial on that so pretty much for this design Which we're not really gonna talk about the design much today. We just put whatever words we wanted and then added offsets That's all you have to do. Okay, and we're gonna go Now we gonna cut Let's start out by Jeremy Geo says new to the community. Love y'all heart emoji heart eyes emoji. Hi. Love you, too Glad to have you let's see. What do we want to cut? I definitely want to try to cut this black I want to do something with this black just because I have had so many issues with it Yeah, so we're gonna do that and it doesn't have to be black. It's just gonna have to be this glitter So whatever color what other color should we do? Black definitely do a hollow. I would try one of each like a holographic a solid and a glitter Okay, right. Yeah, we can like test test them all out. So let's do that black Where was that holographic that I just pulled out? We'll do this one She's gorgeous. What just gorgeous and then we'll do this pink solid would be really cute cute perfect Perfect. So we have a black we have a pink or a pink solid and we have a holographic. Okay So what I'm gonna do that leaves me with an Extra, but it'll be okay We will do Let's think We want to start out with a holographic in the back No, I don't think I do. I think I want to do it in the middle because the cup is pretty shiny to begin with So let's actually do pink and Then we'll do holographic black and then pink letters again Okay, so perfect. We'll put this on now. This one doesn't have a carrier sheet or that Things we're gonna put it on And I'm actually gonna change our colors real quick. So we're gonna go the back one is gonna be pink The let text is gonna be pink That this one is gonna be holographic so we'll change it to white and then black there we go. Perfect Okay. So now that we have that we are going to Let's delete that if you need to let's just hide it all. I don't want to necessarily delete it So we're just gonna hide it. So now we're gonna go to make it From there. It's telling us to start with that, but we want to start with the pink Okay, we're gonna start with the paint We're going to continue We are connected to our maker three now according to our little a little thing that it comes with your tech route it says for the 0-1 series to cut it on premium vinyl holographic. So we're gonna go back to design space browse all material down Premium vinyl Okay, so this is the issue We've got holographic texture holographic art detail art deco holographic bubbles Holographic threat. We're just gonna go with texture. Sure Holographic it will really that way. Yeah So do we want to cut it on default or go ahead and start with hot with more pressure default default it is This is what they're telling us to cut it on default pressure so we going to If it were me, I would put more pressure But I just want to see what it does with the standard cut setting I would for sure put more pressure But we're testing today. Yeah, we're testing together So once that's ready We're gonna go ahead and cut it Now one thing about this Alicia kind of touched on this earlier getting this to stick to transfer paper Transfer tape is kind of hard. I wonder if we get there the tech wrap transfer would work better Than what we normally listen. We're all about tech wrap. I'm just gonna grab this out and we're gonna use this Transfer today We're gonna use the tech wrap transfer today since we are doing a full review Let's see. And this is not a very detailed cut either. So it should be it should cut relatively smoothly It should weed very smoothly and we shouldn't we shouldn't have to do two passes We can test it before we pull it off just to see but we shouldn't have to do more than one pass I mean, this is like basic smooth solid vinyl. Okay, let's come over to this and we'll look No, I don't think so, okay, I mean I can see where it cut Just run it through it. Would it do it on one more pass? I'm just gonna double check my blade and make sure So y'all can see my blade is clean. We just changed the blades in this thing so I Should I pull it out and like if I have to I'll do it on the other side just to double die cuz I'm just gonna pull it out. Oh, okay. We're just gonna pull it out. I was gonna say cut it again Well, I if it doesn't cut then I'm just gonna flip it and cut it on this side of the vinyl You know what? I mean? And just change your settings and design. Hey, yeah Okay Lots of people have really good luck. Oh What it does have a covering on it and I This is This is why I get so frustrated with it I couldn't tell that it had a covering on it and I feel it all you can't sometimes They need to have like a little tabby on there. Yeah, you can see. Oh, it's still got thing on it. And you know what? That didn't even cut through to the vinyl. It literally just cut that top That was on there. Now, you know why we don't like the cover sheet everybody Well, I was wrong that one did have a cover so should we cut it again same exact cut settings and see what happened Yes Yeah, the cover sheet is just not I haven't seen him have a white cover. She don't that's a first time I've seen one like that. Yeah, and first of all that was cut on holographic vinyl settings and that this It's been it should have cut way deeper It didn't even cut into the vinyl that could very well be our machine, too I'm not gonna put a hundred percent blame not on the vinyl because that machine is not Always consistent. So maybe we should just retry it on the same cut settings Okay, and see what happens. Okay I'm not saying everybody saying that they love that. I've seen a couple people said that they love their vinyl I'm not saying that I hate it at all. Please don't please I'm just saying that I don't get results every time, right? That is exactly what I'm saying. I Love their colors the color obsessed with their colors really good It just doesn't cut great like and that but that's really important to me but once again, you know, I know I say that to also go back and say that When I first when we first got take rap, I Literally had zero issues, right? Like every time I cut it. It was great. Yeah So, I don't know. I have always had but I could be I was using the wrong cut settings. I didn't know that holographic Premium vinyl holographic 3d texture. That's what we did it on the last time Because it does say premium vinyl holographic pressure 180 to 185 So actually let's go to material settings and let's go down here to our vinyl premium vinyl Okay, so this is only giving us pressure because this is the pressure cut pressure So the that's one thing that this is one thing that you can do and the premium vinyl holographic 3d texture is only giving me a pressure of 108 And I need a pressure of 185 you can 180 to 185, but what I'm saying is even looking at all of this None of the vinyl has a pressure setting of 180 to 185 So it might be good to add in your own little cut settings for tech wrap like a tech wrap cut setting and I'll keep It at 185. So we're gonna add new material We're going to name it tech wrap vinyl Oh Teresa took the words right out of her mouth. You can make your own settings and use it for tech wrap so this might be a good tip if you are having issues cutting your tech wrap vinyl and you Want to remember your settings just make your own tech wrap vinyl. So we have we're setting it for tech wrap We're moving it up I'm gonna go ahead and put it at 185. Okay We are doing this is the What setting is this? I can never remember what? Multi-cut. Okay, so we don't want the multi-cut now if you wanted it to go through and cut twice Here is where you can do two passes three passes, whatever. We're gonna leave it off and leave it with the fine point blade Okay so We are making your own settings here teaching you guys how to make your own settings We're topping in tech wrap putting it at a pressure of 180 And then we're going to save this. Okay, so now I'm going to go back here. We're gonna browse all material I'm just gonna search tech wrap where I just added weren't obviously I'm gonna spell it right first Okay, so I just added this material. I'm gonna star it and then so now we've got it on our own personal settings Which you know, this could have been an Us issue from the beginning. You know, hopefully it gets through this So this is at a pressure of 185. So we're just this is custom settings We've added custom settings put it in as tech wrap. This is the original 001 just regular colors. So Nikki is asking. What is tech wrap? Tech wrap is just the brand of the permanent vinyl that we're reviewing today So it's not a special kind of vinyl. It's just a brand of vinyl, right? And then someone said with tech wrap you have to play with the cut settings a lot. Yeah. Yeah, we're seeing that We see that now We see that now, but I feel like if you're selling permanent vinyl like and Cricket has a permanent vinyl cut setting. I mean, I get it. You're gonna have to adjust it a little bit So would you call this rainbow straps? I mean Yeah, sure because it says for the material vinyl top rainbow straps glitter slash Shimmer or galaxy you have to have a pressure of 240. Oh, yeah, I would definitely call that rainbow straps Oh, okay. Okay the shelf the shelf the shelf. Okay, this is This is the this is the end result Let's see, how well I Think it didn't cut you don't think so You would be wrong Beautiful cut good beautiful. Yeah, that's good. I'm glad I wanted to I know I do too because I want to be able to use This and I feel I feel like we've put we may have Just figured it out while we were on the live with you guys. I know Maybe we just haven't sat down and walked talked it through before because me and Lauren work with it, but separately Yeah, okay So now let's just weed this out. Can they see me as I weed this? Look at that Okay, we may have changed our minds All right. I mean, I don't know. Well, it's still it's still up for debate. I feel like Let's weed out the middle Yeah, just remove this now. This is like the most this is the basic solid vinyl that we're cutting But we're gonna be cutting other we're gonna do a metallic and hot or a glitter and a holographic cut as well Okay to see how they cut there's our first sections so now We are going to I'm gonna take these up off the mat You know those We're gonna take this off Let's go with our I said I was doing holographic mix, right? Yeah, and then black because I want to see how well the black I want to see how well this other vinyl will stick to that glitter. Yeah, that's my next thing. Yeah, okay So now we're doing holographic We're gonna add this on to now. We did already take the film off of this one Yeah, make sure you're checking them all for films. I really think all except for the glitter ones have films on them But that's just my theory okay, so we have our now let's go back and double check so this is the Mirror chrome it says 180 to 185. So we're gonna leave it like it is We're doing this one Placing it in here Okay Remove covers. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, and then we're gonna hit play. Oh, no, I don't want that one. We're here Yeah, select good. Perfect So Yes, so Donna said sounds like you need to add custom cut pressures for all the various tech wrap as of right now, I think the holographic the This is like the oh-oh one like the original I would say you I would cut this one on your custom settings. The only ones that I would change That it tells you that you need to change it We're gonna go back and we're gonna show you once again how to add a custom setting if you don't know how to add a Custom setting but we'll add a custom setting for the glitter that we're going to Cut so that is there's like rainbow stripes galaxy and like the glitter ones You have to cut at a pressure of 240. I wonder what regular like other things you cut at a pressure of 240 I mean we can go in there in the settings and look and like see what all else gets cut Just typically with our cricket at a pressure of 240 Beautiful. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Love it All right two down Seems to me like we were just too busy to actually sit down and we must have been Y'all know we normally research research research So I think we've just had too much to do too much going on We didn't I didn't know that they had the cut setting sheet in there I never read the cut setting sheet whenever we received it I I guess I just assume when you buy vinyl like you're just gonna be cutting it as it is I'm gonna cut it in the standard glitter vinyl setting Okay, I want to make sure that I'm not cutting it The only thing with this is it's so hard to see if or where you have cut once before okay, so I'm looking at their website for price for price comparison. Yeah, okay, so This one does not have a top and I had already taken off taking it off of this one that one But this one doesn't have a top so we're gonna go in here and I'm gonna show you again how to add custom settings so you're gonna hit browse all material and then you are going to go down here to the bottom left hand corner and You are going to click material settings. So we're just looking at this You wanted to know what else cut at a pressure of what 240 240? Balsa wood the 1 16 inch thick only cuts at 200 With a knife blade, but it has four passes So that's like crazy. That's well But if you put too much pressure on the balsa wood like it's gonna leave an indention on it Like you can't put too much and you're using a knife blade. So it's a little different Let's see What do we want to calibration paper cuts at? 192 Calibration paper like coffee paper, I guess to calibrate. Oh, yeah, just to calibrate. Um Let's see. What else cuts cardstock for intricate cuts cuts at 200 a cereal box cuts at 270 chalkboard vinyl at 210 I mean, there's a few things. Yeah, but like let's do Where's the cardstock? Heavy cardstock, let's find that. Okay. Oh, it doesn't have oh, I guess it's in Medium cardstock. Yeah, let's just go to medium cardstock So medium cardstock cut at 320. Oh So really and truly we could have cut those on medium cardstock and been fine. Yeah, but now we'll have our own custom I want to test it. Okay, let's test it. I'm trying I'm pulling up cricket vinyl HTV ron one four three and tech wrap so you guys can get a price comparison I'm trying to see just like for a 12 inch by 48 inch like a roll. Uh-huh. I'm trying to see I just want to test it. Once again, we're just testing here Let me let's be this showing y'all how to add first of all how to add your custom settings So to add once again to add a custom setting you're gonna go down here add new material You're gonna name your material. So we'll do this as Tech wrap glitter Okay, we're gonna save it. It's going to put it in alphabetical order. We're gonna come up here It does say that this needs to cut at a pressure of 240. So we're gonna slide this bad boy up to That's down. I need to go up to 240 We're doing the this is where you can add multiple passes. We're leaving that off and with the fine point blade. Okay So then we're gonna save that now we do have that already in but I want to cut it on medium cardstock just to be on the So we're gonna go here Go to cardstock. I want to cut it on medium cardstock because it said medium cardstock had a pressure of what? Made 200. No, it was more than that. It was like I thought it was like 300 It was it was more than 240, okay, I know for sure it was more than 240 So we're just gonna cut it on medium cardstock just to play around with it Okay, let's see here people I'm looking for a five-foot roll of Cricket compared to the other five-foot rolls, um We had somebody Tech wrap vinyl goes for about ten to twelve dollars even on Amazon Okay, so a five-foot roll of HTV Ront 399 five-foot roll of Starcraft 285 and a five-foot HTV Ront is the heat transfer, right? No Oh, this is I have an adhesive. Oh, so HTV Ront 399 Starcraft 285 Tech wrap 5-foot same amount 890 and like I said This vinyl does feel very high quality. Like it feels like a really high-end Vinyl and so maybe since it's a little bit thicker. That's how we're having to use so much more pressure so this might be a good vinyl to use for projects where you're wanting it to be a little bit more permanent or Something that is a little bit more valuable that you're making maybe Obviously, you're gonna have to play around with the cut settings a little bit. Yeah, and it is a little bit more expensive but The color options are just so good If you all go to the Tech wrap website, you can see all of their colors that they have and they're just so pretty medium cardstock It worked perfect. Yay Perfect. Perfect. Perfect Love it. Okay. So now we are going to be layering this vinyl so, where is my Here we're gonna use this now. This is once again This just to say in the theme of today's video this is Tech wrap transfer Tape so we are going to start Layering your holographic and this is the Tech wrap transfer. Yep. This is Tech wrap transfer that I am using This is Tech wrap transfer. We're gonna see Raven page said HTV raw vinyl isn't all that thick I would say Tech wrap is probably the thickest vinyl that I've used. I mean besides like Specialty vinyls like as far as like the basic Thickness, it feels thicker than the other one, but you won't Squeegee, let me get you one. Yeah, I think you're gonna have to Okay, okay so Pulling this off this way is key. Okay, so now we're just going to See this we're gonna layer this Here Mmm, we've got some bubbles going on here. We've got someone here who just received their Cricut maker in Africa Crazy, that's probably the farthest I've ever seen Welcome to the show It's a thickness and color on top of vinyl or two different things. I think I missed I missed the conversation. Sorry guys Okay, that one has some bubbles in it My man, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay because you know, it's probably gonna be covered up Anyway, you feel like it's transferring good. Well, I mean So you can't pull you cannot pull this Tech wrap up like this like you're gonna have to you definitely have to Flip it over and then burnish it from the back as well. I did pretty good. Yeah, pretty good I'm feeling good about it Adding this bad boy here and then Last layer Pulling it up. We're gonna burnish it from the back So what are y'all's thoughts so far? I want to hear what you all are thinking now that we've basically completed our Review, I mean what other things we wanted a cup cover cut ability durability Durability something that we may have to revisit. Um Durability after testing it like stickiness on that cup. Yeah I'm pretty and I'll have no lost tail. I'm impressed how well it's stuck on that glitter, too I know glitter vinyl is hard. It is like it's hard to get it to stick to the glitter vinyl Yeah, so now we're just going to take this once again Flip it Burnish it from the back Everyone says it's looking good Carol wants you to scratch that holographic with the fingernail. She wants to see what happens if you scratch it Okay, not the cover on it. Hey y'all ready Well, but my fingernail just tore it up. Well, we have like talons. So there you go There's your that's what it there. That's what my fingernails did to the holographic That scratched it pretty good. I think these will be really good for details just based on how they feel Yeah, I do too. So we burnished it from the back. I think that's the key with that It's just burnishing from the back. I'm feeling a little bit. I'm feeling a little bad I'm feeling a little bad. Like I really came into this first of all, this is a little too bad I did not size this. I just now realized stick it on something else for this cup here. You need a bigger Can we you on your computer? I think it's a little big for my computer about this cricket right here We're just gonna put it on the grid, yeah, we'll take it off if it's not okay. I'm sure it'll be fine this beautiful yellow With wheels with wheels do you need to clean it? I want to put it on my computer I'll grab your computer grab my computer. We're gonna stick it on my computer. Okay somewhere maybe on the back Yeah, who know running out of spots? Sherry says Starcraft seems better Yes, Carol, I get the need for the lawn for like the scratching of the holographic Like this is definitely one that I don't think I would use Probably on a decal for like if it's going outside like on a car You would not I would not because of the way it scratches. Oh, yeah I'd say for normal use though. It's fine. Hey, it's gonna take up the rest of my room I ain't gonna be able to put many more of my national park stickers on here. What about the bottom? I'll put it on the bottom right there out in the middle. Perfect. Everyone will know what's yours. It's my computer So cute. So we're just gonna lay it down Donna I wanna I agree with you She says I agree with your first statement that is if you need one of the awesome colors in the tech wrap But maybe not the top choice if I could get adjusted to the cut settings and I got comfortable using it often I I mean Okay But I'm not knocking It's sticking because first this this case is like a it's like soft like a saw But it's it's like a hard case. It's a plastic case, but it's also got that like Suede feeling. Yeah on the plastic. You know what I mean? So I'm not I'm not knocking because it didn't like initially stick down perfect to that But then like once I come in here and stick it down Like it's great. Oh, yeah Daisy says she wanted us to use CSU's regular transfer tape. It doesn't work Daisy No, honestly, it does not work as well I mean you have to like kind of pull up the vinyl with your transfer tape So it like snags on to it a little bit if that makes me but I do think that with this the key is going to be Flipping it over and peeling the backing away instead of trying to peel the sticker or the vinyl away from the backing I agree, you know what I mean? Yeah So That looks good. There you go. Let's just come over here and talk about it for a minute. All right So I think I feel like we started the show saying We were We're pretty hard. I don't want to say hardcore against it, but we were very iffy about it. Yeah and like I said that One thing that I want to make sure you guys know that piece of paper was like stuck in between vinyl Yeah, so we've truly didn't see it, right? So when you order it if you receive it make sure you get your cut settings out and then use the little tidbit where Lauren Showed y'all how to make your own custom settings that way You're not having the same issues that we had before with just cutting it on glitter or cutting it with more pressure That's just not gonna work because the vinyl is obviously thicker yes and a little bit it's really good quality, I mean I would use it more now We did have somebody's ask what can we do to not have bubbles because the holographic vinyl tends to show bubbles a lot easier What you can do if you are applying it You can spray a little bit of water Lay it down and squeegee that water out and then the water will evaporate and it will still stick or you windex Did you use windex? I've never done that I thought you did on the I did it with that double-sided or the cat scratch But I guess it would be the same. Yeah, it's the same like you spray it You can spray don't get it like super saturated like if you are Layering the vinyl I would just do a little like mist Yeah, and lay it down squeegee that water out and then it will evaporate Yeah, and if you do get any bubbles you can kind of poke it with like a pen pen tool or your weeding tool Yeah, poke the bubble and then flatten it out and that kind of disperses But I would do the wet Try the wet Method first and I would practice that because it's a really a really good method to have in your back pocket is that wet method when I cut when it comes to Applying vinyl so definitely try that and then if that doesn't work You can just take your pen pen tool poke it in there and just flatten it out. Yeah Does anyone have any questions about the live today? It was gonna be a mini live We ended up doing an hour longer of you anyways, but you know, we didn't know I mean we covered a lot We did. I don't I don't think this is the first time that I think that I have ever taught you guys Are shown any shown you all how to add new settings? Yeah So that's a fun little fact a fun little tidbit for whenever you're needing to adjust things I was having trouble with my machine recently Remember it wasn't cutting that was all I had to fix I had to go in and adjust my basic premium vinyl cut setting and it Was literally fine. I thought my machine was broken And that was it and I knew to do that, but I just hadn't manually went in there and adjusted it. So yeah All right, I guess we will be back tomorrow I need to double check on what craft we're doing, but I know oh, you know, I know what craft we're doing Which one are we were making wax seals? Oh, yeah So we're going to be teaching you all how to make wax seals with different little I guess Text if you wanted to get real intricate and do like a cute little picture Something I do like a heart inside of a wax seal. Yeah colors So yeah, we're gonna be doing that tomorrow. I'm going to be teaching you guys how to do that So I hope you are excited. We're actually doing like so we're doing Santa letters. Yes, they're gonna be so cute Yeah, so we'll we will cut it on below make an envelope and then seal it with the wax seal So I'm excited cute. So we will see y'all tomorrow at 12. Yep. All right. We'll see y'all then. Bye guys