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     A while ago I got some Armour Etch which is a glass etching cream. I've seen a lot of videos with people trying it and it worked for them so I wanted to try etching on glass but I hadn't had a chance to try it out so this past weekend I decided I would give it a try. I first cut out y design on a Cricut with some permanent vinyl and I weeded out (removed) the part where I wanted the design to be etched into the glass. After I had my design I used some transfer tape to help me transfer the design onto a random glass that I found. After I had the design on the glass cup I used some painters tape to cover the remaining spots on the cup so the Amour Etch won't get on any other spots. Next I applied the Amour Etch to the areas I want etched, and I put a nice thick layer. The instructions on the bottle say to wait 1-3 minutes but all the videos I saw people waited about 30 minutes before rinsing off the Amour Etch with water. The first time I tried I waited 30 minutes but ...

 Last year my friend and I decided we wanted to make and design our own playing cards for this game called Revenge.  My friend and I first learned how to play Revenge. Revenge was created by a friend of a friend and we first started playing the game with a regular deck of cards that just had the symbols drawn on the top of the card. Once we started playing with this deck, my friend and I decided we wanted to design our own deck and make it so we had our own pretty deck of cards for this game. The process to. make a deck for this game was pretty complicated. We first had to decide what we wanted the cards to look like. Honestly we didn't get very far with this project since we didn't know how to get the cards to have that playing card feel. We looked up sublimation playing cards where we could sublimate our own designs onto both sides of the card. The decks themselves weren't to expensive but once you factor in the sublimation ink cost and sublimation paper, and all the ti...

     This past weekend on Sunday my friend and I made some sublimation mouse pads. On Saturday we went to the store to get some sublimation mouse pads. Then we picked what designs we wanted on them. My friend went with a design from the show Moomins and I went with a picture of an acrylic painting of a Japanese mountain with cherry blossoms. We sized our imaged for the mouse pads (make sure to make it a little bigger than the actual mouse pad so the whole thing gets the design) and then we printed our designs on sublimation paper using a sublimation printer. S ublimation is a type of printing in which the ink turns into teeny tiny particles and embeds itself into the surface of an object, creating a seamless and beautifully vibrant design that never peels or cracks. After we printed the designs we taped the mouse pad (make sure white sublimation side is face down) down onto the design using heat resistant tape. We heated up the heat press to 350 (but jut follow the recomm...

About year ago, my friend and I decided to make our own sublimation mugs. S ublimation is a type of printing in which the ink turns into teeny tiny particles and embeds itself into the surface of an object, creating a seamless and beautifully vibrant design that never peels or cracks. We wanted to make our own sublimated mugs because we needed some mugs for our apartment. So we thought, why not make our own with the designs we want on them. First we chose what designs we wanted on the mugs. We decided to have some of the mugs have some scenes from a couple Studio Ghibli movies. Afterwards, we went to our public library that has a makerspace and printed out our designs on sublimation paper using the sublimation printer. Next we cut the designs apart and used heat resistant tape to attach the designs to the mugs. Finally, we used the tumbler press to transfer the designs onto the mug. The heat from the tumbler press makes the ink release from the paper and transfer to the mug.  Mater...