Hobby Haven

     This past weekend I attempted to sublimate a water bottle with a heat gun. I first went and bought a sublimation water bottle from Hobby Lobby. Next, I had to make the design I wanted for the water bottle so I measured the water bottle. Then, I used Affinity Designer to create my design. I found banner posters for some of the broadway musicals that I like. Below is what my design looked like. I then printed out my design on sublimation paper using sublimation ink. After, I attached my design to the water bottle using heat resistant tape. You want to make sure the design is tight around the water bottle and not loose. Next, I used my heat gun and applied heat over the design. Making sure I moved the heat gun around and not staying in one place too long otherwise I could burn the design. Once the design starts coming through pretty dark that's when you know the design has transferred to the water bottle. I removed the paper from the bottle and I saw that it didn't turn...

     Last Thursday, my friend and I made some sublimation coasters. We first bought some sublimation coasters. We got ours from Michaels and these ones were a bit more pricier than some of the other choices, but we decided to go with these because they had a bit of a marble look to them on the sides and we liked that these coasters were smooth and shiny compared to matte. Next we picked out 4 designs that were similar because we wanted to have a set of 4 coasters that were cohesive and go well together (same kind of art style). This part took us a while to get because it was surprisingly hard to find 4 different images in the same style that we liked. We finally decided on our 4 designs after maybe a couple weeks of slowly looking. We decided to go with a location theme. So the first coaster was of Venice Italy, the second coaster was of Zurich Switzerland, the third coaster was of Ibiza Spain and the fourth coaster was of Tokyo Japan. We first made the Ibiza coaster and ...