- Hello everybody, my
name is Jennifer Maker. Tonight we are talking all
about Cricut's new Infusible Ink pens and markers on the
Great Maker Show & Tell. (island music) So, a week ago we unboxed
all of the Cricut goodies, the Cricut Infusible Ink
goodies that Cricut sent me and that was really exciting and fun and we did a couple of projects. So, in that box were these
Cricut Infusible Ink pens. And we didn't get the
chance to play with them and I wanna do that tonight with you. I want to try drawing
some things on the Cricut and then transferring it and then drawing things by
hand and transferring it. And I also got a special
request from someone who emailed me before
the video started tonight to actually try drawing
on a transfer sheet and then transfer that to see if the pen and the transfer sheet could be combined. So, we're gonna give that a
try and see how that works. So if you guys are ready,
we're just gonna head on over to the craft area and
we're gonna get started. Sound good? 'Cause I'm excited to see how this works. I have not tried it yet. We are trying it together
for the first time tonight. All right, let's head on over. All right, so I've got
everything all ready to go because we need some very specific things when we're working with
the Infusible Ink pens and I wanna just go over
those things with you so that we know what we
need for these project. So, of course we need our Cricut and I've got my Cricut
Explorer Air here, too. We're gonna need a light grip cutting mat, which I have right here. So that's ready to go, as well. We need our Cricut EasyPress. And I have my EasyPress 2 Mini and we're going to need a mat. We need the pens, of course. Now I only have the pens,
I don't have the markers. But we're gonna experiment
with the pens tonight and by the way, if you
have requests or questions, go ahead, let me know what they are because we can definitely experiment if you have ideas for them, as well. You also need the heat resistant tape, some laser copy paper,
and I ordered this special just for this project. Let me show you what it looks like. So, I ordered Hammermill
Premium Laser Print paper for color. I have no idea if this is the best thing, but it's laser copy paper. It's white and it says it's for color, so I'm hoping that this is good, right? We also need some butcher
paper, which I have right here. And some cardstock, which I have here. A lint-free cloth, I'm gonna
use my camera cleaning cloth 'cause that's lint-free. A pair of scissors, and of
course we need design space to make our designs. All right, so I actually
have a design prepared and I'm gonna show you what it is because tonight I want
to focus on our coasters. So, I haven't yet done these. I did open the package up. I haven't made them yet, but
I think it would be great especially for doing the pens
because I mean these pens that I have, they're .4, so
they're pretty fine point. So we're not gonna be making giant designs that we could put on a
bag or a t-shirt tonight because my pens are so fine. So, they're gonna work
better on a coaster. So, we're gonna make a couple coasters and we'll see how things go. So, I designed a mandala for the coaster. Let me show you what that looks like. So, here I am in Cricut design space and you can see I have designed a mandala. Now this mandala is special
because I've actually made it so that these are each individual lines and so the pen is going to draw it out just like we see right here. And I put my initials in the
middle, Jennifer Lynn Maker. And we're going to have our
Cricut draw this shape out onto the copy paper and
then we're gonna color it and then we're going to
put it onto a coaster. And I see a question here, and I think I can move this right over so that everyone can see the question. I can, ha ha ha, awesome. So, Megan says, are those
just regular Cricut pens? No, they're not. So these are the Cricut
Infusible Ink pens, so it says right at the
top Cricut Infusible Ink. So, they have pens and they have markers. These are, actually it's got directions on the back and you can see I've opened it just to make sure everything
is working, which it has. So, these are the .4 pens, so they're really pretty fine point. They also have markers
which are much broader and you could use to color things in. But we'll be making do with what we have. But these are not regular Cricut pens, they're Infusible Ink pens. So, there is definitely a difference because the ink works differently. It's not, and I know there's
a bunch of different colors. These are the colors that I have tonight. So, I've created this design, I've got everything all set up, I put my initials in the middle. And by the way, if you like this design, I will, of course, make it
available to you for free like I always do. And I'm also hoping to do a whole tutorial with this design for a
tote bag this weekend. But we're gonna do a coaster tonight. So, I've got it all ready to go, I'm just gonna keep it black
because I want everything that you see here to be black. So then I click make it. Wait, let me just one more thing. So, gonna select this. Now note that I have it on draw. See in the line type menu up here? I've chosen draw, so and all of my, over here in the layer
panel on the right side, everything here is draw, as well. Everything that we're gonna be doing. Yes, everything is drawn. So, that's important because
we're using our pen to draw on paper for this project. So, this is different than
what we would normally do. So we're not cutting anything
out, we're drawing instead. So, I'm gonna click
make it and here we are. Now it's important to
note that we need to, just like our Infusible
Ink project from last week and all of the Infusible
Ink projects that we do, we have to mirror it. So, isn't that funny, guys? My monogram is exactly the same
backwards as it is forward. (laughs) So, you can't even tell it's mirrored. However, we did mirror it, so don't forget to
mirror your design, okay. And other that that, it can be fine. It's right up here in the corner,
just the way it should be. Note that it says draw over here, that's exactly what we want. And it doesn't matter
what the material size is because we're gonna go up here. Now, of course, this
is sized for a coaster. The coasters are just under
three and a third inches in diameter, so I've sized
it so that it will fit within the coaster with any luck. All right, so this looks good to go and I'm gonna go ahead and click continue and connect my Cricut
Air, which is the one that's sitting here on my desk. And we're going to set
our material to copy paper because that's what we're
going to be drawing on is copy paper. And that's all we have to do. So, we don't have to worry about, there's no cutting involved at all, right. And that's pretty cool. So, I'm gonna head back over to my camera. So we can cut this out together. So, because we're using copy paper we want to use the light grip mat. Copy paper is very thin and
if you use a stronger grip mat it might be hard to get it off, it might wanna tear and stuff. That's why they and I also
recommend that you use the light grip mat, which
is this blue one here, by the way. All right, so we've got this in. Let's move this here out of the way and put this into our Cricut. Now, of course, we can't forget the pen. Guys, I have forgotten the pen before. I have actually done this in the past when I was doing a project
and forgot to put the pen in. All right, so, we're
gonna use the black pen and again, this is a .4
Cricut Infusible Ink pen. All right, so, it goes into the machine. So, there's a little white
arrow on all of the Cricut pens including the Infusible Ink pens. And I always put that face up so I can see where it's supposed to go and basically the arrows meet on it. So I'm gonna go ahead and put it in now and you'll often hear a little
snap when it gets in there and tip: always put your
caps on the tips of your pens when they're in the machine
so you don't lose it. And then close the clamp. And that should be good to go. Everything feels good. So, I'm gonna now go ahead
and press the flashing button and we're gonna start drawing our design. And I can see that it's working. See it drawing? Isn't that awesome, guys? So, it's just drawing out the
design just as I designed it. It's a single-line design, so it's perfect for this project. I don't know how long this is gonna take, but this is the basic idea is
that you draw out your design using your Cricut Infusible Ink marker and then you color it
using the other colors if you want to. I mean you don't have
to if you don't want to. You can just draw it out like this. And, of course, if you're
using something that's thicker like the markers, you're
gonna be filling in more as you do this than I am, but
this is actually very fine and I think it looks pretty cool. And, of course, if you
want to do multiple colors with your Cricut to have
it draw, you totally can. You don't have to do the rest by hand, but we're gonna do the
rest by hand tonight so you can see how that works out. And it also reminds us that before handling
infusible ink materials we wanna make sure our hands
are free of any oils or lotions 'cause they can transfer to our project if we're not careful. I haven't had any issues yet. I did a project today, in fact, I would love
to show you my project. So, I did this project today with the blue and the red that I have. Isn't that gorgeous? Look at this, it's so cool. It literally looks like
something that you would just buy in the store. It has that feel to it because
it's like it was printed onto the fabric rather than
having the layer of vinyl. It's really cool and I think
it turned out really cute. What do you guys think? Do you like it? I like it. I have pictures of it
in the Facebook group if you are interested
in seeing it close up. And I've already recorded
a tutorial for it and I'm just editing it now. And so that should be
online hopefully tomorrow. So, the whole tutorial on
how I made this project. I believe it should be tomorrow,
so I'll set this over here. All right, so this is done. So we're gonna unload it and
this is what it look like. You see that, isn't that cool? That looks great, doesn't it? See if I can get this
to actually focus on it. Doesn't seem like it wants to. There we go. So, this is the project so
I can now just transfer it like this or I can color it in. And I thought we would experiment with a little bit of coloring
and then try transferring it to see how it worked out. All right, so I'm gonna flip this over. Remember always flip
over your mats like this and it makes it so much
easier to remove your project without it tearing or curling. So much easier. We'll put this under there, we
won't need that again tonight I don't think. I'm gonna go ahead and cut this
down, we don't need to have the extra paper hanging around either. All right, so I'm not
gonna do a lot of coloring, just a little bit so that you
can see what this looks like. But I mean after all I've only got these kind of funky colors anyways. But you know I can color
in the leafs and the hearts and that's what I'll do just right now. And we can zoom in on this. So, all I'm gonna do, so
this is just the Cricut pen and we can put this in our machine, but I'm just gonna do it by hand and I'm just gonna color it in. So, this is really like
those coloring books that some people just love. So can you imagine transferring
one of those designs big size and then spending
all that time to color it in? Because I know some
people love to do this. I do not pretend to be
one of those people. (laughs) You're not gonna have to
sit here and watch me color for too long, we're
just gonna do a couple. But wouldn't that be cool? So instead of having that design
just be in a book somewhere but you could put it onto
a t-shirt or a tote bag and show off your handiwork. I think that this is an
ideal project for people who love to do the adult
coloring book projects. I mean it's a very fine point pen so it's a little bit difficult
to fill in all the bits, but with time I could sit here
and color every single leaf very carefully, staying inside the lines which isn't probably the
thing that I'm best at. I'll be honest. All right and then I wanna do
some of the hearts, as well. So, in fact, I'm gonna
color a couple of these so they're not entirely
filled all the way in so we can see what happens
when we transfer it. Will it transfer it like that? Kind of that sort of sketchy look? Or will it fill in and bleed a little bit? Yeah, and I don't know the answer to this 'cause I have not done this before. This is my first time doing it tonight. So, don't be surprised if
we make mistakes, guys. Remember I make mistakes
so you don't have to. All right so that was
the green and let me do a couple of these hearts
in pink like this. And I guess I could do my
name, my letters in purple. And, of course, you could
color this whole thing. Oops, I just went out of
the lines there, sorry. If I was going slower I'm
sure I would do a better job. I know you guys will forgive me, 'cause after all, this is not
a video about how to color. (laughs) And I'm checkin' the questions here. So, yes, someone asked about
whether you have to mirror it and yes, for any Infusible Ink project it has to be mirrored. Of course my initials are the
same backwards and forwards so you can't even tell,
but I did mirror it. We did totally mirror
that, believe it or not. And let me get the purple
one out and do the center. And by the way, if you
wanna do this project, I will show you how to do the center with your own initials, as well,
in my tutorial this weekend when I put it onto a tote bag. Which I actually have more detail for this when it gets bigger. I have all these little dots in it and hash marks and cool things. And we're gonna have those on a tote bag and we'll do more coloring
and more detail work. Sorry, I'm not being
very exact there, guys. So if it gets out of the lines it's my fault, it's not its fault. All right, so now we're gonna need to, I want to put them on a coaster. So, there we go. So that's what I'm gonna
transfer to the coaster. Which we have over here, so these are the ceramic coaster blanks that Cricut sent me and
there's four of them and again they're just a little under three and a third inches. But there's one thing I wanna
warn you about right now. So, put this here. So, when I open this, they
were in here like this. And there's a little thing on the back, it said cut here. See the little scissors thing? So I got out my knife and I cut it, right? And apparently I cut it really well because I cut into one of the coasters. Can you kind of see that? That line right there? So, this is a case of me making a mistake so you don't have to. So, use scissors like they say. It says scissors here, it
doesn't say use a knife, so that you don't cut into your coaster 'cause it did, it definitely
cut into the top layer of the coaster, okay. So, I'm gonna set that one aside. Maybe we'll do a test with that one later. I'm gonna use this one. Okay, and these are
definitely ceramic, right? They have like a unglazed
base and a glazed top and I'll bet you there's
something on this, as well, that's gonna allow us to put this Infusible
Ink project on there. Okay, so let's go back to our directions so we don't make any mistakes. Okay, so we need to use a
lint-free cloth to remove any debris from the coaster. So, I am going to wipe it
down with my photo lens, my lens cloth 'cause that
is definitely lint free. So that would be, if you're
not sure what to use, a lens cloth is a great option. Now we need to cover this, we need to put it onto our mats. I have this big one, we'll use this. All right let me just
wipe it down one more time since I just touched it. So Cricut has special pressing mats that they highly recommend that we use and that's what I'm gonna
be using for this project. All right so now we need to cover the mat with our cardstock to protect it. Is that right? And then we put our coaster onto it. I don't really know why we really have to
have that cardstock there. I don't feel like this
is gonna be an issue because there's no way the
infusible ink is going to bleed through this coaster
like it might a t-shirt. However, we're following the directions. We could still do this. Okay, it says, place the
design down on the coaster using heat-resistant tape to secure it. We're gonna take this and
we're gonna put it face down. Right, so here's our design
so you can see it right here. And we're gonna put it
face down onto the coaster. You know I'm gonna trim this right now so that we can see all of
the edges really carefully. And now it's gonna make it
easier for us to tape it, too, and center it. I don't want my mandala to be off-center. That would look kind of funny, I think. Okay, here we go. And I'm gonna put it
face down on my coaster and yay, it does fit, awesome. And Greg got our heat-resistant
tape so I'm just going to I guess take off a little
bit and look at the picture. It shows us just start taping it over it. So taping it in place. It looks like we're actually
taping it like this, okay. So and again pay attention to
what side I'm putting this on. The shiny side is the actual coaster side. This not shiny side is
the bottom of the coaster. That looks good so we tape it down and they show it being
taped in all four corners. So we're gonna do that, too. So there's two. Honestly that seems like
enough, it's not gonna move. That's good enough for me. (laughs) All right, so we've got it taped down. Now we need to flip the coaster
so the bottom is facing up. Okay, now this makes sense. This explains why we need
to put this paper down because we are protecting our mats. So we're gonna flip it over like this so we can see the bottom of the coaster. And so we've got our
pressing mat, our paper, our design which is taped to our coaster. All right? Let's see, so now we are
going to cover the coaster with butcher paper. Looks like there's two
pieces of butcher paper, that's a lot. Whatever, here we go. So here's the butcher paper. Okay, and I think it's time to, looks like we don't
preheat this or anything. I'm double checking. I don't see any preheating
that's necessary to do with the coaster. They do want us to set our
EasyPress to 400 degrees for 240 seconds. So, I've got my EasyPress,
I got it turned on, and I'm gonna set it to 400 degrees. All right, so there's
400 and for 240 seconds. I'm gonna hold down that plus button and it grows up in five second increments. Until we want 240 seconds
which is four minutes, right? I believe so, yes, four minutes. So, that's actually a long time and I don't know, I think that we can't use
the original EasyPress because that's what they say is that you can't use
it with the coasters. I haven't tried it yet
but that's what they say because it has to go to 400 degrees and the original EasyPress 2 can't. And because we need to
do this for 240 seconds. I don't think that we can
get the original EasyPress hot enough long enough for that to work. So that's why we're using the EasyPress 2. All right, so while that is heating up, I'm gonna go over my
designs and make sure, over the instructions and make sure that I've got everything. So, we've used our lint-free
cloth to remove the debris, we covered our EasyPress
mat with the cardstock, we placed everything face
down, we've used the tape to secure it in place, we
flipped the coaster over, and we have our butcher paper on top. And remember a piece of butcher
paper comes in each package of Infusible Ink transfer
sheets, by the way. And it sounds like the
EasyPress is now ready to go, so we're gonna press at
400 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 205 degrees Celsius
without any added pressure. So, we're just gonna set it on there for 240 seconds, which is,
of course, four minutes. So we're just gonna lift this up and set this down just right onto it. No added pressure. And press go. So, no added pressure means
we don't have to hold it. So, we're just gonna let this sit here and hopefully do its job. (laughs) I'm gonna straighten up a little bit here, I don't think we. So don't forget to put your pens away. I have forgotten and then been really sad when the pen dries out. So, put your cap back on your pen and I also recommend that
you store it tip down. So if you're gonna put it
into your pen accessory tray, put it tip down. I'm gonna, however, put this
back into the little box and then store it tip down so that I keep everything together 'cause I don't wanna lose these. So, I bought other colors and I'm still gonna do another project. I'm gonna draw something
and we're gonna transfer it so we can see how hand-drawing
transfers, as well. I know there's another one around here. And if there's time we
will do the swatch test where we put the pen on a
piece of the transfer swatches, so if you guys have questions. I'm looking for your questions to see if I'm missing anything at all. Someone's, yes you do have
to let them cool completely. I agree, but you don't
have to let them dry. So, it's not wet. But you have to let them cool down before you start moving your design around because it can cause what
they call ghosting or marbling if you're moving that around and such. And Jolene says, I
wonder what would happen if you did it right side up. I don't know, I don't
know what would happen. I'm not sure I want to try. (laughs) I don't know. Miranda says, how can
you tell the difference between the Infusible
Ink and the regular pens? This is a Cricut regular pen. This is actually a .4 tip,
so it's the same tip size and it's pink, mauve, or whatever. And so it just says Cricut and it says exactly what
it is here, .4 tip, wine. Right, it says it on here. Whereas the Cricut Infusible Ink pens they actually say, let's get one out. It actually says on here
Cricut Infusible Ink. So you can totally tell
the difference here. These look a lot different. I mean the barrel is the
same shape and everything, but one says Cricut Infusible Ink and the other one just says Cricut .4 tip. And by the way, I can smell something. It smells like heat like
when you iron something. I'm sure it's getting really
super hot under there. And I think that because
we flipped it over. Isn't ceramic like a conductor of heat? Whatever, the heat must be
going through the coaster to the other side to put the design in, I don't know, it seems crazy to me. I guess we're gonna find
out if it worked or not. Let's see. David says, has anyone tried
the original EasyPress? I did try it when we did the
fabric swatches last time. But I'm not trying it for the coaster because they say it won't work. So there's not even directions for it and I only have four coasters
and I don't wanna waste them. Later, when I can just buy
the materials at the store, I will experiment more and we'll see if things like that work, but not yet because I can't get them. All right, so it's almost time. All right so we'll lift this straight up, put it back into its little holder. Always be mindful this is very, very hot. Let's see what we need to do next. So, it says caution,
coaster will be very hot. Let it cool completely before handling it. Then slowly remove the
butcher paper, the tape, and the design. All right, so can you guys see? The butcher paper here,
it's actually discolored. I'm not gonna say it's burned,
but it looks cooked. (laughs) It looks like a piece of toast right here. Maybe that's one of the reasons that we're having us flip it over so that we're not discoloring it and so that the heat is coming through the ceramic of the coaster. I don't know, it's a
possibility, whatever. So, we're gonna let this cool down. This is probably really hot. So the paper isn't hot. I'm afraid to touch it, guys,
I don't wanna burn myself. I feel like I could
remove this butcher paper. Okay, so there's the
underside of the coaster. Yes, it's scorched,
that's a good word for it. But it's not bad, it wasn't burned. I'm not worried about anything
having happened to it, but you could tell that
heat was definitely applied. Four minutes of heat at 400 degrees, which is really rather a lot. So I'm gonna give this some
more time to cool down. Let's move this pen out of the
way so we don't confuse it. Put these back in here. So I can feel heat. Without even touching it. I'm not touching it, I can feel
the heat rising off of this. This coaster is hot. I don't know how long it's
gonna take to cool down, but it feels very hot to me right now. Miranda says, I love the
background of your work area. Thank you! So this background is a Cricut mat. It actually is a mat. So on one side, I don't
know if you can see this, I don't wanna bend this. It's got the grid on one side and then it's got this
pretty design on the other. And they have several of these like this. And Greg actually brought
a cool tool that we can use to determine how this is cooling off. He brought, what is this called? Infrared thermometer. So we can point it at the surface and it tells us its temperature. We can see that it's 273 right now. You guys see that? And not cooled off yet,
so this might take awhile. This is actually a really cool thing. Because all you have to do
is point the little laser at the surface. For example, over here
it's 82 degrees, right? My hand is 93 degrees, 92. And the coaster is 269. Do you see how quick that is? All right so what are we at? 262, so we're definitely cooling off. So that's awesome. Sandy says, when is Greg gonna do a video? Yeah, Greg, when are you gonna do a video? You should totally do a video. We should do a video together. (laughs) I've already thought of it. We can totally both
sit here at my computer and be in the picture. (laughs) So I'm at 253 now. Now it did say to let it cool completely, so what I'm gonna do guys
is to set this aside for now and we will check on it. So we can just gonna move it over here. Now I also wanted to do
one that where we draw it. So, here is a piece of
the same laser copy paper. And I'm gonna take one of the coasters and put it face down in the corner and I'm going to take one
of the Infusible Ink pens and I'm gonna trace it. Are you moving that so I have more space? Thanks, Greg. All right, and I'm just
gonna trace it around being careful not to get
the pen on the coaster. Oops, it's not even. There we go. Not really close, just so
that I know the size of this. All right and then I'm gonna cut it out and then we know when we have a blank for our next design. So I'm just gonna cut this out. And I think this is a
good way to do coasters. And I'm gonna cut inside the black line 'cause we don't want that black line to transfer to our coaster, right? So I'm just gonna cut inside like this. Does not have to be a perfect circle, it just needs to be inside that line so that generally you have a circle. If we draw on this with our Cricut Infusible Ink pens then flip it over and
put it onto our coaster it's gonna fit. That's what our goal is here. So, I thought that I would just draw just some watermelons for summer. I have to write backwards, remember. If you're not good at writing backwards you'll wanna practice first. So I'm gonna write the name backwards. So I'm gonna write summer right on here like this. I'm not particularly skilled
at doing it backwards, so yeah. Okay, so I wrote summer backwards. See that? And then I was just gonna
put some watermelons around like that and then we will fill them in with, I mean I'm limited to the colors. I've got pink and I've
got green and some brown. So I figured that this would work, right? This works for watermelons. I know they look like little pizzas. Greg already told me they
look like vegan pizzas. (laughs) That's what he told me. Thanks, Greg, I was going
for watermelons, not pizzas. All right, so I made
my little design here. Let's check this and see how it's doin'. We are at 199. You guys see that? 180, so we're still cooling down. All right, so we'll use the green. And I think I'll just use
the green and the pink and the black for this. So, this is just an experiment
to see what it's like to draw a design. And it could be anything. And what's cool about this is
that you could have your kid or your grandkid draw a design for you and you can then put it
onto a shirt or tote bag or a coaster or whatever
you find to put it on and you have a permanent
piece of their artwork. I think that is so awesome. And I don't know, I mean I'm a mom and I know that my child's
school did these things where they would draw something
and then you could choose to have them transferred
to various things. You could have the picture
printed out or it could go onto a key chain,
whatever, bunch of things. They were really pricey. This would actually be
more fun and cheaper. All right, so let's check this. So it's at 183, all right,
still workin' on it. All right so I'm gonna put
the black seeds in first. And then fill it in with the pink. And now it should look
less like pizza, guys. Of course filling all this
pink in would be a lot easier with a marker. I don't have the marker. I won't have markers until
Infusible Ink products hit Michaels online on June 16th and in the stores on June 21st. And you can bet Greg and I are going to be at our Michaels on the
morning of June 21st expecting there to be Infusible Ink stuff. All right, so now I can fill this in with the pink. And I don't know what would happen if I covered up the black. So, I've already filled
in the black, right? If I were to cover it all up, I don't know what would happen. So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to do some where I haven't covered
over the black with pink and some where I have so
we can see what happens. Does it look the same? Or does it look different? Does it just become all pink
and only the pink transfers? Or what? 'Cause that's really good to know. Do you have to be really
careful about how you color? Or can you be just like whatever? Because normally, if I
were just using a marker and sitting here and coloring,
I would probably use color over the black because
black will shine through. You know, not shine
through, it'll show through. But I don't know how it
works with the infusible ink. So on this one here, this one is above summer. I am being very careful to
not color over the black, the little black seeds. So, it's all very, I was really careful. So this one down here, I'll
just color the whole thing, color over the black and we
can see when we transfer it if it makes a difference. So I'm just gonna color
the whole thing like this. And I don't know what's going to happen. This would be a lot easier if
I had a marker, lot easier. This is a very fine point. And I don't know is it gonna
show all of my crosshatching? Or will it bleed a little bit? I just don't know. So, all right well that's our
design for our other coaster. So I'm gonna get this other one prepped. I'm gonna move this over very gently. I think that's fine. We are at 131 in the center right now. Again the edges, the edges are
almost cooled off completely but not the center. All right, so again we
need a piece of paper. We put this down. We want to clean our coaster
with our lint-free cloth, just like that. And we're going to put our
design on face down, right? So, here's our design and
it's gonna go on like this. I'm gonna trim this a little bit, kind of off-center anyways. If you did something like this, you could make a coaster
for every season of the year 'cause there's four in a pack. Wouldn't that be cute? A summer, a fall, a winter and a spring. All right, so we put it face
down on our coaster like this and we use our tape to secure it. So a piece of tape there. Remember we're putting it on
the shiny side of the coaster 'cause that's the top. So there's a piece of tape
and one more piece of tape. Need to get a dispenser for
this so it's easier to use. Okay, so this is the Cricut Infusible Ink heat-resistant tape and we're using it to keep our design in place
so it doesn't slide around 'cause it is under that
EasyPress for a long time. Four minutes. Yes, it was laser copy paper. So, I can show you what brand I used in case you missed it earlier. So, I'm using Hammermill
Premium Laser Print for color. I don't know that you have
to have such fancy paper, but I found this on
amazon, it wasn't expensive and it looked ideal for this project. So this is what I ordered. I will put links to all of
these things below the video after we're done. So there is our design
taped to our coaster. We flip it over, remember,
we do it upside down, flipped over. And then we cover it with butcher paper. So this is all ready to go. Let's check this and see how we're doing. We're still at 117 in the center and so we're gonna wait some more. While we're waiting
we're gonna do this one. So this one's all ready to
go, we have the paper layer, we have our design on
upside down and taped down so it's not gonna go anywhere,
and we got our butcher paper. So, 400 degrees, 240 seconds. So we're gonna go ahead and set this down. And it said no additional pressure so we're just setting it there, we don't have to push on
it or anything like that. Let's slide this over
so it doesn't pick up any residual heat from the EasyPress. Check it again. So the edges are at 113, the center is at 115. That's interesting. How's it feel? It definitely only
feels slightly warm now. It could take a really
long time for it to cool all the way down because
it's ceramic, right? I don't know how long it
could take for ceramic because it's kind of
holding steady right now. Before, the edges were a
lot cooler than the center, but now that's not the case. (laughs) Trying to decide. So do you guys think
that I should go ahead and remove the design now or wait until we are at room
temperature with this coaster? Which, keep in mind, could be
a really long time from now. Let me know, you guys get to vote. Let me know if you would
like me to go ahead and take the risk and
remove the design now and see how it looks or wait. So, Sandy, Kim, Maria, they all say to, Miranda says to do it, okay, so right now it looks like almost everyone. Yes, Rhonda, our cold coaster was registering 80 degrees Fahrenheit, but it is ceramic and I
think it does retain heat. So I think we're just gonna give it a try. So I'm gonna lift this up gently. That's interesting. So, you guys see this? So we've got, this is what
it looks like right now. You can see how part of it, this was to protect our mat, by the way, which is good because otherwise that would have transferred over and this is what it looks like but we haven't removed the paper yet, so we don't know what
it actually looks like. This is what it looks like
with the design on it. We still have a little
under two minutes to go, so let's go ahead and do it. Let's just do it. So I'm gonna carefully remove it. Oh, it's like super stuck on here. (laughs) Oh, there we go, all right. All right, ready guys? I'm nervous, I don't
know what's gonna happen. I have not done this before. So, oh my gosh it worked! (laughs) This is so cool! You guys see this? Oh my gosh, that is awesome. And do you think it's safe to touch? Oh yeah, I don't feel anything. It just feels like the coaster. In fact, you can see. See the reflection of my light on that? There is nothing on that. So the way that this
infusible ink works is that when it heats, the ink becomes a gas and it seeps into your material and then when it cools
it solidifies again. So, that's what happened here. It actually became a
gas and this is porous, ceramic is porous a little bit. I think, I'm pretty sure it is. It would have to be, right? And so it seeped into there
and then when it cooled off it became, like it's not smudgeable. I can't smudge this or something. It's not like I'm gonna rub
this off or anything like that. Isn't that cool? Can you imagine how cool
this would have looked if I had spent the time
to color it all in? So, yay, this worked. That's awesome. All right so we got 12
seconds to go on this side. This is what it looked like. You cannot reuse these. You can see all of the ink
has transferred pretty much. And I'm not gonna be
experimenting with reusing them because I only have so many coasters. So, maybe later though. All right, so again we have
to repeat the same process. We are supposed to let things
cool before we do anything. Let's see what it is right now. 295 and falling rapidly depending on where. As I move it around it's gonna be a little
inconsistent, you know. It's not perfect. Yeah, that's also the paper. I don't see why we have
to have that paper on. I think that we can remove that. So it's hotter. So it's at 337 right now. All right well then while
we're waiting for this one, I'm gonna go ahead and do that test. So, someone asked if I would test drawing onto a piece of transfer, infusible ink transfer sheet, which is what this is, a
little piece of the blue from my project earlier today. And I'm just gonna put something on there and then we're gonna try
transferring it to the swatch and we'll see if it
transfers both the color as well as the, both the
pen as well as the color. So, I'm just gonna do a smiley face. I'm coloring the eyeballs
so we can see if that works. It doesn't wanna seem to
color onto the transfer sheet as well as it did the laser copy paper. I mean it did it, but it
didn't seem to flow as easily. So that could be an issue,
but maybe it's not a big deal. Okay, so here is a tiny, little swatch. Gonna make sure that this
actually is the same size, which it is. Okay, so we need our
piece of paper underneath just like before. So, here's our piece of paper. And we need our lint roller. We need a new, fresh sticky part thing. I love this lint roller. And we're gonna make sure
that we have the lint off our little swatch. Here we go, and we have to preheat it. And we have to cover
it with butcher paper. We preheat it at, let's double check that I get the temperature right. All the directions for
this are on Cricut's site. At help.cricut.com, so we don't
have to guess or anything. So you have to cover this
with the butcher paper. Put this over here. How we doin' on this? 239, so we'll do the same thing, we'll get it down to like 180
and then we'll remove it then. Okay, so we're gonna
preheat this for 15 seconds. It goes straight down, gonna
wait til this is at 25 seconds and this says light pressure so I'm actually keeping my hand on here, I'm just not pushing down. All right, here we go. So that it's preheated, now we need to let it cool
completely as I recall. So let's double check this. Yep, it says let the swatch cool. And then once it's cool, we're gonna put our design
face down on the swatch with a clear liner on top and cover it again with butcher paper, and then we're going to
heat it for 40 seconds using our EasyPress 2. So, it goes face down onto your fabric or your project like that and you wanna cover it
with your butcher paper and then we're gonna
heat it for 40 seconds with our EasyPress. And pretty go straight down onto it, and then we press this and then
we put light pressure on it so that's just one hand. How we doin'? It'll be soon, it's at 215. Lisa says, can't you take the
coaster off the pad to cool? Yeah, I mean it doesn't
say that we can do that. It's possible that it'll
cool off a little faster, however this mat doesn't feel hot at all. Let's see, it's not. I mean it's a little bit hot,
but it's probably the heat coming from this right now. I don't think that gets hot, this pad, I don't think it retains heat at all. So I don't think that's an issue. All right so we lift straight up and now we have to let this
cool before we remove it again. So what does it say right now? I'm having too much fun
with this toy. (laughs) 260 and falling rapidly,
and this is at 200 degrees. I don't think it is picking
up heat from the mat, the mat feels cool. The mat feels like room temperature to me. It doesn't feel hot at all. So I don't think that's doing it. And you wanna be careful. Remember what happens when
we heat it up like this is that that ink is becoming a gas. And then it becomes a
solid when it cools down. So it needs to stay stationary
while it's cooling down. If we mess with it and move it around, it might smudge the design or cause, like they say on the Cricut site, it could cause ghosting or marbling. I don't know exactly what
those things look like, I think there were some examples, though. I don't want that, I want
my coaster to look good, so I'm not gonna touch it
until I think it's ready to go. I'm gonna take off the butcher paper. See it slipped a little
bit when I put it on. I could have prevented
that by using the tape to secure it in place or anything. Annie says, what's my
fancy heat toy called? This is a Etekcity infrared thermometer. And I have to say that we don't just use
it as a thermometer. We also use it to play
with our dog. (laughs) Our dog loves the laser,
we call it the laser bug, and yeah, she loves it. So it's a thermometer and a
dog toy, it's a two in one. Where'd you get this, Greg? Got it on amazon, okay, well then we can find the link
for it and link it for you. It's really useful for lots of things, not just for EasyPress projects. All right, we're gonna risk it. We're gonna go ahead and do this. I'm gonna use my tweezers and oop, I didn't have to do
anything, it came right off. Well, we can see that that
works, that's awesome. So, the test here was to
take a piece of transfer, a transfer sheet, an infusible
ink transfer sheet like this and draw on it with an
Infusible Ink marker and see whether it would
transfer both the color and the pen, and you can see that it did. And the reason why that's significant is because there are some, the question came in because
there is a design called I think it's dark botanical or black botanical, something like that. It's one of the transfer sheet designs. And it's like all black and white and she wanted to know
if she could color it in with her pens. So, I would say that the answer is yes, you can take that transfer sheet and color it in with your
pens if you'd like to. So, cool, awesome. So we've done that test, so we just need to see
how we're doing over here. We're at 157, I think that we
can go ahead and risk it now. So, pick it up. This is what it looks like
before we remove the design. So let's go ahead and remove
it and see how it transferred. Now this test is entirely hand-drawn with the Cricut Infusible Ink pens on a piece of laser copy paper. So we didn't use the pen
attachment on our Cricut at all. We just drew it right
onto the paper. (laughs) That is so cute. Oh my gosh, this is adorable! It's so shiny and the color is so vibrant. I mean look at that, it's really nice. Sorry, there we go. Look at how pretty that is. My drawing isn't amazing,
but I was doing it quick. However, it's cute, it looks hand-drawn and that's totally fine. I would love to give some
pens and a piece of paper to my daughter and have her draw us one of her cute, little faces for me and put it onto a coaster and
then I can keep it on my desk and I'll always have it. She makes these really
cute little anime faces that she draws. We call 'em Alex faces, they're very cute. So, anyways this would
be a super fun project if you have someone who likes to draw and you would like to
preserve their artwork. And the colors are so pretty. And again, this is not
anything that's gonna smudge. It actually still feels a little bit warm, but it's not gonna smudge off or anything. And let's compare these two that we did. (clinks) And hear the ceramic. So, this is the one that we
did first here, the mandala. And we used our Cricut
pen to draw that one and then filled in some of it with color. Not all of it just because
I didn't want you guys to sit here and be bored. And this one here, in my right hand, is entirely hand-drawn onto the copy paper and then transferred over. And they look really, really cute and the colors are really
vibrant and it looks, actually my screen looks about the same as what I'm seeing with my naked eye. So, hopefully you're seeing that, as well. It's a little bit, the
pink with the naked eye is a little bit pinker and on the screen it looks a little more orange. But it looks like a true pink to me. It's not quite as orange
as you see on the screen. All right and then, of
course, our other test was to see if we could use
the Cricut transfer sheets and pens together, which we could. All right, let's switch this back over and happy to answer any
questions that you have at all. Awesome, I see and see other comments. I'm really happy that you
like them, it's really cute. Seriously, look at how cute that is. You can see here the seeds look the same. I don't see any differences,
they all came through just fine whether we put the pink over the black or whether we were careful not
to cover the black with pink. You know, so all of the
colors will transfer, all of the colors will
transfer when you do this. And so you don't have to cover things up, but keep in mind that every
ink that you put on there will transfer over. So that's what I saw. Let's see, J.J. says, do you
know if you can add to it after you've already heated it? My understanding is
you don't wanna do that 'cause it will actually it
could change the color of it or it could make it fade. That's why, when we do any kind of layered and transfer sheet projects
with infusible ink, (beeping) hang on. We want to layer
everything and then put it onto our material and press
it rather than do it again. So I think it's best if
we don't do it again. I haven't tried it,
I'm just going based on what I've read from Cricut. Let's see, the colors are phenomenal. Aren't they, Stacy? So Elizabeth says it seems
to take too long to cool off. I don't think it takes too long. I think that if we were
making a set of coasters, we would just do all four in a row. We're just testing things tonight and they would all be cooling off together and it took five minutes. I don't think that's too long. I don't think it's too long for something that looks this cute and will last as long
as this coaster lasts, maybe even longer. So I don't personally
think that's too long. I just saw a comment here. Robert says that this is so cool, my brain is now on overload with ideas. Mine, too, so my next
project is to do the mandala, which is this design here. And we're gonna do this on a
bigger scale with more detail and more color and put it onto a tote bag. And I'm gonna make a full
tutorial for that so you can see how that mandala works and all the designs and how you can personalize
the center here with, you know you can have a design
or you can have your initials like I have, and then how
to apply it to the tote bag with the color. And we're gonna be using, it will be all of the
Cricut Infusible Ink pen. We're gonna be using all pens for that. All right, let's see. Heather says, can you use
the laser ink jet paper on other items besides the coaster or do you need different paper? Can you use different ceramic
coasters or only theirs? First of all, it's laser copy paper, not laser ink jet paper. Now maybe it's okay to use
one that works for both, I don't know. All I know is the directions
say to use laser copy paper, just so that's clear. That's the only paper that we used with the Cricut Infusible Ink pens. Just laser copy paper and the pens. There's no other paper that I've seen. And as far as being able
to use other blanks, maybe yes, maybe no, I don't know yet because I haven't had an
opportunity to test it yet. I will be testing in the future and I will be letting you know
what works and what doesn't. I'm mostly gonna be focusing on blanks that Cricut does not currently have because they have some
really cool blanks right now, but there's a bunch of
things they don't have. And I'm really curious
to see if those blanks, if we can use those. And if they do, maybe Cricut
will come out with those blanks for us that we can buy much more easily than having to order them online. Okay, awesome. Where did I get the laser copy paper? I got it off amazon and
I'll put the link to that in my tutorial, as well
as below this video so that you can see the exact paper I used if you wanna get that. It was amazon prime so
I got it really quickly. And it wasn't expensive, but you can also get laser copy paper at office supply stores. I think that even pretty
sure you can get it at places like Target and Walmart, too. It's really easy to find, it's
not a difficult thing at all. You could pop out and
get it in five minutes as long as you got a
store five minutes away you should be able to
get that really easily. All right, awesome, I think
that's all the questions. If you think of more things or
you are watching the replay, just leave your question
below and I would be happy to answer your question, do
some testing, show you things. Now before I go, I want to announce
something really awesome. So, Cricut has very graciously
donated a Cricut Maker for us to give away to the
Jennifer Maker community. So, we're gonna have a
summer Maker giveaway starting today and going
for the next 30 days. So from today, June 12th to July 12th. We're going to have a giveaway
that you can enter to win a Cricut Maker or a Cricut EasyPress 2 or a bundle of Cricut
Infusible Ink products that I'm gonna buy and just give to you. Or one of my copies of
my Cricut Coach Playbook. So there's a bunch of prizes and we did something similar
like this in December and it was so much fun. And the way that you enter
is you can come in every day and there's different activities
and things that you can do. So you can get multiple entries for this. The more entries you get, the
more chances you have to win. And I totally can see that last time. The people who were
there doing it everyday, I could see they had way more entries. So, definitely do that
if this is something that interests you. And Miranda, thank you so much! Miranda has put the link to the giveaway. You go to that page and
you'll see all the things. Now, one of the things I'll be doing is having you watch my videos and listen for the word of the day. So I will speak this word, it
won't appear on the screen, so you need to listen
for the word of the day and I had thought of the
word of the day for today and then forgot it, no, I got it. Today's word of the
day is pen, P-E-N, pen. Because we experimented with the Cricut Infusible Ink pens today, so that's today's word of the pen if you would like to do that daily entry. And there's a bunch of
other things you can do like commenting and liking
the videos and sharing them and subscribing to my YouTube channel and subscribing to my Facebook page, a lot of things you
might have already done and they're one-time entries. If you've already done that, it's fine, just let me know when you did it and you'll still get an entry for it. So, and remember that the
giveaway ends on July 12th and I will announce the
winners the next day. So that's super fun and awesome. All right, I am so happy
that you joined me. Thank you so much. If you have any questions, just leave them and I'd be happy to come
through and answer them for you. Watch for my full tutorial
on making a mandala tote bag this weekend using the Cricut pens. And I think that's it. So remember, if you can tell
me what you want to make, I can show you how to make it
and if you enter the giveaway and show me your projects, I would be happy to make things, as well. That's one of the things that you can do. All right, until next time. (island music)
