How to Make Sublimation Ceramic Coasters

hi everyone thanks for joining me this is the fourth video in my sublimation series the first one we made a t-shirt the second one we made mugs the third one we made a mousepad and now I'm making coasters these are ceramic coasters and you can see I'm still playing with the wedding photos I'm so happy to be able to use some of these photos for my son and a daughter-in-law and make some fun at keepsakes for them get that glare off of there so I actually used the Cricut coasters these are perfect for a sublimation so we're going to make some more these are the Cricut coasters and I'll have a link to these on their website these are their ceramic coasters they also have square cork coasters and I might do those in a later video but for this video we're going to use the Cricut ceramic coasters if you are using the Cricut ez press you're going to follow the directions for in fusible ink you'll use the same time settings everything just follow the directions for an fusible link but you will still be using your sublimation printer I am using the Sawgrass SG 500 I'm using my craft heat press and I will have all of this linked in the description below I am printing these on regular copy paper I'm not using sublimation paper I printed two of these with sublimation paper and two of these with regular copy paper and I dare you to tell me which one is which because I can't tell a difference so I'm just going to continue using the copy paper for now I have everything I've tested it so far it has worked out perfectly for me so without further ado I'm going to send the print to the sawgrass printer and while that is printing I'm gonna answer a few questions that I've had come up since I started this series now let me just pick this really quickly and we'll send it to print all right so the first question I had it was a lot of people are very confused by the fact that some people are saying you can use inkjet printers you can use some inkjet printers but you have to convert them to sublimation ink so that doesn't mean if you buy a sublimation paper you can print with an inkjet printer you need to convert your printer to a sublimation printer by purchasing sublimation inks and changing out the ink system in the inkjet printer you will no longer be able to use it as a regular everyday printer it will be a sublimation printer so that's one clarification that I wanted to make sure that everyone understood because I've had a lot of questions about that as far as using copy paper versus sublimation paper like I just said I have tested it on all three of the substrates that I've done before it will actually for now because I did the coasters so I've tested it and for me I've had the same luck try it yourself and see what happens but for me I have not noticed a benefit of using the sublimation paper and copy paper is much cheaper so you can see this is just regular copy paper sublimation paper usually has a print on the back so you can see these are really dull and that's what's going to happen it's supposed to happen that way I'm going to cut my designs apart just for better placement the coasters are three and a half inches circle so I made my designs a little bit bigger more like four inches circle so that I can have plenty of room to play with the design and make sure that it goes edge to edge so let me flip you down and we will get these prepared okay so hopefully you can see what I'm doing right here again I'm just roughly cutting around the edges this is just to make it easier for me to get better placement as I'm putting this on the coasters now I will warn you that if you're doing these and you're working with kids these coasters get extremely extreme ha so I wouldn't let the kids do any of the heat press part even if you're using the easy press so again I'm using these Cricut coasters they come in a set of four I'm going to use my microfiber towel and just wipe them off make sure that I don't have any fingerprints on them I'm going to take my design it's face-up I put my coaster facedown and center it making sure that I have full coverage going to use my heat resistant tape and tape this down you want to make sure that it doesn't move and again if you're using the easi press make sure that you follow the infusible ink directions because it's a little bit different it's a lot longer time so I've got the print taped down to the coaster I have another one I'm only going to show press two at a time so we'll go ahead and prep all three okay so I have a three coaster done like I said I'm only going to do two at a time I have a piece of parchment paper here can also you put your papers I'm just going to fold it in half and that's going to serve as my sandwich so let me flip you back up to the press alright so I just taped a piece of copy paper down to my heat press just to make sure that I don't get any ink on my heat press I'm gonna take my butcher paper that's folded I'm gonna open it up and I'm going to place one of my coaster designs with the coaster down the paper is up pick the other one again coasters going down the papers on the top I'm just sandwiching that in between the parchment paper let that close and you do 400 degrees for 60 seconds I hope you guys are enjoying the sublimation series I'm having so much fun there are just so many things that you can make with sublimation that you just can't do any other way and I think the kids are loving all of the gifts I know ace and Evie are having a lot of fun seeing their face and pictures on so many different items so we've got about seven seconds left and I am going to put on a heat glove as I said these are very hot I'll link this in the description below this video be very careful especially around little ones we're going to open the press like I said that these are extremely hot so be very very careful removing your transfer so I'm going to pick it up with my heat resistant glove turned out so cute be very careful don't want anybody burning themselves whoops and here's the first one so look at that I mean it just looks just like the photo very cute and here is the second whoops again these are very very hot so you want to be very careful I'll go ahead and press the other one and I'll be right back all right so I've got aces pressed so you can see has turned out really good too so what I wanted to show you is here is the difference this is a good example of what happens to the transfer I can take the glove off now but you can see where the ink is lighter that's how much ink came off so if I were to reuse this press you can see how much difference it's going to make of a transfer you can reuse it it's going to make more of a vintage look but again here's v's so you can see the difference in the blue that's how much ink was applied to the coaster I hope you guys enjoyed this video these are still a little warm so I'm not gonna hold on to it for too long but how cute are these I think they're so fun these are going to make great gifts for all of your special people in your life Grandma and Grandpa are going to love these mom and dad brides and grooms what a fun remembrance of a really special day for Alex and Maggie so thanks so much for watching I hope you enjoyed this if you did please like subscribe and share don't forget to give me a thumbs up that helps YouTube know that you enjoyed this video and you would like to see more of this type of video if you are interested in any other products that I use I'll have everything linked in the description below again I use regular copy paper so try it see if it works for you but it's working for me thanks for much for watching and until next time see you guys bye you

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Length: 9min 56sec (596 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 28 2020