How to Sublimate Car Air Fresheners / Sublimation for Beginners

[Music] hey everyone and welcome to my channel Appalachian home Co so today we are going to be doing a super easy sublimation project using some car air fresheners these are so adorable they are made from thick stiff felt material I got these from Amazon you can add decorations to them make them for your car or you can make them for friends or even package these to sell which is what I plan to do on some craft fairs this year so I will be showing you all the materials you will need and the heat settings that I use to create these I will leave a link to these air fresheners these came from Amazon they came in a pack of 50. they also come with some elastic string to tie onto the top and some little clear packaging these are about three inches by four inches they are really thick good quality material and they have a little hole at the top so that you can tie your string also for this project I'm going to be using some butcher paper some heat tape and just a piece of cardstock to place my designs on to protect my heat press of course you'll need your printed design which I'll show you how to do in just a second and I am going to be using a sub sublimation paper you'll also need a sublimation printer and I'm going to be using my HTV Rod automatic key press which I love so we'll go ahead and get started so now I'm going to show you how I created my designs I went to a program called canva.com when you pull up canva.com you'll come to the home screen and you'll want to create a design I scroll down to custom size to make a size that was just a little bit bigger than my car Freshies that I got from Amazon if you change your units to inches you can type in any width and height for your canvas size I made mine 3.25 by four and a half inches that turned out to be just a little bit big so you may want to size that down a little bit the actual size of those car fresheners are about three and a eighth by four and a quarter something more close to that size would work you want to go ahead and click on that and then you'll come up with a blank canvas that is around the size of your car freshener so you can do this two ways you can either create your own make your own design which is what I did with this one here I just got some clip art out of canvas clip art and just created some different designs I also put in a watercolor background and created some text to fit on this Square you can also go to Etsy in some places like that and actually dragon in your own file so for this one I'll show you how I did this one here is my blank canvas I went to Etsy and purchased some B clip art once you download the PNG from Etsy you can just drag and drop it on to your screen here in canva and it will automatically pull up on your screen and then you can resize it to actually fit your car freshy I made mine just a little bit bigger because I wanted some of these sides cut off just a little bit and then I went into elements and typed in watercolor and I searched under photos and it brought up a lot of images of just plain watercolor backgrounds so I chose one that was kind of close to the same colors as the B and you can just arrange these to fit the background of your canvas and if you go to position you can send the watercolor all the way to the back so your design that you originally uploaded shows through so that is how I created all of these um little car fresheners and to add another design or canvas you just hit this little add page icon and it automatically adds another page and if you want to delete one you can just go ahead and delete it but once you have all of your designs you can go to share and then download I'm going to download it as a PNG I'm going to download all six pages I left in the background because I want this watercolor background to be to remain with my design so then you just hit download and it will download it to your downloads folder so there are a couple ways you can actually print out your design I'm going to go to Cricut because that was the easiest for me if you go into design space and create a new project you can upload your artwork from canva directly there so I'm going to upload upload image and go to the file that you just downloaded from canva and just drag that onto your screen I'm going to upload this as a complex project to leave in all my colors and I don't want to erase any areas so apply and continue and you I want to upload it as a print and cut image even though you don't have to cut these out with Cricut I'm going to upload it as a print then cut once you upload it to your canvas you just add to Canvas you definitely want to make sure and check the dimensions anytime I upload to Cricut design space my dimensions are always always off on my project so you want to change those back down to what you created in canva so I'm going to change my height to 4.25 inches and now I have the correct size for my car freshie I also want to duplicate it with Ctrl D because I'm going to need a front and back for my car fresheners and just to make cutting easier I'm going to align these to the top or bottom just so that they're aligned you also want to attach these so when they print out this is exactly how they will print out now you're ready to make it and you can see this is how your design is going to print out it's going to come with registration marks which you can actually send this to your Cricut to perfectly cut out these squares but I'm not going to go through all that project effect process you can also add a project copy to fill up your sublimation paper so I'm going to hit 2 and apply and you can see here you can get actually a quad quite a lot of these on one page so now I'm just going to go to continue and send this to my printer I'm going to be using my Epson 2760 sublimation printer it's very important you have to use sublimation ink with this project or it will not work I'll turn off the bleed because I don't want my colors to bleed and there's a couple of settings that I like to use for my certain printer because that turns out the best whenever I'm printing out sublimation so if you go to preferences in your printer I like to change the paper top to premium presentation paper mat and then I'm going to up the quality to high also most importantly if you go to more options you definitely want to mirror your image this means flip it so that it prints out backwards anytime you're sublimating you want to print your image out mirrored you can also do this on your canvas by just flipping your image but I like to do it here because it gets all my images at once so now I'm just going to hit OK and go ahead and send this to my printer and I'm also using Cosmos ink I'll leave a link where you can find this online but I love the sink it prints out super vibrant and all the designs press super vibrant as well [Music] so now we are ready to press our designs I'm just going to go ahead and Center these car fresheners on the center of my printout and I just made sure that the edges were lined up straight when placing these I'm also going to take this heat tape and tape them down to this piece of cardstock that's the easiest way I found just to keep them in place until I got them into my heat press I'm also going to sandwich these pieces in between two pieces of butcher paper just to protect everything from the sublimation ink foreign [Music] I have my heat press heating up to 380 degrees Fahrenheit that pressed perfectly on this particular top of sublimation car freshener if you're using a different kind you may want to do some testing but I pressed these at that temperature for 45 seconds and they turned out great on the first time so you can see I'm sandwiching here that butcher paper be below and above the car fresheners and the great thing about this heat press is you just hit a button it presses itself it releases when it's done all you have to do is pull out the drawer and remove it I love this heat press definitely my favorite I will leave a link for it in the description box you can go check it out it's very super inexpensive there's a deal actually going on right now with this heat press but you can see how vibrant these colors turned out on these car fresheners um I love the cosmos Inc best ink I've ever tried I've heard good things about other inks but I just haven't went wrong with the cosmos ink so I'm going to flip these over and do the other side to finish the back [Music] foreign [Music] so now to finish these off I'm just going to add some string that actually came with these particular car fresheners I cut about 8 to 10 inches of string and folded it in half and just threaded it through the little hole that's already there on the car freshener and then I just tied a knot up at the top to close it in and that gave me plenty of room to put on a car window or whatever you're going to hang these on so these turned out so cute the only thing left to do now is just to add your scents I actually used some diffuser oils on mine you just gotta make sure that if you have a white background like on this one that your oil is clear and not yellow because that will stain it a little bit but you can also use room spray or perfume Bath and Body Works spray whatever you like on your car fresheners you can add beads bows however you want to decorate these and you can even put these in package into cell like I'm going to at the craft fair so I hope you guys enjoyed this video found it helpful got some new ideas coming up this fall and I'm gonna have a lot more fall DIY videos coming up as well so thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you guys back again in my next video

Channel: Christy Cain - Appalachian Home Co.

Views: 26,508

Keywords: sublimation, sublimation for beginners, sublimation felt air freshener, diy, diy car air freshener, felt freshies, car freshies, sublimation with cricut design space, htvront auto heat press, how to sublimate, how to use auto heat press, Cricut Design Space, how to print then cut in cricut design space, cosmos ink sublimation, sublimation printing, christy cain the appalachian home

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Length: 11min 18sec (678 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 24 2023