A few weekends ago, I purchased an annual membership to Maker’s Gonna Learn. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I breezed through the 30-day class of Getting to Know Your Cricket within five days. My work laptop was down, so I had plenty of downtime. I used that to my advantage and finished the course. I also learned a lot about my Cricket in a short time.
Yesterday, I bought their Design, Make, Sell – Professional course. It was $100 off the regular price. Since I enjoy the lesson format at Maker’s Gonna Learn, and I genuinely love Tanner’s enthusiasm. I did not have to think too hard about purchasing the professional course.
This morning, I had a chance to do some sublimation. I used two of the tumblers that I purchased from Michaels. The first one that I created was Jack & Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas. Unfortunately, I kept it in the oven too long. I was able to get it to fade a lot more by putting it in the oven at 400 F for an hour. I’m actually thinking of placing it in the oven again to see if I can get it to lighten a bit more.
Here’s the second tumbler I created, IT! I read the book by Stephen King when I was about 12 years old. I finished this tumbler about ten minutes before I started work this morning. This tumbler turned out better than the first; however, it still was in the oven too long. The colors are still muted. I had it in for seven minutes. Both images were purchased from sellers on Etsy. The next tumblers I buy will be straight tumblers. Speaking of ordering blanks, I have a few places that I want to check out and perhaps buy a few blanks to see my impression of them.