Yesterday, I met up with my friend Julie for lunch. We had a great time together, and the time flew by.
I didn’t arrive at the restaurant empty-handed; I came bearing sublimation gifts. I made J a sublimation shoulder bag, tumbler, and hoodie. The theme was Mickey and Minnie Mouse for all the items gifted to her. I had wanted to make these things for her when I surprised her with the Mickey and Minnie Mouse stickers almost a month ago now. However, due to time constraints, I was unable to create those items at that time, and so they were placed on hold.
But, back to the tumbler. I chose the design I wanted to make for Julie printed out the design on A-Sub, the sublimation paper I use. I placed it into the convection oven that I use exclusively for sublimating, and five minutes later, I had an awesome tumbler.
Sublimating Skinny Tumblers
- Print design on sublimation paper, use mirror image.
- Allow a few minutes to dry.
- Apply lint roller to tumbler to remove any dust
- Try not to touch the exterior of the tumbler to reduce transferring oils to the surface of the tumbler.
- Wrap tumbler with sublimation paper, secure with sublimation tape
- Place shrink wrap tumbler sleeve over tumbler
- Use a heat gun to shrink the shrink wrap
- Place oven thermometer inside the oven
- Set convection oven on bake.
- Set temperature to 350 F
- Set timer for five minutes
- Place tumblers into the 350 F oven
- Turn tumbler at 2.5 minutes
- Take tumbler out of the oven, and submerge into a pot of cool water
- Remove from water
- Peel off sublimation paper
- Dry and enjoy your sublimated tumbler
I linked to Snazzy Moon’s design on Youtube in my last video. I’ve found their youtube videos to be very helpful for tumbler sublimation, and they are my go-to videos for creating sublimated tumblers. Additionally, the owner is amiable and responds to comments left on their Youtube page.
Friday, I created the sublimation hoodies. Yes, I said hoodies. I made her two; however, one of them did not turn out well, so I’ll be redoing that. And I finally had time to complete everything I wanted to create for her this past weekend. I made her two shirts. One turned out great, the other? Meh, I need to remove the vinyl and try again. I’ll have to write a post about that and show the before and after.
In other news…
I purchased two pairs of heat-sensitive gloves. I have several pairs; however, a few are used for our wood stove, and I also have a few sets for baking. So I’m not using those for sublimating.
I purchased a few more project folders. I have eight of them which I use for my sticker papers, shrink film, and sublimated paper. Since my stock-pile is growing, I discovered that I needed a few more.
I also purchased a T-shirt folder; three sizes. I actually think I do a great job folding t-shirts; however, I must say that I’m wanting to check this tool out for myself.