Personalized Snowmen & Tree Ornaments

Made a couple of ornaments yesterday. Sublimated on the white acrylic after cutting. I was a little off on lining up the sublimation print. :upside_down_face: Used glitter HTV for the star.

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Came out great—love the personalization! Did you use Cuttle?

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The tree does look familiar. :wink:

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I love the snowmen! If I’m going to sublimate a design that doesn’t have a bleed past the edges, I add an offset outline around the whole thing, that’ll be maybe a tenth of an inch or two bigger than the object I’m sublimating on. Then I can center the object within that outline on the paper before securing it with heat tape and know the design will transfer centered on the object as well.

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I used Silhouette Cameo Business software. Used the shapes for the star, drew the snowman with circles and added a red scarf … but then had to add snowflakes, grabbed the hat from one place and the arms from another. :upside_down_face:

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I should have cut these out with an offset on the Silhouette, but somehow thought it would be easier to line a snowman up. I made a bad call!

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These are so darling!

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These are absolutely delightful…really enhanced with the sublimation. I love them!

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They’re really lovely. I like the effect of sublimating on acrylic a lot, but I have trouble not getting fingerprints in the softened acrylic.

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I’ve only done a little on acrylic, and I use the butcher paper to lift it out of the press. Put it under a heavy book to cool prior to removing the paper.

The thing I haven’t solved is getting it not to lose the shine of acrylic. Not sure if it’s the time and temp, or if it will just always lose the shine. A larger piece I did had kept most of the shine. I couldn’t find my note on my settings though.

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I think they look great! The little bit of extra white space around the scarf and arms gives an illusion of motion.

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Look so good! This type of work amazes me. I’ve been scared to try it.
Both from a how hard is it. But then fear of oh that wasn’t as bad as I thought. Now what else can I sublimate! :innocent:

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Both are really simple designs to do. The only thing that took time was choosing fonts and arranging them.

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