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Hi this is Josh Ellsworth, General Manager with Stahls’ CAD-CUT Direct and this is
a Production Tip Jar, where we’re going to show you a trapping technique for creating
2 color designs for materials that aren’t typically recommended for layering. In this
case we’ll focus on the CAD-CUT Glitter Flake product, which looks awesome in a 2-color
design. To start we’ll type some text onto the screen. And we’re working in Corel Draw
after I type some text, I’m going to take it from a font and convert it to curves. So
I go up to arrange and convert to curves. And at that point I can size it proportionally
or exactly as I want. In this case I’m going to make it 3 inches tall and keep it at 13
inches wide. If I want to make this a 2-color design, typically you do a contour function
in Corel Draw. And that’s found up under the effects menu. Just go to effects and then
contour, you can also hit “CONTROL F9” as the shortcut on your keyboard. Contours
are typically done to the outside so you maintain the integrity of the font. So I will do this
contour to the outside and let’s make it a ? inch outline all the way around the design.
And click apply. Ad you can see it defaults to the color black here, but I will break
apart these 2 layers so that I can separate them. The black and the blue. Click off of
my image and now I’m going to assign a gold color. We’ll do a blue and gold design I’ll
assign gold as the background. If you were doing a normal heat transfer film design with
a product that layers, at this point you would be done and you would be able to drag away,
kind of separate your layers. Cut your gold layer and then heat apply your blue right
on top. But with Glitter Flake it’s not recommended for full layer on layer applications.
So I’ll hit “CONTROL Z” on my keyboard to get that back registered on the foreground
there. Click off of my design and I need to now create that void area in the gold layer.
In order to do that I’m going to select the blue original text 1 more time and this
time I’ll go back to my contour menu and what I’m going to bring in an outline to
the inside of the text. So I’ll click on inside and then I want to specify my offset.
Now this offset may differ depending upon the size of your design. Since I’m dealing
with a fairly long piece of text here, 3 inches by 13 inches, I’m going to default to a
1/16 of an inch offset. Which would be .0625. And I’ll click apply. Now if I zoom in here,
you can kind of see here how it brought the black layer inside of the original blue text.
Let me break those apart so I can assign colors. And then I’ll assign the gold color that
we used prior to that foreground text. Now, right now this can look fairly confusing but
it all will become much simpler when I start to drag the blue layer away. So I’m going
to select that original blue. Make sure I get the right one here. I’ll zoom in to
select the original blue here. And I’ll kind of drag that away. And zoom out so that
I can work with it. And what I’ve done is I’ve created 2 cut files. I have the cut
file here that reads Blue Devils pretty clearly, that I will send to the blue material. And
then I have the gold cut file, which is actually inclusive of 2 sets of cut lines. If I want
to see those cut lines I can simply go to the wireframe view, and you can see exactly
what the cutter is going to cut out. Now in the weeding process after I cut this I’ll
peel away all of these letters and create void areas where the garments actually going
to show through the gold layer. And then the blue layer will actually inset right into
that are giving it a nice adhesion to the garment. If you want to go back to the normal
view, you can actually highlight this gold layer and combine it by going to arrange,
combine. And that will create the show through so you can visually see it as well. You can
see the gold layer with the garment showing through and then the blue layer will apply
right on top of it. And there will be a little bit of a trap or an offset so you don’t
get any of that gap space with the garment showing through were it goes layer on layer.
So I’ve precut this exact design I’m going to cut now off camera and then I’ll meat
you back at the heat press to show you how it applies. Okay so we have our pieces precut
and weeded and laying over here at the heat press where we have our garment. And you can
see the gold layer looks very much like it did on the screen, were we’ve taken the
weeding tool and pulled out all the inside components where the blue will fit directly
over top. And everything will be in perfect registration. And there’s a little bit of
a tolerance there. That’s why we put the 1/16 of an inch outline. I’ll start by just
lining this bottom layer up. It’s very important that you just press the bottom layer for a
couple seconds. You want to t=do that just to get it down onto the garment but limit
it’s exposure underneath the heat so it doesn’t shrink up on you and make alignment
very difficult. And you want to peel this one after it cools down slightly. And this
isn’t permanent adhesion now, this is just tacking it to the garment, so I can bring
my secondary color and inlay it. Since I’m working with the clam shell press I’m just
going to pull that out to the edge so I can see my alignment little bit better. And Glitter
Flake has a nice sticky backing so it will hold in place after you position it. And I’ll
just slide it back into the pressing area. And this time I will cover it with a cover
sheet and heat press both layers together for the full time, temperature and pressure
that is recommended. And I’ll let this foreground cool down and then I’ll peel it off. Once
it’s cooled down I’ll peel the backing off of the blue layer and I’ll have a completed
design that’s very durable and gives you that full bling finish that customers are
after. This has been a Production Tip Jar from Stahls’ CAD-CUT Direct.