This customized offering tray you can make with your Cricut is a fantastic residence layout piece or makes for a best customized gift.
Do not you just love those individualized residence style items? If you haven’t seen any one of my previous messages, I am actually into including surnames to just about everything.
From my Cricut DIY Mat blog post, to my Cricut Etched Cutting Board one, and also the list takes place. So adding a name to an offering tray and then using epoxy over it seemed like an excellent concept.
When can I give this as a present to someone:
Honestly I think any type of occasion would be good, yet to name a few:
Housewarming present
Wedding event or Wedding shower gift
Birthday
Educator present
Christmas gift (I made 12 of these this year for Xmas gifts).
Products required for Personalized Serving Tray with Cricut:.
Offering Tray– I selected this set up at Walmart.
Plastic Cutout– this is where your Cricut helps out. Procedure your serving tray and make a personalized decal with your Cricut.
Transfer Tape– to move your sticker to the serving tray.
Epoxy– utilize your favored brand name.
Disposable Gloves– I constantly use handwear covers when working with material.
Warm Gun or Torch– to get out any type of bubbles in your epoxy.
Epoxy products– gauging mugs, mixing cup as well as stirring stick.
You will certainly require something like a poster board to cover your serving tray while the resins solidifies so absolutely nothing flies or arrive on it.
Making the customized serving tray with Cricut:.
Begin by taking your weeded name vinyl piece. For this job I utilized Neoteric for the & household as well as used Hafizan Script for the name. I measured exactly how big I wanted all of it on my board as well as connected all the words together and also sent it to reduce and then weeded it.
Take a sheet of transfer tape that is as big as your plastic eliminated and place on your plastic cut out.
Lower with either your fingers or a flat edge surface device to adhear the transfer tape to the plastic item.
Take that vinyl sheet with the transfer tape on top of it and also establish it aside for now.
Take your serving tray as well as make certain when you flip it over to the rear end it has no open locations where the resin can leak with. If it does take some wood glue as well as fill in those areas and allow it completely dry before proceeding.
Take your vinyl with your transfer tape and line it up even where you want it on your tray and also press down.
Utilize some type of level item like a bank card or popsicle stick to massage down the plastic piece to your tray.
Start to pull off the transfer tape slowly far from the plastic. You could have to aid the vinyl to adhere to the tray while pulling the transfer tape off.
Don’t rush drawing the transfer tape off. You can rip the plastic if you do. The plastic does not actually like to stick to the wood as it would certainly with other materials. So have persistence.
Currently take your level side tool and also massage down the vinyl to the timber and also exercise any type of bubbles if you have any kind of. Pro Tip: you can also take a hair dryer and strike it over the vinyl while rubbing it down to make it truly stick.
Epoxy Time.
Now obtain some non reusable gloves on prior to dealing with epoxy. You actually do not want this things on your hands. It is difficult to get off your hands.
Utilize your non reusable mugs and ration among your services, there’s constantly a A & B component of the service. The epoxy I make use of is a 1:1 ratio. Inspect your proportions before rationing.
I measure out 4 ounces of each component so it’s a total of 8 oz. But first ration 1 part at 4 ounces and mix with a popsicle stick for one minute.
After that measure out 4 ounces of your component B as well as stir for 1 minute.
After that integrate both components together as well as mix for 3 minutes. You’re not intending to mix quickly due to the fact that this produces more bubbles. You just want to ensure both parts are mixed with each other well.
Currently begin to pour your epoxy blend on your tray. I such as to put right in the center.
You can let it begin to spread out on it’s very own.
Then grab your tray as well as begin to tilt it to move the epoxy to cover all four corners.
Make certain the entire bottom of your tray has a layer of epoxy over it and also set it down.
Make use of a heat weapon or lantern to do away with any bubbles. I discovered I prefer my lantern for this. I was terrified I would burn the wood, but I never did as well as this was one of the most reliable means to obtain all the bubbles out.
Put something over your tray like cardboard or poster board while your tray dries to stop any type of dirt getting on your tray while it’s drying out.
It will certainly begin to feel hard after 5 hour, yet I leave mine over night to ensure it’s fully treated.
And that isit. Now you have a personalized tray that you don’t have to fret about the vinyl coming off. I made about 12 of these for Xmas presents this year and everyone liked them.
Advice for Personalized Offering Tray:.
Make certain the back side of your tray doesn’t have any type of open spaces where the epoxy could leak through. Use some wood glue to fill out those areas.
Make certain as well as peel the plastic off gradually from your transfer tape since the plastic doesn’t stick well to the wood. If you peel off to fast you can rip your vinyl.
If your plastic is not wishing to stick to the wood very well make use of a hair clothes dryer to warm up the plastic to stick it to the timber.
Don’t mix your epoxy like your whipping eggs. This will produce a lots of bubbles. Just a normal stir motion to ensure Type An and also B and blended together well will do.
Pour your epoxy in the middle and also get the tray and also tilt it to move the epoxy around to fill up the entire area of the tray.
Use a warm gun or torch to get out any kind of bubbles yet maintain your warm source moving so you do not shed anything. You can let it establish for 30 minutes and come back as well as make use of warm once again to obtain any type of leftover bubbles.
Make sure and also cover your offering tray with a piece of cardboard or poster board while it dries so absolutely nothing can accidently land in your epoxy while its drying (ex-spouse: dust, bugs, and so on).
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