How To Make Silk Screen Cookie Stencils

[Music]hi cookie friends it’s Tracy with sugarB’s on my channel I love sharinginexpensive and easy hacks to help youbecome more efficient and moreproductive which translates to moreprofitable be sure to subscribe to mychannel and click the bell to benotified when I upload more videos likethis in today’s video I’m gonna show youhow I make my screens so stay tuned okaycookie friends like I mentioned I’mgonna show you today how I do my screensbut before I do I do want to mention thecolourful cookie calm Nancy Westfieldruns a wonderful wonderful webpagecalled the colourful cookie calm and youcan become a colourful cookie clubmember which I am a member and sheteaches how to make stencils how to makescreens she gets into all the detailsI’m not gonna go into any details I’mjust gonna show you what I do you wantto learn the details this is where Iwould direct you because she really doesa great job of giving you all theinstruction you need easy to follow forthe Machine that you have because I havea silhouette I only know how to use asilhouette she knows how to use thesilhouette and a Cricut and she alsosells digital downloads for stencils andI admitI bought some because I don’t want tohave to reinvent the wheel I don’t wantto make something that I already canjust purchase for very little money anddownload to my machine so I reallyreally want to encourage you guys andknow by the way I do not get any kind ofaffiliate fee for it sending anybodythere so you don’t have to even mentionmy name just join I’m gonna leave thatup here this is her websiteNancy Westfall and really quick I’m justgonna show you how I do mine I’m gonnago ahead and do this logo right here Ido a lot of custom logos and we’re gonnago to the trace tool and I’m becausethis is two colors blue and grey I’mgoing to trace my color and what you dois you just pick up thecolor that you’re going to trace whichis the blue right now and then youselect all areas and I kick thetolerance up a little bit just so that Iknow I’m getting everything and then youhit trace and then I’m gonna move thisover here and trace my color again toget the gray select all areas kick upthe tolerance and trace now I’m gonnamove my logo out of the way and I’mgoing to create my stencil template soI’m gonna go here to measurements andI’m gonna make this five and a half byfive and a half inches and then I’mgoing to duplicate it and I’m gonna moveone of them here and one of them hereand I think I need to fix my page herethe cutting mat we’re gonna make this 12by 12 because my vinyl is 12 by 12 andthen I’m going to move this one overhere and while I have that allhighlighted there I’m going to go aheadand Center my design on the template andthe same with this Center my design onthe template and now these are ready togo to my cutter so here I would justmake sure this as plain cardstockI don’t want cardstock I want heattransfer smooth and I don’t use the autoblade I use a ratchet blade and I haveit always set for three that’s just mypersonal preference and because I have alot of little detail I’m gonna go aheadand click this to make sure I geteverything cut out and it’s gonna beeasy to remove so then I’m gonna goahead and just send this to my Cricutand then we’ll move on to the next stepokay folks this is how Iactually make my screens I have a heatpress it’s set for I believe 300 for tenseconds and I already have my screenscut I know the cuts are kind of ugly butit really doesn’t matter I’m gonna pressthem for just a hot second just to getsome of the wrinkles out and to they saythat gets the moisture out but I don’tknow what moisture would be in themhere’s my screens that I have alreadyweeded and the vinyl on these is justheat transfer vinyl color doesn’t reallymatter I know a lot of people have askedabout color I just use whatever I wantwhatever I have if there’s any kind ofsale heck yeah jump on it whatever thecolor is I like to use orange butbecause that’s my favorite color so thenI’m gonna throw my vinyl over the top ofthat or I guess my heat protectant sheetand then just close thisthrough the magic of editing here we arewe now have the sheets okay friendshere’s the pressed screen I just haven’tremoved the protective sheet off of itI’ll show youand I’m peel this off and there you gothere’s your stencil it’s kind ofstaticky at the moment from peeling offthe protecting sheet but there you goand I do want to mention that this meshis a hundred and ten very fine mesh Iwill link where I purchased this onunderneath the video in the comments orin the details if you have any questionsor comments please leave them down belowand I guess that’s it until next timefolks see you later bye