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piazzaj: You know the drill.
piazzaj: Me here and
piazzaj: Just don't care.
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piazzaj: Catherine turn your back on.
Kathryn Drennon: I'm honestly, it doesn't work that well. So I'm not even gonna try and mess this this job.
Jen Harness: Like makes my hair and visible.
Kathryn Drennon: Yeah. So tell us where you're from.
And
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Kathryn Drennon: So we are so excited to have you all join us and a lot of people are still coming in. My name is Catherine and I am from Michaels.
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Kathryn Drennon: You know, thank you so much for for spending your time with us. We know how precious. This is and we know how crazy the world is right now. So again, we are so thankful that you are joining us today.
Kathryn Drennon: We're here to do everything that we can to make sure that everyone can still make and create and do the things they love
Kathryn Drennon: I, of course, I'm so excited. Always to get to introduce the man that everyone is really here to see because I know it's not me. Please welcome. Oh.
piazzaj: Oh what is happening to everyone. It is Joe
piazzaj: Namath exotic. Sorry. It's not the guy from the Netflix shows the other one you know just toxic, which is going to be the operative words of today's lesson, so you everyone from all over the globe, because that's right, we have our friends in Italy, watching so please
piazzaj: keep letting us know where you're watching, I'm even seeing Detroit my hometown. Thank you guys so much for taking the time out of your day today on this beautiful Friday afternoon.
piazzaj: This is a another zoom class that is being taken over by Caesar. Yes, bringing up the first lesson today, which I do every one of these lessons is how to properly pronounce Caesar and I even wrote it down on my shirt, you probably seen it backwards. But it is C zero
piazzaj: So if you've ever seen any of these roles at Michael's that is the name and maybe kind of too dark or too light for you, but if you can see that
piazzaj: So that's lesson number one, I want to give a big thank you to all the Michaels people for having me on. Again, thank you to Michael's
piazzaj: You guys are awesome. This is my third class in the last three weeks I've been doing one a week and I think I've seen some of you guys on here and it's awesome to see you come back for another lesson.
piazzaj: This is for those that are just joining for the first time. Thank you so much for tuning in for this lesson.
piazzaj: And I know that the sign up and all that stuff I've gotten a lot of questions but Catherine, you can definitely bother her as much as you can. And she can improve the sign of end of it, but you guys made it. We're here today and we're going to go over a topic that
piazzaj: Is kind of been a pretty popular trend right now with the crafting world and that is about the masks. So these masks that a lot of people
piazzaj: Have been wearing it making these days go outside and go do their daily duties and stuff like that. Now, there's a lot of companies and or I mean a lot of
piazzaj: crafters out there that are actually making their own masks and I've talked to a ton of them, and I give a cool
piazzaj: little shout out to my friend. Connie, who actually sent me this one which is one that she actually made and she sent it to me because I didn't have any masks.
piazzaj: I only had one that I took from which was a prop from a movie that I was in, and all this was was just a thin piece of cloth. But this is kind of what I've been wearing out
piazzaj: So she sent me a mask that she's been making. Now I've talked to a lot of people, and I see the question all over the internets and all over the crafting world about how can you decorate. If you want to decorate.
piazzaj: Your masks. Can you use Caesar heat transfer vinyl
piazzaj: And I'm obviously just jumping right into Caesar. He transfer vinyl. Obviously there was questions about other forms of decoration on those masks. But what I'm going to show you today.
piazzaj: Is really revolving around the Caesar heat transfer vinyls and go over also a big part of the benefit of the Caesar. He transfer vinyls that Michaels does carry
piazzaj: And. And the big thing that we've been trying to educate people about our heat transfer vitals, is that they are CPS a compliant or certified
piazzaj: And basically the short story of that certification is that they are non toxic that they don't have any harmful additives or substances that might be toxic for you if you were to happen to ingest them.
piazzaj: In this we've had forever. And this just now seems like to be a prime time to really go over that briefly to just explain that all the heat transfer bottles by Cesar that that Michaels carries
piazzaj: Are CPS a certified. So really what we were what the benefit and where we are trying to educate people for a really long time about this is that a lot of people. How many people in here have decorated baby garment between the baby.
piazzaj: I'm going to save one Z. Okay, I know it's body suit or I'm not allowed to see one, but between that are like a t shirt or something for a child or baby and even a grown adult like myself, I have a tendency to chew on shirts. I don't know what it is, it's you know it's tasty, but
Kathryn Drennon: It's weird that is. That's just weird.
piazzaj: Don't you start with me now.
Kathryn Drennon: Is just weird.
piazzaj: Sometimes it happens. You get bored. You're sitting around in line. You gotta chew on shirts. It just happened but babies sometimes do and sometimes it might be
piazzaj: They might have an opportunity to ingest a piece of the heat transfer on so more or less the moral of that is that it is not harmful ingested. So that is just a
piazzaj: Kind of brief description of the product. And if you ever did want certified certifications or any kind of proof.
piazzaj: You can always come to us at Caesar and we can show you the the certifications of which one of our products are CP si compliant and
piazzaj: You know, any kind of technical questions on that. And so the question or the trend now has been the decoration on the masks. So any of these faces. So I'm probably here with amongst a lot of people that have
piazzaj: Made their own masks, or they might be using variations of type, you know, these kind of face masks. But what I'm going to show you today is actually some of the masks that Michaels does offer and carry
piazzaj: And it's kind of been a touchy subject, and I've been getting a lot of feedback from people asking about them.
piazzaj: And they're really awesome mask. So here's, here's an example of the bag that they carry in. These are fella canvas masks, so they they come in these packs of 10 and they are just basically like a
piazzaj: It is a polyester cotton blend. But it's kind of a fleecy feel to it.
piazzaj: Now I have to say because I did get on. I did have a conference call with Bella canvas, because they just wanted to make sure that I did mention
piazzaj: That they do recommend these masks and I'm only mentioning these masks as a one time or daily use. So they're really only recommending that you use them.
piazzaj: Once a day or, you know, for one day. And then once you take it off. Then you dispose of it.
piazzaj: So again, what I'm showing you today is decorating on these masks and I understand that it may not be entirely practical to decorate on a disposable mask.
piazzaj: But this is just to show you if you aren't using these particular masks. What you could potentially do and that it isn't, it isn't going to be harmful.
Kathryn Drennon: I'm Joe, can you watch them asks, Do you know
piazzaj: So now again it depends on which masks are you using I did ask Bella canvas about that. And they said, absolutely. It's just a fabric you can wash it, but the concern is to make sure that you
piazzaj: Know the guidelines of how you should wash it and that is also why they wanted to stress a daily use because they don't provide the washing recommendations.
piazzaj: So it's going to either be up to you to figure that out to make sure how to properly wash them.
piazzaj: And but absolutely all it all it is is a piece of fabric. So here's an example of a blank one
piazzaj: They come right out of the package. They already had these ear hole slits ready to go.
piazzaj: And they just kind of strap on and stretch right over your face. So it's a pretty good coverage. Again, all's it isn't a mask for you to wear out. And again, they're, they're really stressing that it's not a master necessarily protect
piazzaj: From everything. It's just protecting you are all the people from you, essentially, and how you talk. So, um, but I'm going to show you how to decorate.
piazzaj: On a mask and that what the lesson is, and today I want to use one of my personal favorite Caesar, he transferred vinyl so you can get out Michaels to form that kind of always gets looked over
piazzaj: It is part of our easy we'd line, but it's kind of its own topic. It's its own genre. And that's our easy. We glow in the dark and
piazzaj: I'm going to try. Try something at the end of this application to see if I can get the full effect. I was really looking forward to just flipping the switch here and like having a pop up but
piazzaj: There's too much light in my basement and I can't get a dark enough, but I'm going to take you into this. I'm gonna let Catherine explain it. And then it's going to hopefully have the effect of what I want to show you with this product. So,
piazzaj: If you guys have any questions along the way, please feel free to chime in any kind of comments let Catherine know and she could stop me while I'm going through this lesson.
piazzaj: We're going to keep it pretty brief and just kind of roll right into it.
piazzaj: Now if you are cutting just like all our heat transfer models like again for those that have never used these products. These are at Michael's they come in roles that look like this.
piazzaj: They'll tell you which product type it is. So you want to make sure you look out for that. Now with the easy we'd go in the dark. It is only what
piazzaj: Like so when you get it and you see it in the store. It's going to look white. So it's going to look similar to regular easy weed white
piazzaj: But the difference is obviously when the lights go out, so when you look at it and you want to use glow. Just make sure you're looking for glow in the dark.
piazzaj: And then again, when you open these packs up, they're going to come with a tech sheet attached to hang on to this tech sheet because it does have a lot of really good information for you.
piazzaj: So certainly, hang on to this. We also have access to our app, which is great because right there. It has all of our application instructions cutting recommendations color swatches all sorts of fun things for you to check out
piazzaj: Okay, so if you're working with the silhouette of cricket those vinyl cutters. You can absolutely cut the easy week glow in the dark.
piazzaj: When you get it out of the package. The trick is to make sure you lay it down with the shiny side facing down in the adult side facing up on you go to cut it.
piazzaj: I'm going to just take you briefly through and I did it last last week for the last lesson, just to show you kind of how I personally like to set up my artwork and go through
piazzaj: My proofing process is what I call it. So I imagine a lot of you guys probably have businesses and you may have websites and you may have things that you want to offer to people.
piazzaj: Without actually decorating. And what this is called is proofing. And what I always recommend to people if you're working with customers is to send them a proof of what their design is going to look like.
piazzaj: Before you actually go through and do an application. And then they say, I don't want that. So proofing is very important. And I'm going to show you kind of what I did.
piazzaj: Through corral. I'll take you through a little bit and silhouette studio and then I'll take you through escape briefly and show you kind of the same exact thing through those. And so I'm just going to kind of switch screens here and start with
piazzaj: corral draw
Kathryn Drennon: Hey, Joe. Yes. Can you layer, the glow in the dark. Easy. We
piazzaj: Absolutely. So you can any of our easy we'd family. So any of the products that say easy weed on them, you can layer them together.
piazzaj: So if you wanted to lay easy weed with easy. We electric or easy weed with easy. We can glow in the dark or any of those combinations that Michaels carries that has easy weed on it. You can absolutely do that.
Kathryn Drennon: Someone uses the glow on their dogs harness and and their dog loves to stand out.
Kathryn Drennon: And Joe You love to stand out. So do you use the glow lot on your on your clothes.
piazzaj: Um,
piazzaj: I do, I will not. I mean, I use it.
piazzaj: To the appropriate amount I use it more. I think the more popular time for glow in the dark is usually like Halloween time the fall time
piazzaj: You know where people have been decorating like their candy bags or decorating things that go outside, while they're running around in it looks really cool. But for me, I just, I mean, it adds the effect
piazzaj: For anything. I mean, Catherine, you probably still have sleep overs with your friends and do that kind of stuff. Right. So you're you're one Z pajamas. You can put glow in the dark, and I'm sure you know you guys could have fun playing hide and seek, or whatever children do. Um,
piazzaj: So I'm going to switch
piazzaj: Over. I'm in corral now. Does everyone see corral
piazzaj: Am I in the right screen Catherine say
Kathryn Drennon: Hey, you're good.
piazzaj: Okay. Um, this is how I set it up so I'm just showing you guys a proofing process right now of what I like to do when I design and and send out proofs to people to get the approval.
piazzaj: So what I did first is I actually made sure I took a solid picture of my mask and I try to keep everything in proper proportion. So it's very important to do
piazzaj: You can absolutely use a cell, just a regular image you took from your phone uploaded in your software and then use that as a proof, if you'd like or what I did right next to it was
piazzaj: I drew it so I actually made a vector version of the mask in all I did was just trace it
piazzaj: And what I like to do again is me, make sure my proportions are correct. So what I did is I created a template that showed the actual length of what the mask is
piazzaj: And then I showed kind of the length of where I have to decorate and the width and the height so
piazzaj: To me, this helps me kind of find the area. I have to actually move my design in place it so
piazzaj: If you knew you're using these masks and you had a lot of customer base that wanted something different. You could keep that template and all you'd have to do is just bring your new artwork.
piazzaj: And just place it on to this area. So all I would do is just take what I like to do. First off is highlight all of that.
piazzaj: And what I do is I lock it down so I can't, if I touch it. I don't move it around.
piazzaj: Now, this is my design. So I drew this up. And this is a one solid piece I drew that. And as you can see I cut it to where this tiny little piece here is all going to be caught out
piazzaj: And this is going to be my glow in the dark. Now the color doesn't really matter. It can obviously be white, which it is, but I wanted to see it. So I kept it sort of a, you know, pretend glow.
piazzaj: And what I'm going to do is just size that down and find my placement. So this is kind of what I like to do and this is where I kind of began
piazzaj: Get an idea of the placement on to the mask and obviously people like me, I'm a little OCD. So of course, I like to make sure it's centered
piazzaj: But with the teeth of this design. This is where my mouth is going to be exact going to make any sense. Probably not.
piazzaj: So what I wanted to make sure is that the teeth were centered is possible as much as I could. And it kind of is cool because the rose kind is offset to the facemask
piazzaj: So it's enough to where it isn't going to go into the slits of the mask and I can press it and this is why I say it's important to keep the proportions.
piazzaj: As much as you can because up in the corner. It's going to tell me the size I need to keep my transfer here to go and send my cutter. So any questions on this.
Kathryn Drennon: So I, there is a question for you, not necessarily specifically on this, but um can you iron it onto a curved surface.
Kathryn Drennon: Does it need support under it, or does it have to be flat.
piazzaj: Um, you cannot turn it on to curved surface like a hat. But ideally you want to make sure that your surface or wherever you're applying is getting adequate pressure
piazzaj: So the very important thing is to make sure that the pressure is is even all the way across it. So like I said, like a cap, like the top of a hat obviously has that that boat.
piazzaj: A surface area. So they do make hat presses that you can use for something like that, which is a curved
piazzaj: Press. So if you use other things like if you wanted to decorate a football or basketball or the toll your shoe or
piazzaj: Things that have that curve to them. You can 100% use Caesar heat transfer vinyl on those surfaces. It's just about how you apply it.
piazzaj: So it really comes out. So if you use the home iron. You can use a home iron to use it there to kind of find that curvature. It's just very important to make sure that you're using the correct temperature and the correct pressure when you are applying
Kathryn Drennon: We've got another question for you. Do you have a template for the standard vented masks that are rectangular for crap.
piazzaj: And no, unfortunately, like I said what I just did in corral what I showed you guys, I just drew. So like I said, All I did is I took this mask blank and I took the full I just took my camera took a photo of the camera, or I mean of the mask and I
piazzaj: I'm going to bring you into the silhouette. I'll show you in the silhouette studio what I did there to, same, same thing, but
piazzaj: I took a photo and here we are in the studio for it. So for those that actually know this program, a little bit better.
piazzaj: So this image here, I took a picture of that then I just brought my jpg into my software. And then I actually just went in and I drew it
piazzaj: So I use my tools over here and my my pen tool or my drawing tool and I just drew the shape of it and I made this my proof.
piazzaj: So this portion of it is now my proof. So, in your case, for those that have, like I was saying.
piazzaj: People in here. We all have different kinds of masks, you're probably working with a ton of different styles on them.
piazzaj: So I would recommend you kind of do the same thing. I'm not sure if there are actual accurate templates out there for you to do that.
piazzaj: But this is what I recommend. Just take a photo draw it as accurately as you can. Or, like I said, you don't even need to draw you can use this. I mean, if you wanted to use us and bring your design on to the actual
piazzaj: Image of your mask and do what I showed you, by manipulating I'm just showing you kind of where I am. When I get kind of OCD about
piazzaj: Setting up my artwork properly and making sure that the dimensions are at their accurate size and all that stuff. So same thing in Illustrator.
piazzaj: What's cool is you do have these kind of straight line tools that you know, again, I use more corral in Illustrator. But when you use a tool like this.
piazzaj: As you can see, you can actually kind of measure out your dimensions.
piazzaj: So if you wanted to find out what the actual size is height wise you can obviously change the color up here. You can change the thickness. So you can see it a little bit better.
piazzaj: And as you can see when you look up at the top here, it's about five inches high end from the nose to the bottom and then if I went from one side to the other side and kept it by the ear slits. It's somewhere close to sorry I'm getting messages and stuff up here.
piazzaj: It's close to about eight inches across. So what I did right here with this line that's about eight inches area. And again, you can adjust by changing the different colors. Up here switchers your stem thicknesses.
piazzaj: And so that's kind of what helped me out when I need to know how much area. I have to decorate.
piazzaj: So this is just a little added part of this whole lesson for those that have businesses. And you do want to send out a proof before you actually go and do a job for customer
piazzaj: Is to create something like this and it's it's obviously something that you can make a bunch of different proofs and
piazzaj: Images and put them right up on your website and show people exactly the kind of stuff that you can do for them in terms of
piazzaj: Decoration and customization. So, that is, you know, just like corral. You can do this and illustrate are still at Studio.
piazzaj: And then lastly, this is another program that I'm slowly learning because someone mentioned it last time, and it's a really cool software, I must say every time I use it.
piazzaj: This is escape so escape is a free online platform that you can actually do a lot of different kind of drawing and manipulation and vector icing and everything I just basically showed you in both those programs and it's free, so
piazzaj: This was exactly like what I showed you before, and going through the same thing. They even have a ruler option up here where you can
piazzaj: Draw your length as well. The only thing that I guess I'm still learning, you have to change the units all the time from
piazzaj: It goes to pixels to inches and I can't really find where you can automatically change it, but this is essentially the exact same thing I always recommend doing that so
piazzaj: That is kind of what I wanted to talk about with the proofing end of it. Now I'm
piazzaj: Now we're going to get. Once we have our design. Good to go. We're sending it over to our vinyl cutter.
piazzaj: So now if you were in in silhouette studio for your silhouette, or if you're in the cricket design space, you notice, send it right over to your vinyl cutter.
piazzaj: I'm seeing the question about you'd have to flip as design before we cut it unless you're using something like spark Barry yes so
piazzaj: What that is referring to is printed heat transfer vinyl. So when you have printed heat transfer vinyl. You don't need to mirror your image.
piazzaj: That's because you're using a mass to lift it up to go into our go to apply it on your textile. In this case, we're not doing that. So with any of the Caesar heat transfer vinyls easy we'd
piazzaj: You actually need to mirror your image. So make sure when you go into your software that you do click the mirror button.
piazzaj: Or reverse button or however it's phrase before you send it to your vinyl cutter because you're actually going to be cutting
piazzaj: In reverse and I know you can't see it, but you're cutting on the doll side you're cutting mirrored
piazzaj: And then once you get that done. We're going to go into the weeding portion. Now, the question we get all the time. How do I know where to set up my vinyl cutter.
piazzaj: Before I do the cut again use that reference that comes in the tech sheet in that role of Michael's
piazzaj: Or at the Caesar, he transferred models from Michael's because, again, that app that we offer at Caesar has our recommended cuts settings on it for each product. So use that as a tool. If you need help.
piazzaj: Getting an idea where and those are of course ballpark. Right. So you just need to make sure your blades in good condition you're cutting strips in good condition before you do a cut and always do a task. Good. Does anyone have
Kathryn Drennon: Yeah. Got a question for you. Sorry. You know, I like to interrupt you. I'm Will you hold up that sheet again that comes on the Michaels roles and just kind of point out where
Kathryn Drennon: That that really good info is
piazzaj: So this is the tech sheet that comes around a role like this. So this is a role of Caesar easy we'd he transfer vinyl at St. Michael's when you take it out of the plastic in you unravel the she. This is a tech sheet that's going to come with it.
piazzaj: And I'm not sure if you can see it 100% I know the Texas small but it does have our instructions on application. It does have our recommended
piazzaj: Fabrics. We suggest using for the particular product. And again, these QR codes in the center here will link you right up to the Caesar app.
piazzaj: Which will have more information about our products and about whether you know recommendations application instructions and all that fun stuff. So if you have any questions on that for sure, let me know. Now I already have my piece cut, I already did that. Ready to go.
piazzaj: And again, if you aim. What's great about season product you can absolutely use a homeowner. I'm not going to use an old moon tonight because I didn't say tonight. We're in the afternoon.
piazzaj: I'm because I'm going to show this new thing that Katherine's going to get really mad at me about because Michaels is going to be carrying these very, very soon.
piazzaj: Very, very soon. But I have this awesome heat press that I'm going to be applying my mask with. And I'm going to just so we can see it here looking out beautiful
piazzaj: So this right here is a heat press Caesars that is going to be available at Michael's very, very soon. Not yet. Not yet, but I'm going to use it just to show you kind of how quick the application can be. Now I'm using this
piazzaj: It is a nine by 12 surface area. So it's ample space to do a full front and decorate an entire garment to do the design. I have on my shirt, all in one press um
piazzaj: I have my temperature setting already set up, up at the top. I don't know if camera to might be a better shot for it, but up at the top is where I have my
piazzaj: Temperature, which is I'm set the 305 degrees. The next is my time, which I have 15 seconds and then when you click it back. It's going to go back to the main
piazzaj: Screen, which is going to start heating up your press so I'm already. This is already turned on.
piazzaj: Now this is going to be the other benefit when you do have one of these prices in you're using our easy we bind. Is everyone on here is probably familiar with our weeding process, which is what I'm doing here and removing the excess material.
piazzaj: And what's awesome about our glow in the dark, just like our other easy weeds, is it does have a sticky carrier
piazzaj: So it does make it easier to weed and it also in case you do have any mistakes. It makes it easy and place it back down.
piazzaj: Now, huge benefit when you're working on a heat press and you're working with easy weed is you can actually speed up your weeding process and all that is, is why your heat presses on you just close it on that lower platen for a few seconds and it warms up that that surface area.
piazzaj: Once you do that, you could take your cut piece of easy reader easily glow like I'm doing here.
piazzaj: And then it makes your weaning process of this is working for you guys, but it makes it a million times easier just because that pressure sensitive backing.
piazzaj: You want to make sure
piazzaj: You don't have overly detailed, but I know this might be hard to pick up on this, but it is waiting so much easier as he have
piazzaj: Warmed up lower platen. Now this isn't my heating element that is so you want to be careful to make sure you're not touching that. Please, we've all made mistakes.
piazzaj: But this warms it up and allows the heat to kind of warm and loosen up your access pieces so me weeding. This is calling off so much easy easier than it typically would, hence the name but
piazzaj: Just want to be careful that you're cut pieces are good. You certainly don't want to
piazzaj: If you read this and you have a bad cut, then it's certainly going to be problematic because you're going to see a lot of lifting. But again, if you have lifting you can lay it back down. It is a sticky carrier. So there we go, we have our cup piece. It's good to go. Now,
piazzaj: Don't have to change anything here.
piazzaj: Because now we're going to actually do the application.
piazzaj: The one thing you do want to make sure when you you are you are using this press is that you do have your pressure set correctly, you want to make sure that you have to actually kind of apply force.
piazzaj: To close it. Sorry for the shake
piazzaj: But you do want to have that you do want to have that force when you're pushing down on it and it's going to pop up like that. So make sure you eat the Wheaties before you start working on any kind of thin fabrics because of thinner the product.
piazzaj: The more pressure, it requires so you certainly want to make sure you have flat even pressure when you're using this
So we're gonna decorate.
Kathryn Drennon: I was just given permission.
Kathryn Drennon: to divulge a little bit more on this.
Kathryn Drennon: Caesar, the press, and I can tell you that it will be available in stores in September. So that countdown is on
piazzaj: It's on sep tember
piazzaj: On for two
Yes.
piazzaj: Okay, so there you go. You just heard some brand new news. You guys are the first ones to hear it in this class. So you guys just got some awesome awesome information way cooler. Whatever, I'm showing. So, good job for stealing my thunder, Kevin.
piazzaj: Um, alright, so what I'm going to do is find my placement in this very elite basement of mine. And again, I want to make sure that the center
piazzaj: Has the T, right, because I don't want it to be offset.
piazzaj: So I want to line that up there and again because I did my testing and my measurements. I know that I'm perfectly lined up in the center to where the ear hole or the slit of the the ear placement is on this side. So now I know I'm good to go. And once this is on there. Well,
piazzaj: Recommend using a cover sheet. So if you have a piece of parchment paper. You can absolutely use that as a cover sheet. I'm using command stick
piazzaj: cover sheet right here. It doesn't matter what you're using, even if you're using a whole mind. Absolutely. You can use a teflon cover sheet if you have that. Or I'm sorry it put a piece of parchment paper. If you have that and then kind of do press for 10 seconds.
piazzaj: And what's great about the easy. We've line is it's a hot peel. So you don't need to wait around to that cools off boarding, I think.
piazzaj: Pretty sweet. I mean, I'm going to write this, right, because the experiment is now.
piazzaj: Remove this suicide. So good news there, right, we're all excited the heat press is going to be available not make that crazy bright, um, it's going to be available in September. So you can do exactly what I just showed you. Right there. Now I have an awesome customized face mask.
Know,
piazzaj: What do you guys see
piazzaj: Very cool.
Kathryn Drennon: So Joe, I have a pretty serious question for you.
Kathryn Drennon: When you
Kathryn Drennon: Designing that were you feeling creepy and romantic at the same time.
piazzaj: I yeah I tend to I tend to live off of that creepy and romantic. No, I think I just kind of, I was influenced by this mask that I've had for a while. And yeah, why not and you brighten it up, make it a little crafty by adding a rose to it.
piazzaj: So that was kind of something I whipped up. But the real test about this lesson. And again, I wanted this this reveal to be awesome and simple by me, not having to leave this area that I'm in
piazzaj: Because I wanted to actually show you guys the glow of the easy. We blown the dark. So what I'm going to try to do. And I just want to let you guys know that this is going to be a total experiment, just like these zoom classes of band.
piazzaj: I'm going to try to take you to somewhere that is going to get a little darker and show you guys live. This is probably going to get a little shaky because I'm going to take this other camera and we're going to go into this dungeon and hopefully get to see the glow in the dark.
Kathryn Drennon: So just so everyone knows Joe IS ABOUT TO TAKE YOU INTO HIS BASEMENT pantry wishes, where he keeps all of his horde of K cups. Yeah.
piazzaj: Lot of coffee. Okay you guys see this
Kathryn Drennon: Night here at worst worse than you walk and looking special yeah we see
piazzaj: Here we go.
piazzaj: What I gotta do.
piazzaj: I think
piazzaj: We're gonna try. I gotta charge it
Kathryn Drennon: While you're while you're charging it someone would like you to play the drums for them.
Okay.
piazzaj: So what I'm doing here because I guess this is the lesson because my my easy window in the dark has been sitting in the in the dark.
piazzaj: You actually do have to charge this. So really what the benefit, just let you guys know because this is a good talking point
piazzaj: Ideally, you want to charge it in the sunlight. So when you get outside and you wear this on your shirt or in your face mask on the sunlight is ideally the way to charge the glow in the dark. And what that's going to do is allow almost six hours of glow in the dark. If you spend like
piazzaj: I think seven or eight hours out in the sun, you will have an ideal charge. So what I'm doing here is I'm kind of tripping it out and just kind of letting these LED lights charge it up, which it does work that way, which you should be completely fine doing but ideally the sun is the best
Kathryn Drennon: Joe, how many charges like cannot hold. That's a weird way to
See
Kathryn Drennon: How proud are you right now channel.
Kathryn Drennon: I mean I as much as I hate to give you credit, Alex. Pretty cool, Joe.
piazzaj: And that's why
piazzaj: So that was a little trick right there and
piazzaj: Charting it with with the lights actually does help speed it up.
piazzaj: We did find
piazzaj: We did find with
piazzaj: Black lights and I don't know how popular black lights still are, but people that use black lights. You can absolutely charge them under
piazzaj: Are charged the glow in the dark under black lights and that will charge it right away. These LEDs will charge it but the best results is to be under sunlight. And as you saw just within holding this up to that light for 10 seconds. That's how much charge a guy.
piazzaj: For those that do use black lights still Catherine for your sleep overs, um,
Yeah.
piazzaj: These fluorescent colors of easy. We to these fluorescent colors which are
piazzaj: This role is not, but I've had a couple of Michael's rolls down here that have the fluorescent easy. We've if you if you have those under black light.
piazzaj: It's really cool. So that's another little fun project. If you ever wanted to try that out. Or if you had a, you know, something that you were doing like party wise for kids, whatnot.
piazzaj: With black light for sure the fluorescent easy weed colors and the glow in the dark, but
piazzaj: Glow in the dark for sure is one of the products that I think is underutilized. And I think this was a prime example of something awesome because
piazzaj: Again, if you're walking outside at night and you had a mask like that on it. Probably be kind of creepy, but, you know, of course, you could come up with your own fun things to do your own kinda designs I my rebuttal to a lot of people that have been kind of
piazzaj: I don't want to see negative, but kind of just not feeling the idea of decorating a mask and asking, why would you do that, um, you know, to a disposable mask, especially
piazzaj: Is. Listen, we have a lot of stuff coming up that we still want to go and celebrate and do stuff in a normal manner, like, you know, Mother's days coming up kids are going to be graduating soon, I'm sure you guys have kids that are graduating from school.
piazzaj: And birthdays and stuff like that. They're coming up that we still want to go outside and do stuff. So why not wear a mask and be safe about it but have a positive message to it.
piazzaj: Right and let that be part of your community and let that be part of your party. I mean, there's always ways of finding a positive out of all of this.
piazzaj: You know, negative. I guess that we've been dealing with. So, um, you know, that's kind of what I've been telling people, but I think a lot of people are finding really clever ways of decorating their masks and
piazzaj: Obviously, safety is most important. So we certainly Caesar wanted to clear the air and hopefully answer any questions you may have about
piazzaj: Or any apprehension, you may have about using Caesar products onto your mask and just to let you know, like I said in the beginning of the class.
piazzaj: All the products all the heat transfer vinyl from Caesar that Michaels carries his CPS is certified. So it is safe to put on a mask. Now the placement. That is one thing that I do want to kind of address briefly because
piazzaj: We're learning as we go along. And I know I am a course from Italy are on here right now and we've
piazzaj: Been trying our best to make sure our communication is is on par with each other and we did release a statement that Caesar earlier on, to say yes, you can absolutely decorate with Caesar. He trusts vinyl on your face mask but we're advising to not decorate near your nose and mouth area.
piazzaj: With our professionals and our laboratory at season North America or Caesar, Italy, rather we they have found that there actually isn't.
piazzaj: A negative to even having a transfer in front of your nose and mouth area.
piazzaj: So that we actually just recently came out retracted artist statement. We're learning, just like everybody else's and unfortunately in these times, everybody's learning something new every day so
piazzaj: We did go back and let people know that actually, if you wanted to put a placement with your Caesar, he transferred vinyl in front of your nose and mouth. That's okay. You still have the ability of breathing through the sides or above and below.
piazzaj: So I just wanted to make sure that any kind of questions or reluctant seeing apprehension are that were absolutely addressed.
piazzaj: That we do take this very seriously. I hope you guys are all taking seriously but it is a benefit of using the season products currently if you do want to decorate.
piazzaj: You do want to be cautious of all their styles of how you decorate.
piazzaj: You know, I'm not professional and in those areas, but you want to be cautious of some of the inks. If you are using screen print or if you're using other kind of ink transfers onto your mask.
piazzaj: It is important to make sure that you do question those manufacturers and you go and ask, is this, what is it, what is in this event you're able to do that, you know, any of that kind of stuff is very important to address. So I'm that
Kathryn Drennon: I've just, I've got to stop you.
Kathryn Drennon: I Cindy Q has her mask on right now and it's glow in the dark. And it's so cool.
piazzaj: Oh yeah, where is it can, can we put her in the front.
Kathryn Drennon: No, I'm just you.
piazzaj: Can I see it.
piazzaj: Yes.
piazzaj: That is awesome.
piazzaj: Good job, see that that's a that is that's thinking ahead so so that's exactly something you can do. Again, I'm just showing you just not even scratching the surface with the projects and stuff. I just went this design up
piazzaj: My last two classes with Michaels, the artwork that I did for those projects I did offer to all of you amazing people that are tuned in today.
piazzaj: For this class. And if any of you guys would like this design. I will happily hand it over to the people of Michael's to get to you.
piazzaj: Because, you know, I mean, it'd be awesome to see the artwork out there and seeing how you guys utilize that. But if not, it's cool. I get it. Maybe a little too scary for some but yeah the Stormtrooper one is very cool.
piazzaj: But yeah, if you guys. Any questions, any last minute questions on that this, this was kind of what I'd like to obviously address in what's currently going on.
piazzaj: Let guys know that the stuff you're reading all over the internets that may contradict what I'm saying. Absolutely.
piazzaj: Question, then where did they get their info come back to us like ask us at Caesar right like ask us their source on these things that they regard our products.
piazzaj: Michaels obviously has been a stellar provider of all of these things between the Caesar products, these masks amongst all the other craft things that people have been utilizing at this time.
piazzaj: To create their masks and help one another. So, you know, they're obviously a great source and where you want to go. If you're looking for it. And obviously, they're still
piazzaj: Online killing it with the orders through there, because the stores. There'll be there'll be opening soon. I mean, the hope is everything's opening up soon.
piazzaj: In a smart manner. And as you heard here the heat press is going to be available in September. So that is something to certainly look forward to
piazzaj: But thank you guys so much. And if you have any questions feel free Michaels does have the other classes that I did last two weeks on the website as well that website can be provided by Catherine
piazzaj: And you can go and link and check out what I did the last couple weeks and I have one more next week.
piazzaj: And I think the projects going to be along the lines of Mother's Day, because you mothers are amazing and we all owe our lives to our mothers.
piazzaj: So, you know, let's do something to acknowledge that and try to keep some positivity going I can't thank you guys so much. This means so much for you guys. Tune in and take the time out of your busy days.
piazzaj: I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Stay safe and hopefully I'll see you next weekend. Okay.
piazzaj: That cool Catherine, are you good
Kathryn Drennon: Yeah, so
Kathryn Drennon: Huge stage.
Kathryn Drennon: And thank you everyone again for joining. We so appreciate the time that you have shared with us today.
Kathryn Drennon: We know that you all have busy lives going on even in this crazy time. And like I said, we are here to make sure that we can keep you making and creating and just having fun and being happy.
Kathryn Drennon: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out to Michael's via social media Cesar via social media all Joe does all day long as as on social media and
Kathryn Drennon: We, we are here to help you. We want to help you and just do whatever we can to help you get through this crazy time, and even after it.
Kathryn Drennon: We have classes of virtual Michaels classes every single day. Please go take a look michaels.com slash online classes. I don't know if you can see me. But here's a sign this case you can understand me.
Kathryn Drennon: Ton of really, really awesome classes that you can sign up to take and Joe, of course, everyone's favorite wow creepy and romantic at the same time.
piazzaj: Well, of course.
Kathryn Drennon: Okay thank you Joe. I don't think we need to get into that.
Kathryn Drennon: Um, but, again, everyone, great questions. Great comments, Joe. Everyone loves you and you already know that. So just, I'm ready to get you off the screen. But thank you n and have an amazing weekend keep making reach out to us. We are here for you. And that is all. Thanks everyone.
piazzaj: Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Michaels, he said.
