Easy Money-Making: Laser Cut Night Light Tutorial with xTool Creative Space

we just made these cute little laser cut night lights and we'll show you how to do it right now what is up welcome back do you like to do it build or make it so do we we have new videos each week one of our patrons found these cute little Night Lights somewhere on the internet and sent us a request for us to make them and show her how we would make them now she does not have Adobe Illustrator and we're always trying to show different ways that you can use the different software products so you can use light bur you can use Adobe Illustrator to do some of your designs we're going to use our X tool S1 and we're going to use x tool creative space the whole project can be created in Creative space step one we're going to gather all of our supplies we needed some 8 in Birch and we needed some 8 in acrylic and then I needed some cardboard for a test cut we're also going to use some of the starbon thick for glue as we assemble the project we're going to use our foxy Hues paints uh and I think we're going to use a little stain I think we're going to do a couple of different versions of these of course we need our NightLight bases we got a little bulk pack of these and I'll tell you about these later and then we're going to be using these LED light bulbs step two we're going to make our design and we're going to do it all in Creative space we'll meet you there here we are an X tool creative space I'm going to import our PNG and you can see we've chosen a selection of succulents I thought this was a great versatile little project but with these Night Lights you could really use any clip art could be stuff for a kids room bathroom I was thinking kitchen with these let's Trace our PNG so we can cut it out once we click on it our little image tools will come up we're just going to click Trace I'm going to leave all these defaults it looks fine and click save now I have a vector version of this PNG up here and I no longer need this PNG we can delete it let's ungroup these guys so we can start to manipulate them now this piece is going to be our front piece or a little frame to our NightLight and then we want an acrylic backer to this like a solid acrylic backer now if we make an outline and we set it to zero zero zero just type zero you'll notice that it traces everything everything got traced I I can't use this I can't ungroup this there's nothing I can do with it now Quick Trick is I'm going to outline it but I'm going to leave it like 01 and I'm going to unclick add inner outline for bit map unclick that okay now I have just the outline but it's just slightly too big so so I'm going to outline it one more time but this time negative 01 now this should be the exact size of my little Cactus up top there you go there's my little acrylic backer but Kim wants to use two different colors for this backer I want the tops to be a different color than the pots so I want the cactus to be in green the pots to be in a color so let's line this up I'm going to need to cut this in half so let's line this up so I can find a good spot where I can cut it in half so I can see it let's move this to the red layer now it stands out a little against the black I'm going to align them both vertically and horizontally there you go now it should be all lined up I'm going to draw a box around the top of this Cactus I'm going to try to hit it right at the top of the pot right so I'll cut it right in here right in the meat of this pot right on the lip all right I think that'll be a good split so I'm going to grab both the cactus and the box I can drag them down here now and I'm going to make a copy crl C and then a paste crl V one of these one of these is going to be the top one's going to be the bottom right I'm going to grab both of these come up to combine and then I'm going to click subtract front now I just have my pot I'm going to grab both of these go up to combine and I'm going to do unite at overlap now I just have the cactus there we go there's my two different color bases and if I line them up they should fit perfectly we'll go ahead and align them horizontally see what it looks like all right this looks great I think the pot and the cactus line up perfectly my little frame now I have to do this about four more times over here so let's do the rest of this in fast forward but while we're watching if you're enjoying this type of content join us over on patreon where we're always sharing additional design tips and tricks folks ask for questions and Garrett will put little videos out there not only for xtool Creative space but also light burn and add illustrator he shares that kind of information on patreon as well as our Discord Channel step three we're going to make all of our Cuts we're going to take the 8 in Birch and the acrylic over to the X tool S1 and cut them out but before I do that I want to check to make sure our Design Line width won't just burn up so we're going to cut it out and cardboard so that we don't waste any of the materials that's a great little tip you can do a test cut in cardboard it's cheap you have it laying around with all those Amazon boxes you could do a quick test cut to make sure it seems like it's going to hold like he said maybe not burn up if the lines looking a little thin so it's a great option to do a test cut our cardboard test came out great the line thickness looks great I mean they look perfect I want to do something with these what can I do with these it's just cardboard but I hate to waste them they look awesome they do look great so now we're going to take the real materials back to the S1 and cut out our design all right we're ready to cut out our top pieces our little frame pieces so we need to move these guys off of our canvas and we'll move our little frame pieces down now let's pick our material let's see what materials they have we'll go to more we have some 3 mm Birch we'll say Pine plywood that works use I'm going to select all of these I'm going to make them cut I'm going to go with 100% power 12 mm/ second that's what it suggests Kim is going to move the laser head to the middle of the board and then we're going to measure the distance or check the thickness this is automatic it'll come down drop a pin check it and tell us what our ual thicknesses all right let's frame this out Kim's back there Manning the framing everything looks good let's process this and hit start the wood pieces look great now let's do our acrylic so we'll move these frame pieces off of our canvas we move them up top and we'll start dragging on some pieces that we want cut out of acrylic I think we'll start with these two pieces and we'll do that light green the light green acrylic so let me go pick my materials let's see what they got let's check 3 mm let's check green nope let's try 3 mm I only see orange and black I think we'll try orange we think I don't know I don't know this I'm a little concerned because this one is considered translucent but let's give it a try I mean it doesn't look it's not super translucent just a little bit just a little bit so let's frame this out and try it all right looks good let's process this and hit start our Birch shapes came out beautifully they cut perfectly first try the acrylic is a different story now I knew the S1 won't cut clear acrylic it is a diode laser but I really thought it would cut this uh transparent acrylic because it does have some color to it and it's covered on both sides in paper so I thought there was a good chance I was wrong but the the challenge with the transparent acrylic is it still cannot focus on the material once it goes through and hits the paper it comes through the clear and it just won't focus and therefore it just the laser beam is too wide it makes a mess it just melts the acrylic just melted the back blew out the paper didn't cut through all the way but I think I can save it I think I can take this over to the P2 line it up and cut it out and then we'll cut out the rest of the acrylic and we don't leave want to leave you thinking that it won't cut acrylic at all we have tested the diode laser on red acrylic um it's just opaque acrylic it has to be completely um opaque where you cannot see through it so all the acrylic we're using for this project will be transparent so we are going to move over to the CO2 laser so let's try this again I'm not giving up we're going to move to the P2 and uh see if we can get through this acrylic so I'm going to switch my laser clicking this and then over here on the left I can switch my device I'm going to Wi-Fi all of our xtool products are Wi-Fi of course it's going to change my settings we're going to pick our materials let's go to more let's see what they got in acrylic there's a lot more choices here a lot more we'll pick uh we'll just say 3 mm transparent acrylic I'll see if I can line these up so that I don't waste this acrylic and to do that I'm going to go up to my close capture View here s right here really use the features of the P2 mhm I just going to take a little snapshot now I can zoom in and line these little cut lines right up on what was already there let's try to save this no acrylic Left Behind well it's not cheap don't want to waste it no I'm not wasting this stuff I'm getting it out of here all right what do you think I mean it looks awesome all right let's uh go ahead and say cut it's telling me that it's 100% power 20 mm/ second I'm going to leave it I I trust it trying to turn this close caption view off how do I how it turn all right forget it let's just uh process this thing process and start step four now we paint we're going to use our foxy Hughes paints so actually I'm going to stain two of these and then I'm GNA paint three of them so we can see different options and I did go back to the S1 with some transparent red and some opaque black and I was able to cut one of mine out oh so that is transparent red not opaque red it's said transparent red but it's pretty opaque all right so that tells you it just needs to not be see through you just don't want that light really to pass through very much step five it's time to bring it all together with some Star Bomb thick we're just going to put some dots on the frame and then put the acrylic on top of it well I think we have varying techniques I'm going to put some dots on the frame and then lay it on the acrylic oh okay well we'll see which one works better yeah we'll we'll give you we'll report back [Music] now that we have our little frames on our little acrylic pieces we're going to glue the little tabs on that will allow us to slide it onto the light socket doing it Garrett's way allows you to immediately put that back on like I don't want to turn mine over until it's a little drier [Music] Pro tip don't use so much glue on the acrylic pieces fits I try to use I mean I see you have the you're it's probably more micro than Mine mine's microed out step six profit yeah these were pretty easy to make and I forget how much we were in on them well I can tell you so for the actual NightLight plug piece it was about and the bulbs were about $2.20 uh for that piece of it and then for the uh Birch and the acrylic I would say we were in what did I say about $3 so I think you're looking between $5 and $6 uh in materials and I think that you could sell these for 16 to $25 depending upon how much uh how intricate they are right and then Garrett are you going to take your put mine in mhm put mine in so Garrett is two- layer acrylic and I think you could charge a little bit more for two layers of acrylic cuz it just looks a little bit crisper just oh I like that one I don't know I don't know I think these look great and so what I tried to show here is that these are a little bit uh more more on geared towards adults like a great kitchen night light but of course there's so many different things you can do with these you can personalize them they can be in kids rooms they can be in bedrooms bathrooms garages yeah like yeah they could be in a man cave you could do something cool with like a custom car I think there's so many different ideas that for these and thanks ingred for the great idea I think this is a great project to share with everybody and a big thanks to all of our other patrons we love you guys and that is the best way to support this channel so join us over on patreon where we have all of our cut files our secret Facebook group and now Discord channel so many other things there's a whole Community out there extra content extra videos come join us over on patreon and these things are no no oh it's happening oh it happen oh my go I'm about out of time so I will see you next week where we'll do it build it and make it again