Cute Ghost Laser Cut UV Print Tutorial

Getting these pocket ghosts to come out right was quite the process. First you need to find your art and make sure it's okay to use it commercially if you plan to sell the products you make with it. We found these cute ghosts on Canva and then found the corresponding files on Etsy and purchased the download that allows us to use it commercially.

The first step is to put your files into the EufyMake  software. The program is pretty forgiving, accepting many file types. We used jpegs.

To get the see-through ghost effect, we used clear 1/8" acrylic. Put the clear acrylic on the print bed, masked side down. It will make it easier to cut the ghosts out later if you don't remove the masking from the back of the acrylic at this stage.

Since you will be printing on the back of the acrylic, you'll want to put your color layer down first, and then the white layers. Here are our settings.

After these have printed, move the acrylic sheet to your laser bed. We used our XTool P3 laser which is great for cutting acrylic. 

You'll need to import the same picture files into the XTool software that you did into the EufyMake program. Once those are on your screen, offset each ghost so you have an outline. Set the outline to cut.

You can either delete your colored ghost jpegs or set them so that they are not printed.

Your laser will take a snapshot of the acrylic you have put inside. Align your cutouts with the pictures of the ghosts you printed. This is the tricky part. You'll have to eyeball it. They don't need to be perfect, but you don't want to lose any of your printed ghosts either. You can see some of the ghosts below weren't aligned just right.

For our laser and the acrylic we chose, we set the power to 80% and the speed to 10 mm/s. It cut straight through, no problems.

Pull your cuts out of the laser and peel the backing off and you'll have your ghosts all ready to put magnets on or to just have in your pocket for safe keeping. Let us know if you have any questions.

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How to Make Colored Laser Burned Door Hangers

We thought we'd add some pizazz to our door hangers with a little color. It takes longer than a simple laser burned one, but the effect is good.

First we covered 1/8 inch bass wood with masking tape, making sure it was well secured. Following that, we burned the design through the masking tape.

The next step is to weed out the parts of the design you want to be in color. This might take some trial and error.

Next, lightly spray your wood with the desired color. You could also do a first coat of clear spray poly to help with any seepage problems. For crisp lines, make sure to do light layers of paint. To get the desired darkness, you can spray two or three times, allowing the paint to dry between coats. Again, trial and error is your friend here.

We had some paint seepage on our first tries, but we finally ended up with a product we liked. And then we experimented with different colors and designs. Comment below if you end up trying this or have any questions.