Business in a Box

Business in a Box


Thank You, Conde, Sublimation Summit and Cheryl Kuchek 

I received this box by mail the other day, and now I am well on my way to a home-based business. The Sawgrass 500 Printer that came to my home is a game-changer. It's a sublimation printer. 

What is sublimation? SUBLIMATION is a process which enables people to personalize all kinds of items in a permanent way. The sublimation ink that prints from that specialized printer is printed onto transfer paper. When the transfer paper has heat applied to it, while it is placed over a specially treated item (if it isn't 100% polyester, which takes the ink/heat with no problem), a substrate (hard or soft), the ink (picture, text) is changed to a gas and permanently attached to the substrate. Not on it, but imbedded in it.

This is the second sublimation printer that came my way through Cheryl Kuchek's Sublimation Summit. The first one I won at the end of September, last year (2019) was an iColor350.

By October, I had made many items. Here's a glimpse: 


I made mugs and coasters for my mother's 90th birthday celebration. I practiced and gave away many other items along the way. Based on the teaching I had received at the Sublimation Summit in Peachtree City, GA, in a class by David Gross from Conde, I got 2 yards of 100% polyester, and I practiced. That was until I got a $100 sample package from Conde, to practice. Something I had been advised to do in David's basic class on sublimation. 

From that, I was able to do this:

And a whole lot more....

Fast forward until now, I have the SG500 and what I'm going to do is embark upon a journey that entails growing a business from scratch, and sharing what I do and how I do what I do, online. I'll start at the very beginning. Full disclosure. 







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