Creating great projects from digital products is easy! For example, my daughter’s birthday party was last week and we did an underwater theme. So my gift to all the little guests were mermaid shirts with matching hair color for each girl. My daughter wanted to be an octopus, so I simply ironed-on an octopus illustration I made onto the simple costume I created for her (to see how to make the octopus costume, please visit my blog).
So here’s how I created this cute little gift idea.
1. I bought a package of Dark T-shirt transfers and a few t-shirts in blue and dark pink. I picked them all up at Target but many places would have these goods.
2. Choose an illustration from your favorite digital kit…stickers work best because they are png (no background). I used my Tiny Mermaid line for this project.
3. Print your illustration onto your Transfer Sheet (follow the instructions from the back of tha package.). I just used my inkjet printer at home and bought inkjet transfers. If you want to maximize space, create a 8.5″ x 11″ document in Photoshop and place several stickers to cut out.
4. Cut out your printed transfer VERY CAREFULLY. Because it is on a dark T-shirt, you will want to cut out all the white and get as close to the edge of your design. For example, on the octopus sticker, I had to cut out a couple of the legs seperately because they were seperate from the body and I didn’t want white to show up between the legs.
4. Follow your transfer paper instructions to iron on the design to the t-shirt. For mine, I laid down a pillow case on a hard surface and laid a sheet of paper (provided by the iron-on packet I bought) down over the t-shirt and ironed for 1-2 minutes.
And that’s it! I great project that my children adore and made Siri’s party special.
SO CUTE! I’m totally going to do this!
June Taylor makes a transfer called Soft n ??? that doesn’t require you to cut the white out. It’s clear instead. Works well. It is for Dark fabrics as well.
Sheryl
I’m going to make my niece some onesies using your tut and Sheryl’s (above) suggestion of the SuperSoft Inkjet paper.
Thanks.
Hope you don’t mind, I linked your tut over at ScrappersOnline in their Hybrid Section.
http://www.scrappersonline.com/forums/showthread.php?466-How-to-create-custom-T-shirts-with-your-digital-kits&p=1497
I’ve used Avery dark T-shirt transfer paper…I found that if you use the recommended heat setting the color can bleed through but lowering the temp and ironing a little longer works without the color bleed. Just check the edge carefully and don’t remove the backing paper until the design is well attached. The stretchable variety does stretch but it crackles. Good for a shabby chic look…it’s not as good for details like text though. HTH!