T-Shirt Transfer - Design Your Own T-Shirt
It's your daughter's fifth birthday, the party has been planned, the games all organized, the cake is pure gooey chocolate as your daughter likes it...but there is just one thing that's been worrying you. What to give as take-home gift? No kids' party is complete without a cool take-home gift. There is always the ever-popular lunch box you can give, or candy. But you want something that is unique and useful as a gift. Here is what you can do...have you heard of personalized T-Shirts? This is when you can customize T-Shirts with whatever you want. You can have T-Shirts with pictures on them, or you can have T-Shirts with some funky quotes on them, or you can get as creative and wild as you like.
With the advancement of technology and computer software programs, you can design your own T-Shirt with a T-Shirt Transfer technique. Its simple and fun, you just need to follow the guidelines and you can work your way to becoming a T-Shirt design expert. So whether it is designing T-Shirts for your kid's birthday or designing one for yourself, you can do it with ease and creativity.
Things You Will Need
- Iron and Iron stand
- T-Shirt in any bold color like White or Black (it is best to experiment with white and black and then move on to other colors)
- A Clear dry pillow cover
- A pack of crayons
- White paper
- Scissors
- Transfer paper (easily available in an arts and craft store)
Ok so now that you have all these things you are not ready to begin your process of designing your own T-Shirt. The steps are simple and quite easy to understand.
- Start by designing an image on the computer. You can do this by using any computer-generated images or download one from the Internet.
- Copy and paste the desired image on a blank document and resize it according to the screen and remember to stay within the borders of the page.
- You can also add text in the document this has a better impact. Pictures and text make for a great image on the T-Shirt.
- Choose the color of the font and image wisely keeping in mind the color of the T-Shirt.
- Grouping the picture and text together lets you move the picture into horizontal position for easy conversion into mirror image. Remember that it has to be a mirror image.
- Next you need to print the image in its mirrored form onto the transfer paper. Let the transfer paper dry completely.
- After drying, cute around the image leaving a quarter of an image border around the image.
- Heat the iron on the hottest setting and straighten out the area where you will be transferring the image. The best way to do this is to use the pillowcase, put it on the T-Shirt and iron on it to remove all wrinkles.
- Place the printed transfer sheet on the area where you want it to be printed. Iron on it for five minutes. Make sure you iron all over the image and not leave out the corners and edges. Use your strength and add weight and pressure to the iron.
- Remove the iron and let the T-Shirt cool off. Do not try to pull off the paper till it has completely cooled off.
- After ten minutes you can start peeling off the paper by pulling the paper with one hand and the T-Shirt from the other.
- And your T-Shirt is ready.
