The "Do it Yourself" DIY Shirt!

The "Do it Yourself" DIY Shirt!  So, my daughter (11) is a hilarious artist! She doodled this little guy on a paper... He's balding and yelling "do it yourself!" We thought it was hilarious and worthy of a DIY t-shirt! I scanned her art into photoshop and then traced all the lines on a new layer. It's just so hard to get clean/crisp lines from sketchy lines...so it was a little labor intensive.  Then I deleted the image and left my traced image.   Saved it off and imported it into Silhouette Studio. Then it's just as simple as tracing and selecting cut lines. (more silhouette details on this tutorial ) Now lay out the heat transfer material on the cutting mat. (I'm using flocked) Reverse the image if you have text (since it cuts from the backside) Then have it cut according to Silhouette directions. Weed the excess vinyl Place on shirt and cover with a tea towel and iron on high for a couple minutes. Once i...

Girafapegacorn--Turn Artwork into a Shirt!

 T-SHIRT WEEK! Giraffapegacorn! Turn Artwork into a Shirt!  My daughter is quite the imaginative artist! I went through some of her sketches and found the mythical Giraffapegacorn! It's part Giraffe, Pegasus, and Unicorn!   So I decided to turn it into a t-shirt for her!  Okay technical stuff. I scanned the image and imported it into Photoshop. I added a layer and traced the entire image with the brush tool. (I made a couple changes to help it translate better for vinyl) This way, it wouldn't be all pixelated. It could be imported into Silhouette Studio, but it would need some cleaning up. If you are ironing on text, reverse the image! Place the vinyl, plastic side down, on the cutting mat. Settings for flocked vinyl...knife depth of 3.  I used black flocked heat transfer vinyl and put it in the Silhouette Cameo. Then the excess is weeded out.  Removing all the inside parts too.   Gildan sent me some great T-shirt...