Love Bug Shirt

This is what I made for the Wonderkid to wear to school today.  I thought he needed a new shirt for Valentines Day.  I partially chose this because one of his teachers refers to him as a love bug.  The bug and the words "love bug" come from Simply Charmed cart.  The "I'm a" is Mickey Font.  Using Design Studio I added the heart to the "o" on "love" instead of the smiley face from the cart.

I used four colors of heat transfer vinyl (htv).  I use my regular iron but I iron it on my washing machine as opposed to an ironing board.  I've heard other people say they used a cookie sheet, I think that is likely to work also.  I also use a small sheet of teflon to make sure it gets good and hot. 

Here is a close-up of the shirt. It is tought to tell in these pictures but the lettering is pink and the heart is pink.  It looks pretty cool in person, a little washed out in this picture, though.

What do you think? Is this fun or what?

Just a couple more t-shirts

I have a couple more t-shirts for you today and then, I think I'll take a break from the t-shirts for a while.

These t-shirts continue on the theme of personalized shirts.

The Wonderkid is in love with fire engines.  On a daily basis he informs me that he wants to be a fireman when he grows up.  So, I made him this shirt.

You can find these letters on Cuttin' Up.  The fire truck comes from Everyday Paperdolls.  Everyday Paperdolls is good for shirts and other vinyl pieces because it is fairly basic.  There aren't a lot of details and cuts that are tough to do in vinyl.  Any of the designs that require slits for details are not good for vinyl and I normally end up using hide contour to get rid of them.

The other set of shirts I want to share today were mailed off to a former pastor in Moma's church.  The pastor (Pastor Kristin) recently gave birth to her third child.  When Moma and I went off to find a present for the baby we just couldn't find what we wanted (little girl clothes are tough when you aren't a fan of pink, frills and flowers).  After a bit of searching, Moma says, "You could make something, couldn't you?".  I agreed and this is the design.

We made one for each of the kids.  The oldest, a boy, gets the gray one but if it survives him his sisters could easily wear it in the future.

Here is a close-up of the shirts.

It still looks plenty girly.

This is one of those times when I used Sure Cuts A Lot or SCAL.  On the message boards you will see folks referring to "the other program".  This is made using one of the other programs.  The name of the font is ... Kristin.  It is a great font for kids, almost as good as Mickey and Pooh font.  I ended up using the shadow function in SCAL so it would be a bit thicker and cut nicely.

I believe these shirts prove my belief that folks won't realize you designed and made them at home.  I'm fairly certain Pastor Kristin believes they were bought.  She has planned out when the kids will be wearing the shirts for the first time.  I can't wait to see pictures.