| artist, selling something he or she has made is really | | | | text along with the image. If you are doing this with |
| gratifying. As many of them admit, it's one thing to | | | | your kids, a clever idea is to print your child's favorite |
| get feedback from people they know, but there is | | | | picture or phrase and let them select the type of |
| something about a complete stranger liking their art | | | | colors they want to illustrate their T-shirt's theme. |
| piece, design, song, painting, or idea, so much that | | | | The phrase "Best Friends," for instance, can be |
| they actually decide to pay money to acquire it. But | | | | placed above the picture itself, or be placed one |
| today's software programs and easy-to-do | | | | upon the other so as to create a more "personal" |
| techniques can turn anyone to a T-shirt designer. By | | | | effect. Be careful of the coloring you will use for the |
| following simple guidelines you can increase your skills | | | | phrase as you do want it to be visible when you |
| to that of an T-shirt printing expert, given the fact | | | | print it. Group the image and wording together so |
| that you have never worked at a T-shirt printing | | | | you can move them at the same time and then flip |
| company. From creating your environmental | | | | your grouped images horizontal in order to create a |
| organization's theme T-shirt while cleaning your local | | | | mirror image that will appear correctly when ironed |
| park to adding a new garment for your kids' soccer | | | | onto the T-shirt. |
| match next weekend, making your own T-shirt can | | | | Then it is time for the actual transfer. Print the |
| be an exciting and genuinely artistic experience for | | | | design you have just created onto the transfer |
| everyone involved. | | | | paper. Leave the transfer paper somewhere safely |
| You hear other people say it is an easy and fun thing | | | | to dry completely; it is best to follow the |
| to do for a special event, but you lack the | | | | specifications of the paper's manufacturer. After your |
| confidence needed to pull this off. Well, it is time to | | | | image dries, you can cut with the scissors any |
| stop thinking that you are incapable of exploring this | | | | excess paper living a thin ¼-inch margin around the |
| type of artistic expression as customizing your | | | | printed area. Preheat the iron to the hottest setting |
| clothes can be really fun as well as extremely simple; | | | | and prepare the surface you will use to press your |
| even if you mess up the first time there is always | | | | design onto the T-shirt. First, place a pillowcase on |
| room for improvement. All you will need are some | | | | the surface and iron it so as to eliminate any existing |
| regular household supplies, like an iron and an iron | | | | wrinkles. Then place your T-shirt on top the |
| board, a white or lightly colored T-shirt, a clear dry | | | | pillowcase and iron it as well. Put the printed transfer |
| pillowcase, your choice of crayons, some pieces of | | | | paper onto the surface of the T-shirt you want it to |
| white paper, a pair of scissors, and some transfer | | | | appear and iron it for at least 2-3 minutes. Move the |
| printing paper which you can purchase from your local | | | | iron from the corners to the center and be sure to |
| craft store. | | | | press it with at least 50 pounds of pressure. Then let |
| You may begin by designing your own image using | | | | your T-shirt cool down before attempting to remove |
| any of the software programs in your computer's | | | | the paper from its surface. Ten minutes later you |
| memory, or you can choose from a vast variety of | | | | can remove the paper by holding the T-shirt with |
| ready-to-use designs stored in the image bank of the | | | | one hand and peeling the paper from any of its |
| software you select to use. Insert by copying and | | | | corners with the other. It's that simple! So, try this |
| pasting the images you want to print into a blank | | | | easy-to-do T-shirt printing project next time you |
| page document and resize the icon so it fits the | | | | want to surprise someone with a thoughtful gift and |
| screen and it does not cross the boarders of your | | | | I am sure the outcome of your efforts will astonish |
| document's ruler. For greater impact, you can add | | | | you. |