Yay! The LOML went to the techie store last night and found a card reader that would work - I spent over an hour downloading pictures of new projects that I've been working on for the past week! And I'm so excited to do my first tutorial - it's using my Silhouette SD, Heat-Transfer Material and baby clothes!
{Fun and Easy Little Miss Shirts}
First, I washed 2 little shirts that I found at Walmart. I wasn't sure what I wanted to put on them, but I knew that it would be a solid shape from the Silhouette Store, so I went with stripes. These are $2.00 a piece, Faded Glory Organic Onsies in a 3-6 month and 12-18 month size.
I measured each of the shirts from arm pit to arm pit to see how big I wanted my image, I then found the images on my Silhouette and adjusted each to be the size I wanted - I didn't take any pictures of this - I will next time (this is a learning process for me!). For the wiener dog, I adjusted it to the size I wanted and was done. The librarian glasses took a little more work. I found the glasses images and sized that, but I knew that I wanted a chain for them (I debated doing pearl buttons, but kept thinking about choking hazards...), so I used the circle drawing tool on the software and made a "String of pearls" going from one arm of the glasses. I then highlighted the circles and clicked on the "Meld" button, which connected them. I wanted the exact same string for the other side of the glasses, so I highlighted them, made a copy and also mirrored the image so the slight bend in the string would be going the other direction. I moved it to the other arm and then highlighted the WHOLE image; glasses and both strings of pearls. I then clicked my "Meld" button again and everything attached and became one image! Super cool!
I then fed my Heat Transfer Material (from Silhouette) into my Silhouette and let it work it's magic. Once it was all cut, I weeded off the material that I didn't want to iron onto the shirts.
{Weeding images}
Here's my wiener dog image and part of my glasses image.
{Placed glasses, waiting for ironing}
{Placed Wiener Doggie, waiting for iron}
You then place your images down onto the surface that you want to iron them onto. Once you have it placed where you want, you'll need to cover it with a light towel (I used a cotton dish towel), and press down with your iron (I set mine to the high heat cotton setting or even linen!) for about 40 seconds - no steam. If your image is large you'll have to do this step several times to make sure you heat up the whole image!
{Ironing on Heat Transfer Material}
When I think my image should be good and stuck on, I try lifting a corner of my plastic covering from the transferred image. If it starts to pull off easily and the image sticks to the shirt then I keep pulling. IF the image starts to pull from the shirt as well, then I quickly put it back down and repeat the iron step.
{Pulling back the clear sheet from the image. Cross your fingers for a quick and easy pull!}
Since I'm a little anal, I always iron over the image once the clear film is all the way off - just to keep my mind at ease.
And here they are! We have 2 fun and original shirts - my favorite is The Librarian shirt - it's kinda Gleeful - which I am a huge fan of!
Well, that my first tutorial! I think that I can do better next time, I'll definitely show all the steps in setting up the images with the Silhouette software...
See you later - and don't forget to check out the Design Team Call from
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Andrea
