A place to BE HAPPY!...: Wearable Art (T-shirts)

Monday, July 13, 2009

Wearable Art (T-shirts)

I've just started using my heat transfer (iron-on) vinyl. LOOOOOOOVE IT!!! I get my vinyl at H&H sign supply. I've used several of their brands of heat transfer vinyl and they are all good. On both t-shirts I used SCAL to make the design. I created the shadow in SCAL as well. I double layered the vinyl ironing on one color at a time. The top color doesn't need as much time as the bottom color. I'm very happy with them. I also found some great embellishments and just glued them on with fabric glue (My all time favorite is Alene's Fabric Fusion). Click picture for a better view.

3 comments:

Greta said...: Love all of your ideas - found you on the Cricut message board. New to all of this - can you fill me in on SCAL?; July 13, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm in love with your shirts-can you plese tell me which vinyl you order from H & H-there are so many-I want to make sure I get the right kind...
Thanks!
Lynn
lynnsol@verizon.net; August 6, 2009 at 4:32 PM
SunnyNP said...: Hi! Just found your blog and love your designs! Can you tell me where you found the flip-flop svg? (PS...OC new jersey or maryland?....I live near OC MD!)
I'm definately going to add you to my google reader!; August 11, 2009 at 9:41 AM

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Have SCAL2? Trace any image with these easy steps...really it's easy!

Images with little detail work the best - images in silhouette form, just black on white.

1. download a picture on your computer - usually if you see an image you can right click right on top of the image with your mouse, and then choose "save" or "save as" rename it if necessary - you can find images on blogs (my blog here too), websites, all over. Put it in a folder on your computer where you can remember. The image should be in the form of a .jpg or .bmp. I have a separate folder for scal files (and then I categorize my images by category)...

2. open scal 2 (this only works in scal2, don't have scal2? click on the link below to get it...)

3. click on the tree symbol (looks like an apple tree) a the top of the screen

4. it will bring up a search box, now find the file you saved, by clicking BROWSE.

5. once you click it and click OK , it will appear right on the scal screen, you can size and change it as needed.

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Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and DO GOOD.
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"What would you do if you knew you would not fail?"
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