Make a shirt for Disney!

Last night I got to try my first iron on cricut project. Katie made sure to have Disney shirts for the whole family for each day of our vacation but overlooked her own wardrobe! So naturally I saw this as the perfect time to make one using our Cricut.

I looked around on the internet and watched a few videos on the basics and after I was confident I could do it we went to Walmart and got the supplies. Katie was able to find a shirt she liked for only about $4. We found the Cricut material we wanted also. Walmart does have some vinyl available but is much more limited than Micheals or Joann Fabric's, they have some basic things and they are much cheaper.  

There aren't alot of steps to doing this but there are a few things you need to know. The biggest thing is how to stick your vinyl to the mat. The iron on vinyl is put on the mat upside down. It holds your design together on the backing for an easy transfer. The other major thing to know is you want to mirror your design, because we are turning it upside down if we were to print normally then when we put it on our shirt it would be backwards. Other than those things it was pretty straight forward. Put it where you want it, get it hot, LET IT COOL, peel it off. The nice thing about this compared to the old way of iron on images like I did as a kid is , the backing is clear so you can see where you are going to put it really well. 

This blog is just something fun to do and a way for me to stay creative. I find it interesting how I can mess around with the editing part and on each video, find another way to do something. I try to improve every time and sometimes it gets worse but I cant tell you how much I enjoy doing it. So keep checking in as I hopefully get better at doing these and thanks for stopping by! 

Dan.