Friday, May 15, 2015

DIY "Happy Camper" T-shirts

After we came across a baseball t-shirt that had "happy camper" on the front I knew we both needed one.
Neither of us were willing to spend $30 on a t-shirt that we could make ourselves with a little help from Brittney's Cricut and both of our creative skills. While browsing Pinterest for some idea on just how to make these t-shirts, I had come a cross a great tutorial on how to use iron-on vinyl for your Cricut here. The instructions are pretty easy to follow if you know how to work one.

I had found some cheap regular old baseball tees online here. They came in the mail really quick and got here in about 3 days.
 
Brittney had also found some iron on vinyl here that got here about a day after the shirts did.

First, we washed them in cold, dried them half way, and hung them up to dry the rest of the way. We didn't want them to shrink after the vinyl was on so we dried them only a little bit.
Next, once they were dry we designed a shirt on her computer. We had to cut the flame and the letters in 2 different steps because they were 2 different colors on the computer and the flame wouldn't change to black.
Then, when it was cut we had to take all the little letters off. We could have left it on the plastic but decided to take it off for the time being while we redesigned it on to the shirt.
Finally, once it was on the shirt, we put the plastic over it and ironed it. We had to iron it pretty extensively to make sure the letters really stuck. It turned out great. We waited for it to cool before removing the plastic. (The picture is with the plastic still on.)


We left to go get the camper we had looked at on Tuesday. (Pictures coming soon.)
We won't have enough vinyl for the back but once we get more we are putting "Wanderlust" where a last name would be put and the number "72" for the year of the camper.


We only had time to iron on one but it turned out amazing and I can't wait to wear them!

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