First, I ordered tee shirt transfers (for light colored tees) from Amazon.com.
Then, I designed a graphic. This first one is for Ryan to wear on our honeymoon. I knew he'd be hesitant to wear a Disney themed tee shirt (although a big Disney fan, he's not into character tees, ok, fine...). So I decided to make a play off of one of his favorite tee shirts- it says "GAME ON". Yes, very geeky. What do you expect from a guy who worked at Apple. ;D I digress...so I used Illustrator to spell out "GAME OVER" in a pixellated font, and then pixellated a bride and groom outline, to make the retro-video game feel. (Yes we are both retro-gaming geeks too.)
After designing the graphic, you need to reverse the image. This is easily done if you have graphic design software. If not, reverse image or flip inage is often an option in your advanced print setting.
Once the image is reversed, it's time to print. I used my cheapy color photo printer, and it looks pretty darn good!
Now, the last part was the scariest for me- the ironing. I enlisted my Mom's help on this one. We ironed the tee shirt flat first, then carefully lined up the transfer in the center of the tee. Mom ironed away for like 3 or 4 minutes. Then, we peeled it back..
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