Beginner needs advice please!

[Goofy4Disney]

We're wanting to make t-shirts by transferring our favorite characters onto them. We've never had any experience with this and had a few questions:
*Do the colors on the transfer determine the color of t-shirt needed?
*Is there a particular type of transfer paper you'd recommend?
*If we'd like a larger design on our shirt (bigger than the transfer paper) is there a way to do so?

Could any of you veterans give us some helpful tips? As I said, we've never done this before, so thanks in advance for any and all advice!

 

[sconnell]

Here is the "Queen's" t-shirt tip thread. It answers most of your questions. sorry, I'm not much help myself.
http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=941186

 

[julia & nicks mom]

that link does answer most of your questions

as to if you can have something larger than the paper - you can get paper as large as 11x17 - you would need to find somewhere to print it - maybe call Kinkos and see how large they can print it

be careful though - a lot of designers including myself - make their designs 8.5 x 11 and if you enlarge them much beyond that - they may get blurry

 

[Goofy4Disney]

Thanks. I bought the t-shirts today and will probably read this a million times over before actually giving it a try. I keep thinking to myself that this can't be as hard as I'm making it out to be!