Making matching shirts for our family

[snyderla]

Does anyone have ideas on how a non-crafty person can make T-shirts for her families upcoming trip? I do scrapbooking, but otherwise I'm not very handy. I know someone who has a T-shirt making business, but I was wondering what I might be able to do myself. My friend does embroidery type with a machine & has some Disney licensed patterns for that, but she also does screen print...with no Disney licensing. Screen print would be less money, and since I need 14-16 shirts I want to save what I can. So far I know (I think) I'd like them to say: Magical Family Gathering/Walt Disney World/September 2005. If we go with screen printing, I don't know what to have for a picture on them. All but 3 or 4 of us will be 18 or older, plus a 2, 3, 4 and maybe 10 year old (not that it really matters). I would like to have the shirts be red, so they will stand out when we all wear them to MK. I have a lot of photo's of WDW from previous trips...is there any way to use them on T-shirts??? I really know nothing about this type of craft.

Thanks for any help...

Lori

 

[goofymom/pop]

They sell iron on transfers that you print right from your computer. The instructions should come with the transfer paper. Do you use digital photography or have software on your computer for it? If so you can upload a photo from a CD or one of your photo files, add the text to it, print it out and then just iron it on your own tshirts. I dont know if they will show up on red but I know it works well on white. My Aunt made a couple family reunion shirts this way last year and they were awesome. If you cannot do this on your computer due to no photo software, maybe a neighbor could work out the details on their computer, save it to a CD that you can upload and print. Just be sure to go into your printers settings and select transfer so that it reverses the image for you so that when you iron it on its correct. Definately something you can do on your own, and this way you can write whatever you want. I have made mousepads this way too!! Lots of fun!

 

[disneyfreakjackie]

Here is a picture of my girls in the shirts I made using the t-shirt transfer sheets I bought at Walmart. I designed them (in Microsoft Word) on the computer, printed them out and ironed them on t-shirts! I inserted Disney clip art My DH and I also wore one!! They were a big hit on the bus, boat and at MGM!!!!

FRONT: (I/My sister/my daugher) wanted the world for my/her 16th birthday . . . AND GOT IT! Walt Disney World - May 2005. Each shirt had the person's favorite character beside "The World".

BACK: Kayla's 16 today! I stamped mickey icon balloons also. (Kayla's had Sweet Sixteen)

 

[sconnell]

Jackie, those shirts are so cute, straight to my BOS! Wait, wrong site!

 

[snyderla]

Those shirts are great! Where did you get the Disney Font?

Lori