How to Make Designs for T-Shirts

Now, say you are stuck with a bunch of white shirts. There's no doubt that they look really boring. So why not make your own designs? Putting a design on the shirt will perk it up and make a boring shirt more fun. Besides, you can put any design you want on the shirt so that it's your style! And you can make these designs based on the latest fashion trends.

Make Designs for T-Shirts

Here's how you can make custom t-shirt designs on your t-shirts. For this very simple exercise to make designs on t-shirts, you need a t-shirt, a flat cardboard, a steam iron, a soft kitchen towel and a heat transfer paper.

• To get started, you first have to create a design, which you would like to have on your t-shirt. There are several websites that let you design an image on their interface and even suggest to you some interesting designs and patterns based on the latest in fashion. If you do not want a design but instead want a photograph which you like or some text, you could do that on the Paint software on you computer too.
• The next step is to horizontally flip the image. Since you have to transfer the image on to your shirt, you have to flip the image or else you will get a backward image!
• Now print the image/design on a heat transfer paper. A t-shirt transfer paper is a special kind of paper which lets you transfer an image on to a shirt. You can get this transfer paper from a stationery store or online.
• After you have printed the design, get all the necessaries together: the iron, the shirt, the design and the cardboard. Turn on the steam iron.
• Place the cardboard under part of the shirt where you want the design. You may want the design at the center of the shirt or on the side, so place the cardboard accordingly.
• Carefully place the transfer paper, image facing towards the shirt, on the shirt where you want the design to appear. Make sure that it is not a crooked, and the edges are all straight. Place a soft towel folded in half, over the image. Once you are confident that you have placed the image and the towel right, turn on the steam iron.
• Once the steam iron is hot enough, move it over the towel and the image. The towel will act as a barrier between the heat of the steam iron and the image, and ensure that there is no harm to the image. Make sure that you evenly move the iron over the entire image and not on the image alone, which will lead the shirt in getting burned. Move the iron for about 5 minutes.
• Now carefully, start peeling the transfer paper. Do it slowly and make sure that the design has appeared on the shirt and evenly too. If not, you might have to iron a bit more.

So you see, there are ways to make that boring shirt you got yourself, fun! Make designs and you will have given your old t-shirt a new look! Now if you don't like the preexisting designs on new shirts, you could just buy a plain shirt and try these custom t-shirt design tips on them! So simple and so easy! You can make your own fashion statement, by making your own designs.