 I just made this new t-shirt using some heat transfer vinyl in my Cricut. I just made this t-shirt and all of these t-shirts using my Cricut and some screen printing. And I'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do a builder make it? We do too. We have a new video each week. This week we're doing some t-shirts with the Cricut. Back. Back to the t-shirts. Yes. Kind of continuing our beginner series. So Garrett's mom has now requested t-shirts. Kind of. I basically shared that that was the number one reason why I wanted a Cricut was to create my own t-shirts. So we figured to continue our series and kind of we're keeping her in mind as we do this for a beginner. We're going to show you how to create a new t-shirt with HTV. That's for like one shirt or a few shirts. But if you want to say fund your local BMX racer so that he can race on the hell track and he needs enough money for a sponsorship, then you might want to make multiples. And so I'm going to try it with a screen print. I'm going to use the Cricut to make a screen to do some screen printing. Well. Just like crew Jones. Yes. I hope you all got his movie reference. It's his all time favorite movie. But what if you weren't doing that and you weren't trying to fund your BMX race, but maybe you wanted to bring a few t-shirts to the farmers market, the craft fair, or make a few for your business, your small business, then you may want to use the screen printing technique to create multiple shirts at one time. Yeah. It would be a whole lot cheaper and easier than doing like 6, 12, 20 t-shirts using heat transfer vinyl. Right. That might be a little tedious and take forever. Well, and it would be expensive with that HTV. Oh yeah. And it would get expensive. Yeah. We should do a breakdown of a when you break even. No numbers. Yeah. I was going to say, are you sure? Okay, dudes. Let's walk this sucker. Step one. We're going to gather all of our supplies. This week it's going to be a scavenger hunt. We're in the middle of a craft room slash studio makeover and stuff is everywhere and nowhere because I don't know where anything is right now. It is. This is kind of a haphazard way to film. But as we brainstormed the items that we needed, we knew we had them all. We think we have them all. We just had to find them. So off we went. First we needed heat transfer vinyl. So I went over here to my organization wall where the heat transfer vinyl is. And this row here is all HTV. But then I noticed that it was all glitter HTV, which happens to be my favorite clearly. And then the last second I happened to find one small roll that I didn't even know what it was. But as I unrolled it, I can see that it's HTV. So and it's black and white. Perfect for what we're doing. Perfect. Next thing we needed was some permanent vinyl. We had plenty of that stuff. Here we go. 651 or Cal 651. Then we needed some blue painters tape. That's close by. Some fabric ink, a squeegee, a screen and easy press. Or an iron or heat press. Whatever you have that heats things up and presses them. And we needed t-shirts, but we had a big bucket of t-shirts to dig through. Kim likes to collect t-shirts. Who doesn't? I told you my favorite thing to do with a cricket is to make a t-shirt. And of course, the cricket. Step two, we're going to make our cuts. Well, we're just cutting out our heat transfer vinyl right now. We're going to jump in the design space. Show you how we do our PNGs to get them to cut on the... Well, Kim's going to show you how we do our PNGs. I'm not that well versed in cricket. He's okay. I can get by. I'm better. Kim's way better. So here we are in cricket design space. So I'm going to create a new project here. So for this project, we're going to import a PNG file. This is an image file, different than a SVG. An SVG is a vector file that already has the layers for cutting. But sometimes you don't have the option of bringing in an SVG. You might find an image like a PNG. So I'm going to show you how to import that, clean it up, and prepare it for cutting. So here I'm going to say, I'll just go ahead and say complex. And then when I hit continue, you can see that this image already had a white background. We want to remove that because we don't want to cut the white background. So we're in the Select and Erase tool is already selected here. And we'll just click in all the areas that we want to remove. So if I click here in the white, it removes the white background. And then I need to click here and remove the white here and here and do and B. Everywhere I click, it's removing the background for us. Here's the center of the A. All right, I think we're all cleaned up here. This looks good. Those are all the items I want to cut. So I'm going to say continue. And we're going to save this as a printing cut in case we want to print and cut later. But that's not what we want to do in this instance. So I'm going to show you how you manage that. So now I've uploaded it and I'm going to now insert the image. Here it is. Looks great. If you want to know what size to make your image for your t-shirt, you can find lots of logo sizing guides out on the web on Pinterest. There's a bunch that they're free. So there's lots of neat files and little reference guides that you can use for different types of t-shirts and tank tops and things like that. But for this particular project, I already know that for a size large and extra large, or mine and Garrett size t-shirts that you want to make your image between 10 and a half and 11 and a half inches wide. So I'm going to just go up here and change our image size to 10.5 and 3.85 will certainly fit on a shirt. So we're good to go here. But if you notice over here, it says print and cut, cut and print here. That's not what we want to do. What we want to do is actually just cut our image. So I'm going to say no fill. You see this just comes in so it's now prepared for just cutting. Now when I click make it, it looks great. I think that's exactly what we want. And this will cut on our vinyl this way. Everything is going to be in, we're just going to make this a black and white. So I think I'm going to cut everything in the black HTV vinyl. So I think I'm going to go here. Now for a t-shirt, you want to mirror on HTV because it's going to cut the side of the vinyl that will be applied to your t-shirt. So you need to cut it backwards so that when you flip it over and iron it on, it's ironed on in the correct order or orientation. So I think we're good to go. I can hit continue and we'll cut our vinyl. Now it's just connecting to my maker. And then the next thing will be to select the type of vinyl and we're going to select HTV. See glitter vinyl is clearly one of my favorites and I can search for it right here. We're going to use a non-cricut brand. Automatically lets you know, hey, don't forget, make sure mirrors turned on and iron on material is face down, which is shiny side down here. And you can see we do have mirror on default pressure, fine point blade, which is what comes in here, forget. And we can go ahead and load our mat. Okay, since our design was only four inches of this 12 by 12 sheet of HTV here, I'm going to go ahead and trim it down so that we don't waste. Yeah. All right. And our big tip here is to weed while it's still on the mat. So this will help hold it for you. And remember, when you weed HTV, you want to leave on the clear backing what you want to be ironed on. So I'm going to pull off everything that I don't want ironed on. I'm just going to leave the mirrored image. Yes. That was tedious. I would not want to do that for like a dozen shirts. Shoot. Got so far. Almost done. All right. Next step is to iron on our design. So I have our t-shirt. We have our EasyPress mat here. And I'll give you a couple tips I've learned with creating t-shirts and ironing on a design. The number one thing is to be able to line it up and figure out where to put it on this t-shirt. You don't want to look all cattywampus with your logo all crooked. No, you don't. Or too low. I think it's under your belly. You don't want that either. So the first thing we're going to do is figure out where the center of our t-shirt is. So I'm folding my t-shirt. And I'm going to line up the edges here and figure out where the center is. Lean this up here. That looks like I have it right. Yep. That's pretty symmetrical. All right. So now that I have it folded, we're going to press a center line in the center of this t-shirt. That way we know where the center is. So I'm going to do it right up here. We can just, I don't know, we're going to count. I don't even have the time. I'm just going to count, you know, ten seconds or something. Seven seconds before you go in. So now I have an ironed line right down the center. I don't know if you guys can see it. But it lets me know where the center of my shirt is. And the next thing we want to do is kind of centering it on my mat here. Is we want to find the center of our image. So we're going to fold our design over. And I'm going to crease the corners once I line it up correctly. You don't want to fold it over on top of itself like I just did. Oh no, we lost the line. Yikes. Let me fix that. You don't want it to touch. I didn't mean for it to touch. In business. It's not perfect. Just don't stop moving and nobody will notice that that line is a little squeaky. Anyway, what I tried to show is I now have a little bend in my design. Because this one's so fine down at the bottom, that's what made this tricky. Normally it's not quite that tricky. The other tip to give you, so now I know exactly where the center of my design is, where the center of my shirt is. And then for a typical t-shirt design, you'll want to put it three fingers, finger widths down, three to four. My four is Garrett's three. So give me three fingers up there. I think he's out. And does that look right? I think we've got it. So I've lined up my lines, my little markers. I'm three fingers width down. Our EasyPress machine is on. My temperature is 320 for 15 seconds. All right, so I'm just going to put this on here. Press our little green cricket button. It's going to start counting down our 15 seconds. All right. It's a cold peel. And this is a cold peel. So we want to let this cool off for a minute before we peel off the clear backing. Cool it down. Got to slow it down. Watch out. All right. You want to peel it? Yeah, let's peel it up. Why, I saw if it goes wrong, it's me. Yeah, I can blame you. Ooh, look at that. I'm worried about those little letters. Looking so fancy. Don't talk too much. Okay. You want to do it then? Yeah, let me do it. All right. Whoa, tuggy. You'll be tugging on them. Damn, look at that. Looks great even with the skinny lines. All the skinny lines will just never stop moving it. And you'll never know that one thing is a little squiggly. Isn't that great? So that's how you make your own t-shirt. Ooh, that looks sharp. Now, what if you wanted to make ten of these? Yeah, what if you had to start a BMX company? T-shirt number two or number twos multiples. And we're jumping right to step two. Back at it again with all of our cuts. This is the last of our cuts. We're going to use some permanent vinyl this time. And we're going to keep the same design. We're going to keep it mirrored. We're just cutting it out a little bit different. I'll show you in design space. Back in design space. The same image. We're just going to hit make it again. And this time we're going to do some absolute positioning. We're going to want as much vinyl as we can to surround the image. And we want to keep it mirrored. So I dragged it to exactly where I want it. So I have some gaps on the sides and the tops. So when I put it inside the silk screen, I don't need the tape getting all up near my design. Less tape, less leak. Kim, am I just using vinyl? Yep, just using regular vinyl. Just using regular vinyl. And I'm leaving the tip the same. Yep, I guess so. Yep. So this one's going to be weeded opposite of what we did for the other. We wanted to leave the vinyl to transfer it onto the T-shirt. But for this one, we're going to remove the vinyl so the ink will pass through. And our transfer tape. This way the design stays where it's supposed to be. Transfer it from the backer. Do this up. Which way do you think we should do it this way? Yep. Well, I only have to do this one time. All right, just going to throw it on here center. And line up the top. And we're in. Turn it over and lay it flat. Turn it over, lay it flat. All right, I think we're in. Now we're just going to tape it off with painter's tape. Anywhere we don't want the ink to come through. So it really just decides. That's why I tried to place that in the center of the vinyl. Make sure the tape overlaps so it doesn't leak through the tape. That's all we got. That's all we got so far. Almost done and like it. We're going to stick this board up inside the shirt. Keep that shirt taut and stiff. You can use like chipboard or cardboard. When we just happen to have this laying around. Little piece of cardboard. Everybody's got an Amazon box laying around. Amazon boxes everywhere. At least we did. Now you can crease it like Kim did before. We'll just go in. The tag, you can eyeball it with the tag I guess. I'm going to eyeball it. So is that about, yeah. I think you're at your three fingers so just put it. I think that's great. Looks great right there. That's what I'm putting it. All right, looks good. We got our speed ball of fabric ink. Let me take this little spatula and spread it out at the top of the, at the top of this design. Go up here, up here. You don't have to worry about wasting paint because what the paint you don't use, you'll scrape back up and put right back in the container. For the squeegee of truth, now we're just going to give nice firm pull, pull towards me. Like a little, like 60 degree angle, a little 60 degree angle. Just pull it on through. I'm ready. Lift it. Quick. That's where I hit your hand. It is where you hit my hand. Set that aside for me. Looks pretty good. The exclamation is just a little bit light, but it didn't bleed. Other than that, it's good. The line move a little. Yeah, that's where I hit her hand. We'll try again. You think like right there? Can't see on that side, so I'll see if it's centered. All right, all right. I'm going to push the ink back up the other way. All right, ready? Ready. I'm getting a little scared of that corner. The exclamation just doesn't want to get as crisp. I'm getting a pussy footing around that. Oh, because my hand was there. Yeah, your hand's still there. Yeah, let's try another one without your hand. Okay. All right. Little angle. Nope, don't hold it. I got it. Well, no, it is definitely going to slide. I'll just get out of your way. You just have to get in there. Get in there. Look at that. A lot better looking, huh? All right. We have to let these dry. And it says like a 24 hours. But we're going to see if we can heat gun it. And then set it with a heat press. What? You don't want to heat gun it? You don't trust it? We're going to have to wait the whole 24 hours. Uh-huh. You want to let this dry for 24 hours and then set it with the heat press, which will come back and do that. All right. Well, in the meantime, I'm going to go clean out my screen. And the vinyl came right off. Vinyl started coming off with a little bit of hot water and some soap. Step four. And now we're going to set the ink. It's been 24 hours. We're going to do 320 for 40 seconds. We're going to put a piece of paper on there just to protect it. Are we going to put the mat down? Yeah, because we're going to put a mat down. Put the heat down. There we go. Put the mat down so we can put the heat down. All right. Ready? Ready. We're just trying to bake in this paint so that it doesn't come out when you wash it. Oh, yeah. If you don't do this, it'll start to fade in one to two washes. And it'll look really faded by three or four washes and unrecognizable by a 30-second wash. But if you really want that aged, worn look. Yeah, don't say it. Are you going to make some shirts? You're going to use the heat transfer vinyl. You're going to try to do your own screen printing. It came out pretty good. Yeah. So these are two... Yeah, he likes the way the vinyl looks. Yeah. But if you were going to make a bunch of them, this is the way to go. Easy. Don't look bad. Remember to get your exclamation point. So these are just two ways to make a t-shirt with a Cricut. There are some more advanced techniques. When you think about the logo, we're thinking about changing up the logo. Let us know what you think about that, too. Yes. So there is a colored version of this logo that you haven't seen yet because we're not sure we want to stick with this one yet. We're not sure if we're confident. Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. We will soon, when we unveil the craft room, we will unveil the new logo and we'll decide. New craft room and new logo, new season. About that time, I got to go get some dinner. So we'll see you guys again next week, or we'll do a building to make it. Like always. And I'm not going to be able to balance. Do you want to balance the heat press? I think it's still hot. I was going to save that for when I put it on your finger. I don't know. No, I'm kidding. I wouldn't have done that to you.