HTV Field Trip Shirts Part 4

Here are the last of the shirts:

The moose came off Animal Kingdom.  When I originally tried to cut him at 6 in, it said he was too big, so I went down to 4.5 and he was tiny!  I recut him at 5.5.

In yesterday's post I mentioned how it can be hard to place the flock because the fuzz sticks to the plastic, making it opaque.  Here's an illustration of that.

So you can see that you can't even see the moose's ear through it and it's hard to see where to line it up.  But I love the look of the flock, so it's worth the challenge.

This snake came from Pet Shop.  I did a free hand on his tongue, because I didn't like the way the layers were designed for this project.  This was a second type of snake print vinyl that seemed a little thicker than the first, and has a little texture.  But it's shiny-sorry for the glare.

The bunny also came from Pet Shop.  The white is flocked.

Here's another picture showing the opacity of the plastic backing on the flock, compared to regular HTV.

Even the white was challenging to place.

The deer came from AK.  I freee hand cut a white accent for his tail, from flock.  His antlers are flocked as well.

For the teacher, we made an eagle, their school symbol.  I used the eagle off Wildlife and cut an extra head for the white, since they didn't have a layer for that.  The white is flock, so it's thicker, and you can see the line under the black where it ends.  Next time, I'll have to cut the white to go all the way under the black piece.

 

 

I absolutley love working with heat transfer vinyl.  The different materials are great.  I know the kids will love having the glitter and flock, and the jewelled eyes.  Thanks for looking!

 

 

Field Trip Shirts Part 3

Another five shirts, just five more to go after this!

The bear is from Animal Kingdom.  He's double fuzz-cinammon for his body and black for his little nose.  In the picture, it's hard to see the partial cut lines that separate his legs, but in person they are very clear.  The flock cut beautifully on the regular vinyl settings (3/3).

My plan was to choose animals naturally occuring in the area, but over the years the shirts have become a huge hit.  The first two times, I made them all myself but as the kids got older, they are more invested.  Several of the girls have come over to make their own.  I'm such a control freak, it's hard for me to let them pick, but I did.  So I have a chameleon, which doesn't live in the wild in New England. Ah, well!  We cut him off Pet Shop, skipping a few layers( like the branch he's posed on) and altering his tongue. I cut his head out of the red glitter and threw that away, keeping what I normally would have tossed, and cutting the tongue longer.

The turtle came from AK and ended up huge (another time I was sorry my AK doesn't work in my E2).  I cut around the top part of his shell to add the glitter layer.

The otters on Wildlife come as a pair, but all the other shirts have only one animal so I made a little alteration.  I placed my flock to only cover the one otter and a little of where they overlap, then free-hand cut off the extra.  Becuase so much of the fuzz sticks to the plastic after weeding, it's hard to see through to align the cuts and you can see along his head where there is extra black showing.

The last one for today is a very sparkly goldfish off AK, cut from orange siser easy weed and gold glitter.  She was super simple.  Again, we have an animal that doesn't live in the wild but she sure does sparkle!