Brine Your Custom T-Shirt To Give It a Vintage Feel
So, if your like me you’ll first need to Google Brine. I’ll save you the time and tell you that it’s a simply a water and salt mixture used to preserve vegetables, fruit, fish and and meat in a process known as brining. How does this relate to custom printed t-shirts? Well it’s simple. We all love the feel of our favorite vintage t-shirt, and many would love to have their new screen printed t-shirts offer the same comfort. Well there is a simple process that will give you the soft, vintage feel you are seeking on your custom t-shirt. Follow the steps in the image above and enjoy the old feel to your new t-shirt. TheShirtPrinter.com
Five Fun Ways to Recycle Custom T-Shirts
Custom Printed T-shirts made easy!
Slyvia, the mini-maker from Make magazine’s Sylvia’s Maker Show demonstrates how to make screen printing easy……. or does she? While I truly admire this little girl and the craft shows she puts together, making custom printed t-shirts at home isn’t as easy as she makes it look. However, I want to share this video because it gives a basic idea of how screen printed t-shirts are created. Often customers ask why the cost per t-shirt goes down with and increase in quantity. As our little expert Slyvia demonstrates there is a lot of set up involved to make just one custom printed t-shirt. As such when screen printing it is most cost effective to print more than one custom printed t-shirt at a time. While getting your fingers all dirty and making a big ole mess can be fun creating your custom t-shirt on line is much easier. Using TheShirtPritner.com you can design and order your own custom printed t-shirt in minutes and have it delivered to your door. Hassel and mess free!
Custom Designed T-Shirts to Custom Designed Sleeves
Custom designed t-shirts have a way of making us look and feel good. Many t-shirts get worn and shoved in a drawer never been seen again. Other custom printed t-shirts have provided so much comfort that they have worked themselves into a special place in our heart. We find ourselves frequently running for the comfort of that particular t-shirt until it can’t be worn any longer. When that time comes there is still hope. Hello Rewind has found a way of pumping new life into old or new custom designed t-shirts. Send them your old custom printed t-shirt and they will turn it into a handy laptop sleeve. The best part is that by using this service to convert your custom t-shirt you will be helping women who were victims of human trafficking.
If you don’t have the funds to help out here are some do it yourself directions to transform your custom t-shirt into a trendy lap top sleeve.
Step 1: Pick a Custom Designed T-shirt from your collection. You will want to take to consideration where the custom design will ultimately end up and the thickness of the t-shirt it’s self.
Step2: Mark your custom printed t-shirt for cutting. This can be easily accomplished by placing the laptop under the t-shirt and trace around the bottom edge with a sharpie.
Step 3: Cut along the lines you have just drawn on your custom designed t-shirt. You can give or take a bit depending on how tight you would like the t-shirt to fit your laptop.
Step 4: Sew the two sides of your t-shirt closed and flip your custom designed t-shirt inside out. You now have a new custom designed laptop sleeve.
Take a moment to google this idea and you will find lots of suggestions on how to convert your custom T-shirt into a custom laptop sleeve. It’s a great way to reuse!
Quilt-T Soft
When I open my bottom dresser drawer the story of my life bulges out in various graphics printed on our favorite fabric, cotton. You too have that bottom drawer packed with old T-shits that you know will never be worn again. We would all love the extra space but can’t seem to part all the great memories these shirts represent. If you’re like me, most of them you couldn’t even wear if you really wanted too so why not do something useful with them? Make a quilt!
You can go about turning screen printed t-shirts into quilts one of two ways. There are a couple of websites out there that will do it for you. It seems pretty simple. Clean out that bottom drawer, mail the shirts to the company of your choice, and a short time later vola, you have a new custom quilt in the mail.
Now, if your more of the type that likes to put your own blood, sweat, and tears into quilting you can break out the thimble and go at it yourself. Visit our friends at eHow.com for instructions on recycling your old t-shirts into a quilt. The site offers step by step instructions on how to make your custom t-shirts a blanket of memories.
No matter which process you use to recycle your old t-shirts you can be sure you will always be able to keep yourself warm with memories.
Get the Most out of Your Next Fundraising Event with Custom Shirt Printing –How you can use TheShirtPrinter.com as a fundraiser
Selling shirts is a great way to fundraiser for sports teams, the local fire or police department, or a school club. T-shirts can be customized to say virtually anything and are something everyone uses. Also, when someone wears a t-shirt that represents a specific organization, it garners bonus publicity for that organization.
What better way is there to increase buzz for your club or team than to have people pay you to become walking billboards?
T-shirts are great because selling them can be one of the most convenient options available if organized properly. Websites like TheShirtPrinter.com, an online custom t-shirt printing store, are great because they offer options specifically designed for t-shirt fundraisers.
It works like this: an organizer sets up an account, makes a profile, designs the t-shirt and sets the price. Then, when people want to buy the shirt, all they have to do is go to the website where there will be an online order form. To see a sample order form click here. With this form, the customer selects their size and style, and pays online. That way the organizer doesn’t have to worry about keeping track of money or running out of inventory. TheShirtPrinter.com is paid a base amount per shirt and the difference between this base price and the price that the club or team has set for each shirt sale goes to that particular team or club. Therefore, the organization has control of their profits.