Heat Transfer Vinyl. Awesome

Michael and I have a nephew on the way, he will probably be here within the next week and a half or so and we are pretty excited about it.  It will be my first nephew!  My two nieces are pretty darn cute, but I am excited to have a little boy in the family :)

SO... I knew I wanted to make him a onesie of some sort... I bought a onesie at Hobby Lobby and it sat around on my desk for a couple of weeks before I decided what I wanted to make him.

I love all things Iowa, basically, even though we live in Illinois now (I guess Illinois is ok too :)... ).

So I had to make the little guy something to do with Iowa to get him started early on his Iowa pride :)  Both of his parent's work at Iowa State so I'm sure he will be loaded with Iowa State gear, but I wanted something a little different.

So I made this on Sure Cuts a lot. 

 

I had the Iowa picture since I made our Iowa and Illinois and Home Sweet Home signs.

I think I had to search and search and search for an Iowa outline on Google then turned it into an SVG. 

I was originally going to use the Iowa outline and then put each individual letter on, but I decided I'd rather use the solid Iowa cutout, which ended up being so much easier I'm sure, but I also think it looks much better.

When you are cutting t-shirt vinyl you have to cut everything backwards.  I'm glad I watched the video on expressionsvinyl.com (which is where I got the vinyl from... their vinyl is way way way cheaper than the cricut brand and you can buy single 6x12 sheets... it's pretty awesome) because I might not have known to cut it backwards.  I have never cut any type of vinyl before but I was pretty sure that with regular vinyl you can just cut it normal (true, or not?).

Ironing the onesie ahead of time.

Then put the vinyl on the shirt.  I had to put in the pieces in the A's, O and D.  I about lost one of the little A triangles so I had to sit and think about if I wanted to cut another A or leave the spaces open.  Thank goodness I found it so I could stop trying to decide :)

 

Ready to iron!

I was realllly paranoid that I was going to do something wrong, and that the vinyl wouldn't stick or that I would melt it too much or something, but it came out PERFECTLY.

It peeled off super easy and the vinyl was totally stuck to the onesie.

I have a feeling there are going to be TONS more projects like this to come.  It was way too fun and I can't wait to see the little guy wearing it :)

 

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