Zumba Shirt
I am soooooo excited to be on this design team. Thank you very much for this great opportunity!!!
I recently starting taking Zumba classes with one of my Scrappy Sisters. Although it took a couple of classes to start getting comfortable with the moves, I am now loving these classes more every time. At first, it felt like I’d never even heard music before, but now I am getting the moves and it is feeling much more like dancing … of course, that would be “extreme dancing” 🙂
During a recent trip to Michaels, I found that their t-shirts were on sale so I grabbed a bunch for my classes. Since I received some great iron-on vinyl from KNK-USA, I decided to dress up one of my t-shirts for the class.
I keep one of my blade holders specifically for vinyl so that I don’t have to change the blade length all the time. I wrote “vinyl” on it with a Sharpie.
Materials:
T-shirt
KNK Maxx 15″
Iron-on Transfer T-shirt vinyl in Storm Grey and Teal
Home iron
Method:
(1) I searched for a Zumba logo and imported the jpg file I found into MTC (Make the Cut) using Pixel Trace — a fantastic tool!
(2) In Make The Cut, I created a shadow layer to make the letters a bit thicker and then removed the inner cut lines.
(3) I mirrored the letters and then cut them and the heart shape with my KNK Maxx 15″.
I used a setting of 80 for force and 240 for velocity.
(4) With my iron on High, I turned off the steam and held the iron in place, just moving back and forth a bit, for 30 seconds. I checked to see if the backing plastic was coming off easily. If not, I just heated for a while longer. If the backing does not come off easily, keep heating with the iron until it does.
(5) Once all the letters were in place, I layered the heart between and over the Z and M.
The end result is exactly what I wanted. I love that it’s so easy to customize my own fantastic gym shirts at such a low cost.
I -heart- Zumba and it’s great for my heart … and I LOVE MY KNK!!!
AWESOME! I know someone that would LOVE this! She teaches Zumba at our gym! Any chance you’d share the file 🙂 ?
love hugs and prayers
Carol
For sure. I will post a link on my blog at http://scrappercreations.blogspot.com
terrific!
Cute!
Cute shirt!!! Ü
KNK and MTC are a great pair! thanks for sharing ….
Hugs…Kathy
Great idea! Thanks for the great instructions, I’ve been so worried about whether I could get the vinyl to stick with my iron that I have avoided trying it. You’ve given me the confidence to try it out. btw…I keep a separate blade holder and have it marked with a Sharpie too!
So I am now expecting to see you wear it whenever we go to class 😉 Love it!
Loved the shirt. Thanks for sharing your tutorial.
What a great idea!!!
Love the idea and execution! Looks great!
I love this great shirt and zumba too. thank you for sharing.
Great shirt!
This looks great!
So cute! I love the heart you used.
I love it!! 🙂
Very Cool!!!
VERY cool, Karin! Definitely looks like a professional did it!
That is TERRIFIC!!!! I thought that the heart was made with rhingtons. Looks so beautiful
I know that you mirror the design, but don’t know which side of the heat press/iron on vinyl faces up in the knk? How do I know which way it goes? It has a shiny side and a dull side.
Hi Joree,
You want the vinyl side up because you will cut the vinyl, and the liner side down. The liner is the shiny side.
Have fun!!
Karin