Designing Snow Shirts During a Blizzard

I recently designed a snow themed shirt for Mary Logan, Creative Memories Consultant for an event she held in January 2011.  She holds this event every year and has about two hundred women that take the weekend to work on their scrapbooks.  It is quite an adventure to see what they do! A crop party is a great way to get some of your pictures in better order and have some fun, too.  You can get new ideas for laying out your pictures, see new products, and make life time friends.  Your family will benefit from the beautiful scrapbooks that will be treasured for generations.  Go see her website.  Are you looking to make $$$$? Mary is always looking for new reps.  She gets many trips and other perks.

People have been overwrought about the storm, so I have collected some of the names of the storm and put them on a t-shirt.  That just started the fun!  I decided to spend the snow day creating shirt designs including a couple for the Groundhog!  Peg said I went too far when I did the Snowglobe one.  You will have to be an avid TV hound to enjoy it.

I put the snowflakes on the back burner and did one that I really like.  It is a picture of a guy….well..just look for yourself.  No words are needed, look at the picture below:

We do screen printing.  Many of these designs are more than one color and would be expensive to do one at a time.  Screen printing is for quantities over 12 pieces. Prices fluctuate depending on the apparel chosen, the amount of ink colors, and the intricacies of the design.

For an inexpensive alternative, we can do full color on cotton shirts with heat transfers.  The prints fade after many washings, but the price is right, somewhere in the 10.00 range.

For an alternative, if there are just a couple of colors, we would suggest a soft fabric transfer.  That is a flexible, long lasting choice…not great for many colors or tiny lines.  But if it is too intricate, we can order digital prints that would be able to do all the color and last longer than heat transfers.  Prices for a shirt would be in the 15.00 range.

The shirts that are pictured here are done with special dyes and heat.  This method is called sublimation printing and is less familiar in a custom decorating shop.  We love it for the speed in which we can take care of our customers.  I can actually sit right down with you at the computer, design a t shirt and often go downstairs to the workshop and print it right then.  That price is around 25.00-30.00 for a shirt.  The imprint must be on light colors as the ink is transparent and won’t show up on black; white places won’t show up either on a design, as there is no white ink..The colors are brilliant and the shirts wear exceptionally well.  A year from now, you will see very little fading.  It’s like our Cadillac printing method.

We also can use our professional embroidery services to do an attractive left chest.  Many of the techniques can be mixed and matched.  Rhinestones, distressed fabrics, flocked ink, sparkle ink are just a few of the choices.  Here is a great website about alternative methods.

I Went Too Far:

So, then, I got a grandiose idea.  Peg says she doesn’t get it.  I thought it was funny.

What if we really don’t live in an open environment??  Perhaps, we are like Truman…we live in a globe.  When the Higher Power shakes the globe, we get all the snow again.  Isn’t that what it feels like right now??

In the ’80s, for four years, many of us enjoyed a quirky TV show called St. Elsewhere.  Many of the hospital employees went on to mega stardom including Denzel Washington, Howie Mandel, and Mark Harmon.  the whole time we watched it, the hospital had lots of drama and some comedy.  It was popular, but the last episode was the clincher.  A young autistic child is playing with a snow globe and we find out the entire story of the hospital is just a figment of the child’s imagination.  That was a busy coffee pot the next day at work as everyone discussed this shocking end.  It was a much better dream sequence that the stupid Bobby Dream on Dallas.  (Just google if you don’t get the references…and yes, I am old).

If you were voting during the 70′s, you will have some frame of reference for this.  Otherwise, I would Google St. Elsewhere.  You can watch the first season on HULU.

Here is two takes on the Beach Shirt Snowman:

So good bye to the winter weather, Groundhog Day is over, and the sun is shining more every day.  Soon it will be Spring!

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