DIY Valentine’s Day Shirts!

Hi Friends,

It’s almost Valentine’s Day! I can’t believe how fast this year is going already. However I’m so excited for Valentine’s Day! It’s my second favorite holiday and it usually helps to get me out of my after Christmas blues! Everything is cute and pink with hearts. I have a love for anything pink and anything with hearts, you guys should totally know that about me already.

I love a good themed outfit, for Christmas time I wear nothing but Christmas outfits for the whole season (Nov 1- Dec 31). At Halloween I like to wear Halloween themed clothes through out October and why should Valentine’s Day be any different! However it’s not easy to find a good themed shirt for Valentine’s Day so I like to make one every year. This year I made two, a Disney one (Because everyone can use a little Disney in their lives at all times) and a non Disney one ( because I realize not everyone is a Disney-aholic like me).  I made these shirts with my Cricut Maker but if you don’t have one, don’t worry about it. You can always print out the design, using Cricut Design Space, on printable iron on transfers. I usually stock up on blank T-shirt’s at Old Navy and Target because they have amazing clearance sales a couple of times a year and I can get a t shirt for like $2. So don’t be afraid to dig around to find a good deal or use a t-shirt you already have! I also love to use Siser heat transfer vinyl for my t shirts. I like it better than the Cricut brand because you can use coupons at Michaels on it so it makes it way cheaper and as you know I love a good sale!

What you need:

• Cricut machine or printer
• Cricut Design Space
• Disney Template Cricut / Printable– Chocolate Template Cricut / Printable
• If using a printer- printable iron on transfer
• If using a Cricut- vinyl in the colors of your choice ( I will list the colors I used at the end)
• Cotton t-shirt
• Iron or Cricut Easy Press
• Parchment Paper
• Scissors
• weeding tool or tweezers

Instructions: Disney Valentines T-Shirt

If cutting on Cricut

1. Open Cricut Disney Template Cut out the hearts in colors preferred and outline and Mickey shapes in black
2. Separate all the images and weed the excess vinyl out
3. Place all the colored base hearts on your t shirt making sure there is no overlapping
4. Once they are placed where you want them, iron them on holding the iron/Easy Press on the images for 30 seconds
5. Remove plastic and cover with parchment paper and hold iron/Easy Press over images for 30 more seconds
6. Once cooled place the black heart outlines on top of colored hearts
7. Repeat steps 4 and 5
8. Now place the Mickey heads where you want them
9. Repeat steps 4 and 5 again.
10. Once all cooled, turn the shirt inside out and iron the back of the images holding it there for 15 seconds

*I used Siser Easy Weed HTV in the colors, Lemon Yellow, Light Pink, Lilac, Light Blue, Mint, coral and black. All purchased from Michaels and my Cricut Easy Press heated to 315 degrees

If printing out

1. Open Printable Disney Template  click continue, then click send to printer, choose the printer you want to send it to and make sure you unchecked add bleed. You don’t want the extra rim if you’re not cutting on your Cricut.
2. Click print (make sure you read the instructions on the printable iron transfers so you know which way to put the paper in your printer)
3. Cut out all the images. (Feel free to skip the Mickey heads if you don’t want to cut them all out!)
4. Iron on your images to the shirt following instructions on the packaging (they are all different)

Instructions: Chocolate Shirt

If cutting on Cricut

1. Open Cricut Chocolate shirt Template in Cricut Design space
2. Cut out the images in coordinating colors
3. Place phrase at the top of your shirt making sure there is no overlapping of plastic.
4. Place Iron over it and hold for 30 seconds
5. Once cooled place parchment paper over it and iron for 30 more seconds
6. Place one large heart to act as the box lid. Iron it for 30 seconds. wait until cooled and peel plastic
7. Repeat with the second large pink heart.
8. Repeat with Large black heart
9. Repeat with ribbon and bow on “box lid”
10. Repeat with chocolate brown pieces
11. Repeat with “white/pink frosting” pieces on top of chocolate pieces
12. now that the whole “chocolate box” is layered and plastic peeled off cover with parchment paper and iron over the entire thing holding on each part for 30 seconds
13. Place the quote at the bottom and repeat steps 4 and 5
14. Repeat with arrow and heart on the from of the shirt.
15. Turn Shirt inside out and iron the back of the images for 15 seconds

*I used Siser Easy Weed HTV in the colors, Black, White, Red, and Light Pink which I purchased at Michaels and Chocolate Brown which I purchased from Amazon. Also I used my Cricut Easy Press Heated to 315 degrees.

If Printing out-

*you won’t be able to use a red t-shirt if printing out because you cant print out white lettering so I had to Change it to red. I would suggest a white t-shirt since its red lettering.

1. Open Printable Chocolate shirt template in Cricut design space  click continue, then click send to printer, choose the printer you want to send it to and make sure you unchecked add bleed. You don’t want the extra rim if you’re not cutting on your Cricut.
2. Click print (make sure you read the instructions on the printable iron transfers so you know which way to put the paper in your printer)
3. Cut out all the images. (the words might feel tedious so you can just cut around the phrases but you will have the white rims)
4. Iron on your images to the shirt following instructions on the packaging (they are all different)

This is a super easy tutorial however a little time consuming. I totally think it was worth the work! You know I love to make a good t-shirt, I find it relaxing. Plus they are unique, not everyone has them! I hope you like the shirts. Which one do you like better? If you make them be sure to tag me on Instagram so I can see how you’re wearing them! Until next time………