An experiment .........

[AdamB]

Hi all,

after seeing some of the rhinestone t-shirts that people produce I thought - could this be done in vinyl?

Now, forgive me if this is old news to you but I saw it as a bit of a challenge so I planned a design.

I wanted to use two colours, gold and silver, and I wanted to have a t-shirt that from a distance looked like a square of circles, but looking at again you would see a smiley face.

The face would be made with the two colours but where the design split a circle, the circle would need to be split in colour ................. hope that makes sense?

Anyway, I had a bash and the finished design is below.

I didn't quite match it on the top right but that was just down to the vinyl I was using and I needed to give it a full press (not a min press as I normally do) for the first layer, so this caused a little shrinkage/expansion in places.

There's room for improvement yes but for a first attempt I don't think it's too bad and I can now develop this into other things.

Someone asked me if I could do this (a street-dancer) but was worried getting stones as they might stick into him ............... hey presto, a vinyl effect t-shirt without the stones!

What do you think?

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[AdamB]

oh - and I forgot to say - IT WAS A RIGHT PAIN TO WEED!

[Kaz]

I can imagine about the weeding, don't envy you that one, lol

I like the concept, but for me, the gold and silver on red don't work very well, or maybe it's your piccys?

[John G]

That's a great idea, might look better on a black T shirt though!

[AdamB]

Thanks Guys -

Kaz: The red t-shirt was an experiment as I had a 'spare' red one knocking about - but iy does look better in the flesh (so to say).

John: Designs like this would probably work better screen printed? Have you ever done anything like this?

Adam

[John G]

Never done one like that - but I think with the vinyl sitting on top on the material, like your sample, it works better than a screen print. Maybe a mix of print and vinyl would work too - be quite hard to get the registration though!