Making your Own Shirts?

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Making your Own Shirts?
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Thu, 08-16-2007 - 9:40am
Hi All!
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Thu, 08-16-2007 - 10:40am

I love the idea of making your own shirts, but there may be some copyright laws you need to worry about if you're using Disney Images. When we went in 2005, we used MS Publisher (you can also use Word) to print out onto iron ons and just used words and free graphics (non-Disney) to avoid copyright issues (and fuzzy images!)

Another option would be to go to a store that sells inexpensive Disney shirts (Wal-Mart, Target, etc.) and then use a printed iron-on to personalize them.

JoAnna in TX

 

 

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Fri, 08-17-2007 - 8:49am

(Hey all, I'm back! Had to check in even though we flew all afternoon and evening...trip report pending! Yes it went well but I"m so sorry I didn't get to meet Shay since we changed our plans on the fly that one day! Among many other adventures...more to come!)

Chiming in to say, the copyright issue is a non-issue if you're only making the shirts for your family to wear (and not selling them on ebay or something!) Trust me I'm really picky with legal/ethical stuff like that so I did my homework before making our Tshirts! I even had a conversation with a couple of cast members at the MK about it as one less experienced one asked the other about copyright issues (I was wearing a non-character shirt that day that sparked the conversation...well it was a Mickey head shape with the pictures of my family on each of the circles, but told them about the other shirts I'd made with Nemo characters etc on them).

So YES all sorts of characters can be downloaded for free, there's even a Walt Disney font you can download for free (google it, or I can look for the link from my bookmarks later if you want, after I've had some sleep!) I even put maps of the parks on one of our shirt sets and got tons of compliments from cast members etc.

It does take a while to find the right size picture files (the bigger the better, it's always better to reduce to preserve the quality, rather than enlarging) but I did it with just Google Images and some patience. One tip though - don't do as I did and START EARLY to work on those shirts!! I am not proud of this but I was literally folding shirts to pack into our luggage one hour before leaving that were still warm from the transfer iron!!

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Fri, 08-17-2007 - 10:55am

That is great.... Thank you... I would love any information/websites/images that you can send me... feel free to email me at amscherm@comcast.net


So glad you had a great trip... Can't wait to read all about it and see your pictures....

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Fri, 08-17-2007 - 10:36pm

Hi Andrea - when our family of 11 went last December, I made shirts for everyone.

 
 
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Wed, 08-22-2007 - 3:44pm

I was just cruising the aisles of my local Dollarama looking for all things Disney to put together a "surprise" package for DD for our trip when I came across some cute Disney iron-on transfers, the ones I saw were Tink, a couple of the princesses and some of Pooh and the gang but there were other pictures on the back of the box.

Carole

Carole

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Wed, 08-22-2007 - 7:46pm

The Disney font is called Waltograph, just google for it.

I also googled (in Google/images) for images of Disney characters and images of Disney World. I just typed in different variations of those words plus adding specific characters' names at times too. Then I put all the images into one folder on my hard-drive so I can look at them on my own when I'm creating shirt designs.

I like the idea of matching shirts, but I HATE to wear t-shirts and I know my shirt will be a different style from anyone else in my group.

Don't forget -- if you are going to use a dark color shirt you have to get different iron-on printer paper or you'll have a white border around everything! My middle dd (she's now 20yo) discovered that the hard way when she was trying to decorate a pair of sweatpants a few years ago -- they morphed into sleep pants real fast LOL.

In peace,
Max