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Frugal Friday: Making the most of expensive HTV and vinyl material

September 28, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

glitter sparkleberry htv

As I told you in my first Frugal Friday tip, I hate to throw away scraps of expensive or beautiful material. I like to try to find ways to reuse the bits and pieces whenever I can. That’s certainly the case with any patterned adhesive vinyl or HTV. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Materials, Tips Tagged With: detach lines, frame, heat transfer material, heat transfer vinyl, htv, modify, pattern, PixScan, scraps, subtract, vinyl

Canvas Wedding welcome sign

September 26, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

wedding welcome sign

I’ve been helping one of my daughter’s friends make some items for her wedding lately. She was struggling to figure out a cost-effective way to make a Welcome to our Wedding sign. We liked the idea of a plain black canvas with white letters. The main … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Materials, Projects Tagged With: canvas, fabric, heat press, heat transfer material, heat transfer vinyl, htv, project, sign, vinyl, wedding

HTV Projects Checklist

September 19, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

This post is part of my Checklists series. Each post in the series is a set of brief reminders to guide you while you work on a project. The HTV Projects Checklist helps you remember each step to take when you are cutting and applying HTV (heat … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Materials, Tips Tagged With: heat press, heat transfer material, heat transfer vinyl, htv, iron, tshirt, weeding

First Steps in HTV: Project #1 — Polka Dot Heart Tea Towel

September 19, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

using htv with silhouette cameo beginner

I didn’t realize when I bought my first Silhouette machine that I could use it to make custom shirts, or that heat transfer vinyl would turn out to be my favorite type of material to work with. My boys (and their friends) seem to have several new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Materials, Projects Tagged With: beginner, heat transfer material, heat transfer vinyl, htv, iron, mirror, project, towel, weeding

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