Hey friends, Dave here with transfer express, and today we are talking about something
we all can't avoid... and that's birthdays! yup, that's right young or old those years start
rolling and they just don't stop, but, whether you like it or not, birthdays are a fantastic
opportunity to sell some custom apparel regardless of how big or small your t-shirt business is. now,
today we'll dive into some different birthdays that deserve cool t's some t-shirt inspiration
and how easy it is to create custom artwork in our easy view online designer even at low quantities,
and then, we'll print some shirts! we've got it all except the cake, so let's get into it!
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every single week well right off the bat let's get inspired now we've got quite a few fun and
unique birthday ideas here for the tots and our friends going over the hill all of these designs
were created in our easy view online designer which we'll dive into here in just a minute
now the first idea we're showing here is not only a great party favor for a kid's party a simple
white t-shirt with a black screen printed transfer design with our goof proof transfers will allow
these kids to color in the design and make their own shirt you can fit two of these designs up on
one gang sheet saving a lot of money now you could use fabric markers to make the coloring permanent
or washable markers so they could color the shirt over and over and over again now another idea to
make shirts for kids who are attending a birthday party at an off-site location like the zoo
or an amusement park if all the kids are wearing the same shirt it's much easier to spot them in a
crowd so you could use bright colored apparel just like these uniquely colored raglan shirts with the
white and then the maroon sleeves now tailoring a design to the birthday boy or girl is a great
way to honor the person and incorporating their interests will make it a special shirt and day
for them i'm gonna bet you dan here likes cars now themes just don't help add to the party they can
be incorporated for some fun shirts too just like this casino themed party here for a 90th birthday
of course big celebration birthdays like turning 21 are super popular for custom t-shirts for those
pub crawls or those big bash parties now sweet 16s and even concieras now for the go-kart design
here that i mentioned earlier we used a gang sheet to group multiple pieces of artwork for the same
sheet which will drop the print cost of each one of these images down so we can minimize our
print cost and maximize our profits as t-shirt decorators now since these are going on youth
shirts we were able to fit two full front artworks here on the sheet so say if we needed 16 total
shirts for the party we realistically only need to order eight total sheets we've got all these
extra goodies here on the sheet too for printing say on those hats koozies or even different print
locations on the shirts or other favors for the guests to take home from the party now that
we've got some inspiration let's back it up and i'll show you just how easy it is to create one
of these designs online here in easyview online designer over at transferexpress.com you can see
that we could use one of the thousands of pre-made layouts or we could design our own from scratch
using the pre-loaded free use clip art here under the clip art section let's search for a go-cart
and we'll pull this one into our artboard next up we'll grab that background that we
use that's a checkered flag so we'll just search checkered flag or flag here for the background
pull it into our design space and then send it to the back of the design using the order tool here
at the top toolbar now this is just one of the many features that takes easy view above and
beyond those other free online t-shirt designers out there once we've got the design down let's
swap the number here on the cart for the number 10 and toss some text on here the need for speed
and we'll put tyler's 10th birthday wishing him a happy birthday along with the go-kart party
now once we're happy with this main graphic we could easily just duplicate it out using the
tools at the top or simply copy and paste keyboard shortcuts that you already know
that control c control v and then all that's left to do is fill the sheet with some extra artwork
well then there it is all set ready to be ordered you could use the bottom of the screen here to
configure your transfer order we'll make sure that we're using screen printed transfers and
our goof proof plastisol ink transfers right here and then we'll walk through the next steps to
just double check some specs and there you have it we are all set ready to order just as easy
as they were to design they are just as easy to print now these goof proof transfers come
ready to apply that means absolutely no weeding or lining up any colors just cut your specific
image out from this sheet and press so now we're over here at our hotronix auto clam 16x20 we'll
get it set up and make sure that we're set for our goof proof transfers we're going to set the press
to 365 degrees now if you don't have a hotronix press bump this up to about 10 degrees to 375
to make sure that you have a nice even consistent heat at or above 365 degrees on your platen we'll
set our timer to four seconds now four to six seconds is our application for goof proof here and
our dual stage timer will leave at four seconds here on the hotronix auto clamp now of course i
love threading the shirt onto the platen here but with these being used shirts it's a little too
stretched for my comfort on the larger platen and even laying over top of the platen we still have
a lot of raglan seams and collars to worry about especially if we want to move those all the way
off the platen we are a solid ah what is that four or five fingers down from the bottom of collar
which is going to put any print we do on the belly of these youth shirts now if you don't have these
smaller platens of course with your larger platen you could still just use a mouse pad to raise the
printing area on the inside of the shirt i want to show you how easy it is to do all you have to do
is take the mouse pad put it on the inside of the shirt or just underneath the printing surface here
and we'll just make sure this is aligned right in our print location and here now when we press
we are going to be away from any of the collar or seams here on this raglan cut giving us a nice
smooth even firm printing space for our graphic right here with our hotronix press we're going
to go ahead and swap this platen out this is a great feature of any of the hotronix line of
presses is that you could easily just purchase whatever platens that you're going to be using
be it this 8 by 10 or the very popular tag along hp platen where you print the inside tag print and
the front at the same time now we can easily take our shirt and thread it right onto our platen here
now that we're here all the seams are off that printing area plenty of room to put our
graphic down we'll preheat this while testing that pressure just to remove any moisture
and our pressures at the perfect setting here so we'll just go ahead and grab our goof proof
screen printed transfer lay it face down i like to do about two fingers down from the
collar on youth t-shirts making sure we're nice and centered we'll go ahead and press
this four seconds and a hot peel is all it takes for goof proof this is like magic
four seconds the press opens we'll peel the carrier away immediately and there we have it
a screen printed t-shirt that you screen printed with just your heat press for tyler's birthday
party at the go-kart track i want to come too could i get invited now just remember the sky
is pretty much the limit when we're talking about occasions that you could print t-shirts for
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