Tutorial Tuesday: THREE shirt

This past week my youngest son turned 3!  I of course had to make him a special birthday shirt, so when I saw this simple idea, I knew that I wanted to make it for him.

This is how I made it:

1) I took two different shirts.  One I got at Walmart for $1 and then polo shirt I found at a garage sale for about $.25.  It was too small anyway, so it was prefect for this.

2) I cut the polo shirt up

3) I took one of the sides and ironed fabric interfacing to it (just the regular kind you find at a craft store).

4) I put both sides together and then put a 3 on top.  I just cut the 3's out with scissors.

There are the two 3's

5) I ironed on one of the 3's.  I only did one because I wanted the top layer to be able to move.

6) I sewed the top three onto the shirt.  I love how the edges are folded over.

7) For the three, I used my CAMEO and my heat transfer vinyl from Expressions Vinyl.  I cut out the word and then completely removed it from the plastic.

8) With white paint, I distressed the letters.

9) I put the letters back onto the plastic and then ironed it onto the shirt.

Here it is all done.

And now my cute boy has a fun birthday shirt!

He looks so grown up!

I did wash this shirt and the paint did just fine on the heat transfer :)