Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a Flowery Heart T-shirt!
Pink, green and a touch of gold make this floral heart t-shirt a pretty terrific wardrobe for Valentine’s Day - or for all year round! And it really pops off of this navy t-shirt!
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This t-shirt was a last-minute Christmas stocking gift I whipped together for my daughter. It took barely over an hour to make start to finish, including cutting, weeding, and ironing!
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When I selected my colors for the design, I decided to use gold for the layer that has the large center flower on it. But there isn’t just a single gold option in the Cricut iron-on range. There’s Gold in Everyday Iron-On (which is more matte), Foil, Glitter…and I’m probably missing some too. How do you know which gold to choose when making an iron-on project?
The first consideration is layering, because foil and glitter can’t have something else layered on top of them. That wasn’t a concern for me so I had to choose based on other criteria. I ultimately chose the Everyday Iron-On based largely on appearance. I liked how the more matte finish didn’t overwhelm the pink and green but still had a bit of a luxury feel. I thought that the foil and glitter, as beautiful as they are, were just a bit too much for this particular project. The bonus of selecting the Everyday Iron-On is that (in my experience) the Everyday Iron-On metallics are the most durable of the metallic iron-ons. If my daughter decides this is one of her favorite t-shirts, this will get washed every few days, so durability is no small consideration!
I chose the green as my first layer of iron-on to adhere, because it was the color around most of the edge of the design. That made it easier to line it up to center it, since I could see where the edges were.
After the first layer, I just carefully aligned each of the next colors into the open spaces and then pressed them down.
I gave it as a Christmas stocking stuffer, but this t-shirt makes a wonderful gift for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, or a birthday for someone special! Who will you give it to?
