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So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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I have been working on some designs to iron on our shirts. At the moments I don't have iron on paper so I can't test them out. I wouldn't mind sharing my creations with the people here, but I wanted to make sure I did everything right before I passed them on. The canvas size I've been working on is reg. paper size. with white backgrounds. resolution is 300 and the pixels are between 2500 and 3500. Does this sound right?
Just know that anything that appears white will be clear when you iron it on -- so, if you have a pale blue shirt and an image with white gloves or a white beard, they will end up looking like pale blue gloves or a pale blue beard.
That's why I'd suggest ironing the images on to white t-shirts... (The other option is to use the "dark fabrics" iron-on paper - but know that the whole transfer will have a white background.)
Eileen
I actually prefer the dark transfer paper because it washes a little better. Remember that you don't have to use the paper as a square -- you can cut out the outline of your design. Also, if you want to put it on a colored paper, just make the background of your design the same color as your shirt, then cut around the design, leaving a small border of the background color. You won't notice it when you iron it on.
If you iron regular transfer paper onto black, it won't show up. The regular transfer paper is transparent, so the black background of a black t-shirt would make it so you can't see the design.
O.K. so do you think it would be better to make most of my designs on a white background and maybe use dark transfer paper? Sorry for being such an idiot
You could do that (use dark transfer paper and then cut closely to the edges of your design.) The other option is to slightly color (digitally) anything that is white on the image.
I do this by making Mickey's gloves (or Minnie's dots) a slightly bluish white...
But going with the "dark fabric" transfer paper is much easier.
Eileen
that's what I was going to say, you can cut around your design when you do it on dark transfer paper so you won't have a HUGE background of white. It works really well & it's much easier. lol I'm all about easy!
If it helps, here's a few pictures of things I've done using the dark transfer paper, making the background the color of the item I put it on and cutting out the design...maybe that will help you understand what I mean:
(On these bags, I made the background of the little girls the same blue as the bag, then cut out around them. Did the lettering the same way, but because the background matched the bag, I didn't have to cut around each individual letter -- the background linked them all together. (You can see it just slightly if you really look.)
(I cut around Mickey and Minnie to apply to DD's jeans.
I did all the designs on DS's overalls using the dark transfer paper.
I don't have the greatest picture of it, but I had planned to use my embroidery machine to put the little prince on DS's jonjon for CRT, but my machine broke. So instead, I printed the design on transfer paper and put it on that way -- because it was an image of an actual embroidered design with stitches, you couldn't tell that it wasn't embroidered unless you actually touched it.
I made DS's hat and shirt using transfer paper -- same technique as the bags, making the background red, then cutting close to the edge...there are some places where you can see the red on the transfer paper (look inside the loops of the letters), but it really isn't that noticable.
Hope this helps!! I love transfer paper and use it all the time for all kinds of things!
Thank you for sharing your pics Kori. I plan on doing some embroidery too. That's neat to know about how the jonjon's came out. So maybe I will buy the dark transfer paper. Where do you guys buy the paper at?
I just buy mine at Walmart or Hobby Lobby or wherever I happen to be going on the day that I need it. Just remember that on the dark transfer paper you DO NOT flip the image -- you print it just the way you would on regular paper.
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(On these bags, I made the background of the little girls the same blue as the bag, then cut out around them. Did the lettering the same way, but because the background matched the bag, I didn't have to cut around each individual letter -- the background linked them all together. (You can see it just slightly if you really look.)
(I cut around Mickey and Minnie to apply to DD's jeans.
I did all the designs on DS's overalls using the dark transfer paper.
I don't have the greatest picture of it, but I had planned to use my embroidery machine to put the little prince on DS's jonjon for CRT, but my machine broke. So instead, I printed the design on transfer paper and put it on that way -- because it was an image of an actual embroidered design with stitches, you couldn't tell that it wasn't embroidered unless you actually touched it.
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