I wanted to let everyone know that our video editing station has come down with a virus. Once the editing station is out of the ER, we will be back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Thanks for your patience!
Wrap Around Snake Skin Tee and Adhesive Residue Revisited
Posted: October 15, 2010 by Mike Koval in UncategorizedThanks to everyone for the warm welcome back. Your comments were greatly appreciated…I guess you really did miss us! Now on to the goods…
OK, this week we have some thing pretty cool to show you. What we did was take a snake skin pattern heat trasnfer vinyl, and created a wrap around the neck tee. Our design is as you probably guessed, is a snake complete with eyes and a tounge. We just used a red metallic vinyl for those parts for an added flare to the design.
Now here is the cool part…you may remember the old adhesive residue trick we used back in the day. Well we discovered by accident a way to take it a step further…an adhesive residue number two if you will. We used our SPECTRA Cut vinyl, cut it, weeded it, heated it @ 400 degrees F for 5 seconds and peeled hot. This material gives you look similar to the old way, but adds some actual color and gives you a pretty nice distressed look…using heat transfer vinyl!
Peep this…
This video even required a wardrobe change, LOL!
Pretty slick, huh? Try this new trick out, I am sure you will like it…so will your customers! Thanks for watching. Until next time, keep those shirts coming off the shelf!
BTW, I will be out next week, so unfortunately, no video. Good news, you will get the pleasure of two the next week.
It’s been a while since we last spoke, and we just wanted to let you know that we aren’t going anywhere. We are in the process of upgrading our video equipment and setting up our room to enhance your Pimpashirt viewing pleasures.
We want to thank all of our loyal subscribers for hanging in there with us through this lapse in posts. Trade show season is in full swing and we spoke with alot of our subcribers in CA, FL and NJ. It’s nice to see people in person and chat face to face.
Thanks to all for your patience…and why not take a blast to the past and look at Pimpashirt #1
Another Distressed Look
Posted: January 25, 2010 by Mike Koval in UncategorizedTags: adhesive residue, apparel business, customized t-shirt, gx-24, heat applied film, heat press
Before we get to this weeks Pimpashirt Creation…we come to you with a special announcement. You may have noticed that one of the Pimpashirt emcees has been missing from our videos….that emcee is one of Pimpashirt’s originator’s Josh Ellsworth. Josh leaves the Pimpashirt crew on great terms and has accepted a new job with Stahls’.
Josh – Congratulations and best of luck and thanks for your contributions to Pimpashirt.com!
On with the show…so this week we bring to you another Pimpashirt original. Our distessed design was very well received, so we decided to give our viewers another option with this type of look.
This week features a method that we introduced a while back…the adhesive residue technique. If you remember, this is acheived by hot peeling a cold peel heat transfer material. We decided to take this technique a step further by allowing a portion of the design to set in to allow some of the material to stick to the shirt. What you get is an adhesive residue, but also some of the material will bond with the shirt giving it a really PIMP distressed look…check it out.
Superman…unzipped
Posted: January 18, 2010 by leetringes in UncategorizedTags: eco-film, heat press, heat transfer vinyl, superman, vinyl cutter
Happy Monday to everyone! I would like to start by saying thank you for all of your favorable responses to last week’s post on the distressed look with film. We appreciate all of the positive comments, questions, and interest. We will do our best to keep bringing you similar types of design techniques for you to use.
This week we created what I like to call the “Superman…unzipped” . Basically this technique is made by layering films to create the look of a shirt on top of another shirt, sort of like the tuxedo shirt idea. In this example we used some Eco Film to create a basic superman logo, then layered some on top of it to look like a zipper. Finishing it off, we added some nice chrome metallic film to give the zipper a 3d and authentic look…creating a shirt inside of another shirt! I think it’s a pretty cool idea because you create the look that a lot of people like to wear like a hoodie, vest, or jacket on the outside with a shirt underneath showing through.
I hope you liked this week’s pimp-a-shirt and gong-ing! Please share your comments and questions…c ya next week.
Distressed Look with film
Posted: January 11, 2010 by leetringes in UncategorizedTags: distressed, gx-24, heat applied film, heat transfer, vinyl cutter
Welcome to this week’s edition of PimpAShirt. This week we decided to show you a technique that is very popular with clothing today. The distressed look. Typically, this is done with screenprinting and is done with a special font that will leave areas of the design unprinted… i.e – no ink. The result is a garment that looks like it has been “worn” or “destroyed”. This is a very popular theme with clothing companies like Abercrombie, American Eagle and others. This look can also be applied using embroidery and applique.
It’s very easy to take this concept and do the same thing screen printers do. All you need is some Eco Film, or another heat applied film that is very easy to weed and a distressed look font. The one that we used this week was called Dirt2SoulStalker. You can search the internet for others, but we found this one at dirt2.com. We used this techinque with the white pimpashirt and 2010 on the garment. Basically the technique is to apply this font to your text or design, and it will put several cuts in the design that you will later weed away, the effect will be a random distressed look!
Check out the video>
Remember, don’t limit yourself to the ordinary. Take your equipment and do some out of the box and truly unique decoration. That’s what PimpAShirt is all about. If you’d like to download this free font, it is in our “box”.
