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Scary robot tshirt

I’ve mentioned before how much I love Pinterest and find it really inspiring, and pinned quite a few fun Halloween projects. I loved making (and eating) Halloween cake pops and wanted my son to have his own spooky tshirt to wear at our Halloween party.

I saw a fab design for shadow puppets in the latest issue of Handmade Living by minieco.co.uk. I thought that my son was too young for shadow puppets but the patterns would translate really well onto a tshirt. So I picked up some cheap tshirts from H&M and copied the scary robot template on to iron-on transfer paper (for use with an inkjet printer) for dark coloured fabrics. Then I simply cut out the robot from the sheet, removed the backing paper and ironed the transfer onto the tshirt.

I love the look of the retro robot, it reminds me of old black and white films – I think it looks great on my own little monster!

Linking up with handmade monday, just something I whipped up, creative me monday and making the world cuter

12 Comments on “Scary robot tshirt

  1. I am just beginning to get into Pinterest and could spend hours on there looking at the lovely things. Your t-shirt is great – he does look smart.

  2. Edward looks gorgeous in his new T-shirt. I’m also a Pinterest addict. It’s actually fab for inspiration as you see so much at once.

  3. Thanks for linking up with Creative Me Monday! My boys and I are off to make those shadow puppets from the link you gave! 🙂

    Happy Halloween!

  4. Pinterest is the most amazing time consumer and I love it! I just have to ration myself. Your little lad looks so cute in that T shirt…

  5. Love the t-shirt, never thought of using transfer paper on the computer – the quality of print looks great – am now having lots of Christmas ideas for t-shirts!!!
    Jo x

  6. Great t-shirt – so effective. I’ve seen the transfer papers in shops but never tried them – perhaps I’ll have to have a go after seeing this!

    I’ve so far avoided Pinterest, otherwise I would never be off the computer! (Its bad enough as it is!!)

    Ali x

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