Tips for Applying Iron-On Transfer to Dark T Shirt

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Chris owner of Salon Teez for Expert Village this is how to create your own iron-on tee shirt. Now we'll be applying a transfer to a dark garment using our dark transfer paper. This type of transfer paper only allows the ink that is printed on the transfer paper to be removed onto the transfer so no need to worry about having to trim the entire design out. This gives us a good amount of edges and paper to work with. But what only want the transfer to be placed on the tee shirt itself. So again, using a dark transfer paper, this will allow us only to use this part of the logo or the part that has the ink actually on it itself. So we'll place the transfer where we want it, smooth it out and now begin to use our iron. Working the edges first, and then I just gradually move the heat over the entire transfer and I can start to see the transfer getting a little bit lighter through the paper so I know that it's adhering well. Continually moving the iron on the transfer for about thirty seconds making sure that I get good even heat distribution across the edges and throughout the middle. I'll continue doing this for a few more seconds and then I'll let that cool down because this is a cold peel transfer, I'll let that cool down and then begin to peel the edges up. Now that this has had time to cool for about two minutes you'll notice the edges start to roll up on themselves and that's a good indication that our transfer has adhered to the shirt. So we'll just begin pulling that transfer, the backing off the transfer paper revealing our art work. And now we have our transfer and only the transfer on our dark shirt."