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DIY Heart Shirts for Valentine’s Day (the stripey kind!)

Jan 31

DIY Heart Shirt with free design- I love the stripes! And totally perfect for Valentines Day

One of the things I did for the kids last year on Valentine’s day was make them some modern XO t-shirts. This year I wanted to make myself one and Aubrey wanted to have a matching one. Emmitt decided he’d rather have a house on his shirt so he got that ;)

And seriously… just making these DIY heart shirts gave me a great excuse to get some fun pictures with Miss A and I. Feel free to scroll past the WAY too many images of her and I having a ball and get to the instructions.

DIY Heart Shirt with free design- I love the stripes! And totally perfect for Valentines Day

I’ve been loving all the big heart shirts I’ve been spotting out there and wanted to make my own but know a giant patch of iron on is probably not going to stand up or be super soft so I gave it a spin and made it stripes to cut down on some of the iron on bulk. And I actually love it more than the solid hearts! Go figure ;)

So today I’m sharing the free digital file so you can go ahead and make your own DIY Heart Shirt. Just scale it up or down for a kids size shirt or adult size. You could even scale it way down and make a onesie. I always measure the space on the shirt I want to cover and size it accordingly.

DIY Heart Shirt with free design- I love the stripes! And totally perfect for Valentines Day

DIY Heart Shirt with free design- I love the stripes! And totally perfect for Valentines Day

See how she imitated me? It’s amazing.

For this project, I used iron on vinyl (both flocked- discontinued BOO! For Aubrey’s and easy weed for mine) and my Cricut to cut the design. Just weed it and iron it on according to directions and you’re GOOD to go.

GET THE DIY HEART SHIRT DESIGN HERE

DIY Heart Shirt with free design- I love the stripes! And totally perfect for Valentines Day

DIY Heart Shirt with free design- I love the stripes! And totally perfect for Valentines Day

The steps on putting your own image in Cricut Design Space if you haven’t (I think I’m going to write a post on this soon!). Click New Project, Upload Image, Select your file, Simple Image, Click the white area to delete it, then save as Cut only file and insert. It’s really not as hard as this run on sentence makes it sound. Pinky swear.

It’s such a simple DIY and there is something so satisfying about wearing a shirt you designed. And, let’s be honest, there’s something crazy cute about a mommy and me matching outfit. This is the first time for us and I can see it happening SO much more!

DIY Heart Shirt with free design- I love the stripes! And totally perfect for Valentines Day

DIY Heart Shirt with free design- I love the stripes! And totally perfect for Valentines Day

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DIY Heart Shirt with free design- I love the stripes! And totally perfect for Valentines Day

Category: DIY, PrintablesTag: Collaboration, Cricut, Digital Design, Freebie, Holiday DIY, Holidays, Kids DIY, Printable, Valentines, Wearable
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  1. Anita

    Jan 31 at 6:19 pm

    These pictures of you and Aubrey are SO SO SO ADORABLE – and I love the stripey hearts!

    Reply
    • Colleen Pastoor

      Jan 31 at 6:32 pm

      Aw thanks so much! You would look adorable in one of these shirts for sure :)

      Reply
      • Anita

        Feb 09 at 6:50 pm

        If that’s your sneaky way of saying you have a present for me, I accept ;)

        Reply
        • Colleen Pastoor

          Feb 25 at 6:13 am

          Was giving back all the things I borrowed from you a good present? ;)

          Reply
  2. Amy | The Happy Scraps

    Feb 08 at 11:08 am

    These are so cute and could be worn all year too. :)

    Reply
    • Colleen Pastoor

      Feb 08 at 5:15 pm

      Thanks Amy! I will be wearing mine year round for sure :)

      Reply
  3. Tauni

    Feb 08 at 11:09 am

    What fun shirts! Thank you for sharing as part of the blog hop.

    Reply
    • Colleen Pastoor

      Feb 08 at 5:15 pm

      Thank you for hosting! XO

      Reply

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