This is my first blog post...Ever....so I will try and fumble along and do the best I can, so please bear with me.
My name is Wendy Northern. I am the wife of 16 years to my middle school and high school sweetheart...Which these days is definately not the norm. I am also the mother of 3 beautiful daughters, my oldest is 15, and I have 5 year old twins. They all keep us hopping and on our toes. We live in a small town about 50 miles South of Dallas.
I have always been crafty...to some degree.... But not many of the things I have tried to do held my attention very long... I am very good at cross stitching and worked on one piece for over a year...I think that burned me out. I love to stencil and decorate my girls rooms...But again...these were all just fleeting fascinations.
As I got older and my girls are now very picky with what they wear, I have to be a little more frugal. I was out shopping one day and saw all these cute cute shirts with all these cute designs. Now I have been seeing these for quite some time, but would just dump them in my basket and go on. But this particular day I actually really really looked at the shirt and the design. I flipped it inside out to see what the underneath looked like, and it was like an epiphany....I thought...I can do this!!! This is basically a heat pressed design!!!
The wheels started churning in my head and all the things I needed to do, and learn were spinning...
I knew the first thing I needed was an image editor/paint program that would allow all the designs in my head to come to fruition. As I stated, we have to be frugal....I just didn't have the money to shell out for an expensive program...So the search was on for a comparable free one. There are 3 that I looked into...and finally settled on one that would do absolutely everything I needed it to do....It is called: Paint.net....so if you are looking for something like that...that is the one to use. And I will try and put together a little basic tutorial to post at a later time.
The next step was to get a "Professional Heat Press"..... This is NOT an iron. I did not want to sell shirts with "Iron-Ons" They just don't last...So I found a heat press, and found a commercial grade heat transfer paper brand that comes very well recommended by professionals....I cannot stress enough here...My designs are not "Ironed on".
After getting all the equipment I needed I designed my first shirt.
My true passion is skulls and fairies...I love fantasy...The surreal backgrounds...Some very light and angelic...Others very dark and foreboding...You will be seeing a lot of this in my designs...
I had several requests from members of a swap site I am a member of for Birthday shirts for their kids, and I got very busy with those...But I have finally finished all those and can really start on what I want to do. I worked on and completed a design with a Spanish Skull....Look for pictures of it coming up in the next few days...I will press it tonight and start embellishing with all the bling.
Thats all for me today...But keep looking for my latest designs!
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