New design - Spanish Skull or Sugar Skull

I am finally able to start work on designs that have rolling around in my head....And I will be posting step by step pics and such.

My first design is a Spanish Skull...I like to find out the background of most of my designs so I looked up Spanish Skull and found several entries as you can imagine.  One of them is that the Spanish Skull symbolizes the death of a compadre' due to gang violence or doing some work for his "hood".
And of course it also symbolizes "The Day of the Dead" or Dia de los Muertos in Spanish. This is a holiday in Mexico where friends and family gather to remember those who have died.


There are also "Sugar Skulls" which are very colorful and decorative...They are a skull shaped treat that is made of pure colored sugar and decorated, they are served during the "The Day of the Dead" or Dia de los Muertos (also the Mexican Halloween).  
I will consider most of my designs Sugar Skulls...To me a Spanish Skull is dark in nature...Most of my designs will be colorful and light...


So back to my first design...It is a Spanish Skull with Cherry Blossoms and a Cherry Blossom Limb.  I finished the design over the weekend and have begun to apply it on the shirt....


Day 1 of application:

This is the background...This is hand painted using flowable fabric die...So it actually permeates the fibers in the shirt and won't fade...Doesn't look like much now...Just wait til tomorrow !

Day 2 of application:

I pressed the cherry blossom on...This particular step took me 2 hours...But this is the first run of this particular design, so the next one won't take me as long...I think I may do a few shirts with just this design...It is very pretty! Tomorrow I am hoping to have the shirt complete!

2 Weeks after application...
I could not make the sugar skull look right....so my daughter talked me into leaving this shirt as is, and putting the sugar skull on a shirt by itself...

Here is the Sugar Skull...I apologize for the coloring...I was trying to show the rhinestones I added to the eyes.

Here is a bit of a closer pic...The pic does not do this shirt justice....I placed every single one of the hot fix rhinestones by hand. I am very pleased with the outcome.

Here is a pic with it on the shirt...This is not the shirt this will actually be pressed on to sell though...It is the same color...But the Shirt will be a Bella My Favorite T Tee...I still think there needs to be something behind this....Working on that project next.