Silhouette Tutorial: Fabric Transfer with Brigit

Hi everyone!!  Here’s a fun tutorial on creating a fabric transfer treat bag using SSDE.  It’s such an easy project and comes out great on these cotton muslin bags, so cute for a special Halloween treat.

I used Avery Light Fabric Transfer paper, but whatever you use make sure you read the directions, I believe with their dark fabric you don’t have to do a mirror image.  Other brands may be different also.

I used Lori’s Halloween Embellishments 1 set and the happy halloween from the Halloween Titles.  I ended up adding a witch’s hat to the ghost and a circle for the moon just to fill in the design a little more.

I ungrouped and colored all the pieces, you won’t see the ghost if you use white so add a black line around him, I made it a little thicker under the line style window and then checked print lines of selected shapes.  After you place everything where you want select all and group.

The bag I used is 5″ x 7″ so I resized my design a little larger then 4.5″ x 4.5″, I wanted some space on the bottom and top and some on both sides.

With your design selected click on the Replicate Window and select mirror right, you can move the original off the mat or delete it if you want.  Place the mirrored one in your printable area and print it out.

I cut out around the whole transfer leaving a little border, you could create a shadow layer and do a print n cut but I didn’t want to waste the top margin of my transfer paper.

Use a hot iron without steam, again read the directions of your transfer paper.  I recommend a hard flat surface, not an ironing board. Iron any wrinkles in your bag first so you have a nice area for your transfer

Here it is finished, I slowly moved my iron from side to side and then bottom to top for about 45 seconds.  The colors really came out great.  I tied some Trendy Twine to the end of the bag’s string and pulled it through till it came out the other end so I would have some nice Halloween twine as my tie instead.

Hope you’ve enjoyed this project, you can visit me at http://www.brigitsscraps.com, thanks for stopping by!!