Wednesday, June 22, 2011

You Are My Sunshine Freebie


You've all heard the song, read the phrase, and seen it on a million prints in kids' rooms tours across the blogosphere. You'd think it'd be tired, but there's something about that tune that gets me singing it to LE without realizing it. After many rainy days this spring and a newly gifted Silhouette from my parents (!), I knew that I wanted to create some sort of design for LE to wear.

I bought a couple of plain white long-sleeve shirts on clearance at Target and a pair of yellow striped pants at a garage sale. Then I used Illustrator to create this design:


After I had it all cut out with the Silhouette, I noticed that the cursive "are my" font was way too thin for the material. I had to scrap those words and change it to the same cursive as "when skies...."

It seems as though at some places, I knew that you shouldn't put a color over another color with iron-ons, especially the flocked iron-on material that I bought from Silhouette. In other places, I didn't keep that in mind; I had to use scissors to cut out pieces of the yellow sun.

I wanted to share the design with you to create your own shirts or whatever you want. I went back to Illustrator to fix the errors, and the design now looks like this:

I saved it as a Silhouette file that should be really easy for you to use. All of the gray is grouped and all of the yellow is grouped together. Place the appropriate grouping on the artboard and cut each grouping one at a time. It's already mirrored so that you don't have to worry to remember to do that for cutting.




If you want to resize the image, to get them both the same size, you should place them both in the same area and resize them together. 



When it comes time to apply to your shirt, it should be really easy to figure out how to put them together since they fit much like a puzzle.

If you have issues or questions, let me know! I hope you enjoy it! (File links are below)


Click on the link to get directed to YouSendIt or Google to download:
Yousendit (good until August 17, 2012)
Email me at any date and I'll send it to you-- no spam, pop-ups, ads... can't beat it! :)

24 comments:

  1. This shirt (and your kiddo!) are adorable! :) If I had a silhouette, I would def want a copy of that file! :) Nice work! Smiles, Michelle

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  2. What an adorable little girl & project. Found you from Flickr. I haven't attempted a project this big yet!

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  3. Thanks, Michelle and Stacy! :)

    Stacy- It should be very simple if you download the file and not try to build it yourself. Good luck with future projects!

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  4. Wowzers, this is just plain CUTE!! Well done and thanks for sharing!

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  5. WOW! This is simply adorable. TX for sharing!

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  6. Love it so much!! My almost-unused Silhouette sends you a big hug :D Thanks for sharing!!
    Anna

    PS: LE is such a pretty girl!! <3

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  7. That is so awesome! Thank you so much for sharing it.

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  8. Beautiful - Thank you so much!

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  9. Oh this is so gorgeous. Inspiration to make something for my grandchildren!

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  10. Your little one is so adorable! Thank you for sharing this file with us. I just love it!! xo

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  11. you could not have asked for a cuter model, absolutely a sunshine girl! Great t-shirt design too, thanks for sharing, hugs

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  12. Do you happen to make and sell these? I know I'm going to fail at it already!

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    1. Sorry, Shay, I don't! I probably would do it if I weren't full term preggo and have a never-ending list of hopeful to-do's prior to the baby's arrival. You can do it!! Good luck!

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    2. Thank you, congrats and good luck with bub!

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  13. This is adorable!!! Great job on the design - I'm making a "You are my Sunshine" sign for my sons and when looking for inspiration, found this!

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  14. I want to know where you got the Ollie! I had one when I was a kid and haven't seen one since (35 years ago). I would love to get one for my toddler!

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    1. I have no idea, but I'll ask my mother-in-law because she bought one a few years ago. Maybe they're still around!

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  15. This is so adorable! could you PLEASE send it to me.it will not let me email you.
    Thank you so much

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    1. Pattie, I need your email address! You can email nicole@wonderfuljoyahead dot com

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  16. I got it Nicole. Thank you for being so generous and sharing your designs.I love your work.I'm new to silhouette cameo and I am having so much fun thanks to the designers out there.

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  17. I love this picture so much! I was wondering if I can share it on my blog post ^^ http://thenextstop.weebly.com/yellow.html

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  18. The shirt is just great - and if I had a little girl like your to sing to, I would be singing all the time - she is just gorgeous!
    Thank you - Julie

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  19. This is darling! Just downloaded. Thanks so much!

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