If you are into heat transfer vinyl, and you have a cutting machine or a sublimation printer, there are unlimited ideas that you can try out. Never throw away scraps of HTV. Sort them out by type and color in labeled boxes and use them for creative ideas for home and gifts. Here are a few ideas that you can try.
1. Unique Party Favors for a Child’s Birthday Party
Make a child’s party memorable. You can create 3 or 4 designs that are related to the theme of the party in your designing software. Cut the designs on stencils. Find affordable T-shirts for each child who is going to attend the party. Cut out 2 or 3 colors of chosen HTV scraps into various small pieces of various sizes shapes, and put them into a bowl. When the children come, let them choose the pieces they want for the design and let them fill their designs with the pieces to create mosaics. Pick the pieces on transfer tape and then press the HTV onto each child’s T-shirt according to the way each child created the mosaic. Each child will go home with a unique T-shirt.
2. Create Silhouette Portraits
If you have great interest in silhouettes, create them in your Silhouette studio or other software using a profile picture of your kids or a wedding couple or any other person. Cut the silhouette picture in the chosen heat transfer vinyl. Most people use black but you can also use pink for little girls and blue for little boys. Then frame the silhouette and display it in a child’s bedroom or anywhere in the house.
3. Create Custom T-shirts for Family Reunions
Create custom T-shirts for everyone in your family for a family get-together. Find matching shirts for all the ages and write their names and put a beautiful design on each.
4. Create DIY Halloween Costumes
You don’t have to spend too much money on Halloween every year. You can create DYI Halloween costumes for the little ones with glow-in-the-dark or reflective heat transfer vinyl. Create the skeleton in the design software, cut the design on your machine and press it onto black clothing!
5. Christmas Décor or Gifts
Christmas is a special time for everyone and there are many ideas for the season. This is the best time to use your scraps for some of your projects. How about personalizing Christmas stockings with everyone’s name created in your software and cut on scrap heat transfer vinyl? For a small baby, you can decorate a onesie with “My first Christmas” with glitter heat transfer vinyl in Christmas colors. You can also have customized Christmas placemats with Christmas messages or designs. How about decorating ornaments, plates, and mugs with Christmas designs and colors? There is no limit to what you can do with heat transfer vinyl to create unique gifts and décor for Christmas. Get busy while there is still time.
6. Bridal Party
You can create matching T-shirts for a bridal party and maybe include socks, hats, and scarves too. For the bride, you can use glitter or metallic heat transfer vinyl on white to make her feel special. For the bridesmaids, you can use other colors but with matching designs.
7. Thanksgiving Ideas
Thanksgiving is a great holiday for the family. You can create beautifully decorated clothes for the kids and adults too with Thanksgiving-related designs.
8. Home Décor
There are times when you want to decorate a room and you cannot find what you like at the store. Or maybe what you like is too plain. Have you ever considered customizing décor for a room? You can actually use heat transfer vinyl to put designs onto curtains, pillowcases, cushions, table runners, lamp shades, etc.
9. Turn an Ordinary Dress into an Evening Dress
If you have a dress that you like and you want to wear it in the evening for an event, you can simply decorate it with metallic heat transfer vinyl or glitter HTV or a combination of the two. You have to be careful to protect the dress during the pressing process with Teflon sheets. If you are going to layer the HTV make sure that none of it is over-pressed.
10. Cover Items in Patterned Heat Transfer Vinyl
There are endless ways of using patterned vinyl. If you have patterned HTV left over from other projects, use it to apply skins to items such as notebooks, appliances, laptops, cameras, jewelry boxes, etc.
Endless Ideas!
I hope you will enjoy using some of these ideas! You can try these as a hobby, but if you are good at it and friends and relatives love your work, it can easily turn into a business. Imagine, you can end up offering birthday party services as a side hustle or a full-time business.
