If you are fairly artistic you can make money selling your own t-shirts. All you have to do is invest in fabric markers. You can find a pack of six different colored fabric markers for $9.99 at Wal-Mart. The fabric markers come in primary colors and fluorescent. I would advise you to purchase both packages of fabric markers.
Next you will want to invest in good quality t-shirts. I decided to specialize in children’s artwork t-shirts. You can find children size t-shirts online for a great price. I bought the brand name Hanes t-shirts for a mere $2.00 a t-shirt. I ordered over $60.00 in small, medium and large, so that made me qualify for free shipping.
When your t-shirts arrive you will want to wash and dry them. Next I take a book and place it inside the t-shirt for a smooth surface. The book in between the t-shirt will help from keeping the markers from accidentally bleeding through to the back of the t-shirt.
Have fun drawing whatever your heart desires! Think of designs that will appeal to children, teenagers or adults if you choose to design t-shirts for all age groups.
You can freehand draw or if you want to, take a coloring book and trace the pages through the t-shirt. You may not be able to see the coloring book picture very well, so take a black marker and trace the picture. You will see the picture really good once you accomplish this step. Let the picture you traced onto the t-shirt dry overnight. The following day you can color in the picture. You do not want to color it right away as sometimes the colors will bleed together making your artwork look unprofessional.
Next you will want to take pictures of each t-shirt. You can easily open up your own online website. One site you can use for free is freewebs.com. The template is already set up so you can set up your site with no problem. Another site you can sell your t-shirts on is Etsy.com. You will have a small fee to advertise your items but a lot of people belong to Etsy. Etsy has many creative people with a variety of items for sale.
Tell your friends, family and look for craft shows you can sell your artwork t-shirts at. Be sure to put a tag on the t-shirt to let people know to wash the t-shirt inside out to help make the design last a long time.
You can give your children, nieces and nephews your special t-shirts for gifts. If you have children who are invited to classmate birthday parties, you can save money on gifts by giving your t-shirts as unique gifts.
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