Crafting at midnight Disney HTV Shirts. Personalize Disney shirts for your next Disneyland or Disneyworld vacation. Learn how to personalize Disney shirts quickly and easily with HTV (heat transfer vinyl). This article goes over step by step how to iron on a personalized Disney design with heat transfer vinyl and glitter heat transfer vinyl (iron on) material using the Cricut and an easy press (or a home iron).

YouTube Videos

There are 2 separate videos due to the 2 different designs and different iron on materials.

See below for the step by step how to Disney HTV Shirts.

Designed In Design Space

Design space allows for quick and easy creation and editing of any design. The fonts used for this project are FREE and found in Cricut’s design space. Personalization with a name would be easy as well. In design space it is necessary to decrease the letter spaces between words. For a continuous scripted word with a fancy script font weld the letters together.. Easily copy to duplicate the design, or reproduce the design in the cutting phase by increasing the number of copies desired.

Cut Out With My Cricut

Use an electronic cutting machine to cut out the design.  The design can be cut out by hand, however handcutting of HTV is tedious and therefore an electronic cutter is the preferred method.  I have and LOVE the Cricut maker.  The maker quickly and easily cut the words out of white, black, and glitter iron-on (heat transfer vinyl – HTV) material. Unwanted excess material is subsequently removed, or also known as “weeded.” Read the Cricut maker review by clicking here.

Heat Transfer Vinyl (HTV)

For this project, the heat transfer vinyl (iron on) was all Cricut brand. I highly recommend that people price compare to get the best quality and price for all materials. The Cricut heat transfer (iron on) vinyl was purchased directly from Cricut during a big sale. Amazon also has multiple options as well, like the glitter HTV variety pack. Favorite non-Cricut brands include Siser and Oracal. Remember to do test cuts before cutting the design because settings may be slightly different for alternative brands. All the different brands tried have worked.

There is also plain heat transfer iron-on from AliExpress. Plain heat transfer vinyl is normally $3.87, and is often on SALE for $1.99.  Purchases from AliExpress come directly from China, so it’s necessary to allow for longer shipping times.  AliExpress is similar to Wish, but AliExpress has items that ship for FREE, like this one.

Iron on

The design is very simply and easily done, as seen in the YouTube video above.  Using the Easy Press at 330 degrees, lay the HTV design out directly on top of the shirt and iron on initially for 15 seconds with a teflon sheet between, to protect both the heat press and the project.  To fully set and adhere the HTV do a final press after removing the adhesive backing, for 15 seconds. When using a home iron to adhere HTV set the iron to the high cotton setting.

After adhering the personalized and custom Disney HTV design, the shirts are done and ready to be used. The custom Disney designs above were picked out especially for my best friend’s upcoming Disney trip. Hopefully this step-by-step article was helpful and you are now inspired to go out and create your own customized and personalized Disney shirts.  Change the design and the colors and make it uniquely yours.

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