Took me 6 hours, but finally I am proud to announce that the Captain America poptab promotion shirt has been created!
It wasn't easy lining up all the little layers of vinyl onto the shirt on the heat press.
Im glad I was able to do it perfectly, because I only had enough vinyl to do it right the first time!
These 3 pieces of 12x12in. Red, White & Blue vinyl were all I had left from a prior project from last semester.
They looks pretty cool without combining them!
When using the vinyl machine I was rushed from another student. I wish I had made 3 separate files to cut out instead of cutting out 3 of the same pattern. This meant weeding out all of the little poptab holes on the colors I did not need.
The weeding took the longest part... 3 hours!
This was the easy part. I had pre-created vector poptab shapes.
All I had to do was to copy, paste, and rotate each one into position.
This was the file I used to send to the vinyl cutter to cut out all the pieces.
To make sure I got the right layout I wanted, I took my image into Photoshop and over layed color over the poptabs.
This was the fun part. I used some left over wood from the scrap area. I laser cut the Captain America symbol, that I made, on top of the wood.
I took that home and dumped a bunch of poptabs all over the top.
I carefully arranged the poptabs, spacing them so that none of them touched, and it filled the entire outside circle.
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