Make your own sports apparel

From the economical to the inspirational, using iron-ons to create your own sports apparel offers many advantages:

• Save money: Skip an expensive trip to a screen-printing shop or retailer by taking the DIY approach to showing your team spirit.
• Have fun: Gather your fellow fans or intramural team together for a T-shirt crafting party that will get everyone excited for the upcoming season.
• Enjoy variety: Don’t feel limited to T-shirts. With HP iron-on transfers, you can also decorate tank-tops, shorts, tote bags—almost anything that’s made out of cotton.
• Express yourself: Making your own sports apparel lets you show your individuality by creating something truly unique.

• Choose a fabric that works well with your team’s colors—bright green might not go so well with the yellow and purple of the Los Angeles Lakers, for example, but white or grey would be a good match.
• Get additional, free, printable NBA projects from the HP Creative Studio, including calendars, photo frames, party invites, and more.

1. In a new document, open the Page Layout tab and change the Orientation of the document to Landscape.
2. Select the Insert tab. On the right, in the Text options box, click WordArt.
3. Choose a pre-created style for your lettering. (If you don’t see exactly the look you’re after, keep reading to see how easy these designs are to edit.)
4. A box will appear with a pre-selected font, font size, and text reading YOUR TEXT HERE. Replace the text with your own text, choose the largest font size available (96), and choose a font you like. Click Okay.
5. You can expand or shrink your text size by grabbing one of the corners of the WordArt box and dragging it.

Add a number:

1. Repeat the steps above in a new WordArt box.

1. Double-click on the WordArt box containing the text you want to flip.
2. The WordArt editing tools will appear under the Format tab.
3. In the box labeled, Arrange, choose the Rotate tool (see an image of its icon to the left in case it isn’t labeled).
4. Use the drop-down menu of the Rotate tool to select Flip horizontal.

1. Choose Shape Fill under the Format tab.
2. Click on the color that you want to fill the body of your text.
3. To give your text a different colored outline, choose Shape Outline.
4. Click on the color that you want to outline your text.
5. Select the Weight of the outline you want to use.

1. You can adjust the “bend” or angle of your WordArt text by grabbing the dot at the lower center of your WordArt box with your cursor and raising or lowering it.
2. You can also adjust the “bend” of your text by double clicking within the WordArt box until the Format menu appears.
3. Select Change Shape from the right hand side of the WordArt Styles box.
4. Select Follow Path, and then select, for example, the straight horizontal line, or whatever shape you want your text to take.

• Basketball lovers iron-on-template: This colorful design features a team of slam-dunking silhouettes.
• Baseball aficionado iron-on-template: Add this red-hot-pitch graphic to a T-shirt or shorts for an easy way to make every day game day.
• Soccer devotee iron-on-template: Don this cool, tattoo-style soccer iron-on and score some points with fellow fans.

• Wash and dry your garment before applying the iron-on
• Never print iron-ons with a laser printer
• Choose a heavy, easy-to-read font, and then bold it
• Leave a ¼ inch border around your iron-on when you cut it out
• Iron on a hard, flat surface
• Let iron-ons cool before peeling off the backing
• Find more instructions to print and apply your iron-on transfers

• Iron-on transfers
  To print your iron-ons, use HP Iron-on Transfers for white or light colored fabrics or HP Iron-on Transfers for Color Fabrics.
• An HP inkjet printer
  Look for “iron-on-transfers” in the Media types row in the HP Printer buying guide comparison charts to see if a printer you’re considering works with iron-ons.