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Hi. I'm Chris. Owner of Salon Tee's. For Expert Village this is how to create your own iron
on t-shirt. Now we'll create a rhinestone transfer. As you can see I've mirrored the
image or the phrase that I want to use. Just on a regular sheet of paper. I'll be using
my Mylar paper which has a sticky side and a white blank side. I'll be wanting to use
the sticky side of this paper so that it holds my rhinestones. I'll make sure that the sticky
side of the paper is actually up and facing me. And just simply lay that across the design
that I want to create. You can use tape to hold this down or a staple. But I would prefer
to actually bend the ends so that it sticks to the paper a little bit better. We won?t
need the ends at the end anyway. Now I'll be using a regular pair of household tweezers.
And I've got my rhinestones that I bought at a art supply or art and craft warehouse
store. These come in various sizes and various colors that you can use and it's all up to
your discretion. Making sure that the glue side is up facing me, I'll pick up the rhinestone
and simply place it just over where I want that rhinestone to be. And I'll continue in
that manner until I have all the rhinestones in place. It's important to know that this
does take a lot of time and it's very, very tedious in doing it this way. There are a
couple of other items that you can purchase at the art supply store. One is called The
Bedazzler or rhinestone machine type thing. It actually helps pick the transfers up a
little bit easier than using the tweezers like I'm using here. So we'll continue on
our design. As you can see the rhinestones are starting to lay in place. I'm just following
the design and outlining the design. Making sure that the glue side is up and once I complete
I'll actually end up putting the back of the paper on to our back and pressing that down
so that all the rhinestones are in place. Now the design of our rhinestone is complete
on our Mylar paper I'll take the back of the paper and just simply place it over that and
rub my finger across it. The stones are attached to the sticky side of the paper. So this just
helps smooth out any rough edges and make sure that our rhinestone is now ready for
transfer.