If you family is anything like mine, when The Greatest Showman came out, it became an obsession. Not just the movie, but the music and the message. My girls have loved watching this show over and over again and wanted shirts to celebrate their favorite moments.
DIY The Greatest Showman Shirts
For all of the Shirts
You will need:
- a Cricut
- Cricut EasyPress or Iron
- Cricut Brightpad
- a blank shirt
Bearded Lady, This Is Me Shirt
For this project you will need:
- Iron-on in brown
- Iron -on in black
To make life really easy, you can find my cut files here. Follow the instruction below for resizing or creating from scratch.
A Million Dreams Are Keeping Me Awake Shirt
For this project you will need:
- Glitter Iron-on in gold
- Iron -on in black
To make life really easy, you can find my cut files here. Follow the instruction below for resizing or creating from scratch.
Trade That Typical Shirt
For this project you will need:
- Iron-on in black
- Iron -on in blue
- Iron-on in red
- Iron -on in orange
- Iron-on in green
- Iron -on in teal
- Iron-on in purple
- Iron -on in light blue
To make life really easy, you can find my cut files here. Follow the instruction below for resizing or creating from scratch.
Nobody Ever Made A Difference Shirt
For this project you will need:
- Glitter Iron-on in red
- Iron on in black
To make life really easy, you can find my cut files here. Follow the instruction below for resizing or creating from scratch.
Open up and sign into Cricut Design Space. Your screen will look similar to the above. There will be a top banner, followed by a banner of your latest projects. You can see some of my most recent projects on the screen above. Below that will be the Make it Now projects. Hit the green plus sign next your projects to get started.
Using Cricut Images
Your new project will open up for you as a blank grid. Click on the images tab on the left-hand side of the screen to start this project. Search for your keywords in the top right corner search bar.
For the Bearded Lady shirt type beard in the search bar. Select the beard with the scraggly bottom insert it into your project. The image is: Beard #MD665D9
For the A Million Dreams Are Keeping Me Awake Shirt search for circus and add the ringmaster. The image is : Book Square #M30E67
For the Trade that Typical Shirt you will type Circus and add the circus tent image. The image is: Master of Ceremony #M447B1
For the Nobody Ever Made A Difference Shirt you will type top hat and add the tall top hat. The book image is: Top Hat#M3C759
Adding Text
Add text by hitting the text button in the far left menu. A text box will pop up and you can type what you want the project to say.
For the Bearded Lady shirt type I Am Brave. I Am Bruised. I Am Who I Meant To Be. in one text box and This Is Me! in another.
For the A Million Dreams Are Keeping Me Awake Shirt type A million dreams are keeping me awake all in one text box.
For the Trade that Typical Shirt you will type So Trade That Typical For Something in one Box and If It’s Crazy, live a little crazy in another. I typed each letter of COLORFUL in its own text box.
For the Nobody Ever Made A Difference Shirt you will type Nobody Ever Made A Difference By Being Like Everyone Else in one text box.
Resizing
Once you have inserted the text into your project you can resize it and move it around. Resize the image by clicking and dragging on the double arrow symbol that appears when you have the image selected. There is also size box at the top of the screen that lists how big the text or image is, you can adjust the width and height here if you don’t want to manually toggle the blue arrow key.
Curve Tool (The Bearded Lady Shirt)
Select the text you want to curve and slide the diameter bar to the right to curve your text down and to the left to curve it up. Slide the bar until the text looks like you want it. For this shirt, we are just curving the words to form a curve on three sides of the beard.
Slice Tool (Nobody Ever Made a Difference Shirt)
You will now use the slice tool to take cut the words out of the image. Resize the words and the hat until the words fit inside of the hat. Select both the words and the image and select slice in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. Pull the text off of your image and you still see the letters have now cut through the image. Grab the letters again and pull the second set off as well. Now your Cricut will cut the words out of the image.
Make It
When your project looks the way you want it, it the Make It button in the top right corner of the screen. Hit the mirror image button on the right-hand side, your project will flip on the screen and look backward. Make sure you hit the mirror button on all colors of the mats.
Place the Iron on shiny side down onto your Cricut mat and then load your mat into your machine, spin the dial to iron-on and hit the flashing Cricut button.
Weeding
Peel the heat transfer off of your mat and then weed (peel apart) the iron on until just your design remains on the sticky backing.
Layering Iron On (A Million Dreams Shirt and Trade that Typical)
The difference in the Million dreams shirt and others is during the actually ironing process. Normally you just iron one layer on and you are done, with this shirt you have multiple colors and layers to get the right look. First, lay down the gold glitter back part of the book and the words. Iron it down using the instructions below. Place the black iron on Master of Ceremony piece on top of the gold one and then cover the entire design with a piece of parchment paper (THIS IS IMPORTANT! It keeps the design from sticking to your iron) and iron it down with the same process.
For the Trade that Typical shirt, you are going to iron in small segments to help make sure that none of the letters stick to one another.
EasyPress
Heat your iron up to the hottest setting or you EasyPress to 305 degrees. Place the book design sticky side down onto your shirt. Iron straight onto the plastic, making sure each element of the design gets 30 seconds of pressure and hit. Start pulling up the plastic backing and if any of the elements pull up at all, put the plastic back down and iron that area again. Peel the plastic off and then repeat with the words.
Which shirt would you make to celebrate The Greatest Showman?
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