Only 17 days, until the dream of every football fan could come true – the cup. On the 8th of June the 2012 European Championship starts. Of course we want to support you and your favourite team with the right fan shirts. Now our England football shirts have been activated for you and we have many colorful shirts for men and women available.

As already mentioned, time is running and you have 17 days to prepare yourself for the 2012 games. But, don’t panic! We already have collected a few designs to help you get to the right shirt. Our favourites are Quentin1984’s England Shirt, artpolitic’s UK Flag-T-Shirt and I love UK Shirt and nektarinchen’s UK Heart T-shirt. For even more inspiration have a look in our Football championship shop, where you can find all graphics and themes. With Spreadshirt, you can create your own England fan shirt and join the European football celebrations with a custom t-shirt. Select from the thousands of football designs and add your own custom text to the shirt!

During the European competition, support the England football team with a t-shirt. Show that you are an England fan with a Union Jack shirt or wear the St George’s cross across your chest! Football is a religion in England and all of us should show our support to the Three Lions!
Everyone will be talking about football in Europe this summer. It will be the biggest football championship for all teams from England, Germany, Netherlands, and France to of course Spain, the defending champions. What do you think: Which team will be the next European champions?

Get your kids individual shirts! They’ll love it! From the 15th through the 22nd of May you will get a 15% discount on our children’s products. Simply enter the voucher code LITTLENIPPER when checking out. Should your kids be old enough browse through Spreadshirt’s children’s products together and help them choose their individual piece. (Also a great way out of the “kindergarden-put-a-name-tag-in-it-hassle”) Obviously a classic win win situation: Less trouble for you, and a great “exists only once in the whole wide world” gift for your kid. Trust us, best gift ever! Here is what we have in stock for you:

Summer is coming, temperatures are rising… how about a cool summer-T? For example, our kid’s organic T-Shirt, which was produced entirely by means of renewable energy sources like solar and wind. In spite of the very robust material it’super gentle to your kids’ skin. The kid’s breathable shirt is made of cellular mesh fabric; your kids will be absolutely comfortable also on really hot days.

Only the best for the tinsy tiny ones: An independent ecology audit awarded these shirts, so we can happily recommend these items for your baby. With Spreadshirt’s organic short sleeve T-Shirt for babies and the organic long sleeve one peace you can’t go wrong. Besides, the material is tough, so it doesn’t limit the discovery desire.

Skin protection is the number one rule for your kids’ summer. But also their head should be protected against sunrays. With our kid’s baseball cap or our really soft organic cap for babies it’s quite simple. So you and your children can enjoy the time in the sun.

Our children’s products are all comfortably cut and really really soft so your babies and kids can discover the world without tiresome scratching and pinching on their skin. Make sure to check out our product range for kids and babies, use voucher code LITTLENIPPER when checking out, get 15% on children’s clothing.

We are super excited to announce the second round of our Facebook Timeline Design Contest. The first time around we asked you to help us out creating a cover image for our Facebook page when the timeline for pages was first released. And as your entries were really great we are looking forward to seeing even more fresh and awesome designs the second time around. The first contest was won by German graphic designer Doreen and her shop got lot’s of traffic after we released the cover image. The second round is now officially running. Send in your suggestions for our Facebook Page Cover from now on through 20th of May. The winner cover image will be on our page for a week and we’ll link to your shop or website. You can enter your design via email or post it directly to our Facebook page. Should you need some more information on the guidelines for these facebook cover images you can find them here. And we also found a cool app to help you get your timeline cover image in shape. The Timeline Slicer App is great when you are looking to make you own fanpage look good with the new timeline design in Facebook and it will help you send in the right sized image for this design contest.

Here is what you need to know:

• Send in your suggestion until the 20th of March. Post it to our Facebook Page or send it in via email to dos[at]spreadshirt.net.
• We are looking for extraordinarily great designs. Which means: You do NOT have to include Spreadshirt in your contest entry. We want you. Your ideas, your creativity. You might even send in a picture of your grandma if it’s funny and creative we’ll love it. Of course, you can use your marketplace or shop designs should you already sell designs at Spreadshirt or run a free T-Shirt shop with us.
• Please don’t hurt our logo. It has feelings too. Actually we already are using our logo as a profile picture on Facebook, so it does not have to be included in your design idea. You can find tons of images for you to work with in our Flickr. And you should take a look at our summer catalog to get an idea of what we thought to be great designs.

Well then, get your Photoshop up and running. The winner will get loads of fame, a free T-Shirt of course and your image will be visible to around 20.000 fans for a week and we’ll link to your page to make sure everyone out there gets to know who this fresh design genius was that “pimped” our facebook page. It’ll boost your traffic and introduce your talent to a large audience.

Should you need anything else or have a question please leave a comment. We are looking forward to receiving your images!

What? You have not liked our Facebook Page yet? Seriously? Do it! Do it now! We are posting a lot of fun stuff, news and we give away T-Shirts every now and then. You can not miss out on that!

Ok UK, it is time to get ready for her Majesty’s Jubilee celebration. We asked the Spreadshirt community to come up with designs for the occasion and we a) now have a pool of amazing Diamond Jubilee Desings and b) found out that not each an everyone of you is such a big fan of the Queen or simply does not care about the celebration. The design battle was held in the Spreadshirt Forum and on our Facebook Page. And we are very happy to provide a wide range of Jubilee T-Shirts for you to choose from. The Queen is celebrating 60 years in “office”. That’s quite some time, isn’t it? Some think it is time for her to finally retire, maybe to retire monarchy in general, others will come out to celebrate with her. Here are our suggestions for a appropriately-dressed Diamond Jubilee:

Corgi Goes Bad for Diamond Jubilee T-Shirt Women’s Girlie Shirt

redandblackonwhiteb T-Shirts Women’s Girlie Shirt

Dancing Jack (Diamond Jubilee Queen Elizabeth II) T-Shirt – Men’s Classic T-Shirt

Which is your favourite design? Are you for or against the Diamond Jubilee celebration? Leave a comment and let us know.

We are looking forward to hearing your feedback. Please leave a comment!

Anf if you like the sporty looks of our models in the catalog, you should get your own England Fan Shirt right now and look just as sporty as they do!

We’re adding a bit of special “cat content” to our platform. In fact, it’s a very famous cat – a lazy, sarcastic and funny one: Garfield! We’re happy to present you a range of designs featuring the popular character from Jim Davis’s smash hit TV cult. You can choose from a range of T-shirts, tops, hoodies and other clothing for men, women and kids. Of course the shirts feature not only Garfield himself, but many funny citations of the orange striped fur monster. Have a look at the Garfield products on the Spreadshirt marketplace now, and order your favourite design on a shirt or a hoodie.

Also, we’d like to know: Which design do you like best? We’d love to hear your feedback on the new products!

Dirty t-shirt? Get the knack of mastering how to rid your tees of stains and dirt. We have gathered 7 awesome tips for you on how to remove stains from your favourite pieces the gentle way. Let’s get right to it, here is a list of gentle stain removal and ecofriendly washing advice:
1. Use less washing powder. Using a lot doesn’t mean that your threads get cleaner. Alternatively, you can try wash balls. In Asian countries these offer a traditional way of washing clothes and hair. And they are environmentally sound.
2. Don’t use temperatures higher than 60°C. Your washing will probably get just as clean as when using 95°C. And you save energy as well.
3. Don’t wash on Mondays. No joke! They say that most people do their washing on Mondays, and this is why power charging, sewage works and pollution hit their highest peak then.

4. Stuff your washing machine as much as you can! If you can still get a hand between your clothes in the tumbler, the machine will have no problems coping with the wash load.
5. Offer spongey materials. Ideally put a white cloth beneath the stain which can absorb the stain’s substance.
6. Hide traces. You can avoid leaving borders behind by putting a kind of “liquid ring” around the stain.
7. Be careful with hot or boiling water. Especially protein-based stains will become permanent instead of getting removed.
Looking for more on easy stain removal? Here are some links for further reading.
Money Saving Wednesday…Vinegar (totallyready.com)
Wash-off: Fighting Sweat Stains with Baking Soda (craftzine.com)
Pizza joint gives staff t-shirts with the text of 1-star Yelp reviews (boingboing.net)
Have we forgotten anything? Share your magic stain removal skills with us and leave a comment.

London elects its mayor on 3 May and 11 other UK cities vote in mayoral referendums. So we are asking city-dwellers what would you do, if you were Mayor? From the quirky to the straight-forward, ideas in the Spreadshirt Shop that was set up currently include:

• If I Were Mayor there’d be a banker tax
• If I Were Mayor South London would be independent
• If I Were Mayor I’d say no to Heathrow 3
• If I Were Mayor there’d be slides on the Tube
• If I Were Mayor #riotwombles would get a medal

Did those inspire you? We would like to make it a trending topic on Twitter. We are using the hashtag #ifiweremayor on Twitter collecting the best ideas. Come join us and share your mind and spread the word. Speak up let us know what you would do IF YOU WERE MAYOR.

Create your own “If I were Mayor” T-Shirt now!

Follow @spreadshirt on Twitter.

Ready or not, here they come. Again! We’ve reactivated a bunch of bright neon colours to really make your outfit pop. Yesterday our zip hoodie by American Apparel got the new colour additions of neon-yellow, neon-pink and neon-orange.
We’ve already got plenty of looks around the office strutting around like it was 1990. We promise that you will be the centre of attention wherever you go with one of these hoodies on.

The new colours are available for all techniques, but we recommend using our neon-flex colours to guarantee a truly blinding effect

Customized Zip Hoodie by American Apparel

These new colours will only be available in a limited edition until autumn 2012 unless you go crazy about them. In that case we will carry them much more longer.

Looking forward to hearing what you think about our new additions – let us know in the comments below!

As a huge fan of all things T-Shirt related and with Earth Day right around the corner, We’ve collected some super creative ideas on how to reuse an old t-shirt or add some extra flair to one of your favorites. Did I also mention that all of these projects cost nearly nothing- perfect for all of us on a budget!!

Courtesy of our friends at Pinterest-Turn your tee into a cute and sexy summer tank. Only requires a pair of scissors and some ribbon, no SEWING required. Simply cut off sleeves, neckline and bottom hem, tie the back and VOILA!

Saved by Love Creations has compiled a list of 50 ideas of how to reuse your t-shirt. My personal two favorites are are the t-shirt tote bag from Instructables. Only supplies needed are a few pins, a pencil, a dinner plate, sewing machines, scissors and of course a t-shirt. The end result is a sturdy bag perfect for grocery shopping!

My other favorite from Savedbylovecreations is converting an old over-sized t-shirt into a skirt. Only supplies needed other than a t-shirt are a sewing machine, a pencil, scissors and a 3″ elastic waistband. A little cutting and sewing and you have the perfect cotton summer skirt!

The last idea doesn’t necessarily need to be done with an old t-shirt but instead with one of your favorites that needs a little updating. Plumadorable shares how by using a bleach pen and a stencil can transform your t-shirt instantly into a vintage looking graphic tee.

Be sure to check out our Pinterest Page where we have collected some other ideas on how to reuse your t-shirt. Happy reusing and Happy Earth Day!