The US Spreadshirt Blog

Gear up for the Vote: 2012 Election T-Shirts

2012-05-25T14:57:23Z

2012 Presidential Election apparel has finally arrived. It’s time to “Gear Up for the Vote” with Spreadshirt as President Obama faces off against the GOP challenger Mitt Romney for the ultimate prize: the White House and the most powerful office in the US. Will Obama spend four more years in the White House or will Romney oust him and usher in a more conservative era?

At Spreadshirt, we honestly don’t care who wins. It doesn’t matter whether you support Obama or Romney, if you are a Democrat or Republican or Green Party supporter. What matters is that you show your support by wearing Obama t-shirts and Romney t-shirts with pride. It’s real simple: choose your candidate, wear their gear, vote in November.

And don’t bother wearing a boring t-shirt design like “Obama 2012” or “Romney for President” t-shirts. Instead, check out our Gear Up for the Vote page, select which candidate you support, and browse the hundreds of creative designs in our Marketplace. This election is the perfect time to express your creativity on political t-shirts.

With the 2012 Election less than 6 months away, now is the time to start displaying your support. So “Gear Up for the Vote” with Spreadshirt.

Now Offering Personalized Coffee and Tea Mugs!

2012-05-23T15:33:50Z

Getting tired of the everyday plain coffee mug? Spreadshirt is now offering the same great personalization experience we offer for shirts to your coffee mug. You can now design your own mug to your heart’s content with custom text, designs or pictures on our online T-Shirt Maker. We tested these new mugs ourselves and they are quickly becoming a favorite around here. Just like our popular printed t-shirts, we are sure our personalized coffee mugs will be a great hit.

Are there any designs in our marketplace that interest you? Anything that you think would go perfectly on your new coffee mug? Comment here or on our Facebook Page and let us know what sort of mug you are going to be getting. We would love to hear back from you.

Design Contest: Create Spreadshirt’s Facebook Timeline Cover!

2012-05-12T14:52:55Z

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!

Mother’s Day Special- FREE Standard Shipping

2012-05-02T19:37:24Z

Mother’s Day is May 13th! If you haven’t bought your mom, grandmother or wife their gift yet, create something one of a kind and just for them this year! If your mom likes to cook, how about an apron or how about a tote bag with a custom message or design or even better a bathrobe? Find more ideas in our Mother’s Day section and as an added treat now through May 8th, spend $30.00 and receive FREE Standard Shipping with coupon code MOTHERSDAY12.

Killing Them Softly – 7 Ecofriendly Stain Removal Tips

2012-04-18T15:07:31Z

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.

Neon’s are BACK!

2012-04-17T17:34:17Z

Neon colors are all the rage this summer, as shown here on the Teen Vogue and Marie Claire websites. As we try our best to stay on the up and up of the latest trends we have added three new neon colors; Neon Orange, Neon Pink and Neon Yellow to our best selling Unisex Fleece Zip Hoody by American Apparel!

Stand out in your neon hoodie!!

DIY-Creative Ways to Reuse your old T-Shirt

2012-04-10T01:05:48Z

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!

10% on Aprons! Go Green or Go Home! – Spreadshirt is celebrating Earth Month

2012-04-04T14:30:17Z

No. This is not a late St. Patrick’s Day post. This is about Earth Month. And we want you to join us in raising awareness and getting green! Here’s the story: Earth Day actually is a thing already: It is April 22nd and usually celebrated with planting trees, picking up roadside trash, conducting various programs for recycling and conservation, using recyclable containers for snacks and lunches. Some people are encouraged to sign petitions to governments, calling for stronger or immediate action to stop global warming and to reverse environmental destruction. We thought: go green or go home! Which is why we are making the whole month of April about the environment and we have awesome stuff coming up for you.

We are beginning our green month with 10% on your personalized apron. Suit up for garden and spring cleaning and save 10% on your personalized apron now. Enter voucher code: THUMBSUP when checking out. Beginning today through April 10th.

Of course just giving some percent off on aprons is a bit easy and we are serious about Earth Month. We will be greening up our terrace by planting all types of plants together, there will be a big fleamarket at the German Spreadshirt headquarters in order to get rid off some old clothes and returns others may still want. And we have some more fun and ecofriendly things coming up for you. Make sure to come back for more information on our Earth Month.

By the way: We have great ecofriendly apparel in our assortment. Check out the Ecofriendly Cotton Tote Bag or for example the Unisex Organic Lightweight Heather T-Shirt.

Really, Multi-Personality Shirts?

2012-04-02T12:05:32Z

No. We won’t be selling those at Spreadshirt any time soon. But we had a blast creating our April Fool’s story and taking those pictures. Just imagine the other people in the park that day. And obviously quite some of you clicked the link. Got you! Haha! But while preparing our joke we actually found someone in Germany who produces shirts for couples. In case you really can’t continue your life happily without these shirts you can find them here:http://www.familienshirt.com/. But we actually do have a little something for those of you who are newsletter subscribers. You have the opportunity to test our brand new volume discount until the 8th of April. Save money now with volume discounts from 5 products on. What? You didn’t get the newsletter? Well then hurry up, open Maria’s newsletter now, bring it back from trash, take us off your spam list or subscribe to our newsletter already. You won’t regret it.

Did you try to buy them? Would you want us to add them to our product rage? Please leave a comment and let us know!

Multi-Personality Shirts – Now Available at Spreadshirt

2012-03-30T15:16:21Z

We’ve added a brand new addition to our product range: Multi-Personality Shirts. The more, the merrier! This very big and all embracing t-shirt has space for multiple people (and all of their personalities). A fun way to celebrate a bachelor or bachelorette party or showing support for your sports team. Just think of the attention you’ll get when wearing it with your friends! It also makes a great gift idea for couples or the whole family! Check out the cool possibilities:

Jump on the new trend and create your own Multi-Personality Shirts now!