inside: Learn how to use AI to create fun and easy spirit wear prints you can use to cheer on your school or team this year. Full tutorial with prompts to create the looks seen here and inspire you to create your own.
You guys… I hate using AI. Seriously… I don’t do it. I still google everything and read actual articles rather than use the AI answer given. I don’t open up Chatgpt and ask it how to do things… I just don’t.. However, I recently played around with creating some fun shirt designs and I will admit this saved me hours and hours of designing time. Also, you can use the prompts yourself and just change some of the words to create your own looks as well.
DIY school spirit wear shirts with AI prompts-
So excited about these new shirts for the fall semester. As I’m looking at these now I see they are all pretty feminine, so my next project might have to be to make some for the boys! For now, enjoy these pretty school spirit shirts.
Rose goes to a middle school that is the Eagles and my boys go to a different High School, so I made a few different designs. These turned out so cute and I’ll give you the AI prompts below to recreate these with information from your school. Also, I will be linking the shirts I used here from Amazon, I never know what is a good shirt for sublimation or not…
Below are the prompts I got from Chat to create the images. What I did was put in my description, then ask it to create the actual prompt for the image. So strange that every prompt is a bit different all using the same AI model, but it’s what it is. You can always start with this, then give directions to modify as you need. You are also welcome to upload my images for inspiration with the prompt to get a better output.
It’s also interesting to me in working with this that you can put in the same prompt twice and get slightly different images. I recommend starting with the prompts I shared, then giving clarifying directions from there. I do not have paid ChatGPT, and if that is you, there is a limit to the images you can create in a day. If you need a lot of revisions you may not be able to do all these at one time. But, you should be able to do one or more for sure.
Other gorgeous sublimation projects to try –
- Sublimation on stainless steel
- Sublimation on dark fabric tutorial
- How to sublimate on glass tumblers
- Custom Sublimation ornaments
- Sublimation tea towels tutorial
AI prompts to create school spirit wear prints-
Shirts that are good for sublimation {high poly content}
- Cap Sleeve Womens Shirt
- Womens Tank 2-pack
- Girls oversized tee {bought in white and grey}
- Womens t-shirt in grey-purple
- Girls oversized, split hem shirt
Use the prompts below to create your own school spirit wear prints, change up the BOLD text with your own school words and colors.
Floral School Shirt prompt:
Create a high-resolution, print-ready vector-style PNG with a transparent background at 300 DPI.
Design a bold, retro-inspired school spirit graphic featuring the word “Eagles” as the central focus in a large, hand-lettered varsity script. The lettering should have smooth, flowing curves with an oversized ornamental capital “E” and a long sweeping underline that extends beneath the entire word. Use thick, confident strokes with a slightly distressed vintage screen-print texture while maintaining crisp vector edges suitable for commercial printing.
Surround the typography with a dense arrangement of stylized Scandinavian-inspired folk art florals and botanical elements. Include a balanced mix of:
Simple five- and six-petal flowers in multiple sizes
Rounded blossoms with contrasting centers
Curved leafy stems
Teardrop-shaped leaves
Decorative vines
Small berries, dots, and accent shapes that fill negative space
Symmetrical botanical clusters radiating around the lettering
Keep the floral elements evenly distributed around the composition so they frame the word without covering it. The overall layout should feel balanced, layered, and visually full while remaining clean and easy to read.
Color palette:
Deep cherry red (#9E1B22)
Golden yellow (#E7B12A)
Charcoal gray (#4A4A4A)
Warm cream (#F8F4EA)
Use the cherry red for the main lettering and several flowers, golden yellow for additional flowers and botanical accents, charcoal gray for leaves and foliage, and warm cream for outlines and flower centers.
Style should resemble:
Vintage collegiate apparel
Folk art botanical illustration
Retro hand-painted signage
Modern vector screen-print artwork
Clean layered shapes with subtle distressed ink texture
The composition should be tightly cropped around the artwork with no unnecessary empty space.
Output Requirements:
Vector-style illustration
Transparent background
300 DPI
Print-ready
Isolated artwork only
No shirt
No mockup
No mannequin
No hanger
No fabric texture
No background
No shadows
No borders
No extra objects
No watermark
No text other than the word “Eagles”
Striped background school name prompt:
“Create a high-resolution PNG-style T-shirt graphic with a transparent background inspired by the retro sports script style shown in the reference. The design features the word ‘Faith‘ in a bold, flowing varsity script with a thick outline and a subtle dotted/glitter-look fill. Behind the word are seven vertical stripes in alternating gold and light gray. The script is maroon with a white inner outline and a medium gray outer outline for contrast. Keep the design clean, centered, and print-ready with no mockup, no T-shirt, no background, and no additional text or graphics. The overall aesthetic is vintage athletic, cheerful, and suitable for DTF or screen printing.”,”size”:”1024×1024″,”transparent_background”:true}
Retro Horizontal stripes Prompt:
Create a high-resolution PNG graphic with a transparent background. Design a vintage school spirit graphic featuring the words “Faith Eagles” in a bold retro athletic style. The layout should stack the text, with “Faith” in a smaller, clean varsity-style font above the much larger “EAGLES” in thick collegiate block letters.
Give the lettering a distressed, worn vintage texture to resemble a well-loved screen-printed T-shirt. Across the lower portion of the large lettering, incorporate several thin horizontal retro stripes that extend beyond the text on both sides, creating a classic 1970s/1980s athletic design. Vary the stripe thicknesses for visual interest while keeping the layout balanced and symmetrical.
Use only gold, cherry red, dark gray, and white for the color palette. Make EAGLES primarily gold with dark gray and white accents, while Faith can be cherry red or dark gray for contrast. The horizontal stripes should alternate between gold, cherry red, dark gray, and white in a harmonious arrangement.
Add subtle vintage distressing, cracked ink texture, and slightly weathered edges throughout the design, but keep the artwork crisp and print-ready. The typography should be bold, clean, and highly legible with a timeless school spirit aesthetic. Maintain generous spacing and a centered composition.
The final artwork should be vector-style, 300 DPI, transparent background, with no shirt, mockup, mannequin, hanger, fabric texture, background, shadows, or additional objects. Output only the standalone print-ready design.
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