A one-person design studio
CozyExhaleART is run by Sarah, a digital designer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Every design in this shop is drawn and assembled by hand, one at a time. There is no team, no stock-art library and no reseller catalogue behind it — when you buy a file here, you are buying something a person made.
The shop started on Etsy and has grown to more than a thousand designs and several thousand orders. This site is where the same files live without a marketplace in between.
What we make
Print-ready PNG files for people who put artwork on things: sublimation printers, DTF transfers, heat presses, Cricut and Silhouette crafters, and small apparel shops.
The catalogue covers seasonal and holiday designs, sports and game day, teacher and school, awareness ribbons, coquette and retro aesthetics, funny and sarcastic quotes, alphabet and number sets, and personalised name designs.
What you actually receive
- A high-resolution PNG at 300 DPI, sized for adult apparel, so it stays sharp when it is pressed rather than soft and pixelated.
- A genuinely transparent background — no white box, no checkerboard baked into the file.
- No watermark and nothing downsized. The preview and the file are the same artwork.
- An instant download after checkout. Nothing is shipped; there are no shipping fees and no customs.
Mockups shown on a listing are for presentation only. You receive the design file, not the shirt, mug or tumbler in the photo.
Why the files are built this way
Most failed prints are not the press’s fault, they are the file’s fault. A 72 DPI image pulled off the internet looks perfect on a phone and prints like a smudge. A “transparent” PNG saved wrongly presses a faint grey rectangle onto the shirt.
So every file here is exported at print resolution with a real alpha channel, and we write guides explaining the part that trips people up:
- 300 DPI explained: why a design looks sharp on screen and soft on a shirt
- Sublimation vs DTF: which printing method for PNG designs
All of them are in the PNG Design Guides.
Using the designs
A normal purchase covers personal use: print the design on items for yourself, your family or as gifts.
If you want to sell physical products made with a design — shirts, tumblers, stickers — a commercial licence is required. It is a separate, one-time purchase and it is inexpensive. What is never allowed, with or without a licence, is reselling or sharing the digital file itself.
The full wording is in the Terms of Service.
Custom and personalised work
Many designs take a name or a number. Type it in the personalisation box at checkout and the finished file is sent to you.
If you need something that does not exist yet, ask. Custom design requests are welcome and usually answered the same day.
Talk to a person
Questions about a file, a licence or an order go to a real inbox, not a ticket queue. We reply within one business day, usually sooner.
CozyExhaleART · 8206 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113, United States
Try a file before you buy one
There is a full-size design available free, with the same 300 DPI quality and a small-business commercial licence, so you can run it through your own press and judge the quality yourself.