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Unsure what you're looking for, but tombstones aren't too hard to design. Here's a quickie I did with Corel that took me probably 5 minutes of doing, but 15 minutes of explaining and capturing 
Phase 1:
First, I drew the base as a rectangle, 8" wide, 1.5" high
Next I drew a rectangle for the main part of the headstone, 6" wide, 5" high, I offset it by one inch on both sides to make it look better. I centered it on the base.
Next I drew a circle that gave me the top that I wanted, I resized it to be 6" wide to match our headstone, then clicked and dragged one of the side quadrants to the top of the node of our headstone.
Phase 2:
We weld it so that it becomes our completed shape (unless you want to do something different with the base).
Phase 3:
I contoured it by .1", this is just to highlight the gravestone. I applied two different colors just to show the contour, but we're going to apply a texture fill here in a moment.
Phase 4:
I applied a rock texture fill to it, had to play around with the settings to get something I liked.
Phase 5:
Put some text on. I just used text with a gold gradient, (linear, -45 degree angle, three part gold-white-gold).
Photos to match the phases below.
Phase 1:
First, I drew the base as a rectangle, 8" wide, 1.5" high
Next I drew a rectangle for the main part of the headstone, 6" wide, 5" high, I offset it by one inch on both sides to make it look better. I centered it on the base.
Next I drew a circle that gave me the top that I wanted, I resized it to be 6" wide to match our headstone, then clicked and dragged one of the side quadrants to the top of the node of our headstone.
Phase 2:
We weld it so that it becomes our completed shape (unless you want to do something different with the base).
Phase 3:
I contoured it by .1", this is just to highlight the gravestone. I applied two different colors just to show the contour, but we're going to apply a texture fill here in a moment.
Phase 4:
I applied a rock texture fill to it, had to play around with the settings to get something I liked.
Phase 5:
Put some text on. I just used text with a gold gradient, (linear, -45 degree angle, three part gold-white-gold).
Photos to match the phases below.
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It sounds like your wanting a low volume solution which would be either DTG printing or heat transfer with a printer and transfer paper. you need to research what options are in your funding range and find a way toget your hands on some of the end product (decoratede shirt) and see how it looks and feels to you and decide what you think your customers will be willing to buy. Good luck.
Terry
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