T-SHIRT Design Help!?

Hey guys,
I was asked by a friend to do a quick piece of work for her. Basically I had to copy a design from a sweatshirt that she got printed awhile back, and since then she lost the original design so asked me to copy it so she could get a new sweatshirt with it printed on. I had no problem copying it, but I realised that the design elements actually need to be transparent. I've included two images and explained more below. If you could help me as soon as possible it would be appreciate massively! (Probably quite simple, but I'm still learning).
Above is a picture of the sweatshirt, you can see that the design elements are transparent.
And here's the rough copy of the design. So what I need to do is somehow make the black pieces transparent??
Thanks!!

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https://db.tt/Nu4xNNpp
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