Okay, so maybe I didn’t make that hoodie from scratch like I said I would. But I did buy this hoodie in the men’s department for $8 and then alter it a little. I took in a bit on the sides and under the arm so it wouldn’t look like I have massive shoulders. And last night we had a craft night. Theme: freezer paper stencils.
Favorite new thing: freezer paper. Up until just a couple days ago I didn’t even know what it was. It’s like wax paper but only waxy on one side. Which makes it perfect for using as a stencil - just cut out an image (cut out all the parts you want to be colored) and iron it on to your shirt (or, in my case, hoodie), waxy side down. You get clean crisp lines like a silkscreened image, but at a fraction of the cost and time. It works really well.
You can draw right on the paper side of the freezer paper, cut a sheet of it down and print right on it (I was scared it would wreck our printer), or print out an image in black and white and put it underneath and cut it out.
I want to order some fabric paint online because there is very little selection here. Actually, there is a huge selection of 3D puffy paint - who uses that anymore?! Apparently you can use regular paint, acrylic or something, but it won’t stand up to much washing.
We had Ryan’s little brother and his friend over last night to try this out. I found out that I am not very good at explaining things. I don’t like over-explaining things or repeating myself but that usually just means that I under-explain. So here are some good, thorough tutorials:
Craftster
Instructables
Neither Hip Nor Funk
Some warnings:
-don’t do anything too intricate
-if you have any inside pieces, make sure you keep them and mark the paper side with a pen or something because it is really hard to tell which side is waxy when the pieces are so small (for example, if I had wanted my deer on the back of my hoodie to have eyes and a nose, I would have kept the little pieces and ironed them on)
-iron straight down, don’t move it back and forth
-when painting, dab straight down along the edges or they will start to lift
I think I am going to rummage through my closet to see what else I can paint on. Hmm…
[...] some Italian-inspired onesies for Dario. We had all the supplies from the time we experimented with freezer paper stencils. We brainstormed a bit and came up with these coffee-centric designs. I think they turned out well. [...]
this turned out SUPER CUTE! great job!
i just found some other bloggers talking about the technique. now i’m going to have to try it too!
I love the design! Very cute.
I keep coming across all these posts about freezer paper on other blogs, I need to go pick some up! I hope its not too expensive.