Materials:
Shirt
Stamp
Fabric Ink Pad (Mine was from Hobby Lobby, $3.99)
Cardboard
First step, get a shirt. I picked up this beauty at Goodwill:
This shirt is 100% polyester, although the ink says it works best with natural fibers.
As you can see, I placed cardboard in the shirt and sleeves to separate the layers. This is an important step! If you don't do it, you'll be stamping through both sides.
I flew by the seat of my pants on this (and always, I'm wayward) and just started on the sleeve. If I were to do it again, I'd start on the back side. It went quickly and I was quite excited with the results.
I let the shirt dry overnight and then used a hot, dry iron to "set" the stamping, as recommended on the back of the stamp pad. Then I flipped the shirt over and completed the same thing on the back side.
This is how it turned out!
This is how it turned out!
This is how I wore it to the party.
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Not bad, eh? Best compliments: people didn't believe I'd done design! I had to show them my little mess ups to prove it to them.
The possibilities are endless for shirts! I'm thinking about having a little craft night with friends to do it all over again!
7 comments :
That's wildly adorable (and absolutely unique)! I never would have thought of something so simple and yet so clever. I know what I'll be on the hunt for next time I'm at the craft store and Goodwill.
that looks beautiful
I love this! What a cute way to dress up a shirt. I had no idea there was such a thing as fabric ink... cool!
This is really nice!
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xoxo Julieta
Cute! :)
I'm with the other commenters I had no clue there was fabric ink! It looks so cute and I love your animated graphic.
I love it!! You have the best ideas and make it look so easy.
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