Two more freezer paper tees

Well, I've been at it again!  I have not made one in a while, but yesterday I made these two.  One of my  boyfriend's co-workers became a father for the second time in 2 years, so here is what I made for the gift.  I used Create a Critter for the boy's and Once Upon a Princess for the girl's shirt.  The boy is the newborn, but I didn't want to leave out their 2 1/2 year old daughter when handing out presents, so I ended up doing a theme here.  I chose the lion because the family's last name is King, so I did a little play on words with the lion being the king of the jungle and all, lol.  For the princess, I used the Tulip Fashion Washable glitter, and I hope it stays on when I wash it!  Anyone else ever used that stuff?? 

Anyway, these took a while because of all of the different colors involved, as I did each color separately when the preceding dried.  I may add some iron-on patches just to finsih it off, but this is what I have for now.  Thanks for visiting!

T-shirt overload and a couple of cards!

OK, last t-shirt for a while, I promise!  I made this one for the school where I work as a sample.  I am going to try to see if my athletic director wants to use these as a fundraiser, possibly.  Since our mascot is a panda, and we are an all girls academy, I think this may go over well.  Obviously he is from CAC and the font is from MTC.  I used the freezer paper stencil method again, and fabric paint.  Thanks for visiting!

I'm pretty excited about these - I hope you like them!

I have been working tirelessly on these over the last couple of days.  Last week I got the idea to use the animals from Create A Critter with silly animal puns on baby clothes!  So, I bought a bunch of onesies, some paints, fabric medium, freezer paper, and off I went.  These are my first attempts, so I know I have a lot of practicing to do, but I think they came out cute!  It took a lot of experimentation to get the right layers welded in DS and the right sizes, but the painting part was easy.  The only one that isn't from CAC is the ladybug - no matter how hard I tried, the bug from that cart just didn't work out with this idea.  So the ladybug on here is from doodlecharms.  I also bought iron-on patches of flowers and butterflies that I will use to embellish on bigger shirts, but these are all newborn onesies.

I followed the method laid out on the you tube videos on this technique, and also got the idea from theboydbunch on the MTC forum, so thanks for reminding me about this technique!  She was making soccer shirts, so I immediately got this idea and went with it.  Basically what I did was:
1. Put all of the three main layers of each critter on the DS mat.
2. I sized them, aligned them, and then hit "weld" for each layer. This actually helps you with weeding once it is cut.
3. Cut out the design on the freezer paper (not my idea, got it from you tube!) and use that technique.
4. For each color, I had to put the small pieces down that I wanted to be different colors, so there would be a void pattern after the main color was down. For example, the monkey's eyes, nose, and mouth all went down before I put on the light paint, and when that was dry, I colored in the empty spots with black.
5. When each color dried, I peeled up any freezer paper, and did the color I needed for those void spots.

It took a while, but I did all of the images in DS with CAC and Pooh font Set cart, which worked perfectly for this!  Thanks for visiting, and as I improve my technique, I will post more!  Also, I have close-ups of two at a time, if anyone wants to see them better, just let me know!

A new experiment

So, I have started venturing into the fabric crafting, using Cricut, MTC, and Design Studio.  More to come, but since the Flyers are currently playing game 4 of their playoff series, I decided to go ahead and post this now for luck (?!?!).  I used artist acrylics with a fabric medium from Michael's which was surprisingly easy!  My problem is I am too impatient/eager to let it dry properly.  Oh yeah, and my mom's cat knocked over the ironing board while it was still drying, so (of course) bright orange paint got on the mint green carpet!  No kitty, that's a bad KITTY!

For this one, I cut the Flyers logo using MTC and the font was Century Gothic.  I simply flipped the images and cut it on freezer paper, which I learned from the many tutorials on You Tube.

I have been doing A LOT of playing with this, and will have more to come soon.  Please stay tuned, because I am really excited about the ideas flowing right now!  Thanks for visiting and GO FLYERS!!!