Freezer Paper Stenciling... Oh it is FUN!!

On Wednesday I got on kick of doing more freezer Paper Stenciling and totally forgot how addicting it is! The thing I love about this is I can do whatever you want, well actually whatever you have the patience to cut out. haha So today I am going to give you a brief tutorial on how to do it, don't worry we will start out simple.

The items you will need are

          -A printer
          -The image you want
          -freezer paper
          -exacto knife
          -Iron
          -fabric paint
          -Paint brush
          -Cloth Item you want to place image on -in this case a T-shirt

Start out by finding your image you are wanting to add to your T-shirt. I got my image from this site that I found while googling nerdy images, she provided the image for those that want it which is amazing.  Then you need to print it out at the size you want it for your T-shirt. There are two ways you can do this

1-you can tape a piece of the freezer paper to a piece of regular printer paper and print on the non-wax side of the freezer paper

2. You can print it off like normal lay the freezer paper over the top of the image and cut it out with the exacto knife

I chose the first as pictured which I got from Here.

After you have your image cut out and ready to go,

 get the iron nice and hot. Place the freezer paper image, shinny side down, on the T-shirt then slowly go over it with the iron to make it stick securely to the fabric. If you have little pieces that need to be added do that after you have the main piece secured down and add the one at a time to get the proper placement. 

Once the image is on good get your paint and paint brush and carefully paint the image starting from the outside paint away from the edge toward the center. *if the edges are not secure you will not have a crisp edge because the paint will bleed.

Do one full coat wait at least 20 min then do another coat. Make sure that the paint is all even and there are no big puddles of paint or lines of extra paint. Now you wait for a few hours until it is dry *if you are in a hurry you can bust out the hair dryer to speed the process up it works like a charm.

Once it is dry you then need to remove all of the freezer paper.

Once it is removed fire up the iron once more, take a scrap of fabric that you don't care to much about and place it over your image then iron on top of the scrap slowly. This will heat set the image. Remove the scrap and you are done. Look in awe at your new T-shirt. You are done, Good Job!!

Now go make lots of different things! Have a great day!

-D