If you'd like a shirt you designed yourself, or with some text on it, but you can't afford having it screen printed, just stencil one yourself! I'll show you how to make one step by step.
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Stencil A Shirt
How to stencil a shirt.
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Wash your shirt! This is an important step, to allow the shirt to shrink before you apply shirt. If it's an old shirt you can skip this step.
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Find a stencil online, or create one yourself. If you'd like to turn a regular picture in photoshop, you can do this by going to: Image > Adjustments > Treshold, and play around with the levels a bit until you got it right.
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Print the stencil on adhesive paper
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Carefully cut out your stencil with an x-acto knife.
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Get out your shirt, peel off the backing of the adhesive tape, and stick it to your shirt.
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If your stencil has any "islands", bits in the middle of the stencil that don't need to get painted, stick those to the shirt too.
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Stick some old papers around the shirt, overlapping the edges of the stencil, so you can't get paint anywhere on the shirt where you don't want it. Put some paper in between your shirt too, so you won't get paint on the back if it leaks through.
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Apply paint to your roller, and carefully apply it to your shirt. Don't press too hard, if you do, the paint will leak under the edges. Make sure the paint is spreaded out evenly. When you finished, let the paint dry.
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Apply another layer of paint and let dry again.
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When the second layer is dry, peel the stencil off the shirt. Do this carefully!
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Fixate the paint by ironing over it with a sheet of baking paper in between.
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Take a stupid picture of yourself wearing your brand new shirt, to show how happy you are with the results.
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ʎǝɔɐɹƃ
16 Mar 20:47
Cool photo at the end lol
charmaine
17 Mar 04:25
awesome!
Riechan
17 Mar 08:38
what kind of paint did you use?
good idea btw ^^
Ryden
17 Mar 08:54
Very cute!
Laura R.
17 Mar 14:49
you've left me wanting to do this - right now!
Candace H.
17 Mar 16:56
Wow T! Thanks for sharing--love it!
Courtney Couture
17 Mar 19:18
did you use a specific kind of paint?
cools i like the image
Heather E.
02 May 01:43
It looks awesome but yeah, what sort of paint did you use... I imagine a lot of types would wash off...
Jacqueline Y.
04 Jun 06:14
wow! simple and east to do.great job ;-)
charbie
08 Jan 13:53
really awesome!
Anita ♥
13 Jan 19:54
really nice! :D
♫ BecSTAR ♫
30 Jun 16:13
This is pretty awesome, but I have two questions to ask:
1)What kind of paint did you use on your top?
2)When washing the shirt after applying the stencil, does the paint fade out? Will it have to be reapplied at a later date or will it be ok?
Cassie S.
15 Oct 21:31
Did you mix your paint with fabric medium or is this paint for fabric?
Lauren S.
06 Nov 18:31
Lol I love your project and the picture at the end.