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Stenciling with freezer paper is one of my favorite ways to DIY a tshirt. DIYing a tshirt is my favorite way to dress up my daughter for the holidays :). I wanted to jazz up my normal stenciled tshirt so I thought up a way to add streamers to the shirt using ribbon. I thought it would be more fun for my daughter if she could actually play with the streamers as opposed to me just painting them on. This is how I made the 4th of July Ribbon Streamer Fireworks Shirt.


Materials

• white tshirt
• fabric paint: red, blue
• 1/8" ribbon: red, white, blue
• foam brush
• freezer paper
• fabric glue

Step 1: Click on the link to download the stencil. Open the .PDF and print it out using the "fit" option.


Step 2: Place the printable under a piece of freezer paper, paper side up. Trace the three stars. Using an exacto knife or sharp small scissors cut out the stars.


Step 3: Iron on the freezer paper stencil to the upper middle part of the shirt shiny side down. Place some paint onto a paper plate and using a foam brush paint inside of the star stencils. Let completely dry and then carefully peel off the stencil.


Step 4: Cut a piece of cardboard or card stock that is 4" x 3". Wrap the three colors of ribbons around the cardboard randomly. Take a small piece of ribbon and tie a knot onto the top of the wrapped ribbon. Cut the bottom loops of the wrapped ribbon.


Step 5: Grab the ribbon like the image below. Run a line of fabric glue along the back of the ribbon the entire width.


Step 6: Carefully glue underneath the stenciled stars taking care to press the ribbon into the glue and shirt. Let dry completely and then pull on the ribbon to make sure it is all glued on. If you have lose ribbon add some more glue and press firmly onto shirt.


Check out my other tutorial for my stenciled flag shirt.

My precious, sweet little girl will turn 3 this week. Where does the time go? I can remember when I first set eyes on her. She was such a long waited for gift so my husband and I treasure her immensely. She has grown up to be such a funny, smart and beautiful little girl. In honor of her birthday week I came up with a fun number 3 shirt the she can wear on her special day. Here is how I did it:


1. Print out the printable. Click on the link, download and print out with the "fit" setting.
2. Tape the printable onto a table and then tape a piece of freezer paper, paper side up, on top. Make sure the piece of freezer paper is bigger that the printable.
3. Trace the number three and remove the freezer paper. Place another piece of freezer paper on top and then trace the crown.
4. With an exacto knife or small scissors cut out the inside of the number three. Do the same for the inside of the crown.
5. Place the three stencil on the shirt in the middle. Then place the crown stencil. on top at the same position that it is on the printable. Carefully slide the number 3 stencil without moving the crown stencil.


6. Iron on the crown stencil carefully. Making sure all of the edges are stuck onto the shirt.
7. Place some fabric paint onto a paper plate and with a sponge brush and paint in the crown. Wait for it to completely dry and then peel off the stencil.
8. Place the three stencil on top of the shirt matching where the crown should be on top of the three. Use the printable as a guide. Iron on carefully making sure all of the edges of the three are stuck on.
9. Paint in the number three with a layer of fabric glitter glue. Sprinkle on some fabric glitter making sure to coat the number completely. Place a piece of freezer, paper side up onto the glitter and take the bottle of glitter and roll over the glitter to make sure that it is sticking to the glue. Wait about 5 hours for it to dry completely and then carefully pour off the excess glitter onto a piece of folded paper. Pour the excess glitter back into the glitter bottle. Peel off the stencil.
10. You can outline the crown with some fabric puffy paint and add some rhinestones to the top of the crown if you like.




**I am not sure how well the glitter will hold up to washing so I recommend turning the shirt inside out and hand washing, being careful not to agitate the part with the glitter. I would also allow it to air dry.

My favorite way to dress up daughter during the holidays is to make different t-shirts for her using iron-ons or stencils. It's so easy to buy a plain shirt for a couple of bucks and just print out a stencil to paint with. I have done tons of shirts for my daughter by printing out a stencil and tracing it onto some freezer paper. Then I take the freezer paper and iron it on and then use some fabric paint to color it in.

I wanted to try something different so I decided to experiment with some glitter glue and fashion glitter in place of the standard fabric paint.

First I printed out the printable. Then I placed it on a table and taped down some freezer paper, paper side up. I used a pencil to trace the outline of the rabbit. I took an exacto knife and I cut out the rabbit and trimmed around the stencil. Next I ironed on the stencil to the middle of the shirt and brushed on a nice coat of the glitter glue.



I quickly sprinkled on the glitter until it was fully coated. I placed some wax paper on top of the glitter and used the glitter tube to roll it on top to make sure the glitter was stuck onto the glue well. Then I and let it sit for about 5 hours.


After that I poured off the excess glitter into a piece of folded paper and put it back into the glitter tube. I carefully peeled off the stencil.


I took a white pom pom and used fabric glue to glue it into place where the tail would go. Allow the fabric glue to try completely before putting on the shirt.


I am not sure how well the glitter will hold up to washing so I recommend turning the shirt inside out and hand washing, being careful not to agitate the part with the glitter. I would also allow it to air dry.

Will you be DIY'ing anything this Easter?