Saturday, August 18, 2012

I can craft too Emily!!

so my friend emily has this great blog called Entirely Emily where she does all these great crafts and organizational tips and recipes.  my blog is kinda boring.  i was wanting to do something fun with nina and have been itching to do a craft ever since i got back from camp.  so while out running errands - i randomly decided to go to hobby lobby - and a tshirt project (inspired by a craft i saw at camp) was born.

and because i was inspired by all of emily's crafty detailed posts - i thought i would blog about it - just for her....

so here we go....


the project - reverse tie-dye......


we started with a plain black fitted tshirt.....

 

and some foam sticker stars and letters....



we placed a cookie sheet inside the tshirt to prevent bleach bleeding through.  and because we were doing the back two, we rested the shirt on top of a second cookie sheet so it wasn't sitting on the ground....



then we arranged the letters and stars on the shirt in the desired designs - removing the back to make them stick for the bleaching....



once everything was secure on both sides - it was time for spritzing.  we filled a spray bottle with a couple ounces of bleach and diluted it with water.  then spritzed all around the letters heavily, and lighter through out the shirt.  we had to do some careful flipping to get the back - it was definitely a two girl job.....



we let the bleach sit for about five minutes or so - just till it started fading, then gave the shirt a dunk in some cold water and laundry detergent (to deactivate the bleach), rang it out really good and gave it a tumble in the dryer....






the big thing with the teens these days is that every good t-shirt deserves some original snipping....



and after nina played with scissors for awhile we had a finished product....


here's close up's of the reverse tie dye....


we're so crafty.  how you like that emily?? ;-)


nina wants to do this again - she says this one will be for sleeping and swimming.  next time we'll either start with a tank or buy a smaller fitted tshirt and not make cuts at all.  and maybe go with a red or a pink shirt.  but we sure had fun making this first attempt!!!

 


2 comments:

  1. First I have to say...aawwww...thanks for the shout out and wanting to do a craft post for me. So sweet! Ans secondly, Not to shabby, there ladies! I love it. I'm surprised you weren't rocking the DB colors. Like you said , next time. I can't wait to see more craft posts. Let Trouble make something next time.

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  2. Great idea!!! It's not to difficult to make a fitted tee... Pin it, sew it and then cut it about half inch out and put the shirt through/ over the sewing machine bottom and sew extra flaps on each side... I have done mine with coordinating colors so it made it look like it was designed that way

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