Cactus Pants

How can you go wrong with cactus pants?

Posted by Kate S.

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Carve a simple stamp and upgrade your old jeans with a custom cactus print.

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You Will Need (7 things)

  • Foam Paint Brush
  • Pants
  • Stamping Block
  • Cutting Tools
  • Pencil
  • Green Fabric Paint (or green paint and fabric paint medium)
  • Fine point Paint Brush

Steps (7 steps, 120 minutes)

  1. 1

    With your pencil, draw a cactus on your stamping block. Keep it simple!

  2. 2

    Use your stamp cutting/carving tool to trace the outline of your cactus shape and carve away the outer stamp block material.

  3. 3

    Using your foam brush, coat the cactus stamp with green fabric paint.

  4. 4

    Press the stamp onto your pants. There is no set pattern so just slap it down wherever you want!

  5. 5

    Continue painting the stamp and stamping the pants until both the front and back are covered.

  6. 6

    Use the fine point paint brush to go back over the stamped images and fill them in with more green fabric paint.

  7. 7

    Let the pants dry and wear them with prickly pride!