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Easy screenprinting with wax paper
I love doctor who, and I got all my friends obsessed as well. I needed to make a birthday present for my friend so I made this. Originally I made "the angels have the phone box" for her but I got too attached to the shirt and just couldn't part with it. So I made her the "It's bigger on the inside" teeshirt instead.
This project can take anywhere from 30 min to 4 hours depending on your design. I made 2 shirts in 3-4 hours.
**EDIT: I find that freezer paper works well.
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Ichigo M. favorited Screenprinted Shirts Using Wax Paper
31 May 04:54
You Will Need
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Step 1Gather supplies. You shall need the following:
-A shirt. I got mine from wet seal because they always have good sales and I got this for about 3$.
-Fabric Paint-michaels and joannes
-A sponge-y brush-michaels
-Wax paper-wegmans
-tape
-scissors
-a pattern
-sharpie
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Step 2sketch out your design, and arrange design/pattern on shirt.
(I know the TARDIS has 4 panels but I ran out of room)
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Step 3Trace pattern onto wax paper with Sharpie. (tis evil I know)
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Step 4Cut out the "negative space" of your pattern. It's kinda like carving a pumpkin. You know those designs that you use on the pumpkins? And how you cut out the black part? It's like that. So here, I cut out the letters and the TARDIS Shape. I did the TARDIS in 2 layers. I did the box itself in blue,let it dry, and then did the detailing of the doors and panels and such.
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Step 5Place the wax paper on the shirt the way you want it and tape the edges of the wax paper down.
Here's the first part of the TARDIS.
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Step 6By the way, here are the brushes I used. The main one I used is the one in the background...the circular one. The big one smack dab in the middle of the picture is what I used to go around the TARDIS.
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Step 7Now carefully sponge on the paint.
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Step 8Let dry for 10 min and peel off. Or do a 2nd coat. You can peel the wax paper off when it's wet If you want but then there's a greater chance of the excess paint dripping onto the other part of your shirt. which as you can see, I did. But I kinda wanted it like that because I wanted a "just spraypainted" kind of look.
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Step 9Do this for the rest of the pattern.
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Step 10Here's where I put on the 2nd layer of the TARDIS. I did it freehand with a regular paintbrush. But I wouldn't recommend doing that. Usually I make a 2nd pattern of the design and cut out where I want the 2nd color to be.
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Step 11Here I used the huge sponge around the TARDIS, but if you aren't using this technique Then don't worry about it, and skip this step.
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Step 12
Let your shirt dry.
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Step 13Now follow the instructions on the back of the fabric paint bottle. Mine said to put a piece of paper over where I used the paint, and to iron over it. I did, And now you are done. :)
♥ Amazing job!
This is definitely her lucky christmas