Our 3 Bugs: May the Fourth Be With You! Freezer Paper style

In honor of Star Wars day, we made "epic t-shirts" (so quoth the boys.)

We used the freezer paper method which I will try to explain:

First, I found stencil images on google, by googling star wars stencil images and printed them out (resizing as necessary)

Then I tore off a sheet of freezer paper found on a roll like waxed paper in the foil & waxed paper section of most large grocery stores. My box is made by Reynold's Wrap.

One side of the freezer paper is waxed and one is matte. Trace the image on the paper/matte side and cut out the negative space (the space you want paint) Yay...you made a stencil!

(Make sure your t-shirt is clean/washed. I mention this because we had to buy a new "blank" t-shirt for Ian because we didn't have any in his size...I had tie-dyed all of them last summer! There aren't any pictures of his in-process because I not only had to wash and dry the new t-shirt, but I did two layers of paint-what a mess!)

Get out your iron, pour out the water and turn it to the hottest setting and let it get good 'n hot.

Iron the stencil wax-side down onto the t-shirt. I promise, you are NOT ruining your t-shirt.

If you have small cut out portions go nice and slow and get all the paper ironed down so there isn't any bleeding.

Once it's all ironed down get a piece of cardboard or some folded newspapers out of recycling and put inside the t shirt to keep the paint from seeping through and gluing the t-shirt layers together.

Painted Yoda

Using a sponge brush, paint on your fabric paint, dab first then go ahead and spread it out evenly.

Let the paint dry for about 2 hours. If you need to paint two or more layers, make sure you let the paint on the paper dry or your paper will get soggy and will break as you tear it off. Then you get mad and might speak in colorful languages. Just sayin'.