Ok for the past couple of months I’ve had this overwhelming urge to craft… something…anything…or I would explode! Today I finally did it. The exploding time bomb stopped ticking the moment I crafted my first skirt.

I found a skirt at a garage sale last week for $2. It was a perfect canidate for my practice of freezer paper stencils.

If you don’t know what a freezer paper stencil is…it is just your average freezer paper that you find at your local grocery store, it is like wax paper but instead of having wax or plastic on both sides of the paper it has it just on one side. You cut a stencil out of it and iron it on to whatever you want to stencil, making it primed for painting.

I’ve written a tutorial for you guys, just in case you wanna try it. And don’t think that this is just a chik project, my husband thought it was so cool he even did one himself. See fun for everyone! Trust me once you do one, you’ll be tearing the house apart trying to find something else to stencil.

step1.jpg Step 1: Find and print a black and white image [some good ones can be found here]. Then with the wax/plastic side down of your freezer paper, trace over the image.

step2.jpg Step 2: With an xacto knife, cute out the black parts of the image.

step3.jpg Step 3: Heat up your iron. Place the fabric with newspaper or cardboard underneath it onto your ironing board. Iron your stencil cut out onto your fabric. MAKE SURE THE PLASTIC/WAX IS ON THE BOTTOM. The plastic/wax melts onto the fabric so that your paint won’t bleed through and you have clean lines.

step4.jpg Step 4: Paint it up. I used just an old paint brush. You could use sponges, old clothes whatever. Make sure you use Washable Fabric Paint! [I used Tulip Soft brushable fabric paint in Velveteen Black and Pearl Snowflake from Michael’s arts and craft store ; each color will run you about $1.50 each]. Peel off he freezer paper as soon as you are done painting, being very careful of course as we don’t want to smudge our new work.
step5.jpg Step 5: Let it dry! After 72 hrs. you can wash it, just make sure you turn it inside out when you do.

Here are a few pictures of hubby doing his freezer paper stencil…

hubby1.jpg Tracing his picture onto freezer paper.

hubby2.jpg Painting his stencil onto a pair of jeans.

hubby3.jpg The finished product. He is so proud of his work, can’t you tell.

I’ll show you some more photos tomorrow when we are wearing our new fandangled outfits.

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