I love embellishing little t-shirts for my kids. It’s great when they’re a light color and easy to add to it with a little freezer paper and paint. But sometimes you want to add a little something to a dark shirt. So here’s how I do it! You’ll need a t-shirt (I picked up mine […] Read more…
A lot of you have asked me about a freezer paper tutorial, so here it is. Using freezer paper to paint images on clothing is an easy, inexpensive way to spice up a plain shirt. You’ll need: Freezer paper (also known as butcher’s paper – it has a waxy feel to one side) X-Acto knife […] Read more…
Instead of sewing something today for the Kids Clothing Week Challenge, I decided to just embellish. That’s actually a very dangerous word. Too often people go overboard with embellishing. That said, I hope you don’t think these are too much. A little tiger shirt for my son. I borrowed the graphic from his school – […] Read more…
I tried my hand at some silk screening. I used this kit from Dharma Trading Co. and my son’s drawing of a monster for the image since I already had it on a transparency from another project. It was a lot of fun and pretty simple. It was a bit messy though, and since it […] Read more…
It’s been a long time since I’ve done watercolor, but I always found it relaxing. Here’s some pink clematis in watercolor I did. It’s on a watercolor canvas I found at Michaels. I’ve never used one before, but it’s nice in that the paper doesn’t warp if it gets too wet, but the colors don’t […] Read more…
