Freezer Paper Stencils T-Shirts

There are tutorials for this all over the internet so I'm not going to go into depth with this one. However, I was incredibly surprised by the quality that these stencils produced and will be using this method many, many times again. I just wish we had known about this back in high school when we decorated countless t-shirts for every sporting event and cheerleading camp!

First, I used my cricut to cut the designs in the freezer paper. As you can see, in this instance I used the words "bride" and "bridesmaid".

Then, I used a hot, dry iron to adhere the freezer paper to the t-shirts. Make sure to place the shiny side of the freezer paper towards the fabric. I found a quick swipe of the hot iron adhered the paper very well. There was no need to hold the iron on the stencil for any length of time.





I then used fabric paint and sponge "brushes" from Michael's to paint in the stencil. You really don't have to be very neat with this part of the process. Extra paint on the stencil is no big deal.

At this point let me say that I used a translucent glitter paint for the letters. I really wanted opaque paint but they didn't have any in this color. It took 5 or 6 coats of paint to get the letters to look like this. If you find that you have to do this as well, lightly score the paint in a corner of each letter or design in the stencil to "start" it and then peel the stencil away. If you peel back on the stencil causing a fold as you go rather than pulling away from the paint you will have more success. I hope that makes sense.



The end result:



This was a cheap and cheerful way to do t-shirts for my friend's bachelorette wine tour but the sky's the limit on what this technique can be used for.