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She's Crafty, S'more.

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darkitysnark

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(Great, now Snarky is craving graham crackers and marshmellows and melty dark chocolate.)

 

Very quickly, as Snarky's back is starting to protest after a weekend of bent-over-the-coffee-table-exact-o-knifing, she's about 80% finished with the DeathRockFamily freezer paper stenciled t-shirts!

 

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Step One: select toddler-appropriate imagery and use as template for freezer paper stencil.

 

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Step Two: iron stencil onto targeted surface (in this case, American Apparel's toddler-sized raglan t-shirt) using another piece of freezer paper as back on other side of surface to add stability and prevent bleed-through.

 

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Step Three: develop big head from success of first project, proceed to go insane and decide to stencil text onto next t-shirt. Because you are also slightly masochistic.

 

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Step Four: covet your own work. (Note: the bear trap is just one application of black ink, but the toaster shirt has three coats because Snarky didn't have light colored paint intended for dark surfaces.)

 

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Step Five: go even more bat-crap-crazy and decide to shoot for the moon on your next design. Halfway through, shake fist (while carefully aiming exact-o knife away from face) and ask WHYYYYYY?!?!?!

 

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Step Six: Just walk away from the stencil. Take a breather. Come back tomorrow.

 

Snarky will post finished DeathRockMama shirt picks tomorrow (hopefully).

 

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Oh my lord! Inspiration! I went out and bought the supplies last week, but I have been too 'scaredy-catted to give it a whirl. Don't ask me why, the worst that could happen is that I make something really awful looking and is that really, I mean really an end-of-the-world scenario? I obviously have issues.

 

But yours! Wow! First time, right? Super brilliant job you did!

Can I ask where you found the stencils?

AND HOLY FRAKKIN TOASTERS!! Love it!!

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Oh my lord! Inspiration! I went out and bought the supplies last week, but I have been too 'scaredy-catted to give it a whirl. Don't ask me why, the worst that could happen is that I make something really awful looking and is that really, I mean really an end-of-the-world scenario? I obviously have issues.

 

But yours! Wow! First time, right? Super brilliant job you did!

Can I ask where you found the stencils?

AND HOLY FRAKKIN TOASTERS!! Love it!!

 

:hug: This type of project gets :blush: from Snarky as there's a high rate of return for very little technical skill.

 

She downloaded stock clip art and photography images from the internets (just Google Images, really), applied Photoshop filters to them (usually the "stamp" stylization) and reduced them to grayscale images (if needed).

 

Then she placed a sheet of freezer paper over the images and exact-o'ed the crap outta everything. Very tedious work, but perfect for a Mindless Sunday.

 

The "blood" droplets in the heart stencil are two different sizes of hole punch followed up with little tiny v's cut with the ever-handy exact-o. Snarky suspects she'll be finding little freezer paper v's in her house for the next six months.

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Shucks. The funny thing is: Snarky doesn't wear that many t-shirts most of the time... but now she wants to make several and is scrambling for a reason to wear them. She saw a Most Excellent T-shirt with a picture of Pluto and the text "Never Forget" underneath... which is just the right kind of cheeky monkey for Snarky.

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I love the shirts. Very creative.

 

And I want my own Frakkin' Toasters shirt. :blush: No one around me would get it, unless they're a fan of BSG, but that is fine by me. he he he

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I love the shirts. Very creative.

 

And I want my own Frakkin' Toasters shirt. :blush: No one around me would get it, unless they're a fan of BSG, but that is fine by me. he he he

 

Exactly - "retro" enough to pass for "hipster", with a secretly gooey, geeky core.

 

Snarky almost didn't include the text either, but the image is distorted enough to require clarification, even for hardcore BSGers. Maybe she'll make her own shirt with ginormous, BSG style letters spelling "F R A K". :hug:

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