This WAS my dilemma as well until i had what i consider a brilliant idea. Someone mentioned using iron-on transfers and fabric covers. Well this lead to several days of googling our fav characters and images and i came up with at least 4 pages of images. I printed them out onto t-shirt iron-on paper and once i buy some fabric we will have LOTS of covers to use as we please. Ranging from Donald for me, pluto & tigger for him, to some Hallowe'en images & simple WDW designs all the way to a few anniversary ones (donald & daisy, lady & tramp)
I used the following dimensions for the images : about .85 " wide (someone mentioned at it's widest the band is 1") and 3.25" tall (this looks best on our wrists). I am using the directions found on this site to make the covers themselves. http://www.passporterboards.com/blo...ep-tutorial-for-no-sew-and-stitched-versions/ Hope i don't get in trouble for posting that link!!
Hope this helps you since i doubt you'll wanna spend hours painting them so they have sufficient time to dry
These all look awesome! I made a disboard profile specifically to post the pics of the MB I did for my son! We're surprising our 2 boys w/ a trip to DW in 2 weeks! It'll be their first trip (they're 6 and almost 3). SO excited! I used all nail polish for this band. One down, three to go.[/URL][/IMG][/QUOTE]
Great job - your sons are going to be so excited. Plus to have decorated magic bands. We used nail polish on all of ours too. We have 7 down and 1 left to do. We have had so much fun doing this.
My pictures came out big too.
It's tough to tell in the pic, but Tiana's band has a tiny star in the smaller Mickey head for Evangeline. 
These are so cute!! What a great idea with the white sheer!! Love it!I'm so glad that I found this thread. I hadn't even thought about decorating the bands myself. I've done a few of mine so far. They're all broken down to "kid size" because I have smaller wrists and I don't actually wear the bands much anyway. I don't know how everyone is making such neat bands without breaking them apart. My first was a mess! I didn't want all white bands, but wanted the images brighter so I used a glitter white polish. It was just enough to lighten the band for the image, but not take away the original color completely. It worked out perfectly! Only Aurora is a little pink in her face. These are all brighter than the pic shows. The sides of the Snow White band didn't turn out so I cleared the images and left it. I loved the color of the band, despite the mistakes.
I'm so glad that I found this thread. I hadn't even thought about decorating the bands myself. I've done a few of mine so far. They're all broken down to "kid size" because I have smaller wrists and I don't actually wear the bands much anyway. I don't know how everyone is making such neat bands without breaking them apart. My first was a mess! I didn't want all white bands, but wanted the images brighter so I used a glitter white polish. It was just enough to lighten the band for the image, but not take away the original color completely. It worked out perfectly! Only Aurora is a little pink in her face. These are all brighter than the pic shows. The sides of the Snow White band didn't turn out so I cleared the images and left it. I loved the color of the band, despite the mistakes.
Thanks guys. I think Crush might be my favorite one so far too.
My DH, the wise guy, just took this picture. He says he's ready to go to WDW now.
This is all the bands I have ever painted except for Rafiki, which is hiding in my DS's room somewhere.
OMG I love love love your it's a small world band. It's one of my favorite rides too! I couldn't figure out how to scale it down for a magic band so I'm just doing a small world theme on my painted TOMS.
