***Disney Design Addict's Chit Chat,Designs and Pixie Dust! Everybody WELCOME!*** Part 3

[Cajun Princess]

PNO4TE - Have a Magical trip

 

[julia & nicks mom]

PNO4TE

I hope you have an AWESOME trip!!

Kate

 

[bengalbelle]

Leaving after work this evening to head to our girls only WDW trip. See you all when we get back!

Egad... I cannot imagine how many pages there will be since Kate is back

Have a great trip!

 

[geetey]

Pro sports is how we narrowed down our ORIGINAL list! Lol.... that's NOT to say we picked our favorite teams, etc but we definitely wanted that around. I grew up in Chicago and Cincy and DH grew up in Nowheresville. It was so strange to me that he went to his first ballet, pro sporting event, etc as an adult! I want that kind of stuff around for my kids to experience as well. SO.... Chapel Hill actually didn't even make our list (nor did Baystate) because of that, but the faculty so highly recommended both, so..... they're back It's nice to hear from a city girl (my FAVORITE city, by the way) that it's not some small college town far from everything!

Well, if it's about pro sports, I say pick SLU! Great school! Great city!! GREAT BASEBALL TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have football and hockey if that interests you are well.

 

[Dimk]

Someone had posted instructions on using the dry paint mixed with water and medium for a spray bottle. I can't find them now. Can anyone help me??? I needed to know what the mixture was. Please
OR Should I use the spray paint?
Also, for the Tulip spray paint.....how far do you get on one can? I need to do 8 shirts and was thinking 3 or 4 colors each. Similar to the ones posted last week. Just wondering is it worth the savings to mix my own? Or not worth the hassel. Thanks much!!!

 

[maryjeane]

Dimk - I have now made 12 shirts and I just ran out of one color. If you're spraying lightly like I did on most shirts you'll be fine. Here's DH's shirt which I just finished yesterday and I totally had to saturate it to get the bright colors. The Tulip colors would definitely be more convenient, but if you have the time to mix them yourself you might get a better spray. The Tulip bottles tend to drip. I don't know if it shows up in the pictures very well but I got lots of drips on our shirts.

I don't think the person who posted about mixing your own gave a ratio, just to use a bottle of acrylic paint, add some water and some fabric medium. If you're at the store look at the Tulip paints - they're a little thicker than water.


I'll be doing some more on Friday for a friend and may mix some so I'll let you know how it goes.

Mary Jeane

 

[disneyeveryyear]

I found this - are these the instructions you are looking for?

The shirts turned out great maryjeane!!

Just a hint/tip regarding spraying shirts like she did: you can take a spray bottle and get any color of 2oz. Acrylic paint and dump it in and add about 1/3 of the bottle with water and a little fabric medium and shake it up (not hard) and you basicly have the same thing the stores sell for much cheaper price. I just made some up today and the kids and I will work on shirts through out the week.

 

[Dimk]

Thank you very much!!!!
Just wanted to suggest....
I purchased a heavier plastic that is flexible at JoAnn Fabrics (it was on a large roll) to use as my template. Should be easy to cut as it is flexible and easy to wash off.

 

[Pooh67_68]

I like it, and the drips add character.

 

[maryjeane]

Good luck, Dink.

Yes, I cut a template out of stencil plastic - worked great and rinsed right off (when I remembered to rinse it!!).

Have fun and post a picture when you're done.

 

[mcdisney2005]

I have just started looking at these threads as we are going Thanksgiving Day. You guys are way to creative. I am thinking of trying the sprayed shirts this weekend. Where is the best place to buy shirts?

 

[maryjeane]

I bought some girls sizes on clearance at Wal Mart for $3.00. Mervyn's has ladies sizes for $4.68 or so.

The rest I ordered from www.shirtsupplier.com

If you're just looking for plain white t-shirts I believe they're on sale at Michael's this week for $2.88.

 

[Cinderumbrella]

PNOTE and Brendita have a wonderful trip!!! Some of our time may overlap, so watch for us... we'll be the crazed Commando Mommy , a 2year old screaming about the castle and "Cinderumbrella" and a tall skinny guy sulking about how we should be in ESPN club watching the World Series and not Wishes!!

 

[MazdaUK]

When we were out at Easter Walmart had Fruit of the Loom T's in the mens section in all sizes, colours and styles - v-neck, crew etc. DS(12) and DH got one each but I wish I'd made them buy a whole batch in different colours and styles - they were only about $3-4 each and they wash well.

 

[JnEsWDWMom]

http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumList?u=4336564

Great looking shirts and a great looking family! And I'm only four pages behind now! Yeah!

~~Lynn ~~

 

[bengalbelle]

I am so far behind posting this, but I was sick (and way too depressed, lol) to post once we got home.

I need to give Kate and HayGan a great big thank you for making some last minute adjustments to designs as I waited until the very last minute to make my shirts . You'll see in a moment that didn't turn out too well for me.

Anyway, we were at WDW from Sunday, September 25 - Saturday, October 1. I didn't start making my shirts until Friday, September 23rd, just as Hurricane Rita was coming ashore. Our power was flickering as I was printing and ironing like a mad woman, and Kate saved the day! I had to dip into my light colored transfers and needed some designs flipped and Kate did that for me. I also had a great design from Momof2OH but it wouldn't print out right and Kate fixed that for me as well. HayGan resized her Surrender the Candy design for me also! So a great big thanks to y'all for that!

Because of my procrastination and Rita, I only ended up making 4 shirts. Not as many as I wanted to but I'll be saving those designs for later. The first design is one Kate made for my mom. We celebrated her 70th birthday AND her first time at WDW! The design was "It's my 70th birthday feel free to treat me like a princess". My mom NEVER calls attention to herself and I think she was a little apprehensive at first, but once we got to the parks she was loving all of the attention. She got it from everyone! We started off the day at AK, then hopped over to MK for her birthday dinner at CRT. CM's and guests were all saying happy birthday, some adding princess to the end of the greeting! My mom said it was the best birthday she ever had and I believe for one day she truly felt like a princess! I took a great picture of her shirt, but my camera didn't save it. She'll kill me over this picture since it was at the end of a hot and tiring day, but I love this pic

My other design is credited to Momof2OH and Kate. This is the one that wouldn't print out correctly. We wore it on our first day at MK and got some attention but we happened upon Peter Pan and Wendy and they made a huge fuss over the shirt. Peter Pan said "What's your favorite ride, Christopher?" Christopher said "yours" then said "how did you know my name?" Peter Pan said "it's right there on your shirt." DS looked down and said "No, that's Mickey Mouse (kind of "knowingly"). Peter and Wendy both read his shirt to him, saying "It says WDW, then Mickey, then Christopher and spelled out Christopher." DS looked down at his name on his shirt and said "whoa!" like he never realized his name was on the shirt (we did show him, honest ). Peter and Wendy got a big laugh out of DS. A little OT, but this Wendy is great!! DS loves the characters, but he hardly ever smiles because he's shy and a little nervous. Peter and Wendy really drew him out and talked to him. We have a picture with the same Wendy from last December and we loved her then too!
Here's a picture with Peter looking at DS's shirt and talking to him about it

And another, showing it (well, half of it )from the front and our favorite Wendy

And another with Jasmine so you can see the whole shirt. DS fell in love with Jasmine

I know you can't tell it, but he's REALLY happy to be taking a picture with Jasmine. He had no clue about the princesses until we took a picture with her. Now they're all he can talk about. Men!

Our third shirt was for the Pirate Cruise and it was designed by nuzmom. I struggled over what color shirt to use, but I think it looked really good on the black shirt. It was at the Pirate Cruise that we figured out our camera wasn't saving our pictures, so I don't have good digital pics from the cruise. Here's a picture of the shirt itself, then DS back at the Poly holding his loot.

Finally, I saw 2 of midnite's designs in the parks. Well actually in the restaurants. First we saw a family with the Incredible Mom/Dad/Kid shirts at Sci-Fi as we were leaving about 3:30ish on Monday, September 26th. If that was your family and you're reading here we saw you!! The shirts looked great!!

Friday night I met Steffy and Tinker1bell (and some sisters, I think) at LTT. They had on the MNSSHP T-shirts that said Welcome Foolish Mortals. I think I threw Steffy for a loop when I ran up to her and asked if she was a Diser, but she was really nice about it. I knew when I saw them come in they had to be disers. I hope they post photos because their shirts were awesome!!

Finally, I planned to put HayGan's design "Surrender the Candy" on shirts for DH, DM and I to wear to MNSSHP since DS was a pirate, but I ran into a little trouble. I was making the second one and forgot to reverse a design and ironed it on backwards! It was at that point I surrendered to the hurricane. We packed up and left a day early! I'm going to make the shirts for us to wear for Trick or Treat, though. I may try it on the glow in the dark paper if I can find it.

Thanks again to everyone who shared your designs! I've followed this thread from the very beginning and never thought I'd ever make anything. Seeing other completed shirts and such cool designs inspired me and I'm so glad I did!! Now I'm trying to plan another trip around the shirts I want to make

 

[Cinderumbrella]

Your shirts look great and I am glad you got some pixie dust because of them!!!!!!!!!!!! Looks like you had a wonderful trip!

 

[KMH1]

Way to make me all misty bengalbelle! Your son is so cute and I love that your mom wore a tiara too!

Kevin is STILL cropping our pictures (we took about a 1000). Last night we spent two hours narrowing down our photopass choices. Out of 173, we're buying 24. That's our Christmas present to each other. But if we win the powerball tonight, we're going to buy them all!

Amy

P.S. I really wish Kate would post something I could make fun of her about. I'm going through withdrawal!

 

[JnEsWDWMom]

In fact, I tried to fold two together with some glitter and left them for Fanny, our Mousekeeper. We came back that evening and she had folded them into a rolled towel making them look like eyes on a mask. We were really surprised If i ever can figure out how to post a picture, I will do it.

Where did you stay when you had Fanny as your Mousekeeper? Our Mousekeeper was Fanny at the POFQ and she did the most amazing things with towel animals. One was a big bunny with flowers on her skirt that we dubbed "Queen Bunny". I wanted to keep her so badly. We even wrote Disney about her and they printed our letter in the Cast Member newsletter, the Main Street Gazzette. I wish I had gotten her picture. She was the best. Could it be the same Fanny?

~~Lynn ~~

 

[Tammi67]

Brendita and PNO4TE - Have a magical trip!!