Family Fun Solar shirts!

[kbuckley]

Thanks so much for the design. I am the worst at drawing and this will SO help me! Thanks a bunch!

 

[tchrrx]

I put the flour/water mixture on our shirts this afternoon. Then, I realized that I don't have any of the paint leftover! OOPS! I'm not going to be able to get to the store until Saturday. Do you think that'll be a problem ? I know it'll make the stuff even harder to peel once it's that dry, but can you think of any other difficulties I need to be prepared for? Thanks!

 

[DisneyBornandBread]

That is so cool. Glue here I come!! Thanks for the pattern too, Kristine. Now it is really going to be easy! You rock!!!

 

[design_mom]

I put the flour/water mixture on our shirts this afternoon. Then, I realized that I don't have any of the paint leftover! OOPS! I'm not going to be able to get to the store until Saturday. Do you think that'll be a problem ? I know it'll make the stuff even harder to peel once it's that dry, but can you think of any other difficulties I need to be prepared for? Thanks!

I think it'll be fine. I think you want the flour/water mixture to be completely dry anyway. Otherwise the dye/paint can seep underneath.

For what it's worth, I'm making these as favors for my DD's 3rd birthday party. I found cotton/poly blend shirts for the older kids, but couldn't find them locally in toddler sizes, so I bought 98%cotton/3% spandex shirts in toddler sizes. It was *so* much harder to get the stuff off the toddler shirts. Instead of peeling off, the shirt just stretched. Note to self: Don't use spandex-containing shirts for this project!

 

[GOODoldPAL]

going to try this as soon as school is out so need to bookmark it or I'll forget all the great tips like glue instead of flour

thanks for sharing ~ T

 

[tchrrx]

My shirts are ugly! I tried the Tulip paint that you just add water to & spray on. Well...last year I had the spray cans that make it easy to add 2 colors, so I assumed I could do the same with this. My light pink shirts that were supposed to have lime green & purple paint on them now just look muddy brown! Yuck! Oh well...guess we'll wear them anyways! At least we'll be unique!


ETA: I washed my shirts & they are now more of a rosy color on the pink shirts. Still not the look I was going for, but much better than the mud look!

 

[Zandy595]

Has anyone ever tried using a colored shirt and drawing a design on it with a Clorox bleach pen or Cascade and a paintbrush? I wonder if that would work.

 

[xyzabc33]

This is a really neat idea and will save me bunches of time for our upcoming trip. I have 9 shirts to do from toddler to Pooh sized and will be putting wording on them. I love the idea of putting a pattern under the shirt. SOOO much easier then hand lettering all 9 of them. I will be adding demensional paint later. I do have a question, or 2, or 3, about the glue (instead of flour)

Do we let it dry as you would the flour mixture? Do you peel it off or just throw it in the washer and it just washes off? It wont gum up my washer will it? (it's been forever since I used Elmers, give me a break here..LOL) Should I get the washable kind or just the regular old fashioned white glue.?
OK like that was 4 questions, I am winging it as I go along. LOL

Paint questions now ..HEHEHE
Has anyone used actual spray paint? Like the kind you use to paint furniture, etc. I used it once on a shirt for fun and after washing, it was pretty soft and lasted. I will try it when I can and let you all know if it has any effect on the flour and/or glue stuff. Lord Knows I have spray paint coming out the wazoo around my house.

ZANDY I dont know where I had gotten the directions from but I was going to do a craft for a group I belonged to last summer with bleach.
Kinda like a negative print. Directions..........................

Have a bucket of clean water ready to go VERY IMPORTANT!
*Pick some leaves or other natural objects, ferns are really pretty(avoid poison ivy .lol)
*Lay them out on dark material (jean is great for this)
*Spritz them with straight bleach so that you are spraying over the object and as far out as you want the material to turn (diff color material turns diff shades with bleach--black turns a orangy color, etc, experiment with it)
*let set for just about a minute or 2 (watch the change to get the effect you want---remember--Bleach will continue to change till you wash it, you have to be sort of quick)
*Remove object
*IMMEDIATELY dunk the garment in the water to stop the bleaching --RINSE RINSE RINSE!
*wash the garment as you would any other as soon as you can to set the color you get (if you dont the bleach residue will still eat away where you sprayed it.

I also used some fun foam shapes(custom cut and pre made) and they were great as you could reuse them. Just make sure before laying them on another garment to wash and dry them well. Bleach is a persistant little bugger when it wants to be.

I cant wait to try the solar shirts. Thanks for the help in advance.

 

[DisneyBornandBread]

Use the regular Elmers. The washable spreads to much. Yes you have to let it dry. It will wash right out when it gets put in the wash. I used Tulip cool color spray for fabric. It worked very well. I just followed the directions for the spray. You can not pick the glue off you do have to wash it. And now it will not hurt the washer. It doesn't take the glue long to dry. Have fun and good luck

 

[xyzabc33]

Thanks for the info DisneyBorn.

I experimented today with one of my BF's shirts. He was only too happy to donate to science ..LOL..NOT! Eh, told him he will get more as soon as we buy for the actual shirts. He is the only 2X in the bunch so he gets the rest of that pack.
Used regular old spray paint from a can. It works, is a little stiff even after washing and fuzzes a bit. Do the regular spray on fabric paints get fuzzy? I think I will try the acrylic paint I already have to see how that comes out tomorrow. I need to get a small spritz bottle first. I will water it down in diff increments to see how much to do. How thin is the already made kind?

I also tried Aileen's Tacky Glue (tons of that but no Elmers in the house..lol) OH MY GOSH...it works great. I even spread it out a bit (maybe an 1/8 inch thick) to see how it would cover a bigger area. Washed out with no prob.

I cant wait to do this...NOW I just need to decided on the actual wording. LOL

 

[toddlerhouse]

I just completed applying the paste to the 7 shirts and the are baking in the 90+ degree heat here. I used both glue and the flour mixture. I only had enough glue for 3 shirts and didn't want to stop to do get more. I'm not sure which one will turn our better but the glue was way easier to apply. With the flour mixture I kept having to stop for clumps even though I was very careful to get the clumps out before putting it in the bottle. Will post pictures soon- I hope.

 

[Zandy595]

xyzabc33 and toddlerhouse, I'd love to see pictures of your finished products.

 

[kbuckley]

Make sure you put the cardboard underneath as you spray. My sister and I didn't have enough cardboard since we were doing 9 shirts and we used trash bags. Also used regular tulip paint and she diluted it with water and we sprayed. It was a mess! It ran everywhere. We redid them and put cardboard underneath each and bought the tulip spray paint. Worked much better!

 

[FLA NUT]

Bumping this up. There are some great ideas here.

 

[robinc71]

this looks like fun. I like the glue idea.

 

[onecutemoocow]

Anyone have any new pics that I can look at and try to get some ideas?

 

[turtlegirl1]

Does anyone have a copy of the pattern posted by KristineN (#99) - the photo there is gone.... Thx!!

 

[lisabelll]

Does anyone have a copy of the pattern posted by KristineN (#99) - the photo there is gone.... Thx!!

I would LOVE a pattern too! Anyone still have one

 

[hmcfall711]

Here's a third who would love the pattern.

 

[miceli20]

let me know if you get the pattern, I would love one