Looking for the Family Fun Mickey Head design

[mom2ajnm]

I know this tread is really old, but I'm so glad I found it. My 11 yr old son gets to go on his Dream trip to WDW with the Dream Factory! We are not going til Oct. but with all our medical stuff trying to plan ahead. So excited to try this!!

 

[Rachella76]

Just saw this thread and can't wait to try this with my girls!!!!

 

[worm761]

Thank you for bumping this! I think I am going to try the bleach pen ones that someone posted.

 

[gk90]

Tip for those of you who are confident in your drawing/painting ability: I had to make 3 of these in a hurry right before our vacation last year and was looking for an easy shortcut. I got 3 shirts in a dark color, outlined the swirl head design on them with a stick of chalk, and then with white fabric paint and a 1/2 inch brush just painted the swirl directly onto the shirt--the effect was pretty good, I'll post them when I have time. They don't look as good as the swirls with spray paint that I posted earlier in the thread, http://www.disboards.com/showthread.phpp=25897440#post25897440 but considering that they took under 10 minutes each to do, compared to at least 30 minutes for the others, I was very satisfied.

 

[CheriePenguin]

I'm so excited about these shirts!!!

I found another thread about them earlier, and found this thread today when I was searching for more pics for color ideas. I started with a test one - for my DS1 (smallest shirt!). I put on washable school glue, using the pattern someone posted on that other thread. Then I got nervous when the glue seeped into the shirt as it dried. So I did another layer of regular glue-all over the top. Unfortunately that layer spread out and looked awful (the first washable school glue layer didn't spread out, just seeped into the shirt - I was expecting it to stay puffy like when you put glue on paper). I washed the shirt and most of the glue came out, but I had to do a little scrubbing and rewash to get most of the rest out.

I did the painting just now (while DS1 is napping), and I'm dying to know how it turned out!! I don't think I can wait 3 whole days!! I used Tulip spray paints (a neon "party pack" of 9 colors), and I was a bit surprised that they sprayed out in a circular (almost fireworks like) pattern (though that was mentioned by someone here as well). Glad I did a test spray on a paper towel as was suggested.

If I can figure out how, I will post a picture once I wash out the glue.

I usually make custom iron-on designs for 1 set of matching shirts for our trip, and some extra ones as well, but this sounded really neat! And as putzy as it is, I think it is less time-consuming overall than the designing, printing, & ironing of t-shirt transfers. I'll probably still make a custom transfer type shirt for each of my DS's. But this will be our matching whole-family shirt set - using "safety green" (kind of a neon yellow color) shirts from Michael's. I'm still trying to decide if I should put anything on the shirt backs or not. I'm going to have the boys help make the shirts over Thanksgiving break next week, and we'll give them to Gma and Gpa for Christmas!