3 (With a Crown) T-Shirt

I love freezer paper stencils. They're not new, but they're new to me, and what fun! Easy, too. I wanted to make my daughter a surprise shirt to wear on her birthday party day, and on her birthday, and all the year long. I had a simple design in mind: the numeral 3, topped with a crown. I sketched it small, then drew it larger until I was happy, then traced it onto the freezer paper. Cut carefully with a craft knife, iron it on, and paint.

I use Speedball Textile Screen Printing Ink for freezer paper stencils. It gives a nice sharp edge, and when you heat-set it, it sort of melts into itself, blending all the brush marks. I had to mix a pink myself, because I have the set of six basic colors, and it came out a bit more salmon-ish than true pink. But just LOOK at how cute this shirt is!!

(With my daughter's latest watercolors in the background, too!) If you were three, wouldn't you want to wear that shirt whenever it was out of the laundry? I sure would. I can't wait to show it to her. This took under an hour. I drew, cut, ironed, and painted, let it dry for a few hours, peeled off the stencil, let it completely dry overnight, and ironed it to heat set the next morning. So cute, and easy, too.

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