Stencil Shirts with Freezer Paper

Freezer paper can be ironed onto t-shirts. This is good for stencils.

Step 1: Materials Needed:

Shirt
Paint(I use acrylic, whatever works on fabric should work for you)
Freezer Paper
Hobby Knife
Iron
Some sort of brushy thing
Something to stencil

Comments

[spark master]

I like this instructable, but I are beez confuzed. you draw then scan then adjust, do you then slice a piece of freezer paper and print it on the paper side? then slice and dice it, reassemble it on the item and iron it on a shirt?  After a good drying you can peel off the paper (pulling off the plastic backed stencil) ?

This is a really nice instructable.

You can get same effect with masking tape on a piece of silicone paper (for small simple designs on a shirt pocket, or plastic contact paper if you have some that is due to be tossed out, it is too tooo expensive for this.

I stenciled numbers and simple stuff on on my kids Pinewood Derby cars with the blue masking tape method, came out nice.  The mask stencils allowed HIM , not me to do it and some came out a tad imperfect, but who cares! 

(Freezer paper has a plastic coating on one side to act as a vapor barrier and quick release, while frozen)

thanks

[TheCheese9921]

I made the blue spaceman stencil on the back of this using this method. Worked pretty good.

[musicroxmylife]

erm. which part must be cut ? the shades or the white one ?

[GrahamSimmons]

Thanks for this, this is how I'll make my 'gwai and Do Make Say Think shirts I have planned!

[Potaterchip]

great idea.

[Potaterchip]

Wow! very impressive. I have been trying to find a good way to stencil on shirts and this is the very first i have read that uses only household items,

[coldesire3]

I just wanted to say, the 65daysofstatic shirt is awesome. Nice instructable, as well.

[grrrachel]

You can actually print your design directly onto freezer paper if you have an inkjet printer. There are several precautionary measures to be taken into consideration - EG: make sure the paper is flat and not curled, back the sticky side with plain printer paper to prevent the wax from harming your paper feeding mechanism. Common sense stuff. Covering the front (dry side) of your printed freezer paper with clear contact paper before cutting it out also makes the stencil a little more rigid and ready to be used multiple times. It's a little harder to cut out that way, but you do end up with a piece that can be used over and over- thus saving time redoing the cutting process.

[Deadpunk]

i've noticed a couple asked "have you ever done this with spray paint?" well i did just that yesterday and today and these are the results and I have to say i'm quite pleased with them. I made the raven shirt yesterday and the one of the back of the guys head exploding today.

[Dandy in the Ghetto]

Did you just use regular spraypaint? Mine tended to bleed when I tried it. Yours look awesome though...

[Deadpunk]

ya they bleed a tiny bit and an i use regular spray paint but that raven shirt the style i did it the bleeding isn't an issue but if you look at the N in RAVEN the there's a brown shadow where the paint bleed around the sencil but as long as you put down like to light coats before a heavy coat or two the bleeding is very little

[Dandy in the Ghetto]

Awesome instructable. I made mine with acrylic paint with several layers... a Killola ripoff from someone else's instructable, and the hand from the first System of a down album.

[Deadpunk]

just one more thing if you cut your freezer paper to the size of regular printer paper you can just print your image onto it and cut it out just make sure when you put the freezer paper in your printer you put it plastic side up so it prints on the paper side.

[RiddleOfSphinx]

Nice idea, never knew freezer paper had plastic on one side :P. But, then again, I never use the stuff either ..lol. I'll try this out some time, thanks for the idea :D.

[kodalith]

I wouldn't use art already being used by a band when making DIY shirts. That's just my opinion though.

[bignothing]

Huh? I designed this stencil, I didn't copy Sheena art. Unless you mean stealing the london calling aesthetic...

[kodalith]

That was in reference to the Isis shirt.

[ravenprints]

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[bignothing]

Don't worry buddy, if people want to learn how to screen print there are plenty of instructables available to them:
"screen print"

though looking at your comment history I'll bet an instructables bot is flagging you as spam anyways.

[ravenprints]

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[bignothing]

Newsflash: screen printers already KNOW what you are talking about, and they post instructables documenting that knowledge. Half of your comments are identical ads for your dvd. If you care about sparking creativity, why don't you make an instructable about screen printing? I would read it if you made it, as you clearly know your stuff. The beauty of instructables is that there is often a multiplicity of methods one can use to achieve similar goals: there are many different methods documented for designing/printing/painting shirts. I'll agree that screen printing is probably the most effective method, but that does not mean it is the best for everyone. A lot of what I do with freezer paper could not be done with a screen (because of how this method seals the stencil+cloth together). My point is that a website like this one that is based around freely sharing information is not the best place to try to sell information. If you made your own instructable about screen printing it would be completely appropriate for you to offer your DVD for sale there, and you might get some sales from people who liked your project and want to learn more in-depth. But it just comes off as rude for you to barge into my project and tell people what they "need to use".

[BostonClothingGroup]

I have been using a light spray adhesive. Yo dont need freezer paper.

[cowscankill]

could you use waxpaper?

[bignothing]

nope. you need the plastic from the freezer paper to adhere to the shirt.

[cowscankill]

i figured that out...the hard way

[modestmoose]

I do something similar to this with spray paint and cardboard. check out www.myspace.com/khazmkhazm to see what i'm talkin about.

[worriedman]

ever used spray paint with this? looks cool. :-)

[Creamaster]

Freezer Paper is plastic on one side and paper on the other. Not for baking - for freezing. But the plastic side melts nicely into the shirt when ironed - for making stencils. It then peels off very easily.

[RRRuff]

Freezer paper can usually be picked up at your local supermarket. It's just brown paper that has wax on one side. Hunters use it to wrap their meat and freeze it.

[hethlee]

wow I really like this idea.. i'm a little confused how it works -don't get me wrong great instructable... i'm just a person that learns by doing... SO i will have to try it out:) thanks for letting me know about it!

[dingaling]

Sorry to sound like a complete dumbass but what is freezer paper and where can i buy some?

[bignothing]

It's paper for...umm...baking I guess? Anyways it's just like plain white paper on one side, and the other is some sort of waxy stuff that sticks to shirts when you iron it. I just have an anonymous roll of it, but I'll bet the Reynolds corporation makes it. Look in a market wherever the aluminum foil/wax paper type things are...probably in some sort of baking supply section.

[dingaling]

Cheerz

[dutton12]

you can also buy a textile meduim and mix it with your paint for better results and the pint will withstand more washes.

[TheCheese9921]

how many washes can this last???

[bignothing]

hella

[FrenchCrawler]

Nice. Is freezer paper the same as wax paper? That's what we use in my house (wax paper) to do this.

[bignothing]

I don't think so, though I might try a wax paper shirt today.

[foobear]

what kind of paint did you use?

[bignothing]

Err...some random acrylic that was around the house. I just bought some liquitek acrylic for today. Anything that sticks to fabric should work.

[0.775volts]

SO, how tightly does this seal? does the wax soak into the fabric, so you could use this like a faster Batik method? I like batik, but the burns and wax spills make it more trouble than it's worth.

[bignothing]

Batik? It seals pretty well, or well enough that you can paint over it. The wax doesn't soak in, and it should peel off cleanly

[radiorental]

very cool, on a larger scale I use rice paper and spray tack to create the equivalent of freezer paper