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Step 3Stencil making
You may have heard of screen printing with butcher paper. This is kind like that, but if you don't have butcher paper you're going to have to make some.
Take a piece of a garbage bag that's about the size of your pieces of paper, and put it between one piece of paper that is printed on, and one that is blank. When you iron the garbage bag between the pieces of paper it will melt so they stick together, and later once you have cut out what needs to be cut out it will be used to stick the stencil to the fabric. Line up the pieces of paper and iron the paper/garbage bag so that the garbage bag sticks to both pieces of paper. Repeat for all the other pieces of paper that you have printed on. Also, now is the time to do that for the paper that will become the stencil of the thought bubble. Just use blank pieces of paper for that though, since you're going to draw it on.
Decide how big you want the thought bubble to be, and use enough paper to make it the size you want. Don't forget to make the little circular parts that are always at the bottom (there's a picture to show what the heck "the little circular parts that are always at the bottom" are). After you have the outline, go back and draw another outline inside of the first one you drew (both on the main thought bubble and the little circular parts that are always at the bottom). Your stencils are going to be more than one piece of paper, so don't worry if they are.
Once you have everything all drawn out and ironed and stuff, take one of the pieces of your stencil and put it on a towel and cut out whatever pieces are supposed to be cut out with an X-acto knife. Make sure you save the insides of the "O"s and stuff like that!
Take a piece of a garbage bag that's about the size of your pieces of paper, and put it between one piece of paper that is printed on, and one that is blank. When you iron the garbage bag between the pieces of paper it will melt so they stick together, and later once you have cut out what needs to be cut out it will be used to stick the stencil to the fabric. Line up the pieces of paper and iron the paper/garbage bag so that the garbage bag sticks to both pieces of paper. Repeat for all the other pieces of paper that you have printed on. Also, now is the time to do that for the paper that will become the stencil of the thought bubble. Just use blank pieces of paper for that though, since you're going to draw it on.
Decide how big you want the thought bubble to be, and use enough paper to make it the size you want. Don't forget to make the little circular parts that are always at the bottom (there's a picture to show what the heck "the little circular parts that are always at the bottom" are). After you have the outline, go back and draw another outline inside of the first one you drew (both on the main thought bubble and the little circular parts that are always at the bottom). Your stencils are going to be more than one piece of paper, so don't worry if they are.
Once you have everything all drawn out and ironed and stuff, take one of the pieces of your stencil and put it on a towel and cut out whatever pieces are supposed to be cut out with an X-acto knife. Make sure you save the insides of the "O"s and stuff like that!
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