January 9, 2020
Here’s a wearable DIY for you – Handmade stencil-designed Sweatshirt and T-shirt. Here are the steps to make your own:
All you need is a T-shirt, LOVE stencil, black & white paint, paintbrush, and a plate to pour the paint on.
Place the Love Stencil (8.5×11) on your t-shirt. Use tape to create extra borders around the stencil. The tape is an optional step to make sure paint does not go over the stencil.
Pour out some red and black paint on a plate. We used Pebeo Setacolor fabric paint.
Start covering the stencil with red paint. Paint over the entire letters “V” and “E”, and only partially over the letters “L” and “O”. Do gentle tapping motion with your brush to get a better result.
Brush over the rest of the stencil with black paint. Go a little bit over the red paint to mix two colors and create an overlap.
Once you are finished painting the stencil, you are ready for the reveal.
Slowly remove the stencil to see the finished work. Let it dry and heat seal with an iron, inside out.
Now you need a sweatshirt and white paint and our Valentine’s Love Stencil.
Choose the desired area where your stencil design will appear. For our project, we chose a sleeve.
Place your stencil on the sweatshirt sleeve. Tape around the stencil borders to make sure no paint will get outside the stencil area. Pour a bit of paint on the plate, get the paint on the brush and start carefully tapping white paint over the stencil.
Once you have covered the entire stencil area with white paint, it’s time to lift the stencil.
Lift to reveal your design. Gently peel off the stencil to see what you have created. Share your wearable art with us @stencil1
