What you will need:
1. One clean, freshly ironed t-shirt
2. Blue and red fabric paint
3. Smaill star cookie cutter
4. Masking tape
5. Small and large sponges
6. Some type of cardboard to slip inside the t-shirt to keep the paint from bleeding through
*This is a very inexpensive project and that makes it fabulous if you need to do more than one. :)
First, go ahead and put your cardboard into your t-shirt. You want to use two strips of masking tape.Put the first strip across the shirt and have it sit where the underarm seams are. Put another piece of tape directly under the first piece. Remove the first piece and discard. The reasons I did that was because I felt that more blue was needed to I just added that extra piece of tape to give me almost another inch. It's totally up to you whether you want to do that or not.
Also, because I am a tad OCD, I covered up the color and around the sleeves with tape. The oddest little things bother me.
Then take the star cookie cutter and figure out where you want your stars. Here's where the pencil comes in. Mark where you want your stars to go. Then, take the cookie cutter back to wherever you want to start from. Use the small sponge and work your way around the cookie cutter with blue paint. When you are painting, you do not want a lot of paint on the sponge. You want to "dab" everything. If you use the cookie cutter, you get much cleaner stars. Continue until all stars are complete.
Next are the stripes. Once the paint up top dries, take another piece of tape and line it up over the stars to where the blue will meet red. This gives it a good crisp line. Figure out how far apart you want your stripes and mark them with masking tape. Again, dab away with the larger sponge with the red paint.
Once this is complete you can embellish any way you want. I used a little bit of glitter puff paint and outlined everything.
Hooray, finished product!! Quick and easy!! Here is how adorable Chris looked in it!!
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