Thursday, April 7, 2011

How to make a faux necklace shirt

A friend of mine made these and shared on her blog and it was too cute not to share with you.
What you need:

Plain shirt  
Fabric Paint ( can be purchased at Walmart in their craft dept)
Anything that will make a round stamp {you can  use dowels of different sizes, and I also used a hot glue stick. But pens, the eraser side of a pencil...anything like that would work}
Cardboard for the inside of the shirt to keep the paint from leaking though



Then you just take whatever you are using for your stamp, dip it in the paint, and start stamping


Just stamp out any pattern you want. I chose to do four necklaces- two of each color. And each one is a different size circle.  Afterwards you could add a flower.  You could make this out of extra material you may have at your house or buy the flower already made I have seen some at the dollar tree. 
2 hints if you are adding a flower.  1-If your making it you can burn the edges of your flower, see pic below.  It will give it a crisp rolled up look that will keep its shape better.  All you need to do is hold each flower petal at a distance to a candle, lighter, match whatever you have on hand very very lightly, you dont want it to go up in flames. 2-you could hot glue this flower to your shirt but your better off adding a pin to the back so that you can remove it for washing purposes.  The pins are the closed clasp kind that you would find on the back of a broach and can be found at walmart or the dollar tree. See pin pic below.
Here is a picture of the pin.

1 comment:

B and R Davenport said...

THIS IS ADORABLE!!!!!! I cannot wait to make Natalie one... or two, or three of them! Thank you for posting this!