Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Pokemon Go Team Mystic Shirt! DIY

I love Pokemon and Pokemon go is a dream come true for me. I have met tons of people while playing and the first thing people always ask is "What team are you?". So I made some Team Mystic/ Blue Team spirit wear. I have nothing against any of the other teams, I have close friends and family on all the teams, but Blue aligns with me because I love evolution. This shirt has a sort of distressed look to it, which I like. The final image doesn't have a perfect edge, but is definitely clear enough to tell what the object is and helps with the distressed appeal of the shirt.

Here is the finished product:

**The round bubble blotches are from before I started the project. I carried everything home from the store in the same bag and the bleach leaked.





The materials you will need include:

  • A Shirt in the color of your choice
  • Freezer Paper
  • Piece of Cardboard 
  • Bleach
  • A Squirt Bottle
  • An Iron
  • Some kind of cutting tool. 
*Optional: Silhouette machine, Transfer paper

I used my silhouette machine, but that is totally optional and this project can be completed with scissors or an exact-o knife.

Transfer paper is also an optional tool which just makes it easier to transfer the freezer paper to the t-shirt but is not necessary.


The first thing I did was make my design in silhouette and cut it out:

I then spread the transfer paper over the freezer paper and pealed the unwanted parts of the design away. The image below shows what it looks like up to this step:


I then put the piece of cardboard inside the shirt and flipped the transfer paper over so that the wax side of the freezer paper was against the shirt. 


I then ironed it and pulled the transfer paper off, leaving just the freezer paper:


I then sprayed the shirt with bleach using the squirt bottle and waited for the desired level of lightening:


I then filled the bath tub and rinsed off as much of bleach as possible:


I then removed any of the remaining freezer paper that was still attached:


and tossed it in the dryer:


Here is what it looked like at the end: