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:

Another Crayon Melt Art (Golden Snitch)

Golden Stitch "I Open at the Close"

           1. Pick the crayons that you wish to use. I snap mine in half to get more width out of the crayons. They are so long that you don't need a whole crayon worth of wax to melt down the board.

          2. Get a hot glue gun and glue the crayons along the top of the board. You can peel the wrapper off if you want, but I like to leave mine on. Make sure you have glue sticks near by because you will use up glue quickly. 

           3. Print a picture that is simple, like a silhouette and and cute painter's tape into the shape you want. The simpler the shape the easier it is to cut and remove later.

           4. Place the painter's tape on the board where you would like the negative image to be.

           5. Put paper up in the location where you would like to melt the crayons. I've found that the melting is not too messy, but the paper makes it a lot more worry feel. at the end you can just pick up all the paper and throw the mess away.

          6. A picture of it sitting right before I melt it.

          7. Melt the crayons. This can take 30 mins to an hour with a blowdryer and is messier or about 20 mins with a heat gun. If you hold it too close the crayons will splatter. so hold about 6-8 inches away and be patient. you want to full cover your negative image and make sure to go a bit below it to make your negative image clear. 

           **If you are using a heat gun avoid heating the tape too much or it will melt and become hard to remove.** 

          8. Then while the crayons are still kinda soft but not liquid, remove the tape. a pair of tweezers may help with this step. 

Above is the finished product =) 

Tardis Crayon Melt Art

This was actually kinda fun :) It took hours to melt the crayons, but it's interesting so it doesn't get boring like you think it might.

I got a Tardis blue presentation board, because they didn't have any foam boards of the right color. I then set out the crayons I wanted to used from a box of old ones we had sitting around the house. Then I set them in the order I wanted at the top to make sure I had enough. 

After this you simply pick up each crayon, apply hot glue, and stick it to the board. To get the Tardis (but this would work with any basic shape) I made a square of painters tape. One layer of tape perpendicular to the other. I then used a picture I got off google and an exacto knife to cut the tape into a tardis shape. 

Then simply attach the shape anywhere you want it on the board and begin melting crayons.
I found that the completely unwrapped crayons melted the fastest, but also fell off toward the end.

While the crayons are still soft, peel the tape off, and TADAA!!! I hope you have fun =) I got the basic idea of the technique here 

This is mine =)

Cute bracelet

I took all of the yarn in my cabinet that is shown in organization part one so I only have one color to work with for the next month. Bedsits of this I started thinking of texture, because that's the eye catcher when you can't have color.
So I just finished this really cute bracelet about 2 mins ago. Didn't use any pattern, but I was looking at some really neat pictures of crochet jewelry this morning so the idea might have come from there.
I just crocheted 3 single crochet pieces, 40 chains long and 4 rows tall. After that I just braided then together keeping it flat and joined the ends together.