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.
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: