Last Minute Valentine's Day Shirt

Whew!  Is anyone kind of not ready for V-day to be here?

I'm not.  I just have so many heart related crafts swimming around in my head and not enough time to do them all!

Well, I had to squeeze one more shirt in before heart day gets here.

If you are at a loss for what to wear to be festive tomorrow, make this shirt real quick.  You'll look adorable!

What you'll need:

Blue & red fabric paint

Painters' tape (or masking tape)

X-acto knife & cutting board (unless you have skinny tape)

Small piece of freezer paper

Iron

Paint brushes

Cardboard (or something to put in the middle of your tee)

Here's the paint I used:

Sparkles!

So, if you have fat tape, like mine, you can cut it in half on your cutting board with an X-acto knife.

This is before I cut it.  I followed the lines (you can barely see them through the tape)

Then lay 3 pieces of your tape where you want to start on the shirt & take off the middle piece.  This will give you more accurate spacing.  Repeat until you have enough stripes.

Paint in between the tape lines.  I had just enough paint from this little bottle.  So if you are making more than one shirt, buy more than one bottle.

The bottle says you should wait 4 hours for it to dry.  Um, that is not happening.  I am like the world's most impatient crafter.  That tape came off in 30 minutes!

Then cut a heart in your piece of freezer paper (free hand it or use a template). 

Freezer paper looks like this (in case you've never bought it) & can be found on the Ziploc aisle at the grocery store.

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Iron it down & paint your red heart.

Note: If you don't want the stripes to show through, lay a heart down before you paint your stripes.

Yay!  All done :)

Happy Valentine's Day, Everyone!