Finally, I’ve got something to contribute to the Iron Craft!
I’ve been following each weekly challenge, and I even made one, but since I couldn’t get it posted by the Wednesday post date, I didn’t contribute it. This week, I still missed the Wednesday deadline, but I decided to post it anyway since I liked my completed project. Hopefully it will get placed in the roundup at Iron Craft.
I wanted to show you this craft anyway, since it’s a great one to do with kids. It’s so easy, and you end up with a really funky, cool product.
Essentially, you take a piece of sandpaper– coarser is usually better– and you draw on it with crayons. Then you iron it onto a t-shirt. What you end up with is a pebbly, textured image. It looks fantastic with kids’ drawings.
The theme for this week’s Iron Craft challenge was “Hometown.” So I decided to make a t-shirt from my old hometown high school, Ridgewood High. We were the Maroons… isn’t that a random mascot? Colors were maroon and white.
I bought a nice cotton tee in light gray from Gap, and I used a varsity-lettering-looking font to print out a big R. I used the R as a template to draw on the sandpaper, and then I ironed it onto the tee. After that, I used my Silhouette and the new iron-on vinyl I ordered and cut out the word “Maroons” in white typeface. I ironed that on the t-shirt below the R, and here’s what I got:
I thought it was totally cute.
Here’s a close up so you can see the pebbling:
And I hope you will enjoy the stop motion video of me making the crayon design.
Did you like the music again?
Yay! You’re linked up over on Iron Craft. This is really cool! Now, why the sandpaper, purely because of the pebbly texture? I really like the result.
And the video, AWESOMEBALLS! I loved it when the camera followed you down the hall. Production!!!