Craft Your Stress Away

This t-shirt was not meant to be.  This is the second iteration of this shirt and I messed this one up too.  Fortunately I did it on a less expensive shirt.  The mistake was made on a $3.88 shirt from Wal-mart.  That sounds cheap, but since I make so many shirts, messing up a $4 shirt hurts way more than messing up a $2 shirt from a Michaels sale.    And the shirt might be cheap, but vinyl is not.  Of course this is all relative when I take into consideration it can cost me as little as $10 to make a shirt.

Craft Your Stress Away T-shirt Recipe

My first attempt at this shirt used a darker pink vinyl for the background color.  The Siser Confetti Glitter vinyl is perfect with just about any t-shirt.  This vinyl has such beautiful color.  And YOUR STRESS was done in white.  I will post a picture of the boo boo at the end.  You will recognized my mess up right away because you have seen the good one.  But the good one has issues, too.  I decided to use a different shirt color for the redo.  You can't go wrong with hot pink.  I put the background vinyl down.  Then I decided to put the glitter and white vinyl all down at the same time.  I cut very close to the YOUR STRESS and made sure it wasn't overlapping any vinyl.  Everything looked perfect.  Then I go to peel up the vinyl.  UGH!  The masking tape for away was under the bottom of the f in craft.  Back to the Silhouette to cut out the bottom of the f.  Fortunately glitter vinyl is very forgiving.  I wouldn't have been able to recover as quickly with flat vinyl.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  Tune in next time for another paper crafting or t-shirt project.  Have a great day and enjoy the journey and some chocolate.

April

Ruth 4:  10   I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”