new hobby: 'freezer' paper stencilling
If you sometimes look at crafty sites such as craftster, you cannot have missed the craze with freezer paper stencilling. I had noticed some time ago and felt the urge. But alas! where to get freezer paper in Europe (you may have noticed people from everywhere but the US to ask about getting this stuff). So I planned to buy some on my trip to California. But alas! I forgot (just as I forgot to by a suitcase full of Kool-Aid, how stupid can you get?).
(in case you are completely in the dark about freezer paper, it is paper, plastic coated on one side. In case you are completely in the dark about stencilling with it: You cut out the motive you want, you iron it on the fabric (t-shirt, bag, trousers, whatever) and then dab textile paint on it, remove the freezer paper and voila!!!)
However all my worries have gone because I found an alternative. The other day I stood with a roll of, I thought, gift paper. It turned out not to be gift paper but book-covering paper. On the label it said: This paper is coated with plastic for extra endurance. Do you ever have moments where you can almost see that little lightbulb appearing next to your head? Well this was one.
So, Reynolds (producer of freezer paper) go home - I do not need to order you on the internet and pay loads of dollars in shipping. Because this actually works. A roll of plastic-coated book covering paper costs 19 danish kroner, that's about 3.5 dollars, and it is a couple of meters. It will take a while before you are through it. The colours on it do not matter - although if you want to trace motives through it, you may find this easier with a light colour. The colours do not stick to the fabric.
Well ok it did not work the first time, but I found out why. On the picture with the rabbit you see some matter sticking to the t-shirt. That's what was left. I spend a lot of time picking this stuff from the t-shirt. Eventually everything will come off, but you don't want to spend the amount of time. The reason for the sticking was that I heated the paper for too long.
I found out about this by looking up a tutorial on craftster for freezer paper stencilling. There it says: go over the paper with the iron only once. (The heat was on cotton).
Thick-headed as I am, the second try of course had to be a more intricate motive, but it worked fine.
Actually, the t-shirts owner dabbed on the paint. She's very proud.
(in case you are completely in the dark about freezer paper, it is paper, plastic coated on one side. In case you are completely in the dark about stencilling with it: You cut out the motive you want, you iron it on the fabric (t-shirt, bag, trousers, whatever) and then dab textile paint on it, remove the freezer paper and voila!!!)
However all my worries have gone because I found an alternative. The other day I stood with a roll of, I thought, gift paper. It turned out not to be gift paper but book-covering paper. On the label it said: This paper is coated with plastic for extra endurance. Do you ever have moments where you can almost see that little lightbulb appearing next to your head? Well this was one.
So, Reynolds (producer of freezer paper) go home - I do not need to order you on the internet and pay loads of dollars in shipping. Because this actually works. A roll of plastic-coated book covering paper costs 19 danish kroner, that's about 3.5 dollars, and it is a couple of meters. It will take a while before you are through it. The colours on it do not matter - although if you want to trace motives through it, you may find this easier with a light colour. The colours do not stick to the fabric.
Well ok it did not work the first time, but I found out why. On the picture with the rabbit you see some matter sticking to the t-shirt. That's what was left. I spend a lot of time picking this stuff from the t-shirt. Eventually everything will come off, but you don't want to spend the amount of time. The reason for the sticking was that I heated the paper for too long.
I found out about this by looking up a tutorial on craftster for freezer paper stencilling. There it says: go over the paper with the iron only once. (The heat was on cotton).
Thick-headed as I am, the second try of course had to be a more intricate motive, but it worked fine.
Actually, the t-shirts owner dabbed on the paint. She's very proud.
Labels: stencil
Tingletangle wrote this at 6/20/2007 06:09:00 PM
2 Comments:
wow. i was in the dark on both freezer paper AND freezer paper stenciling, but it looks very cool and like you had quite a bit of fun.
Så flott det ser ut - motivene du har valgt er kjempefine :-)
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