DIY Print on to Fabric to Make Appliques

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Its that time again, craft time.

I often get a crafting itch. It comes after,

"Ahhh! My life is crazy, I need to make something!"

This time, I thought I would try printing an image 

from my computer, thats right, through my printer,

on to fabric.

Craziness?? You better believe it!

Jet Shirt

 I got this steal of a shirt for 3 whole dollars 

at my local H&M.

Can we say, fabulous?!

Here's what I did, got out some freezer paper

and ironed it shiny side down to my, random

tee shirt that nobody wears, fabric.

Freezer Paper has a little coating of plastic to it.

When ironed to fabric, it slightly adheres, 

and can be gently removed, 

leaving no residue. 

Ironing Freezer Paper
to material

Taping to printer paper

 

I then cut out a piece a little 

larger than my image

and taped it to regular printer paper.

Here it is taped, to the regular printer paper

and loaded. It just loaded like normal paper

WITH the printer paper, otherwise,

just the Freezer Paper is too flimsy.

Loading into printer

After a few failed attempts

to load it into the printer without the guide of regular

paper, and jamming my machine (un unbeknownst to The Hus),

twice. This method, worked best.

Learn from my mistake folks.

Image printed onto fabric

Here's my printed image.

I have found some of my best images

by looking for coloring pages.

This one, I googled,"jet coloring pages."

Pretty fantastic if you ask me.

All that smudging, isnt noticeable in real life,

my cameras just ghetto.

Heat set with iron

 Then you have to "heat set" the ink.

Apparently, this only works with an

inkjet printer, not laser, but I only

have an inkjet, so I wouldnt know.

Gluing down with fabric glue

 Then, I used my fabulous, handy

dandy, fabric glue. I didnt have

any fusible interfacing on hand, so this worked great. 

Homemade applique

 Its washable too, and supposed to 

be permanent. But hey, if its not, I'll just make another.

And this guy could care less, he LOVES

his new "jet shirt"!

Another success!