Awesome Craft Project

With a little help from her Mama, Elizabeth made the coolest craft ever! Seriously. Even Daddy thought they were cool -- and that's saying something because he's put up with me making a whole bunch of randomness over the last 10+ years...

What Mama did:

• Create the stencil on Freezer Paper using the Cricut Machine
• Note: To do this, you'll want to put the freezer paper on the cutting mat with the matte side of the paper down. When designing/cutting, you'll want to flip the image so that it prints backwards. I used the Sesame Street font for the stencil.
  
• Then iron the pre-washed shirt on the hottest setting (no steam)
• Then iron the stencil with the waxy-side down onto the shirt
• Put a couple of layers of paper towels between the front and the back of the t-shirts/onesie to prevent bleeding from the front to the back
• Organized the fabric paint in ice cube trays and set out the paint brushes (because I'm THAT anal-retentive)

What Elizabeth did:

• An awesome job painting her shirt, Alex's shirt, and Cate's onesie -- just used fabric paint...completely her designs
  
• Directing Mama to make the L's in "Elizabeth" and "Alex" into light sabers...
• Helped peel off the stencil after the paint was just dry to the touch

We think they are pretty awesome - you be the judge (double click on the image to make it larger, if you'd like):


Yes, that's a "flying WV" on the tail end of the H. Let's Goooooo Mountaineers!