Sunday, December 2, 2012

DIY Galaxy Print!

 First off i would like to apologize for everything being bleach oriented. i promise you the my projects WILL eventually go outside of the limits of bleaching fabric...its just so easy and i bought a bunch for these 3 specific projects, but i digress. Here we have another find from salvation army $2 woop woop. Time to get crafty....
I started off the shirt with a layer of bleach splatters. i just dipped a toothbrush (i figure you understand not to use one that someone is planning on using...) in watered down bleach and just covered the whole shirt by flicking the bristles of the brush near the shirt surface. Now i recommend you practice this on another black cloth that you don't really care about before doing it on the final shirt, because depending on how far away you flick from the shirt...the look varies and that way you can choose what you think looks best without ruining your shirt (if you do mess up and get bleach where you don't want it, just simply cover it with black fabric paint.)
 This is more or less what you will end up with. i made some big areas of bleach by accident but i decided i kinda likes the look and kept it, but you will probability prefer a lighter look. I also bleach out the collar on cuffs on the sleeves for an extra touch.
 Next step is adding the color. Now i have seen a lot of different combination of colors online so this is another step i recommend you practice before doing work on your final project. I have seen a lot of people use orange reds and pinks also, but i decided just using purple and light blue works fine by my standard. I also have white and a fabric paint medium you mix with acrylic paint to make it stick to fabric better (found at any craft store). I watered down he mixture of each color and the medium so it didn't show up on the fabric super dark.
 I decided to use a sponge to apply the color but you could also use the toothbrush method like we did with the bleach before...whatever floats your boat man. I just kinda randomly splotched on the purple and blue on the white spots and all around the t-shirt. There really isn't a right or wrong way to do it it all just depends on how you want it to look :]
 after the blue and purple i splashed on some white with the tooth brush again, and used cu-tips to dot on some bolder bigger white spots. This is what i ended up with, and i love it !

 meep.

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