Instruction Guide
Materials Needed:
- Electric Iron
- Plastic tube for cold water rinse
- Tables / Cutting space
- Printed black and with image/icon
- Cardboard box
- Tape (masking)
- Tub of iced water for cold soak fabric treatment
- Gal Bleach $20
- Latex gloves $8.99
- Large Roll (Freezer Paper) $9-30
- Exacto Knives $8.99 x8
- 20 oz mini spray bottles $5.29 x6
- Fabric spray paint $8.99-$14.21
Manual Instruction:
- Cut two sturdy pieces of from a recycled cardboard box.
- Place artwork on top of one of the pieces of cardboard.
- Tap your artwork to the cardboard.
- Cut a piece of waxed paper to size.
- Place waxed sheet over artwork.
- Waxed side down
- Tape waxed sheet to cardboard.
- Use a pencil to completely outline you image.
- Create an abstract outline of any detailed images
- After your image is fully outline, carefully cut around your stencil.
- Do not cut completely around the entire stencil*
- Do not remove your stencil from the wax sheet*
- Take the other piece of cardboard, and cut the edges so that they are rounded
- Place the second piece of cardboard under the surface of the fabric.
- This will act as a barrier between both sides of your garment.
- Make sure to place cardboard is positioned, and clip down edges of fabric
- Make sure cardboard size is appropriate for surfaces*
- Place wax paper with stencil on top the garment over the cardboard barrier.
- Carefully orient your wax paper stencil to the prefered position on you garment.
- Make sure all other exposed areas of your garment are covered with wax paper to prevent unwanted splashes.
- Iron wax paper stencil onto garment.
- Wax paper will safely adhere most untextured cloth garment.
- The surface of you garment should be visible through the cut outline
- For non-cloth & solid material an alternative stencil material is necessary.
- Remove cut portion of wax paper from your applied stencil sheet.
- Take mini spray bottles.
- Fill one with pure bleach
- Fill the other with ½-¼ bleach & add water to fill
- Preferably distilled water for ironing
- Situate your work station for application.
- Ready some paper towels for dabbing potential seepage
- Begin with a few sprays to cover entire design area.
- A visible fade will appear as you are applying bleach
- Do not allow liquid to seep through wax paper (dab as you go)
- Apply full bleach solution or ½ solution till preferred shade or lightness
- Darker colored garments may need more bleach than light colors
- Let surface sit for about 10 mins after applying pure bleach
- Carefully peel away your wax paper stencil to remove it from the surface of the garment
- stencil s may be reused if intacs after removal from garment.
- Run garment under cold water for 1-2min to wash out excess bleach.
- Do not leave garment bleaching longer than 10min
- Bleach can eat through fabric
- Machine wash and dry.