Rock My Heart…Hand Painted Valentine’s Tee…and TV Segment to watch…

Remember the latest Decorating Tees  TV segment I did the past January 20th on Daytime York? Now you can watch it right here on my blog! Click on the image above and watch it on Explorer {it doesn’t open nicely on Firefox}.

I don’t know about you but I love wearing my jeans all the time…cool and comfortable. How about wearing a Tee for Valentine’s Day? Of course, all depends on what you will be doing. Wings have been popular on Tees for while and I thought about incorporating them in a design with a heart-crown template and crystals. Glamorous! Make this project now and you will have your Tee ready to wear way ahead of time. Let’s get started with it!

MATERIALS:

Black Tee {mine is V-Neck}

Paint brushes in different sizes

Tulip® Fashion Form™

Tulip® Soft Paint {Matte Glacier White 4OZ}

Tulip® Fashion Graffiti™ Dimensional Fabric Paint Taggers™ {Hub Cap}

Tulip® Fashion Glitter Bond™

Aleene’s® Fabric Fusion™ Permanent Dry Cleanable Fabric Adhesive™

Tulip® Fashion Glitter™ {Multi Ultra Fine Crystal, Silver Ultra Fine Holographic, Red Fine Jewel, Gold Fine Jewel}

Tulip® Glam-It-Up!™ Iron-On Crystals™

Tulip® Glam-It-Up!™ Fashion Art Tweezers™

Tulip® Cordless Heat Setting Tool™

INSTRUCTIONS:

• 1- Wash your Tee but do not use softener. Hang to dry.
• 2- Place the Tulip® Fashion Form™ inside your vest. It will give you great support to work on and it will prevent materials from staining the back of the Tee.
• 3- Make your own stencils using sturdy plastic, like a see through plastic bag.
• 4- Draw a heart on one sheet of plastic and cut out the inner image.
• 5- Then draw a wing and repeat step.
• 6- You will place your wing stencil on the Tee and will secure it with tape.
• 7- Then place your heart wing and repeat same step.
• 8- Apply Aleene’s® Fabric Fusion™ Permanent Dry Cleanable Fabric Adhesive™ using a brush on heart first and cover the surface.
• 9- Using Tulip® Fashion Glitter™ Red glitter sprinkle on it. Repeat step if necessary to cover full surface.
• 10- Let dry completely.
• 12- Using the Tulip® Fashion Glitter™ Gold Fine Crystal & Silver Fine Holographic sprinkle glitter alternating colours on the surface before paint dries. Let dry completely.
• 13- Repeat step using Tulip® Fashion Glitter™ Crystal. But only apply on small areas giving a shinning effect to heart.
• 14- Apply Aleene’s® Fabric Fusion™ Permanent Dry Cleanable Fabric Adhesive™ using a brush on wing and cover the surface.
• 15- Add details using Tulip® 3D Fashion Paint {Puffy White} alternating with Tulip® Paint Taggers™ {Silver}.
• 16- Peel off Tulip® Sticky Fabric Stencils crown stencil and adhere it above the heart on the Tee.
• 16- Using Tulip® Fashion Glitter™ Gold glitter on crown and cover full surface.
• 17- Let dry completely.
• 18- Gather Tulip® Glam-It-Up! ™ Iron-On Crystals™.
• 19- Place crystals on fabric. Turn Tulip® Cordless Heat Setting Tool™, hold it straight up and touch top of crystal. Heat will melt the glue. Add crystals one by one.

TIP: Although paint and glitter usually dry in about four hours I always let my Tees dry until the day after. Then I give them a rinse with soap for delicate clothes and hang to dry.

Interested in learning how to decorate your own Tees with me? I will be teaching new fun workshops in the Spring here in Toronto. Stay tuned!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

DISCLOSURE: I have a material connection with Ilovetocreate because I received a cash payment, gift or other thing of value or product that are mentioned herein.

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