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Summary: Want to make custom t-shirts? Learn tips for taping down stencils in this free video clip about how to paint a t-shirt with stencils.
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Chantelle Tibbs Chantelle Tibbs owns a pretty sweet T-shirt company called Wear Me Naked [www.wearmenaked.com]. She makes hand-painted, hand-stenciled, and screen-printed T-s... read more
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Questions & AnswersGRACE FRAGA: Alright, so here we are with Chantelle Tibbs and making our own t-shirt. This is so exciting. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Yay! We are down to the fun part. GRACE FRAGA: Yes. We have taped the stencil on the t-shirt, and now, she has a little sponge and she's going to start painting. And we're going to use black because black is sexy. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Black on light blue, it just doesn't get any sexier than that so we're going to do that. GRACE FRAGA: And it makes me look thinner too. So, I love black. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Oh, yeah. It seems that way, black power. GRACE FRAGA: Black is my best friend. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Sometimes you can take a paint to put it on a little piece of cardboard or a little paper plate if you'd like to, I just use the top of the paint, because this is usually enough for a sufficient amount that comes to the top of the jar... GRACE FRAGA: Okay. CHANTELLE TIBBS: ...so I use that. What you're going to do is you already got your stencil laid down. Now, I want to just go over some techniques so that you don't have the paint bleeding all over the place. This is very important. GRACE FRAGA: Oh. CHANTELLE TIBBS: You don't want to glob it on there. What you want to do is put it just a little bit on there, just a little bit of paint on the tip of the sponge, okay? And then, you're going to go over it just a little bit. GRACE FRAGA: So over the stencil first. CHANTELLE TIBBS: So over the part of the stencil a little bit, so that your... GRACE FRAGA: Oh. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Yeah. So, there you go. That way, you're not bleeding all over the blues. It doesn't look tacky. And that's just going to save you Shout Wipes again and touch up time. GRACE FRAGA: So, that's great. So, you do like little motions like that, like up and down. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Just little motions. Again, it is trial and error. You don't want to keep doing it over and over again. [INDISCERNIBLE] it's different. This is different than screen printing and I just want to make a shout out to all my screen printers out there, I adore you, and I do some screen printing myself. We use photo emulsion when we burn the screens, but this is just a cheaper way. It's more hands-on. You don't need have artsy friends or go to the right places and pay for all this crazy material or get to pay all these setup fees since you get somebody else to do it. This is just so that you can do it. GRACE FRAGA: It's more fun to do. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Again, more control. GRACE FRAGA: Now, do you charge more for these t-shirts because [OVERLAPPING]? CHANTELLE TIBBS: Actually less. GRACE FRAGA: Less? CHANTELLE TIBBS: Less, because I don't have to pay all those crazy fees. GRACE FRAGA: That's amazing. How much does it cost, like the t-shirt and the paint per t-shirt. How much does it cost you per t-shirt? CHANTELLE TIBBS: It really just depends. Actually, the men's t-shirts are cheaper to make, and then the girls t-shirts, they are more expensive just for the actual t-shirt. The paint depends on the design. It really doesn't cost that much but I estimate that I'm going to spend about anywhere, between $5 and $8 dollars, and then the t-shirt is priced on that matter. And again, if the stores are carrying your stuff, they're going to mark it up too, so...
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