Geek Momma Life

My husband loves to try new ideas to make shirts. He was at Wal-Mart and saw this plain purple shirt and got the idea to bleach it to try and make a Tye-dye shirt. He knew that purple bleaches pink and took a chance that it would come out looking good.  All he did was wrap the shirt and spray it with some bleach. He rinsed it, let it dry and then ironed on a dark iron on transfer he printed on our printer. I think it came out so great and such a simple, creative design.   Back View    Close Up 

My son is obsessed with the show Octonauts but you can't find the anything to buy in the store because its based in  the UK. My husband got the great idea to make him a shirt using a bleach technique. He printed out the picture he wanted using freezer paper. Cut it out the image so that it was revered and the image was the only part of the shirt showing.  He then ironed it onto the shirt. Using bleach in a spray bottle he sprayed the image. Once you remove the freezer paper, you can see that the areas you bleached are a different color then the rest of the shirt. Step 1: Print our image you want Step 2: Cut out the image, leaving the outline Step 3: Iron on to shirt Step 4: Using bleach in a spray bottle, spray the area of the shirt showing, inside the outline Step 5: Peel of freezer paper Step 6: Rinse and let dry  It came out great!   Close up of the image