I made this new dress for Boo using the same reverse stenciling technique that I used for last winter’s snowflake dress. It is a quick and foolproof way to make a quick unique dress. This would be a great project for a tween/teen party!
Liquid fabric paint* in spray bottles
Plastic stencil (the butterfly one is from Tattered Angels)
*The paint I recommend is Dyn-A-Flow because it is more of a dye…..but you can try diluting regular fabric paint as long as there isn’t too much pigment in it to clog up your sprayer.
Every so often instead of blotting the excess spray off the stencil…..
……..I would just flip it over and put it on another part of the dress and use my paper towel to press it into the dress….
……leaving the excess ink behind and a layered effect.
I kept repeating this process over and over (letting the dress dry when the fabric got overly damp) until I got a medium pink, blue and purple mottled look. Then I used a black Fabric Mate Pen to draw a few butterfly outlines onto the dress.
I ironed the entire dress to set the colors.
Finished dress!
Happy Boo:
This is darling!
What a cool idea…I will definitely be trying this one :o)
Thanks for the tips!
Brilliant and so pretty!!!!
My daughter would love one of these, how cute!
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Looks so amazing and easy! Brilliant babe!!!!!!!!!
Woah! I think you must be using a larger surface of your brain than me. Or something. Seriously – I love this!
I love that.
This is really fun! Thanks for sharing. I have looked around for great stencils and I'm so glad you shared where you got the butterfly. I am having a hard time finding any on their site. There is nothing under stencil kits and that is all I see!
What a gorgeous dress! I am totally passing this idea on to a girls tween group who does lots of projects!
Very pretty! I love butterflies! Thanks for sharing.
So cute!! I was just working on a tutorial for liquid fabric paint in a spray bottle, but a completely different project. I love your idea so much more 🙂
Rachel
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Very cool!
Neat 🙂 I love the butterflies!
VERY cute!
I LOVE that! I wish I had a little girl to do it for. I guess I could find some football stencils! 🙂
Thank you for sharing! I was not aware that dye can be sprayed. The effect is really stunning.
Cool! Love it!
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This is awesome! Smarty smart!
oh… this is so cool. I love this idea. Very creative and pretty.
Thanks for sharing.
So cute =)
I love butterflies and I like the idea of stencil dress.
We used this tutorial today and it was a huge hit! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us!
What are the names of the dye colors you used? My daughter really wants to try this technique & loves how the colors mixed to make the lovely purple. Thanks!!