Spice Up Your Closet With a New Summer Look by Ciara Hibbard

Every girl has that moment when they go to the closet and have no idea what to wear. After going through a day like this, I found a watermark tee from Ucretate Crafts and Sweet Verbana to give my summer wardrobe a little more flare. This craft is a super easy do-it-yourself T-Shirt project. It is somewhat of a lengthy project, but turns out super cool. I had to give myself about a 3-day time span to finish this project due to the drying part of a few steps. For starters, there are 3 things I needed to get.

1.  White T-Shirt
2. Tie-Dye
3.  Blue Gel Elmer’s Glue  ®

The first thing I did was wet my t-shirt with cool water and pulled the shirt over a water resistant board to separate layers or fabric, as well and make a surface that is easy to write on.

This next step is a little tricky. No matter what type of design you decide to use on your tee, you must make sure that the glue isn’t too thin or too thick. You want it to be thick enough that the dye will not bleed into the glue areas when you get to that point, but not too thick that you can’t read the words when it dries. After I drew on my design, I made sure the glue was COMPLETELY dry. 

Glue Too Thin

Glue Too Thick

When my tee dried, I soaked it in a turquoise dye--use whatever color you like! Keep in mind that most dyes will dry lighter than the color of the dye when it is wet. The instructions I followed didn’t give specific reasons for the drying process after it’s dyed, but I hung mine on a hanger which caused my dye to bleed into areas I didn’t want it to. So when you let yours dry, I would lay it out flat on your water resistant board. The dye normally takes over 8 hours to dry, so plan to have some free time to grab yourself a coffee, check out other cool HomeSpun DYI projects, or have fun with friends in between. J

Glue Just Right
(Photo by Ucreate Crafts and Sweet Verbana)

Take your dry tee and soak it in cool, soapy water for about 15-20 minutes or until it gets all of the access glue and dye out. 

When this is finished, just wash and dry the tee as you normally would. 

Enjoy wearing your new watermark tee!