Mothers Day 2012

Each year for Mother's and Father's Day Makenna makes a shirt for our mom and dad. This year we decided to have all three grandkids pitch in for the shirt. The shirt usually has a hand or foot print on it with a cute little saying. While living with Grandma and Grandpa A would tell Bramma and Papa "Good Night, I love your guts" so that's what we put on our shirts.

This year to make it easy on us we used a tutorial for painting the shirts with freezer paper from this website one little minute. In case you don't want to head on over there I'll tell you how I did it here.

What you'll need:

Print out of cute font

Freezer paper (wax paper is not the same thing)

x-acto knife

t-shirt

iron

pen

paint

foam brush

Print out the saying, it doesn't have to be any special paper just printer paper will do. I chose a cute font that I liked called "A Song for Jennifer" and made it large enough for it to be seen on the shirt.

Measure your freezer paper for the shirt. I folded the paper so that the words would be lined up correctly on the shirt.

Trace the font onto the freezer paper. Line it up so that all the words line up and aren't slanted at all.

Now, use your x-acto knife to cut out the letters from the freezer paper. The x-acto knife makes it easy to cut the little spaces. Remember to keep the inside of letters such as the A, E, G and O. Tip: I used my cutting mat for this so that I didn't cut into anything I would regret later.

This is the easy part, iron. Place the freezer paper on the T and line it up where you would like the words to be. It sticks really quickly and super easy to remove when the paint has dried.

Now paint it! We used Tulip Puff paint for the saying and brushed it around with the foam brush. Make sure that all of the freezer paper is ironed securely or the paint may get under the paper.

Let the paint dry for at least an hour or until it is not sticky any longer. Pull the paper off the shirt, and there you have it.

We started with the hand prints with little J in Nebraska, then sent the shirt to Utah to finish it up with A and R's handprint. The little ones were difficult to get because didn't necessarily like to open up their fists. The paint we used for the prints was just normal craft paint.

A beautiful Mother's Day gift from the grandkids.

Past years shirts can be found at these links. Makenna is such a creative gal. Just one of the many reasons we love her.

Mothers day 2011

Mothers day 2010