How To Spray Paint Your T-Shirt

Materials:

• An idea
• T-shirt
• Adobe Photoshop
• Cardstock Paper (at least 110 lb. paper)
• Exacto Knife
• Shoebox (or something else to stretch the shirt around)
• Testers Spray Paint

Make A Graphic:

I created this graphic in Adobe Photoshop.

Download the graphic, print it up on card stock and use an Exacto knife to cut out the black bits. Here’s what it looks like once you’ve finished:

Spray Your Shirt:

The next step is spraying your shirt using the stencil. You will need to stretch your shirt around something to keep it flat while you’re spraying. I used this shoebox, but you may need something different depending on the size of shirt:

I used Testor’s spray paint because it was something that we already had in the house and the label said it worked on fabric.

One note of caution, we haven’t washed our shirt yet, so we have no idea what it will look like after a few washings. Considering the ink jet transfers are good for only one washing, I think the spray paint will be fair better.

We spray painted outside, but you could do it in your garage just as well. We just don’t like the fumes and we don’t have a garage.

We centered the shoebox in the shirt and placed the stencil on the front.

Spraying was fairly easy. Make sure you spray it from one side and then go around and spray it from the other side as well. The image will come out a little clearer this way.

Once you’re sure that you have full coverage, you can remove the stencil and allow the paint to dry for one hour with the shoebox still inside the shirt.

After that, it should be dry to the touch and you can hang up the shirt to dry for three more hours.