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Easy Tie Dye with Testors

Use fabric spray paint to create tie dye with less mess and get the to fun part of crafting faster!
4 hours
Total Time 4 hours
Author Angie Holden

What You Will Need

  • Testors Fabric Spray Paint Find this at Menards, Do-It-Best, True Value, and Amazon.
  • Shirts
  • Cricut machine
  • HTV
  • EasyPress
  • EasyPress mat
  • Scrap cardboard

Instructions

Easy Tie Dye Method

  • First, you will need to lay your shirts out on some scrap cardboard. I am going to show you two different folding methods below but this is where you can play with your designs. I would just caution you NOT to fold too tightly with this method. This paint will not seep down into your cracks so you want a fairly loose fold.

Folding Methods

  • The first one I am going to use is an accordion fold. I went at an angle and loosely folded the shirt from one corner to the other.
  • The second is a swirl. I just started in the center and twisted the shirt until it was loosely swirled on the cardboard.

Spray Painting Your Shirt

  • Now that you have your folds, it is time to spray paint. You will need to do this outside as with any spray paint project. This gives you ventilation as well as a place for any overspray. Just put the cardboard with the shirt on top in the grass and spray the front of the shirt first. You can do one color only.
  • Or you can do a mixture of both colors. For my two-color version, I sprayed pink, then blue, then some more pink, and finally some more blue. I didn't wait for my colors to dry in between coats so I got a slight mixing of colors. You can wait for the colors to dry for a different look if you would like.
  • Allow the front to dry then flip the shirt over and repeat the same painting procedure on the back.
  • I also repeated the two-color design on the back of that shirt.
  • Once the shirts have dried for at least three hours, you can unfold them to see the results!
  • I am not sure which design I like more as they both turned out great.

Adding HTV to Tie Dyed Shirts

  • I thought I would take these shirts one step further with the addition of a design on the front in HTV. Just cut any design from HTV with your Cricut and weed away all of the excess. Then place it on the front of your shirt. Remember this should dry at least 3 hours before adding any type of design to the front. I also prepressed my shirt to remove any moisture or wrinkles.
  • Press according to the directions for the type of HTV you are using then peel back the carrier sheet.