Make your own tie dyed Senior Tee!

Why buy a Senior shirt with a lame design when you can make your own totally cool one with colorful tie dye and bling?

Here's how you do it!
Super Cool Back to School Tee
Supplies
– Tulip® One-Step Fashion Dye™ in Black & Red
– Tulip® Glam-It-Up!™ Fashion Art Tweezers™
– Tulip® Cordless Heat Setting Tool™
– Tulip® Glam-It-Up!™ Iron-On Crystals™ (23123 300 Clear Pack)

Miscellaneous Supplies
Computer and printer
Plastic tablecloth/trash bag
Chalk pencil
Jerzees T-shirt – 100% cotton – white

Instructions
1. Prewash T-shirt to remove sizing. Do not use fabric softener.
2. Cover work surface with plastic tablecloth or trash bag. Lay damp T-shirt on prepared surface.
3. Wearing rubber gloves, add water to dye bottles to lines indicated. Replace caps tightly and shake bottles until dye is dissolved.
4. Squeeze Black dye onto top right corner of the T-shirt in a random, jagged pattern. Refer to photo.
5. Squeeze out Red dye onto remaining portion of T-shirt, completely covering the white.
6. Cover T-shirt with plastic tablecloth or trash bag and let sit 4-6 hours. Wash in a large load of water with a small amount of laundry soap then dry in dryer.
7. Use a computer to type and print out the word “SENIORS 10” in your favorite font. Flip paper over and trace lines with chalk pencil. Position paper chalk side down onto tee and rub hands over paper, transferring word in chalk onto shirt. Remove paper.
8. Use Fashion Art Tweezers™ to fill in “SENIORS 10” with Clear Iron-On Crystals™. Adhere crystals to shirt with Cordless Heat-Setting Tool™ following package instructions.

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Graduation Crafts!!

It's that time of year! Right around the corner, graduates will be shifting the tassle from right to left! Celebrate this occasion with a special gift you can make yourself! And for the graduate, there are plenty of fun craft ideas for jazzing up your graduation look or senior style!

– Don't let your mortarboard be a big mortar-BORE! Jazz it up with ribbon, Tulip® Sticky Fabric Stencils, Aleene's® Adhesives, and Tulip® Soft Fabric Paint™! You will definitely stand out in a sea of graduates!!

– These Graduate Frames are created with Aleene's® Tacky Packs, the Tulip® Super Big™ One-Step Tie-Dye Activity Kit™, and Collage Pauge Instant Decoupage™. Make one for all your graduating girlfriends!

– This Glitter Frame created with Tulip® Fashion Glitter™ and Aleene's® Clear Gel Tacky Glue™ is the perfect frame to showcase your shining star!

– Give a Graduation Trinket Box for your glowing grad! It's quick and easy using Opaque Acrylics and Home Decor Bisque Designs.

– This Class of '09 Shirt, created with Tulip® One-Step Fashion Dyes™ and Tulip® Fashion Glitter™. Customize to match your school colors!

– Make a heartfelt Graduation Card using Aleene's® Paper Glaze and Aleene's® Original Tacky Glue Sticks. Adding a few buckaroos? Now that's totally up to you! It would make for a happier graduate, though!

Hope you are inspired by these fun graduation ideas. Oh, and we totally realize that some of these projects are soooo last year (meaning 2008), but we have a feeling you get the idea!

If you have a graduation project or other craft using Duncan, Aleene's®, Crafty Chica™, or Tulip® products, please share it with us. Send your submission to ilovetocreateblog@yahoo.com and you may be featured on our blog or one of our future Crafty Roundups!