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deidre from our upcycled life and i do lots of thrifting upcycling repurposing and diy content
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so you don't miss any great diy content today i'm going to show you how i print on fabric
this is so simple and so easy and you can create so many fantastic things
when you can print right on a piece of fabric i've done iron-on transfers i have done um
wax paper transfer this one works really well and it's right up there with the best so lots of work
let's get started today's diy is a tutorial on how to print directly right on fabric we don't
have to do any iron-ons we don't have to do any messy processes this is really simple and all
you're going to need is some spray adhesive i'll put a link down below in the description there's
lots of different companies that you can get spray adhesive from i'll put an amazon link
and we're going to need some computer paper i've got three different swatches of fabric
and this one is like a t-shirt material this is like a cotton blend material these two so
i can show you how it works on different material now the first thing that you need to do is press
your material i've already gone ahead and i've pressed these two pieces and they're ready to go
next thing we need is i've got three sheets of computer paper just regular paper and
our spray adhesive i'm going to take this outside and spray just one side of the paper
with this spray adhesive this stuff is really stinky you want to do it in a really vel well
ventilated area or outside and and then i'll bring it back in and we'll attach our fabric to it i've
got the spray adhesive on the paper it's nice and sticky we're going to lay that fabric right on to
that piece of paper you want to get it centered and make sure your pattern is where you want it
flip it over and we're going to cut off the extra
now we're going to do the next one i think this might be easier if we put the paper
onto the fabric than the fabric onto the paper make sure you have it lined up where you want it
press it down really firmly trim off the extra and the last one the t-shirt material
and we're going to trim off around the edges we now have three pieces of paper
that have spray adhesive on them and we have attached the fabric and cut around the edges
we're ready to put this through the printer when putting these through the printer you want to make
sure you're feeding them through so it's going to be printed on the fabric you can use this process
with a laser jet or an inkjet printer i do lots of diy projects and i put things through my printer
other than paper i've never had any problems with it getting jammed up that being said i have just a
cheap little inkjet printer that i use only in my crafting room just in case something does happen
i haven't ruined a really expensive printer and i always recommend that when you're crafting so
we're going to get started i'm going to pick out some graphics that i want to print on the fabric
we're going to load this into the printer it feeds printing from
this way and we're going to hit print
and then you just have to peel the fabric off the paper and you have a perfect graphic
on a piece of fabric that you can use on any of your diy projects
i also printed off this one which i think turned out really cute
and i had this embroidery hoop that i've had for forever in my stash i'm gonna put this
in the middle of it and turn it into a little wall hanging
i'm gonna embellish it with a little bit of greenery on the top and cut off the
extra and that's how you can easily print on a piece of fabric and you can imagine
all the possibilities that you can do with this technique thanks for watching have a great day and
we'll see in the next video and if you like this video i'm sure you'll really love the next one
take care