5/28/2023 0 Comments Fabric spray paint![]() ![]() Put the sprayer nozzle on and shake until it is completely mixed together.You don’t want to fill the whole bottle with water, this way you can fully mix the ingredients and you aren’t watering your color down too much. Add in half as much of the textile medium.Add a small(ish) amount of your choice of acrylic paint.I’m not going to lie, I eyeballed it (maybe it’s a mom thing). I mixed the paint and textile medium according to the instructions on the textile medium bottle. The key here is the water, paint, medium ratio. Plain Shirt or another item you plan on decorating.Sprayer Bottle (we got ours at Dollar Tree and paid $1 for a 3 pack of travel bottles but you can get 12 on Amazon for $8).The biggest thing to keep in mind when making fabric spray paint and to make it sprayable while still having plenty of color – is to use 1 part textile medium to 1 part paint to 4 parts water. This method is much cheaper than buying fabric paint. Textile Medium is a medium that you can mix with your acrylic paint, which allows it to become more permanent on fabrics! What?!? How awesome is that? I think it is because it means I can by my Apple Barrel Acrylic in my choice color and spend a couple extra dollars on Textile Medium (I prefer Delta Textile Medium, and the 8 oz bottle will last quite a while) and make my own fabric paint. I just so happened to find Textile Medium in my research, which works perfectly for this project. (Okay, it’s more like a whole closet because I can’t have just one hobby.) How to make fabric spray paintĪs any painter knows, there are different mediums you can purchase for different projects. Which isn’t what I was going for so I dug around in my craft bucket a bit. At about $7 each color at Walmart, it would be cheaper for us to use a t-shirt design service. My excitement got cut short though when I saw how much it costs to buy one bottle of fabric spray paint. I decided to make our own shirts and out we went shopping for supplies. In comes fabric spray paint and cheap plain t-shirts. I’d buy fabric spray paint and some plain T’s and get to work. But then I thought, how are we going to stand out as a team? I decided we would make our own t-shirts. ![]() We recently signed up for a Kids Fun Run and decided to register as a team. For every project we do, I try to make it as inexpensive as possible, but still, have a lasting final product once I’m done. Facebook Messenger Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp EmailĪny crafty mom like myself knows that it can be an expensive hobby to have.
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