For my kid's birthday I make them shirts with their age on it. Normally this is appliqued or embroidered but I thought it was becoming a little to feminine for my son. Enter the bleach pen shirt art.
When I thought about a bleach pen I thought it would be like a sharpie filled with bleach, it isn't. It is more like a tube of toothpaste that you squeeze the thick bleach out of.
I loved the tip to iron on freezer paper to the back side so it doesn't soak through and saved me from this cookie sheet/towel contraption I was going to use. I used a black pen so I let the paste sit overnight and my end results were a nice light orange (not the pink I was afraid of).
I did have a little trouble when an air bubble came out of the tip and created a small halo. Didn't ruin the shirt but I think it would have been nice if that didn't happen. I would recommend that you start with simple designs that allow for some creative mistakes.
My son loves his "new" shirt and I think this would be a great way to redesign clothes that have stains on them.
Another five pins!
