Team Tent

Jason and some of his friends have this camping club that they call Team Tent. They have hand signs, a motto, and everything. Now, quit snickering, you'll hurt their feelings. One of them mentioned to me a while ago that they wanted t-shirts made with the hand sign printed on them. For Jason's birthday (let's just all pretend that his birthday was last week), I made the guys some shirts.

I got the shirts on sale at JCPenny's and used one of their coupons. I think I paid about $10 for all four. It's almost like I stole them.

I made the design on my computer, using Illustrator, then printed it out and made a stencil using freezer paper. I've heard that you can print directly onto freezer paper, but when I tried it my printer ate it. I printed it on computer paper instead and glued it to the freezer paper. I cut out the design with an x-acto knife. With four shirts, this took a whole lotta cuttin. I found that using uppercase letters made cutting easier because there weren't any curvy letters and I could use a straight edge to keep things neat. Then I ironed the plasticy side of the freezer paper stencil to the shirt and gave it a few coats of screen printing ink and ironed it for a couple minutes to set the ink.



I've been waiting to get a picture of Jason modeling his shirt. Having come to the conclusion that that's just not going to happen, I had our little oak tree model it instead.



team tent + dead grass