Paint Crafts for Baby Clothes

Using paint crafts for baby clothes is a great way to create fun and hip baby clothing out of any ordinary frock. I know you are probably picturing the old T-shirt and fabric puff paints and glitter paints we all used on our clothing back in the 80's and early 90's. Yeah they are pretty corny.
I can show you a technique to use that will create cool graphics to make cool baby clothes and hip baby clothing. I came up with this idea while reminiscing my old high school days. I took a graphic arts/printing shop class throughout most of my high school years. In shop class my teacher taught me a way to do DIY screen printing that I could do at home. So I started using this technique on all sorts of surfaces and I was addicted. I made T-shirts, hankies, customized bags, etc...

OK, here's what you will need to get started: Plain baby clothes (a plain onesie, pants, hats, bibs), fabric paints, 8 1/2" by 11" sticker paper, X-acto knife or similar (pen handle with razor knife on end for precision cutting, cool graphic or text.

Once you have chosen a graphic to paint onto your baby clothes, the next step is to print that graphic or picture onto the sticker paper. Before printing you may want to crop or resize the graphic to fit wherever you will print it. A great free tool to use for this or for creating your own graphic is Paint.net

After you have printed your graphic onto the plain sticker paper you will need a cutting mat or a surface that you can cut through your paper with the X-acto knife without worrying about damaging the surface underneath. Like a craft table or something similar.
Tape your sticker paper down onto the surface to keep it securely in place. Now use your X-acto knife to cut the graphic out from the sticker paper to create a stencil.

Cut your make shift stencil from the sticker paper with a space of 2 - 3" all around the graphic. Remove the backing and adhere the sticker onto the baby clothing in the spot you wish to create the painted graphic.

You may want to cover the spaces outside of the stencil with rags or paper towels to protect the fabric from any paint messes.

Paint inside of the stencil and then remove your sticker stencil from the fabric. Viola! You've used paint crafts for baby clothes to make unique and hip baby clothing.

This technique can be used on most any baby clothes. To make funky onesies, or custom baby clothes. Or for baby arts and crafts projects for baby furniture, baby bibs, baby shoes, personalized baby blankets... The possibilities are practically endless!