Easy & Cheap DIY Screen Printing on a Tote-bag You Can Do AT HOME!

Simple One Color T-Shirt Screen Printing

The big guys at EZScreenPrint let their lovely employees use their materials for personal projects and art. Which is great for the crafty and artistic people and really great for those people who get asked by their friends to make t-shirts *cough cough* like me. A friend of mine has a team in an upcoming dodge-ball tournament and of course I was his go-to gal to get some custom shirts made. I was asked to screen #TWERKTEAM in white on the front of blue t-shirts. Strange dodge-ball team name if you ask me, but I'm here to screen print and not offer team name alternatives :) Here are some photos of my process:

 

NOTE: There is a difference between regular Speedball white ink and Opqaue Speedball pearly white ink. I sort of took advantage of the fact that these t-shirts aren't black, so I decided to print with regular white ink. Right after printing, the white looked amazing on the blue t-shirts. However, after 30 minutes to an hour, after the ink started drying, the bright color started fading and it didn't pop as much as it did freshly printed. In the end it worked for my buddy, because it gave it almost an aged, old newspaper look. However, if you really want white ink to stand out on dark fabrics, even not so dark blues, I definitely recommend opaque inks.