Stenciling for babies ... sort of

I bought off the registry for a friend's baby shower, but then I wanted to get her something fun (and unique), too. I thought about doing a freezer paper stencil, but suddenly thought of all the leftover scrapbooking letter stickers that I have downstairs. I mean, you buy "stars and stripes" lettering for one particular page, and then what do you do with the rest? I know! You use it to create a negative-space stencil-type thing!

I found funny T-shirts to rip off online.

So: Step 1. Use stickers from your craft stash.

Step 2: Dab fabric paint on. This gives it a pretty funky, almost graffiti-esque look -- which is cool, but really I just needed to minimize seepage under the letters, because some of the lines in the letters were quite narrow.

Step 3: Allow it to dry. Remove the stickers (tweezers help). Iron to set the paint. Impress your friends.

Another cool thing would have been to use freezer paper to make the outline. A duck or something could be pretty cute.