... a yudu (a home screen printing system). I'm very excited about the probability of staff shirts, field trip shirts for the kiddos, and maybe bags or something like that for a field trip. The possibilities are endless. We might even get into some screen printed art project with the older kids... We'll see how it goes.
I brought the yudu home to watch the video and to take the opportunity to see how it works. We're using the BABE Rally as an excuse to create a screen printed t-shirt. (We certainly didn't think it would be at all fun. You know I'm all work, work, work all the time totally serious.)
Step 1: Design
It sure comes in handy being married to an engineer who can put together really awesome designs for me! (Thanks hon!)
Chris pulled up pictures of the car choose one that he liked and printed the picture on the provided transparency. It's nice to know for the future that you can draw them with black permanent marker too.
Step 2: Prepping the screen
This isn't as easy as the lady showed on the video. Although, it may just take some practice. ( We were going to try to use half the screen as a future bird logo screen, but the emulsification didn't go as smoothly as we had hoped and so the design won't fit. (Note the bubbles.)
It took quite a while to clean up the image after we had developed the screen.
Since this was our first time trying this process Chris and I made this a 2 person process and forgot to take pictures. Oops!
Here are the finished shirts though. We were having so much fun that we made an extra from a shirt that we just had laying around the house. We plan on having a give-a-way at the send off. (Friday June 3 at 3:00.)
Step 4: Iron and wear (The ironing is for setting the image. You know I only iron in extreme situations. i.e. weddings and funerals)
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