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Fakie Screen Printing Tutorial
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Once I learned how to do this, I just knew I'd have to make a tutorial out of it, because it's so much easier than I had ever thought it could be! I was so afraid of screen printing, but a friend (K8) assured me that it wasn't that bad when I'm doing it like this, and guess what? She's totally right!So here, I thought I'd share it with you - maybe now you won't feel so afraid to do it. And become addicted to it (like me).
Where to buy the supplies:
- Contact paper can be boughten at Target for like $7/roll, but similar stores should carry it. The rolls last a lot longer than I expected!
- Screen printing ink: You may be able to find this at a lot of place, but I always buy mine from Artist and Display . If you don't have one near you, they do have an online store. It's a great place that's been absorbing all of my money lately
- All the other supplies can be boughten at somewhere like JoAnn Fabrics or the like, they're pretty easy to find.
Just a note: Sorry for the watermark, but I'm still leary on things being used where I don't necessarily want them to be. All the photos in the tutorial are (c) me, except for the very last one, which awesome credit goes to Doll at AetasPhotography.net .
Feel free to link to this or whatnot, but please don't redistribute it without my consent.
~View all of my Artisan Crafts tutorials here~
2007 Taeliac Studio/Samantha Lemieux ~ BeAnime.com
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i'll link you a picture of the shirt i'm going to make for my boyfriend's birthday if it works out
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Could I do this with a posterboard stencles instead of a contact paper one? If not, why do I need contact paper?
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As far as I see, no, it probably wouldn't work. The contact paper sticks to the fabric, so you don't get bleeding under the edges, or buildup that would bleed when you remove the stencil. Also, the stencil can move, the contact paper adheres to the fabric, so that it doesn't shift.
If you're ever in doubt, try it on a small piece as a sample and see - I may be wrong, but I don't see it working very well
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Ah, I see! That makes sense. Thank you very much! I really appreciate it, and I love your tutorials, they are always so helpful!
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If there is anything you get stuck on that you'd like to see a tutorial on, lemme know! Something as complicated is corsetry is beyond a tutorial (I'd have to do a book on it 
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Will do! I'm actually using your fakie hakama for a cosplay with my friends! I'll send you a link when it's done!
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This is really helpful tutorial, much quicker than what my kit tells me to do. That expects me to take roughly 4 days to do one print. Thank you for sharing this.
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Hehe, yeah! Screen printing itself can take ages! If you have a screen already, though, a tip my friend who taught me this shared is that you can adhere these on the screen themselves to do regular printing with - they won't last as long as an emulsified screen would, but at least you can do short batches quickly
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That sounds like a great idea, might actually make me feel right enough to use my screen.
I may actually get one of my print ideas done now.
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Mmm, fabulous tutorial! I'll definitely be using this one!
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Thank you! Me and my friends are going to do Okami cosplays and I know this will help.
The outfits in the picture at the bottom are very nice, too.
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Oh awesome! I definitely hope it does help you! If you ever upload pix of them to dA, I'd love to see - Okami is one of my favorite games out there! I'm actually hoping to get a chance to make myself an Amaterasu outfit one of these years
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Woo thanks for this! This is helpful! I didn't know you can use screen print ink instead of acrylic paint with fabric medium. I don't like how it turns out with the acrylic paint Dx
Though I know another cheater's way of screen printing that requires you to own just one screen (or maybe screens in different sizes for different things).
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I'm with you
I just prefer to avoid screens and emulsion fluid all together
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Well the cheaters way of screen printing is quite simple actually. You make a stencil, place the screen over it and then spread the screen print ink and run the block thingy down the screen to print the stencil design. Then you just wash the screen and you can reuse it for some other stencils xD
It seemed easy enough, though I'm too cheap to buy the screen xP
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I haven't tried it but I saw someone do it on youtube so it works for someone =O
Yea, it's even more crazy when you need 1 screen for 1 design xD At least this one you just pay for 1 screen and you're pretty much set.
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this is great
it's really a big help when I'll be doing this in my club at school
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Hooray!! I'm happy to hear it!
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I love this tutorial. I used your method for the border on a skirt that I'm making, and I repeated the pattern at least 20 times, with the stencil still going strong. Of course, my patter was very simple, but still, thank you so much for this tutorial!
[link] is my skirt, so it's an extremely simple design, but still, having the contact paper there made it way easier (especially when I have to repeat the design so many times), and it's nice to not have to worry about freehand painting them all the same shape.
I'll probably use this method again for another part of the costume. Anyway, thank you again for this.
I'm going to stop typing now.
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I've been wanting to do this for ages! Thanks ^^ I'm gonna get some supplies tomrrow ;D
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Hehe! Awesome! I'm happy to be of help, even if it's not real screen printing, its way more affordable
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nice little tutorial.
now say i'm painting gold onto thicker red broadcloth, would this work? i just don't want to waste fabric.
here's a picture of the design.
[IMG][link]
or would you suggest a different way?
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Hrm... that's a little tricky to say - I think you may wind up having to do many, many thin coats of paint to get it to overlay the red and still be somewhat supple. I would actually recommend doing something like using this applique tutorial I did - [link]
This will allow you to use a bit heavier material like satin or vinyl for the gold, and then put it on nicer, and fully covered
I hope that helps!
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sorry but did the link work? lol i tried it after and it doesn't work for me?
if it did work, then what about the large areas of the fabric that wouldn't be used and that would have large pieces of heat and bond on them? would i be able to peal of the heat and bond and use it for other areas of my cosplay?
lastly, do you sell two way interfacing like heat and bond on a roll by yard in the store? because i think i may need quite a bit. >_____<
also thank-you so much this was very helpful
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okay so i've found that fabric paint makes the fabric rather stiff. and for my project, i want it to be a little more flowy. is the screen printing ink more flowy? i don't think i'll need a very thick layer if that helps.
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It definitely should work a lot better than the regular fabric paint - I needed it for the same thing, and if you do many very thin coats, and let them completely set up before adding the next, it works wonders and stays rather soft, not crunchy. The trick is the thin coats with screen printing ink!
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Ahh, this is amazingly helpful and inspirational! I was wondering how much it costed to get all that equipment 
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Oh! It definitely isn't too expensive to do it this way - I think the roll of contact paper is usually like $5 or $6, and the paints are between $3 and $5 a tub, depending on how big of a container it is... so it's pretty cheap to do it, versus regular screen printing, which the cheapest I saw for everything was like $40 for the screen, and another $10 for the liquid to do the outline with, and stuffs like that
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Wow, thanks so much for the details 
If it's not too much to ask, I was hoping you could answer another one of my questions...
How is the quality of this method? Does it fade in the wash, and how many washes. I know that iron-on patches could crack, but if screen printing doesnt give a huge difference in result, i might just go for iron-ons for price.
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Wow! This looks totally awesome!
Would you say that a gold ink would show up well on a black fabric?
See, I wanna try to attempt a Knight of Rounds costume (from Code Geass), specifically Anya Alstreim.
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It might - you may want to test it, first, though ~ I had purchased some white screen printing ink that was supposed to go on opaque, but it still was see-through over red, so... yeah.
You may want to try the tutorial on applique instead - it's a bit longer of a process, but you can guarantee that it'll cover
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Cools. Thanks for the info!
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I am using this for my next project, which I'll hopefully take some pictures of and post if I get the chance!
It will be very helpful once I get all of the materials!
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I'm definately using this for future cosplays! Thankyou so much!
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Any time! I'm happy it's helpful - it's how I do most of my details now, when I can't applique them in place!
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^^ oh it is. There's quite a few that have details I don't want to or can't applique for.
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great tutorial. I will try this next time I don't feel so lazy XD
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Hehe, awesome!
Please let me know what you do with it, too, because I'm uber nosy like that
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I can't wait to try this! Thanks so much for making this tutorial.
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Not a problem! I'm happy to hear it may be useful
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You may not remember me for ACen this year, but Daguru and I sat in line with you for the Masque.
I just wanted to say thank you for this tutorial.
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I'm definitely glad it can help
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This is made of pure magic.
And a sprinkle of love.
Thank you from the depths of screenprinting land.
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I know that painting white on black can be irritating at best... but I need to do to ;_;
Would it be more cost effective to locate a thicker fabric paint for the solid white that I require? I don't really fancy the idea of slapping on white acrylic, and I have so many designs to paint that embroidering would KILL.
I probably have at least 167 individual white patterns to make O_O
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okay, so. I've been wanting to try screen printing, and have been looking at the kits for it at DickBlick and omg. prices. I've been looking into that for like a month now, and JUST REMEMBERED you had this. /dumb
Now all I need to do is get... well, everything. Oh, question. Can screen printing ink be used over screen printing ink? Like if I did a red base, set that, then later did a black design over it, would that work?
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Yes! You most definitely can - the difficulty is when you're doing a light color over a dark, then sometimes the dark shows through, but that happens with regular screen printing, too, as far as I have seen, so... yeah
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