Back in August I brought you a post from CHA about the Plaid Simply Screen product. Well, I can now tell you that it is available for purchase!
You can find them at Hobby Lobby, Joann, or A.C. Moore. You can check out some of the available designs here. Which ones are your favorites?
I spent some quality time with my Yudu machine last night making some I (glove) MJ shirts in honor of the “This Is It” movie coming out this week.
The idea for the shirt was certainly not mine. I saw it first on Craftster earlier this year. I changed up the design a bit. I printed out the letters using my printer on a blank transparency. I freehanded the outline of the glove. I left it blank so I could fill it with Scribbles 3-D shimmer paint to make it look like sequins.
This is what the shirt looked like before adding the “sequins”. I think it looks pretty good like that, too. I might make a bag and sew some real sparkles on there. We’ll see. I know this isn’t the last time I’ll be using this screen.
Do you have something you’d like this particular design on? Contact me and we’ll work something out! I won’t be in the same state as my Yudu for the rest of the week but I’d be able to get you something the first week of November if anyone is interested.
Now I need to start thinking about a shirt for New Moon. Any good ideas?
I finally used my YUDU machine. Sorry for the quality of these photos. They were taken after dark. This isn’t the most “kid-friendly” craft so we waited until after bedtime.
It was a little intimidating to take out of the box and get everything ready to do my first screen. If I had never used the machine before (I used one at BlogHer and CHA), I might have had some severe anxiety. Instead, I invited over the Lincoln Handmade Etsy team to help me figure it all out.
Our first try at getting the emulsion on the screen worked well. We had to get the screen a lot more wet than suggested for it to work, but it worked well. The next day I thought I’d try to put the emulsion on our extra screen. I realized that it isn’t as easy to do it without a helper. I totally ruined that one. Oh well. There’s $6 down the drain. Speaking of money down the drain, this is NOT an inexpensive craft. The machine alone will set you back $230-$300 (depending on sales and such). I’m glad I won mine. The emulsion sheets cost anywhere from $10-20 (using 50% off coupons for the cheapest price). Extra screens cost $25 (you could use a coupon for that, too). All the other extras cost around $8 (paint, blocker, emulsion remover, etc…).
For this to be worth the money, you would want to burn a screen of something that you will use on multiple items or make to sell. I could see certain organizations want something like this if they’re making shirts or bags on a regular basis for their members or as a fundraiser.
I have lots of ideas of how I’m going to use this machine in the future. I’m going to be making some Michael Jackson shirts for me and my friends to wear to the new movie. I’m going to make a design for our local social media club.
What would YUDU with this machine?
