OH Guide: How to salvaging your little fashionista's favorite threads with freezer paper.

I've recently been playing around with freezer paper. Yup...not just of butchers and grannies to wrap meat in anymore. Apparently, freezer paper makes the best, cheap iron on stencils for fabrics. In my desperation to salvage my daughter's favorite H&M $7 teapot dress and after having my curiosity peaked and being inspired by all the wonderful things people are doing with freezer paper I thought I quite possibly could pull a freezer paper stencil off. Considering I usually think of myself as a person who can appreciate a good craft more than a person who makes good crafts I was worried about what would happen when armed with an iron, printer, and X-ACTO knife. Once I finished the daunting task of finding the perfect stencil and cutting it out the rest of the project proved to be quite easy and quick and what I was left with was a project that I actually think turned out pretty good considering my lack of skill. A sweet face lift to my daughter's most desired duds as you can see here.

After scouring store after store looking for freezer paper I was finally able to track a huge role down at my local Von's. The HUGE roll of freezer paper cost $7 bucks which I located in the tin foil/plastic wrap section will keep me in supply for many-o gift giving occasions (a small hint for what my poor family members are in for). If you're having a hard time finding a roll try the blue hair (endearing name my lovely sis in-law calls the AARP's set) rule which coincidentally works for Borax too--trust me on this. The rule is simple. Locate the local elderly grocery hot spot in your neighborhood, usually a place that occasionally brings back the good ol' double coupons. The best way to find this grocery hot spot is by going shopping between 7:30 and 8am weekdays. Find the store find the freezer paper.

I needed I read through a lot of material on the DIY of freezer paper stenciling and found some great information which can get you started on your own freezer paper adventure:

Angry Chicken' "Little Elf Shirt" post really got the wheels in my head turning. Her tutorial is very clear and easy to understand with beautiful pictures.

Neither Hip Nor Funky has a really informative and whimsically witty freezer paper tutorial. This is the DIY that popped the idea into my head that I should cover-up the stain on my daughter's dress, as you'll see demonstrated in their tutorial.

Crafster provided some great testimonials and tutorials on this kind of printing. This Crafster member how-to offers great step-by-step directions and pictures. Another Craftster member post I found helpful was this one which included a recount of the project and tips.

The creative members on DIY site Instructables have a few great tutorials to help you're freezer paper project be a success like Fresh Pine Scent's tutorial which includes nice directions and clear pictures. I was inspired by Banana T's blog which I found on Instructables. This blog contains tons of hand-painted shirts to be admired and that are really cleaver.

If you're in need of the perfect "cool" stencil then you might appreciate the Stencilry. This is a great site to find free pop culture stencils ready to print and cut. This site also offers a ton of free stencils to print and use.

Before you trash your favorite threads try some freezer paper stenciling. It's one cheap and easy way to save those popsicle stained clothes that can't be fixed with a good Clorox clean-up.