Do you ever get your kid an awesome clothing item only to have them drop a big ol’ stain on it the first time they wear it?
That happened with this Garnet Hill ruched tank that I splurged on for Sophie Monster because it just looked too perfect with this ocean maxi. (of course the tank is on sale now…OF COURSE) ((Oh, & I highly recommend that maxi, just order a size up, it’s the cutest thing ever on!)) Point is, it’s part of an outfit so when she stained it at Nana’s house with some sort of crazy craft plaster she was doing who knows what with I was quite bummed. But then I thought….“Hmm, it’s just a quarter size stain right in the middle, maybe I should just cover it up? An iron on? No, it’d be awkward positioning…fabric paint? Yes! I’ll paint over it!”
I could have painted just one large item right smack in the middle of the tank but instead I wanted to do an allover print, something repeating that would be roughly the same size as the stain. Leopard? Maybe…but then I saw Soph’s Hello Kitty bathingsuit sitting on the floor (because why would it be in the bathingsuit drawer?? That would be just silly) & I knew I had to do little Hello Kitty heads all over. 
This is actually a lot simpler than it looks, & if Hello Kitty intimidates you (I really want to make a joke here that would go something like, “If Hello Kitty intimidates than you need to think about male organ replacement surgery” but I feel like that would be insensitive so…) feel free to substitute a simpler shape like stars or heck, even polka dots would be super cute. A stamp would also make this a breeze to do.
I started off by breaking down Hello Kitty, she’s basically a white oblong that’s a bit rounder on the bottom. Paint that with white fabric paint & next add two rounded white triangles for ears & you’ve got her head. Next I used a smaller paintbrush to add her pink bow over her right ear area. It covers most of her ear except for the tip. For the black outlining I switched to a fabric marker
Hopefully this tutorial will get your wheels turning next time your kid hopelessly stains a favorite item! And perhaps save their little ears from hearing a few choice words.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering why I chose to model the tank on a dress form instead of Sophie Monster…
It’s a good thing she’s cute.
Most days I can’t decide between wanting to be more like you and taking on projects like you do or just wanting you around to do all the wonderful things that you do (but for ME instead of your family lol). Another excellent post!
LLOL. So tell me, because after a compliment like that you have to, what does BBB stand for??
hahaha nothing really. I had to come up with a username once and everything creative I could think of was taken. Then, I think it was around registration time so it was fresh in my mind, I randomly thought of the registrar’s code for classes in my program and I’ve been using BBB ever since. lol, sorry, it’s not revolutionary or revealing!
That’s hysterical, I was totally picturing something much crazier like maybe your kids were Bob, Betty & Booger. The third would be a nickname of course. I hope. (;
haha Nope, no kids. I think there’s a few of us who don’t have kids but frequent your site because of the versatility of your posts and your entertaining writing style. Plus your girls are lovely so I enjoy the children posts too.
Aw thank you, that is such a nice compliment & you’re right there are a good amount of you non-kid ladies on here which I think is the best compliment in itself!
oh my gosh how cute!!!! And i agree with the comment above!!
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