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GRACE FRAGA: Alright, so here we are with Chantelle Tibbs and making our own t-shirt.
This is so exciting. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Yay! We are down to the fun part. GRACE FRAGA:
Yes. We have taped the stencil on the t-shirt, and now, she has a little sponge and she's
going to start painting. And we're going to use black because black is sexy. CHANTELLE
TIBBS: Black on light blue, it just doesn't get any sexier than that so we're going to
do that. GRACE FRAGA: And it makes me look thinner too. So, I love black. CHANTELLE TIBBS:
Oh, yeah. It seems that way, black power. GRACE FRAGA: Black is my best friend. CHANTELLE
TIBBS: Sometimes you can take a paint to put it on a little piece of cardboard or a little
paper plate if you'd like to, I just use the top of the paint, because this is usually
enough for a sufficient amount that comes to the top of the jar... GRACE FRAGA: Okay.
CHANTELLE TIBBS: ...so I use that. What you're going to do is you already got your stencil
laid down. Now, I want to just go over some techniques so that you don't have the paint
bleeding all over the place. This is very important. GRACE FRAGA: Oh. CHANTELLE TIBBS:
You don't want to glob it on there. What you want to do is put it just a little bit on
there, just a little bit of paint on the tip of the sponge, okay? And then, you're going
to go over it just a little bit. GRACE FRAGA: So over the stencil first. CHANTELLE TIBBS:
So over the part of the stencil a little bit, so that your... GRACE FRAGA: Oh. CHANTELLE
TIBBS: Yeah. So, there you go. That way, you're not bleeding all over the blues. It doesn't
look tacky. And that's just going to save you Shout Wipes again and touch up time. GRACE
FRAGA: So, that's great. So, you do like little motions like that, like up and down. CHANTELLE
TIBBS: Just little motions. Again, it is trial and error. You don't want to keep doing it
over and over again. [INDISCERNIBLE] it's different. This is different than screen printing
and I just want to make a shout out to all my screen printers out there, I adore you,
and I do some screen printing myself. We use photo emulsion when we burn the screens, but
this is just a cheaper way. It's more hands-on. You don't need have artsy friends or go to
the right places and pay for all this crazy material or get to pay all these setup fees
since you get somebody else to do it. This is just so that you can do it. GRACE FRAGA:
It's more fun to do. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Again, more control. GRACE FRAGA: Now, do you charge
more for these t-shirts because [OVERLAPPING]? CHANTELLE TIBBS: Actually less. GRACE FRAGA:
Less? CHANTELLE TIBBS: Less, because I don't have to pay all those crazy fees. GRACE FRAGA:
That's amazing. How much does it cost, like the t-shirt and the paint per t-shirt. How
much does it cost you per t-shirt? CHANTELLE TIBBS: It really just depends. Actually, the
men's t-shirts are cheaper to make, and then the girls t-shirts, they are more expensive
just for the actual t-shirt. The paint depends on the design. It really doesn't cost that
much but I estimate that I'm going to spend about anywhere, between $5 and $8 dollars,
and then the t-shirt is priced on that matter. And again, if the stores are carrying your
stuff, they're going to mark it up too, so...