Tips for Cutting a Stencil

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"GRACE FRAGA: Now, you have your image. You drew your image what you going to put on the t-shirt and next is using your stencil. Okay, so how do we do that? CHANTELLE TIBBS: Okay. Well, you going to hold up the image again. GRACE FRAGA: Yes. CHANTELLE TIBBS: I'm going to cut out everything on this stencil that all the spaces I cut out is where the paint's going to go through. So, I wouldn't cut out something over here 'cause the paint's going to come through. You only want to cut out the pieces of the image where you want the paint to go through. Now, I cut out the little dashes, just like you go over it with the paint, and it's easier... GRACE FRAGA: Okay. CHANTELLE TIBBS: ...that way for me. I actually hand draw the swirl by myself every time just to give it a unique flair, because Wear Me Naked, we're very like--it's kinda like as couture as a t-shirt can get. So, you can choose to do a spiral or remember with circles. If you're doing an eye or you're doing anything that has, you're doing a shape of a circle. Anything that you do in the middle of that circle, it's just going to be a circle. So you're wasting your time inside the circle. Make sure that you know what you're cutting before you cut it, before you get too intricate. With the stencils, you don't want to get too fancy because 9 times out of 10 and I've done it myself... GRACE FRAGA: Yes. CHANTELLE TIBBS: ...you're all excited and you're doing all this detail and then you cut the stencil and then all of it just comes out and it's just one empty circle. GRACE FRAGA: Oh, no. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Yeah. So, with circles, be careful. It's the one shape--your stencil will look like this when you've cut it correctly. Notice I how I have my empty circle, because I'm going to hand draw that spiral in the circle."