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A young boy sitting on the ground with plants behind, wearing a grey wall-E t-shirt

Make Wall-E and Eve Stencils and T-Shirts

Last Modified: May 14, 2021 // by Tracy Ariza, DDS // April 19, 2013 I may receive a commission if you purchase through links in this post. Learn more here.

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You can make fun and professional looking Wall-E and Eve t-shirts with these stencils, some freezer paper, and some fabric paints. #thethingswellmake #MIY #walle #eve #disney #stencils #tshirts #fabricpaint #crafts #kids #painting #paintingclothes #silhouettecameo #freezerpaper #silhouetteprojects

You can make fun and professional looking Wall-E and Eve t-shirts with these stencils, some freezer paper, and some fabric paints.

A young boy sitting on the ground with plants behind, wearing a grey wall-E t-shirt
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In my last post, I wrote about the more complicated Wall-E and Eve freezer paper t-shirts that I had made, but I didn’t give a tutorial on how I made them. Originally, I had searched for Wall-E and Eve stencils online, but I couldn’t find anything on the usual free stencil websites, or anywhere else for that matter. I did find one person’s incredible homemade stencil of Wall-E, though, and I fell in love with it. Unfortunately, he didn’t have a link to the files of the stencils. He only had a link to a picture of his stencils.

I did learn a lot from seeing his work. Instead of making a one or two color stencil for my design, I decided to copy his idea of using 4 colors to get a much nicer effect. His combination of gold, brown, black and cream worked perfectly, so I decided to use the same combination.

The first tricky part was making the stencil.

In the past I have always used this tutorial which shows how to make a stencil using thresholds in Photoshop. I highly recommend the tutorial because it is very well explained, and works perfectly.

A young boy wearing a red handmade t-shirt with an orange and dark blue pop art dog face design in front.

Last year I made my son one of his favorite t-shirts with a stencil of our dog, Sheena, using this method.

I wasn’t sure how to make so many different levels for the different colors, though, so I searched for a new tutorial, and found this one. I ended up using a picture of Wall-E I found on the internet. Then, I used a combination of the two tutorials on making stencils with photoshop, to come up with the four stencils needed to complete the first t-shirt.

I was excited to see that my stencils turned out very similar to the Wall-E stencil that I had loved so much!!

For those who want to use my files, now that I have done the work making them, I have Silhouette Cameo Studio files available. Just go to the links for each separate layer.

How to make a Wall-E stencil t-shirt (4 colors)

1. Paint the yellow layer. (links to studio file for Silhouette Cameo machine)

(If you can’t use the studio file, this is the jpg file so you can cut it yourself with a cutter.)
I cut the design in freezer paper, and ironed the background part onto the t-shirt, and airbrushed yellow paint onto the open center.

Two grey shirts placed on an ironing board. One grey shirt has yellow painted Wall-E, white painted Eve, and red pinwheel. Other shirt has a large yellow painted Wall-E.

I was making the two t-shirts at the same time, so for the Wall-E and Eve shirt I used the same method, but instead of painting the whole open space one color, I divided it into sections. I painted the open spaces with yellow on Wall-E, white on Eve, and red and white on the pinwheel of this stencil (jpg). You can see both t-shirts after that first step in the picture above.

2. Paint the brown layer (jpg).

I ironed on the second Wall-E stencil over the yellow layer, as you can see in the picture. This will now cover the parts we want to stay yellow, and exposes what we want to paint brown.

Close up of Wall-E freezer paper stencil ironed onto a t-shirt that already has a yellow painted layer on.

You can also probably see that the stencil doesn’t perfectly line up. I usually have this problem with multi-layer freezer paper t-shirts. Sometimes I feel like either the freezer paper or the painted t-shirt areas shrink up a little when they are ironed. Another problem, though, is that the stretchy nature of a t-shirt makes it tricky to keep things perfectly lined up. So, you may have to play around with the stencil to line things up as best as possible. If things are too far off, the freezer paper can be lifted off, repositioned, and ironed again onto a new place. Luckily, for this type of abstract art, things don’t really need to be perfect.

Once the second stencil was in place, I airbrushed brown fabric paint over it.

3. Paint the 3rd layer black

Two grey shirts with Wall-E painted on them. The shirt in the left shows a side view of Wall-E painted with one layer of yellow paint. The shirt on the right shows  front view of Wall-E with two layers of paint, yellow base layer and brown second layer.


In the picture above, I hadn’t put the next stencil on the Wall-E shirt yet, so you can see that it already looks pretty good with just the first two layers done. I then got things ready for the third, black layer (jpg).

In the picture, you can also see that I had already ironed on the second and final stencil (jpg) for the black layer on the Wall-E and Eve shirt. (Because Eve was painted white, it’s hard to see her part on the stencil, but it is there.) Before having placed the Wall-E and Eve stencil, though, I lined everything up to see where Eve’s eyes would be, and I painted them blue. I then covered the blue with the cut-out of her eyes so that they would stay blue when I airbrushed the black on, but that they would have the tiny black lines across them.

4. Paint the final layer a light beige.

Continue as before. This time you’ll line up the last layer over the other three. This layer adds highlights to the design, and is the light beige layer (jpg).

Close up of freezer paper stencil being placed on a shirt that already has three layers of paint on it already. Yellow as base, brown on second layer, and black on third.

This is the final result…

Closeup of the finished Wall-E stencil design painted on t-shirt

I was pretty happy with the way that it turned out.

Finishing up the Wall-E and Eve Shirt

The Wall-E and Eve shirt, on the other hand, just seemed a bit too plain.

I wish I had taken a picture of it before I ended up fixing it with paint, but, unfortunately, I didn’t. It was just too black and white, and needed some more texture. So, having learned from the other t-shirt, I decided that adding some brown and gray shading would make it look better. I did all of that randomly by hand.

Closeup of a finished t-shirt with painted Wall-E and Eve and the name Eric painted in black with the E in a red circle, similar to the Wall-E font.

The shirt turned out much, much better, but I felt like it still needed something fun. So, I added my son’s name with a Wall-E like font. You can download the font (gunship) for free here. In typical Wall-E style, I cut out a circle around the E and painted it red.

Once again my son was very happy with his t-shirts, and asks to wear them all of the time. That, of course, is what makes it all worthwhile!

If you do end up making either of these shirts, or use the stencils for something else, I’d love to see them!
I’ve gotten a few e-mails from people showing me their work, and I LOVE them!!


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About Tracy Ariza, DDS

Tracy Ariza, B.A., D.D.S., left dentistry and the United States to found Oh, The Things We’ll Make!, writing to you from the Spanish Riviera. She loves making things herself in order to keep control of what goes in them. While far from perfect, she strives each day to live a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle.

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  1. designdreamer

    November 6, 2021 at 9:45 PM

    WOW!! That turned out awesome!

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    • Tracy Ariza, DDS

      November 7, 2021 at 11:05 AM

      Thanks! šŸ™‚

      Reply
  2. Jen P

    January 27, 2017 at 4:00 PM

    Hi there I wanted to try this but the only link that work for wall-e is the first layer. Can you fix the links for the other stencil images ? Thank you so much can’t wait to try it !

    Reply
    • Tracy Ariza

      January 30, 2017 at 4:12 PM

      Hi Jen,
      I tried them all and haven’t had any problems. What files are you trying to download, the studio files for Silhouette Cameo or the jpg files? The jpg files are the second ones in parentheses.

      Reply
      • Jen P

        January 30, 2017 at 11:14 PM

        Ok now it is working ! I just have been clicking the wrong link (silly me) I can’t wait to try it out !

        Reply
  3. rael

    May 10, 2014 at 6:52 PM

    best i have seen using freezer paper

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    • Tracy Ariza

      May 10, 2014 at 7:00 PM

      Thank you so much!!
      I’m glad you liked them!

      Reply
  4. tabs

    March 30, 2014 at 10:07 PM

    Awesome job.

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    • Tracy Ariza

      May 10, 2014 at 7:05 PM

      Thank you!!

      Reply

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