I bopped out to Jo-Anns and bought some sheer voile curtain fabric. I cut pieces large enough to wrap all the way around the edges. The stapler worked, but the staples wouldn't go in all the way. Maybe the wood was too hard? Overall I'm not very happy with the end result of stretching and stapling my own screens. I plan to try using an aluminum pre-made screen and see what the quality difference is. 

I took my vector images and converted them to PDF format so that they would get printed exactly the size I wanted them to be. I ordered transparencies through Staples online and later that day I picked them up. The two dragons are actually going to go on the same t-shirt, but keeping them separate should make it easier to adjust the layout for different sized shirts. The larger "Howdy Howdy Shark" design is actually two separate transparencies. I was laying them on top to make sure that the designs weren't too big for the frames. You should try to have about an inch or more between the edge of the design and the inside of the frame. 

I picked up a starter set of Speedball Opaque Fabric Ink. If you like to print on dark fabrics you must be careful not to buy the wrong type of ink. 

I let the screen dry a little more after burning and rinsing, but it wasn't but a couple hours later I was trying it out. I did the blue shirt first and I wasn't very happy with some of the detail... especially around the eyes. I had some brown scraps of denim/canvas around and my first go at that turned out crisper than the second one. Clearly I have some more practicing to do there, but I like the start!