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Dip Dyeing is a technique you can use to add color to your projects.
You take something that's a neutral color, like this white doily,
and die them any color that you want. All you have to do
is take a little bit of water, add a few drops of re-inker to it
and then dip the doily in, and depending on how long you leave it in
is how dark the color will become. Then just lay it on some paper towels to dry.
Here's one that I did a little bit earlier that is completely dry. So you can
see what it looks like.
But if you don't want to go to all that fuss,
but you still want the look of dip dyeing,
let me show you a couple of faux dip-dye techniques.
Now the faux dip-dye technique is great to use
on our 7/8 inch Cotton Ribbon, because it has a little bit of a finish
that repels water. So this is a great technique to use for that.
What you'll need is just a couple of markers. Start with the lighter color first
and you'll just color the ribbon.
It's always important to start lighter cause you can always go
darker. Once I have that layer done
I'll go ahead and put in a little bit
of the dark. The first color was Pink Pirouette
and this color is Melon Mambo. I've put this on a paper towel
because now I'm going to use one of our Aqua Painters to blend the color.
So you'll just kind of squeeze a little bit of water out of your Aqua Painter
and then blend that line
a little bit. Make it so that's a little bit more blurry. Then you can take that
up higher. just keep playing with it
until you get the desired look that you want. So it has that darker color at the bottom.
Here's one that I did a little bit earlier so you can see what it looks
like when it's completely dry.
Now another way you can do this
is to use your Aqua Painter again
and actually paint the colors on. I've put about ten drop of
Strawberry Slush re-inker into a little empty button container,
I'm going to use my Aqua Painter again, and I'll just dip it in
and start applying the color
to my ribbon. This will take just little bit longer because as I mentioned before
it has a little bit of coating on the ribbon so it doesn't take the color
as well until you get it a little bit
wetter. So you just keep working that in, and then you can go back
and make it as dark as you want and then
move up the color just a little bit so that it gets a little bit darker.
Just keep working with it.
I would probably go back and just keep trying to get a darker line here at the bottom.
So just keep playing with it. Here's one that I did a little bit earlier so you can
see what it looks like
when it is completely finished. So two really easy techniques that you can do to get the
faux dip-dyeing affect. The next time you are wanting to add a little bit
of color to your projects, like this box right here. We dip-dyed the doily
and we did the coloring on the ribbon. You can give dip-dyeing a try
or the faux dip-dyeing technique a try. Until next time,
happy stamping.