Dip, Drip, Dunk
and Dye!
Perhaps a more appropriate title for this post would be “Dyed
and gone to heaven” as I have spent some very self-indulgent hours playing with
Oak House Studio inks. So much fun in one little bottle and endless possibilities.
The more I played the more I discovered ….sometimes by design….sometimes by
accident! I managed to create some
interesting background papers when I knocked over a full bottle of diluted Jubilee Blue…. without its lid on.
Top tip….the
pipettes are excellent for sucking
up spilt ink and decanting back into the bottle…the rest can be mopped up with
copier paper and/or scraps of ribbon lace and punched shapes…..in fact anything
that comes to hand that could be dyed.
After my exploration session I was left with a fantastic
bank of pieces to use….
….and an idea for adapting Shibori (Japanese fabric dyeing). Instead of fabric I used to 2 sheets of
tissue paper folded together to create some designer wrapping paper.
Working with a “puddle” of water and a “puddle” of Colour Chemistry Ink, I dipped the
folded paper in and out of the water and ink…depending on the pattern and
effect I wanted to create.
The paper had to unfolded while still wet and laid out to dry.
I created several designs with different folds and different
shades of ink – Waterfall, Vintage blue,
Jubilee Blue and Blue Jeans.
Once dry (which actually didn’t take very long) it was time
to wrap my friends present. The “dyed” look is very fashionable at the moment
in home trends and so is accents of gold. The finishing touch was an initial
cut on a Cricut then stamped with the Thoresby
Background stamp. My gold ink pad
was very old but it was improved with a few accents of Oak House Pure Gold Acrylic Ink ….. This ink is so beautiful and
difficult to capture on camera how shiny and gorgeous it is…..true liquid gold.
As I am an extremely frugal crafter…I used the negative of
the initial to create a coordinating card. Keeping it “Clean and Simple” I
attached the shape over one of the premade backgrounds…. a few splashes of the
amazing Pure Gold added some pretty
detail. The sentiments (Oak House Birthday and Best wishes text
stamps) were stamped with Cobalt
Blue and Powder Blue pigment ink.
I will be posting some more “Something Blue” projects and
further details of my “dyeing” adventures on my blog http://justaddglueto.blogspot.co.uk/
…plus a very frugal envelope to go with my card, quite by accident I created a
Verdigris effect with the Pure Gold and
Colour Chemistry inks which I was quite pleased with, see what you think, I’d love you to pop by and say hello.
.....and finally very big thank you to Lynnda and Oak House Studio for inviting me to
play along with the Take Five event….I do
hope you join in to……... Happy
Crafting, love Diane
