Make beautiful dip-dyed stationery with powdered fabric dye and watercolor paper. Super easy, even for beginners. Quick, easy dye paper with cheap watercolors, I used acrayola set.
Facebook: @wendyspaperjunk more. Dyeing Paper and Making Ink Paper dyeing with Natural Dyes Paper dyeing is not unlike dyeing textiles. Paper is, similar in its makeup to cellulose fibers, which are textiles made from plants like cotton and linen.
Paper is made from trees, a plant. Through a bit of experimentation, water color paper, or heavier cotton papers work best for dyeing. I tried using watercolor on various regular papers like printer paper, cardstock, and kraft paper and am sharing everything I learned.
In this blog post I'll show you how to dye paper with homemade plant dyes. The pink dye is made from avocado skins and the yellow is from pomegranate skins. With just a few tweaks to my usual fabric dyeing method, we can easily dye paper.
Can you see the patterns on the pink paper? Printing on watercolor paper is easy with an inkjet printer. Get authentic. different types of dye (this may include "official" dye like fabric dye, food coloring, watered out markers, watercolors, Koolaid, watered-down acrylic paint) cup (s) tissue paper spray bottle stiff wire (I used 19 gauge stainless steel wire, which is usually used for sculpting) pliers (fingers are adequate, but in case you would like to protect them.) floral tape (for nice texture) glue This.
To dye paper with food coloring simply mix the food color with some water and submerge the paper in it for a few seconds. Again, the steps to dye paper with food coloring are largely the same as dying paper with ink. No matter which colorant you use to dye paper, there are only three ways to add color to your paper; water bath, inks, and sprays.
In other words, you dip the paper into water dyed with colorant, you splatter ink directly on the paper, or you spray the paper with your chosen dye. Step 2 Practice on watercolor paper to become familiar with how the ink blends with a wet brush. Use varying amounts of water to dilute or spread the ink.
For more intense color, remove excess water from the brush and use a higher concentration of undiluted ink.