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Showing posts with label tie dying project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tie dying project. Show all posts

Thursday, September 15, 2011

First Try at Fabric Spray Paint

I saw this cute spray fabric paint in Tuesday Morning, and I knew there was something I could do with it. So of course I bought it without having an exact idea of what to do with it. Thought I would contemplate it! So, being the "bag lady" that I am, thought I could spruce up one of my bags. Make it a little cuter, and try out the spray paint. Used my Sizzix to cut letters from shelf liner (has sticky back and is cheaper than vinyl!).
Next adhered the letters to my bag. This bag is from 5 Below, a store that sells all items for $5 or less! Kinda like the Dollar store. So I figured that if it didn't turn out exactly right, it wouldn't be a great loss! Randomly sprayed the paint over the letters and waited a couple minutes. Finally took the letters off! TAaaa DAaaaa! Not too bad. Next time I'll have to think of something cuter to put on the bag! Not too bad for my first try.

Thanks for looking and have a great day. Cathy

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

I Thought it was a Good Idea...

In June, I promised my 9 year old daughter that should could do a tie dying project and at the time it seemed like a FUN idea!! Yesterday we finally got around to working on the project. However, I didn't think it all the way through. My grand idea was to tie dye a set of sheets for her full size bed. I didn't anticipate the mess it would make to do such large pieces. When applying the dye to each piece, it dye on the grass, then we had to walk around, and sit in the grass to finish each one. Forgetting that the grass was mess, we both got it on the bottom of our feet and on the back of our shorts! OOPS, but my shorts were black, so it didn't show up but hers were ruined. Oh well, live and learn!

These are the four pieces that I used rubber bands for the designs. There are 2 pillow cases, a flat sheet and a fitted sheet. I used 4 different patterns for the whole set. I added a YouTube video for each folding technique because I didn't take pictures of each piece. Didn't think that far ahead! Hope it helps, each video shows the technique used, there is also some other info about dying but it does not reflect my procedure.

She was very excited to get her gloves on and get ready to start dying!
This first one is the top sheet and I used a basic spiral to tie it up. You can check out the procedure here to see how it is done. Just an FYI - I found this person on YouTube, I don't know him just thought he did a good job of showing the technique.
This is one of the pillow cases. I just crinkled up the case, then put rubber bands at various places. That was the easiest one to do because it was so small.
This is the second case. The technique used to fold is found here, then used the squirter bottles to add the dye.
Finally, this is the fitted sheet. I used the concentric circles folding technique to make this one. You can see the procedure here. Again, I used the procedure then used squirte bottles to add the dye.
** Notice I used a tie dye effect with the font color!! :-)


The next post has pictures of the final project. Check it out!!

Thanks looking, have a great day!
Cathy

Monday, August 2, 2010

FINAL Tie Dye Project!!

We finished the sheet set tie dying project and opened each piece up. It was very exciting to see what each piece would look like. The top sheet started like this one...
And, after opening up - the pattern looked like this..
Next, the first pillowcase. It was tied up like this...
After opening up the case ....
This is the second pillowcase folded up...
And, the second pillow case opened up...
Finally, this is the fitted sheet! It turned out great, my personal favorite of the entire set. Started out folded like this....
This is the "backside" to show the part with elastic -
The front side -
Pretty darn cute!!
The big TA-DAAAA!! Sheets on her bed! It doesn't exactly match her Princess wall border, but it is still cute and she likes it. I didn't put the top sheet on so you could see the "bullseye" from the fitted sheet.
Thanks so much for looking,
Have a great day
Cathy