Tie Dye Tutorial.

I had a DT page for Scrap Our Stash to complete this month that involved the challenge of tie-dye as we are teaming up with Child's Play!
When my blogging Friend Wendy shared her tie-dye page with me I talked her into making a tutorial too as our techniques are quite different!
You can check out Wendy's tutorial on her blog W2, HERE.

When I read the challenge assignment I wracked my brain (took all of about 23 seconds) and come up empty of ideas for tie dying on a page so I searched the endless book of knowledge that is the internet and found a children's paper mache project that used a faux tie dye technique and thought I could adapt it for scrapping!

So I gathered my essentials-

White background 12x12 thick paper.

Misting bottle.

Paint brush.

Crepe paper in stronger colours than I wanted as the end result will be less bright.

First - on a protected surface I wet my white paper using the mister. (so far so easy!!!).

I then ripped my crepe paper into strips about 1 1/2 inches wide (but it can be any width). Not as easy as it sounds because the crepe paper stretches but I think that helps with the final effect!

Then I placed the first strip at the top and misted it thoroughly. 

The crepe paper needed a little help from a paint brush to get it to lie flatter on the background paper.

Here is a close-up .

Then it was just a case of using the other coloured crepe paper strips in the same way leaving a small gap between each strip. This did not need to be neat, as in the case of tie dying there is always a ragged edge between where the string was tied and where the die managed to take hold.

I took off the crepe papers after just five minutes and I was delighted with my tie-dyed paper.

At first the colour was very bright but once it dried it was much lighter.

I will be sharing the layout I made using this tie-dyed paper on 25th June so please come back and see the finished page.

Hope you enjoyed my little tutorial.

What new technique have you found lately?

Hug's.

Kerry. xx