Color My World!

Things are heating up over at the Vintage Mouse workshop!  With the holidays looming closer and closer, I am working non-stop, trying to create plenty of product for the holiday shows.  My first is in October and I want to be prepared!  Along the way to building my fabulous creations, I am constantly in need of specific colors of flowers, ornaments, bottle brush trees, etc.  Now I definitely have ALOT of goodies to work with, but for some reason that drives me crazy, I never seem to have the RIGHT COLOR of  flowers, etc.!  But NOT ANY LONGER!!  Thanks to the awesome Color Lab diy paint kit by Marion Smith Designs, I can custom create any color I need and use it to dye the flowers, etc.!!!  Nowadays I tend to buy the supplies in white and use the Color Lab to dye them.  You can find more info online, including videos,  just google Color Lab.  Here's a quick overview:


Here's what the kit looks like inside.  You get 3 sprayers, 5 jars with 5 different pigment paints, 3 jars of sparkling pigments, a measuring spoon and recipe card.

 

As you can see, I've mixed a batch of turquoise and sprayed my white flowers for a beautiful color!  The directions are easy to follow and there are tons more recipes online, but I used the Curious recipe from the recipe sheet in the kit for this batch.

 

I just love the variety of color you can get by spraying more heavily.  You can also lighten by running water over it!  This is definitely a huge help when I don't have that "JUST RIGHT COLOR" on hand!  No more emergency runs to the craft store!