FLOWER PRINTING ON PAPER/ECO-DYE

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FLOWER PRINTING ON PAPER/ECO-DYE

Coming Spring 2024

Learn how to take flowers and leaves and print their image on watercolor paper creating beautiful eco-dyed paper, which can be used in a variety of creative ways such as gift bags, cards, and boxes; wrapping paper; scrapbooking; digital art, and more!

In this class you will create 10 – 4.75 x 6.75 inch sheets of eco-dyed watercolor paper using yellow and orange flowers layered between paper and sandwiched between two stainless steel wire mesh screens, then boiled in a big pot of "rusty water!"

While the “sandwiches” are boiling it’s time to eat your sack lunch and sit back and watch the live demonstration on, “How to turn your paper into Gift Bags with Matching Greeting Cards.”

You will receive printed instructions and supplies needed to create 3 gift bags & 3 greeting cards at home once your paper is dry, using Eco-Dyed Paper created in class.

SUPPLIES AND TOOLS PROVIDED AT CLASS (STUDENT KEEPS):

2 – 6 x 8 sheets of stainless-steel wire mesh

2 – feet of aluminum wire

10 – 4.75 x 6.75 sheets of cold press watercolor paper treated with Alum

1 – 9 x 13 inch aluminum pan with lid

2 – sets latex free disposable gloves

SUPPLIES PROVIDED TO CREATE GIFT BAGS AND CARDS AT HOME:

1 – roll of 6 mm double-sided scrapbook tape

1 – X-Acto knife with #11 blade

1 – 4 oz bottle of clear gel tacky glue

1 – palette knife

1 – burnishing tool

3 – 5.25 x 3.75 x 8 in craft paper gift bags

3 – 5 x 7 in craft paper greeting cards with envelopes

3 – sheets of vintage fancy paper

3 – lengths of jute twine

TOOLS PROVIDED FOR USE AT CLASS - But you may want to bring your own too.

• Needle nose pliers 
• Fresh marigolds, zenanas, and other yellow and orange flowers, as well as ferns and leaves that are easy to press between two sheets of paper (coneflowers do not work well). We will be working in warm colors of yellows, oranges, and red. Purples and blues are great but we will not be working with those colors in class.
• Rusty nails, bolts, hinges, and bits of rusty stuff 
   

Please bring a sack lunch to eat during card-making demonstration. We have a microwave and refrigerator for your convenience. We ask that you do not leave for lunch for this will disrupt the flow of the class. Thank you.