DYING PAPER WITH WATERCOLOR PAINTS

Have you ever tried dying paper with watercolor paints?

I am making little junk journals and wanted to add some colorful pages similar to tea-dyed pages, but I want them to be colored.

I decided to use up some watercolor paints I had laying around to do it.

If you’d like to see how these sheets of paper turn out, continue reading.

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HAND DYING PAPER WITH WATERCOLOR PAINTS

SUPPLIES

Watercolor Paint
Containers to dye your paper – I used glass bakeware.
Water
Stir Stick – I used a small craft paintbrush.
Copy Printer Paper
Paper Cutter - (optional)

I’m using a couple of different brands of watercolor paints, and I’m using the watercolor that comes in tubes.

The brands I have on hand Artist Loft and Mondo Llama.

I’ll just say right away that I preferred the Artist Loft brand, and the Metallic Blue made my favorite-colored piece of died paper.

DYING PAPER WITH WATERCOLOR PAINTS

First, because I’m using this paper for my little junk journals, I cut a bunch of copy printer paper with my paper cutter to size.

I have a heavy-duty paper cutter that allows me to cut a lot of sheets of paper at one time.

After I cut my paper, I picked a few colors from my watercolor collection and got started with coloring the paper.

I used glass bakeware dishes and filled them a quarter of the way with tap water.

Then I squeezed in a tube of watercolor paint and gave a good stir to mix the paint and water.

After all my colors were ready, I started to add my paper pieces. I placed them in the colored water crisscross so that it would be easier to pull them apart when it was time to remove them from the colored water.