I saw this dye ink on fabric technique on Tammy Tutterow's blog and wanted to give a try. I cut a 4 x 6 piece of muslin and dragged turquoise and pink Stampin' Up Spots (small, square stamp pads) in alternating lines across the fabric. Then I spritzed it with water and wrung it out. The pink was very permanent but the turquoise really ran. I should have worn gloves...my hands are still a light turquoise color!
In Tammy's tutorial she glues the dyed fabric to batting, does some stitching on it and then cuts it into heart shapes that she adds to a tag I decided to use my piece of dyed fabric as a background so I glued it to an index card and trimmed it to size. I also used a couple of stencils and other stamp pad colors to add the chevron pattern plus the circles and squares. I spritzed it very lightly again, just to soften the colors and then dried it under an iron to flatten everything out.
Now that I had a background, I didn't know what to put on top of it. I was more into the technique than the result. But I grabbed my scrap paper pile and quickly cut the first thing that came to my mind. I think I chose X and O because Tammy's shape was a heart and I think I had love on my mind!
Anyway, overall I like the look of the completed index card. The black and white dots look good against the colorful background. I liked the technique of dying the fabric with the stamp pad. I would test my stamp pads in the future since some obviously run more than others. Running isn't bad, but you probably want to know how it's going to react when you add water.
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