How to Dye Silk Flowers
In this house silk flowers are used as adornment–on greeting cards, in scrapbooks, that kind of thing. You can buy colorful silk flowers in the paper crafting area of your local craft store, but they’re kind of expensive. Especially for the scant amount you get! Plus, they’re usually sold in one color collections. Assorted pinks, blues…you get the idea. Well, there’s a much more cost effective and fun way to get your silk flower adornment fix.
Instead of heading to the paper crafting aisle at the craft store, go to the silk flower area. Look for small white blossoms on a multi-blossom stem. When you get home, simply pop the flowers off the stems….
and then get out your Sharpies (or any colorful markers) and start coloring!
What’s great about this DIY dye method is you can make a variety of colors–not just pinks or blues–for a fraction of the cost (my stem of 2 dozen + flowers was about a dollar). PLUS your flowers will coordinate perfectly with your markers.
For this birthday card, I tucked a white blossom under the lavender one I had dyed and then attached them with a small brad.
Need to paint silk flowers white. How can I accomplish this?
How about taking the petals off and bleaching them?