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Colorful Dried Floral DIY

*this project is in partnership with Tulip 

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Color color COLOORRRRR! šŸ™‚ If you love color in your home, but can’t keep anything alive (ahem……not naming names here) then I’ve got one heck of an easy and quick DIY for you using some dried florals, some Tulip fabric dye and a few cans of the vibrant Color Shot Spray paint! So buckle up and follow along, this is a quick one (ok….quick, besides drying time but you can do laundry or doodle or watch TV while everything is drying)! šŸ™‚ 

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I mean, who doesn’t love a splash of color in the corner of a living room or table or mantle or legit about anywhere you’d want to put a gathering of flowers?! šŸ™‚ So, this solves the ā€œmy flowers keep dying all the timeā€ problem and gets your creative floral juices flowing!

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MATERIALS:

  • A handful of dried florals, palm leaves, monstera leaves, grasses or ANYTHING you’d like…heck, perhaps you’ll even use sentimental wedding flowers or something amazing like that šŸ™‚ 
  • Some of Tulip’s Fabric Dye (I used colors ā€œHunter Greenā€, ā€œSageā€, ā€œSunshineā€ ā€œDusty Roseā€, ā€œCoralā€, ā€œCinnamonā€) 
  • A few Colorshot spray paint colors (I used colors ā€œSummer Pedicureā€, ā€œCosmoā€, ā€œIsland Girlā€, and ā€œMermaidā€ )
  • Spray bottle
  • Salt (just regular table salt)
  • Water
  • A drop cloth or something to spray paint on in a well ventilated area
  • A vase or vases to display
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INSTRUCTIONS: 

1. Choose your colors of Colorshot paint and Tulip fabric dye!

OK! So the idea here is that the spray paint is best used on the most ā€œsolidā€ florals….like the palm leaves and the things with twigs and ā€œbranchesā€ā€¦.anything that doesn’t fall apart easily! šŸ™‚ The dye is used for the more fragile things like the grasses and delicate flowers! šŸ™‚ 

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2. Warm or boil some hot water and while your water is boiling add 1 tbs of salt to a spray bottle (more if the bottle is larger….I am using a 12 oz bottle, so one tbs should be fine). Then pour your hot water into your spray bottle and mix until the salt is completely dissolved (BE SUPPPPPER CAREFUL WITH THIS PLEASE)! Pour the hot water in, swish around a little and then let cool for a few minutes while you sort out your florals. You DO NOT want to shake boiling water (PLEASE)! You want the salt to dissolve, but you do not want any burns! NONE PLEASE! šŸ™‚ 

3. Sort out your florals so that you have a game plan of what floral will get what dye or spray treatment šŸ™‚ Then begin to lay out your florals to be dyed onto a cookie sheet/drying rack combo. You will want a cookie sheet under to catch the excess dye as we sprinkle……but be sure it’s one that is ok to get ā€œcraftedā€ on šŸ™‚ 

tip: I look for cookie sheets at thrift stores or garage sales for this very purpose! Keep them handy for beading, dying, using play dough and soooo much more! They are used endlessly in our house šŸ™‚ 

TO DYE FLORALS:

Lay out your florals onto your cookie sheet, then lightly spray them with your salt water mixture. Sprinkle your dye evenly onto your florals. Do not clump the dye and a light coat will due. Then lightly spray the florals again with your salt mixture. If necessary, spread out the florals with your fingers so that they can dry fully flat. 

Allow to dry and repeat for the other side of the florals (flip them over) – mine took about 8 hours or so to dry for each side. 

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*note, if you layer your dye on too thick and it doesn’t all ā€œdissolveā€ you may need to brush off, wipe off or lightly wash off the excess dye (once you’ve left it to dry) so that it doesn’t fall off onto carpet or other fabrics and permanently dye those šŸ™‚ I had to do this with my grasses because I put too much dye on them to begin with!!! But, as I always say DIY is part trial and error….and in the end the dye is still amazing and worked, I just had to wipe some off so that it wasn’t clumpy šŸ™‚ 

TO SPRAY FLORALS: 

Lay out your florals in a well ventilated area and begin lightly spraying each floral with your Colorshot spray paint. This spray paint is amazing because it’s primer and paint all in one, so one light coat may do the trick. But if 2 coats are necessary (for those florals with lots of holes, crevices and ā€œcornersā€) then allow to dry for about 1 hour adn then keep repeating a very light spray until you’ve covered the floral completely. The colorshot spray is FULLLLL of pigment, so this spray paint is PERFECT for delicate florals like this….no need to soak or saturate your coats! šŸ™‚ 

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DIY colorful dried flowers, colorshot dried flowers, colorshot paint DIY, how to make colorful dried flowers, colorful dried floral arrangement DIY
DIY colorful dried flowers, colorshot dried flowers, colorshot paint DIY, how to make colorful dried flowers, colorful dried floral arrangement DIY

4. When everything is dry, begin to arrange your florals in the best and most colorful way! šŸ™‚ 

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DIY colorful dried flowers, colorshot dried flowers, colorshot paint DIY, how to make colorful dried flowers, colorful dried floral arrangement DIY

Have fun with this part – I mean, this whole DIY is fun, but have fun playing around with how this looks and where each floral can go and how to arrange the height and depth and how everything ā€œlandsā€ in the vase! šŸ™‚

Oh and tip – use some scotch tape or any kind of tape to ā€œgridā€ off your vase so that you have sections to put your florals in to make it seem full and create space between florals šŸ™‚ 

VOILA! Now you have the quick skills to make the most colorful bouquet on the block! šŸ™‚ 

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Adding color and lots of little personalities and Adding color and lots of little personalities and faces to our weekend. Because love wins and death is conquered….so yes, this is for sure how we celebratešŸŽ‰ 
Also, every time I cracked an egg this weekend, I squealed in the sound or noise that I thought the personality of the egg would sound šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ obvi.
I would PICKle you as my Valentine over and over i I would PICKle you as my Valentine over and over if I could! šŸ˜‚
Also, yes, this is clearly a @claussenpicklesofficial because duh, they are the best! ā¤ļø

The alternate caption could also be ā€œyup…..it’s a Valentine pickle. Because my kids are obsessed with vinegar soaked veggies. Just swipe for the Halloween pickle proof šŸ„’ ā€œ
For the record, I got approximately zero adulting For the record, I got approximately zero adulting things done while constructing this cardboard @encantomovie Casita of my daughters dreams. Except of course inserting many phrases in place of the ā€œwe don’t talk about Brunoā€ song…..ya know, ā€œwe don’t talk about dishes no no nooooo. We don’t talk about laundryyyyyy.ā€ šŸ  šŸŽØ šŸ’› 
Also, the minute the hot glue was dry, Esther picked up the Casita, hugged it and ran it to the living room where she played most of the afternoon. A moment of Mom win to warm my heart šŸ˜­ā¤ļø
ā€œMay you find the light that guides you homeā€ ā€œMay you find the light that guides you homeā€ 
One of my fave song + fave yearly progression that makes me allll happy and sappy. Merry Christmas šŸŽ„ I hope you’re finding light this holiday season!
If I’ve said it once and I’ll say it 3 squllio If I’ve said it once and I’ll say it 3 squllion more times: I LOVE PAINNNTTTTT! Here’s the thing……paint is always, 100% paint-overable. If you paint something, step back, live with it for while but just doesn’t feel right…..simply paint over it. Like really that simple. 
I’ve done this a handful of times in our own home….bathrooms, bedrooms, hallways (like so many times in the hallways šŸ˜‚)! 
Painting to me is a slight reflection of life: nothing is perfect, and even when mistakes or missteps feel overwhelming they are always worth fixing and usually fixable annnnnd it’s amazing how much a  small moment can bring big joy…..or in this case a big moment on a biiigggg wall šŸŽ‰šŸŽØ
I am doing my last restock of these little nutcrac I am doing my last restock of these little nutcracker buddies tonight at 7pm (central time)! So if you’ve had your eyes on them, especially after seeing them in @hgtvmagazine (gahhhhhhh, still can’t get over this), then be sure to find yourself in my shop tonight at 7pm central!
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PS, download the file on my blog amongst the other holiday themed doodles coloring sheets…..AND we printed our village in gargantuan size from Staples….(their engineer print) and I am not one but mad about the fact that it will take up nearly half a wall! šŸ˜‚ ā¤ļøšŸŽ„
Tis the season for my crafting fingers to be full Tis the season for my crafting fingers to be full of hot glue burns and can honestly say it makes me happy. Like so thankful and happy! 
Okkayyy well maybe not the burns themselves but the fact that I’m over here, in my little studio space in Wisconsin crafting my heart out and you’re sending the love right back to me with all the support! Support for the doodles and painting and costumes and sewing and other colorful things that I’m eager to share! 
SO thankful. Like I’d really love to give you all a humongous big hug right now. 

And for all the online shoppers this weekend, use code YAYcreatives for 20% off everything in my shop through Monday night. Including these happy Colorful felt trees! (I meannnnn, look at their personality šŸ˜‚šŸ˜)
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