DIY Tie-Dye Watercolor Pillows!

HEY GUYS!! its Is here and since this week we are going to teach you DIY'S i decided to teach you how to make DIY tie-dye pillows using only watercolors!!
 Pillows are a good thing they are super comfy and we can make them look fancy too although this pillows aren't that fancy they are so unique and look exotic in a way they look actually pretty, but how can you make these?

Alrighty, let’s get painting!

MATERIALS:

• Watercolor Paints
  • Don’t fret about whether or not they are fabric paints.  This was all experimental for me, but it totally worked!  I have these watercolor cakes from Michaels. The pigment is so strong and a little goes a long way. 
    These paints are so much better than crayola watercolors.
• Fabric Medium
  • This stuff makes it so you can use any kind of paint for fabric, if you add this to it.  
• 2 Small cups or containers for water.
• Brushes
  • Make that 2 Brushes (so you don’t have to constantly wash)
• Something to cover your surface
  • I use garbage bags
• White Fabric

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• Any kind of white fabric should work, just be sure it is the appropriate type for your project.
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• STEP 1:
• To get started, fill your 2 cups with water, half way.  One of the cups will be used to wet your paints.  In the other, you will need to add some of the fabric medium to the water.  I wasn’t too specific on proportions here, but for about 1/4 of a cup of water I used approximately an 1/8 cup of fabric medium.  Having 2 brushes comes in handy here.  You would not want to use the brush with the paint medium for dipping in your paints.
• STEP 2:
• With your brush nice and wet in the plain water, wet your watercolor paints,This leaves plenty of pigment on your brush, and you are ready to spread it on your fabric.The less watered down your paint is, the stronger the color.  The wetter the paint is, the lighter the color and the more it will spread.
• STEP 3:
• Once you have painted your fabric as desired, use the water with the paint medium added to it and paint over the entire surface, when you do this, the colors really start to blend together beautifully.
• At this point, your fabric is very wet.  You need to heat set this paint to the fabric, so you can set the samples into the dryer on high heat until they are dry, or you could also let them air dry and then press it with a hot iron. You can actually do both.
  It is best to read your instructions for the paint medium you are using, but you are able to wash and dry the fabric at this point, with no color loss visible.  (Which is super exciting as it works)!
  You’ll want to test your painting methods out, before using it for an actual project,
• So there you have it guys DIY tie-dye watercolor pillows!! (sorry if its a bit confusing) But i hope it works for you and that you enjoy it, if you want to try this DIY out and after trying it it actually works please send us photos of the results to the maze me e-mail: mazemeblog@gmail.com. Or just share with us your opinions and problems encountered down in the comments section. 
• POST FOR YOU LATER MAZERS!! <3 Isy

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