Hello creative friends! Today I want to show you the process of dyeing simple bobbins for storing your favorite lace and ribbons. I cut a few patterns from thick cardboard and glued together in two. Then carefully primed with white gesso and you can see bobbins ready for coloring already in the photo.For a start, I will create a small texture. For this, I use crackle paste. I will paint in two ways and different shades to show you more options. I paint the first three big bobbins with sprays:

Landlubber Green Vintage Spray,

Buccaneer Bay Blue Vintage Spray, Phantom Fuchsia Vintage Spray. In the second case, I will be flat magicals pigment powder  and  white  gesso. I chose shades that can complement the sprays I selected above. These are powders from  set Hawaiian Islands Flat Magicals.

Now you need to carefully work with sandpaper. So we have a scuff effect. And tint the same spray. Also grind and big bobbins. I apply some prints with stamps and waterproof ink. And once again I grind.To fix the color I cover soft  matte  gel.In the last step, I am tinting with a semi-dry brush with white gesso all the bobbins.

So I got such an aged effect:This is how I will use ready made bobbins:

Lindy’s Products: 

Flat Fabio: Hawaiian Islands Flat Magicals (Aloha Avocado, Plumeria Pink, Ocean Breeze Blue)

 

Moon Shadow Mist: Landlubber Green Vintage Spray, Buccaneer Bay Blue Vintage Spray and Phantom Fuchsia Vintage Spray.