Create a St. Patty’s Day “Luck of the Irish” Bookmark for a Special Friend!

Here’s a last-minute bookmark and card to make for gift-giving!  Cindi Bisson recycled book pages by dipping them in Kelly Green dye and drying them in the microwave.  Then she cut shamrock leaves from the dyed book pages, dipped them in dye and after drying, she stitched around the leaves to create a 3-dimensional effect.  What a fun technique!

Cindi is always looking for new ways and new mediums for using Rit dye. Here’s a close-up look at stamping with shamrock leaves that were dipped into dye and then stamped onto dyed paper for 30 seconds and removed with tweezers.  The result is a subtle shadow effect.

The 3-dimensional shamrocks on the bookmark and card were created by hand-stitching with copper metallic embroidery floss around the dyed shamrocks for an added lucky accent.  Click here for the full tutorial.   http://www.ritdye.com/blogs/posts/st-patricks-day-card-bookmark

Cindi is a mixed-media artist and the Associate Producer for When Creativity Knocks, an online craft TV show. She creates a weekly Simple Solutions project and writes a Product Review for the website.  To find out more about Cindi, visit her blog at Fat Cat Creations.