"Love You" Batik-Dyed Valentine's Day Card

Step 1:

1. Protect work area with plastic table cover or newspapers.

2. Use foam brush to apply Batik-EZ Resist Medium on curly heart stamp. Then stamp repeatedly on the larger piece of watercolor paper, brushing on more medium after each impression. Wash stamp immediately. Let paper dry or dry with heat tool.

3. Mix Rit Dye: Mix 1 teaspoon Fuchsia dye with ½ cup hot tap water; stir well. Mix 2 teaspoons Royal Blue dye with ½ cup hot tap water; stir well. (For darker shades, use more dye.)

4. Brush or spray Fuchsia dye liberally on the watercolor paper that has been stamped with the Batik-EZ Resist Medium.

5. Bush or spray the Royal Blue dye on scrap pieces of plain white watercolor paper.

6. Dry dyed watercolor papers in the microwave: Line bottom of microwave with paper towels. Place the dyed paper in the microwave and set on high for 1 – 2 minutes.

7. Remove paper and gently rinse off the resist medium using a wet sponge or foam brush. Let paper air dry or dry in the microwave.

8. Using black stamping ink, randomly over stamp the curly heart on the Fuchsia dyed resist paper. Then using the black ink, randomly stamp “love words” on the same paper.

9. Round corners of card base using a corner rounder. Cut Fuchsia dyed and stamped paper to fit on base card, leaving a ¼” border; round corners and adhere to base card.

10. Stamp the other hearts from the clear set on scraps of the Royal Blue dyed paper using clear embossing ink. Apply white embossing powder, shake off the excess, then heat the powder. (Pour excess powder back into jar.) Cut out the hearts and use dimensional foam or Glue Dots to affix the hearts to the card, as shown.

11. Fold one white and one blue flower in half and glue to bottom right of card using Glue Dots. Glue another white flower open, next to the other flowers, and glue a rhinestone in the center of the flower.