Spiral Dye Birthday Card

I created this Spiral Dye Birthday card to take part in the Crafty Challenge Blog Hop. This month’s challenge was a color challenge to use these colors!

I love this color combination! It is bright, happy and cheerful! Perfect for a the tie-dyed birthday card! This Spiral Dye stamp set is so much fun! I decided I wanted the colors to be blended all over the card so I used the Baby Wipe Technique to ink my stamp.

Baby Wipe Technique

The baby wipe technique consists of using Stampin’ Up! ink refills to make a custom ink pad. It’s a lot of fun and very easy. Be ready to stamp quite a few images once you make one…you’ll want to get lots of use from it. To begin you take about 4 baby wipes and fold them into a rectangle or square that is at least as big as the acrylic block that your stamp will be on. You will want to have them on a craft mat or another easy to clean surface. Then squirt several drops of re-inker around the baby wipe allowing room for it to spread out. (You don’t want the colors to overlap too much for fear of creating brown.) I tried to have my colors radiate outward from a point in the center. Here’s what my baby wipe ink pad looked like:

Once I was satisfied that I had the colors on my baby wipes I pressed the Spiral Dye into the ink pad and held it there for a few seconds. I then stamped it onto a piece of Fluid 100 Watercolor paper big enough for the stamp to fit. Again, I held the stamp on the paper for several seconds.

Instructions for the Spiral Dye birthday card

1. Cut a card base 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, scored at 4 1/4″ in Granny Apple Green card stock.
2. Cut a mat 5 1/4″ x 4″ from Bermuda Bay card stock and adhere to the front of the card base.
3. Trim the watercolor paper with the Spiral Dye stamp on it to 5″ x 3 3/4″.
4. Adhere to the mat.
5. Using the Stitched Rectangles die that measures approximately 7/8″ x 3″, cut one rectangle in Granny Apple Green, Melon Mambo, and Bermuda Bay.
6. Stamp the “Happy Birthday” sentiment from the Party Puffins stamp set in Memento Black ink on the Melon Mambo rectangle.
7. Adhere the three rectangles to the card as shown.
8. Use Stampin’ Blends to color 6 Playing With Patterns resin dots – 3 in Granny Apple Green and 3 in Melon Mambo. Adhere to the front of the card.
9. Tie a small bow with the White Crinkled Seam binding ribbon and adhere to the left side of the Melon Mambo rectangle with a glue dot.

As I mentioned before, there’s lots of ink on the baby wipes so I stamped several Spiral Dyes to use on other cards and stamped this panel with the tall flowers from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set.

Just before I stamped on the Fluid 100 watercolor paper I spritzed it a few times with water. This caused the colors on the stamp to look watercolored. I love the soft, abstract look. I hope you do as well.

Perhaps you’ve been inspired to try the Baby Wipe Technique with these colors. It’s a lot of fun and always results in unique cards. Please hop on to a few more blogs and see what else these talented Stampin’ Up! demonstrators have created for you.

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Happy Crafting,

Lorraine
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Product List

Spiral Dye Cling Stamp Set	Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper	Party Puffins Cling Stamp Set	Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Ink Refill
Granny Apple Green Classic Stampin' Ink Refill	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Ink Refill	Granny Apple Green 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock	Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
Melon Mambo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock	Stitched Rectangles Dies	Whisper White 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon	Playing With Patterns Resin Dots
Melon Mambo Stampin' Blends Combo Pack	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack	Bermuda Bay Stampin' Blends Combo Pack