Hi Susan, you can also get some nice orange, red colors with cooking eucalyptus leaves. Some only do browns. The bark of a tree that we call Madrone on the west coast of the USA will also give a brownish red. Various fruit barks like apple or peach will give browns. But my favorite brown is from walnut hulls. I dye fabrics with them, so I am pretty sure they will work on paper. Pat
Thank you so much Susan! You made great papers here. I itch to try this too... Every year I gather my onion skins for dyeing easter eggs and this year I kept the dye, just added some alcohol to it so it won't get mouldy. Also the red cabbage or artichock water are beautiful colours. I'm only wondering, will they remain this colour with time? ❤
So much fun...do you defrost the bag of onion skins and avocado pits before use or just pop them in the pop straight out of the freezer? Also, can you dye wet strength tissue paper?
In love the seersucker effect on some of the papers where they've probably buckled in the dye bath. Also, do you fine you get different colours with avocado if you just use the skins, or just use the stones? Thanks for the video.
@@susanmccreevyartist I loved the pinkiness of the avocado with bicarb and will try that when I have enough material to make a dye bath - thanks for the tip. The only time I used avocados (and this was with fabric) was with both skin and stones, but I might try two dye baths and keep them separate to see if there is any difference. Thanks, again, for the videos.
Hi Susan I have recently been on an eco printing workshop and loved it! I couldn't believe the amount of colour onion skins gave. Do the papers ever stick together when wet? Thank you ❤
Fabulous Susan! I’m off to experiment 🎉
Have fun!🤩
What a super vid. Makes the processes so clear. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Susan, you can also get some nice orange, red colors with cooking eucalyptus leaves. Some only do browns. The bark of a tree that we call Madrone on the west coast of the USA will also give a brownish red. Various fruit barks like apple or peach will give browns. But my favorite brown is from walnut hulls. I dye fabrics with them, so I am pretty sure they will work on paper. Pat
Wonderful colours - do iron the papers to ‘fix’ them or just to get them flat?
Just to flatten them, you could protect under a UV varnish or encaustic wax if you were worried about fading 😀
Thank you so much Susan! You made great papers here. I itch to try this too... Every year I gather my onion skins for dyeing easter eggs and this year I kept the dye, just added some alcohol to it so it won't get mouldy. Also the red cabbage or artichock water are beautiful colours. I'm only wondering, will they remain this colour with time? ❤
Lovely! Thank you. Id like to try green tea, berry tea. Blue... blueberries?
Try black tea. Blueberries wash away and are not blu when used as dye. Red onions give green.
Sounds great! The possibilities are endless 😀
So much fun...do you defrost the bag of onion skins and avocado pits before use or just pop them in the pop straight out of the freezer? Also, can you dye wet strength tissue paper?
Thank you, I just use them straight from the freezer 😀
In love the seersucker effect on some of the papers where they've probably buckled in the dye bath. Also, do you fine you get different colours with avocado if you just use the skins, or just use the stones? Thanks for the video.
I haven’t tried that, one of my followers suggested adding bicarbonate of soda to the water to make the colour pop and it worked well 😀
@@susanmccreevyartist I loved the pinkiness of the avocado with bicarb and will try that when I have enough material to make a dye bath - thanks for the tip. The only time I used avocados (and this was with fabric) was with both skin and stones, but I might try two dye baths and keep them separate to see if there is any difference. Thanks, again, for the videos.
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Hi Susan I have recently been on an eco printing workshop and loved it! I couldn't believe the amount of colour onion skins gave. Do the papers ever stick together when wet? Thank you ❤
I haven’t had any problems with the paper sticking 😄
Can you keep the leftovers in a jar to use again?
Yes, you can keep them in an airtight mason jar for a few weeks
@@susanmccreevyartist Thank you 😊