Marta, that orange trumpet with the round leaves is the Nasturtiums are not bad at all. You are lucky. You can put them in a beautiful salad. The leaves are peppery, but not hot. Have you heard of capers? They are from the nasturtiums in the fall. You have a lovely garden with lots of herbs and the nasturtiums are a herb. The Blue Hydrangea flowerscan be dried very easy upside down hanging to dry out. They make a beautiful arrangement in a large vase for the cold months. They keep their colour.
You don’t have to use vinegar but some pieces of rusted metals will make a huge difference- your prints will be much darker and grunge looking;) also adding some onion skins will make beautiful prints :) I have several videos on my channel sharing the process using different methods and the results in the end, I’m loving experimenting!
Marta, if you can put copper pipes or coins into your pot along with rusty nails and use the vinegar and I also add salt! I am totally addicted to eco dyeing and have some fantastic results. I live on Corfu and start my papers off in the pot in a little sun oven soaking for a few hours, then take them and finish them off on the hot plates, not for very long either, ten minutes if that. Just rinse the papers gently after! I use cartridge paper and also have prints taken off the best ones as no two are ever alike! Happy dyeing!!
Wow. That is a great advice. So you prepare everything leave in the water for few hours and then only for. 10 mins cooking? Did I understand correctly? I am not sure what's sun oven 🙃
@@MaremiSmallArt yes that is what I do, only difference is I sandwich the papers between thin wood. The sun oven is just a metal box I made with the top at an angle and I put glass on top ,sun heats everything up, not to boiling point obviously but it helps papers on their way and cuts time down using the hot plate! Have done it just using the sun as well but colours are stronger using the hot plate xx
Thank you for jour inspiration😊. I have been looking up every video and help i could find...there was one that used alum that has promise. I am not home with my notes, so cannot remember who it was, but the color was very intense...the best of all i found so far. I love yours, but i think you were a little disappointed that those incredible colors did not transfer as dramatically as you had hoped. Mine did not even as nicely as yours. I was very disappointed. Some were ok, but pretty faded. Oddly on mine, the envelopes did best! The heavier paper did a little better, but not consistently. I cooked on my wood stove fore a few hours. I just used salt, and clipped with wooden clothes pins between very sturdy cardboard. Clamps made it impossible to put into my kettle. I cut the paper into card background squares. I used heavy bakeware and a large can filled with water for my weight. The kettle is worn metal and the pins had some kind of metal spring. Next time i will try copper and alum. I did not use rust because i wanted those bright colors, but no did not get them. Onward! Thank you for inspiring us once again!
Very nice walk-through, Marta. The vinegar is a mordant and will set the dye or pigment of the plant. I do not add while cooking though. When you dye fabric, you add salt or vinegar after the dying to set the dye to become more permanent. BTW the plant growing up the wall we call a Virginia Creeper. Hope little Hanna has a better time with her teething. My great grandson was born near Hanna's birthday and is teething too. Hi to Emily as well.
First let me say I love watching your videos! Although I haven't had as much time as of late to watch as I used to, I still enjoy them! I ran across this eco-dying video this evening and am interested in trying it and was thrilled to see you had tried it! You also mantioned tea and coffee dying, which I have done a LOT of! With different coffees and teas, papers and fabrics and all kinds of things, I pretty much try dying something new each time I dye. I also dye with homemade inks from markers and such. I scanned your list of videos quickly and didnt see where you had tried it yet. I could have missed it but the reason I say that is to let you know that when you get ready to try or trust again perhaps I can give you possibly, hopefully all the tips you would need! Also since you are in Ireland, if there are things you cant get which will probably be the case on things we can buy cheap here, I might be able to ship some things to you! If you have any interest in this. Send me a message back and I can give you different contact info where we might could email instead of just converse here. Thanks Bunches! Candie😁🤗
It's so cute and funny that you say Hydrangea different every time :D Your garden is amazing. I love that you took us through the entire process from picking the flowers to laying and cooking them to peeling the sheets apart. I really really want to see what you do with these. Of course they would be amazing in a junk journal and any other project. The lighting in the video was beautiful. No worries. I hope you do this again and show everything. I totally loved this video. I'm going to watch it again. Oh and the results turned out beautifully.
Great papers, Marta. You can also ask your local florist if you can have the flowers and leaves that they’re going to throw away when they’re past their best. Also, make sure you scan the nicest papers so that they’re there for you whenever you want them. Then make lovely, crunchy books from the originals. Nice work xx
Hi!....I'm not sure if anyone has said this but I did eco dying with hydrangea flowers as you did. However, I left the flowers on a separate piece of paper and left them to dry out....result absolutely gorgeous wafer thin transparent flowers....can't wait to use them in a flower journal!! Hope that is of interest to you and others in the crafty world!
Marta those pages are so beautiful!! Wow what another wonderful ideal and with no vinegar. Now I want to run out and buy fresh flowers to try this myself. Seems like the watercolor paper grabs the color better then the media paper as I watched you unveil your beautiful art pages. TFS
I did mine in a roasting tray,with a tile on top to weigh down (no string) for one hour. I then laid each piece of paper with a dry piece in between each one and placed the stack on a towel for a couple of hours. This made them easier to dry and I had the same number of secondary prints as well. Really easy 😊
Beautiful results Marta! I'm so happy and excited for you. I've been waiting for autumn to come to gather some leaves and things from the garden and woods/forest around our home and give eco dying a go, will be my first time as well. My husband built a book press for me and I am anxious to get to use it. I may share on Instagram and Facebook, my results. Thank you for sharing your experience with us, it was quite exciting, I wanted to run out to my garden and get started, but alas, it is dark here in the United States at the time I am viewing your video. Hope to see more videos of your dying adventures! xx
Marta, i’ve only just started watching the video and I MUST tell you that I LOVE your garden! We have a very small garden now but at our last house I had a huge garden and each summer I had about 90 containers of annual flowers. Lots & lots of watering! Ok, going back to your video now. Missed you! Hugs from 🇨🇦.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful flowers. Love all the colors. Beautiful. I tried eating Nasturtiums and they made my throat swell up. Glad I only tried a little.
Marta if you loved doing this you would love using avocado dying using the outer shell and the pit/stone.it is quick 20 minute. Bring to the Boil and take off heat. Put all your laces and material in the water and leave for 20 minutes. Dusky pink colour it's so pretty. The longer you leave it turns a brownish pink. I prefer the dusky pink. I have not tried beetroot and and turmeric powder yet. Ty for sharing hope you try avocado dying it's such a pretty colour. Much ❤ xx
Tuppy :) Hi Tuppy! I'm curious to what type of paper you use when dying? Marta uses watercolor & mixed media paper. I've tea, coffee & avocado dyed only using regular typing/office paper. Thanks! Sharon(on hubbys acct.)
@@sjz356 hi sharon🤗 I think if your using regular paper and it works I suggest any would work. I would boil your avocado and pits first and then wait to cool then dip your papers in. I normally dye fabrics and have since found you can also do this with onion. A bit smelly if you don't like it but the colour is pretty🤗
For a first try, your papers came out gorgeous! Vinegar really isn't necessary. Alum in the spice section will help set the colors. You just need a little bit. And, as others have mentioned, a bit of metal-iron or copper helps make the colors darker. It does work best when the plants are tightly pressed into the papers.
Wow! You got lovely results. I especially like the red leaves. Thank you for showing us the process from start to finish. Hope Hannah is feeling better.
Oh Marta, your papers are STUNNING!!! I've done this too... mine were OK, quite pretty, and very fun an satisfying to do...some even pretty enough that I gave them away to my best friend (who still loves to write proper personal handwritten letters, and is always looking for unusual paper).....but mine weren't a patch on yours!!! Not all the 'how to 'eco-print' videos I watched on YT got got good results on 50% of the papers!!! I think the vinegar/ lemon juice/white spirit is NOT important as your demo proves, and I decided the rust stuff seemed to overpower the colours and made everything brown-ish. I decided if I want to age the paper I can do it gently after with tea, sprays, watercolour etc... so I couldn't be bothered! Poor sweet little Hannah
Love all the paper and are gorgeous. Love the colors. I have been wanting to try this for a long time but haven't. Thanks for sharing. Hope baby Hannah feels better. Poor baby. Teething is no fun.
🍁🎨🌿 Marta, THANK YOU for your very thoughtful, thorough & enjoyable video about your eco dye experience. What great plants you grow! I did see some folks grumble about the mention of vinegar without more follow-up about it (I guess.) But there's already a ton of info out there about the uses of chemicals such as vinegar (& copper, iron, alum, etc) with the dye processes. Seeing as vinegar is really only used to achieve rather specific results - for characteristics you weren't looking to impart to your papers this time - I appreciate you mentioning it as a possible thing, & then moving on. If folks want to learn more about it, there's this great thing called the internet. 😉 THANK YOU also for sharing your social media & retail site links. As a business owner myself, I appreciate the opportunity to quickly access & learn more about the products & items you sell. This YT channel of yours is, after all, a direct line to your business! 🙂 ⭐ P.S. I LOVE your videos, thx for All You Do for us!! 😁
I have wanted to try this for a long time, but now all my flowers are done for the fall season. I might try some colored leaves though. Thanks for sharing your process...your papers came out gorgeous!
These look great Marta! I wonder if you could add a few blackberries? They would turn to mush but the colour from them should be great. Thank you for sharing, can’t wait to see them dry 💜💜
I wish you had used some of those Nasturtium flowers. They are definitely not "Bad plants" as you mentioned. They are edible and delicious in a salad. I don't have a garden anymore so I usually steal a few flowers to eat every time I go to the park. Peppery and good and I love their round leaves like little umbrellas. I haven't done this yet myself but I did use the ink dye method from Jibid Neary and my papers turned out gorgeous. I've used some of them in journals and the rest I just keep to admire. It's a lot of fun isn't it? You have a lovely garden even though you said you aren't a gardener. I'm envious. :)
Gorgeous results! I'm so glad that you tried this out using only water and yarn. I've seen other videos, but alot of them use special items that I don't have. Glad to see that this works! God bless, Kim
Hi Marta, I'm determined to get this tecnique to work. I have found that heavy watercolor paper does not work well. Some folks put in vinager, some put in Ritz dye. I'm on my third bath and frustrated some what as I only get a few with good color. The red mapel tree leaves are so lovely, but the color is not there when you removed them. I tried the "Rose of Sharon" flower and it actually boiled itself into the paper. That is really my best one!! 20 minutes to go on this third batch.
Great results! Did you use the vinegar? I don’t know if you grow the deep red geraniums there or not but I had my best results with them. Beautiful job!!
I made some of these papers , but I used watercolor paper and my plants, then a board on the bottom and top, squeezed together with " C" clamps...I also seen a video on them called "Boiled Books"...they also added some dye...I did to..but I did not use rocks in the bottom of my pan, maybe that is why they said use wood..anyway, they came out so beautiful. I love them. Thanks for the video :)
How funny I tried this for the first time this weekend too before I saw your video! I got some great result too, yours are beautiful! I added onion skins to the water which dyed my pages yellow too. X
Yes, it is a nasturtium and the leaves can be eaten, I think. I saw that you have begonias too. I love hydrangeas since you can get different colored blooms depending on the minerals taken in from the soil by the plant. My mother had different colors on the same plant a couple times that I recall as a child. She had the entire side of the garage covered with hydrangeas. The back was morning glories that were and still are my favorite flower. I was going to grow them inside here this summer, but then did not since I was to be (did it) gone three weeks to Oregon to see my sons and their significant others and my grandkids too, of course. I would loan you my jug of vinegar if you lived close to me. I wonder what kind of difference there would be when adding it to your water. Well worth a try before you can no longer get things from your garden.
I love this!! I can't help but wonder if you had waited until the paper had partially dried before you pulled it apart, if more of the color would have come out of the plant material. But then again, it might have ripped, I suppose...
Oh, forgot to say one thing about the vinegar and rocks. The vinegar will help pull out the color from the plants you use and set it to the paper. The rocks ate useful for weight but also if you can find iron ore type of rusty looking rocks, they will help add color and pull in and out more color also. Just thought I would give you a little more perspective the wire helps add color too and will squeeze it all tight too to help leech color into the paper. Hope this helps!
the best result I have had is with eucalyptus (gum) leaves using white (clear) vinegar & a few drops of pink or red food coloring....love your results & the joy you got from it
Some lovely papers , never heard of this way , I’m going to have a go tomorrow as I still have flowers 💐 in the garden ,, . But I’m not going to cook mine lol,,,,👍🌼🌺🌸💕
You had some great results Marta! 🍁🍂🌿☘️ I thought at first the papers were going to be put over boiled water and just the heat from the generated steam would be what brought the colour out of the leaves, shows what I know, nothing lol :))) It seemed as if the red pigment flowers worked best followed by the green leaves that were not shiny. I bet in the height of summer when more or less everything is in bloom you could get some great results. The stamens out of Lily's would certainly dye things but I wouldn't like to try them in a pot used to cook in because they are poisonous, so I believe. If I ever have lilies I cut out the stamen as soon as they open because they have tinted my windowsill in the past when they have been allowed to just drop off. What about flipping the process? Where you can place the leaves on paper and then colour around them so the leaf print remains uncoloured? I tried to join the facebook group yesterday but possibly because my profile has everything set to private it looks like I haven't been allowed in.
Marta, I'm wondering if you would have better results, too, if using fresh foliage/flowers rather than ones that sat for a day. I'm guessing you might. Thank you for the wonderful video!
the plant you are picking from at 2:59 is a nasturtium, very treasured in Denmark, flowers are beautiful in salads It is very treasured, not weed :) It's edible :)
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Marta, that orange trumpet with the round leaves is the Nasturtiums are not bad at all. You are lucky. You can put them in a beautiful salad. The leaves are peppery, but not hot. Have you heard of capers? They are from the nasturtiums in the fall. You have a lovely garden with lots of herbs and the nasturtiums are a herb.
The Blue Hydrangea flowerscan be dried very easy upside down hanging to dry out. They make a beautiful arrangement in a large vase for the cold months. They keep their colour.
That orange plant is WONDERFUL, a nasturtium. Both flowers and leaves are edible. The leave are so unique in shape!
I get such a kick out of your surprise and delight.
You don’t have to use vinegar but some pieces of rusted metals will make a huge difference- your prints will be much darker and grunge looking;) also adding some onion skins will make beautiful prints :) I have several videos on my channel sharing the process using different methods and the results in the end, I’m loving experimenting!
Marta, if you can put copper pipes or coins into your pot along with rusty nails and use the vinegar and I also add salt! I am totally addicted to eco dyeing and have some fantastic results. I live on Corfu and start my papers off in the pot in a little sun oven soaking for a few hours, then take them and finish them off on the hot plates, not for very long either, ten minutes if that. Just rinse the papers gently after! I use cartridge paper and also have prints taken off the best ones as no two are ever alike! Happy dyeing!!
Wow. That is a great advice. So you prepare everything leave in the water for few hours and then only for. 10 mins cooking? Did I understand correctly? I am not sure what's sun oven 🙃
@@MaremiSmallArt yes that is what I do, only difference is I sandwich the papers between thin wood. The sun oven is just a metal box I made with the top at an angle and I put glass on top ,sun heats everything up, not to boiling point obviously but it helps papers on their way and cuts time down using the hot plate! Have done it just using the sun as well but colours are stronger using the hot plate xx
@@corfukefi sounds awesome. Wish we have more sun here 🌞☀️🌝☀️🌝☀️🌞🌝☀️🌞🌝
Maybe next summer try?!! 💗
Thank you for jour inspiration😊. I have been looking up every video and help i could find...there was one that used alum that has promise. I am not home with my notes, so cannot remember who it was, but the color was very intense...the best of all i found so far. I love yours, but i think you were a little disappointed that those incredible colors did not transfer as dramatically as you had hoped. Mine did not even as nicely as yours. I was very disappointed. Some were ok, but pretty faded. Oddly on mine, the envelopes did best! The heavier paper did a little better, but not consistently. I cooked on my wood stove fore a few hours. I just used salt, and clipped with wooden clothes pins between very sturdy cardboard. Clamps made it impossible to put into my kettle. I cut the paper into card background squares. I used heavy bakeware and a large can filled with water for my weight. The kettle is worn metal and the pins had some kind of metal spring. Next time i will try copper and alum. I did not use rust because i wanted those bright colors, but no did not get them. Onward! Thank you for inspiring us once again!
Very nice walk-through, Marta. The vinegar is a mordant and will set the dye or pigment of the plant. I do not add while cooking though. When you dye fabric, you add salt or vinegar after the dying to set the dye to become more permanent. BTW the plant growing up the wall we call a Virginia Creeper. Hope little Hanna has a better time with her teething. My great grandson was born near Hanna's birthday and is teething too. Hi to Emily as well.
First let me say I love watching your videos! Although I haven't had as much time as of late to watch as I used to, I still enjoy them! I ran across this eco-dying video this evening and am interested in trying it and was thrilled to see you had tried it! You also mantioned tea and coffee dying, which I have done a LOT of! With different coffees and teas, papers and fabrics and all kinds of things, I pretty much try dying something new each time I dye. I also dye with homemade inks from markers and such. I scanned your list of videos quickly and didnt see where you had tried it yet. I could have missed it but the reason I say that is to let you know that when you get ready to try or trust again perhaps I can give you possibly, hopefully all the tips you would need! Also since you are in Ireland, if there are things you cant get which will probably be the case on things we can buy cheap here, I might be able to ship some things to you! If you have any interest in this. Send me a message back and I can give you different contact info where we might could email instead of just converse here. Thanks Bunches! Candie😁🤗
It's so cute and funny that you say Hydrangea different every time :D Your garden is amazing. I love that you took us through the entire process from picking the flowers to laying and cooking them to peeling the sheets apart. I really really want to see what you do with these. Of course they would be amazing in a junk journal and any other project. The lighting in the video was beautiful. No worries. I hope you do this again and show everything. I totally loved this video. I'm going to watch it again. Oh and the results turned out beautifully.
Thanks for being brave! Love the outcome!
Great papers, Marta. You can also ask your local florist if you can have the flowers and leaves that they’re going to throw away when they’re past their best. Also, make sure you scan the nicest papers so that they’re there for you whenever you want them. Then make lovely, crunchy books from the originals. Nice work xx
Hi!....I'm not sure if anyone has said this but I did eco dying with hydrangea flowers as you did. However, I left the flowers on a separate piece of paper and left them to dry out....result absolutely gorgeous wafer thin transparent flowers....can't wait to use them in a flower journal!! Hope that is of interest to you and others in the crafty world!
Marta those pages are so beautiful!! Wow what another wonderful ideal and with no vinegar. Now I want to run out and buy fresh flowers to try this myself. Seems like the watercolor paper grabs the color better then the media paper as I watched you unveil your beautiful art pages. TFS
Loved watching yor video. Learnt lots and in the spring when the plants, flowers and grasses come out I will have to try your method of plant dying.
I did mine in a roasting tray,with a tile on top to weigh down (no string) for one hour. I then laid each piece of paper with a dry piece in between each one and placed the stack on a towel for a couple of hours. This made them easier to dry and I had the same number of secondary prints as well. Really easy 😊
Jacky’s Journals did you keep the plant materials in place when you added the dry paper?
Lisa Gonzales no I removed each wet sheet and placed it on a dry sheet. No plant material 😊
Wow you're hydrangeas a are beautiful what gorgeous colours have you ever thought about drying them they look so lovely in a vase last ages
Im having such fun, kitchen and bathroom is covered in coffee,tea and coloured dyed papers everywhere.
These papers are so beautiful !! The color from leaves are so gorgeous !! I really want to smell the pages
Beautiful results Marta! I'm so happy and excited for you. I've been waiting for autumn to come to gather some leaves and things from the garden and woods/forest around our home and give eco dying a go, will be my first time as well. My husband built a book press for me and I am anxious to get to use it. I may share on Instagram and Facebook, my results. Thank you for sharing your experience with us, it was quite exciting, I wanted to run out to my garden and get started, but alas, it is dark here in the United States at the time I am viewing your video. Hope to see more videos of your dying adventures! xx
Gorgeous result Marta. I reckon the further into the stack, the more pressure between the pages so the more imprint.
Possibly... I will try. Again tomorrow 🙃🙂
Will be fun 😊💚🌿
Marta, i’ve only just started watching the video and I MUST tell you that I LOVE your garden! We have a very small garden now but at our last house I had a huge garden and each summer I had about 90 containers of annual flowers. Lots & lots of watering! Ok, going back to your video now. Missed you! Hugs from 🇨🇦.
Wow you have a lot of plants - nice garden - awesome papers
Thank you for sharing your beautiful flowers. Love all the colors. Beautiful. I tried eating Nasturtiums and they made my throat swell up. Glad I only tried a little.
Hi Marta - I think all of them turned out beautiful. Will go watch your other videos to see how they turned out. Thanks very much. Hugs 🤗🤗🤗
Did you find the finished dyed product??
How pretty ,,, Cant wait to see what you make from these papers .
Those orangy flowers with the roundish leaves are good! They are edible too, very tasty, peppery🙂 and they keep aphids away
I wish I have a big garden like yours. Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous result! I especially love the delicate blue of the hydrangea flower paper. Yes, I must try this. Thanks for another fun video! 💕 💜 ♥️ 💕
Marta if you loved doing this you would love using avocado dying using the outer shell and the pit/stone.it is quick 20 minute. Bring to the Boil and take off heat. Put all your laces and material in the water and leave for 20 minutes. Dusky pink colour it's so pretty. The longer you leave it turns a brownish pink. I prefer the dusky pink. I have not tried beetroot and and turmeric powder yet.
Ty for sharing hope you try avocado dying it's such a pretty colour. Much ❤ xx
Tuppy :) Hi Tuppy! I'm curious to what type of paper you use when dying? Marta uses watercolor & mixed media paper. I've tea, coffee & avocado dyed only using regular typing/office paper. Thanks! Sharon(on hubbys acct.)
@@sjz356 hi sharon🤗 I think if your using regular paper and it works I suggest any would work. I would boil your avocado and pits first and then wait to cool then dip your papers in. I normally dye fabrics and have since found you can also do this with onion. A bit smelly if you don't like it but the colour is pretty🤗
Tuppy :) thank you ! I have a bag of onion skins. Is that the only part you use?
@@sjz356 Hi Steven I think that will be where most of the colour would come from 👌
For a first try, your papers came out gorgeous! Vinegar really isn't necessary. Alum in the spice section will help set the colors. You just need a little bit. And, as others have mentioned, a bit of metal-iron or copper helps make the colors darker. It does work best when the plants are tightly pressed into the papers.
Wonderful results with just water. I haven't tried it yet, but now I will. You have encouraged me.
These turned out so beautifully. Now I want to go gather leaves! Yes, very inspirational as you always are.
I loved the walk in you garden. Show us when your in full bloom in the future.
Wow! You got lovely results. I especially like the red leaves. Thank you for showing us the process from start to finish. Hope Hannah is feeling better.
Beautiful papers Marta. I think you had great results with just water, especially the Hydrangea.
So beautiful!Never thought of boiling flowers and plants, Would love to know how petals would come out if left to dry after the boil.
So dried I left hydrangea and it turned beautiful indeed. Worth to try 🌹🌷🌻
Oh Marta, your papers are STUNNING!!! I've done this too... mine were OK, quite pretty, and very fun an satisfying to do...some even pretty enough that I gave them away to my best friend (who still loves to write proper personal handwritten letters, and is always looking for unusual paper).....but mine weren't a patch on yours!!! Not all the 'how to 'eco-print' videos I watched on YT got got good results on 50% of the papers!!! I think the vinegar/ lemon juice/white spirit is NOT important as your demo proves, and I decided the rust stuff seemed to overpower the colours and made everything brown-ish. I decided if I want to age the paper I can do it gently after with tea, sprays, watercolour etc... so I couldn't be bothered! Poor sweet little Hannah
Thank you for your sweet comment Chrissi ☺️💜💚🧡❤️🌷
I have peony leaves and and raspberries too. Will use 😊
Your garden is so nice; such a variety! Love your papers!
Nasturtium. The orange. I grow them and use the blossoms in my salads. Yum!
Maremi, this was so much fun to watch! Your pages turned out lovely! Well done!
After watching several videos of this process, I must say your was the easiest! So beautiful!
Love all the paper and are gorgeous. Love the colors. I have been wanting to try this for a long time but haven't. Thanks for sharing. Hope baby Hannah feels better. Poor baby. Teething is no fun.
🍁🎨🌿 Marta, THANK YOU for your very thoughtful, thorough & enjoyable video about your eco dye experience. What great plants you grow! I did see some folks grumble about the mention of vinegar without more follow-up about it (I guess.) But there's already a ton of info out there about the uses of chemicals such as vinegar (& copper, iron, alum, etc) with the dye processes. Seeing as vinegar is really only used to achieve rather specific results - for characteristics you weren't looking to impart to your papers this time - I appreciate you mentioning it as a possible thing, & then moving on. If folks want to learn more about it, there's this great thing called the internet. 😉
THANK YOU also for sharing your social media & retail site links. As a business owner myself, I appreciate the opportunity to quickly access & learn more about the products & items you sell. This YT channel of yours is, after all, a direct line to your business! 🙂
⭐ P.S. I LOVE your videos, thx for All You Do for us!! 😁
Lovely results!
OMG MARTA! WHAT BEAUTIFUL HYDRANGEAS!!!
I have wanted to try this for a long time, but now all my flowers are done for the fall season. I might try some colored leaves though. Thanks for sharing your process...your papers came out gorgeous!
Your papers are beautiful Marta. I have to go out and raid my garden later ❤️
Beautiful!
You are so creative and inspiring . Love you videos. Thank you for sharing.
These look great Marta! I wonder if you could add a few blackberries? They would turn to mush but the colour from them should be great. Thank you for sharing, can’t wait to see them dry 💜💜
I will 😊😊😊
Than you so much for a experience with Hannah and you! Emotional moments! 🌿🍃🍂🍁🍀Bellisimo!
I wish you had used some of those Nasturtium flowers. They are definitely not "Bad plants" as you mentioned. They are edible and delicious in a salad. I don't have a garden anymore so I usually steal a few flowers to eat every time I go to the park. Peppery and good and I love their round leaves like little umbrellas. I haven't done this yet myself but I did use the ink dye method from Jibid Neary and my papers turned out gorgeous. I've used some of them in journals and the rest I just keep to admire. It's a lot of fun isn't it? You have a lovely garden even though you said you aren't a gardener. I'm envious. :)
Marta those are beautiful enough to frame...as they are! Loved the video..hope we get to see what you do with them..
Gorgeous results! I'm so glad that you tried this out using only water and yarn. I've seen other videos, but alot of them use special items that I don't have. Glad to see that this works! God bless, Kim
Hi Marta, I'm determined to get this tecnique to work. I have found that heavy watercolor paper does not work well. Some folks put in vinager, some put in Ritz dye. I'm on my third bath and frustrated some what as I only get a few with good color. The red mapel tree leaves are so lovely, but the color is not there when you removed them. I tried the "Rose of Sharon" flower and it actually boiled itself into the paper. That is really my best one!! 20 minutes to go on this third batch.
Great results! Did you use the vinegar? I don’t know if you grow the deep red geraniums there or not but I had my best results with them. Beautiful job!!
very beautiful, looks artsy have you ever used recycled paper it looks more natural unique
Hermoso trabajo!!!!!!!!!!
Wow the paper's are absolutely gorgeous, I'm definitely going to have a go. Thank you Marta for another great video x
Can’t wait to try this... thank you Marta!
I tried last night and this morning surprise, it's beautiful! thank you for this video!
Beautiful! I can't wait to try that one day.
I just love your garden!
I made some of these papers , but I used watercolor paper and my plants, then a board on the bottom and top, squeezed together with " C" clamps...I also seen a video on them called "Boiled Books"...they also added some dye...I did to..but I did not use rocks in the bottom of my pan, maybe that is why they said use wood..anyway, they came out so beautiful. I love them. Thanks for the video :)
wow! beautifully done! Thank you for sharing.
How funny I tried this for the first time this weekend too before I saw your video! I got some great result too, yours are beautiful! I added onion skins to the water which dyed my pages yellow too. X
Yes, it is a nasturtium and the leaves can be eaten, I think. I saw that you have begonias too. I love hydrangeas since you can get different colored blooms depending on the minerals taken in from the soil by the plant. My mother had different colors on the same plant a couple times that I recall as a child. She had the entire side of the garage covered with hydrangeas. The back was morning glories that were and still are my favorite flower. I was going to grow them inside here this summer, but then did not since I was to be (did it) gone three weeks to Oregon to see my sons and their significant others and my grandkids too, of course. I would loan you my jug of vinegar if you lived close to me. I wonder what kind of difference there would be when adding it to your water. Well worth a try before you can no longer get things from your garden.
Una fenomenal idea, súper, me encanta la idea... 😍😍😍
LOVELY! i HAVE TO TRY THIS.
This was great. I've been wanting to try this for a long time. Thanks for sharing the process with us. It turned out great 😉🍁🍂
So beautiful!
Thank you so much 😊❤😊❤😊❤
I love this!! I can't help but wonder if you had waited until the paper had partially dried before you pulled it apart, if more of the color would have come out of the plant material. But then again, it might have ripped, I suppose...
Success!! Absolutely gorgeous and YES so inspirational!! Your garden is lovely too!!!
Hi! The Nasturtiums flowers are edible in salads! They taste kind of peppery! Nice job!!!
What a fantastic experiment. The paper came out lovely. There is no end to the things you could try. I wander what the vinegar would do?
The plant with the orange flowers is a nasturtium it is a health food. You can use the flowers and leaves in a salad....looks and tastes good.
I love your results!
Magnifique!!!
Le même tutoriel sous- titré en français, ce serait le Paradis!!!
Merci pour votre partage!
Marta, how did you uses these papers? did you do a follow up video?
Super cool!!! Love love love results! I must try this! TFS! 👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗❤️
I hope you show them when they dry! Very beautiful!
Oh, forgot to say one thing about the vinegar and rocks. The vinegar will help pull out the color from the plants you use and set it to the paper. The rocks ate useful for weight but also if you can find iron ore type of rusty looking rocks, they will help add color and pull in and out more color also. Just thought I would give you a little more perspective the wire helps add color too and will squeeze it all tight too to help leech color into the paper. Hope this helps!
the best result I have had is with eucalyptus (gum) leaves using white (clear) vinegar & a few drops of pink or red food coloring....love your results & the joy you got from it
love all the effects
Absolutely gorgeous, have to try this ❤
Some lovely papers , never heard of this way , I’m going to have a go tomorrow as I still have flowers 💐 in the garden ,, . But I’m not going to cook mine lol,,,,👍🌼🌺🌸💕
You have a beautiful veggie garden ☺️
That was fun!! Glad to see just using water worked!!! 🙋🏻😍😘💕TFS
The vine that turned red is a virginia creeper and is stunning in Autumn when it turns xx
I was at the antique market in my town today and I was so happy because I found the same crane scissors you have ♥ good find
Beautiful! Could you use Polk berries for color?
Beautiful ❤️🙏
Unimaginable just amazing
Stunning
You had some great results Marta! 🍁🍂🌿☘️
I thought at first the papers were going to be put over boiled water and just the heat from the generated steam would be what brought the colour out of the leaves, shows what I know, nothing lol :)))
It seemed as if the red pigment flowers worked best followed by the green leaves that were not shiny. I bet in the height of summer when more or less everything is in bloom you could get some great results.
The stamens out of Lily's would certainly dye things but I wouldn't like to try them in a pot used to cook in because they are poisonous, so I believe. If I ever have lilies I cut out the stamen as soon as they open because they have tinted my windowsill in the past when they have been allowed to just drop off.
What about flipping the process? Where you can place the leaves on paper and then colour around them so the leaf print remains uncoloured?
I tried to join the facebook group yesterday but possibly because my profile has everything set to private it looks like I haven't been allowed in.
Marta, I'm wondering if you would have better results, too, if using fresh foliage/flowers rather than ones that sat for a day. I'm guessing you might. Thank you for the wonderful video!
the plant you are picking from at 2:59 is a nasturtium, very treasured in Denmark, flowers are beautiful in salads It is very treasured, not weed :) It's edible :)
This is so much fun love the whole process
Dying leaves and flowers
Hugs Carolyn
Great idea. I may give it a try one day. Thank you.
Also the vinegar may set the dye into the paper and may make the dyes stronger
I will try with. My next go for sure 🙃🙂🦋💜🌹🥀
Great idea Maremi, Love the colors!! Would like to see what you do with them:-)
Chicken soup is a great description!
😍😍😍 i gotta make a book using paper dyed like this asap!