Ribbon Dying

In addition to playing with microbeads at our last club get together, we looked at some things to do with ribbon, besides the obvious. We started out by dying grosgrain. I won't go into the details of how to do it here, because Amy Rysavy has a great tutorial with pictures on ribbon dying over at SplitCoast. But this was the first time I had actually tried it. Sarah, my 7 year old, helped me experiment with it before the ladies came over. I was amazed at the results! I wanted to try colours that SU! doesn't already carry. We tried the Barely Banana first - check out the picture - it's a perfect match to the cardstock. Thrilled with how our experiment was going, Sarah urged me to do another, so we tried a length of Cameo Coral, and again, we achieved superb results. When I did it with the ladies, our results demonstrated the ribbon dying works, but we didn't quite get the result we were after... Perhaps I didn't measure quite accurately, or maybe with deeper colours, I needed just a bit more reinker, but our Pink Passion looks more like Pixie Pink, wouldn't you say? I am happy with the results overall, and will try dying again in the future, when I'd like a colour I don't have...