How To Make A Paint Chip Dress

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DIY Paint Swatch Halloween Costume Guys I am and so excited most this projection because I've finally come upwards with a costume to match my pink hair! And to call back it merely took me three years! Betwixt my book launch and moving this year, I've spent a lot of time effectually colour and paint swatches, then naturally I decided to dress like one for Halloween. If you're looking to add a footling craft and a lot of colour into your costume this year, then this paint swatch DIY is for you! Here'southward how:

DIY Paint Swatch Halloween Costume

Materials

– Rit All-Purpose dye in variety of colors

– White cotton dress (the ane I used)

– White ribbon, 1-i.5″

– Fusing Record, one/ii″

– Iron on letters

– Iron

– Soft bristle brush

– Stainless steel sink or large plastic container (better to exist longer and shallow than deep)

– Gloves

– Paper towels

DIY Paint Swatch Halloween Costume The key to this projection is making sure your dyes are exactly the correct colour so that y'all become a nice gradient on your apparel. When you're mixing upwardly your dye baths, examination the color on a white newspaper towel to go a sense of how information technology will appear on your dress and make adjustments appropriately. Considering this project requires yous to mix colors, information technology's much easier if yous stay in the same color range. I went with all pinks (because duh), and divided my dress into three equal-ish parts: dark, middle, lightest to mimic the blueprint of a paint swatch.

I found my dress on Amazon, but you can use any white clothes you may take hanging in your cupboard right now. Just be sure to launder the dress to remove whatsoever stains or finishes before starting.

DIY Paint Swatch Halloween Costume Embrace your work area with a plastic tablecloth every bit this can get a bit messy. Y'all'll want to work in sections, dyeing from the darkest color to the lightest.

Starting time by getting the bottom of your wearing apparel wet for the first color (only wet the part you lot're dyeing). To go on the sections as groovy at possible, I used the dye like paint and brushed on the color to get a sense of where I wanted the color to exist. From there, fill a sink or bucket with a dye bath and dip your wearing apparel. Be certain to hold the dry part out of the water and simply dip the department yous're working on. Allow sit down for v-10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Drain the sink and and so rinse the dress until the water runs clear. Set the dress to the side and then fill over again with the second colour's dye bath. Dip the apparel again up to the second section. Because the base of operations color was darker than the second color, information technology'south okay to leave information technology in the solution for 3-four minutes; just exist sure the top section is still white and dry. Rinse the dress bottom until the water is clear and dry.

Repeat the process for the top/lightest part of the dress, merely focusing on the height department and then you don't have to rewet the bottom.

DIY Paint Swatch Halloween Costume Once your dress is good and dry, it's fourth dimension to divide the color sections. If you don't want to/know how to sew, y'all can use fusing tape to make your ribbon iron-on. But place information technology underneath the ribbon and iron for about half-dozen-10 seconds. Work your mode around the dress until complete.

All that'south left to exercise is add together the letters for the names of the paint. I used the colors associated with the dye, but you lot can name them whatever you want.

DIY Paint Swatch Halloween Costume And that'south it! If you lot're looking to brand this a couples costume, have your partner be a painter or pigment brush! If it'due south chilly out on Halloween, you could take this one pace further and wear pink tights as well.