50 Shades Of......blue

[EmbossingDieCompany]

I have about 8 colors of Fiebings Dye including "Light Blue"......but when I put it on tooling leather, it is REALLY dark. What is the best way to lighten it.......by mixing it with denatured alcohol? Can I mix the dies to get other colors......ie. red and blue to get purple or red and yellow to get orange? Does anyone have a chart of some sort of ratios to get certain colors? And does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can get small bottles to keep the mixed colors in?

[Cyberthrasher]

Yes. If you thin it with denatured alcohol, it will lighten it up. From there (or prior), you can mix with other colors just like any other medium. I don't have a chart though. If anybody out there has one for Fiebing's dye, PLEASE give it up . That would save me a lot of time mixing.

You can get some airbrush jars to store your color in. I've been using some glass bottles I have that have a glass eyedropper in them - kind of like the old medicine bottles. Something like item #3 here. My laptop wasn't showing the picture when I went to the product page, so I wanted to make sure you saw the right item. You can get them here or Amazon. TCP is a good company for paint and airbrush supplies. If you have an airbrush, they have sets of them with the airbrush nozzle cap on them, but you'll still want a regular cap to seal it.

http://www.tcpglobal.com/airbrushdepot/abcups.aspx

[EmbossingDieCompany]

Thanks for the tip......the airbrush jars should work!

[Cyberthrasher]

Thanks for the tip......the airbrush jars should work!

Also, if you know anybody with a newborn

They're always willing to get rid of all those piles of baby food jars.

I also used some jars that came from some powdered beef and chicken bouillon that are a touch bigger then baby food jars. They're nice because they have a seal on them.