Checkbook Cover

[JayEhl]

Wow this looks super duper great!   I have a question about your dye process, if you're willing to help out a noob.  

I'm guessing you dyed the whole thing and then applied a resist and then did the British Tab antique paste?  or did you dye just the outer part and protect your carving as a separate step?  Hope I made sense.

Thanks in advance.

~JL

[Fonzarellis]

Dye will go thru just about anything so it doesn't really matter the order as long as the paste is last.

[battlemunky]

I really like your flowers and how they almost wilt. That color contrast is really nice!

[ABHandmade]

Great and beatiful work! And carving, and color, and stitching are pleasing to the eye.

[Fonzarellis]

20 minutes ago, battlemunky said:

I really like your flowers and how they almost wilt. That color contrast is really nice!

 

[Fonzarellis]

22 minutes ago, battlemunky said:

I really like your flowers and how they almost wilt. That color contrast is really nice!

Appreciate it. I have a scrap ton of flower designs I've collected over the past few years. Glad you like em but I have to confess they are not "mine".

[pete]

what dye did you use, and did you dilute it at all?  Just did a belt with Pro oil dye Royal Blue and it came out soooo dark after 1 coat of non-diuted.

Did a test first with diluted and it was so faint that it didn't work for me.

love to hear back

pete

[Fonzarellis]

Yeah it is very dark but looked a little better after finish was applied. I used it straight from the bottle.

[thawk8541]

absolutely beautiful!