Copic Markers and Silk Flowers

Mar 17, 2010

These two make a won­der­ful com­bi­na­tion. I picked up a bunch of cheap super pale yel­low silk flow­ers at JoAnns sev­eral months ago. I fig­ured I would use them for some project as their size was per­fect. Well over the week­end while I was putting away, throw­ing out and orga­niz­ing my scrap­room I started think­ing about dye­ing them dif­fer­ent col­ors but wanted a super fast and easy way. Well just then I had my copic mark­ers in my hand and made a note to myself to give it a try once I was fin­ished with my scraproom.

Sup­plies Used: Martha Stew­art Crys­tal Coarse Glit­ter, Col­lage Pauge Instant Decoupage — Glossy, Copic Ciao Marker R22 — Light Prawn, Silk Flower, Paint­brush, Tweezers

All I did was color the entire flower using the Super Brush end of my Copic Marker. Brushed on some Instant Decoupage with a paint­brush then hold­ing the stem of the flower with my tweez­ers I dipped the wet flower into the con­tainer of glit­ter, shook it around a bit to get it com­pletely cov­ered in glit­ter, tapped off the excess and let it dry. It is that easy and only took about 5 min. to make from start to finish.

Now you can have per­fectly matched flow­ers for any of your projects. I hope you give this a try it is really fun.