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Coloring Faux Flowers with Artist's Chalks
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These beautiful roses started out as plain white poly fakes … realistic but just a little bland. So we conceived of a plan to add some color to them with artist's chalks.
We tried all these types of chalks and 1, 2, and 3 were the best! No. 1 is Crayola Washable Sidewalk Chalk, Neon. Yes, Neon! Natural flowers are often radiant like neon.
No. 2 is a oil based set. These flow smoothly onto the polyester and blend easily with a wet baby wipe.
No. 3 is an oil-free chalk set that needs water to spread on poly, but are non-toxic and come in wonderful radiant colors.
We didn't use the others … 1, 2, and 3 worked well enough!
And now for our poly flowers …
BEFORE! Sweet and with so much potenial!
Also, this faux white hydrangea begged for a blend of colors as shown on the natural samples to the right.
And just look at the beautiful results!
We had a good feeling that chalks would work on poly, though we hadn't seen it done before. What really helped was studying real flowers like these below for ideas about where to apply the tints:
We started out by coloring the center of our roses with the Crayola neon apricot chalk meant for sidewalks … and as you can see by the photo below, we chose lots of colors that would coordinate with this scheme, including lime green.
All you need do is scrub chalk onto the faux flower for about ten passes and a lot of the color will transfer onto the surface.
1. Use a damp baby wipe to blend where necessary.
2. Use a damp cotton swab rubbed against a stick of chalk
to rub color into a faux flower. Lime green is your friend!
We used both green and pink on the outer rose petals.
3. We used hot violet for the center of each rose.
Layered on top of softer apricots and pink, it really adds
a lot of sweetness to each flower.
4. Side walk chalk dipped in water will transfer easily
onto the faux petals.
Here are some of the beautiful shades we used for the hydrangea flower. These are oil free colors, so they were also dipped in water before being rubbed into the faux petals.
Rub a radiant color onto the petals. It will highlight the textures.
This deep blue from the square pastel set was fantastic for all the lower petals of the hydrangea. Blended with baby wipes it really looked like a natural hydrangea color.
The neon pink sidewalk chalk added sweet blush to the top.
Notice we used lime green and violets in here too!
The pile of baby wipes which we used to blend, blend, blend.
Ta da! Impressive, isn't it? When ever we walk by the colors really glow but are realistic.
You can use chalk on dark colored faux flowers too! And leaves!
Remember to scrub the chalk into the surface about 10 strokes to transfer the chalk colors.
We liked adding a bit of rust and purple to the leaves to deepen the greens.
Ours photos don't do justice to the results, they really look so sweet and the colors are 'fool-the-eye' realistic!
Sweet color!
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