Treat Bags

I recently got these treat bags from a friend to alter and when deciding what to do with them I obviously was thinking how could I alter these with my CI Paints?!?!  As I just love the shimmer of the paints!

The orange bag in the middle, was dyed orange using CI Paint Mango!

And the bat package's lettering and bats, I added shimmer using Coal. 

I thought I would share a fun little tutorial on how I dyed the Ghost treat bag.

My jar of Mango didn't have much paint left in it, so I just added some water right into the jar and used a paint brush to stir it up.

I then poured the contents of the jar into a zip-lock bag, as well as the fabric treat bag.

I then scrunched/smashed (not sure what are the right words to use!) the zip-lock bag trying to make sure the paint covered the entire treat bag.


I took the treat bag out, when I thought it was completely covered:

I was already very happy with the results, just look at the shimmer!!

I needed to leave the bag sit for a day to dry.

Then I altered it using stamps!

Finished treat bag:

Fun, isn't it?!?

I used Memento Black ink to stamp the images on the bag, but found that it doesn't completely stamp that well on the fabric.  So I then used  my black Zig Pigment marker to go over the lines and make them darker!

Close-up of the shimmer:


Lastly, and most important.....finish by adding some treats!! :)

In the case of the bat treat bag, I stamped my images on the bag, but instead of going over with my Zig marker, I instead used a tiny paint brush and CI Paint Coal to make the sentiment and bats look better.  And shimmer!! :)

You can see in the above picture that the bat and the "a" in Happy have had shimmer already added to them!

Have a wonderful day!!

Kendra