I love fun dish towels. Plus flour sack towels are the perfect blank canvas, cheap, large, and bright white! sounds like an art project made in heaven. Recently I saw the cutest idea to use fruit as “stamps” at Making Home Base
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| Adorable right? and so easy! |
Supplies:
Citrus (lemon/ lime/ grapefruit- your choice)
Paint - I want to use them so I chose to use fabric paint. There are many varieties to choose from. Some sell in sets or single colors. Locally you can find them at
Michaels ,
Walmart or
JoAnn. You don't want spray or puffy but the other options should be fine. Some paints remain more flexible than others so look for that too. Deco Art - SoSoft, is fantastic if you can find it. No heat setting is a bonus.
Cut the fruit in half and let sit cut side down on paper toweling to dry off a bit. Paint wont hold on a wet surface. Squeeze a small amount of paint on an old lid or foam meat tray. tap fruit into it. you don't want a lot of paint or it will "blob" (notice how little is on the fruit in the photograph) test print on paper before stamping the towel. When you have the right amount on the fruit, stamp the towel.
Fun right!? Don't you want to make dozens?
Heat set according to directions on your paint so as not to transfer paint to your clean dishes :)
Take it a step farther and use other items to print or just draw with the paint.
