Oh my goodness I'm so sorry I have been gone for over a week now and on my blogging fest week! I am now six days into the holidays already, time flies so quickly especially when your in bed with tissues and movies. Yes that's right I'm still sick, ew.
Anyway on with the post!
Today I thought I would show you one of my favourite DIYs, potato printing / spud stamping hehe. If you haven't heard of potato printing before its pretty much where you carve your spud to be whatever shape you want and use it as a stamp! You can make wrapping paper, cushions, tee shirts and much more. Today I'm just doing a simple watermelon design because it's really easy, pretty and I just love watermelons!
You will need:
~ Pink paint
~ Green paint
~ A paint brush (preferably quite thin)
~ A knife
~ Paper, fabric, card or whatever you want to do your design on
~ I actually didn't include this in the photo but you'll also need a vivid / black pen
~ A uhm potato...
Step one
Cut your potato in half like this ^
Step two
Cut your potato again as shown in photo.
Step three
Cover the thickest side of your potato in pink paint so that no part of the spud is showing on that surface.
Step four
Press your painted potato down on the paper / fabric of your choice so that it looks like the picture above.
Step five
Once the pink has dried paint a curved green line around your watermelon shape.
Step six
Tidy up your green line so that it looks like a watermelon!
Step seven
Finally, to complete your watermelon, in a thin tip black pen like the one I used or a vivid draw little seeds on your finished watermelon!
Step eight
Now just repeat the pattern as many times as you want depending on what you'll be using it for. I'm not really sure what I'll do with my little watermelons but I might try and make them into a garland, I think that would look really cute!
I ended up cutting mine out, idek why aha.
And here's what they look like!
I hope you enjoyed this little DIY and hopefully I'll be back with more posts later on this week! Do you think you'll try potato printing? What kind of crafty things do you like to do?
Bella x
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