How to Get Daisies to Match Your Wedding Colors
Dying daisies to match your wedding colors is a beautiful, creative and inexpensive wedding decoration that can make any ceremony or reception come alive with color. Guests will love that the flowers match the color scheme of the wedding and this decorative touch will look great in photographs as well.
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Things You'll Need
- White daisies
- Plastic cups (one for every 3-4 daises you want to dye)
- Flower clippers
- Food coloring
- Eye dropper
Instructions
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Use the food coloring and a plastic cup to mix the dye to match your wedding colors. For example, if your wedding colors are red and pink, pour red food coloring into one plastic cup and mix pink in another cup by watering down the red until the desired shade of pink is reached. Add water to lighten the color and add black food coloring to darken the color.
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Place several empty plastic cups on a flat surface. Use the eye dropper to place about 30 drops of the desired color into each of the plastic cups.
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Cut the daisies that are ready to be dyed using the flower clippers. You want to cut each daisy's stem at an angle so that it can better absorb the dye.
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Place the cut daisies into the plastic cups. You can place about three to four flowers into each cup. If you want to dye more flowers at a time, add more dye to the cups.
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Keep the daisies in the dye for about 24 hours for maximum absorption. You want to check on the flowers every hour or so to make sure that they do not become too dark. If your desired color is a lighter shade, they will sit in the dye for less time than if your desired color is a darker shade.
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Once the flowers have turned the color that you want, take them out of the dye cups and place them in a vase of water.
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Tips & Warnings
Do not dye the flowers until the day before you want them to be displayed.
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- Photo Credit a daisy image by timur1970 from Fotolia.com
