Brown Eggs and Onions

Have you ever seen a color that you knew immediately you had to have some of it? Well I did. It was brown eggs. Check them out.I pondered and pondered--I knew I couldn't mix a color as beautiful as the Creator had made. And then I saw that same lovely color in the skin of yellow onions. Being the person I am I began to save the dried colorful skins of yellow onions. What about purple onions? I saved those as well until I had a large accumulation of both colored skins. More things I saw filled with color---coffee and carrots.

I set about boiling the onions, yellow and purple. I cooked fresh carrots for dinner and saved the liquid and we always have coffee around here. Once the liquids were cooled I crumpled my 67# cardstock and soaked it in these different liquids. Once the paper was saturated, I removed it and smoothed it out to dry. Oh, what fun!



The photo shows the colors I came up with after they dried. Starting at the top they are coffee, yellow onion skins,purple onion skins and the liquid from boiled carrots.
None of which is the colored of brown eggs, however I decided they were pretty unique.

For this project I used the onion dyed paper and stamped ferns and flowers and painted with my Stargazers Watercolor palette.



I then stamped the butterfly from our set Butterfly Joy and painted it with the Stargazers. Cut it out and used pop dots to adhere to the onion paper, Glue this to a 4.25 X 5.50 cardstock for a card.

Have fun and think about what you can make with the colors of nature.