How To Throw A Funtastic Tie Dye Party!

Hi! I'm Rina, guest blogging from Mothership Scrapbook Gal!  I recently hosted a tie dye party using the Tulip One-Step Tie-Dye Party kit and I wanted to share my experience with you as well as offer some tips for hosting your own successful tie dye party!

Throw a Tie Dye Baby Shower

We had so much fun at our tie dye baby shower and we wanted to share how all the elements fell together for our baby shower for our iLoveToCreate co-workers!  We set up this pretty display in our auditorium, but we know you can adapt these ideas to work at your next shower!  We wanted the colors to be bright and fun, so we used our Tulip One-Step Tie Dye to make our party super festive and fun!  All our decorations and elements (minus the yummy cake balls and punch) were created using the dye!

Here's a cute behind-the-scenes video we made for the occasion that will show you even more details and fun had at our party!

Check out all the fun eye candy at our event!   Our pretty paper umbrellas lined the table!

And the adorable baby diaper cake lined with tie dye pom poms, tulle, and a glittered B for baby stole the show! Here's a great tutorial from Wikihow showing how to make a diaper cake. We simply added swatches of tie dye fabric to ours, along with fuchsia tulle and pom poms we made!  Find the tutorial for the t-shirt pom poms here.

Our tables were adorned with large tie dye fabric swatches over white tablecloths with matching tie dye onesies and bouquets as accents.  Designer Pattiewack paired tie dye onesie roses inside the fresh flowers! Learn how to make the onesie roses using Tulip One-step Tie Dye here.

Here;s a picture of the pretty roses up close on the tables. 

Mom-to-be Lauren Binci holds up some fun tie dyed onesies that we gifted to her and the other expectant parents! We also had a tie-dye onesie-making station where all the employees made baby bibs and onesies with the Tulip dye!  Everyone had a blast (especially the guys who had never tie dyed before)!

Sam and his wife Michelle are expecting a baby girl in the fall!  That pink onesie, sure is going to come in handy!

Our resident cupcake and sweets maker Stacy made these colorful cake balls for the occasion!  They were to DYE for!

We even made this fun tie dye baby shower invitation for the event that is a free download for you to use at your tie dye baby shower!  Download it here.

Find all our great project tutorials for the tie dye baby shower event here:

Tie Dye Onesies Station

Tie Dye Onesie Roses

Tie Dye Paper Umbrellas

Tie Dye T-shirt Pom Pom Balls

Tie Dye Your Summer + Enter to Win an iPad/Tulip Prize pack

We are so excited about our brand new Tie Dye Your Summer web site! The site is packed with tons of cool inspiration, step by step instructions, videos, and giveaways each month.  It's the one-stop place for all things TIE DYE and we hope you'll join us for the fun!

Here's just a few of the many things you will see when you visit the site...

We're running two awesome Tie Dye Giveaways!  For both giveaways, you can win an Apple® - iPad® mini Wi-Fi - 16GB with Tie-Dye Skin and supplies to throw your own Tulip® One-Step Tie-Dye party. You can enter in the form below -or- enter using Instagram.  All the contest rules and details can be found on our giveaway page!


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Click here for Tons of how-to's and inspiration.  Learn the basics of tie dye (prepping, rinsing, and washing) as well as all these fabulous techniques. The instructions are shown in clear, easy-to-follow photos along with lots of projects using that technique. And we've also compiled an informative list of frequently asked questions tie dye questions that will make your project the best it can be.

You might just want to try out the spiral technique!  So much of the fun of tie dye is the "MAGIC" reveal when you see the how your dyed item turned out!

Learn all about the history of our Tulip One-Step Tie-Dye Van. You'll also find info on our Tie Dye Tour down the California Coast this summer along with dates and photos of our appearances. Learn more on our Follow the Van page.

Planning a tie dye party?  We have a great video and detailed steps to plan a fun afternoon with you and your friends! Click here to find all the Tie Dye Party Planning details!

And finally, on our product page, you can see our brand new Tulip® One-Step Tie-Dye packaging!  It's so eye-catching and fun.

We hope you'll take a look at the site and that it will inspire you to TIE DYE ALL THE THINGS! 

How to throw a TIE DYE party!

Last month, we hosted a fun tie dye party in our backyard for some super creative local high school girls. They had a blast making everything from shirts to shorts to socks. They tie dyed everything, including their hands! Here's a fun guide on how to throw a tie dye party of your own. Tie dye is a great team-building activity to do at slumber parties, birthday parties, and church and club events. Here's how you can plan to tie dye at your next event!

How to throw a TIE DYE party

What you need (based on 6-8 guests):
– Tulip Tie Dye Activity Kit (the one shown available at Walmart; other Tulip One-Step dye kits are available at your local craft store)
– 100% natural tshirts, socks, jeans, shorts, etc. (you can supply or have your guests bring their own)
– Extra items to dye if guests forget (optional)
– Plastic bin filled with water for wetting your clothes before dyeing
– Large plastic tablecloths
– 1 or 2 plastic or metal buckets – filled water pitchers
– Snacks and drinks (the more colorful, the better)
– Folding tables
– Weights for weighing down surface covers
– Gallon-sized plastic bags
– Paper towels
– Wet wipes

Swimming in a Sea of Tie Dye

We were super busy late yesterday afternoon knocking out over 100+ shirts in our studios! Why did we make so many shirts in the same style and colors? Well, you know how you see the shirts on display in your local craft store? A lot of times we dye, paint, glitter, and spray them either here at our studios or our employees or freelance designers take them home to do them.

No joke...in the past month, over 5,000 shirts have been created and shipped out! Talk about a lot of work!! The shirts you see in stores don't magically appear, they take a lot of effort and coordination. We hope seeing them on display inspire you to pick up a box of tie dye or a bottle of paint so you can make your own!

Here's our team hard at work and a few in progress pics! It's much more fun (and faster) when we work as a team!



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