Happy Tuesday!
Is it Spring yet?
That's all I have to say about that.
Short and sweet today, as I need to get cracking and set up for class tonight!
As of Sunday night I still hadn't settled on a technique. I had a few in the back of my mind and played around for an hour or so before I decided we'd be learning the Bleaching Technique. Here is the card we will be making:
I've wanted to do this technique for quite a while now ... like a few years! ... but to be honest a) using bleach in a carpeted room scared me and b) I didn't have a stamp set in mind that would work well with this technique. I had seen the technique done by adding bleach to a baby wipe to make a bleach-ink pad of sorts. You stamp your stamp in the bleach and then on your card stock. Meh. I tried it - didn't get great results. Sunday I switched it up a bit and came up with the card above. I stamped the orchid image from Happy Watercolor (have I convinced you to buy this set yet? I've used it, what, 5 or 6 times already in the last few weeks??) in black Staz-on and stamped it a few times on Basic Gray card stock. I then punched out (5) 1" squares and matted them with black postage stamp punched shapes. THEN I went in with bleach. I used an old blender pen (that is now reserved for bleach!) - dipped the pen in the bleach and "colored" each flower. When the bleach dries the grey turns to a vanilla color. I stamped the sentiment (from A Dozen Thoughts) in Staz-on and added a pearl to one of the orchids and I was done!
I had a lot of fun experimenting with bleaching different colored card stock. My favorite was the Elegant Eggplant - the bleached color is a pretty pink ... not what you would expect!
This card was my first attempt ... but I couldn't "nail" the layout ... and it's didn't make the cut. Thought I'd share it anyway so you can see the whole bleached image:
So there you have it - a new technique to play around with!
I'm off to cut paper now - pop in again soon - until then - Have a stampy day!
Tam
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