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From laundry, to disinfectant, to fashion, bleach is a staple in many households; but did you know you can use bleach in your card making and paper crafting? Yup, from stamping, to painting, and several techniques in between, we’re going to share our experiments with you. And if you would like to check out our past technique hops, you can do that here:
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We start with design team member, Gracie.
Bleach is so much
fun... I ruin clothes, I spill it on my craft table. But it makes a
cool effect on cards! I used 2 colors of cardstock - dark blue and brown
with totally different results. I stamped hot air balloons using a Hampton
Arts stamp set with Memento Luxe Tuxedo Black ink and embossed with Whispers
clear embossing powder. I painted each of the balloons with bleach and
let them dry. They blue dried to be beige color and the brown to a
yellow. The baskets on the balloons show the original color. I
mounted them on some Grahpics 45 paper from the "Come Fly Away With
Me" collection I touched up with blue and brown distress inks. The
sentiment is stamped with gold embossing powder and is from the same stamp set.
I added 3 bronze buttons and mounted the panel on a brown panel and
placed it on a white cardstock card base. I used foam dots to pop up the
blue balloon for dimension. Now go play with bleach! ~ Gracie
Next we have Sue.
Closeup view
So, I was stuck
because I didn’t have any bleach. I was trying to figure out if I could
substitute bleach with something else. However, it’s pretty difficult to use a
bleach technique, without bleach. So, I asked my neighbor and she gave me about
a quarter of a cup of bleach. Yippee for neighbours!
I started by doing
direct to paper with Distress Ink – Peacock Feathers and I added Distress Ink –
Blueprint Sketch with an ink blending tool, along the edges of the panel. I
heated the panel with my heat tool to help the drying process. I then used an embossing buddy to ensure the
panel was dry and that embossing powder wouldn’t adhere where it wasn’t
supposed to. I used the small flower from Simon Says STAMP Look for the Miracles
and stamped with the Blueprint Sketch distress ink and then covered with clear
embossing powder. I tried to work quickly
(I didn’t want the distress ink to dry because the embossing powder
wouldn’t adhere). Using a small paint brush, I dipped into the bleach and
“painted” the petals of the flowers and let the bleach sit. I didn’t notice
much of a change in colour right away. However, as the bleach dried, the colour
was “bleached” out. I liked the look. I cut the panel on a bit of a diagonal.
To finish the card, I added a thin silver strip and heat embossed with silver
the sentiment from Simon Says STAMP Summer Garden on a strip of black
cardstock. - Sue
Now comes Tantalaya.
I used the hello lovely stamp set from
Concord & 9th. After I heat embossed the image in black detail embossing
powder then I took some of the house hold bleach and created this simple and
yet beautiful card. Behind the sentiment is a piece of vellum that gives added
interest. -Tantalaya
Finally we have a set from Denise.
A closeup of the green card.
I took some of my card making supplies on vacation with me to make the
panels for this technique. Because I
didn’t want to mess with liquid bleach, I used a bleach pen to add the bleach
to the paper and then used a brush to pull it into all the area I wanted to
bleach. I had a limited supply of paper
and cardstock with me, and found some cardstock worked better than others. In
fact a couple really didn’t react at all or were really streaky, so I threw
those away. When I do this again, I will
test the paper to see how it reacts before wasting the embossing. I used the
same image of a very cool elephant head for all the cards from Unity Stamp Company called Huge
Possibilities. I used Versfine black ink
and clear embossing powder. I used the bleach just within the image and it was
interesting to see how it reacted on the different cardstock. I had to go over the black three times to get
it light enough to contrast. I made a set of cards using sentiments from CTMH,
Just to Say and Altenew, Painted Greetings.
- Denise
Now you’re off to visit with Sandy. Hope you had fun and thanks for stopping by. See you next month with another technique!
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