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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Make It Monday #76: Double-time Bleach Stamping

Here is my card for the double-time bleach stamping technique...Nichole has a video HERE.. I used hawaiian shores paper and stamped Lovely layers with bleach, after it dried I stamped over some of the bleach areas with other stamps from the same set.  I used Blueberry sky and hawaiian shores ink.  The sentiment is from a free set that was sent out last winter and it is stamped on vellum.  This was a very different technique.  The first thing I did was pull out a lot of scraps of the different color cardstock and stamped on it with the bleach to see how it reacted.  The simply chartreuse came out a bright yellow/orange, the rest of the colors it turned white like you see in my card, some cardstock was so very light that you could hardly see the design.  I think I would do this technique again, it was really interesting and fun to do!

9 comments:

Marybeth said...

Hi Colleen! I love how this turned out, I think I will do this again too. I almost used this set too. Yours is just beautiful ! The sentiment looks wonderful on the strip of vellum. I think you will love the leaf set, its a great set for the fall. Take care!

Nancy Penir said...

Colleen, your card turned out beautiful. Especially the colors you chose. I also thought it was fun to see the reaction on different cardstock colors. Also love visiting your blog!

Linda said...

Really pretty Col. Lovely colors....

Marjan said...

Sounds like an interesting technique. Your card with it is gorgeous!

Rebecca Deeprose said...

Hi Colleen! I Love the effect you achieved with lovely layers!!! The colors are super and I think your layout is so lovely!

Suzanne Russell said...

Beautiful, Colleen! I love your choice of stamps and colors that were produced. Great job.:)

Cornelie said...

Heart of it but never done it! Nice card!!

Kelly Braund said...

The colors are really stunning on this, beautiful!

José said...

VERY pretty card Col! This technique sounds fun. Haven't seen the video yet.