Painting with Bleach

This is another card that uses the bleach technique but not one we did at club night. I thought that not pre-warning people about this card may be a bad idea. It is not that messy to do but there is the potential for disaster. To get the petals of the flower (from Doodle This) bleached you need a paint brush and some bleach in a bowl then you just paint the petal with bleach. To make this a little easier I embossed the petals with black embossing powder to make raised lines to paint inside, I was never very good at staying inside the lines so I thought I should give myself a little help. I finished the card off with some Twill Tape that I stamped the birthday greeting on with black craft ink. The craft ink takes awhile to dry so keep that in mind - I ended up with Birthday Celebrations on my hand by not waiting long enough.

We have decided on the next club date as well as a technique - Sunday March 29 at 1pm. There is still some room available so if anyone new wants to come out just let me know.

February Club/Class card

The last club meeting went really well, there were a few more ladies there this time and we had a blast again. Aside from the fact I can't make coffee everything went really well. Here is one of the cards we made using this months technique - bleaching.

It really isn't a messy technique at all and the bleach doesn't get everywhere. To do it just get a folded up paper towel on a plastic lid or paper plate and carefully pour some bleach on it and you've made your own bleach pad. Just like with stamping in general make sure your fingers are clean, if there is bleach OR ink on them your project won't turn out quite like you had hoped :)

I would love to be able to take credit for coming up with the idea for this card but I can't, I found it on the demonstrator portion of the SU! website then tweaked it a little and thought it would be perfect for this months club. We used the Upsy Daisy set and stamped first in Chocolate Chip ink on the Baja Breeze cardstock. Then we stamped in bleach overtop of the image. There is no need to line the images up because you want them to be off a little to get a shadow effect. This one ended up a bit sploched but the ladies cards were more bleached, the way I had intended. The difference was that I didn't have as much bleach on my papertowel as they did. We finished the card off with a strip of So Saffron cs, Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon and a ticket corner punch for the top corners.