I love the look of distressed or antiqued looking cards. However, every time I try and duplicate that look it never turns out quite to my liking. I have never tried stamping with bleach before but as you can see..the results are a distressed background with very little effort. I just love it! I must make a few more of these bleached backgrounds before Summer is over. The bleach smell is a little overwhelming and I recommend doing it outside if at all possible. I also think next time I will use a large plate to hold my bleach soaked paper towels as Lisa Johnson did in this post. My stamp was soo large that it was hard to ink up in that CD case size and bleach did spill a little on the picnic table. So a larger plate or something with deeper sides would be better. I was inspired by Lisa Johnson's cards so I cased her. I was trying to stay away from florals because I need more masculine cards in my stash.
Supplies:
Stamps: Paper Trey Ink: Turning a New Leaf and Paper Tray (sentiment). Studio G: label
Cardstock: Craft, PTI Ripe Avocado
Ink: Memento (Rich Cocoa), Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Peeled Paint)
Ribbon and stud from my stash
Thanks for looking! Have a fab weekend! Please come back again!
4 comments:
Hi Shelly, not sure if my comment went through and hope this is not a duplicate?
Your card came out really pretty with this bleaching technique and I like the vintage effect you got here.
PS: I used a small stamp and still made a mess ;)
I tried this a few years ago, didn't like it with just bleach. I think adding other ink is a good idea.
Shelly,
I just love what you did! Great job bleach stamping. The whole effect is fabulous. Layout, color. And I agree, you need a few masculine cards in one's stash!
Beautiful card, Shelly. Great way to show the technique.
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