2016 #23 Bleach Faux Tie Dye {by Christine Dark}

2016 Topic 23: Bleach Techniques

Hi everyone Chris Dark here, joining you this evening with a post about bleach faux tie dye and bleach stamping using distress inks. I’ve stamped and painted with household bleach previously onto colour core cardstock with pleasing effects so I was immediately drawn to the theme but this time I wanted to experiment with the reactions of bleach with distress inks which I’ve always loved for their gorgeous colours and unique reactive properties. The finished card pieces have been used in my small hanging for the snowy background, an embellishing and sentiment strip and for paper piecing the clothing of the pencil coloured girl from ECL08 stamp set.

Step One: For the faux tie dye technique use SCA4H Heavy 340gsm Smoothy card and add distress inks direct to the card then spritz lightly with water, the ink needs to be wet rather than running off the edges.

Step Two: Using a small paint brush or dropper dip into bleach and drop onto the inked card and wait for the bloom to appear then add more drops until you’re happy with the result and have achieved a tie dyed effect.

Step Three: For the bleach stamping technique prepare the card with ink and water as before. Pour a small amount of bleach into a container of folded paper towel and use this as your ink pad.

Step Four: Tap the snowflake circles stamp from ECL08 into the bleach and stamp; allow it to sit a few seconds on the ink and then repeat until the card is covered.

ECL08 

As you can see from the close up photograph below the effect of the techniques is lovely and appears quite textural. I found that keeping the ink wet gives the best results having worked on wet and dry ink and also that the thinner type of bleach was easier to work with than thick bleach, I also cleaned off my stamp as soon as I finished stamping.

I’m looking forward to working with other types of ink to see how they react and I hope you’ll try out the techniques yourself bearing in mind that care should be taken when working with bleach…..work in a well ventilated area, protect work surfaces and wear any protective clothing/gloves/glasses that are appropriate as bleach can easily splash. 

Thanks for joining me tonight

Chris

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Thanks for joining us Chris and sharing this great technique, it really does look lovely and just like fabric. The colours you have chosen are just wow! the whole project just pops and is so vibrant. ~Darcy

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2016 #23 Time! {by Alison Hall}

 2016 Topic 23: Bleach Techniques 

Hi everyone Alison (Craftytrog) here. Tonight I'd like to share with you a post about using bleach techniques with PaperArtsy Infusions and Seth Apter stamps.

I hadn't really used bleach as an art product before, so I was excited to try out its possibilities. My project is an art journal page. I hope you like it.

Step One: Using a sheet of 8 x 6 ins watercolour paper, I began by stamping the circles from ESA01 across the page. I used Ranger Archival ink in Jet Black, and dried it with a heat gun.

 ESA01

Step Two: Next, using a water spray bottle, I spritzed the page lightly with water, and sprinkled it with PaperArtsy Infusions in Violet Storms and Royal Blood. I spritzed more water to disperse the colour before drying the ink with a heat gun.

Step Three: Now comes the fun part! I used a paintbrush and thin bleach to remove the ink from the circles. I left the inner circle of the large one unbleached for a bit of contrast. For the bleach, I actually used a product call Milton, which is used to sterilise baby's bottles etc. It did affect the ink slightly, turning it a bit brown, but a black Pitt Pen fixed that.

Step Four: Once the bleach was dry, I mixed a few grains of Are You Cerise and Orange County Infusions with water, and repainted the circles.

Step Five: Next, I folded up a piece of kitchen towel, place it in a plastic lid, and poured bleach over it to make myself a bleach stamp pad. I 'inked' up the stars from ESA02, then stamped them above and below the circles on my page. Make sure you clean the bleach off your stamp thoroughly after this.

ESA02,

Step Six: I mixed up a little Are You Cerise Infusions with water again, and repainted the stars. I also stamped the word 'TIME' from ESA01 with bleach, lightly in a few places, and more prominently in one place below the circles. Then I used a black Pitt Pen to outline the word and a few random stars. Yes, I am guilty of cutting apart the phrase stamp! I make just one cut, so that I can easily put the phrase back together again.

Step Seven: I couldn't resist adding a few splatters! First I used a black Posca Paint Pen, tapping it above and over my page. Then I picked up some bleach on a paintbrush, and tapped spots of bleach over my page. I finished my page off with a scribbly border, and used my Archival Black Ink Pad to ink the edges.

I had an enormous amount of fun, trying these bleach techniques out with PaperArtsy's Infusions. Do make sure that you work in a well ventilated room though, and always clean the bleach off your stamps thoroughly. It's a good idea to wear an apron too! I hope you have fun trying out the techniques, and I look forward to seeing your projects.

Alison x 

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Wow the bleach worked so well over the infusions, those circles really cleaned out totally ready to take new colour. A brilliant one to remember, thanks for sharing. ~Darcy

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2016 #23 Painting with Bleach {by Nikki Killinger}

2016 Topic 23: Bleach Techniques

Hi all, Nikki Killinger here today with a 'bleach technique' post for you.  

I love the effects you can get with bleach; splattering, stamping, or just painting areas out with bleach... the results vary so much.  This is my project for you this evening, I had fun with the lovely Fresco paints, and kraft card with bleach.

Step 1: I used a piece of thick kraft card as my base, and painted randomly in three of Seth Apter’s paiints from this set: PaperArtsy Chalk paints. I left kraft edges showing, and then splattered the whole piece in the same three colours.

Step 2. Take a kraft tag, stamp your main image, from Mini 09 and then stamp again onto card. Cut out and use as a mask, and splatter the whole tag as in step 1. I then took undiluted thick bleach, and painted her face, hands, and a few splatters, to bleach the colour out of the kraft card.

Mini 09

Step 3. Paint some paper flowers, either die cut or pre-made. Mine had patterns on, so I just painted them with the mahogany paint, then dry brushed with the buff. Add some splatters, or bingo numbers with ink or paint. I used the splat stamp Mini 72

Mini 72

Step 4. Start to build up your picture with found objects, lace, string etc. Glue your elements on with a thick matte medium or similar, this way the glue won’t show as shiny over your paint if it seeps out. I also used Mini 28 to add another subtle layer into my background

Mini 28 

Once my picture was assembled, I decided to go back in with the bleach, and add an extra halo around my figure. I also added some to the corners of the tag, to make it look worn.

As a finishing touch I added buttons to the flowers to add dimension. 

I really enjoyed this project, watching the bleach slowly work on the kraft card, taking the colour from the stamped lady's face and hands, and where I had painted round her and splattered.

I also used bleach on a stamp, which has the added bonus of cleaning your stamps as long and as you get it off relatively quickly, there is no damage.  You can't see where I stamped so much as it was with a tiny flower that came in my parcel of PaperArtsy stamps, but it still adds to the background.

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2016 #23 Bleached Flowers {by Kaz Hall}

2016 Topic 23: Bleach Techniques

Hi everyone Kaz here from www.thelittleshabbyshed.blogspot.com, joining you this evening with a post about a Bleaching technique. I really like the effect that bleaching out colour gives, it allows you to add your own colours or my favourite way is to create a monochrome effect.

Step One: For this project I have used a specific black cardstock (this one is available from wilko’s kid section here in the UK) This card stock is black on both sides but if you cut into it, it has a white core in the middle. PLEASE NOTE, this technique will not work on solid black card, it needs that white core to get that cool bleach effect. 

Step Two: Ensure when using household bleach you are in a well ventilated room. Take a wet wipe and dip the wipe into a small dish of bleach. Making a circular motion apply the wipe to the cardstock, the bleach will remove some of the colour. Allow the card to dry completely.

Step three: You can see the bleached card stock along with that white core.

Step four: Apply perfect medium or versamark to your stamp, HP1602,and stamp onto the dry bleached card. Then take some black embossing powder and sprinkle over the stamped image, remove the excess embossing powder back into the jar.

 HP1602

Step five: Using a heat tool, heat the stamped image until the powder has melted, allow to cool. 

Step six: Pour a small amount of household bleach into a dish, now take a paintbrush and carefully paint the image exactly where you want the bleach to work. Leave it to dry for around 5 minutes.

Step seven: Take a wet wipe and carefully wipe/rub gently over the image where you painted the bleach, it will now expose that white core and give a bleached out look.

Step eight: Repeat the on the rest of your image until you are happy with the result.

To finish my project, I repeated the above process and added the moth from the stamp set. I masked off the stamped image and added splashes of Paperartsy fresco paints in China, Bougainvillea, Haystack, zucchini, Snowflake and Little Black Dress. I then added some stitching and some selected words, highlighted with the fresco paints.

This is a really cool technique, which gives a great look. You could also try and wipe over a stencil with a wet wipe/bleach to create some cool backgrounds or like I said before I like the monochrome look but you could experiment and go back in and add colour, just have a play and see which one works the best for you!

Kaz Hall

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Thanks Kaz for sharing your process, the bleach adds wonderful highlights to those flowers and the moth, perfect on images that would otherwise be quite dark. Great tip about that cardstock too! ~Darcy

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2016 #23 Bleached Backgrounds {by Chris Cresswell}

2016 Topic 23: Bleach Techniques

Hi everyone, Chris Cresswell here joining you this evening with a post about using bleach with different media. I love making backgrounds in my art journals and creating quick masterboards when I have a lot of cards to make. From time to time I like to use bleach (cheap), water (cheaper) or alcohol inks to create ‘ghost’ and ‘marbling’ effects but I usually use them with waterbased products. This time I wanted to see how I could use it with Fresco Acrylics to try to obtain a similar effect. It’s all serendipity. Then I played further with the Infusions and Neocolours to compare my results. The goal was to create a variety of Christmas cards and tags to sell at a local village Christmas Fair. 

Having selected various colours of Fresco Chalk paints, I mixed each one with water and bottled them to create acrylic paint sprays. I knew that if I wanted them to work in a similar way to dye-based inks and paints, I was going to need a watery consistency. I also diluted regular bleach with water and put this in a spray bottle – clearly marked ‘bleach’! I started by spraying two or three paint colours across a sheet of PaperArtsy 240gms card (it’s amazing just how much media this card can withstand without buckling!) allowing the colours to blend and drip. Now the trick is to spray the bleach lightly across the card while it is still pretty wet as Fresco Chalks are permanent when dry. I used a cardboard box to spray into, otherwise it goes everywhere. I also had the kitchen door and window open while spraying the bleach. This photo was taken after the first spray. I used Tango, London Bus and a little Bougainvillea here.

I then dried it with a heat gun to a point where it was still a little damp. I lightly sprayed the diluted bleach again, hoping to get a ‘speckled’ or ‘mottled’ effect, but in actual fact it seemed to blend the colours more smoothly. It removed the harsh edges of paint which had been previously pushed back by the bleach, so the result was less crater-like as happens with alcohol inks. Interesting. I played around with various colour combinations; my favourite being: China, Lavender and Eggplant. 

A faux-bleach effect technique I like to use is to clear emboss an image and once paint has been applied and dried, iron it off to remove the embossed ink and leave the primary surface exposed. I’ve explained this in more detail on my blog. Here I have stamped and clear embossed on unpainted 240gms card using JoFy’s mini snowflake stamp (JM07). Once dry, I repeated the spray paint/bleach process described above and when this was dry, I placed the card between two pieces of copy paper and ironed off the embossed ink. Whether the iron was too hot, or it was the effect of the iron on the bleach, I’m not sure, but as you can see it left some yellow-cream patches across the card which I really like. I felt this helped to create a wintery effect.

JM07

Now it was just a case of stamping across the bleached backgrounds to create the masterboards. I used a variety of JoFy stamps for this taken from various collections (JM07, JOFY06, JOFY13, JOFY08) and complementary Archival inks (Ranger: Violet, Forget-Me-Not).

JOFY06

JOFY13

JOFY08

I tried the same technique with the Infusions, using them in different combinations. I knew these would work well as they are water-based and I’ve played around before with bleach and Brushos. I did need to add a lot of water to achieve a painted background, gently pushing a paintbrush around the watery colours to help them mix and merge. My favourite mix was Golden Sands and Are You Cerise. Once dry, I sprayed lightly with the diluted bleach to create a mottled effect. I also created a ‘bleach pad’ to stamp into. I poured undiluted bleach onto a couple of sheets of folded kitchen roll and placed this into a shallow plastic bowl. I used the lovely sparkly flower head from JOFY 38 and stamped into the bleach pad before stamping all over the Infusions painted background. It gives immediate results as you can see here.

JOFY 38

I made several more backgrounds with the Infusions because I like the vintage results! But these I bleached by spraying the diluted bleach through various stencils to remove colour, as you can see here:

Next, I played with some Neocolours. I clear embossed JOFY’s sparkly flower again all over the card before gessoing with the intention of ironing the ink off later. I find the crayons blend more easily if you gesso the substrate first. I also sprayed quite a lot of water to blend the colours before spraying with the diluted bleach. The result is much paler than the Fresco Acrylics. And the ‘burned’ discolouring occurred again as you can see:

So, now for the fun part. I wanted to use what I had made in two ways: as simple backgounds for some JOFY Christmas images; and for paper piecing on top of some of JOFYs images. I started by stamping on some of the Fresco Acrylic Backgrounds and then ‘fussy cut’ around them. 

Here are some of the cards made up, showing the two different ways of using the created masterboards, with added bling, of course.

I have enjoyed experimenting with diluted spray bleach and I like the way it affects the Acrylics. Although bleach can be a bit scary for some, I would urge you to have a go, but in a well ventilated area! It’s very exciting to see the different results you get from using different media. I actually prefer the Acrylic backgrounds but that might be because the colours were so appropriate for wintery Christmas cards. If you haven’t finished making cards and tags, I would definitely recommend using these techniques. You will knock up a lot of cards in no time. I ended up with 40! 

Chris Cresswell

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Oh Chris these blew me away, what a stunning array of cards. Amazingly simple but so,so effective backgrounds topped with great images. I can see how much you enjoyed playing. I hope your Christmas fair went really well. 

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