Hi! This card was made for today's Color Combination Challenge: Don't Fade Away. Participants were to stamp in bleach onto 1 color of cardstock. Whatever that cardstock "turned" because of the bleach was the second color that could be used in the color challenge. Plus, we could use a neutral color.
I chose Via Red as my card stock color. Why? Because I have VERY old bleach, (over 8 months...), that didn't change ANY of my SU! colors! That's right! They just got a watered down color...BLACK didn't even change! So, I grabbed the Via, and Viola! It turned this Via Brown color! Note to self...go buy some NEW bleach!
I stamped the butterfly and flower in bleach onto the Via Red. I waited about an hour for it to completely dry, and decided I needed to use Mahogany as my neutral color! I outlined the butterfly and flower with Copic Marker that matched my Mahogany paper. Next, cut out the images and popped them onto the base.
I found a SMALL scrap of the K&Company designer paper that matched the Brown and Mahogany Via card stock and used that as a background.
Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92528
Tue, Aug 11, 2009 @ 8:25 AM
Love your colors. Maybe you should hang onto the "old" bleach if you would like to duplicate this look. A "new" bleach might give you something totally different! You did a great job with this challenge!
Registered: April 12, 2006 Location: SLC (Stampin' Like Crazy! hehehe!) Posts: 29991
Tue, Aug 11, 2009 @ 9:03 AM
Is THAT what happened to my bleach?? I tried about 5 different times on different cardstocks . . . NADA! I had to go and buy a new bleach pen!! This flower/butterfly combo looks MAHvelous, friend! Very, very pretty (and you KNOW how I feel about butterflies!)!
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Registered: January 7, 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 42824
Tue, Aug 11, 2009 @ 10:31 AM
Faith, for all your troubles, this turned out gorgeous! Now I know why I didn't try to tackle this late last night when the challenge was first posted. We have done this technique in our stamping group and we found that new bleach is the way to go for dramatic results.
------------------------------ Kathy Stamp n Sip with me