Hi there. I'm becoming the bubble background guru for my upline group (even though I have only done it once) so I'll let you know what worked for me.
You're starting out with the right "ingredients": glossy cardstock (regular will absorb too much water and curl up), dish soap and re-inker.
You don't need a lot of soap or reinker (although it will seem like you're using a lot of re-inker.) The tricker is to put the ink in AFTER you have blown some bubbles, so it sort of sits on top of the bubbles. (The color does seem to slide down between the bubbles, some colors more than others.) Blow some bubbles, put some ink on, then blow more bubbles while you hold your card stock slightly above the bowl and move it around, letting the bubbles pop on the card - kind of like a ceiling and the bubble rise up to touch it. (Yes, you will look silly doing this.)
You need to keep adding drops of ink. No matter how much ink is in the bottom of the bowl, that won't color the card stock (even if it looks like the bubbles are tinted with color). The ink has to be on TOP of (or within) the bubbles. Move the card around until you get the amount of color you want.
If you want to add a second color, I would do a second application instead of adding two colors to the bubbles, but I suppose you could try it. Also, if you're doing a lot of these (like for a swap), change out the dish soap after a while. The bubbles seemed to get "tired" and weren't as effective.
Nothing worse than tired bubbles! :lol:
HTH,
Julie
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