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I saw a card posted using the bleaching technique to highlight an area of colored cardstock stamped with the word by word background. Does anyone know how to do this technique? Could you use an aquapainter or would the bleach ruin the bristles? Thanks!
When I do bleaching I stamp the image then emboss so the bleach stays inside the lines, then I color with straight bleach and an old used up blender pen. I'm pretty sure you could use the aqua pen, but would reccomend washing it out really well when you are finished. I don't think I would use a natural bristle brush though. You can also put a piece of felt or folded up paper towles in a dish, put enough bleach to get it wet, but not SOAKING and use that as your stamp pad. Rinse your stamps well after use and condition with stampin mist. HTH Have fun....every color cs gives a different look.
Not exactly, though that is a beautiful card- I'll have to try that, too! The card I saw had a background stamped with word by word (su!) in black ink on colored cardstock, I think it was taken with teal. I'm sure the background must've been embossed. One of the words in the background was highlighted with a bleaching technique (it was nearly white), actually it wasn't the word but one of the squares with a word in it that was white.
Anyway, I have that background stamp and have been looking for more ways to use it and I really liked it but wasn't sure what they used to bleach it, I'm guessing from what I've heard so far it was a blender pen but I'm wondering if anyone's tried it with aquapainters or if the bleach would ruin them. Thanks for the help!
One thing I think you should keep in mind when working with bleach -- it deactivates very quickly as it is exposed to light. Bleach is always sold in opaque containers. You can't store it in your aquapainter. It will become ineffective. Just thought you should know --
I usually use a regular paintbrush, so I can't help you there... I wouldn't risk it, because bleach is so corrosive. But I've tried floor wax in someone else's Aquapainter before... ;)
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If you aren't trying to get a very fine point with the bleach, a Q-tip works great. If I want a little more detail I just use a paint brush that I keep specifically for bleaching. Another thing that I have found is that only some colors can be bleached. Before you go to the trouble of embossing, test a little piece of the color you want to use to make sure that it will bleach out.
You can definitely use bleach with your aquapainter -- but I would devote that aquapainter exclusively to bleach and label it accordingly. You can't store bleach in the aquapainter because, as Cathy H said, it deactivates when exposed to light for a longer period of time. One cool thing you can do with the aquapainter filled with cleach is use it with the Stampin' up! spritzer tool. You have to remove part of the barrel that holds the marker so that the aquapainter will fit, but then you just use the spritzer tool to create a bleached spritzed background.
Yup, the aqua brush will work okay but you might as well dump it out and clean it when you are done because it will lose its potency if left in the brush. DON'T use a natural bristle brush. The bleach will eat it away to nothing.......ask me how I know!! The bleach pens do okay but I found that they left a residue for me.
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GinaK uses the waterbrush in her videos. She dips the brush in the bleach, instead of filling the channel with the bleach. That way you can control the amount easier.
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