More bleaching

Since revisiting the bleaching technique as promoted in Blockheads Paper Arts latest challenge, I have been doing lots of experiments with various card and papers. Some don't have a pleasant effect with bleach... a  muddy, rusty shade emerges from several colours of deep pigmented card stock, but this deep green produced a pleasant gold colour.
I highlighted it with a Sakura Gelly Roll pen in Clear Star and coloured the leaves with a green version. The frame was stamped with a Blockheads background stamp and embossed with Distress Embossing Powder in Pumice Stone. I rubbed the embossing with a little pearl embossing wax. (I'm not sure if that's what the stuff I used is called, but it's a creamy, pearly stuff that I rubbed on with my finger).
The sentiment is from Unity stamps.

Here are another couple of my bleachy experiments.
This one was coloured with Inktense Pencils after bleaching and the embossing is from Cuttlebug.

I added Glossy Accents over the coloured parts in this one and stamped the background with a retired Stampin' Up background stamp.
It was fun!

Blockheads Challenge: Bleach Technique Blog Hop

To Take our Challenge: Visit Blockheads' Bleach on Dark Cardstock Technique to see Leslie Turner's steps for creating a card with embossing powder, household bleach and craft markers.  

Congratulations to Evelyn in Oregon, the Design Team's pick for the $25 gift certificate this month.  Feel free to submit to the challenge even though the deadline has passed.  You'll still be included in the blog-hop and readers would love to see your example.

1. Blockheads Gallery  2. Leigh Snaith-Brunton, Design Team  3. Leigh Snaith-Brunton, Design Team  4. Leslie Turner  5. Birgit/Biggan (guestdesigner)  6. Karen McAlpine  7. Colleen Dietrich  8. Chrissie  9. Val S.  10. Val S.  11. Val S.  12. lada_vl  13. Evelyn in Oregon  14. Anne Temple  15. Paula Snaith-Morris

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