A Bleaching Tutorial for Papermill

Hi everyone, Barbara here with my very first tutorial for Papermilldirect......it may drag on a bit, so I'd suggest you grab a cuppa before you start reading! ;-)

I know lots of you will already know about bleaching techniques, but for the newer crafters, I hope you find this informative.....

Ink a piece of white hammered card with distress inks or distress stains..... I've used stains.

Cut out a 5" x 5" square with a die.

Make a bleach-pad with a few bits of folded kitchen roll and bleach. Choose your stamp and randomly stamp over the inked card with the bleach.

 Have a well ventilated room and clean your stamp immediately!

On this card I've used a new butterfly design from  

OAK HOUSE STUDIO

With a smaller square die, cut out the centre of the stamped card.

Mount both pieces onto black card.

Mount the small square onto the large one, with foam tape, matching the design.

 I have dyed some silk binding with the stain, and printed a little sentiment onto a scrap of inked card.

Stamp and cut-out 2 butterflies then position them on the corresponding bleached image.     Mount the whole piece onto a base card.                                                                          

Here are a few more finished samples to show how much the bleach 'lifts' certain colours.

White linen card from Papermill
sentiment & butterflies from the lovely Lynnda Worsnop of Oak House Studio

Flower stamp from Sheena Douglas

 Dylusion inks

Sheena Douglas flower stamp & Lili of the Valley sentiment stamps.

Phew, that's it.....I do hope you'll give bleaching a try, it's really very easy.

Barbara.x