bleached hand-penned petals

bleached hand-penned petals

Using bleach in Stamping always brings out fun results! This is one of the first “techniques” I learned when I first started stamping 20 years ago – crazy that I have been doing this for that long but I still love it as much as I did the day I discovered the craft!
Regular laundry room bleach will do fill a small cup or dish with bleach get a small paint brush and play! Different colors of cardstock will bleach lighter shades of the original color or sometimes surprise you with a totally different color altogether! Here we are using blending brushes to color on Basic White cardstock, stamping in Versamark and heat embossing with white embossing powder and then painting on the bleach! Simple as that!
Stamped with the large flower image from the Hand Penned Petals Stamp set (#155070) in Versamark (#102283) and embossed with White Embossing powder (#155554 – Basics Stampin’ Emboss Powders)
With Blending Brushes (#153611) I blended Balmy Blue ink (#147105), Pacific point ink (#147098), Misty Moonlight (#153118), and Night of Navy ink (#147110) on the Basic White cardstock (#159276)
Using a small paint brush I painted inside the embossing lines with the bleach.
And finished the cards…here are two different examples!
2021 – 2022 new in colors and the rip and flip technique

2021 – 2022 new in colors and the rip and flip technique

Introducing the new 2021-2022 In Colors – every year Stampin’ Up! issues 5 new on trend colors for a two year stint in the Stampin’ Up! color family line! And this year the colors work really well together! Pale Papaya, Polished Pink, Fresh Freesia, Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen!
The coordinating In Color Line is available in Inks, Re-inkers, Cardstock, Markers, Stampin, Blends, Gorgeous ribbon and In Color Jewels that are so so pretty!
One of the new sets is a beautifully designed line art flower stamp and coordinating die set called Hand-Penned Petals, it also includes lovely matching Designer Series Paper. So I made a card in all of the new In Colors using the Rip and Flip technique and this card making technique could not get ANY easier! Cut a 12″ x 12″ DSP sheet at 4″ and then again in half at 6″. Rip across the long end of the paper and flip one half over! That’s it adhere to the card add a sentiment and voila you are done! Here are my Rip and Flip card samples!
I cannot wait to show you these In Colors in person after May 4th when the catalog goes live!
Hope this fun and easy technique inspired you to go and create some art of your own – one stamp at a time!
Happy Stampin’,
Natalie