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I was wondering if anyone know about the bleaching technique. I saw a card the other day with this technique and it look very nice. So I want to give it a try but I couldn't find it listed with the other techniques.
Does anyone know this technique and can you explain it to me??
Thanks
The bleaching technique is very easy...you put some ordinary household bleach on some folded paper towels (make a pad). Make sure that it's not soggy...place your stamp on the bleached pad and press into it. Using dark cs (works the best), stamp as you ordinarily would. It might take a few minutes for the image to appear but be patient, it'll happen. You can also use a bleach pen to achieve same results. Have fun and good luck. Hope my explanation is clear enough for you.
I forgot to ask a few things about this technique:
1- Do you clean your stamps as usual or do you do anything different??
2- Does the bleach affect in anyway the future performance of the stamp??
3- Will it affect the image if I stamp on the bleached paper, will it fade?/
I am sorry to ask so many questions.It is just that I want to be in the safe side and clear about things
Thanks
Carolina
I diluted the bleach a little. I used an old margarine container put 2 parts bleach to 1 part water and placed a folded paper towel on it to act as the pad. Then I cleaned the rubber right away. They say that the bleach will ruin the rubber eventually if you don't clean it.
I use bleach full-strength. Wear old clothes in case of a splatter. Bleach will lose its effectiveness if exposed to the sunlight for too long, so don't reuse.
Another technique with bleach is to fill an aquapainter with a bit of bleach (also full-strength), then fill-in embossed areas of a leaf or flower. Embossing first helps keep the bleach contained to an area without runoff. Try on a scrap sheet to see what color the cardstock will turn when bleached. I've just finished swaps for convention where bleaching embossed leaves turned the eggplant cardstock a pale plum shade, then I used pale plum as an accent to the card. Every color has a different bleached look.
After stamping with bleach, condition rubber with stampin' mist. This prevents the rubber from drying out (also if you use rubbing alcohol. Good as new.
After stamping or "painting" make sure to let the cardstock dry completely.
I just have to add - for Christmas cards I used burgundy (non SU) cs and bleached a manger scene - it was a bit hard to control the amount of bleach but the cs turned a lovely shade of gold. So play around to get some lovely effects.
There is one thing that I heard from my upline. She said that regular bleach works best. If you use the ones that are scented (floral, etc.) it has a different reaction and not as good as straight bleach. I have only tried it with regular bleach but thought I would let you know, I know that the scented ones are much more pleasant, but not the same results! Have fun!
Joni
Another thing to remember, if you are using the bleach straight up, do not transfer it to another container first. You are suppose to pour it right out of the bottle or it loses it strength. (Read it somewhere on here.)
I myself have not had good luck with the bleach pen.
To cleanmy stamps, I run it under warm water and then put a little bit of hand soap on it and rinse off. Not sure what the bleach would do to the scrub pad if a little was left on the stamp?!
HTH-
I did a bleaching class at a local Rubber Stamping store and she used it full strenth but after stamping on the CS we put the stamp on a pad of papertowel that had vinegar on it to countact the bleach on the rubber then cleaned it as usual.
Barbara
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I found that the bleach did not bleach the chalk ink but did bleach the dye ink. I also noticed on another sample that it also didn't bleach the StazOn stamped images that I bleach stamped over. Cool, huh!
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What about inking an empty stamp-around cartridge with bleach? Would that work? I was thinking of using this technique with the new speckle wheel, but I'm not sure I want to spend that much on an empty cartridge if it doesn't work. My plan was to clean out the cartridge the best I could after using it, and add more later when needed. What do you think?
Since bleach is a corcinogen and highly corrosive, make sure you don't get it on the metal of your brush, it will begin to eat away the metal resulting in little black or brown flecks in your liquid. Also, I dilute the bleach so I don't have to smell it. I then stamped the image and use a paint brush to apply the bleach to the parts I wanted to turn white. then I used the stamp-a-majig to re-stamp the image after the bleached area dried. It came out beautifully here is the link Gallery at Splitcoaststampers
the snowmen in the upper corner have been bleached and restamped.
make sure that the area you are bleaching in is well ventillated as bleach causes, among other things, resperatory problems.
happy stamping and stay safe!
OOPS I forgot to add that, after cleaning the bleach off of your rubber stamp that you should stamp it into some versa mark to condition the rubber. You don't have to clean off the versa mark and it helps your rubber not to crack and crumble.
What about inking an empty stamp-around cartridge with bleach? Would that work? I was thinking of using this technique with the new speckle wheel, but I'm not sure I want to spend that much on an empty cartridge if it doesn't work. My plan was to clean out the cartridge the best I could after using it, and add more later when needed. What do you think?
Why don't you try it the way Aileen (#5 in the thread) recomends. You can do it with a wheel and the handle but with out the cartridge and that way you don't have to maybe ruin a cartridge if the cartridge idea doesn't work!!
When I first started using bleach, I didn't have an aqua pen and used a regular sable brush to 'paint' inside embossed images I wanted to bleach out. That was a BIG mistake, the bleach ate through the sable and I was left with a stump instead of a brush. Live and learn!!
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I stamp with bleach. I also splatter bleach with a toothbrush and my thumbnail. I have been hesitant to try bleach in my aqua-painter. Will it ruin the Aqua-painter? Do I have to designate one just for bleach? I would really like to try this!
Hi - I also had seen bleach used and also wanted to try it -- so I did with great results. I black embossed the Madonna and Child stamp onto Brilliant blue CS. Using the Aquapainter pen (with no water in it), I dipped the tip into a mixture of half bleach and half water (mixture was in a small ceramic bowl). I dipped the tip of the Aquapainter pen in the bleach mixture to color Madonna's and Child's clothing. It turned the Brilliant Blue CS into a sage color -- making it perfect for me to mat Madonna and Child with Sage Shadow CS.
I washed the bristles of the Aquapainter pen immediately after use with soap and water. No issues at all. Pure bleach will actually eat a hole in material if you leave it on the material, so be assurred that it can ruin other products if left in contact with it.
FYI: I tried bleaching other CS colors (scraps, of course) with bleach/water mix to see if I would prefer another color...gold emboss on Cranberry Crisp, but didn't get the effect I wanted. The Brill.Blue CS gave the whole image one of mystery and night-time: quite beautiful and serene, actually)
I also tried the bleach gel pen (which I had seen on SCS) with not nearly as good results.
Interesting tip: I stamped the words with VersaMark and then used a regular thin-tipped paint brush to swirl on Pearl-Ex (Assortment III, blue-green) and it came out a shiny SAGE GREEN which MATCHED the Sage Shadow CS matting!!! After swirling the Pearl-Ex, I used a SWIFFER to remove excess Pearl-Ex (also good to remove extra glitter!!). HTH!
Another thing I like to do with the bleach technique is to emboss some line image on dark card stock, then bleach out portions of the image with a brush. After the bleach has dried completely (can use heat gun to help) you can watercolor over some of the bleached out portions. It makes a very lovely, unique watercolor.
I have learned a different technique regarding bleach. It actually occurs without putting bleach on your stamps. You stamp with permanent ink, then remove the pigment from the pape, in areas you want with a paintbrush dipped in bleach or a waterbarrel pen, filled with bleach.
I have learned a different technique regarding bleach. It actually occurs without putting bleach on your stamps. You stamp with permanent ink, then remove the pigment from the pape, in areas you want with a paintbrush dipped in bleach or a waterbarrel pen, filled with bleach.
If you have an old blender pen lying around or are willing to use a new one, this technique works really well! I like using the blender pen because I know I won't harm an aqua painter or a brush or whatever other tool.
I have used versamark ink and embossing powder with an outlined image, like Seaside Sketches. I used the Clorox bleach pen, which is more like a gel than a liquid. I dipped the blender pen into the bleach and then colored in the image just like I would with ink and a blender pen. It turned out beautifully!
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OK I don't know what went wrong but I tried yesterday and did work AT ALL.
I wanted to spray the bleach on the paper so it will look like stars.
Well I sprayed and nothing happened. I mean noting , zero, nada!!
So of the bleach fell in my old black t-shirt I was wearing and it stained it AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH
Any ideas???
I found a very easy way to get the 'bleach look' without the mess. There is a stamp pad called 'Castaway" and using it with your stamps, let it dry a few min. and iron with a warm iron gives a beautiful, crisp image.
I heard about the Castaway stamp pad on this site.
Has anyone else used it yet?
I found a very easy way to get the 'bleach look' without the mess. There is a stamp pad called 'Castaway" and using it with your stamps, let it dry a few min. and iron with a warm iron gives a beautiful, crisp image.
I heard about the Castaway stamp pad on this site.
Has anyone else used it yet?
Daisy
I did this recently using a bleach pen thinking it would be neater. I found that if I wasn't careful with putting the bleach on the stamp I would get mosre "cast-off" than I normally do. What I mean by that is the edges of the stamp were apparent on the finished product after I stamped it. They still came out nicely colored though.
Next time I will be trying the paper towels technique.
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Bleaching anyone
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