Today's theme is April Showers . . . I decided to re-visit a technique I had learned 20 years ago to make a rainy bg by simply spritzing bleach over a piece of cardstock so outside I went . . . The biggest problem with this technique is that you never know what color the underbase on the stock is until the bleach dries! The first 2 blues I tried turned GREEN - The next one was a rusty red - hmmm - I've heard of red tides but never red rain . . . Finally I spritzed a purply blue that actually left a soft shade of grey - Yeah! mist accomplished. Inside I went to stamp the jonquils into my mist & color with prisma pencils. I also stamped the sentiment into the mist and embossed with gold BUT it was TOTALLY lost. In order to salvage the card (and the time I had put into it) I stamped the sentiment again on some white scrap stock die cut a simple wavy border and mounted over the botched area. I hope this will still qualify as a CAS card even though I had to do more layering than planned.
Date: Monday, April 3, 2017 GMT Views: 1064
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Registered: March 5, 2007 Location: Coatesville, Pennsylvania Posts: 44981
Mon, Apr 03, 2017 @ 10:52 AM
Wonderful, wonderful technique! I really looks like a rainy day! So perfect! All you hard work surely paid off! Love the gold embossed sentiment too! Stunning!
------------------------------ Lesley Proud Fan Club and RAK Member He is the GOD of the Impossible!!!! Kookzi the Rookzie Punchkateer It is by the grace of God that we take our next breath.
Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105275
Mon, Apr 03, 2017 @ 10:56 AM
Well done!! That's definitely an outside technique!
------------------------------ Anne HarmonFS154, QFTD58, PROUD FAN CLUB MEMBER (photo of our Great Granddaughter Elise, just 6 months old) and me, even older.
Registered: August 14, 2007 Location: Beautiful British Columbia Posts: 30863
Mon, Apr 03, 2017 @ 11:45 AM
Oh wow....worth the effort.....I love your rain. I haven't used bleach for a long time, but I remember that problem of never knowing what you were going to get. Lovely card!
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Jo
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...sure it�s got a catchy beat, but can you stamp to it?
life is something that happens only when you run out of cardstock
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28936
Tue, Apr 04, 2017 @ 1:01 PM
Very true - love that sentiment and your 'black magic' challenge is so pretty and clever!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6