It's Lisa's first challenge as a WTUI hostess ~ WT516 Beads.
I've combined it with Vicky's last challenge for January to the CCEE Stampers. Her first challenge for the New Year was to use a bird - I've managed to work birds into four out of five of her challenges .
I've never had much luck in the past with Bleached Out Images, but I gave it a go. In the past I've tried several papers, and fresh bleach. This time I had some kraft that I knew was SU, so I gave that a go - with fresh bleach - and hey presto, success.
Then I coloured my bird with Inktense pencils, leaving some of the bleached card uncoloured.
I rounded the top corners, layered it onto white card and added some punched borders along the bottom for a garden fence feel.
For base - DTP with Bundled Sage and Pine Needles, misted with water, wiped with green chalk pastel scraped over it. Stamped with IO Wavy Lines in Versafine Sepia, edges sponged with brown.
I used some microbeads for the centres of the dogwood and the Primas - and then when I was looking for some leaf sequins I used to have, I found some little glass beads which were a great colour to go with my base, so I gave up looking for the sequins.
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 GMT Views: 2230
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Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92652
Thu, Jan 29, 2015 @ 9:58 AM
Wonderful and beautiful card using the bleach on Kraft technique, Sabrina. It created a lovely color for the flower base and the underbelly of the bluebird. Your further coloring is exquisitely done. The bg blue-green panel is lovely too.
Registered: April 6, 2009 Location: Weyers Cave, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley Posts: 31223
Thu, Jan 29, 2015 @ 10:01 AM
I absolutely Love your bg, Sabrina! Your bleaching looks terrific....isn't it nice you were able to leave some of it uncolored and have it still work well! Pretty flower centers~
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Registered: November 3, 2005 Location: Fairport Harbor, OH-IO, Lake Erie shoreline Posts: 60348
Thu, Jan 29, 2015 @ 12:00 PM
Sabrina, wonderful bleaching. I've not done that in a long time and will have to revisit that technique. It works wonderfully here. Love the micro beads on the flowers too.
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Registered: December 15, 2011 Location: Abilene TX Posts: 11275
Thu, Jan 29, 2015 @ 10:46 PM
Sabrina, this is WONDERFUL! Beautiful coloring on the bleached image, and the beads look fabulous in the center of the flowers. The background you created is awesome - I thought it was dsp!
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