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Wednesday, April 01, 2020

CAS Mix Up April Challenge

Hi everyone.  Welcome to April's CAS Mix Up Challenge.  This month I'm the host and I'm asking you to try .....


I learned this technique from Susan (Cardmaker's Garret) last year at our craft retreat.  It's such a great way to add colour to an image and to the background separately, while keeping the colours crisp and clean.

For the card above, I started by making a Stencil Monoprint with a dotty stencil.  I then took a small paintbrush and a little bit of bleach and painted over my flowers and leaves to remove the dotty background from inside the images.  I blot with paper towel after every addition of bleach so that it doesn't spread where it's not wanted.  Soon I had a white image of flowers and leaves.  You can leave it to dry thoroughly, or as I did, I painted over again with clean water to wash (dilute) any bleach residue.  Then dried with my heat tool before watercolouring with distress inks.

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We are thrilled to have Mac (The Sweetest of Peas), joining us as Guest Designer this month!  Yay Mac!

I hope you'll join us at CAS Mix Up, adding your CAS, bleached card to the gallery.  As always, there's a few video tutorials for anyone who would like to check them out.  Hope to see you in the gallery!






Stamps: Flutterby (Penny Black); Happy Snippets (Penny Black)
Paper:  Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.)
Ink:  Black (Versafine); Distress Inks:  Milled Lavender, Seedless Preserves, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn (Tim Holz)
Accessories & Tools:Mini Tiny Circles Stencil (The Crafter's Workshop), water mister, water brush, Circle die (Spellbinders)

Challenges:
CAS Mix Up April Challenge - Bleaching


25 comments:

  1. This is lovely. I really like the colours and the way the circle nicely encloses the image xx

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  2. The bleach does a wonderful job of removing color and leaving those gorgeous tulips. I love the design and beautiful colors you used. I can't breathe the fumes of bleach so I am just going to enjoy the cards in the gallery this month.

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  3. Beautiful, Loll. Love the purple and green - speaks of spring to me! Great background and great shading on the tulip flowers. Thanks for the shout out to me for the technique!

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  4. Such a BEAUTIFUL card Loll! I love using the bleaching technique (and I definitely have plenty of it on hand right now!) and already have a stamp in mind to use. Love the background and the offset circle for your pretty flowers too! Lovely, lovely card my friend!! Hugs. :0)

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  5. Another really gorgeous card, Loll! I love your color palette and the effects of bleaching is amazing! I also love how you placed your focal point on this card...it's so elegant!
    Hope you're doing well :) Barb xx

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  6. This is beautiful ..... gorgeous colours and I love the stenciling in the background. Thank you for another fun challenge xx

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  7. There you go again, Loll... your brilliance is showing!! How in the world do you KNOW all these techniques???
    It's a beauty, alright!
    =]

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  8. What a pretty Spring card, my friend! Love those purple flowers and the soft stencil monoprint background!

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  9. Gorgeous tulips Loll and I love the way the circle with the beautifully watercoloured tulips drifts off the edge and the stencil monoprint background looks great too. x

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  10. Great challenge, Loll. Such an effective technique. Beautiful watercolouring. Purple/green colour combo is one of my favourite for flowers.

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  11. My Oh My this is gorgeous, Loll! Pretty background and BEAUTIFUL flowers!

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  12. Your removal of the stenciling on your flowers and leaves worked great with the bleach, Loll. I love your painted flowers and leaves and beautiful CAS design, my friend. I still have the cheap paint brush that Susan gave all of us at our retreat to use only for bleaching. I will be playing, soon:-) TFS and hosting this awesome challenge. Hugs and stay safe..Nancy

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  13. What a beautiful card Loll, and love how the background looks behind the flowers as it goes right up to the edge of the image using this technique
    Stay safe
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  14. Absolutely gorgeous!! What a pretty stamp too... Thank you for all the amazing techniques you've taught me...

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  15. Absolutely gorgeous card. I love the soft background and the beautiful purple flowers. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  16. Fresh and so lovely, Loll ... a fabulous colour palette ... and a delicious design! Gorgeous! Stay safe ... hugs, Anita :)

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  17. Just lovely as always, Loll!!!

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  18. The promise of spring on this beauty definitely brought a smile. Love the vibrancy of those greens with that pop of lavender finishes this card perfectly. Great challenge Loll, thank you xx

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  19. What a fun technique and what a beautiful card Loll x. I sure did smile when I looked at your card x. The technique is so useful to cut down on the layers. Thank you so much for inviting me to be your guest designer, which I am still thrilled about x. As always I have learnt so much from this creative and fun technique x. Stay safe and well my friend x.

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  20. Beautiful Loll, love that colour combo and your circular off edge frame. great challenge :)

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  21. I hadn't thought to use bleach this way, Loll, but what a great idea to be able to stamp a background without masking the flowers. Wouldn't you know I just did a bleach card for another challenge (down the road so I can't use it here) but I used it to remove color from the cardstock. I think I'll do it again for this challenge.

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  22. CASimply gorgeous Loll. Of course even better in my favourite colour. Hoping the bleach I have in my laundry cupboard still has some kick to it so I can play.

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  23. What a beautiful, springy card, Loll! Using a dotty stencil monoprint as a background is such a great idea.
    I love the lavender color flowers and the way you framed them with a circle window off the edge. Thanks so much for hosting this fun challenge!
    Hideko xx

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  24. Wonderful design Loll, love the colours and the flower image.

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  25. At the sight of your card, I smile automatically. I love the spring bouquet of your flowers. Your whitening technique is perfect, the flowers look phenomenal
    xx

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Thanks so much for leaving a comment. I love hearing from you! Loll :)