Hello again,
I have made a card following this month's Group of Cardmakers, using the bleaching technique. I have used a scrap of water colour card which I used dylusions Funky Fuchsia and crushed grape spray inks and one of my potluck stamps from Darkroom Door that I bought before they closed down in Australia and recently re-opened in the UK. My potluck stamps are from the scraps, when the rubber had not quite made a full set, they saved the stamps that they could and sold them at a discount.
My stamp comes from the set called Viva la Flora Vol.2 it has a script background which doesn't show on my card as the texture of the water colour card comes through. Stamped in clear ink and heat embossed in black powder. Using bleach-soaked cotton buds on the flowers, I have added a sentiment from Art Stamps Australia.
What I used
White card blank 10.5x14.8cm
Watercolour card (Micador from Big W)
Clear embossing ink
Black embossing powder
Art stamps Australia Sentiment stamp
Dylusions Spray ink Funky fuchsia and crushed grape
I would like to enter this card in:
We Love Stamping 'Spring' We already have one jonquil and anemone in flower, whilst all the trees are still only just starting to get their Autumn leaves changing colour her in Aus.
We are starting to get Autumn leaves in our area, which I fully expect to be overrun with tourists as they change as some of the elegant gardens in our area are cut off after several years of extreme weather has caused damage to the roads, some are required to get permits to enter their own streets some of which are several kilometres long, some people have had weddings cancelled as the venues have had to close to the public, some are used to getting 1000+ visitors each day over Autumn.
That does not include the still cut main highway between Sydney and greater west New South Wales where convicts built the road in 1832 and it has recently failed, almost 200 years and used to transport B-double trucks laden with coal for export or quarry materials for construction. A Blog post from one of the local librarians shows a colourised picture and a story of a grisly murder from 1842,
Caroline Collit's Blue Mountain's Local Studies.
Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful week...
Megan
p.s. Many thanks to my blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!
12 comments:
Your bleached daisies are perfect for this technique, Megan, and I love the background and framing! I went off to read about the road and the grisly murder and really enjoyed it. Thank you for the link. All that and she was only 17 years old! Thank you, too, for inspiring everyone to use their NBUS! (You must leave in a gorgeous area, but I can imagine the frustration with all the tourists!) Hugs, Darnell
That is such an interesting technique!
I haven't done it for years!
Your card is fabulous!
Thank you for joining us at Allsorts!
I love your pretty bleached floral card.
Didn't know DD had reopened in the UK so thanks for the info.
Thanks for joining in at Allsorts using the theme xxx
A perfect CAS floral card for our themes at Allsorts and We Love Stamping challenges, many thanks for joining us at both.
B x
A lovely cas card for your sweet daisies. Thank you for joining in at Allsorts.
Hi Megan, that's a very pretty bleached daisy card, well done. Enjoy your autumn trees if not the visitors on the roads. Prayer hugs, Shaz in Oz.x 🙏🏻 ❤️ 🤗
Your card is so cool by using the bleach. The flowers really stand out as a focal point. Wow, your roads have really taken a beating. I hope they are repaired soon so people can get around.
Beautiful card Megan. The watercolour over your script background created just amazing texture and pattern. Your bleached daisies are so pretty! Great work with this technique. Thanks for sharing with us at Group of Cardmakers. xx
I love the take on the inspiration, a beautiful card. Thank you so much for joining us in our challenge at We Love Stamping. Good Luck and I hope you will join us in our next challenge.
Faith A DT
PS, Love the story of the road, my nephew lives in Sydney, I'll have to contact him and see if he is affected. Thanks.
The depth of color you built with the dylusions sprays creates such a striking base for the bleach work, and the way the texture of the watercolor card softens the script detail on the stamp gives the flowers a really organic feel that works beautifully with the technique; the crisp black embossing adds just the right amount of definition, and the bleached petals lift everything forward in a way that makes the whole design glow, especially paired with the clean sentiment that lets the daisies stay the focus.
That's wonderful. I have never tried the bleached technique it's brilliant. Thank you for sharing at We Love Stamping. Sarah
This is a great example using this technique Megan and I love the contrast with the dark background and the white of the bleached flowers, and the pink mat shows it off beautifully. Thank you for sharing this with us over at the Group of Cardmakers. x
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