Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Bleach meets the beach!

Good morning everyone!

Today's lovely bleach stamping challenge entry was sent in by Lyn Smith:


From Lyn:

"For my background layer I used a Sugarloaf Anita's Stamps starfish, dipped onto a bleach pad and randomly stamped on the dark turquoise cardstock. Once the cardstock had dried I over stamped with the same stamp using Brilliance Pearlescent Orange ink".

"For my main image I used a Ferngully Shell Cluster stamp. I inked it with Versamark ink, then heat embossed with copper embossing powder. I then painted bleach within the embossed area to lighten the cardstock colour".

"My starfish background is layered on top of a light turquoise piece of handmade paper, then another dark turquoise layer then onto a folded card. For embellishments I've added 2 mini Cuttlebug die-cut tags, 'for you' is a SU stamp and 'Dad' is made using 2 different Justrite alphabet fonts. These are tied on with linen thread and a small metal starfish is also tied on".

Fantastic work Lyn!

Lyn also made another card using the bleach technique that I just had to share with you as it is yet another great example of how good bleach stamping looks:


For more details on how Lyn made her 2nd card, check out Lyn's blog post here.

Keep those entries coming!

~Sarah~

2 comments:

Vicky said...

Gorgeous cards Lyn :)

Jen said...

Great bleach effects on these cards Lyn, thanks for sharing them.