I experimented with colouring in with bleach quite a bit before my presentation to the demonstrators at the Stampin' Up! Sydney Regional Training. I discovered that using bleach is not an exact science!
This is a great example: I decided to colour in the kangaroo from the 'Build a roo' stamp set with bleach(I love this set!) I chose chocolate chip card and the kangaroo was so easy to colour with the bleach - it gave him a nice tan colour.
Then I decided that I would like to use my new Circle Scissors Plus ( A NEW TOOL AVAILABLE IN THE SUMMER MINI CATALOGUE FROM 1 DECEMBER!) to cut out my kangaroo. But I had used too small a piece of card. I opened a new packet of chocolate chip card and coloured the image again. This time my kangaroo turned GREEN! Certainly celery to be precise! I still used him to create a card:
Here is a close up of my certainly celery kangaroo:
This illustrates that you need to experiment with using bleach with cardstock and choose your colours carefully.
Some card colours react better than others with bleach. Some are consistent performers like pretty in pink and sage shadow. While other colours are temperamental like chocolate chip. Some colours just don't like to join in the fun at all, like pink passion, cameo coral and so saffron.
To assist you in choosing card colours that react well with bleach I created a colour chart of all of the stampin' Up! cardstock colours and stamped them with bleach. Check back tomorrow to see my chart.
Happy Stamping!
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