Night Blooming Iris

Hi everyone! Did you see the new videos Gina posted on stampTV? She showed some great ways to use bleach in your paper crafting. She also posted a new technique challenge to use one of the techniques she showed in the videos. You could be the random winner of a GKD stamp set, just by playing along, so check it out!

I was inspired to pull out my bleach to add some accents to the card I made this morning. I used one of the stamp sets from the stampTV Floral Frenzy kit, called Elegant Flowers, for the main focal image.

Here are a few of the details from making this card...

To start, I stamped my image on Pure Luxury white cardstock, using black Stazon in. Then I colored the flowers with Lulu Lavender, Grape Jelly and Sweet Plum Memento markers. I am loving these markers for when I emboss with clear, because the color really stays put when I go over it with my Versa Mark pen. Sorry about the poor photo quality on this one. I didn't realize it was out of focus.

For the leaves and stems I used New Sprout, Pear Tart and Bamboo Leaves. I also used New Sprout to add a little green around the bottom of the image to "ground" it just a bit.

Next I went over the whole image with Versa Mark, then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I sponged around the image with So Saffron, Almost Amethyst and Lavender Lace.

On a piece of Almost Amethyst cardstock, I sponged Lavender Lace and Perfect Plum around the edges.

Then I stamped the branches from Tropical Flowers, using Lavender Lace and Perfect Plum.

To add some hightlights in the background, I put a little bleach on a paper towel, then touched a blending stump to it, then dotted it around on my cardstock. I re-dipped after dotting 5 or 6 times. I could have dipped my stump directly into bleach, instead of using a paper towel, but I wanted to control the amount of bleach on my blending stump. A little bleach goes a long way.

Then I just layered my image panels with some Pure Luxury Black Onyx cardstock and Lavender Lace cardstock.

Thanks so much for visiting. I hope you have a wonderful day!