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Bleach Techniques

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If you have an old blender pen, it works perfect for the bleaching technique! When you are doing the bleaching technique and after you stamp the image, here's what you do if the image doesn't bleach out the way you like it or completely.

Use an old dried out blender pen and dip it in the bleach, then go over the parts of the image you want bleached more or the parts that didn't bleach. Works great and you have good control of the stamped image as the blender tip is small enough to "write" on your image with the bleach!

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I too, went out and bought one (a bleach pen) when they came out. However... I never planned on using mine for stamping.

They are absolutely fantastic for T-shirt art. Get a nice dark colored t-shirt, and draw freehand shapes on it. Let sit until it's lightened to your satisfaction, then wash it well. The designs will spread a bit, but spirals, circles, dots, triangles, etc. work real nice. You can even combine this with stamping, draw shapes that will go with any bold stamps you have, or just a big solid area you've masked off. Bleach out your area(s), wash and dry, then stamp, rather than layers of light paint on a dark shirt and stamping over that.

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I used my bleach pen today with great results. I wanted to bleach some black cs and square envys and make an envy book, but it was raining (couldn't even use the back patio). So I took the bleach pen and just drew some squiggles on the cs. I took another sheet and placed it on top of the one with the bleach and smushed (technical word) them together. Since the bleach pen is gel, it didn't get all over the place and me. When I pulled them apart I had areas that were bleached copper and areas still left black so that I could still stamp on the black or paint something with metallics. I did the same thing with the envys. When I use my spritzer on cs I tend to overbleach and the whole page comes out copper. It's a great look, but sometimes it just doesn't look unique enough.

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