Cropping Blind...

Not only did I have the privilege of creating the Master Layout for this months Blind Crop at Scrapville, but I also had the great opportunity to run both the afternoon and evening Blind Crop classes. The best thing about creating the Master LO is extending myself to explore and play around with different techniques and products...and this month was no exception.

I wanted to do something a little different so I reached way back into the old grey matter archives (aka stretched the memory!) to a time long ago when I used bleach and stamps on a series of cards. It worked then so I thought I would give it a go now.

This is what I came up with...

Always BELIEVE in yourself

I used some plastic alphas as templates and traced around them to create the title. Once this was done I painted the traced letters with bleach, which creates a different effect each time, and outlined each letter by stitching in a dark blue thread to make them stand out a bit more.

As well as bleaching the title, I also dipped the stamp in bleach and stamped around the edges of the LO. Initially this looks like a big globby mess but once the bleach dries it creates quite a soft and watery effect. The bonus is that it doesn't damage your stamps BUT it does give them a really good clean!!!

I have never been a big fan of quilling but the distressed flowers looked so lonely along the stitched flourishes so I thought I would have a little play and see what happened.

When THIS happened I was very pleased!
Another success story....I hope...with many more to come!

Until next time,

Happy Scrappin'

Sal xox