Coloring My World: Bleaching and Watercoloring Tutorial

I know I've been posting a lot of cards with this technique, and I promise this is the last one. It's just that I took sequential pictures of this one so I could post a tutorial for those of you who would like to see it. I'm still learning about this blogging thing and keeping notes and taking pictures as I make cards is new for me. If you like this kind of tutorial, please comment and let me know if I should post more like this.

First you have to find a cardstock that can be bleached out. I used Stampin' Up Baja Breeze which bleached out almost to white!! Next you stamp the image with Versamark and emboss it with white embossing powder.

I used a blending pen and a little bowl of fresh bleach and painted in each area of the image.

I continued in this way until the entire image was bleached out.

Next I made a palette for the colors I would use to paint with. I put a sheet of white paper inside a sheet protector (to make the color more visible) and then colored on the sheet protector with Stampin' Up markers to complete my palette.

I used a round pointed paint brush, a little bowl of water and a paper towel folded into fourths. I wet my brush, took off a little of the water by pressing it on the paper towel and then picked up some of the light gray ink. I used light gray to paint the entire birdbath. After cleaning my brush, I picked up some of the the darker gray and added it to the left side of the birdbath to make a shadow.

I cleaned my brush with water and picked up some Green Galore ink and painted in all of the leaves and some blades of grass at the base of the birdbath. I cleaned my brush again and used some Garden Green ink to add a little shadow at the base of each leaf. I also added some darker Garden Green blades of grass to add some depth to the grass.