 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to stamp using bleach. So something I never ever thought was wow yeah I just, something that never crossed my mind but I caught a tiny bit of France Martin she'd done alive recently and I saw in the comments it said I've never thought about using bleach before so I went back up again and there she was stamping with bleach and I just thought wow this is amazing so I went on to YouTube and I put stamping with bleach and there's tons of tutorials. The oldest one I've seen is by Gina K so that was the one I went to because I figured if Gina K can do it and she says it's okay to do then I'll go with that I'll believe it so I watched her tutorial and it is it's just stamping with bleach. So I'm going to just go through a few dos and dos and kind of safety measures for my own peace of mind. First of all this is an adult only crafting so if any of you are young children watching because I know some of the the younger people do watch my tutorials or a minor I don't want to sound patronizing but do not do this and if you've never used bleach before please do it with somebody else. Wear protective clothing wear gloves it's a chemical and it will burn your skin if you do not wash it off and yeah it's just not very nice and the smell can be overpowering as well. Make sure you got your window open make sure you've got a fan on so I've had my air conditioning on and my window open and you don't want to do it for a long amount of time okay so yeah just take those kind of things into account wear your old clothes don't wear your vest obviously in case anything does splash anywhere it shouldn't but just be careful. Make sure you've got a good I've got a self-healing mat here use a glass mat but don't do it directly onto your table you need to make sure you've got something between your table and what you're working with just so it doesn't obviously damage any of your nice wooden tables for example. Also when you're using the bleach you want to use a thin bleach so don't use the thick glupy bleaches which I know are very very common in the UK and mum I know you're going to love this tutorial because you're probably going clean afterwards with the rag that she uses so she's the bleach queen we called her so anyway so I'm going to get to that bit in a minute but first of all I just want to show you the effects that you get now every body's will be different every card is different that people use the time that you leave it for it will carry on developing so the something you stamped on one day when you go back to it in the next morning it could be very very different again if you dry it with a heat tool you'll get a different effect if you let it dry naturally there's so many different things so do play around with it because I've had a real you know I've enjoyed doing this and you'll see that in the tutorial a couple of things I've made so I've made a little gift bag here this was just me stamping onto some black card and you can see the different kind of effects that you get there now I use the heat tool and you can see what's gone really really almost much much lighter there that's because I dried it with a heat tool I imagine if that was left then it would be more consistent I like drop some droplets of bleach on it as well but yeah I just done that little fold flat gift bag there with some little die cuts and a little note there so that was just something I done then I've got these these Nuva drops are still drying but I've done this background here so this was on orange card that stamped in bleach these do not smell either so if you're worried and thinking oh I don't want to give someone a card with bleach on it obviously don't give it to them maybe like half an hour after you've done it but it doesn't smell I can't smell any bleach at all so I've done that little thank you card once those Nuva drops they're dry clear but that looks really quite nice I talk you through that in a minute but also the stamp you choose you want something that's quite a block stamp you don't want something that's really detailed because the detail would just get lost so again just play around also with the stamp you want to use a rubber stamp and not a photopolymer that's not to say you can't use photopolymer and some people have said they would but the problem is you're not when people aren't sure on the longevity of the photopolymer once the bleach has gone in if it's seeped any further into it even though you rinse them straight after eventually it just may end up just completely making them turn to mush and break apart basically whereas the rubber ones they are so durable and the rubber I mean rubber's used in our day to day you know chairs and all sorts of things that we have around the house and they go through a lot of tension and wear and we clean them with chemicals and all sorts of stuff so the rubber is okay you do just need to make sure you rinse it straight away that's another card I've done there so you can see this is almost got like a blue yet that was stamped on this green so again very very different this one I stamped a sentiment so this is stamped in bleach with much love and thanks and then I stamped these two you can see that one there's gone a bit more it's kind of like bled into each other but it still looks nice and I've just finished with some dried flowers on that one and then that's the same stamp again there now I have got other stamps but I was just this is me testing it this is me playing around so I'm certainly going to be trying it some more I haven't finished this card but it was just to show you there how good that looks so you want a block image I would say something that's not got a lot of detail in it okay so I think I've gone through all the safety measures and yeah let me show you what I've done okay so I've got a Tupperware container here with a microfiber cloth which already does have it on there because I have been playing but basically I've just folded up the microfiber cloth just so I can lift a little bit up here you can see how it's all folded there just to create like an ink pad and then you just want to saturate the bleach over the microfiber cloth or the kitchen roll if you're using kitchen roll I maybe suggest about six sheets folded up to a similar kind of size like this just so you've got quite a pad okay and then you just want to cover and I do top this up as I go okay I found when it's at its most really wet and saturated that's when I get the best effect so make sure I've got my window open so apologies if it is a bit loud and I've got the air conditioning on as well because I don't want these fumes I don't want to be inhaling it constantly I've got my heat gun here just to speed up the process if you need to just to show you different ways and I've got wet wipes to quickly wipe my stamps just to get off the initial bleach and then I will rinse them and clean them afterwards so I'm just going to pop that to one side and I'm going to bring in some dark card so I've got some dark navy here I find that you get the best result from darker cardstock however there are some lovely effects that the lighter cardstock gives you as well so play around it's really really fun and I do enjoy I have enjoyed doing this so excuse me I'm just going to bring in this stamp here so you want a stamp that's quite a what's the word bold surfaced image a wide surface image with not too much detail if you've got too much detail what will happen is it the bleach will just keep bleeding and you'll lose all that detail whereas if you've got a block image that's the word I was looking for then they these come out this has been coming out really well so basically I'm just going to pop it in my pad and just ink it up that's what you're doing just imagine it is an ink pad and what you want to make sure you're doing is not pushing the the the stamp into the bleach so that it's going over your rubber and into your actual foam because that's obviously where it's glued and the bleach could obviously that's the the worst thing that will happen so it's all linked up and I'm just going to come down here and some results are instant and the color really is unusual so that one's going to take a bit while you can see it's starting so mine are pretty saturated but like I said I find with a with a image like this you get a really good effect and everyone is different every card stock is different just bleach different bleachers believe it or not as well you know some of the things that I've researched you and from the way it looks now you could come into it tomorrow morning and it looked completely different so yeah it's um it's pretty pretty cool so I'm just gonna fill this piece here because I can use this then to make a nice card I'm overlapping as well because I've got my self-healing mat there so I've got a safe surface you can see how much it's changed from the bottom one there which they've now gone actually quite brown now they may well stay like that but like I said a lot of them do change significantly and that one there we go I think that's about right so now I'm going to just wipe off the excess with my cloth and I'm going to go rinse this now under the sink okay so that's now all completely cleaned off all right um what I'm going to do now is use the heat tool on it just to heat so I'm just going to rub away some of the bleach I am giving my mat a good clean though so and then afterwards with this I'll go and give the bathroom a clean okay so just grab your heat gun and you can see where it needs to dry because it will obviously get quite light in the see where it's darker in the middle there and then when I've just applied the heat so you don't need the heat tool you can just let it dry naturally I'm just doing it for the video just to see if it is going to change even more I think that's it for the minute but that's not to say that it's going to develop more overnight but how cool is that that was a plain piece of a navy card stock now completely transformed so let's try this pink card stock here and I'm going to use a different um stamp so let's try this one I don't want a big block let's take this one off and use that one there okay again bring it up put one right in the middle there I like to hold it for a couple of seconds and already I can see so again this is a block image and they're the best ones for this it's unusual because it's bringing out the detail in the I've used this on another piece of card stock which I'll show you in a minute and it was completely different whereas this one has it has still shown the detail when I bring it up closer to the camera and you'll know when you need to apply more bleach to your kitchen roll or your cloth because your images will start to become a bit see there they've got some gaps in them see actually now this is probably too full although it's still it is still a nice effect because as it's developing more and more it's now losing that detail can you see it's just starting to turn into a bit of a blob but it's a nice shaped blob so I'll just finish down here so that's why it's worth just playing around with the stamps because everyone is going to give you a different effect so again take the excess off and then I'm going to go in rinse that okay so if I just bring that up there you can see it still does look nice it's you know it's just such a cool effect so that's that one and then I want to try on some red try on this one here and I'm going to use this stamp here so again I'm just going to pop more bleach like I said before make sure it's liquid bleach not a thick bleach has to be a liquid bleach so this hasn't gone white like the other ones so this might be more of a faded look so now it's starting to turn can you see the edges there I think my cloths are a bit too wet now so it's just finding that balance each time some of them are a bit too splodgy work from the edge there a bit more so I'd say this on the red is a bit more subtle again I'm just going to get that dried off okay I've just put my heat tool on it a bit but you can see there the different stages of it developing and again very very different look so it's a lot more ready orange that one's just gone really cream really bright this one is changing again so it was quite brown but now it's going quite an orangey colour so I'm sure that's going to change up again and then some other ones that I've done so that flower one here so you can see it was quite a splodgy but look how it's come out on the craft card all it looks like is that it's just a wet it looks almost like it's got versa mark on it like the you know the watermark that's what it looks like and I really really like that it just looks like a patterned craft card so I'm really pleased with that one that's there the turquoise you can see again how that looks the orange is nice because it stayed orange so against the the orange card yeah I like the way that that's worked and this one was really unusual got lots of different it actually came out really blue at the beginning there's a real vibrant blue you can kind of see some of the blue colours there and then slowly it's changed but again like I said these are all still developing because it's that is that chemical so I want to create a little scene and I really like the purple so let me bring this one in and I used a sentiment on this one and I love how that sentiments come out I wasn't so keen on these particular stamps but I'm going to do these this wording here and then I'm going to combine some of these stamps but I'm going to do it on the lilac card here so let's get that all ready okay I've just inked that up I'm going to come up a bit here because I want to put ribbon along the bottom and this is to fit on a five by seven card base so let's see how that develops I just bring that up there you can slowly should start to reveal in front of you just take that off there don't want to leave that sitting you see more and more it's coming through let me just use my heat gun there we go with much love and thanks and I really yeah I really like that so I'm just going to rinse that quickly okay so then I'm going to use this one again and just ink that one up I want too much on like I said I have saturated mine I'm going to try and do some kind of I'm going to do a couple because I intend to pop some die cuts over the front of this maybe just do the two like so again just going to rinse this one okay I've just been practicing with the sentiment and what I find is if you stamp off from it as well it it really does work so that was the initial stamp then I stamped off again there and it didn't come out very well and then this one was the initial one and now this one just developing seems to come through quite nicely although I really like the first one that I done there but again if you just stamp and then stamp you can start to see now all the different stages of it developing I'm just going to bring in that one again look how much it's changing again it's still it's still lifting but it's so gradual and it's really nicely blended again it's just and these are my fussy cut and do some cool cards with again that one's not changing too much I think I might just stamp on this side of this one because it doesn't bleed through I just want you to see just how vibrant the blue comes out initially so if I just ink that up ready it's instant look at that and then you can see it straight away starts to change and you get the the other colors starting to come through because when it first done that I thought wow I love that color and I wanted it to stay and I don't not like that effect at all I think it's great but the blue against that green look really good but you can see if I just speed it up a minute see now it's dried you've got bits of white in the middle there's still a bit damp in the middle still bits of that blue but yeah that's what that one would look like but I want to try the sentiment stamp on this craft card so let's ink that one up probably put too much on there actually let's do that one there and then I'm going to stamp off and stamp it again because all this does is just stay that deep brown color it doesn't change color at all it doesn't go white or orange nothing I'll just show you there what kind of happens with the craft card is it disappears and then comes back in the in the dark brown so you stamp it and it's like this then it disappears a bit can you see this here it's currently disappearing and but this one here is is coming back again and you can you can make it out there with much love and thanks so yeah again I really like it I just like playing around I'm grabbing my scraps of card I'm grabbing all different white core card um color core card black let me try some black so I think the black is going to go orange that's what I think but whether it will or not so each time I'm just stamping and then stamping off again yeah I was right it's kind of starting to go in orange color do you know what this would look really cool for Halloween cards so I'm going to again just use my heat gun just speed this up a little bit okay so I've just quickly dried that look at that cool effect look at all the different tones now this will probably change again one thing I would say is is do the paper one day and then make the cards the next don't do it all in one day because you could use your normal you know inks to stamp other parts and stuff and think it all matches at that moment and then the next day it could change so but I think that's a really cool effect for autumnal cards for Halloween cards really like that that's really fun I just want to show you I've just done it on another piece of black card this is a piece of A3 that I've got and look at the completely different I've done some splot splotches as well of um of bleach be careful when you do that don't flick it um over yourself but yeah it's more of a gray kind of finished again I really like them and they're called a fussy cut because they're quite simple images to kind of cut around um but yeah so it just shows from one piece of black to another the difference that you get there it's really quite different this is my favorite still though so let's try one more and then I'm gonna probably stop there and just make cards so I'm gonna use this one and this is this really deep purple color I've just stamped that off three times there so just remember everybody's card will be different so if you've got a deep purple don't expect it to be the same as what I'm doing now yours might be a white core card um a color core card you know the different weights of the card they're all gonna fairy wow can you see that one now what that one's doing that one's really changing and also letting it dry naturally to heat drying will give different looks as well so can you just see what that's doing there looks awful at the minute don't like that at all let's just see well that's something completely new can you see the whole image is stamped but it's only really started to discolor where there was obviously quite a lot of bleach so I imagine if I had a very thin amount of bleach you would just get kind of a silhouette but that if anything that's not worked on this card and this card here yeah this is a cheap card can you see this is just a um oh I forget the name of this this card um it's just your color dyed on the fronts you just see there so that's probably why so that one's that one's a scrap but that's fine because I haven't got a lot of that whatever the card is anyway that I really like this is I think this is this is a favorite of mine I just love that image that would look really nice in the gift bag so watch this space and see what I make which you'll see at the beginning of the tutorial anyway but I really really like that I love this this is going to become more of a better card once that's all finished and then I'm going to make lots and lots of cards from all this paper that one I love I'm going to do something really nice for that one so yeah so hopefully I've shared a few tips there check out Gina K that's who I saw and again if Gina says it's okay to do and use your stamps then I believe her so I think they're going to be okay that one I love as well I think that's really really nice that's going to make a nice autumnal looks like the autumn leaves that are dropping so yeah there you go so I hope you've enjoyed this um stamping with bleach tutorial and um go and give it a go take extra extra care wear an old top don't wear your best jeans and make sure you've got your surface well protected and um yeah if you've enjoyed it please hit the thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye