Creative Habitat

1. Find a pastel paper that bleaches to white. Test your papers by painting a dab of bleach on the paper’s corner.
   
2. Using a black permanent stamp pad (such as Brillance or Staz-On), stamp the design on the paper.
   
3. With a water barrel brush, paint inside the image with bleach. 
   
4. When dry, trim and layer.
   
5. Embellish with crystals or glitter glue.
   

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Bleaching Tips

What kind of bleach?  

• Any brand of laundry bleach will work.

 
Safety

• Keep bleach in its white light proof bottle. 
• When exposed to light bleach breaks down and loses some of its power.
  
• Keep bleach in the laundry.
  
• Pour out a very, very little amount of bleach into a small jar.  Put this jar inside a larger can. 
  
• Wear old clothes or apron.
  

Tools

• Use brushes with nylon bristles. 
• Bleach will eat away natural animal bristle/hair brushes in no time!
  
• Don’t put bleach in a water barrel brush.  It’s too messy and unnecessary.
  
• Just dip the brush into the bleach to use its nylon bristles.