Bubble Technique - Totally Techniques Blog Hop

 

It is time for another Totally Techniques blog hop, and I struggled with this one. This month we are doing the Bubble Technique. It is actually pretty simple, but I could just not get it work and look the way I had envisaged.

Basically, you put some water and detergent in a cup/bowl of water, blow into it with a straw to create bubbles and then you add re-inker to the bubbles. The idea is that the ink kind of stays in the veins of the bubbles. I am not sure if it was because I was using some environmentally friendly detergent, or whether there is a special trick, but my bubbles kept bursting when I added the ink. It was like they were not strong enough to hold the ink. However, I persisted and kept blowing bubbles with the coloured water, and it kind of worked, but ended up with a lot of tiny coloured bubbles which gave some more colour concentrated patterns.

The colours I used were Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry and Highland Heather.

I had originally wanted to use the citrus stamp set, embossing folder and die, but it wasn't working for me, so I had to come up with something else.

I ended up making 2 cards. I used the Balloon stamp set and dies as well as the Zany Zoo stamp set. I have misplaced my dies, so I had to do some fussycutting.... 

First I made the balloon card.

I cut the balloons from the darkest Melon Mambo and Highland Heather bubbled pieces of cardstock. I ink-blended a piece of Basic White cardstock with Azure Afternoon ink and added 2 pink and a purple balloon. For the 2 big balloons I stamped the string, but for the little one I added some skinny pieces of ribbon to add some texture.

I stamped the sentiment and flagged the ends and then curled the piece with my bone folder to create more texture.

Finally, I added some Wink of Stella to the little balloon for some extra sparkle and interest.

It's a very simple card, but I do quite like it.

My second card uses a very lightly coloured Melon Mambo bubbled piece of cardstock. This is actually a piece of Fluid 100 water colour paper, where the others were Basic White.

Being water colour paper, the paper already have some texture and you don't need to add as much extra to create interest on the card.

I stamped the sentiment and the music nodes in Versamark and heat embossed with black embossing powder.

I stamped the singing turtle with Memento Black and coloured him with a selection of green Stampin' Blends - Granny Apple Green, Parakeet Party and Lemon Lime Twist.

I punched a circle out of Basic Black cardstock and trimmed it to create a little stage for the turtle.

I added some Wink of Stella to the top of the microphone and adhered the turtle with Dimensionals. Finally I added some Rhinestones. 

I really like this turtle guy, he is so cute.

So, here are my cards for this month, I had quite a lot of fun with this technique, and I might need to try it again, as it definitely didn't work the way I had intended, but maybe I just need a bit of practice.

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