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Update on Bleach Doodles

by Kim

Consistently, one of my most popular posts is Bleach Doodles. In that post I said that if you leave the bleach on the shirt until it is dry, the lines will be nice and white.

Now, many washings later, I find that the places I left the bleach on to dry, the bleach has eaten through the fabric.

Holes, yes, but, doesn't this have possibilities? You could do delicate cut out designs. It warrants trying.

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Doodling is the Thing!

by Kim

I was inspired this week to try the bleach doodling thing for wall art.

Three things inspired me.

This post by Alisa Burke about her gorgeous doodled canvas. I want to be Alisa Burke when I grow up.

The doodling trend. Seems like everywhere I look, someone is doing some amazing doodling. These are a few of the pins I have on my doodling board on Pinterest. I have saved the doodles I like best, but there are TONS more great ones on Pinterest. Just search doodling.

The fun fabric bleaching project I did last week.

Not being able to ignore all that inspiration, I did this. I wrapped a canvas board in green/white dot fabric and hot glued it on the back. Then I doodled with a bleach pen. As soon as I was done doodling, I hosed it off with my kitchen sink sprayer. Now I am thinking about doing a huge one like Alisa, and adding some color back in after the bleaching.

Oh yeah, I tried bleaching a painted canvas. No go. Apparently, you can't bleach dried paint.

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Bleach Doodles

by Kim

I doodled this shirt yesterday afternoon with a bleach pen.

I found this picture on Pinterest and followed the link to This blog where I found Dora and her post on how she did it. It inspired me. Of course, I went crazy and did the whole front of the shirt.

This is the pen I used. What you see on the shirt is the amount of doodling that can be done with one pen. If you are smaller than I am, you could get the front and back of the shirt.

Here is what I learned about doodling on a shirt with a bleach pen:

put a board inside the shirt so you have a harder drawing surface
the bleach can be applied in a thick line (see above where I started with a thick line), or a thinner line
If you apply the bleach and let it dry on the shirt, the bleaching will be complete and the lines will be white
If you apply the bleach and rinse it off after 10 minutes or so, some of the shirt's color will remain

You can see that I let the application on the right dry completely before I rinsed it. On the left, I rinsed after about 10 minutes. There is a little color left. I think I like a little color left, but I could not doodle the whole shirt in 10 minutes.

Anything you can write or draw becomes he design of your shirt. The possibilities are endless!

What a great project to do with a good shirt with a stain you can't get rid of. Just draw over the stain! It is a neat and creative fix for $2.79.

Take your Vitamin C!