Making bubble backgrounds is another of those techniques that's been around for quite a while and is a favourite of art classes taught to children in schools. What could be more fun than blowing bubbles and watching them pop and explode into colour onto paper! It also makes a wonderful background for atc's and cards. I read up on all the different ways this was done, experimented myself and found that dishwashing liquid in some water and Ranger Distress Re-inkers suited my purposes for this technique, along with a straw of course! You can use a watered down thick paint and I had even tried using Glimmer Mists but found that the amount of colour you need to use was too much.... hence the re-inkers being the best for my taste. I've only done one sample atc because I wanted to show how fantastic the background looks before you put the images etc all over it. These pics are a bit brighter here than they are in real life, more subtle colouring is what you can expect.
Sample bubble backgrounds...
"A little bird"...
Sample bubble backgrounds...
Sample bubble backgrounds with two colours used...
More atc's will follow when I have made them on these backgrounds.
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