Bottle BRUSH bleaching

ok are you feeling the Tim Holtz rage yet? I know you must think I am a serious stalker or wanna be. But I just think he is such the genius...anyway I found this cool photo by

Tim Holtz

I know GASP} right? totally - the colors look so magical and dreamy...

anyway I wanted to make something similar and knew that you needed bleach and "HIS" inks & stains of which I had very few. Here is my short but sweet tutorial...

 

grab a bucket - some bleach - some trees and some spray inks (like tattered angels or studio calico spray inks)

 

 

 
 
Dip trees intl the bleach and let them soak for a little bit. Keep turning them  every once in awhile.
 
 

soak the trees for about 20-30 minutes. just keep checking on them and turning them.

- they begin to look dingy beige... the water looks really dirty when you are done. Try using some
gloves because I found out the  bleach burns a bit on the skin

 

once out - let them dry - aren't they lovely as WHITE TREES?

 

then grab a shoe box and your sprays and put the trees into the box one at a time and spray till you get the color of tree you desire. Then just group them up and sit back and admire them aren't they gorgeous??? I am itching to make a ton more!!!

 

 

purple-icious

 

robins egg blue

 

pretty in pink

 

ornery orange

 

and then the rainbow of loveliness....

 

 

Hope you try your hand at this...

 

Here's wishing you a wonderful weekend...

 

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