Bleach Star Napkins

I’ve seen lots of cute projects that people have done with bleach pens, so I thought I’d try one. I started with these napkins from the dollar store and this bleach pen.

I drew stars on the napkin with the bleach pen.

I let them dry for a while. They didn’t dry. I used a blow dryer to dry them. They still didn’t dry. And they didn’t bleach. I wonder if they forgot to put the bleach in the pen? It did nothing. So, I moved on to plan B. I used a paintbrush and painted the stars with 100% bleach. It worked right away.

You can see the bleach pen napkin still looks the same, with foamy stuff sitting on it, and the painted bleach napkin is already bleaching.

So, I washed the napkin with the bleach pen and it came out perfectly red. Then I painted that one, too. One thing to note is that the paintbrush looked like this after I used it to paint with bleach. It was pretty much toast, so don’t use a good brush if you decide to try this.

I painted the bleach pen napkin a couple of hours after I did the first one, since I had to wait for it to go through the wash. I’m not sure if I used more bleach, or if it was the different brush I used, but the lines are not as clean as the first napkin. Still cute, just different. After the bleach painted napkins dried, I washed them.

This is how they look:

I can’t wait to get some more napkins and make a bigger set of these. They will be perfect for the whole summer, starting with Memorial Day, all the way through Fourth of July and Labor Day. I love summer. And Americana. And these napkins. Blue would be really cute, too. I’m sure you could make your own napkins to bleach if you are the sewing type or if you can’t find any napkins at your dollar store.

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