Michael Strong Spring Blog Hop

Time for another blog hop -- this one is to celebrate spring!

To make the background for this card I first embossed Mike's small flower in clear on white paper.  Then I tore a sheet of paper and alternatively sponged on Tim Holtz Faded Jeans and the new Cracked Pistachio.  Then I stamped the flower in both Pistachio and Jeans over top and spritzed a bit of water on top.

Stamps: Michael Strong (Mini Shapes, Mini Wings)

Next on the blog hop is LAURA:

http://holmadelaura.blogspot.com/

Be UNIQUE!

This card uses the Stamp, Crackle, Pop technique from the June/July 2005 issue of Technique Junkies.  The colours are Real Red, Smokey Slate and Black Soot.

 Stamps:  Michael Strong (Mini Wings, Hannah's Busy Bee, ), Stampin Up! (Crosshatch), Create with TLC (Free saying)

Bistered Dragonflies

Here is another card I made with the Bister spray.  I clear embossed the tiny dragonfly twice then sprayed blue bister spray on the top dragonfly and yellow bister spray on the bottom one.  I let dry then put some computer paper on top and ironed off the embossing.  The colours are Chocolate Chip and Lucky Limeade.

Stamps:  Michael Strong (Mini Wings)

Bister -- the Amazing Fun Begins!

Here's what I did next.  This was amazing because I didn't know what it would do and I thought it was quite exciting.

Sprinkle some Bister (blue) on paper (I used watercolour):

 Then spray with a water mister:

Keep spraying and soon the colours will all start to run:

I also noticed that when you spray from farther away (so the paper gets a light mist) the result is different than when you spray close up (so the paper gets a full squirt).  The top part received the mist and the bottom part got the full blast of water.  Look how it reacts!:

 On this one I just sprinkled Bister and then gave the paper a full blast of water.  Here is the result right away:

I LOVED this! 

Here is a video you can watch to see it in action.  The video is in Dutch and Dutch is one of the hundreds of languages I don't speak, so after the first word (Hello) I didn't understand anything.  But he does have the pertinent information written in English on the video and it shows the Bister in action :
http://ibrakeforstamps.com/bister.aspx

Here are some many fun results I got:

Yellow:

 Blue:

 Black:

 Red:

Mohogany:

Green:

I just loved this!  All the different colours swirling together!  I'm also going to experiment with adding a few different colours together and seeing what happens.  Stay tuned.

So now to make cards out of this...

On this piece I just stamped on the paper:

This piece I added as an accent to give the card a bit of interest: