Bite me with Bister

Over the last 6 months I have seen lots of people using Brusho crystals in their crafting. I love to challenge myself to embrace new products and techniques so I started having a look around on the Internet. However whilst investigating Brushos I also came across another product called Bister. This appears to be an old product. There appear to be very people who are using it in this country and after a lot of detective work I bought some.

I have already shared one of my cards I made using Bister here

I promised I would come back at some point to share the process.... so here it is......
The pigments are activated by water and when they arrived I tried out all the different colours on sheets of watercolour paper just to see how they react. I just sprinkled on the pigment and added a little spritz of water.  I love the way the colours blend out. Very little is needed to make some very interesting effects,

This is how I coloured the white paper flowers I used above

 I just kept added sprinkles until I was happy with the result. I also played with all the colours making test sheets.

I have had another play today as I wanted to use the Visible Image "Bite Me" stamp I won last weekend (thanks Helen and Mark x). I used red bister first with a spritz of water.

 I then stamped my VI rose stamp

 I then went back over the roses with some yellow bister keeping the centre fairly clear.

I didn't have time to photograph the rest as I had to work quickly with some embossing powders on Archival ink but this is the finished result....I really had fun with my Bite me stamp

Such a cool stamp isn't it.

I would like to enter my Bite Me piece  into the following challenges;

Inspiration Journal everything goes

Try it on Tuesdays new beginnings my new beginning is that this is the first outing for my Bite Me stamp

Our Creative Corner colour your world

Mixed media world bright colours

The ribbon girl use a colour from your National flag I have use red from St. George's red and white flag

As you like it favourite embossing technique and why mine is wet...just look at the effect on those lips, they look kissable ;0)

Noor! anything goes

Mixed Media World use bright colours

Allsorts bring on the bling

OK it's nearly dinner time here so time to tidy my studio for the night. We're off out tomorrow meeting friends at a National Trust so we have our finger crossed that it stays dry.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and thanks for popping by.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x