Sneak Peek - Flower Girl with NEW Tonic Studio 'Fairy Reflections' Collection

Hi Everyone

MJ here once again to share the NEW Tonic Studio 'Fairies Reflections' Collection.  Catch it live from California on Saturday 9th January, with Create and Craft and the fab Jodie Johnson where she will be showing you all the dies and papers. 

Don't forget the fun that is Jo Austin who will be on Create and Craft showcasing the stamps.  She'll be showing you lots of colouring in because she is a top colourer-inerer!

The collection is made up of an Illustrated Paper Pad, Dies and stamps that are fabulously pretty.  The little girl images are beautiful and the dies cut them out with precision to give you that professional finish we all love to see in our finished projects.

The stamps are deeply etched to give a clean and crisp image ready for you to get your Nuvo Pens out and get colouring away.  Make your very own piece in your favourite colours and tones.  Lovely!

So here is a little project using the toppers from the paper pad and the matching die to inspire you.



What MJ Did

1. Take a piece of A4 white card and fold in half.  Then use the outer die of the Deco Oval Trellis set to cut a card blank by leaving the die hang over the fold line a little so that the fold is uncut.  To create the easel for the card fold the top piece in half.  Next use the outer die once more to cut a whole piece.  Glue this to the bottom half only of the easel fold.
2. To create the inner patterned paper layer draw around the inner edge of the die and cut out.  do this twice.  Glue to card base - one on top and one inside.
3. For the pink  - use a die  from the Elegant Oval Layering dies and cut two.  For the white layer use the smaller dotted edge die from the Deco Oval Trellis set. Glue the pink layers onto the card base.  Attach 3D foam pads to the rear of the white piece and add to top of card
4. Die cut a white circle and a smaller pink circle.  Glue the pink piece to the white one and attach the card base with 3D foam pads.
5. Stamps and die cut a greeting.  Attach to card base.
6. Select your little girl image and cut out using the matching die from the Reflections Die Set.  Mount to card top.
7. To finish the card die cut some flowers and leaves and glue into place.
8. Enjoy!

What MJ Used

Fairies Reflection – Aurora Die Set – 1206E

Fairy Reflection – Wishes Illustrated Paper Pack – 1055E

Deco Oval Trellis Base Die Set – 506e

Layering Die – Elegant Oval – 527e

Circle Layering Die Set – 481E

Entwining Trellis Die Set – Plush Peony – 769e

Entwining Trellis Die Set – Radient Roselily – 770e

Arboreal Dream Die – 656e

Decorative Mini – Everyday Stamp Set – 1162E

Essential Card Pack – Magnificent Magentas 216GSM – 786E

Romantic Cottage Paper Pack – 775E

We hope you have been inspired.

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Popping By

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Fairy Elegance with Tonic Studios

 

Hi Everyone

Everywhere is bursting with colour getting ready for the summer so MJ thought that is what she would do too using soft oranges and yellows.

We hope you like it so here is how MJ made it for you.

 

 

1. Make a base card using 2 pieces of A4 card to measure 8 1/2” x 7 1/2”.
2. Mat a piece of orange card measuring 8 3/8” x 7 3/8” onto card front.
3. Mat a piece of pretty paper on card front measuring 7 1/4” x 8 1/4”.
4. Using the Art Nouveau Layering Set, cut the largest outer frame in orange.
5. Then using the largest verso part cut into yellow card and then place the outer frame on and cut out.  Glue onto large orange piece.
6. Using the next size down repeat cutting an outer orange piece and then use the pretty paper to cut verso part as above.  Glue the paper to the orange base.
7. Cut out Fairy Lily in a pale peachy tone card twice. Cut from below her waist and the straight part of her legs.  On the second fairy we just need the straight leg part.  Glue the leg pieces across each other as in picture.
8. Cut out 5 x Star Trail to use as her skirt, some flowers and butterflies together with a sentiment.
9. Glue large oval piece to front of card.  Then using foam pads add the top oval layer.
10. Arrange and glue skirt pieces to fairy body and stick to top oval layer.  Adhere legs under skirt bottom.  Add butterflies and flowers.

11.  Using Nuvo Crystal Drops add your design around the edges and to corners of card.

12.  To finish add the greeting.

What Was Used

Tonic Studios Art Nouveau Layering Set – 207E

Tonic Studios Rococo Star Trail – 1007E

Tonic Studios Rococo Fairy Lily – 1001E

Tonic Studios Delicate Daisy Entwined Trellis - 768E

Tonic Studios Plush Peony Entwined Trellis - 769E

Tonic Studios Friends are Forever Die and Stamp Set – 1037E

Tonic Studios – Various Butterflies

Heartfelt Creations Classic Sunflower Collection 12” x  12” – HCDP1 247

We hope you have been inspired.

 

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Canvas Cameo using Tonic Studios Ascot Pillowbox and Lych Gate Wish Die Sets

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Hope you are having a fantastic weekend.  Tonight MJ has an easy to do canvas project for you to have a look at.  She loves these new dies and has lots of ideas of things you can do with them.

This canvas is such an easy project so is great for beginners too.

MJ has used an 8” x 8” box canvas.  She cut the border insert die from mirri card and used this as a stencil with Grungepaste to create textured borders top and bottom of piece and dried with a heat tool.  Then she painted the canvas all over with a chalk finish acrylic paint, once that was dry MJ used the Forever Moments Large Crackle Base coat as per instructions.  Then added the Crackle Top Coat and left to dry.  MJ added Gilding Paste across the raised areas.  She added a little script stamp using Tree Branch Archival Ink.

 

 

Next MJ cut the silhouetted ladies head from black card, stuck this to an oval of cream card and using Vintage Photo Distress Ink coloured all over and left to dry.  Then using Versamark Ink and Ultra High Gloss embossing powder she heat embossed over all the surface of the piece.  Leave to cool and then bend to form cracks to age it.  Next it was layered into another coloured oval shape.

MJ next stuck lace and ribbon across front of canvas, added ribbon tails to rear of cameo piece and glued to the centre front, adding a matching bow to finish.

We told you it was easy to do!

What Was Used

Tonic Studios Millinery Shop Die Set  – Ascot Pillowbox 15e

Tonic Studios Verso Strip Die Set - Lych Gate Wish 65e

Forever Moments Antique Crackle Base Coat 31e

Forever Moments Antique Crackle Top Coat 32e

Forever Moments Gilding Paste - Gold Leaf 37e

8” x 8” Box Canvas

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paint – Irish Cream

PaperArtsy Grungepaste

Coredinations Card Stock

WOW Powders Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder

 

We hope you have been inspired.

 

Thanks for Popping By

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Tonic Beautiful Buckle Die Set – New Release – Sneak Peek

 

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MJ is back with a Sneak  Peek tonight of one of the new releases from Tonic Studios.  She choose to use the Beautiful Buckle with a twist!  Not a card this time but a Bracelet Cuff.

As soon as MJ saw this die set she thought it looked like a bracelet or a gorgeous watch strap so she got straight to it with this simple project idea for you.

 

Having recently done this painting technique with her classes MJ decided that it would fit what she had in mind perfectly.  So she gathered together her gesso, inks, paints and glue, put her pinny on and began.

Using the Beautiful Buckle die set MJ cut the inner part of the die from Grunge Paper and then cut the outer edges with the strip die.  Then she cut another band just using the outer strip die.  She gave these pieces a light coat of Vintage Photo Distress Ink and dried.  On reverse of plain piece paint with the Precious Metal Colour paint as this acts as a sealant.  Now she added some random streaks of Gilding Blush – Gold Leaf.  Applied on top of the wax was a light blue wash of colour. Leave to dry.  Using gesso and blue distress ink take a stippling brush and go over some of the areas removing any excess with a dry kitchen towel.  Once dry buff the pieces to bring out the shine.

 

 

Glue fancy cut-out section onto top of plain under section.  Cut to size required to fit wrist.  Add a hitch fastener to one end of bracelet and cut a small slit on the other end so that the fastener will fit through to secure.  Decorate to suit.  Enjoy!

What Was Used

Tonic Studios Verso Beautiful Buckle Strip Die Set

Tonic Studios Forever Moments Gilding Blush – Gold Leaf

Tonic Studios Forever Moments Creative Storage Adhesive

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Grungepaper

White Gesso

Viva Precious Metal Colour – Mother of Pearl

Distress Inks – Peacock Feathers and Vintage Photo

Tim Holtz Hitch Fasteners

 

We hope you have been inspired.

Don’t forget to pop over to the Tonic Blog to see more inspiration from the team.

Thanks for Popping By

xx

Heartfelt Creations Altered Box Project–Celebrate the Journey and Arianna Blooms

 

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Hope you are all enjoying your Bank Holiday.

MJ was asked if she could do another suitcase project so she has!

So today MJ is sharing a project she created yesterday using an old Molton Brown Gift Box and some gorgeous Heartfelt Creations products.  Once again MJ is using two of her favourite sets; Celebrate the Journey and Arianna Blooms.

This is the box from the outside……

And this is the box from the inside..

 

This is what it looked like originally (although she said she had used all her goodies up!)

 

 

• First thing MJ did was coat the whole box with 2 – 3 coats of white gesso to cover the design on the outside and to cover the yellow inside the box too.  Then dried with heat tool.
• Next she lined the inside and outside of the box with papers from the Celebrate the Journey paper pad.
• Then she stamped the suit case onto one of the papers and cut out using the matching die and also cut one unstamped piece of paper for the rear of the suitcase. A 1/2” strip of paper was cut and folded in half and glued in to act as hinge. 
• Using the Arianna Bloom stamp and matching die MJ produced a mass of flowers which she shaped and glued together to form the flowers.
• Taking the Celebrate the Journey Sentiments stamp and the Once Upon a Time die set she cut out the round greetings and mounted onto card.  She also used the World Map PreCut Set to create the torn pieces inside the box and the Balloon and the Bicycle set to make the balloon piece.  The tags and tickets were cut from the paper pad.

 
• Once she had all the elements ready to go she glued them into place inside the box until she was happy with the finish.  Adding some floral detail to the inside and front of it too.

 
What MJ Used

HFC Celebrate the Journey Paper Pad

HFC Balloon and Bicycle PreCut Set – HCPC 3599

HFC Arianna Bloom Stamp – HCPC 3608

HFC Arianna Blooms Die – HCD 748

HFC Once Upon A Time Die – HCD 744

HFC Luggage and Tags Die – HCD 745

HFC Luggage and Sentiments PreCut Set – HCPC 3597

HFC Celebrate the Journey Sentiments PreCutSet – HCPC 3596

HFC World Map PreCut Set – HCPC 3598

 

We hope you have been inspired to alter one of your old boxes.

 

Thanks for Popping By

xx

Lavinia Zen Tree Stamp, Light Modelling Paste and Kroma Crackle

 

Hi Everyone

MJ thought she was being really lazy and not posting something!…lol

So she decided to do a really quick and easy project for you using one of her favourite Lavinia Stamps – the Zen Tree.

 

What MJ Did

1. Take a card tag or similar and apply a very light scraping of light modelling paste.  Try not to cover the entire tag evenly as you want it to get some uneven texture.
2. Dry the paste with a heat tool.
3. Next take the Kroma Crackle and spread it thinly but evenly across the entire tag and dry as before.  The Krackle will turn white as it is drying.
4. Once dried completely use Archival inks in Potting Soil, Cornflower Blue, Red Geranium to add colour to the background and then Orange Blossom over all the colours to blend.  Dry.
5. Using Black Archival ink stamp the Lavinia ‘Zen Tree’ design centrally on tag base.  Dry.
6. Then add colour with pens (MJ used Spectrum Noir carefully so that she did not run into the Black Archival).
7. With a White Pen-Touch pen (0.7mm) add dot highlights on stamped image.
8. Finally using the Red Geranium ink go around the edges to finish.

 

 

What MJ Used

Maimeri Light Modelling Paste

Kroma Crackle – IndigoBlu

Wendy Vecchi Archival Inks –

Potting Soil, Cornflower Blue, Red Geranium and Orange Blossom

Spectrum Noir Pens – GB1, DG4 and DR6

Sakura Pen-Touch White (0.7mm) Opaque Pen

 

We hope you have been inspired.

 

Thanks for Popping By

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Tonic ‘Butterfly Princess’ by Guest Designer Chris DH

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Today we have a gorgeous card made for you by our Guest Designer Chris.  She loves to play with dies and loves her PanPastels to colour with.

Chris has done a great tutorial for you so that you can play along too.

 

1. Card size used 6" x 6".
2. Tonic Butterfly Princess cut out of white card.
3. Out of blue pearlised cardstock cut out 5 and a quarter plain circle from Spellbinders Grand Circles.
4. Attach this to back of Butterfly Princess and affix both to card front.
5. Again using blue pearlised cardstock, cut out greeting base from Spellbinders Floral Ovals, using 'waste' stars for necklace.
6. Attach greeting, cut using Cheery Lynn word die, to base and fix on card.
7. Add four corners die-cut from Cheery Lynn corner set.
8. To complete, add ribbon bow and blue pearls.
   

A card which can be made quite quickly and of course changed to whatever colour suits.

I think you will agree that this is a beautiful card and that Chris has done a fab job!

Thank you Chris for letting us share this today.

We hope you have been inspired.

Thanks for Popping By

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Special Day Card - FlitterGLu

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This time Mandy-Jane has been sparkling stamped images using FlitterGlu and Glamour Dust to create a pretty backround useful for a wedding card.

Ingredients Used

8" x 8" Card Base

Ditsress Ink - Tumbled Glass

Inkessentials Ink Blending Tool

Inkylicious Ink Duster Brush

Inkyliciuos Stamp - Special Day

FlitterGlu

Mega Flakes - Sheffield Steel

Glamour Dust - Diamond

Spellbinders Die Set - Decorative Labels 8

Creative Expressions - Beaded Elements Stamp Set

• Cut a piece of white card to 7.5" x 7.5" and colour using the Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and an Ink DusterBrush.
• Using the FlitterGlu and one of the Beaded Elements stamps, stamp around the edges of the inked panel. Cover stamped images with Glamour Dust.
• Add ribbon around centre of panel and adhere this to your 8" x 8" card base.
• Die cut 1 large and 1 small label, ink edges with Tumbled Glass. Stamp 'Special Day' greeting using FlitterGlu onto small label and cover with Sheffield Steel flakes.
• Using 3D Glue Gel or foam pads attach both labels to front of card.

We hope this has inspired you.

Thanks for Popping By

xx



Christmas Crowns - Quick, Simple yet Stylish

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We are all busy, busy, busy whether working or running the home or both!.  So we know how hard it is to fit in lots of crafting!!  So we thought we would show you a quick and simple card that would be easy to make in a hurry.

Ingredients Used: -

A4 Black Tapestry Card
Gold Mirri Card
Dandie Crafts Crown Embellishments

1. Cut tapestry to 20cm x 21cm and fold in half to form card blank.
2. Cut gold nirri card to 6.2cm x 19cm and adhere to centre of card front.
3. Cut a peice of tapestry card to 18.5 cm x

Large Flutterby Card - Easy

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Today we have a simple stamped card using the Dimension Stamp 'Vintage Fluttering Flourishes' stamp plate. 

You get an amazng 14 elements to this set and it is so elegant.  The butterfly is a large size but you can do so many effects with it.  The flourishes and swirls are very useful and create wonderful backgrounds especially when used with WOW embossing powders.  Doing this you not only get a luxurious finish but you also get texture.

We have chosen to use cream and black card together with black ink.  We have also used the Sheena Silouhette Garden stamp plate.

Ingredients Used: -

Cream Card
Black Card
Dimension Stamp - Vintage Fluttering Flourishes stamp
Sheena - Silouhette Garden stamp plate
Versafine Ink Pad - Onyx Black
Tonic Studio Border Punch - Doily Edge
Card Candy
Pink Saddle Stitch Gross Grain Ribbon
Collall 3D Glue Gel

What We Did

• Fold cream card stock in half to form A5 card base.  Using a flourish stamp and the Versafine ink stamp the image on to front of card to create the background.
• Next, cut a piece of cream card to 13cm x 16cm.  Stamp the butterfly image in the centre of this. 
•  Then using a Sheena leafy branch stamp - stamp around the outside edges.
• Take a craft knife and cut around the outside edge of the wings only so that they can be bent upwards. 
• Cut a piece of black card to 13.5cm x 16.5cm and matt your butterfly panel onto this.
• Take a strip of black card and punch along the length of it.  Adhere to front of card.
• Cut a strip of ribbon and adhere on top of punched border.
• Mount butterfly panel onto left hand side of front of card using 3D foam or Collall 3D glue gel.
• Finally embellish with the card candy and add a bow to finish.

We hope you like ths project.

Thanks for Popping By

xx