paperCARDinal: iCraft

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Hello friends! I am here today sharing a couple cards for Tonic Studios using a combination of lots of the Tonic Crafts Kits, including the newest Kit #20, Woodland Walk. The card below was actually made using extra pieces I didn't use for the card I intended to create!

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This card uses pieces from the Tonic Craft Kit #17, #18, & #19 as well as the dragonfly stamp and coordinating die from the Woodland Walk kit. Most of the components for this card comes from kit #18, Dream in Colour, including the Glitter Cardstock, the patterned paper on the card base and the the Dream Drops in Supernova. Swoon.

The card below turned out completely different from the idea I began with, but I love the Spring feel. I used the gorgeous Lilac Waterfall Shimmer Powder on the Nuvo Watercolor Card.

The Pearlescent Card in Fresh Mint on the card base is from the Woodland Walk kit. I used the 'with love' script word die for my sentiment, cutting it from both the Shimmer Powder painted paper and the Glitter Card. I used the outline die to cut vellum which I think helps it stand out from the card without taking away from the design.

These dragonflies were made heat embossing vellum with the Crushed Mulberry Embossing Powder and then gluing those to the outline piece cut from the Craft Perfect Holo Waves cardstock that is so amazing! and I popped up the dragonfly wings using some foam squares and added a little dotted trail using these new gorgeous square gems from Nuvo.

The supplies I used are listed below. Thanks for stopping by today and hope you have a great week!

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Saturday, October 14, 2017

Hello everyone. I wanted to share this Art Journal spread from the day of the recent Eclipse! Because of all the excitement surrounding the Eclipse and the fun activities the kids have been doing in school, I thought it would be appropriate to create an Art Journal spread to celebrate this amazing event!

Below are the stencils I used as well as the mixed media products.

The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own.

I am excited to be able to have some other fun products to play with as well. I used the Mixed Media lightweight Sheets from iCraft that almost translucent.

I used several of The Crafter’s Workshop Heavy Body Acrylics and a small stencil brush to add an blend of gradient colors through this 6×6 text stencil.

I knew I wanted the colors to start in blues and darken to violet and finally black. While this dried, I prepped my art journal pages with the White Gesso.

After it dried, I tore pieces of the stenciled sheet and adhered them to the page using The Crafter’s Workshop Gel Matte Medium.

I used the remaining paint to continue the look up to the top of the pages and let it dry completely.

Finally, I used my favorite stencil from the newest release and my favorite medium, the Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste to add stars and constellations to my night sky!

At this point, I really wanted to stop, because I just loved the way it looked. But I had a fun quote I found on Instagram that I wanted to use…

I taped off a piece of this Lacy Tiles stencil and used the iCraft Deco Foil Transfer Gel over just the center piece.

After waiting 2 hours for the transfer gel to dry I applied a piece of the Mixed Media Transfer Foil from Rebekah Meier Designs and ThermOWeb in ‘Old Gold’ to the stenciled area.