VIDEO: Tonic Studios Shoot for the Stars Release: Blog Hop & Giveaway!

Hi Everybody. Somehow my blog post (which I've spent hours on, was deleted over night). Please have patience while I rewrite my post. Long story short is that:

-Shoot For the Stars is live!

-Shoot For the Moon is back!

-Many Stamp Club products have been restocked! You can see what is available in the USA or what's available in the UK.

-I've got a VIDEO for you and scroll down to watch it or just CLICK HERE!

-We have an amazing blog hop filled with inspiration from talented crafters! The full blog hop list is at the bottom of my post.

-We have a fantastic GIVEAWAY! Details are at the bottom of my post.

-One of my cards today is a light-up card! I've used EZ-Lights from Pear Blossom Press and they are so easy to use! Amanda (owner of PBP) has generously offered a discount code of 15% off (before taxes and shipping, valid through June 4, 2021, also cannot be combined with any other offers).To receive this discount you must use this link:

    USE THIS LINK FOR DISCOUNT AT PEAR BLOSSOM PRESS

    USE THIS CODE: CARDBOMB15

Ok, on to my cards! Before I put any cards together I sat and had a good play with my Nuvo Shimmer Powders. I knew that I was going to want a lot of galaxy backgrounds so I had fun and made a bunch of them. That made it super easy to make cards with the Shoot for the Star set. All I had to do was grab a pretty background and add some stars.

For my first card I used the largest star and cut it from sugar crystal glitter cardstock.

I heat embossed the word "super" and die cut "star." I glued my sentiment on top of the star and then added foam tape to the back of my star.

I used the foam tape to help fix loops of gold thread behind the star. To finish my card off I add gems in moody, iridescent colors.

I mentioned above that I've got a video for you today and here it is. I hope you will find it helpful!

 

 If you're having trouble viewing this video you can watch it HERE.

Here's a look at what the Shoot For the Stars stamp bundle looks like...

And, here's a look at the Shoot For the Moon bundle...

For my next card I started by die cutting the largest star from Holowaves iridescent cardstock. Then I cut the star circle die from a piece of yellow watercolored paper. I took that and used a circle die to cut out the circle of stars.

I heat embossed part of my sentiment and die cut the word "wish" using the word dies. I layered all of my pieces together using foam tape and attached this focal point to a background that I had watercolored with blue shimmer powder.

To finish my card off I used the stars that had fallen out of my centerpiece to create a starry background.

This next card was created in the video I made so please head on over to the video to check that out.

My panel was inkblended with inks from Pinkfresh Studio.

The mountains were inkblended with Nuvo Hybrid ink and background was splattered with Glitter Gloss.

My next card uses another one of the shimmer powder backgrounds that I made. I also splattered it with white acrylic paint and Midas Touch.

I heat embossed my sentiment in gold and die cut it with a circle die. 

I added stars cut from gold metal sheets onto both my sentiment piece and background to finish my card off.

This next card has a totally different look to it as I've used the clouts and lightening bolt as the focal points. I lightly inkblended my clouds pink and added a little bit of detail with gel pen. the lightening bolt and stars are all cut from watercolor cardstock that I had watercolored with Solar Flare Shimmer Powder.

I added some enamel raindrop stickers below the clouds to add to the cloudy/rainy day theme.

I heat embossed my sentiment in black. The sentiment is from the Happy Mail Envelope stamp set.

My next card is a light-up card! I used EZ-Lights from Pear Blossom Press and they are so easy to use that I had this card put together in a snap! If you've never used EZ-Lights before I highly recommend them. Each unit comes with a battery, on/off button and three tiny light bulbs to light up your projects. The light bulbs are at the ends of long wires so it's very easy to position the light bulbs right where you want them. Amanda (owner of PBP) has been so generous as to offer everyone a discount on her lights (there are also Halo lights!)! This is a 15% off discount (before shipping and taxes and valid through June 4, 2021, cannot be combined with other offers). To receive the discount you must use the following link and codes:

    USE THIS LINK TO PEAR BLOSSOM PRESS 

    USE CODE: CARDBOMB15

To make this 5"x7" card I cut the large moon from the Shoot For the Moon bundle out of Marina Mist Iridescent cardstock (so pretty!).  Next, I die cut the circle of stars from the Shoot for the Stars bundle into black cards stock. I randomly heat embossed the background stamps in gold all over my background.

I added vellum behind the star die cut and then added my EZ-Light unit so that it would light up.

I added my moon using foam tape for dimension (notice that it's a perfect fit with the star circle? Wink).

Here is a close-up with the lights off..

And, here is a close-up with the lights on! They are really bright in real life! I had my photography lights on when I took this pic but I should've taken one with all of my lights off.

I wanted to do a clean and simple, astronomical looking card for my next one and the crescent moon from the Shoot For the Moon bundle worked perfectly with the smaller full moons from the Shoot For the Stars bundle.

I love the round stamps with dots from the Stars bundle so I used those as part of my design. The full moons fit perfectly inside of them.

I used small stars that I had cut out of metal sheets to cover the dots for a different look.

This card uses another one of my shimmer powder backgrounds. I splattered it with white acrylic paint and Midas Touch.

To create the textured moon I added stone drops in white and gray to the die cut moon. I dabbed my finger in the wet drops to add texture.

The trees along the bottom are from the Shoot for the Moon dies.

This next card was made using the star string stamp to create the background. I showed how to do that on my video if you're interested.

I inkblended the background with inks from Pinkfresh Studio and heat embossed the stars in Satin Pearl embossing powder from Hero Arts.

The sentiment is from the Backgrounds and Borders Stamp Club release.

My final card is a slimline card. I used the Shoot for the Stars release to create the top half of the card and stamp the sentiment.

The bottom half of the card was made using the Whaley Great release.

I knew from the start that I'd be making a scene card like this and I'm so happy with how it turned out.

That's all for today you guys! I hope you'll join us for our giveaway and continue on with our inspiration filled blog hop (list below).

Have an amazing day!

Maria

GIVEAWAY:

-One lucky winner will win a £50/$50 Giftcard to Tonic Studios and the Shoot For the Stars Bundle!

-To enter comment on every blog in the hop by 11:59pm PST on June 2, 2021/ 7:59am GST on June 3, 2021

-Winner will be announced on June 4th, 2021 on IG and FB so make sure you're following all Tonic accounts!

BLOG HOP LIST:

Maria Willis: You are here.

Sandi MacIver

Daniel West

Jen Kray

Lydia Fiedler

Marie Heiderscheit

Seeka

Ilda Dias

Michelle Short

Jessica Frost-Ballas

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