Hi Everybody! I am so glad to be here today because I've got a fun card to share with you.
This snowman family from Tonic Studio's Snowman Snuggles stamp set is so adorable and I hadn't used it yet so I decided it would be the focus of my card. Nuvo Aquaflow pens were the perfect medium to watercolor the image.
I used Moonstone shimmer paste to stencil some small snowflakes onto the background. Then, I was able to highlight the snowmen in the center of the card by ink blending Royal Plum and Siren Blue at the edges of the card. I ink blended right on top of the glimmer paste which gave it a cool effect.
I finished the card off by adding splatters of white gesso, Dream Drops in Cloud Nine and accents of Glitter Gloss.
I'm so happy to have one more Christmas card finished as I am so far behind on mine. Are any of you as far behind as I am? Let me know in the comments below if you're done with your holiday cards or still working on them.
Hey everybody! I'm swinging by to share a quick and easy card with you today. I've been busy lately. I'm talking getting four hours of sleep a night for a little too long, kind of busy. So, when I sat down to make this card I knew that I needed to be quick, and so, I decided to stencil a fun background and put a brightly colored Christmas cutie in front of it.
I ink blended using Laguna Bay and Siren Blue inks.
If you need a circle stencil you can create one using your Tonic Circle Dies.
Next I used the Winter Wonderland Stencil and Moonstone Glimmer Paste over the ink.
I love that the Moonstone paste picks up the color of the ink below.
I colored the reindeer from Celebrate Success with my Nuvo Alcohol Markers.
Next, I gave him a holiday sweater from the recent free downloadable stamp set.
I popped the reindeer up on top of the heat embossed sentiment and adhered it with foam adhesive.
I added sequins, a blue card base, and called it a night!
Thank you for stopping by. If you're interested in checking out the products I've used on today's post I've got them listed down below.
Have an awesome day!
Maria
Hi Everybody! It's Maria here from Cardbomb. I hope you are all having a great day! Before I forget, I've got a 10% Discount for you all on your entire purchases at either Tonic Studios UK or USA!
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Today I wanted to share with you a way to stretch your stamps to get the most out of them. Whenever I buy a stamp set I love to look at all of the individual stamps and sentiments with a critical eye to see if I can use them for more than just the intended purpose. If I can use my stamps in a variety of ways than they are instantly more valuable to me. I'm happy to tell you that the Warm Cocoa Wishes stamp set from Tonic's recent release passes the test with flying colors!
This set has so many kind and loving sentiments in it and I knew I could make a really fun non-holiday card with them. I started out by arranging many of the sentiments linearly on my stamping platform. Then I inked them up in rainbow colors (Tonic Hybrid inks) and stamped repeatedly until I had rainbow background full of "love" and "cuddles." Tonic keeps expanding their color range for these hybrid inks and they truly are vibrant and gorgeous. Even better, you can use every color with both water and alcohol based products and they won't smear!
Next, I stamped the adorable little mouse holding a mug of something steamy and comforting. I colored him in using my Nuvo alcohol markers. I used a knife to cut the mouse's hands free. Then, I stamped a bunch of hearts and colored them with Nuvo alcohol markers. I gave them a coat of Nuvo Crystal Glaze to give them some thick, glossy, shine. I also Crystal Glazed the mouse's glasses.
After that I heat embossed the sentiments in white on black cardstock and assembled the card. The final touch was adding some white gel pen to the mouse and his heart.
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I had a ton of fun making this card and I hope it might inspire you to take a second look at some of your stamp sets to see how you can stretch them to get even more out of them.
Hey Everybody! Thanks for stopping by today! I'm so glad you did because Tonic Studios has a new stamp release coming out today and it is awesome! They are celebrating by having a party over on their blog. There will be demonstrations, videos and giveaways so be sure to head over there and join the fun when you have a chance. Just CLICK HERE to head over to the Tonic Studios Blog.
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Now, on to my projects! This first thing I've made is not a card... When I saw the stamp release I immediately knew that I had to use the deer from the Garden Party release with the new, FREE printable stamp set called, Christmas Outfits. I paired those up with the mug from Jolly Marshmallow Snowman to make a scene for some hot tubbing reindeer... and yes, of course they are skinny dipping!
I colored the deer, mug, outfits and trees with my Nuvo Alcohol Markers.The sky in the background was watercolored with Nuvo Aqua Flow Pens and then splattered with Glitter Gloss. The snowy, purple ground is watercolored with Lilac Waterfall Nuvo Shimmer Powders.
I love the way this scene came together so easily using a combination of new and recently released stamp sets.
Now, my favorite part of this first project was using this scene to create a funny little video. It's short and funny. I hope you'll like it.
For my next project I made a card using the big marshmallow snowman from the Jolly Marshmallow Snowman set. That big, beautiful tree is from the FREE printable called, Christmas Outfits. If you'd like to download it, you can find it over on the Tonic Studios Blog.
I started out with a watercolor wash on my background (Nuvo Aqua Flows). Then I splattered it with Glitter Gloss. I love that it gives it some texture and also looks like shimmery snow. The marshmallow snowman is also watercolored with Nuvo Aqua Flows.
The Christmas tree was colored with three colors of Nuvo Alcohol markers. I am planning to share a video on this soon as I've had some requests asking how to best color with the Nuvo markers. I made a frame for the background using my rectangle dies and I think that scalloped edge is a nice detail.
My last card is a little bit more subtle but it's still really sweet. I did a watercolor wash with my Aqua Flow pens on some watercolor paper. Then I applied some glimmer paste in Moonstone over the Snowflake stencil. It looks so beautiful and sparkly in real life. Then I used the reindeer from Celebrate Success along with a sweater from Christmas Outfits to make a cute, little Christmas reindeer.
The sweater and gift are colored with Nuvo Alcohol Markers. The reindeer stamp has arms that stick up in the air. Check out my first project again to see what the original arms look like. I really wanted the deer to wear a different outfit and it was so easy to make it happen. I just cut his cute little arms right off and put the sweater on his stubby little torso. Voila! He has arms again!
The cool thing about this Christmas outfit stamp set is that you can make the outfits work with the animals from all three of the critter sets from the last release. That means you've got a whole farm load of animals to dress up in holiday attire.
I used my rectangle dies again to cut out a sparkly piece of snowflake background. I added that to my ink blended card base and put the reindeer on top. He's popped up on foam adhesive. The sentiment was stamped in Tonic's Nuvo Black Shadow ink. This is one of my favorite inks because of how useful it is. It works with both watercolor and alcohol inks so you can use jus the one ink and never worry about your project smearing. To finish the project off I added some red confetti glitter using my Nuvo Precision Glue Pen.
Ok! That's it for my projects but I want to remind you that there is a release party over at the Tonic Studios blog. I'm participating in that party and I wanted to share my video clip with you...
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Ok, you all. I'm outta here. As always I will add links to the products that I've used below. If you have any questions about anything I've used or done today please leave me a comment and below and I'll be happy to help with anything that I can.
