Company Spotlight on Tonic Studios!

Happy Weekend!! Are you crafting this weekend? What do you have planned? Are you working on Summer projects? I'm having fun stamping with all kinds of bright colors for the season! I thought I would do something a bit different today, and do a spotlight feature post on one of my favorite craft companies. As I look around my studio lately I'm noticing that so many of my tools that I use every day are from Tonic Studios. They have really come on strong recently with amazing and fun new products, beautiful packaging and high quality studio tools. Most of us know Tonic from our collection of Nuvo Drops (LOVE) or Gilding Flakes (LOVE)...but they also make gorgeous stamps and dies. Today I've made a fresh and happy hello card using Tonic Studios supplies. Everything is listed at the bottom of my post. 

I started with the color palette on this card as my inspiration. I bought some of the new Tonic Aqua Flow watercolor pens at the last Scrapbook Expo and hadn't tried them yet. I used only the colors in the one set I had = Summer Holiday. These pens are so fun! It's like watercoloring with the paint already in the pen. I found them so easy to work with and they dried fast and pretty. It was easy to layer colors and add more of the same color for a deeper shade. My card ended up having a Spanish flair, which is perfect for Summer I think! Red, yellow and teal! Yes!

 

I used the English Picnic Die Set to make the GORGEOUS white background layer! WOW!!! And, it cut like a dream perfectly the first cut. I knew it would look beautiful over red, so I made my card base from red paper. I stamped the Floral Flourish stamp three times and then heat embossed with Tonic White Embossing Powder. Then I colored them in with the pens. Then I cut them out by hand. The 'hello' die is from Concord & 9th, because I wanted a big bold die across the top of the card. In this close up you can see how nicely the pens work and flow together. I just used the three colors but it looks like more. To achieve a darker color, I simply went back over the area a second or third time. 

 

Here is a close up of the beautiful white layer! SO crisp!

 

After I cut out the three floral images I put down one of the images first. Then I used scissors to cut the other two images apart into smaller pieces. I used foam tape to tuck the extra flower parts and leaves behind the main image. I love doing this with die cuts! Especially flowers! Now it looks like a big bouquet on my card! This is a great way to get more mileage from your stamps. I added just a few shiny sequins at the end - now this card looks like a party! 

 

Here are some of the supplies I used - and some other things I had already! Tonic makes great embossing powders - and they come in their signature jewel topped packaging so they look pretty in your studio. 

 

This is one of the reasons I came to love Tonic!!! OH MY!!! Jewel drops in the rainbow!!!! EEK!!! 

 

 

 

This is the pretty stamp set I used today! I like that they are high quality red rubber and they stamp very clean!!

 

I didn't end up using these dies today - they are called Strip Dies and they make pretty decorative indentations anywhere on your project. They are 8.5 inches long, too, so you can use them on any size card or scrapbook page even! 

 

This is how the strip dies look after you put them through the Big Shot!! Pretty! 

 

 

 

I used the 'rubber' side of my Tonic Stamp Platform to do my stamping today. This new product will be available shortly!! It's awesome!!! See my post about it by CLICKING HERE. 

 

This is how the painting looked after one pass with the watercolor pens. I ended up working the yellow a bit more since I wanted it darker - so I did about four 'coats' of the yellow. Such pretty vibrant colors! One other great thing about these pens is that they did not destroy the paper. I used regular Neenah Solar White cardstock and the paper did not fray or buckle under the paints. 

So that's it for me today! Hope you have a beautiful and happy weekend!! I'm excited for Monday's post - I'm guest designing for a cool company! See you then! XOXO

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Comments

[Laura]

That card is incredible!!

[Erin Reed]

too cute!

[Leona]

I've never entertained thoughts of cardmaking but I always enjoy the crafting process people go through to make some really beautiful ones. Thank you for sharing!

[Denise Bryant]

Can't wait to try the Jewel Drops!
Beautiful card! Love the die and the stamp you used!

[Anne Sturgeon]

You are telling me things about Tonic that I had no idea about! This sweet card looks fabulous. Now I will visit Tonic to see.... I am playing with my new PTI Humming Along set. It arrived yesterday and I am pretty excited to have it. Thanks to Wanda! Have a great weekend.

[Sherri]

Hi Wanda,
Sherri from Phoenix here again. Just wondering if you know why it is taking so long to release the Tonic Stamp Platform. I have had my name in at Scrapbook.com for months and now I see it is delayed again until July. This will be my first stamp positioner and I think I held out for the best features of the best but it is taking sooo long!

[Billie A]

I love the Nuvo drops. Your card is pretty.

[Nora]

Oh you have sold me on that framed die! I had it in my basket and then took it out!! I LOVE the way it looks on a card!! And those little stitches are so FUN!!!

[Julie]

I love Tonic Studios, and that English Picnic die set looks amazing.

[Holly Saveur]

in love with those strip dies...
gorgeous card....