Tonic Studios - Tools of the Trade - Scrapbook LO & VIDEO!

Hello friends!  I am excited to share a new scrapbook layout and process video for Tonic Studios.  I used a few Tonic products, but mostly wanted to share my newfound love of the Tonic & Nuvo "Tools of the Trade," i.e. basics, like adhesives, trimmers, basic cardstock, etc.

Tonic Studios provided me with products but the ideas and opinions are totally my own.

*Compensated affiliate links used*

You can click below for the process video or HERE to go directly to my channel.

I love the colors and patterns of the Pinkfresh Studio collection 'Indigo Hills' and used a 12x12 as the main background piece and several pieces of the 6x6 papers and some of the Pinkfresh ephemera and some of the American Crafts gold Thickers.

I used some of the Tonic Craft Perfect Watercolor paper to cut out some leaves using my Silhouette Cameo.  I watercolored the leaves to match some of the colors in patterned paper.

I added a light layer of Silver Smoke Mica Mist over the center of the background paper where I planned my photo cluster to be.  I used several pieces of the 6x6 papers under my photos and layered them on a piece of the gorgeous Craft Perfect Mirror Satin Cardstock in Burnished Rose.

I added the watercolored leaves under the photos and around the page, along with a couple other embellishments like the Ephemera from Pinkfresh Studio and American Crafts Thickers.

Finishing up with some gold rub-on pieces, I added several of the Nuvo Vintage Drops adjacent to those rub-ons.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you check out the video as well!

The complete listing of the supplies used is listed below...

A Stenciled Frame for Watercolor - January 2018

Today, I am sharing a scrapbook layout I created for The Crafter's Workshop earlier this month to document my son turning 11.  This is not necessarily a birthday page, but just a casual selfie that captured my feelings.

I used the two 12x 12 stencils below along with some White Gesso to prep my white cardstock for using watercolor.

 

This is one of my favorite stencils, but I wanted to make a big impact and not cover up the design I loved so much.

 I knew I wanted to use watercolors, so I added a light coat of the Gesso to the a piece of white cardstock, hoping to keep my background from buckling too much under the water.

I used VersaMark and some white embossing powder to heat emboss the stenciled borders of frames and dot to create a border to capture the watercolor with.

Using 4 or 5 colors of blue, turquoise, and purple I painted the darkest under the area I planned to place the photo and lightened up the paint out front that point.

While the paint dried, I used the two 'Distressed' circle stencils and inked the shapes onto vellum.

I layered the vellum circles under the photo combined with a few black foam phrase stickers.

The quote that kept coming to mind with this photo was this quote from Shel Silverstein in the classic book, 'The Giving Tree.'

I mounted the watercolored background to a piece of black cardstock and wrote the quote within the painted frames and stamped the date.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Blog today!  I hope this inspires you to create a background for ant kind of project using your stencils!

STENCILS Used:

TCW754 – 12x 12 Doodling Template - Distressed Details

TCW745 – 12x 12 Doodling Template - Riveted

TCW9001 - White Gesso, Matte Opaque

Be Kind - Art Journal - The Crafter's Workshop November 2017

Hello friends!  Recently celebrating our Thanksgiving Holiday in the U.S., I felt the desire to create something in my art journal in recognition of that!  I also filmed the process which can find by clicking below or HERE.

                     

                      

                      

                      

With no real plan in mind for this art journal spread, except for a quote and a some paint colors picked out, I started laying down a base layer of gelatos, stenciled ink and paint.

I added another layer of Gesso over the central portion of the spread.

I used one of the 12x12 stencils of a girls face to trace the shape over the area.

Adding a combination of watercolor pencils, watercolor and acrylic paints I used the pencil lines as my guide.

I finished painting the girl and then covered the left side of her face with additional layers of media.

Adding more opaque areas of white paint, I wrote my quote and stamped a couple phrases.

I hope you enjoyed this spread as much as I enjoyed creating it!  Thanks for stopping by the Blog today and have an amazing week!

Supplies Used:

TCW754 - Doodling Template - Distressed Details 

TCW751s - Doodling Template - Kitchen Tiles

TCW698 - Doodling Template - Emma

 TCW9020 – Heavy Body Acrylic – Raspberry Sorbet

TCW9018 – Heavy Body Acrylic – Orange Slice

TCW9016 – Heavy Body Acrylic – Spun Sugar

TCW9017 - Heavy Body Acrylic - Lemon Custard

TCW9013 – Heavy Body Acrylic – Iridescent Gold

TCW9004 – Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste

TCW9001 - White Gesso

loOkiNg uP - The Crafter's Workshop January

Hello there crafty friends!  Hope you are all having a Happy New Year!  Today I wanted to share with you a scrapbook layout I created using for The Crafter's Workshop a couple weeks ago.The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project.  The opinions I share are solely my own.

                                        

With the Fall season past and Winter in full swing, lots of my photos seem to have a theme behind them…looking up!  These are a few of my favorite ones from November.  The colors were so powerful and vibrant, I thought it was perfect for the reality of our recent gloomy days.Using the colors in the photos, and the graphic nature of them, I thought it would be interesting to create a simple organized page with three stripes of color, using watercolors.  I used the Clear Gesso first onto plain white cardstock and let it dry completely.  Then I used liquid watercolor, diluted a bit, to paint on the stripes.  The liquid watercolor is great because it is reliably even, and I wanted consistency.After waiting another few minutes to let the paint dry, I mixed 3 tiny batches of paste in the same colors, using the liquid watercolor to tint the Thick Modeling Paste.  I chose a fairly loose, organic stencil to contrast the more rigid lines of the photos and stripes.Starting at the top of the gessoed area and the top of the stencil, I added the blue modeling paste over the blue watercolor.  I very carefully cleaned off the stencil in between colors, not wanting any transfer.  I am normally too impatient to complete this step, but it really does make a difference.After the blue was mostly dry, I repeated the same steps, using the yellow, then red.  I skipped down the stencil a bit, so it doesn’t read like the complete stencil pattern, just more of a pattern of texture and shapes.After letting all the paste dry, I adhered my photos, embellishments and title.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Blog today!

PRODUCTS Used:

TCW9007 – Clear Gesso

TCW9005 – Thick Modeling Paste

TCW654 – 12×12 Doodling Template – Chica Doodle