Thursday 28 June 2018

Birthday Love with Craft Perfect Festive Season :D


A stripy Birthday card using the fab Festive Season Craft Perfect Collection along with the new Swirl Flurry Tag Die Set :D This is a great card for using up and long scraps you have too :D Once I'd created my background, I used three rectangle dies to cut into my background, then I flipped the middle section by 180 degrees to switch up the order of the stripes :D This technique looks even more effective if you use square dies and only rotate the centre section by 90 degrees, it kind of gives a chevron look :D :D I'd probably work with circle dies too, but I haven't tried that lol :D You want to make sure you use double sided adhesive sheets, or wide double sided tape when doing this technique, otherwise you might get pieces dropping off once the panel has been die cut! :D Hope you liked the card! And of course, it'd make a great Christmas card too hehehe :D

Main Tonic Products Used :D
Swirl Flurry Gift Tag Die Set
Festive Season Craft Perfect Card - Olive Green, Brick Red, Holly Green, Opera Red and Rusted Crimson (not affiliate)
Specialty Papers (Red Berries and Evergreen Fir) from Tonic Kit #11
Will's Hand Miniature Moments - Love Die
Circle Layering Dies
Nuvo Clear Mark Ink Pad
Nuvo Glacier White Embossing Powder
Vellum
Rectangle Layering Dies
Tonic Trimmer
Craft Perfect Double Sided Adhesive

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My Essential Products :D
Tonic A3 Glass Cutting Mat
Cosmic Shimmer Glue
Woodware Fine Tip Bottles
Spellbinders Platinum Die-Cutting Machine
White A6 Card Blanks
Little 8" Tonic Guillotine
Big 12" Tonic Guillotine
Tim Holtz Mini Snips 
Tiny Tonic Scissors (no serration)
Tonic Funky Tape Runner
White Card
Double Sided Tape
Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad
Anita's 3D Clear Gloss
Tonic Aqua Shimmer Sparkle Pen
 
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To see the process behind this card, please watch my YouTube video below, or over on my channel CRaFTi PoTeNTiAl :D


Lots more photos below :D







Tuesday 26 June 2018

So Proud of You Stylized Peacock :D


These are the stunning Bookmark and Tag dies from Tonic that have just been on Hochanda (links below) and why not look at them in a completely different way, and make a layered stylised peacock from the intricate tag die :D As soon as I saw the Swirl Flurry die I saw a peacock, and then I couldn't un-see it lol, so I just had to create one :D And I thought 'So proud of you' as a sentiment worked really well too :D Again I'm using the Arabian Nights colour collection from Craft Perfect (my favourite of the new 2018 colour trends :D) I love that all the Nuvo products for this year match perfectly, and so I've used the Spanish Sangria Nuvo Diamond Ink to stamp in the background, and I also used the Harvest Moon Glitter Accents as my embellishments too, but there are three stunning new colours of Nuvo drops that would have gone perfectly too :D :D :D Hope you liked the card :D

Main Tonic products used :D
Swirled Lace Bookmark Die Set:
Swirl Flurry Gift Tag Die Set:
Craft Perfect Arabian Nights Colour Collection: (not affiliate)
Rose Gold Nuvo Pure Sheen Glitter:
Harvest Moon Glitter Accents
Spanish Sangria Nuvo Hybrid Ink Pad:
Tim Holtz Travel Stamping Platform:
Tim Holtz Mini Snips:
Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive:
Tonic Tangerine Die-Cutting Machine

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My Essential Products :D
Tonic A3 Glass Cutting Mat
Cosmic Shimmer Glue
Woodware Fine Tip Bottles
Spellbinders Platinum Die-Cutting Machine
White A6 Card Blanks
Little 8" Tonic Guillotine
Big 12" Tonic Guillotine
Tim Holtz Mini Snips 
Tiny Tonic Scissors (no serration)
Tonic Funky Tape Runner
White Card
Double Sided Tape
Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad
Anita's 3D Clear Gloss
Tonic Aqua Shimmer Sparkle Pen
 
If any items are out of stock on CraftStash, make sure to add your e-mail to the in stock notification of that product so that CraftStash know you're interested! :D

To see the process behind this card, please watch my YouTube video below, or over on my channel CRaFTi PoTeNTiAl :D


Lots more photos below :D






Monday 25 June 2018

Tonic Craft Kit #11 Multiple Cards :D


A mammoth video today, creating eight cards with the Festive Wishes Tonic Craft Kit, Kit #11 for July :D :D I decided to leave in most of the footage for these cards (and I had more than 2 hours lol) that's why it's pretty much twice the length of my usual videos :D Pretty much every product in this kit is brand new, from the Festive Season colour trend for 2018, the cardstock only launched a couple of days ago on Hochanda! :D And the Nuvo Mousse and Aqua Flow haven't been released yet :D :D

I started off filming this video thinking I'd make two or three cards, but two and a half hours later I'd made eight cards lol :D It's nice to get a good stock of Christmas cards done early though :D I also used my Midas Touch Aqua Flow for the first time in this video, I couldn't leave the left over Red Matador pen on my mat, so I created an inky background and threw in the gold glitter (see card above :D) Hope you like this mix of cards, I tried to show a few ways to use the textured handmade papers with all the different Nuvo products included in the kit, because the Nuvo is always my favourite hehehehe :D I've filmed another video using the dies and stamps from the kit with blues and silvers that'll be up next week too :D

Don't forget to check out the Tonic Craft Kit website to subscribe, or get your hands on a one-off kit :D https://toniccraftkit.co.uk/

Main products used :D
Tonic Craft Kit #11:
- Exclusive Christmas Strips Die Set
- Olive Green Weave Card
- Brick Red Weave Card
- Rusted Crimson Pearlescent Card
- Red Berries Specialty Paper
- Evergreen Fir Specialty Paper
- Olive Branch Nuvo Drops
- Holiday Cheer Nuvo Drops
- Aloe Vera Nuvo Mousse (NEW colour, not out yet!)
- Red Matador AquaFlow (NEW colour, not out yet!)
- Prickly Pear Nuvo Pure Sheen Sequins
- Nuvo Glimmer Paste - Seaweed Quartz
Crafti Potential A2 Stitched Rectangle Die
Lots of other older Tonic dies :D
The Tonic Tangerine Die-Cutting Machine 

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My Essential Products :D
Tonic A3 Glass Cutting Mat
Cosmic Shimmer Glue
Woodware Fine Tip Bottles
Spellbinders Platinum Die-Cutting Machine
White A6 Card Blanks
Little 8" Tonic Guillotine
Big 12" Tonic Guillotine
Tim Holtz Mini Snips 
Tiny Tonic Scissors (no serration)
Tonic Funky Tape Runner
White Card
Double Sided Tape
Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad
Anita's 3D Clear Gloss
Tonic Aqua Shimmer Sparkle Pen
 
If any items are out of stock on CraftStash, make sure to add your e-mail to the in stock notification of that product so that CraftStash know you're interested! :D

To see the process behind this selection of eight cards, please watch my YouTube video below, or over on my channel CRaFTi PoTeNTiAl :D


Tonnes more photos below :D
































Saturday 23 June 2018

Paper Piecing with Craft Perfect Arabian Nights :D


This evening sees the launch of the 2018 colour trends in the Craft Perfect range from Tonic :D Arabian Nights is my favourite, and is the one I've used on this card, but the 2018 palette also includes Festive Season (perfect for Christmas), Ocean Air and Surprise Party :D And these colours also coordinate perfectly with everything released in the Nuvo line this year too, like the New Nuvo Drops colours :D :D

Join Paula at 6pm this evening on Hochanda to see the launch of this stunning selection of textured, pearlescent and mirror card along with specialty papers too :D

You've probably noticed that I'm loving fiddly paper piecing at the moment, and I just had to use the stunning Arabian Nights colour palette with the Roses and Ribbons Kaleidoscope panel die from Tonic :D This is probably the fiddliest design I've done so far, and this panel took me about an hour in front of the telly, which I think is quite quick for a background like this :D And once I had all the pieces in that I wanted, I added some Rose Gold Nuvo Pure Sheen Glitter into the remaining openings :D I finished the card using one of the Family sentiment dies and a scattering of Plum Pudding Nuvo Crystal Drops (one of the newest colours that coordinates perfectly :D) Hope you liked the card and the video, I didn't actually show the paper piecing in this video as I've shown it quite a lot recently, and I prefer sitting in a comfy chair to do it rather than at my desk lol :D

Main Tonic products used :D
Roses and Ribbons Kaleidoscope Die Set
Family Sentiments Die - Daughter
Craft Perfect Cardstock - Arabian Nights: Boysenberry Purple, Midnight Plum, Copper Mine, Diffused Violet, Bronze Labyrinth, Rose Glacier and Square Sequins
Plum Pudding Nuvo Crystal Drops
Vellum
Double Sided Sheets

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My Essential Products :D
Tonic A3 Glass Cutting Mat
Cosmic Shimmer Glue
Woodware Fine Tip Bottles
Spellbinders Platinum Die-Cutting Machine
White A6 Card Blanks
Little 8" Tonic Guillotine
Big 12" Tonic Guillotine
Tim Holtz Mini Snips 
Tiny Tonic Scissors (no serration)
Tonic Funky Tape Runner
White Card
Double Sided Tape
Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad
Anita's 3D Clear Gloss
Tonic Aqua Shimmer Sparkle Pen
 
If any items are out of stock on CraftStash, make sure to add your e-mail to the in stock notification of that product so that CraftStash know you're interested! :D

To see the process behind this card, please watch my YouTube video below, or over on my channel CRaFTi PoTeNTiAl :D


Lots more photos below :D