Sooner rather than Later: Neat & Tangled / Tonic Collaboration

Hi everyone! This week Neat & Tangled is collaborating with Tonic USA. I was so excited to be able to work with their products, and created two cards to share.

For this first card, I die cut our Punchinella die from cream cardstock. Then I used some liquid adhesive to essentially pain across the bottom of the die on a diagonal. Once the glue was dry, I used the Radiant Gold Gilding Flakes to embellish the bottom of the die cut. I then tacked the die cut piece down in a couple places over a piece of patterned paper.

Those dimensional hearts are from the Scored Shapes Dies set. I cut the hearts from both patterned paper and vellum. I rubbed the vellum hearts with Powder Blue embellishment mousse to give it a little shine and subtle color.

Those were then stitched to the punchinella/pattered paper as well as a sentiment strip with a sentiment from the So Many Sentiments set.

I also added a vellum mat. Just as with the vellum hearts, I rubbed the top and right edges of the mat with some embellishment moussse, this time using Pure Platinum mousse.

Everything was adhered to the card base and then I added a few sequins as well as a few dots of White Blizzard Glitter Drops to finish it off.

For my next card, I used the Embellishment Mousses in a different way. I was a little surprised by the texture of the mousse when I first used it. I expected it to be more like a paste that you used for stencils, but it had more of a clay consistency. You can still use it in that for for stencils, but you have to kind of work it into the openings. Or, you can soften it into more of a paste form by adding some water.

You can also add water to create a type of paint, which is what I did. I just used my palatte knife to put a bit onto a craft mat, added water to create a paint consistency, and than painted onto a watercolor panel using the Powder Blue and Pure Platinum embellishment mousses.

I then added some stamping using the Landscape Textures stamp set and the Tim Holtz Stamping Platform. I placed the stamp in the middle of the platform so that I could move the panel around underneath to create the random stamping.

Then I added some gilding by 'coloring' some dots on the panel using my glue pen. And then adding the Radiant Gold Gilding Flakes.

Note - make sure your ink is totally dry before you do this. I managed to smudge a bit of black ink when I was brushing away the excess gold flakes.

I die cut the You Can Do Anything sentiment and gilded it as well. To give it a little more strength, I did add a second layer and then adhered the entire piece to my panel.

That's all for me. Be sure to head over to both the Neat & Tangled blog and the Tonic USA blog. One lucky commenter on the Neat & Tangled blog this week will win a $75 credit to Tonic and a commenter from the Tonic blog will win a $75 credit for Neat & Tangled.

*Affiliate Links in text to Neat & Tangled store and below to Ellen Hutson