Happy Hallowe'en tandoettes…!
What a wet and windy, cold and miserable Saturday, just right for hallowe'en and the impending announcement of a second lockdown today!!
So, what better way than to add a bit of colour than to share with you my matchbox from this week's Hochanda show - did you see them? Di was fabulous as always and shared so may techniques (you can always watch on rewind if you missed them)
So, here is my matchbox and inserts….
Morning all it's Halloween Week here on the Tando Blog.
Rather than the Traditional Halloween of Scary withches, Pumpkins, Skeletons and Bats I decided to go Dark and Gothic With a Poe themed project.
It's my turn for this weeks 3D theme and I'm sharing a different take on Di's 'Butterfly Frame' workshop.
I painted the backboard in midnight chalk paint, and then applied crackle glaze with a sponge. The top coat was chalkboard grey. This left a fine crackle. I highlighted it with red paint just by dry brushing, and stamped a text stamp over the top.
The next layer is the arched frame, and was painted in midnight, and then dry brushed in silver.
The top frame was also painted in midnight, and crackle glaze applied. Over this I sponged warm white, which gives a distressed crackled look.
I whitewashed the text page, and adhered the painted plaster heart to the centre of the frame.
Some transfers were added on the frame, and the diamonds were painted black and stamped in red text.
Hope you like it.
You can still purchase the workshop here, and it will have instructions for Di's lovely Butterfly Frame. I just thought I would show you a darker take on it. x
Have fun crafting,
Best Wishes,
Nikki
x
Hello folks,
This week we are all a-buzz on the design team! We might look like elegant swans, but below the surface we are paddling like crazy, tweaking our tutorials, testing our live feeds, testing our setups, making sure the sound levels are right, furiously re-checking and testing (well the newer members of the team are anyway 😂) and its all looking good 👍
If you are signed up to the Comfy Pyjama On Line Retreat and have seen my intro (Unit 13), I mention that I'm a mixed media creator and I describe that as 'I stick stuff to other stuff'! As this weeks theme is 3D, and there might be new creators in our audience, I thought I'd show you some of the stuff I'd stuck together recently... Did I mention we'd been really busy with testing and re-testing ☺. I cant even begin to tell you how much work and brilliant co-ordination Di and Lesley, and everyone has put in. The response from all the delegates has been wonderful.
Did I mention we are buzzing? 😀.
Back to my little project: here I've used a 2.5' square of Tando greyboard that came in a mixed bag in the 'Happy Box' we normally have at the Mixology Retreat.
I hope to see you over the weekend, in one or more of the classes, have fun and join in as much as you can for maximum enjoyment. Dont forget to keep those raffle numbers to hand as the prizes are really fab... Being the last class of the weekend, Di has reserved an especially wonderful prize 😙
Thanks for popping in, and don't forget to check out the posts from the rest of the design team in the blog.
clock faces: https://www.tando-creative.co.uk/MNTGSCLCKS.html
hearts: https://www.tando-creative.co.uk/GRBBGHEARTS.html
Decoart paint: https://www.tando-creative.co.uk/media-fluid-acrylics.html
Embossing powder: https://www.tando-creative.co.uk/FREG037.html
and various bits from my stash.
Good morning, Heidi here to share another project.
We have the wonderful theme of 'Nature' this week, such a great subject to craft with and the little elements from the Tando Mini Tags fit so well.
Here is my project using the following Tando products :
Tando - Mini Tags - Hearts, Flowers, Leaves and Woodland
Other products Used :
Tim Holtz - Distress Sprays - 'Vintage Photo', 'Crackling Campfire' and 'Antique Linen'
Americana Decor Chalky Finish paints - 'Enchanted' and 'Inheritance' (available from Tando shop)
DecoArt Media paints - 'Pymole Red' and 'Titan Buff' (available from Tando shop)
Hobby Art Stamp set - 'Mix it Up'
Thats Crafty stamp set - 'Lots of Words'
Watercolour card, Archival Inkpad 'Coffee', Posca Pen and some cotton threads.
Method :
Start by drawing around house shape twice, measure and cut pieces of water colour card, to cover roof and sides of house.
Spray Distress inks across the card pieces and dry off with heat gun.
Paint all nature elements using DecoArt paints and leave to dry.
Using Archival ink to stamp elements around the house and on roof pieces. Once dry, stick pieces down onto house.
Stamp up little sentiment elements, cut out and edge with inkpad.
Stick down all elements adding cotton threads under the owl.
Add grey board elements as desired, then sentiments and lastly posca pen dots.
That's my project completed, hope you have enjoyed it and another Tando project will be along soon.
Heidi x
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It’s Celia here with this weeks theme - nature. I've just got hold of some of the Chocolate Baroque flower stamps, so I thought these would be perfect. I used a large arch for this project. I thought it would be fun to try and make it into a window.
I painted the arch frame with Burnt Umber and the back with Titan Buff. Then I applied some crackle paste to the frame and immediately sprinkled some different embossing powders over, whilst the paste was still wet. Then I set it aside to dry. I have been binge-watching Tim Holtz's fb lives and the one on embossing glazes gave me this idea. When the paste was dry and cracked, I heated the embossing powder. As it melts, it runs down into the cracks to give a very cool effect. I dabbed on some paint in a few areas to blend it all together.
For the back piece, I blobbed on some crackle paste, sand paste and modelling paste to get some texture going on. When this was dry, I went in with some washes of Burnt Umber, Sap Green and Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide, dabbing them on in different places. I kept adding paint until I was happy with the result. Then I added some gilding paste in a few places for highlights.
For the window, I used a piece of acrylic that came with some stamps. I cut it to just smaller than the arch frame, and stamped the flowers from the Thistle Butterfly set from Chocolate Baroque, using black Stazon. I used a stamping platform for this as I am a terrible stamper and usually smudge it! Then I coloured it. I started using Promarkers, but as they are alcohol based they smudged the ink. I dabbed it on carefully in some places and used various other pens to get the effect I wanted.
I wanted to add some leaves to the background, but since it's all bumpy I couldn't stamp directly on. So I stamped on to tissue and glued it on with mat medium. The edges disappeared nicely into the texture, so I was pleased with the result!
To assemble the piece, I stuck the acetate to the frame with double sided tape. I then used some book tape to make a hinge so that the window opens and closes.
Here's the finished frame:
Thanks for stopping by,
Celia x
Hello, Carol with you this week. What a change in the weather since last weekend! think we've missed out Autumn altogether and hurtled into winter.
Today I'm showing you my October 366 folder and files. If your a regular visitor to our blog on colour week you will know that each months colours have been used for my files and folders and today I'm going to show you some of the pages I've inserted (or will be inserting) into those files…
So, firstly here are this months colours:-
and here are my folders and files…
