Tando Creative: February Kit - Vintage Twirly Whirly

Hi this month's kit is really special. There's lots you can do with it as you'll see in the great inspiration coming up from the team. When I opened mine I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it and that was vintage.

So my first step was to paint it all with black gesso. I put most of it together except the lid part just so I could get into the back.

Next I added dabs of copper metallic paint.

I then added the rust effect by using rust effect paint in gold, red and brown. Once these were dry and I added a little turquoise paint too.

For my first compartment I used the rust effect on two mini bottles and cut a piece of hessian which I frayed.

I then arranged the hessian so the bottles stood and sat on it. Next I added some little beads and ribbons.

For my little book I used an old gardening book and cut it to size, rubbed it over with vintage photo oxide ink and stamped some ink blots.

I made a little bracket for the book to put at the back so it stood upright and glued it into place. I added some inked lace and used Tando leaves from the mini 1& 3 sets. I also used some ink on them.

For the third compartment I used a Stamperia Art mould with air dry clay. Once the clay was dry I used the same rust effect on the pieces that I had broke off.

I adhered the pieces to the back of the compartment and to the floor along with some little pieces of hessian. I adhered the brush to the front of the piece.

Next I made a little picture frame for my last compartment. I used a frame and base from a Tando off cuts pack and painted them and added a little gold wax. The picture was from the same old gardening book which I added the vintage photo ink.

For this one I adhered the frame to the base and ripped and inked some papers to go under it. Next I inked some flowers from the Tando mini packs and adhered them.

To hide the nut I made a little frame. The piece on the right was actually attached to the bottom of the main frame but I cut it off to use on the back of the frame so the nut was hidden. The frame is also from Tando. I painted it with the gold and brown rust paint and added some gold wax. I then added two square, gold brads to the holes in either side. I just had this always in my stash, which I added to the middle.