Tando Creative: Tando on Create & Craft tomorrow 4th March 2022

Good morning, don't know if you have heard but tomorrow at 9am Di, Mrs Tando herself will be live on the newly combine Craft Shopping channel. She is taking some absolutely brilliant samples from the team to show what can be done with the products and will of course be demoing herself. Hope you can tune in or catch up later Di's presentations are always popular.

Thought I'd share a step by step with you by way of a teaser, using just 1/2 of the Tando Hexagon kit. This is a 3D mixed media wall hanging. The starting point an A4 size sheet of Tando Grey Board.

This is the humble board that all the wonderful shapes, designs and kit parts are cut from. You can also buy just these bare sheets. Believe me this stuff will take a battering, what ever you throw at it this board will take it.

First Layer in this case a mix of Modelling paste and some Mica Powder.

Before you spread it, it looks quite yucky but once applied the textures and tones in the mix can be seen and are interesting. While it was still wet some Brushos were sprinkled over for added interest. Sadly as the project progressed this background did not fit in and was covered. Thought I'd show you the process as it is something you want want to try for yourself.

Back to the elements that I did use and which can be seen on the finished project. As mentioned I've only used 1/2 of a Hexagon set, that in turn was split into 3 groups.

1st group

These were sprayed first with DecoArt Media Shimmer Mister in Yellow. Then again with the just their Mister in Orange.

The glass work surface was first mopped up with a couple of journal pages for future use. There was still paint there so a baby wipe cleaned up the rest, more about this later.

For the next set the frames are reversed and it is the middle hexagon that has a frame. The base one has been covered with kitchen foil. The middle one painted with Silver Modelling Paste, a black fluid/paste used on the frame. The top hexagon has a star attached, it was also going to be covered with foil but the pre-used foil (not used for cooking but hair colouring) was to fragile and later on that idea was abandoned.

For the third set it was back to the shimmer spray, this time in Violet. First the Hexagons were covered in part with the modelling paste to give more texture and an uneven spray finish.

Once again the over spray was mopped up with both journal pages and baby wipe.

Hexagons will put you in mind of bees and their honey combs, for this project the inclusion of bees felt right. An AALL and Create stamp provided just the right sort of image and fussy cut details I wanted. First the entire image was stamped once onto each of the now dry baby wipes.

It was also stamped onto a scrap of white card and the 3 main bees fussy cut from that. Time to start finishing. Everything laid out on the A4 board, the baby wipes glued in place with gel medium and a piece of AALL and Create tape placed across the middle. the tape is in fact torn so that the two pattens show each side of the middle Hexagon set, without the next patten on the roll creeping in. I just love the almost jarring effect this use of the tape gives.

I needed to find another way to decorate the middle hexagon and decided to cover the star with a silver and gold gilding flake mix. The actual hexagon was painted in with the same medium as the frame.

All finished the various pieces were glued into place. On the reverse is a hook, it came with a bra from a well known high street store that sells cloths for all genders and ages along side some rather tasty food. Fixed it in place with Silicon glue.