Tando Art Block - by Zoë Sanderson

 This is my little block of Butterflies.

This is a very light hearted piece, playing with lots of different mediums and ideas.  As always it started with a Tando kit waiting to be put together.

As always precision cut making them easy to assemble with snug fitting sides.  I'd decided to leave one end of my block open so the picture above shows one piece less than the full kit provided.  The box is constructed with PVA art and craft glue.

                                

Once the glue had dried it was time to paint them.  On the outside Pretty Gets Gritty Chalk paints were applied with a sponge.   Both colours on the same sponge and blended together.

On the inside a grey colour applied.  Then of course another wait for the paint to dry.

An older Tando stencil placed over the corner on one side.  Now I did have the bright idea of applying a stencil glue to this to help keep it in place.

With transparent embossing paste pushed through glitter were sprinkled over.  Problem the residue from that stencil adhesive left on the box also attracted some of the glitter.   Fortunately it is a glue that is designed for repositioning the stencil and when the paste had dried I was able to brush away the mess, well most of it anyway.

Time to stamp and fussy cut a couple of butterflies, using one of my old trusted and favourite butterfly stamps.

With another stencil and gilding glue my favourite work Laugh had bee added along with some random lines.  Silver gilding flakes had been added here, and as the glue had spread under the stencil to make the word stand out a silver liner pen went over the actual letters stopping it from becoming a messy silver spolge.

As butterflies had become the dominate them I pulled out some Tando butterflies and coloured them with Pearlywinks keeping to the pink purple pallet.

Before the butterflies had dried they were popped into the tray with the glitter still in it.  A couple of them randomly picked up glitter.

A fun little muck around that with drying time, and other projects also calling for attention, actually took a few days to complete and is now a handy little box for the desk.

Products used

Tando Art Blocks

Tando Stencil 

Tando Butterfly Grab Bag

Heavy Gel Medium

Anita's Tacky PVA Glue

All Other items from my craft stash.