We are Beautiful

 Good Morning,its Sarah here with a Scrapbooking blog post. As many of you know, Scrapbooking is my first love and i always like to get some lovely Tando embellishments onto a scrapbook page alongside a lovely photograph. I also combined it with the lovely colours fro the May colour combo challenge too

My page is called "We are Beautiful" celebrating our silly selfie moments, capturing those times as they are becoming less frequent know my daughter is quickly growing up

Materials

Tando ATC coins

Tando leaf branch and loose leaf (large)

Tando mini's: flowers

Coloured card stock

Patterned paper

Paint in Purple, Blue and Pink

Yellow Posca pen

White Posca pen

Journalling pen

Journalling embellishments

Foams pads

Good quality strong glue

Embossing folders

Tando Word: Beautiful

Instructions

I begain with gathering 16 ATC coins and my papers

I covered some in plain card stock, some in patterned paper and I painted some. when the painted ones where dry i put them through a embossing machine and then distressed them with sand paper

Next i begain arranging the ATC coins onto my patterened background paper, moving them all around so the colours where evenly dispersed. Once i was happy with the placement i stuck them all down with a really strong glue

Next i made my photo matt. I wanted to have a hidden journally section to tell the story behind the photo so i made my matt so it was hinged and the photo could go on top but the text could be tucked away underneath

I then secured the photo to the top of the ATC coins in the middle of the page with strong glue again. I used the left over waste from the ATC coins to make little journalling embellishments which i began to stick down the right hand side of the photo

I made a little tag for the bottom of the photo saying "lift me" so help open up the hinge to read the text underneath

I also decorated with hand cut flowers and leaves all around the edge of the photo. I then painted some wee Tando flowers, leaves and a Beautiful word and added them over the top of the hand cut paper flowers and leaves

To finish, i doodled around everything in either black or white pen to make it pop i bit more

I hope you like seeing what else you can do with Tando products and how they work equally as well on scrapbook projects too

Sarah xx

A Little Birdie House- Fiona Randall

 Happy Coronation Monday everyone.

 I am stopping by to bring you a little quick and easy project using a little wooden Bird House

This is the completed project.

The Tiny Birdhouse in it's undecorated state.

I started by giving the birdhouse a coat of DecoArt Media Tinting Base and dried with a heat tool.

I then gave the roof, base and the peg for the bird to sit on a coat of DecoArt Chalky Finish in Honour.

This is a wonderful dark Navy Blue Colour. 

I then gave the roof a coat of DecoArt Crackle for chalky finish paints. 

I then dried with a heat tool keeping it moving until the crackle had dried clear.

 I then applied with a sponge DecoArt Chalky finish in Everlasting. By dabbing the paint on with a sponge you will not over work and remove the crackle medium as you would with a brush.

 I find this method more forgiving and gives a much more even finish with the added bonus of no brushstrokes. I then dried with a heat tool until the cracks appeared.

I then applied washi tape from my stash which just happened to be the right width all around the walls of the birdhouse as shown. 

also washi tape was applied to the edge of the base as shown. I had a little pedestal to display the bird house on  which was already painted painted white.

To finish I fussy cut a little bird from my stash of Ephemera and attached to the birdhouse using 3d foam tape.

 I also stamped a little chocolate Baroque butterfly and glued at a jaunty angle to the roof.

A Fun, Quick and easy little project that has a vintage feel to it.

Products Used.

Tiny Wooden Birdhouse

DecoArt Chalky Finish- Everlasting

DecoArt Chalky Finish- Honour

DecoArt Crackle Medium for Chalky Finish

DecoArt Media Line White Tinting Base

Chocolate Baroque Stamps- Just Butterflies

Washi Tape and Bird Ephemera from my own stash