Using up some left overs - By Zoë Sanderson

This is not so much a project as a play with Tando bits and pieces.   Casting around for something, anything, to get inky and messy with my box of Tando provided some food for thought!   The end result is this journal page.   Which makes me smile every time I look at it, the bright bold colours and the naive style is very appealing.  Added to which it was a lot of fun!  If precise, neat and tidy is your thing then this is not for you.  But if you enjoy just messing around with no finale plan in place and prefer a more playful organic approach then you might find a few ideas here.

Having discovered the parts left in the Large Whimsical Birds kit (to be seen on TV 9am 4th March 2022) it occurred to me that they do not have to be legs and feet or cockerel combs but could also be plants/weeds/growing things.   So I laid them onto a blank journal page and added another Whimsical Bird to start my layout.

Pieces removed out came the watercolours and sprays to start a background.  Different shades of blue applied with a water brush and randomly brushed across the page.   Then the "plants" were put in place and strayed with yellow and white.

Then I started choosing colours to work with, in the end I used every single on in the picture below.   Strong Bright Bold Cheerful colours an antidote to the overcast wet and windy weather we have been subjected to recently.

By now some other Tando pieces had been pulled out, another Whimsical Bird Some Butterflies and a couple of Flowers.   Everything given a coat or two of acrylics right out of the pot.  It is not clear in the picture(s) but both of the Whimsical Birds and both flowers were given a top coat of the Interference paints.  These paints add a second tone that shows up as the page moves in the light.

When the "plants" were moved after spraying the masked areas of the page stood out bright and so I decided to offset the Tando pieces to allow the unsprayed parts of the page to peep through.  Everything attached with normal adhesive except for the now purple bird at the bottom of the page, on this one a glass gel was used on the main body which enhances the Interference further and gives the bird a very glass like finish.

To me there is something of an underwater world about this page but you might see it very differently.  Thats all part of the fun of an organic page like this.

Products Used

Tando Large Whimsical Birds

Tando Whimsical Birds

Tando Floral Grab Bag

Tando Butterfly Grab Bag

DecoArt Media Acrylics in Various colours

DecoArt Media Interference in Various colours

Watercolours, Sprays, Adhesives and Glass Gel all from my stash.

Anything Goes........

Helloooooooooo,

I have a wall hanging for you today made from an upturned insert from the arabian style layered arch .....

Lots of fun to make and build up. I have put the top two pictures up as the flash shows stenciling and gloss better in the first picture and the non-flash picture picks up the crackle nicely.

Here is what I used.....

Arabian style layered arch

Floral grab bag

  

Tall leaves

Sunburst

If you fancy playing along with any of our themes this month we would love to see what you come up with. Please feel free to share your makes through the linky tool at the top of the page. You will be entered in the monthly draw and be in with the chance of winning some fab Tando goodies.

Many Thanks for popping by and leaving a comment if you feel you would like to.

Hugs 

Dawn x 

Anything Goes by Dee

Hi everyone I hope you are well and enjoying the summer.

I have a media board for you today.

I coloured a media board with chalky based paint and then 

sprayed with colour spray's.

I used the floral grab bag, tall leaves and Flourish 5.

These were painted with deco art media paint and gold embossed.

Small clock faces were stamped onto card coloured and covered

 in crackle accents.

The dragon fly was stamped onto the media board and embossed.

I stamped the dragon fly onto distress coloured card and cut out.

Everything was glued into place and bead embellishments were used 

to finish off the dragon fly.

PRODUCTS USED

1. Tando creative Flourish 5, Floral grab bag, Tall leaves &  Media boards.
2. Deco art Media paints.

Anything Goes Quick Card

For this week's Anything Goes I've gone for another quick and simple card:

I put some of DecoArt's ~{White Modelling Paste}~ through the centre of the ~{Tornado Stencil}~ and when it was dry, added a little gelato with my finger for a slight colour.

I painted one of the flowers from the ~{Floral Grab Bag}~ with DecoArt's ~{Quinacridone Violet Fluid Acrylic}~ and then added some of the White chalk paint to the centre. Once this was dry, I added some white pen doodles.

The centre of the flower is one from the ~{Button Grab Bag}~ painted with white chalk paint and ~{Cobalt Teal Fluid Acrylic}~. This is finished off with some twine and a greeting stamp.

You can join us with our themes to be in with the chance of winning some Tando goodies. All the details are in the May Link Up button at the top of this blog.

Kaz xxx

Yellow and Black - Bee Happy Arch

Hi Tando fans! Dana here today sharing an arch for the Black and Yellow theme this week. I've been wanting to use this set of embossing folders for some time and this color palette was the motivation I had been looking for. I started with an inside cut from the Arabian-Style Layered Arch Frame.

I added some small flowers from the Floral Grab Bag. I primed them with several light coats of gesso and then dabbed on some pale yellow ink and finished them with some doodling and a metal pearl.

I chose a small cloud from the Grab Bag of Clouds to add to this arch for a touch of whimsy. I just used a simple coat of gesso to color this piece that I topped with an embossed bee.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!