Steampunk tag with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Tando post.

This is our Tag week and I made this Steampunk tag using Tando tag and a lot of other Tando products.

The background was made with the same shape of mask as the next chipboard layer.

 All chipboard pieces were arranged one over another to make this layered tag  using DecoArt Media lines products.

A few metal pieces were added and painted in the same hues as the chipboards and it's ever hard to tell if the piece is metal or chipboard one.

Tando products used:
Long tags



Small clock


Mask Grid Moroccan


Grid Moroccan


Mini mask Distressed Diamond


Rustic hearts

Wings set

DecoArt Media line

Free for all week: Tropical house

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last February Tando post.
This chipboard Tando house was in my stash for ages. I never tried to do anything with it as I don't have a space to show it.
 But when my lovely 3 years old grand daughter asked if I can make her a house, this was like " yes, dear, I will do one for you".
So  I made her a tropical house as we live in  pretty much tropical weather, using Scrapberry's Tropical paper collection.
Each single piece was painted. I used Bamboo background mask to make the bamboo images over the front of this tropical house.
The roof was paper covered and I added the paper fence and some Tando chipboard flowers.
The three years old is very glad with the house.
I am very glad that I finally used my Tando older stash for this Anything goes week.

 Tando products used:
3d House


Tando minis Flowers


Bamboo background mask

Tando recipe week with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our Tando recipe week.
This week we were asked to use  one embossing folder, 2 ribbons and 3 gems.
So here is my altered tag with all products on it.
For the tag I used one of TANDO packages'  inside pieces: each Tando product has this packaging " tag" as it's just a perfect product for recycling.
So this " tag" was dry embossed with Sizzix Tim Holtz Postcard embossing folder. Then I decided to add more texture and used Tando Alphabet mask with heavy gel medium for more almost non- seen texture.
Then this tag was painted with DecoArt Mixed Media line paints and highlighted with  gold paint.
Tando new  Rustic Star was painted over and embellished with metal pieces.

The bottom part was embellished with a piece of Tando  Lace effect border and then I added those three gems over it.

The ribbons were added on the top of this altered tag and as your see I made the title as Share Hope. 

So share your own hopes and we all be happy!

 Tando products used:
Tando packaging
Lace effect borders

Giovanna- Alphabet mask

Rustic stars


DecoArt  Media line products

Recipe week with Irit

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my small altered project made for Tando Creative challenge week. We were asked to use one stencil, 2 buttons and 3 colors.

This is a kind of " use your leftovers project". The pieces that I added to make this " castle"  are the insides of Tando arches and mini book and I actually added 5 of them one over another to make the shape.
Each piece was covered with one single Tando stencil on the top: this fancy Moroccan roof is a small stencilled piece made with DecoArts texture paste and then heat embossed with gold powder.
Each piece was stamped with Rubber Dance background stamp-Flourishes- using clear embossing ink and the same gold embossing powder. Then  each one of 5 pieces was painted with DecoArts paint and as the stamped images act as resist we still can see the gorgeous embossed background.
I stamped the sentiment with Rubber Dance stamp from ATC Backgrounds 2 (I didn't stamp the name of the author  that is on this stamp, but saying only). Again this was stamped with the same gold heat embossing and painted with the very same dark blue paint.
As my finishing touches I added this clock on the top and two real vintage gold buttons.
You can now imagine that this is your home. Or that you live like 500 years ago in this castle. Just IMAGINE!

Tando products used:
A Skinner stencil- Baroque


Tripled arch layered frame- the insides of it


Layered arch with cobwebs- the backside piece only


Decoarts products used:
Prussian blue fluid acrylic paint
Media interference Gold
Cobalt teal fluid acrylic paint
White modelling paste

Winter Holidays with Irit

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Holidays post.
This time I am going to share a lovely frame made with Tando rectangle frame, stamped sentiment  and some simple stickers.
 The chalkboard trend is still very popular, so I made my own chalkboard using Tando packaging as the base of this board and pigmented black ink as the paint for the packaging.
I  waited for the ink to be dry and then stamped the sentiment with white ink and white embossing powder.
The sides of this frame were embellished with Paper House puffy and die cut stickers.
 So easy to make and so lovely!
You sure can do the very similar project for any Holiday. How about Valentine?  Paint the frame into pink/red; add Love sentiment  in the middle and add some hearts and flowers over the frame.
And so on and so on...

Tando product used:

 Large Rectangle frame 

Bling it up with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Bling it Up post. 
As we are close to Christmas, I am glad to share one of my Christmas projects and this time it's a blingy ornament.

I used Tando Round frame, painted in red paint as the base of this ornament, covered on the back with patterned paper and stamped over it Holidays image.

 Then I covered Tando Star with tons of golden sparkle embossing powder. As the next step I added die cut trees and added even more glitter and red pearls over it.

It's hard to see how much glitter is over this project and it sure shine and bling!

Hope you liked my way to use Tando products to make your own ornaments. More ornaments are to be seen in  my next posts.

I die cut 2 trees and then glittered them with a mix of green and gold glitter.

Then both trees were arranged over the chipboard star and some red pearls were added as " ornaments".

Tando products used:

 Christmas Star small

Large oval  frame

Happy Halloween with Irit!

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Halloween week project.
And as always- for like three years- I make a Haunted house with Tando House shaped printer tray.
Nothing can compare to those trays for the Halloween projects!
And even with this single Tando piece and then some stickers, flowers and other embellishments this a wicked Halloween project that can be shown on your door or your wall.

Tando products used:

Mini House Printer Tray

NYC that never sleeps

 Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I am going to share my eternal love aka Tando Printer's trays.
So as you can see this is a tray with a cover and I made it as my NYC love piece.

There are a few places around the world that you can love or hate.  New York is such a place for most of us. Some are just fascinated by this huge never ending city; some, like my husband, visited it a couple of times and would never come back. For me New York is the whole world! I love this city and I am in love with it. I can come back twice a year and still find new places to visit, new food to try or new shops with unbelievable sales. I love the streets, the smell and the lights of this unique city. So making New York deco was a great fun.
Others than the tray Tando products were used here too:

The scalloped frame on the cover and the Grid rectangle background in the  right inside of the cover.

I used PHP  themed papers and stickers and made a few die cuts to add to my deco piece. 

Tando products used:

  Mini Printer tray with cover

Scalloped nested rectangles


Grid rectangle

Chalkboard table deco with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Stencils post.
I love Tando stencils and use them a lot. But sometimes I just add a piece of stencil over my  craft piece as I need a small embellishment  and nothing more. This project was this kind of a " add a piece of stencil" crafty  piece.
 I made this self made To do list chalkboard holder and yes, this is a real chalkboard cardstock  where you can write things with real chalk. So to make it interesting I stamped  TPD To do list image  from Paper Elements 1 set over black chalkboard cardstock (DCWV) and heat embossed it with white powder as I want it to stay like forever. Who I am kidding? Maybe for a few weeks if we write and wipe and rewrite and wipe. But then we can always  stamp another board and another and another.
I made the texture flourish with Tando Long Flourish  mask and texture paste and heat embossed it with some clear glitter.

By the way- you can paint the back side of this triangle stand with black chalkboard paint and yo use a chalkboard marker for your extra notes too, such as a shopping lists.
 Tando stencil used:
Long Flourish