Spooky & Creepy by Nikki

Hi everyone,

It's Spooky and Creepy week here at Tando, and I've just got a tag to share with you that I made for Di's recent Hochanda shows, but it didn't get seen as I was poorly, so I thought I'd share with you now.

The tags were designed by my lovely teamie Fiona Randall, and brought to life by Tando.  This is just one way you could decorate yours if you were lucky to get them on Hochanda last week.

I started by putting modelling paste through a stencil, and then painting the whole tag black, front and back pieces.  They were then glued straight together, making sure I glued around the keyhole well so it was a sealed 'bezel'.

I used Pebeo Paint in Fantasy Prism, and carefully used a lolly stick to spoon paint all the way into the key shape.  When this dries it does mad things and creates fab patterns in the paint.

I painted a  spider in black, and a cobweb, and adhered to the tag.  Finally I dry brushed the whole thing with silver, to pick out the detail.

Hope you like it, don't forget to check out the rest of the team's Spooky and Creepy makes this week. x

Best Wishes,

Nikki K
xxx

Products Used:
Tando:
Spiders Grab Bag
Layered Tags
Haunted House stencil (bats)

DecoArt Media Line:
Metallic Silver
Black Gesso

Other:
Pebeo Fantasy Prisme paint.

Halloween thrills with Tando Supplies - Brenda

Hi Everyone. 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

As it's an Anything Goes week I thought I would pop in with a project and some photos of a class I taught recently at Country View Crafts using lots of Tando greyboard embellishments and their fabulous media boards.

This was my sample, a Halloween Triptych with three media boards held together with a back panel and lots of grungy techniques and images.

Several people had said they would love to do the project but were not fans of Halloween so I made a nature inspired autumnal board to use as inspiration fo those who wanted to mix it up a bit.

I took a stamp platform with me to show how to get clear stamped words on textured paper.

We had a fabulous group of ladies join us - some who had been to my workshops before and some new to CVC.

As always there were moments of fun and laughter .....

... and some of focussed concentration.

It was not long before people were designing their boards and choosing the fabulous chipboards from Tando to add to their projects.

Then we started to see different colour combinations ......

.... and the different compositions shine through.

We also saw how the DecoArt media paints and metallic lustres could combine to create some fabulous effects .....

... and how some splattering added another dimension.

You can see the mix of flowers and leaves, combined with cobwebs and spiders worked well for the Autumn boards ......

.... and how the skulls, cogs and bats could be added into the mix for the Halloween designs.

It's when all of this design and composition work is happening that I start to get excited to see how my original ideas and the techniques I used on my project get applied in different ways to create some really fabulous and unique work.

Each set of three boards were individual and personal to each participant as I encouraged them to follow their own muse and instincts putting their own personal stamp on their work.

Once the boards had come together and people were happy with the stories they were telling, we spent time on the finishing details ......

.... and everyone's projects together looked amazing. 

What do you think?

 The raven and the pumpkin are not chipboards but were created using stamps and embossing powders - they added some great textures to the pieces.

Thanks for taking time to scroll through and see the finished projects.

hugs Brenda xxx

Grey and black with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our Grey and Black week here on Tando!
 Irit is here again.
Here is my project- kind of a weird one as I made a Halloween card with Best friends sentiment. But then they look so good together, those 2 spiders, don't they?

I used Tando Spider web mask with black gesso over the glittered dotted white cardstock and then added some mist over it to make it grey. (Teal pigment was in this grey mist, so you see a bit of teal too). Both spiders were heat embossed with black powder and glued over the masked image. Then I was looking for a sentiment and this one was just great! Funny and in the right colors.
Hope you like my work this week.

And here the products I  used for this week project

Cobweb mask #2

Grab bag of spiders

Orange & Black Week - Layered Arch

Hello Tando friends, Caro is here today. As this week our theme is black & orange it's simply perfect for Halloween projects. So I have created an arch with following chipboards: Layered Arch with Cobweb, a skeleton and two pumpkins of the Tando's Mini's - Mixed Halloween Set.

I colored everything with Distress Inks and Distress Stains. The skeleton and the cobweb are white embossed and the pumpkins are clear embossed over orange Distress Stains. For the eyes I used black stickles.