Resist Week- Fiona Randall

 

Morning all Fiona here with this weeks theme- Resist.

There are many ways and techniques to achieve a resist effect in your project 

and I have used two of the many that are out there to discover.

I have used one of my Layered Tags produced by Tando for my project this week.

The main cut out base tag uses the wax paper resist technique.  Wax paper was embossed in an embossing folder placed on top of the tag which was given a coat of DecoArt Tinting base. The tag was then sandwiched between to pieces of copier paper to create a sandwich. Then ironed with a dry iron gently moving over the tag. The heat of the iron melts the embossed waxed design and transfers it onto the tag base. The tag was then inked with Aged Mahogany and Rusty Hinge distress inks and gently dried with a heat tool. Once dry the tag was gently wiped back with a damp paper towel to reveal the resist pattern of the wax transfer. The second resist technique was applied to the top keyhole plate using the clear embossing method. Stamping was applied to the key plate using Ground Espresso Archival ink and a text stamp. Whilst the ink is still wet sprinkle on clear embossing powder and heat set. Vintage photo distress ink was then applied to the bare grey board. The embossed text resist the inking. The base of the triple layered tag was then coloured to tie in and all pieces assembled as shown. Elements were added to finish and the tag then layered onto a piece of Tando Grey Board cut to size. This had been given a coat of DecoArt Chalky Finish in Carbon and then stamped with black archival ink using a text stamp.

Here's a close up of the resist techniques used.

A fun project exploring the many ways to achieve a resist effect.

Thanks for stopping by today

Stay Safe Fiona xx

Products Used.

Layered Tags Bundle 2- Designed by Fiona Randall

Assorted Plaques

Octagonal Frames

DecoArt Chalky Finish- Carbon

DecoArt Media White Tinting Base

DecoArt Metallic Lustre- Copper Kettle

Other Supplies

Distress Ink Pads- Rusty Hinge, Aged Mahogany, Vintage Photo

Archival Ink Pads- Black and Ground Espresso

Tim Holts Stamp set by Stampers Anonymous- Distressed Text

Baroque Embossing Folder- Crafters Companion

Lindys Stamp Gang Spray- Cowabunga Copper

Butterflies -My own.

Christmas Week 2- Fiona Randall

 

Morning all I'm back with my second Christmas Project for week 2 of Christmas.

I decided to creat a Christmas Sleigh from scratch from Tando Grey Board Sheets.

For the sleigh Blades I cut two strips of Grey Board, rounded the corners on one end then sprayed with water and curved the grey board around a paint bottle.

As the grey board dries it hold the shape of the curve- Neat eh. One dry these were given a coat of media fluid Acrylic in Raw Umber.

Onto the top of the sleigh next. 

A piece of Tando grey board was cut and the top given a rounded shape.

A distressed finish was then added with DecoArt Chalk Paints, then scored with a pokey tool to create the look of wood panels. 

Vintage Music paper was then applied to a small Tando Tag size 1 and the edges inked.  A paper Snowflake was the die cut from Christmas Scrapbook paper from my stash.

 A small Tando Mini Snowflake was given a coat of chalky finish paint and the edges inked and then the snowflake assembled.

This was then attached to the tag along with some stringed silver bells.

 Everything was then assembled to complete the sleigh using off cuts of grey board to give depth and dimension.

Isn't it amazing what you can construct from a sheet of grey board and your imagination.

Thanks for stopping by today

Stay Safe

Fiona xx

PRODUCTS USED.

Tando Tags Size 1

Tando Grey Board Sheets

Tando Mini Snowflakes

DecoArt Chalky Finish- Everlasting

DecoArt Chalky Finish- Relic

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic- Raw Umber

OTHER SUPPLIES

Tim Holtz Snowflake Rosette Die

Christmas Scrapbook paper

Distress Archival Ink Pad- Ground Espresso

String

Mini Silver Bells

Vintage Music Paper.

Apeture week- Box Frame by Fiona Randall

 

 

Morning all,

It's Apeture week here at Tando, and today I thought I would share a Box Frame with you.

 

 

I used the Fabulous Stamperia Paper Pad - Time is an Illusion to cover all the greyboard pieces that come with the kit and inked all the edges before adhering to the box frame. Next up Stamperia Gold Crackle paste through the Tando Flourish long stencil. The frame and the Tando compass and the rest of the embellishements were given a coat of DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic in metallic gold. DecoArt Black Antiquing Cream was then applied to all embelishments and the frame before wiping back to give an aged / eroded metal effect. Another piece of the stamperia paper from the pad was applied to the inner box frame, Then the embellishments were all layered up using off cuts of grey board to give depth and dimension. The frame pieces were then attached and futher embelishments were added to opposite corners finish.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

 

Stay Safe

 

Fiona xx

 

 

Products Used

 

 

 

 

Andy Skinner Industrial Box Frame

 

Tando Compass Duo

 

Tando Grab Bag of Circles

 

Tando Long Flourish Stencil

 

 

 

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics- Metallic Gold

 

DecoArt Antiquing Cream- Black

 

Other Products.

 

Stamperia Paper Pad- Time is an Illusion.

 

Stamperia Gold Crackle Paste.

 

Stazon Midi Ink Pad- Ganache.

 

Tim Holtz 3d Impresslits-663298

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 



stencil Week - Tag Tryptic by Fiona Randall

 

Morning all it's the start of another week here on the Tando Blog and this weeks theme is stencils.

 

 

 

 

I decided to create a Tag Tryptic Using Tando Size 7 tags and a Tando Mini Stencil- Flourish.

Painty Background created on the gelli plate. Stenciling with gold crackle paste through the flourish stencil and stamping to finish off before assembling together.

 

Do check back this week to see what the other team members have in store for you.

we really appreciate you stopping by.

 

Fiona.

 

Products used.

 

 

 

Tando -Size 7 Tags

 

Tando Mini Stencil- Flourish

 

 

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics- Primary Yellow and Quinacrodone Violet

 

DecoArt Premium Acrylic- Carbon Black

 

Other Supplies

 

Stamperia- Gold Crackle Paste.

Archival Ink Pad- Black

Paper Artsy Stamps by Tracy Scott- Eclectica 31 and Eclectica 35.

Posca Pen- White.

 

 

Spray Inks/Paints Week- Fiona Randall

Morning all Fiona here with my contribution to this weeks theme which is spray Inks/ Paints.

 

 

I've gone for the paint approach but sprayed it. This is achieved by mixing the colour of paint with water in a mini mister bottle and voila you have spray paint.

 

I started by base coating a piece of Tando Chipboard with DecoArt Media Titan Buff. I then applied Paste through a stencil and allowed to dry. Next Up I sprayed with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic in Dioxazine Purple. Varying the strength of mixes to get different tones of the same colour drying between each application. Further spraying was added with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic in Carbon Black and DecoArt Extreme Sheen in Vintage Brass but in short sharp bursts to create a spatter effect. A  Large and Small Tando Distressed heart were given a coat of DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic in Quinacrodone Violet mixed with a little Carbon Black. Both were the spattered with the Vintage Brass Spray Mix and then edged with the neat paint of the same colour. Cogs from my Craftalong Kit Cogs Sheet and a Tando Embelishment were then given a coat of the vintage brass paint also. A set of wings from a Finnabair mould were given a coat of watered down DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic in Dark Grey Value 3 and then swiped with DecoArt Metallic Lustre in Burnished Brass to highlight the raised Areas. All pieces were then layered with off cuts of grey board to give depth and dimension on the Chipboard  base. Finally the sentiment was added to the small Heart to finish.

 

 

Here's a Close Up of the Detail.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by

Fiona.

 

Products used.

 

Tando Products.

 

Distressed Hearts Large.

 

Grab Bag of Hearts.

 

Tando Pack of A4 Chipboard Sheets

 

Fiona Randall Craftalong Kit Cogs Sheet

 

 

 

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics- Titan Buff, Carbon Black, Quinacrodone Violet, Dioxazine Purple, Dark Grey Value 3.

 

DecoArt Extreme Sheen- Vintage Brass

 

DecoArt Metallic Lustre- Burnished  Brass.





Beautiful Dreams door hanger with Irit

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

This week the design team members were challenged to make projects with embossing powders.

So here is my door hanger made with Tando stencils, chipboards, door hanger and lots of DecoArt media line products.

First I made the background with 3 different Tando mini stencils and texture paste.
Then I heat embossed the background and front chipboard pieces with gold embossing powder  and then it was misted over with acrylic paint with added water.
 Then the piece was covered with DecoArt Crackle glaze and the result is just gorgeous!

 Tando products used:
Mini mask Clock


Mini mask  Splatters


Mini mask Post mark


 Door hangers Style A


Grid Square


Scribbles


Textured Hearts



DecoArt Media line

Anything Goes Continued!!!

Today I have a mans card for you.  There is no chipboard involved but I used the stamps and stencils that we sell...

 

Lightly dry brush some Quinacridone Gold over the Kraft Card and when that is dry do the same with Cobalt Turquoise and a little Primary Magenta.  When dry overstamp with Nathalie Kalbach's MARKS stamp in Archival Black.  Dab some white acrylic through the Mini Mask Numbers as shown.

 

Stamp the eye from Andy Skinners Curiosity stamp set using Archival black and colour in (I used the same colours as before but watered down)  Cut out and attach to the centre of the base using a sticky pad.  Dry brush some white acrylic around the outside.  Attach the panel to a white card base.

 

Thank you for taking a look today, take care, Karen x

Media Boards inspiration with Irit

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

This week we were challenged to make something with Tando Mixed Media boards.

So I made this altered tag with the smallest board and a lot more of Tando chipboards and stencils.

As you can see the background was made with Tando stencil and DecoArt texture paste.
Then I added a half of Tando gate chipboard. Over the chipboard I added Tando wings that were stamped over.
On the top I added resin casted piece and stamped and die cut images (Inspired by Stamping).
I decided to stay in greens and copper shades only and used copper wax over the chipboards and copper embossing powder over the stamped pieces.

 Tando products used:
Mixed Media boards


Wrought Iron gate small


Wings set


Harlequin mask


 DecoArt Media line

Anything Goes Week

Hi!  I couldn't resist this large 11"square MDF frame when I saw it and bought a few :-D  This one has been decorated with lots of DecoArt Mixed Media products available from Tando.

To start I drew around the inner side of the outer section (that made sense in my head hahaha!) then glued some embellishments inside the square I had drawn.  I also added some of the removed sections of the textured heart I was going to add later...

Then I went over it all with some gesso...

Then some Primary Magenta mixed with a little Tinting Base...

Nooooooooo.....TOO BRIGHT so I dulled it back with some more gesso :-D ...

The MDF surround and the Textured Heart were painted in Cobalt Teal Hue mixed with Tinting Base.  When dry I spread Crackle Glaze over the Teal Hue.  When that was dry I added a layer of Antiquing Cream in White which was wiped off again when dry.  Then it was all put together.

Thank you for taking a look today, take care, Karen xxx

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

Adding Fabric Week

I love adding fabric to this chipboard and have done it a few times.  It adds a completely different dimension.  Today I have covered a *heart* and added it to a *media board*.

I beaded the fabric before I glued it onto the heart, tucking the raw edges around to the back.  For the media board I gesso'd and then laid some *crackle paste* through the *heart* mask.  When it was dry I gently sponged on some *DecoArt Yellow Green Light* followed by *Primary Magenta* until I felt the balance was right.  A little light stamping and a torn strip of fabric finishes it off.

For more idea on using fabric with our products take a look in our Gallery *here*.

Thank you for looking today and do call again.  Hugs, Karen x

Tag week with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first Tando post for 2017.
New year means new  word that we usually pick as our Word of the Year.
My word for 2017 is Journey. Yes, I am not yet sure what Journey it will be, but it should be new, unexplored and exiting.
So as you can see my altered Mixed Media tag is all about this journey.
I made it as a stone road and the sky with stars, as I don't really know  the right way  of this journey.
 And it says " Imagine your next journey"; so you can understand that I am totally not sure about the way.
I used Tando Crocodile stencil to make the stone effect with texture paste (DecoArt) and glitter embossing powders (WOW! Embossing Powders).
When it was dry (heat gun sure worked here extra ) I misted it with copper mist and added DecoArt Crackle paste over the edges. When it was dry I added DecoArt Acrylic paint over the paste.

Tando large chipboard stars were covered with gold and blue embossing powders and then with DecoArt Crackle Glaze and I love the effect a lot.
The arrow was heat embossed with gold powder and then misted with blue mist.
The round golden dots are the left overs from Tando Round. background chipboard and I love to embellish with them as you can paint then to any color to fit your project.

I hope that you like my tag and my word and see you soon again!
Tando products used:
 Tando minis Arrows


Grab bag of stars


Round chipboard


Crocodile stencil


DecoArt Media line