Spring Binder

 

Morning All Fiona here with a project for this weeks theme on the blog 'SPRING'

I have decorated a little Tando A6 Binder in a spring theme and of course

I just had to add a Butterfly.

First up the binder was given a coat Of DecoArt Chalky Finish in Carbon on both the inside and out.

I then applied two coats of DecoArt Ultra Matte Varnish to seal the binder.

A distress Ink sprayed background  was created with some stamping and heat embossing to create a panel for the binder.

More heat embossing on the Tando Moroccan Grid. Also the flowers and the butterfly were heat embossed on Duralar Film for a Dreamy effect.

 An antique mirror effect was applied to a tando acrylic circle and circle frames cut from Tando Grey Board using a circle die were added. 

Finally a Tim Holtz chipboard quote added to finish.

I am embracing the bright colours and loving it.

Thanks for stopping by today

Stay Safe

Fiona.

PRODUCTS USED.

Tando A6 Binder and Cover Pack

Tando Grid- Moroccan

Tando Grey Board Sheets

Stampendous Aged Gold Embossing Enamel

DecoArt Chalky Finish- Carbon

DecoArt Media Ultra Matte Varnish

Chocolate Baroque Just Butterflies Stamp Sheet

OTHER SUPPLIES.

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Spray Stain- Picked Raspberry, Candied Apple and Mustard Seed.

Tim Holtz Stamps- Ledger Script, Urban Elements, Urban Tapestry.

Tim Holtz Quote Chips

Ranger Distress Archival Ink- Picked Raspberry and Vintage Photo.

Paper Artsy Tracy Scott Stamps- TS052

WOW Embossing Enamel- White

Cosmic Shimmer Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel- Vintage Tarnished Gold

Versamark Ink Pad

Duralar Film

Anything Goes Week - Brenda

ANYTHING GOES - we love it when we get a week where we can share anything we like with you and I have chosen this mini album created by Di for one of her Hochanda shows.

This was  one of the samples I made for her.

Process steps. Pages

1. Cut panels from patterned paper, ink the edges and adhere to the album.

2. When dry sand back the edges and ink again..

3. Use snippets of Tim Holtz  botanical collage paper with decou-page  mate sealer/glue on each panel,sealing the complete surface of each one

4. Sand off any over hangs.

5. Paint the flowers and leaves with watery media fluid acrylics.
6. Add some die-cut leaves, tiny flowers and words.

7. Repeat the same process steps for the front and back covers.

I used small buttons and thin black elastic to make the closures.

Finished front cover

Finished back cover.

 This is such a cute size 8 x 9.5 cms and feels lovely to hold in the hand and is great as a quote book to give someone.

I hope you like this style journal/album.

Thanks for stopping by.

hugs Brenda xxx

Bumblebees and Butterflies

Colour theme for March - Brenda

This week we are working with the March colour theme which is a gorgeous palette of greens and teal. I decided to use one of the media boards from the shop.

Of course I also used my much loved DecoArt media fluid acrylics (available in the Tando store) and played with a new (to me) technique layering the acrylic paints and using water splatters to create the interesting results.

Process steps

1. Paint the media board with a thick coat of sap green, sprinkle with water droplets and leave it to sit for a minute. Start to heat the board but before the watery spots dry lay a piece of clean dry kitchen paper over it to absorb the water. It sucks up some of the paint that has mixed with the water and leaves these gorgeous splatter spots.

2. Repeat step one with a coat of cobalt teal hue. After you have lifted the paper and droplets sprinkle with water again and you get a variation of colour spots in the teal colour.

3. Now mix the lightest colour in the above palette using green gold and titanium white and repeat step 1 again. Here's where I hold my hand up and say I was so busy writing this post at the same time I forgot to heat the board (and take a photo) and laid the paper towel down lightly and pressed gently  and repeated with titanium white.

4. Take one of the Tando flowers with stems, soak it with water and when wet enough split it into three pieces. Rough up the flower petals and dry them again. Paint with acrylics, ink the tips of the petals with brown distress ink and flick with white.

I had the leaf die-cuts sitting on my desk and the flowers are from my supplies.

5. Cut a small piece of greyboard, paint it white and when dry add a remnant rub to create your focal title.

6. Sand the edges of the media board and blend the edges with brown distress ink and splatter some tiny drops of the colours used and dry.

Assemble everything together. 

The little flowers look amazing with so much texture and dimension.

I hope you like mytouch of early Spring in the colours and flower design.

Thanks for stopping by.

hugs Brenda xxx

Bumblebees and Butterflies

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

Mothers Day Week

Morning everyone,

It's Mother's Day all week here at Tando Creative, and I have a simple and quick tag make for those last minute gifts.

Take a Tando tag, add some modelling paste through a stencil and paint in Teal green.

Add metallic lustres in turquoise and rose gold randomly across the tag.

Highlight with Copper Kettle metallic lustre.

Take 3 flowers from the Tando Mini's wildflower set, and give them the same treatment, introducing further colours of metallic lustre, in enchanting emerald and cosmic blue. Layer the colours until you are happy.

Add a computer printed sentiment, given a wash of teal paint, and some turquoise lustre, with copper kettle to the edges.  A ribbon finishes the tag.

I hope this gives you some inspiration, and hope you can join us the rest of the week for more Mother's day makes from our fab team.

Best Wishes,

Nikki K. xx

Materials used:

Tando Tag
Tando Flowers Grab Bag
DecoArt Media Metallic Lustres: Rose Gold, Cosmic Blue, Copper Kettle, Enchanting Emerald,
DecoArt Americana Teal Green.
DecoArt Fleur Medallion stencil (from stash).

Flower Power with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends!

 Welcome to Tando Flower power week. 

 Today I am going to share a wooden altered board that was made with a lot of Tando products and some techniques I tried over this altered piece.

The bare wooden board was painted with  green paint and then I added  Long Flourish Tando mask and some special shiny paint made with pigments and gel medium. This was an experiment and as you can see this paint works perfectly over the regular acrylic painted board.

The half of Tando Iron gate  was painted with white gesso and then distressed with a bit of black/grey paint over the dry white gesso. 

The chipboard flowers and leaves were painted  with the same gel medium paints as the masked swirls and I just added some bling centres over them.

For this project I used Two Paper Divas Life's little sayings  is wonderful stamp set to make a statement over this altered project.

Tando products used for this project:

Tando minis- Flowers

Tando minis- Leaves 2

Wrought iron gate small

Long Flourish mask