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

I love Autumn mini book cover with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last September Tando post.
This week we are showcasing Leaves and I decided to make a cover for the very small (ATC size) notebook using BoBunny new Fall line and Tando chipboard.
The notebook was first covered with fancy patterned paper .
Then I colored Tando lovely Book plate and Leaves with DecoArt  Media line paints and arranged them on the book cover. One I LOVE AUTUMN sticker and a few pearls and this lovely cover was all done.

Tando products used:
DecoArt Media line Fluid acrylics
Leaves group- pointed


Mini book plates

Spring canvas : Paint week with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to Tando Paint week.
This is a really easy thing to make with Tando chipboard / stencils or a mix of both.

I decided to stay with chippies and used this card size canvas, lots of paints and some gorgeous Tando chipboards.
 The canvas was covered with gesso and then I glued all chipboards with gesso over gesso. When it was dry I just added a mix of acrylic paints ... with fingers. No brushes, rollers or even old credit card. Just my bare fingers. Dirty ones after the piece was made.

 I think that this can be done with kids too as they love to work with fingers and acrylics - not sure- are kids save. And if not- any other paint that is kids save will work.
Tando chipboards used here:

Mini pack of birds



Leaves 3 minis




Leaves 1 minis

Free for all for October with Irit

 Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit is here again and I made another Printer's tray. Again. And AGAIN.
 I  just love them so much that I can't stop to make them.
So no real explanation here, but a lot of background and non background stamping, using Rubber Dance company stamps; Bookplate again. Help me- I am addicted to those chipboards!

 Some more cloes-ups here:

Leaves are colored with Gelatos and covered with Glossy Accents. They look real, don't they?

 Tando products used for this project:

Minis leaves 3

Book plate mini

Printers tray

Autumn Colors Canvas

Hey there Tando Fans!!!  It's Kerri here with a great little project share using some great Tando goodies!!! 

This is a 5"x7" canvas board.  I used my Shimmerz Texturez, Meri-Gold Digger and Artie-Choked, to create the background along with the Tando Mask - Oblong Square Long.  The Owl was colored with Faber-Castell Big Brush Markers and then I put two layers of clear UTEE over it.  The green leaf at the bottom was colored with two layers of spruce green UTEE, the other leaf was colored with copper Viva Decor Ink Gold.  The chipboard letters are from The Paper Studio and I painted them with red acrylic paint and then coated them with red poppy UTEE.  (Painting them before coating them with UTEE definitely makes a difference.)

If you have any questions or want to see any techniques just ask and I can do a tutorial for you :)

Here are pictures of and links to the Tando Products that I used:

Tando Mask - Oblong Square Long

Tando Mini's - Leaves 1

Tando Mini's - Owls

I hope you enjoyed my project and that I have inspired you all to buy some awesome Tando Goodies over at their retail store :)

Happy Crafting!!

Autumn Colours - Little Canvas

I've had a little pack of hardboard canvases forever and a day and I finally cracked open the packaging and worked with one!

Apples are from my tree!

To tie in with this weeks theme of Autumn Colours I thought Kaz Boughton's mask - Tree and Leaves  would create the ideal scene for showcasing those glorious autumnal colours.

Tree and Leaves

I used Distress Ink to colour the main parts of the design and then used some Viva Decor 3D Glitter Gel to create some 3d effects for the leaves and apples.

 

Autumn is my very favourite season, I love all the colours in nature at this time of year, don't you?!

Caroline ♥

Autumn colors with Irit

 Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit is here today with my new Fall inspiration.
I love fall, also we don't have this real fall in Israel. We just have two seasons: summer and a very hot summer. But then I was born in Russia and there we  had all those falling leaves and fantastic fall colours. So this project is made with my childhood memories: colours and smell and a lot of falling leaves around.
I made this frame with a mix of distress inks and some embossing powders and my leaves were painted with FC gelatos and covered with glaze. The book plate was also inked and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The background  paper and the title sticker are from PHP.

  Tando products used for this project:

Minis leaves 3

Scalloped nested  rectangles

Mini book plate

Hope : book cover week

Hello my dear crafty friends! Today I am going to share my new book cover and it's totally gorgeous NEW chipboard  kit you Must buy! Neil Walker made an outstanding work with those book kits !
 I had so much fun making this project!

First of all I connected 2 chipboards with some sticky tape (I had binding red tape, but who cares as it's not seen after all). Then I covered it with vintage style Prima papers and made the spine with Core' dinations embossable cardstock, distressed to see the same pink as on the  paper.
I heat embossed it all around with black embossing powder and used the same powder for the scalloped square in the middle.
Then I added some Tando minis: leaves and flowers , all hear embossed with a mix of powders over this square.
The title was made with Tando letters (OK,heat embossed again... LOL. I also design for embossing powders company, so those are products in hands and I used them a lot).
The smaller parts of the lit were paper covered, distressed and inked and bolts were ... heat embossed with black again.
Then I added some Prima flowers and blings and my cover was finished.

I hope   that  you  love Tando new book covers as much as I do.
Here is the book cover kit I used and some more of Tando fantastic products.