Grung Media Board- Fiona Randall

 

Morning all it's Grunge Week here on the Tando Blog.

 I love a bit of Grungy Goodness what's not to like about those shades of browns, rustiness and some patina and metallics thrown in for good measure....YUM.

I have created a little Grungy project using a Tando Media Board as my base substrate.

Texture paste through a stencil then once dry liberally sprayed with Lindy's Moon Shadow mists.

These Mists are a Sepia Toned Ink with a colour shimmer.

A light wash of some Quinacrodone Gold Media Fluid Acrylic.

Some Gold Metallic paint and waxes to decorate the Tando Elements. 

The circle from the Astral Arch Kit and the Layered Dragonfly. 

Inking around the edges of the media board to add depth then elements arranged to finish.

 A quick and easy project that was fun to complete.

Thanks for stopping by today

Stay Safe

Fiona xx

PRODUCTS USED.

Tando Mixed Media Boards

Triple Arch Astral Frame

Two Part Dragonflies Panel

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic- Gold Metallic

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic- Quinacridone Gold

DecoArt Metallic Lustre- Burnished Brass

Other Supplies

Finnabair Paper Paste

Lindy's Stamp Gang Moon Shadow Mist- Tawny Turquoise

Stencil- My own

Archival Distress Ink- Ground Espresso

Colour Theme Week- Fiona.

 

 

Morning all Fiona here with my contribution to the Colour Theme Week. This is a first for me working from a colour palette, but I'm pushing my boundries and coming out of my comfort zone to see where it takes me.

 

 

 

I used two media boards to create a little notebook. Got the gelli plate and brayer out and away I went.

 

So here is my little notebook completed.

 

Complete with some additional stamping an embossed panel and a grey board heart.

 

Thanks for stopping by today

Fiona.

 

Products used.

 

Tando Mixed Media Boards 80mmx116mm

 

Heart from Andy Skinner Eldaro Kit

 

Tando 25mm bookrings

 

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics.

 

 

Faux Metal week with Nikki

Hi everyone,

It's my turn today here on the Tando Blog, for Faux Metal week.  I inevitably included a lot of rust!

The background is a media board, stencilled with modelling paste, painted in silver, and then a wash of Payne's Grey with a little salt added.  Rub off the salt when dry for a weathered metal look.  I added Quinacridone Gold in certain areas and to the edges, and put some on thick in places, so that when heat dried it bubbled up, giving extra texture.

I gave a pair of wings Andy's Skinner's Rust treatment - and bound them in rusty wire.  The skull was a resin skull I had at home, painted in silver and then antiqued with Black Antiquing Cream.  I added some black stencilling to the background, just a couple of 'marks'.

I gave a book plate (minus it's bottom scroll) a quick rust technique in just two colours, Raw Umber and Pyrrole Orange, and the same with a couple of 'screws'.  Toxic Hazard was stamped onto card, and aged with Yellow Iron Oxide, then cut to fit the book plate.  Onced fixed to the background I added two holes to the top of my board with a Cropodile, and added some more rusty wire with curls.

I had great fun making this guy :)  Hope you like him too.  Don't forget to check out the rest of the team's makes this week too.

Happy Crafting,

Nikki K.
xxx

Products Used:

Tando Creative -
Book Plates
Media Board
Wings
Rusty Wire

DecoArt Media -
Quinacridone Gold
Payne's Grey
Metallic Silver
Yellow Iron Oxide
Black Antiquing Cream
Tinting Base
Modelling Paste
Sand Texture Paste

Andy Skinner Stamp -
Toxic

Reindeer Wish - Brenda

Hi Brenda here with another of my stand up media cards in a Christmas design. It was made in exactly the same way as the Snowflake Noel card I showed here on Monday using DecoArt media acrylics and chalky finish paints.

Di has this gorgeous reindeer in her Christmas selection both in this large size and in a smaller one too.

The sentiment is a Tim Holtz die, I love the very old manuscript style of font and the snowflakes can also be found in the Tando online shop. Just click the links and you will be transported over to the products.

I used various blue, red and brown paints to get the background colours and stippled Everlasting chalk paint over the top when it was dry.

I also added an easel to this particular card but others I have designed have a stand up frame on the back just made from two pieces of card.

I hope all your Christmas preparations are going well.

Have a great weekend.

hugs Brenda xxx

Snowflake Noel - Brenda

Hi Brenda here with one of my stand up cards using white backed media chipboard cut to 12 1/2 x 18 cms. This design uses a snowflake flourish set I had in my supplies made by Tando but I'm not sure if it is available at the moment. The techniques and finish were inspired by attending Andy Skinner's Mixology class back in November and I used media fluid acrylic paints and chalk paint to get this lovely coloured snowy feel.

The chipboards and die-cuts are adhered to the greyboard first of all....

.... and when they are dry paint a good coat of blue with decoart acrylics and when that has dried stipple some Everlasting chalky finish paint over the whole surface but leave some of the blue showing through. You have about 15 minutes to knock back areas and edges of the shapes to reveal a little more of the blue beneath. Use a damp babywipe and dry kitchen towel.

I had glued one of the sentiment diecuts on the greyboard and once the layers of paints had been added and dried I stuck another over the top cut from textured card and sanded so that it still looked part of the shabby snowy feel.

The only embellishment is a single gem in the middle of the snowflake .....

.... and I added a stand at the back so that it can become a stand-up Christmas card.

I am still making Christmas cards, I seem to be so behind with things but I am sure it will all get finished before the big day.

Media boards, Christmas chipboards and DecoArt acrylic paints and chalky finish paints are all available in the store.

Thanks for stopping by.

hugs Brenda xxx

Silently the snowflakes fall - Brenda

Hi it's Brenda here at the end of  'Embossing' week with a stand up card. 

I'm actually in Coventry today at the Ministry of Mixology event with Di and Tony and the inimitable Andy Skinner which also means I get to meet up with some of my lovely teamies too.

Anyway back to business. Di has cut me some boards the exact size I wanted for these cards and I used them last night for my demos and 'Make and Take', I'll show you that one later in December as it's another Christmas themed one.

With embossing in mind I wanted to use the embossing resist technique which I have tried before with the decoart media acrylics and with some success but ...........

....... I stamped the snowflakes over two coats of gesso with versamark and sprinkled and heated the embossing powder and then realised it was very sticky. Oh oh I had picked up the wrong powder, hmmmm what to do? So I got out my foils and thinking gold would look rather nice I just went for it.

I used titan buff, raw umber and burnt umber paints and blended them over with blending foam and scrubbed away with paper towel to take it off of the embossed areas.

When I heat dried the snowflakes the embossing reheated and I added more foil which brought it back to life - hey happy accidents are great aren't they?

I finished off with some snowflakes from the Tando shop which I painted with champagne gold dazzling metallics from DecoArt plus one die-cut and one punched and added some champagne coloured gems.

I knew that a quote from my lovely friend Alison Bomber who fit perfectly and I mounted it on gold and then on an offcut of canvas type fabric daubed with white gesso and tied round some rustic ribbon, string and a shabby bow.

I made a stand for the card so it can sit on a shelf or the mantelpiece over Christmas but I know this will go to a good crafty friend this year.

Thanks for stopping by and if you'd like to see more of the process photos you will find them over at Bumblebees and Butterflies.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

hugs Brenda xxx

Winged tag : Use spray inks week

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our Use mists Tando week!

This small project was made over Tando Mixed Media board with other Tando products (shown later) and only MISTS!

I used a mix of copper and dark orange mists over the chipboard pieces that were previously covered with a thin layer of white gesso.
 The first layer was masked with texture paste background.
Then Industrial wing was added on it.
I am not sure that you can see the intermediate layer made with Tando Book plate under  two more layers.
The last  chipboard layer is  very old Tando Dragonfly(not in the shop anymore, sorry) and then metal and resin pieces were added.
I added some more texture with micro beads and made the sentiment with epoxy sticker.

Tando products used:
Media board


 Mini book plates


Industrial wings


Sequin Waste mask



Decoart Media line

Dragonfly- not in the shop anymore

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

Watch the birdie!

Hi Gez here, delighted to be sharing a little mixed media board creation using one of the brand NEW quirky birds as the main focus.

I started out with a plain [Mixed Media Board 80mm x 116mm] These are greyboard and come in a pack of 5.

The quirky bird I painted is from the [Whimsical Birds 2] these come in a pack of 6. Each pack contains 3 bird styles in two different sizes all greyboard and great for taking any medium. 

The bird was painted using different Media Line: Fluid Acrylics from DecoArt available [HERE]

Thank you for calling and leaving a comment if you get the chance.

Happy creating, Gez 

 

You are loved Mixed Media board with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first June post in Tando blog.
This week we were challenged to use Black modelling paste on our projects and I used it the very first time as I usually just add black paint into white paste. But the black one works just perfect!
 I made the background with Tando Harlequin mask over Tando Media board and then heat dried  it the get some bubbled texture.
Then I used whatever was left to cover Tando Letters negative and to glue it over the board.
The golden colors was made with  a mix of mists as those mists usually have some mica powders inside and Bingo- you get this gold on black texture with mists only and no paints used.
Actually even the metal flower, metal sign, Tando chipboard book sign and the clay bird were only misted.
And you can see how gorgeous those mists look on totally different surfaces.
The edges were covered with DecoArt Media gold acrylic paint.

Tando products used:
Mixed Media board 138*74 mm



Mini book plates


Harlequin mask