Crackle Heart by Gez

Hi, Good morning!

I am delighted to be sharing my journal page with you today featuring a crackle heart.

The journal page background was created using various acrylic paints available [HERE] the [Sequin Waste Mask], washi tape and bottle top lids!

I used a heart from the grab bag of hearts available [HERE]

as the main feature by giving it first a coating of pink acrylic paint, whilst it was still wet I sprinkled some fragments from the white and silver [Frantage kits]

 Then gave it a quick blast with my heat gun..

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I then painted the whole heart with a generous thick coating of [DecoArt Media clear crackle glaze] and waited for the magic to happen!

Here is my finished page..

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

Happy creating, Gez ♥

Twit Twoo Tag!

Hi Gez here, Happy September everyone!

Where is this year disappearing too? I don't know!!

I am delighted to be sharing my tag with you today..

I started out by adding a layer of [White Gesso] to a plain greyboard [TAG].

Once dry I added a piece of torn scrapbook paper to add some texture to the background followed by layers of acrylic paint. Details were added to the background using the following masks..

 [Hippy Chick]

(I stencilled through the stars..)

and [Sequin Waste Mask]

I left the background to dry and painted a [Curly Tree] 

I then used some more of the same pattern scrapbook paper to decorate one of the [Whimisical Houses] 

 

 Once everything was dry I started to assemble the tree and owl onto the tag. Then decorated one of the [Owls] 

Isn't it great how you can build up a collection of Tando chipboard and then create your own little scenes as everything mixes and matches perfectly.. 

Here is my finished tag ♥

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 Thank you for calling and taking a look. 

 
Wishing you a lovely September and sharing a note for your diary.. did you know.. Tando Creative will be back on your TV screen on Monday, 4th September at 8am & 12 noon, sharing some favourite products with you and some brand new ones as well.. the Design Team have had so much fun creating for the show.. I hope you can join us ♥ See [TV Schedule ~ Hochanda]

Spooky Wreath

Hi Gez here, I am delighted to be sharing a spooky [Halloween Wreath] with you today. The wreath comes with cobweb detail and also letters which spell HALLOWEEN..

It was really simple to apply [Carbon Black] DecoArt Fluid acrylic paint straight onto the wreath. The wreath was stamped with a cobweb stamp and bottle top lids to create rings in silver acrylic paint. Silver paint was also applied through the [Sequin Waste Mask].

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Skulls and pumpkins were also used to decorate the wreath from the Tando mini [Mixed Halloween] set.

 

Thank you for taking a look and leaving a comment if you get the chance. Stay safe this Halloween and Bonfire time.

  Happy creating, [Gez]

Dream Big!

Happy Sunday!

I am delighted to be sharing a project and step by step with you today. 

All this week the Design Team having been having fun with the 'Anything Goes' challenge theme.. I decided to decorate the inside front journal cover of the [Ministry of Mixology Kate Crane Journal] I've been working on.. you can see the front cover [HERE]

First of all I glued some random pieces of plan paper to the journal page using [Clear Matte Medium]

  

Next I added a layer of [White Gesso] and stamped various stamps around the edges to create a border.

Then I set about choosing the colour palette.. 

I chose [Titanium White], [Primary Yellow], [Green Gold] and [Cobalt Teal]

Once dry I added some stencilling to the journal cover using Andy Skinner's [Burning Rubber] stencil and also the [Sequin Waste] mask and some of the DecoArt fluid acrylic paint.

[Burning Rubber] 

[Sequin Waste] 

  

 While this layer was drying I picked out [Carbon Black] and [Pyrrole Red]

 to add a contrast to the page..

I also couldn't resist adding some [Clear Crackle Glaze] inside the black circles!!

I noticed the washi tape kept peeling so I gave it a coating of [Clear Matte Medium] et voila! 

close ups of the crackles ! I could hardly wait...

 The texture is lovely and so tactile..

 Last of all I added a central image to the page as a focal point..

 My finished inside cover..

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

  Happy creating, Gez ♥

Tag It - Fabric Tag

Hi everyone, Caroline here with this weeks theme of Tag It!

I decided to make a canvas tag.  Firstly I sprayed randomly with mist sprays and then used a couple of masks to add to the background.

I used the Tando Sequin Waste mask and the Andy Skinner Baroque mask with ink to add the spots and part of the Baroque pattern in the top right corner.

Sequin Waste

Baroque

The spotted heart was backed with some hessian and sewn onto the tag and I added beads, French Knots and brads and I backed the whole canvas with felt, before then finishing off with ribbon.

Caroline ♥

Spotty card and a video

I hope you are enjoying the gorgeous spottiness on here again this week.

Di asked recently if I'd do some videos of some of the things I make for Tando. So here is the card and the video of how I made it:

I have used the ~{Random Circles Mask}~, ~{Sequin Waste Mask}~ and the circles from the ~{Tree and Leaves 3 Part Mask}~.

Kaz xxx

Two Arches with Owls

Hello everyone. For this Black and Red theme, I (Coco) have just finished a trio of lovely arches made with the inner boat pieces of my previous 'layered boat with oars' project shared with you a few time ago. They are fantastic leftovers!!!
I have created a textured and painted background, playing at start with black Gesso on the first arch, and white Gesso on the second one to try to produce two variants for the same combo. I added texture using only white Gesso and my Sequin Waste stencil. 
When dry, I used various red shades and dark/black acrylic paints (I used mainly PA Fresco Finish London Bus, Claret for the reds and French Roast, Chocolate Pudding, Mocha Mousse, London night and Little Black dress for the brown/black shades). On the first one, I added some Treasure Gold (Ruby) on the edges and on parts of the circles, and on the second one I inked the edges with Brilliance Graphite black and a bit of black paint.   

I stamped and cut out the sentiment and the bird on separate cardstock using Archival Jet Black ink. The bird was coloured with my Distress markers and a watercolor small brush, and then glued on a piece of leftover rubber to give it extra beautiful dimension. At the end I also stamped directly on the edges in white (using Brilliance ink) and black (with my Archival Jet black) some text to add even more interest to my two arches. My text and sentiments are Crafty Individuals stamps.

Here's the second one, I really enjoyed the process of creating different owl faces!...  Love this Owls Andy Skinner long Mask/Stencil, that's a great one! The little tree and birds are still Crafty Individuals stamps (I used a set of just mounted stamps sitting on my table, ready to be used haha!), I stamped them on tissue paper first, then glued with Satin Glaze (but you can use any other medium) and finally slightly painted over it... I also highlighted some areas thanks to a white Posca  marker, and then again with some light brown Distress markers...

Well, I also had fun to use my new Cosmic Shimmer Gold Twinkles you can see here and there haha!! I put a tiny drop of Liquid Pearls in Ruby Red on the eyes of this second owl...
To finish, I just added a few buttons to embellish my two arches. Et voila!

It was not an easy theme for me as Black and Red colours are not my favourite ones...  But love the result... what do you you think? Which one is your favourite?... 

I have used the following Tando products:

Thank you for popping by! Come again tomorrow for more inspiration in Black and Red! Hugs, Coco xx

Anything Goes card by Kaz

I've made a card for our Free For All week:

I've used a base of spray inks, mulberry paper. mesh and a gessoed book page circle with washi tape. The tag has spray ink and I've inked through the ~{Sequin Waste Mask}~ across the bottom. I've taken one of the flowers from the ~{Flower Row 75mm}~ and trimmed it down then painted with acrylic paint. The ~{Mini Butterfly}~ has patterned paper glued on it, inked edges and mini gems. I've inked through part of the ~{Hanging Baubles Mask}~ onto gessoed book pages, edged with watercolour pencils and cut out the leaves.

Kaz xxx

Family Journal Page

For this week's theme of Family,  I had to use this fabulous quote for a journal page. I've used it before, but it's a completely different project. I've gone mad with masks this time.

The background started off as somewhere I painted the leftover paints from other projects and then I used the following masks:
~{Splatter}~
~{Sequin Waste}~
~{Codebreaker}~ this I sprayed ink through, but it wasn't dark enough so I inked through it afterwards and I like the fact that it looks like double vision!
And ~{Heart Background}~.

I really went to town after I'd completed the background with doodling, ink splats and washi tape. I then used stamping to finish off.

 Here's a few close ups:

Kaz xxx

Timeless past wall hanger

This is my new altered Mixed Media piece: I used Tando Clock mask, Sequin waste  mask and this huge fantastic Clock chipboard on this project.

I used this Clock mask three times: two were made with molding paste and heat embossing over the dry paste and the middle one was made with clear embossing ink and heat ebmossing after, same as the circle from the second mask on the middle piece.

 

The chipboard clock was covered with ink and lots of embossing powders all around.

 

This piece was a lot of work and the final result looks artistic .
I hope you think this too.

Flutterby

I have used Echo Park Candy Shoppe papers for this layout. The Tando chipboard butterlies have had the sequin waste mask laid over them and sprayed with Mica Mist and have also used Mica mist with the Heart Flourish Mask.