Tags and mini houses….

Hi, Carol with you today… did you see the recent Hochanda show whereupon our great leader, Di, had two really successful shows and did so incredibly well, a real TV natural …... I was so excited to see some of my tags and my fairy door on the show and thought I'd share them with you today:-

Bases used were a mixture of the large tags, large and small mixed media boards and the fabulous whimsical houses….

and here is my fairy door:-

with added clay boots and flower pot!! lol xx

TFL xx

Anything Goes - Cherry Blossom Arch

Hi friends! Dana here today sharing the arch I created for the Anything Goes theme this week. I have a gorgeous cherry blossom tree in my front yard. I wait all year for the couple of weeks that this tree is in bloom. The beautiful flowers are beginning to open up and I just can't stop looking out my window. The view from my front windows was my inspiration this week.

I started this project by gluing together 4 outer cuts from the Arabian-Style Layered Arch Frame. Then, I painted the frame with a layer of Gesso. Once the frame was dry I added color by brushing on Tattered Angels Espresso Bean Glimmer Glam Glitter Paint. I decided to only use the outer frames, no inner cuts (backing) for this project to create a cool see-through window effect.

I gathered some small branches from my yard, trimmed several of them to fit inside the frame, and then secured them with hot glue. I used Tattered Angels Leaf Plain Jane Baseboard Mist to color a segment of Grass Flexistrip. I dried the chipboard with a heat tool and then secured the ends of the grass strip to the bottom of the arch. This flexible chipboard is super fun to work with! Attaching only the ends of the strip created a narrow gap between the base of the frame and the grass border, which helps this arch to stand.

Next, I glued pink flowers and white leaves to the branches. Finally, I added a glass blue bird and a metal bird cage stick pin to complete the design. To finish, I lightly splattered the arch with white mist.

You can find the chipboard I used for this project in the Tando Creative Retail Store. There are several different styles of arches available. We'd love to see your creativity! Share your work with us in Tando's Creative Zone on Facebook.

Anything Goes Week

Hello!  I am kick-starting another 'Anything Goes' week.  These week are where we have free rein to add all those projects that don't fit into any other category :p  Today I have a 6x6 canvas for you...

I have used one of the delightful * curly trees* that come in a pack of two along with the  *hearts background mask* .   I spread *crackle paste* through areas of the mask onto the blank canvas.  When it was dry I added some *DecoArt paint (Cobalt Teal Hue, Primary Magenta & Hansa Yellow Light)* using a sponge.  The tree was coloured with the Primary Magenta and then coated with *crackle glaze*.  I added some teensy heart buttons from my stash.  The sentiments have been stamped onto tissue paper and attached with *matt medium*. 

Thank you for taking a look today, do keep popping back for more projects and ideas, Karen x

Easter Week

It’s my turn today to share a little Easter make.  I was away, with limited craft supplies, so had to think about this one! 

I took one of Tando’s plastic tags, which are a fab material to work with, and take paint very well.  I coloured in a pale green first on one side, then stippled the whole tag with green gold.

I used hansa yellow medium next, and then stamped a leaf in diarylide yellow as a background all over.

Next I took a Nathalie Kalbach stencil from her ‘Marks’ stamp set, it comes free in the set.  It had some rough edged circles, which I love and thought they would work well.  I used primary magenta mixed with tinting base to lay some circles down.

I went back in with the same stencil, and cobalt teal hue mixed with tinting base again, and added more circles.

I then took a fine paintbrush, and added patterns to each circle, in opposite colours, to look like easter egg patterns. 

 My final step was to take a white acrylic pen, and ‘elongate’ the circles with scribbles, to make them more egg shaped.

 On top of that I added a few white spatters all across the tag in tinting base.

 And here is my Easter Tag!

Hope you like it.

Nikki K. xxx

Products Used:

DecoArt Fluid Media Acrylics: Green Gold, Diarylide Yellow, Hansa Yellow Medium, Cobalt Teal Hue, Primary Magenta, Media Tinting Base. 

Stampendous Nathalie Kalbach 'Marks' Stamp set (with free stencil).

Totally Tracy - leaf stamp from 'Vines of Love' (Email Di at Tando for stock availability). 

Happy Easter - Easter Blessing Arch

Hi friends! Dana here today sharing an arch I created for the Happy Easter theme this week. I started with an inner cut from the Arabian-Style Layered Arch Frame. Next, I covered the arch with a piece of pastel plaid patterned paper.

I embellished the bottom of the arch with a piece of Grass-Flexistrip that I colored with green acrylic paint. I added some "eggs" to the grass, which are some leftover circles from the Round Grid that I also colored with acrylic paint.

I added an Easter bunny die-cut to the top of the arch. I embellished the bunny with a gold bow and some pink glitter glue for the cheeks and ears. I stamped a sentiment with purple chalk ink onto a piece of white cardstock and then cut it out and glued it across the widest section of the arch. I added some dimensional peach paint dots and a decorative looped trim around the edge of the arch to finish.

You can find the chipboard I used for this project in the Tando Creative Retail Store. There are several different styles of arches and grids available. We'd love to see your creativity! Share your work with us in Tando's Creative Zone on Facebook.

Embossing Crystals with Lisa

Hello folks, Lisa here and welcome to today's Tando post. This weeks theme is embossing crystals. 

I love playing with embossing powders, especially ultra thick embossing enamel and adding lots of colours together. Even clear embossing powder is fabulous to play with as gilding flakes and other weird objects can be trapped inside.

Here is my creation...

For this weeks challenge I used the Tando 80mm x 16mm mixed media boards. 

First I applied a thick layer of DecoArt white modelling paste over a blank mixed media board. When it was dry I used DecoArt Media Misters in turquoise shimmer, white shimmer, yellow green and purple to colour the background. 

I then used embossing ink to cover the entire board and heat embossed clear UTEE (Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel) over the top. I applied a couple of layers of UTEE to create a really thick layer.

I then used green gold embossing powder over the centre of the board and melted it slowly. 

I then inked the seahorse stamp with black ink whilst keeping the powder in the centre of the board molten. I then quickly applied the stamp to the molten powder and left the stamp in place until the powder had cooled. 

To finish, I punched a hole in the top corner of the board, added an eyelet and threaded some blue satin ribbon and some white organza ribbon through.

Thanks for popping by the Tando blog today.

If you would like to pop over to my blog, the link is here and I hope to see you there.

Lisa xxx

Here is everything I used... they are all available on the Tando Website.

               

Embossing Crystals

Hi, Carol with you today sharing my project for this Embossing Crystals Week…

The base is a large mixed media board which had gold, black, aged spice and blue embossing crystals added and melted before being stamped into… these board are great quality and don't bend or buckle under having heat added and boy did it have heat added with this project!! Three stars from the grab bag were treated to gold and aged spice crystals before an edging of black paint.  A hand written sentiment finished it off.

TFL xx