OCTAGONAL FRAME

Hi, its Karen here with a little prettiness to offer you!  This time I have been playing with the lovely little octagonal frame.  It has a lovely wiggly inner edge and come with its own flat packed stand which has a couple of gorgeous hearts on the ends!

Firstly I painted the whole lot with gesso and then some periwinkle acrylic paint.  I saw a lovely technique in this months Craft Stamper that I wanted to have a go at so that came next!  Its to make a crackle apearance just using PVA and paint...simples haha! I have awful trouble with crackle accents and the like so am delighted with this result...

In the centre I used a favourite stamp of Ophelia and then just added a bouquet & ribbon.  Thanks for looking today. HUGS XXX

Birdcage...

Birdcages and Bird themes are "in" at the moment.

Tando Creative have two different sized Birdcages available.

This is what I've created with the larger cage:-


The bare grey board was painted with acryllic paint, when dry was then dry brushed and the the edges had inka gold applied.

The bird was a die cut and the background is stamped onto acetate before being painted.

Several stamped images provided the embellishments along with some beaded trim. The chain was added so that it could be hung up in a window.

TFL xx

Square clipped frame.....

I'm able to show this now as a really dear friend of mine has received it so I don't need to keep it hush hush anymore.

I have used one of our Square Clipped Frames and also a couple of elements from our small Kitchen set.

I've used one of my fave techniques using texture paste and stamping, painting the frame with black acrylic and using some fabulous Viva Decor metallic silver paint.

The phrase has been manipulated in Word and printed onto some patterned paper.  I then added the chefs hat, covered in glossy accents and painted and used GA on the knife and fork.

Thanks for stopping by.

Heart Wreath

Here's another project using the Heart Wreath, this time made by ~{Claire}~. She really has gone into detail with it; every time I look at it I see something else.



It really does look amazing placed on a card.


Thanks for sharing this with us Claire.

COOKING UP A STORM?

Well not exactly but I have been working with some VERY CUTE cooking chippie hehe!  They come in small or large versions...I used the small ones.  I just love the teensy fork...the prongs are perfectly cut and that kettle is adorable isn't it?

For my first project I covered a cookery book for my daughter.  You know...the ones that you write your own recipes in....she is getting into cooking at last haha!  I gesso'd the pieces first then coloured the handles to match the paper (mmm...looks pink in the photo doesn't it, but it really does match ) and painted the blades etc with a silver krylon pen.  The chefs hat has been painted white & glossy accented, then glued onto my daughters head.  The little plate is an oriental stamp I have.  I covered the timer with matching paper and glued it onto some ribbon to make a bookmark for the book.  The whole idea was to make it like a place setting...I think it works.

I had some pieces left and used them to make a set of ATC's....yes, the pieces are that dinky :D  I love the kettle & immediatly thought of 'Polly put the kettle on'.

For the other ATC's I have used images from a book which I thought were appropriate for the chippie piece.  Loving that saucepan!!!

These pieces were so much fun to work with and would be perfect for anyone who loves to cook!  Thank you for looking, HUGS XXX

*NEW* Ribbon Storage

This is the first of a new range of storage solutions from Tando Creative Ltd that will grace the shelves of our retail store, however, as the shop won't be open for a little while yet, these ribbon storage units are available now, simply email me and I will give you all the details.

They are supplied flat packed but most of the components slot together.  The outer frame is cut from 6mm thick MDF whilst the inner slotted pieces are cut from 2250micron chipboard.  It also comes with 10 H shaped ribbon winders, more are available separately.

They come undecorated and you will see that the laser cut edges of the MDF have turned black.  This is normal and the black residue doesn't come off in your hands.  The edges can be painted over but look equally attractive left dark.

Decorate it as much as you like and fill it with your favourite ribbons.....of course, the ribbons shown are not included.

Email me at Tando Creative if you'd like some more information.

May competition winner

I've done the draw for the "2" entries and this months winner is

LEANN

Can you contact me please, my lovely, with your address details, just email me at the Tando Creative address.

Well I've decided to stop the competitions for the time being, sadly there simply isn't enough interest.  I'll give them a break for the summer anyway as we all have so many other things to do during the the summer months.  If you'd like them reinstated in the autumn just drop me a line.

Many thanks to Daphne for your supportive comment last week and I'm sorry we've had to make this decision for now.