Happy fall: Free for all week

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our Free for all week!

Irit is here again and this time it's a card. (I am not much a card maker, but sometimes I am in this " make a card" mood)

So also it's a mid summer here in Israel, I decided to make a Fall card. Just in case.

Also we don't have a real red and orange fall, but I love the feeling of it and this is my stamped and embellished card. made with this lovely Tando house and heat embossed with EP.

The flowers and the tree are stamped and I added some forgotten brads as my apples and then added Tando delicious and so much loved Book plate  for the title.

Mini houses and Fences

See you again soon!

Happy crafting!

Anything Goes Week - FISHING BOAT "ANNA"

Hi lovely fans ! I illustrate for the first time a "Free for All" week, and that's always a perfect theme as we can do everything that crosses our mind... For me, I fancied painting and decorating a Tando kit that I LOVE,  I find it so inspirful ! It's Layered Rowing Boat with Oars. If you like this small marine kit, please see also the versions created by Di and Karen recently on the Craft Barn's blog, they are totally different but so gorgeous both too !!!   

To do my boat, I started from a Manilla tag Size #8. I used Gesso and a Bingo mask to introduce very light texture at some parts only and I highlighted them with some blue paint sprayed with water. I also used my distress Barn Door in two ways: First I water colored a bit of red ink on my non-stick craft sheet and wiped my tag into it. Second at the last stage I also directly applied the pad in all senses on my tag.  Finally as I was satisfied with the result - it really make me think to ocean and boats ! -, I cut out the shapes of the oars and the background of my boat in it and covered the bottom and the oars by gluing the shaped pieces onto them.   

The top and sides of the boat were painted in Fresco Finish Sky and then in Baltic Blue mixed with a finger of Gloss Glaze. I dried off each layer with a heat tool. At the end I covered my boat with some translucent Inky Pool and added a coat of Gloss Glaze all over it for even more brilliance. But before that, I also stamped horizontally my large background stamp imitation "wood" in Versafine Deep Lagoon and also London bus at the top and outer sides of the boat. I also painted these latter alternately in red and blue before gluing them firmly together.

Here are some close-ups of my small fishing boat, I named it "Anna" and registered it for fun as "GV 3011", with GV standing for "Le Guilvinec". This is a nice small fishing port located in Finistère, Brittany !

I used a single fish stamp with fine details to create a lot of small fishes: red, blue... and even multicolored as you will see at the end ! :) This stamp comes from my new - very useful I find - "Tiny Things" plate by Stamper Anonymous. I stamped my fishes on some water colour paper and used my Distress inks and two Opalite reinkers I had for ages and never used yet to color them... They proved to be really perfect for fishes as they are slightly pearlised ! I all coated with Glossy Accents to do beautiful embellishments. I glued two of them on the top right side.

I also created a small jute bag with a piece of extra-large jute ribbon. I tied it up with small jute rope just stringed inside the big holes. I put some true tiny shellfishes and some remaining multicolored fishes in it for fun. I must confess that this little scene of grounded boat on the sand is not my idea, it has been made by my brother in-law and my twins in their sandbox LOL !!! :)

My small fishes hanged up to a metallic wire are done using the same tiny fish stamp but in shrink plastic this time (white or black). I'm very happy since I did them with my twins, it had been a true game for them! They have loved inking each fish and testing every Brilliance ink color, making a small hole into eye, and finally heating each one with the gun and looking at their incredible shrinking in a few seconds... Shrink plastic embellishments are a great fun with kids ! 

The little heart was done roughly following the lines of the Distress red pad (I used Barn Door). I drew it slowly, then inked it and/or painted it in London Bus and finally covered it first with a layer of Crackle Accents and next with more Glossy Accents for extra texture and brilliance. 

For my life-belt, I played with my embossing powders. I used Gold and Clear UTEE added to Distress powders (Black and Fired Red). With UTEE powders, several layers are needed to get a beautiful result... Patience is needed but it well worth doing it ! At the end I even more highlighted the red colour by inking the edges in red again before briefly heating it all again.    

And here is what I made with my leftovers of paint and fishes on a wooden tag !!!

I also realized 3 small tags just for fun freely, using the wastes of paints and playing with two beautiful masks by Andy Skinner. I used ~{Owls}~, ~{Burning Rubbers}~ and ~{SunBurst}~. Could be useful one day... :)

Et voila ! Sorry for this very looooong post... I'm used to explain my process of creation... but you can always skip some steps if it's too boring !!!  

Hope you like my project today... I had a great fun doing it, this small kit from Tando is so lovely and enjoyable to paint and assemble, I highly recommend it !!!  

Please pop over my blog for even more photos and design notes if you like this project !  Coco xxx

WALL ART!

Hello lovely bloggers!  If you are a fan of Tando Creative chipboard kits then you are going to love this one :D   Its a large piece of wall art, measuring approx. 15x15inches when done!  It is in 3 sections and has a large tree which you attach and can decorate with the flowers & butterflies that are provided..
 

I have painted the 3 boards in blue and acrylic paints then gesso'd over to tone it down. The tree sections are painted white and the add-ons (butterflies, flowers and the birds)  have been painted in neutral colours.  NOTE:  the Tando birds do not come with the kit.  Using lids & stiff cards I added some more interest by dabbing them in paint and adding them randomly.  This kit has so many possibilities I think.  Would look fantastic turned into a family tree with photographs.
 
Thank you for popping by today, HUGS, Karen xxx

artist choice

hi tando fans. thank you for coming by for a visit.  it's roc here today.  it's a free-for-all week and i have had the pleasure of creating this piece for your viewing pleasure.  i used the straight edge arches large.  i painted the outer chipboard rim with ranger's red distress paint and left it to dry.  the inner arch i covered with a package insert left over from a used sheet of rub ons.  i used yellow distress paint to cover over it.  while that was drying i stamped a bird image on a scrap piece of paper and the layered it on black cardstock and some red and white striped paper.  i tied a piece of linen string and secured a feather charm in the knot.  i added an epoxy "b" sticker.
i used the music mask on the red outer edge and sprayed it with dylusions black spray.  next i sprayed dylusions yellow spray over the random circles mask on the inner arch and the used dylusions red spray with the sequin waste mask.
when all the pieces were dry i put covered the back with pattered paper to hold the arch together and then i layered the bird with pop dots to give it a three dimension.
i hope this inpsires to create an arch for yourself.
make sure you come back frequently to see what's new.  we always enjoy your visits.



As its Wednesday today we have a new post over on the Tando Creative Challenge blog - hope to see you there....

Tando Printers Tray

Morning everyone, I wanted to share with you a printers tray that I made for my husband for father's day.  It's the 1st printers tray I have ever made and it was great fun. 

 I started by covering the backing sheet of chipboard with some BoBunny Forever Fall papers.  I then went to work on the front tray section covering it in gesso (the printers tray comes in layers which you can build up, so you could make it flatter if you wanted and then use the spare sections to make other things too) - making some thick layers, then drying it with my heat gun so it bubbled a bit.  I then added lots of cosmic shimmer mist over the top, and drying all the layers - it was great fun.  I printed off a couple of photos of my kids, then decorated each of the windows.  I also used a couple of the grab bag butterflies which I covered in paper, then sanded and drew patterns on.

Katherine

Anything Goes Week by Kaz

We're having another free for all week so I'm showing a journal page that has used a few of the fab masks.

I'm experimenting with some pages with a lot of white space lately and this one is A4 size. It started with the remnants of inkpads on a ceramic tile used for watercolouring. I sprayed the tile with water and dabbed the tile randomly onto the paper.
I sprayed through the ~{Code Breaker}~ mask, then turned the mask over and used the spare ink. I dabbed ink through the ~{Sunburst}~ mask, but it seemed too heavy so I wiped some of it away with a baby wipe. I used the stripes from the ~{Usual Suspects}~ mask over the page and one row from the ~{Bubble Flourish}~ mask beneath the circles.
I wrote the quote I found on Pinterest or Facebook - in hindsight I should have stamped it, but there you go! I then finished off with stamps, some more washi tape and a bit of doodling.

Don't forget to come back to the blog this week to see what some of the rest of the team have made that doesn't fit into any of the themes coming up. It's always fun to see what they come up with.

Kaz xxx

Book Cover Week - Admit One Album

Hi Tando fans! Dana here today sharing my "Admit One" album for the Book Covers theme this week. I started with a Neil Walker Geometric Book Cover Kit.

I added some fun texture to the base of my cover. I started by applying a layer of gesso, and once that was dry, crushed egg shells. If you'd like to try this technique I share my tutorial on a similar project HERE. I colored my cover with Radiant Rain Mist, Twinkling H2Os and Silks Acrylic Glaze.

I covered a stamped ticket with a Tim Holtz facet. As this will be my journal, I thought "Admit One" was a nicer way of saying "Keep Out!"

I added a flower and some charms to finish the cover.

I added a mix of watercolor, kraft and cardstock papers to the inside of the album and bound it with a piece of ribbon. The back cover is "naked." I decided to save the other set of geometric pieces for the cover of another album!

 

Here's Neil's version of the same album. You can find more of his amazing work on his blog Neelz Expressionz.

Thanks for stopping by today!