Texture Paste Week - Rusty Heart Tag by Hannah

Hi all, Hannah here with a texture paste tag! 

What I love most about the crafting world is just how much it's members love to share. I have been taking part in a swap hosted by Let's Be Creative, we were allocated at random partners who we had to create a piece of art for. I felt this make would be ideal! 

I have built my design on one of the Tando Long Tags, these make a great base for projects as there is enough space to play about with different layouts. 

The texture paste really comes in to its own if you want to create a 3D rust effect. Use a palette knife to roughly spread a generous amount of texture paste onto your embellishments and set to one side to dry. Build your rusty washes over the embellishments (once the paste is dry!) to give a true rust finish, complete with a rusty texture!

For the embellishments I added a heat embossed layer to give further dimension and even more rusty appeal! The heart is then wrapped in rusty wire to continue the theme.

I have mounted a sentiment from Andy Skinners Illusionary Artists Word Up & Numbers stamp set in the book plate from his Industrial Elements collection. As with everything on this tag, this too has been given a rusty and weathered look.

I hope you have enjoyed this project - happy crafting!

Hannah x x x

List of products used;

Set of 5 Long Tags

Mega Heart Pack

Andy Skinner Industrial Elements Bolts/Washers sheet

Texture Week at Tando - with Nikki

Morning everyone,

I have a little video for you today, it was shot at the Stitches Trade show so I hope you can see/hear it ok, but I wanted to share with you the fab stencils that Di has done, that are thicker than normal stencils (they are acrylic), and give AMAZING texture when used with Modelling Paste, Sand Texture Paste, etc.

I have added a couple of pics at the end to show the difference between the normal stencils and the deeper ones, so you can see for yourself!

This is the fab texture you get with the Acrylic Brick Stencil:

And the Cobbles Acrylic Stencil: 

And this is with the Mini Mask Brick stencil:

To get this brick effect, it's just a simple layer of Burnt Sienna paint, and then a wash of Burnt Umber, or Raw Umber on the darker one.  The 'brick's were then stamped with a texture stamp, to portray worn old bricks, and then I stamped with Andy's 'Unexplained' stamps.

The cobbles were similar, a coating of grey, then a wash of Payne's Grey, and then dry brushed with white to highlight.

Have a good week,

Best Wishes,

Nikki
xx

Materials Used:
Tando Creative Mixed Media Boards.
Bricks Acrylic Stencil
Cobbles Acrylic Stencil
Mini Bricks Stencil
Unexplained Stamp set - Andy Skinner
Toxic Stamp set - Andy Skinner
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics
DecoArt Media Modelling Paste.

Textured Heart Tag

Hello!

This week the theme on the Tando Creative blog is texture paste so I thought I would use a couple of my favourite types plus one that is new for me...

Because I wanted to use 3 different textures I decided to build up a tag using some different Tando Creative elements.  Most of them come from the Andy Skinner Eldaro kit with an extra large cog from the Industrial Elements and a smaller cog from the mini cogs selection.
I wanted to use some brighter colours but also still have a bit of a grungy effect so to start I coated all the pieces with some black gesso.
Using a palette knife I applied crackle paste to the heart.  Once dry it was painted using pyrole red then black antiquing cream added and once dried wiped back...

The large and smaller cog parts had sand texture paste added all over.  For this I just dabbed it on with my fingers.  Once this was dried I added burnt umber, burnt sienna and diarylide yellow paints.  Phthalo turquoise was then dry brushed across the top.  The wings were painted using pyrole orange and hansa yellow light to create a sunburst effect and then stamping using the Andy Skinner steampunk set was added using black archival ink...

The main tag was stencilled using the clear modelling paste (a new one for me) through the distressed sequins stencil.  Once dry I used a few shades of blue and attempted to rub back the colour on the stencilled areas.  This had varying success as I think I left the paint to dry for too long.  I added some gold gilding wax at the end to help bring the texture out.  Some more stamping was also added to the tag to match the wings...

Once all the pieces were glued together I added a sticker sentiment which I coloured with a blue paint wash and some ink around the edges.  Finally some rusty wire was attached to make a hanger.

Here are the links to the main products used:

* Andy Skinner Eldaro
* Andy Skinner Industrial Elements
* Distressed Sequins 4x4 Stencil
* Mini Cogs
* Decoart Texture Sand Paste
* Decoart Clear Modelling Paste
* Decoart White Crackle Paste
* Decoart Black Gesso
* Decoart Media Acrylic Paints
* Andy Skinner Steampunk Stamp Set

Thank you for looking and happy crafting,

Jane xx

Texture Paste with Tando

Hi everyone Dee here with my make for texture paste week. I have used a variety of both modelling, crackle paste, Deco Art Ferro paste graphite & Stamperia glass paste ice effect. All my work is about texture and layers and to me texture paste is anything that creates texture from crackle pastes to liquid glass as it all creates a 3d structure to which we as 'artists' turn and manipulate into our art.

I started with cutting card into random square/rectangle pieces and sticking them onto a tag, I followed this with a layer of gesso. When it had dried I then applied both modelling paste and crackle paste with my palette knife. I allowed this to dry naturally.

I used very watery , washes of quinacridone gold, Prussian blue hue, Phthalo Blue, transparent yellow oxide, Dioxide purple. I applied the Stamperia glass paste through a Tando small flourish stencil and allowed to dry. Once dry I swiped it with pewter treasure gold.

I used a pallet knife to apply the graphite ferro to the circles substrate so that it would be at varying levels of thickness when dry so giving an uneven texture to the circles. I highlighted this with Treasure Gold as the Dragonfly from #France Papillon's Creepers and Crawlers plate was going to rest on top of it. I triple embossed Frances Dragonfly with # Stampendous embossing powders & coloured some frayed ribbon I layered it all up underneath the Dragonfly.

I hope you all enjoyed my post today thank you for taking the time to pop by.

Please let me know any questions you might have.

Cheers Dee X

 PRODUCTS USED

Tag, set of circles, small flourish stencil. 

Deco art Gesso, media acrylic Quinacridone Gold, Prussian Plue hue , Dioxide purple, Transparent Yellow Oxide & Phthalo Blue, Modelling paste, crackle paste & ferro. 

Frances Papillion's Creepers and Crawlers

Colour week

Hello, Carol with you today sharing with you my mixed media colour board 4/12.

As you've seen the colour palette for this week was lovely muted pinks/oranges - strange how we all see things differently isn't it even with the same colours…anyway, here is my offering:-

Tando products used:-

Mixed media board

Andy Skinners "have your say" stencil

Sequin waste stencil (now thats a surprise for me lol)

Large heart from the hearts mega pack

Tando minis - Whimsical houses set 1

TFL xx

Colour theme - April

Hi, it's Karen here with number 4 of 12 of the *twinchies* that I am decorating for this colour theme year.

I painted then stamped the background with a map stamp.  The *arrows* (which come in a mixed bag of 24) have just been painted and glazed.  The colour theme...

Thank you for taking a look, hugs, Karen xxx

Spring like Colour theme this week

Hi it's Brenda back with you today. You know when I started this project there was still snow on the ground so when I went back to look at the colours to use I thought how warming they were and very Springlike too. What do you think?

Here is my colour palette for this project.

Seal a size 9 tag with gesso and take a stencil and apply white crackle paste through it and leave to dry.

Mix a deep burgundy colour, made a watery wash and dip, spritz and dab before heat drying.

Then mix the rose pink colour and use a natural sponge to daub on some colour.

Added white to the rose to make the lighter pink and dribble, spritze and daub to get most of the tag coloured up.

Here I took my cue from the photo and having mixed the yellow I wanted I used my finger to apply it randomly around the edges not pressing too hard but rubbing my finger over the textures that were forming.

I finally got to make the orange and again looking at the raindrops I made a watery wash and splattered it over - another messy stage and not a good looking finish either but hold on (sorry I forgot to take a photo of that step) .......... 

I cleaned up the mess on my craft mat and foil palettes ....

.... mixed some watery white and just kept dipping, drying, dipping, spritzing etc until I was happier with the background again.

Now to grunge it up a bit, I mixed the dark burgundy which actually came out more as a reddy brown and dripped watery washes through the stenciled image and dried it again. I also rubbed a small amount around the edges to start to frame the tag. This helps bring the eye into the centre of the piece again.

At this point I remembered I was going to include some stamping but thought this might make it too busy so I grabbed a word label and painted it and found some glass cabochons (taking my cue from the water on the petal in the flower again) and glued them to some text paper .....

.... and when dry painted the backs with yellow to bring some colour to them then added them to the background.

The label I stamped and gave a coat of satin varnish and added a couple of brads to finish it off.

At the end I had great issues with the contrasts and shadowing of the stencilled shape and I'm still not totally happy with it but at the moment it's as good as it gets. It's been repainted a couple of times and I think I'm happier with it in real life, more than the photos so please bare with it. At least the colours still have a bit of a resemblance with the original colour palette lol.

Thanks for stopping by.

hugs Brenda xxx

Supplies

Size 9 tag

DecoArt white crackle paste

DecoArt media fluid acrylics

Label