Heart Tag with Texture Paste by Hannah Oxberry

It's Texture Paste week here on the Tando Creative blog! I love to use texture pastes within my mixed media work, the ways it can be applied - along with the looks you can create, are so varied.

For today's project, I thought I would share this tag where I have incorporated a few different texture techniques.

The base of the tag is made up of a few different layers; paints and washes form the backdrop. Stamped images add detail and aid the theme, while papers add texture and further emphasise the theme. I have also coloured modeling paste with paints and drawn this through a stencil of the word "Paris".

For the central heart motif, I roughly applied texture paste across the surface using a palette knife. By using washes, followed by dry brushing - I can really highlight and draw out the texture created by the paste.

I applied this same technique to the number 2, as well as dry brushing the whole of the tag to add a vintage feel.

For a full step by step guide please visit my blog.

List of products used;

Size 8 Tag





Mega Heart Pack

Industrial Elements Bolts/ Washers Sheet

Andy Skinner French Elements Stencil

22GA Rusty Wire

DecoArt Americana Chalky Finish Lace
DecoArt Americana Chalky Finish Rustic
DecoArt Americana Chalky Finish Inheritance
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Metallic Silver
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Paynes Grey
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Burnt Umber
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Yellow Oxide
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Quinacridone Gold
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Quinacridone Magenta
DecoArt Media White Gesso
DecoArt Media Modeling Paste
DecoArt Media Texture Sand Paste

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Dragonfly Grunge Media Board By Fiona.

 

 

Morning all

 

The theme on the Tando Blog this week is " Texture Paste"

 I love creating with all kinds of texture pastes in my projects and this week was no exception.

 

 

I created my texture by first giving the media board a coat of DecoArt Tinting Base. Modelling paste was then applied through the Tando Long Flourish Stencil. DecoArt Crackle paste was the applied using a pallet knife. When all the Texture pastes were dry layers of DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics were applied and wiped back till I was happy with the result. A die cut Dragonfly was given layers of  Fluid Acrylics to tone in. A Die cut Book plate and some bolt heads were given a rusty treatment assembled and applied to the media board. The Dragonfly was then layered at a jaunty angle on top of the book plate. To finish a stamped sentiment was applied using an Andy Skinner Stamp.

 

 

 

Close Up Detail

 



 

Products Used.

 

Tando Mixed Media Boards. 

 

Tando Long Flourish Stencil

 

Andy Skinner Skuldoggery Stamp Set.

 

DecoArt- Tinting Base, White Modelling Paste, Crackle Paste ,Texture Sand Paste..

 

 

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics- Raw Umber, Quinacrodone Gold, Quinacrodone Violet, Prussian Blue Hue.

 

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today. There will be more inspiration from the DT this week so do check back to take a look.

 

Hugs Fiona.

 

 



'Shoot for the Stars' Art Journal Cover with Texture Paste by Jane

Hello!

 

This week on the Tando Creative blog the theme is 'Texture Paste' and I love using all sorts of texture pastes as well as texture in general!  I have been saving the fab art journal starter kit from Tando to create something special with and this was the week!!...

 

I started by using white modelling paste through the long numbers stencil on the covers, then covering it with white gesso...

Next I added numbers, diamond grid and cogs from Tando along with some pieces that I had cast in resin from moulds.  Underneath some of these I added some gauze.  All of this was stuck down using heavy body gel ...

To create even more texture I added some sand texture paste and art balls...

 

To even everything out and prepare a base for the colour I painted everything with white gesso...

 



 

To complete the cover I added chalky paint from Decoart, metallic paint and gilding wax.  Then faux gems were added along with a sentiment from Bee Crafty...

 



The pages and cover were finally put together using thread, needle and fab instructions that come with the kit.

Here are the products that I used:

* Art Journal Starter Kit
* Tando Minis - Cogs
* Tando Grid - Diamond
* Stencil - Numbers
* Decoart - White Modelling Paste, White Gesso, Sand Texture Paste, Heavy Body Gel
* Decoart - Chalky Finish Paint

There will be more textural inspiration from other members of the design team this week, so I hope you pop back to have a look.

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Anything Goes week - Brenda

We have another anything Goes week for you where we share something that we have been working on for Di or for ourselves. Today I have a small media board I made for one of Di's Hochanda shows where she introduced a number of new stencils from Andy Skinner.

I love going over to west coast America and have been lucky enough to drive quite a large part of Route 66 so this brought back great memories. I also thought by using the design on a media board means it could be used for a journal cover.

The Route 66 badge was stencilled onto a piece of leftover painty paper using  cerulean blue, phthalo blue and paynes grey media fluid acrylics.

The quote was stenciled using black modeling paste.

The background was created using a cracked distressed technique I have used before. The blues were chosen to get a retro look.

Hope you have been enjoying AG week.

Have a great weekend.

hugs Brenda xxx

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Anything Goes Mother's Day Distressed Hearts

For this week's Anything Goes theme I'm showing the Mother's Day card I made for my lovely mum.

I took 3 hearts from the {Distressed Hearts} sheet and gave them a random covering of glass bead medium.

Once dry they had a good coat of gesso and then a couple of layers of deep pink acrylic paint.

While the top layer was still damp, I brushed on some gold watercolour powder and then dabbed it back using a wet wipe.

It's all finished off with a strip of washi tape and a computer generated greeting.