Sunday, 12 May 2019

Crackle week- Mechanical Heart Tag by Monika



Good mornig, it's last day of Tando Crackle Week and I wanted to share my inspiration for You. 

 

 I have started with punching three holes in my tag, then painting it with Decoart Media Fluid Acrylic paint in Iron Oxide. I have also applied a coat of the same paint on my heart embellishment.

I have tinted Decoart Crackle Paste with Paynes Grey Media Fluid acrylic paint and scraped it randomly all over my tag making sure the layer is nice and thin.





 Once paste was dry and tiny crackles appeared I have stamped my tag with Andy Skinner Tech Trauma stamps and black Archival Ink.

Also, I have added my favourite 'dirty washes' of  Decoart fluids in Quinacridone Gold and Paynes Grey.





I hope you like my inspiration
See you next time
Monika x


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Friday, 10 May 2019

Crackle Week - by Hannah Oxberry

Hi all, thank you for joining me here on the Tando Blog! It's Crackle Week and I just love the added texture crackles can bring to your designs.

For my project I thought I would share a design I created for the Craftalong Show with Di and Fiona in a few weeks time.



This gorgeous kit, designed by Fiona Randall, can be used in a whole variety I ways. I included a brightly coloured paper background with black heat embossed pillars against a white backdrop. The kit includes a stencil for the wings, I decided to use this stencil to run crackle paste through to create wonderfully crackled wings!


I added further detail to the design by using modeling paste on the heart and texture paste on the rusty cogs. The wings I painted white and added irridecscent gold to highlight.


I wanted to create contrast in the pillars and picked out pink colours from the backing papers to coordinate with the heart.

I hope you like the project!




Tando Creative 24 Play Days- Technique Tags.- Fiona Randall.

 
Morning All
 
Here are my two Technique Tags for the 24 Inspirational Play Days.
 

 
You can find the Facebook Live Video in the Tando Creative Zone HERE
 
 
You can find the file for step by step instructions to fit to the back of the tags in the Tando Creative Zone HERE
 
As requested here is the list of products used to create the tags.
 
Paints and Mediums.
 
DecoArt Media Tinting Base.
 
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics in Raw Umber, Cobalt Turquoise Hue, Titanium White, Paynes Grey and Metalic Gold.
 
Ranger Archival Ink Pad- Watering Can.
 
Tools List.
 
Small and medium flat brushes.
Heat Tool
Non Stick Craft Mat
Sea Sponge
Cotton Wool Balls.
 


Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Bird Tag for Crackle Week - Jane

Hello!

This week on the Tando Creative blog we are all about 'Crackle'!

I decided to use one of the tags in my technique binder to create lots of crackle texture in different ways...


After I had prepared my surface with white gesso I mixed a little bit of green gold fluid acrylic with white crackle paint.  Once this had dried I used the long arrows stencil with crackle paste and left it to air dry.

To highlight the cracks I watered down some of the green gold and added it to the tag.

To create a different sort of crackle effect I also used a stamp from Bee Crafty with a crackle pattern along with some archival ink...


To complete my tag I water coloured a couple of Scribbly Bird stamps and added a sentiment...


Here are the products I used...

* Tando Creative - Technique Binder and Tags
* Tando Creative Stencil - Arrows
* Decoart - Fluid Acrylics
* Decoart - Mediums

There will be lots more crackle projects throughout the week from other members of the design team, so do please keep popping back for a look.

Happy crafting,

Jane xx

Friday, 3 May 2019

Colour post

Hi, Carol with you today to share with you my May colour post….

The colour palette is:-



lovely and fresh aren't they?

And here is my artist trading coin...


The base is an artist trading coin which was painted using paper artsy fresco acrylic paints.  The rings stencil was used on the base before a Tim Holtz paper doll was added along with a saying.

TFL xx

Thursday, 2 May 2019

24 Inspirational Play Days - Journal Tags

Here are my two tags for the 24 Inspirational Play Days:












You can find the Step By Step photos on the Tando Creative Zone FB page here:



Or by visiting these links:

I Am Strong Tag

and:

I Don't Care Tag

You can also watch the Facebook Live Video that Di did making them HERE.




Monday, 29 April 2019

May Colour ATC

This is the colour theme for this month:



I've continued with the {Artist Trading Coins}:



Everything had a coat of {White Gesso} and then I added a base layer of paint to the ATC followed by a partial layer of {White Crackle Paste}

When that was dry I watered down a drop of {Quinacridone Magenta} and rubbed it into the cracks, then wiped the paint from the surface. I've painted, stamped and doodled on the rest of the background.

I've painted one of the flowers from the {Flowers With Stems Grab Bag}, added doodles and edged with oil pastels.

I've finished off with a word cut from a book.