Hochanda Monday Mini Books

Hi, I hope you are all enjoying the shows today with the new products :-D

Here are two of the new mini books that have featured...

I hope that you will join us in the new 366 Challenge on Facebook, Karen x

December Colour Theme - by Nikki

Morning all,

December's Colour Theme contains the most beautiful Jewel colours!

I hope you've managed to catch my teammates pieces this week using these colours.  I thought I'd share a make with you today too.

I used one of Tando's Gothic Arch kits, to create this steampunk flower piece.

The background was crackled, and then sponged with some of the colours of the theme.

I stamped the beautiful flowers twice, and used watercolour pens to colour them in. 

I layered the flowers up and added a sentiment to finish.

Thanks for stopping by this week.

Best Wishes,

Nikki
xx

Products Used:

Tando Creative Gothic Arch Layered Frame kit
Chocolate Baroque Steampunk Flowers

Colour Theme Mini Book

Hi there, Celia here with November’s colour theme. These are my absolute favourite colours so it was a lot of fun making this little book. It’s my first Tando mini book and I’m now hooked!

I first chose my colours - I seem to have rather a lot of purple and turquoise so matching up the colours was easy!

I started off by gessoing the cover in white, just to get nice vibrant colours. Then I did a base coat of Cobolt Teal and stencilled the other colours randomly all over. I chose stencils with small designs to go with the tinyness of the book. I was going for a sort of colourful yet grungy look.

I used embossing powder on the book plate and made a little label with my alphabet stamps.

For the pages, I tore up some watercolour paper (15cm x 8cm) to get a nice rustic feel and folded them in half. I made 5 signatures and sewed them individually together.

Then I cut a piece of calico to  bind them together. I measured the spine (1.5 cm) and put glue thickly in a strip in the middle of the calico, then pushed the folded signatures into it. I had them held together with a clip and they stayed upright like that till they were dry.

Then I glued the fabric either side of the living hinge inside the cover, avoiding putting glue on the hinge.

I made a quick splashy paper to put on the inside.

There are some other methods of bookbinding on the blog and the website too. You can also get a mini book 'innis' set, which I forgot to order. It has some templates for the pages and so you can make concertina pages too.

I hope you like my colourful little book!

Celia x

Tando Tuts on Thursday. ATC Concertina Book by Fiona Randall

 

Over on Tando's Facebook Group- Tando Creative Zone you will find the step by step tutorial to create  this ATC Concertina Book.

ENJOY!

 

 

Here's the link to download the step by step tutorial.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TandoCreativeZone/permalink/960027144376460/

Have Fun

Fiona x



Colour Theme ATCoin

This month's colour theme is this gorgeous set:

I've given the {Artist Trading Coin} a coat of {White Gesso} then added {White Crackle Paste} that I'd mixed with some acrylic paint to, across parts of it.

Once dry, I blended acrylic paint over the base and added ink to show up the cracks. Then added some paint dabs and doodles.

I've painted some {Mini Snowflakes} white and added glitter glue onto them.

Here's the collection I've made this year:

December colour theme

Hello everyone, and welcome to the last colour theme week of 2019!

Carol with you today sharing my last two artist trading coin and card:-

The colour theme for this week is:-

and here are my two:-

Both have been painted using acrylic paint and so have all of my mini Christmas elements.

Do pop back during the week for some more colour projects.

TFL xx

Reach for the Stars Tag

 

 

This week on the Tando Creative blog the theme is 'In The Stars' .

 

 

For my project I decided to decorate a Tando Long Tag with a moon and stars theme.

I used DecoArt Chalky Finish in Legacy mixed with a little Carbon Chalky finish to give a dark midnight blue colour. I applied this to the textured background of the tag the two circles from the Tando Grab bag of circles and the moon and  stars which I had cast from molds. I then swiped DecoArt Metallic Lustre in Burnished brass across the raised areas of the tag to highlight the texture as well as the moon and stars also. I then stencilled onto the larger of the circles with DecoArt Extreme Sheene in Burnished brass and attached the moon to the small circle and then edged both of the circles with the metallic lustre. A piece of brass chicken wire from my stash was then attached to the tag. Some twigs from the garden were given a swipe of metallic lustre before attaching on top of the chicken wire . Then the circles and stars layered on top. A splattering of DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic in Titanium white was then applied. Word strips were then typed up on my vintage typewriter and attached to the tag base to finish.

                                                   

                                                         Here's a close up of the detail.

 

 

List of products used.

 

Tando Long Tags

 

Tando Grab bag of Circles

 

DecoArt Chalky Finish:- Legacy

 

DecoArt Chalky Finish:- Carbon

 

DecoArt Metallic Lustre:- Burnished Brass

 

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic:- Titanium White

 

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and read

Hugs Fiona x