Saturday's Perpetual Calendar Class

I had a fabulous day on Saturday over at The Craft Barn. 7 lovely ladies attended the class and lots of chat and laughter was enjoyed by all.

Rose has very kindly emailed me some pictures of her finished calendar, I think you'll agree that it's gorgeous. Here are some piccies and Rose has added some butterflies in the last picture.....they really finish it off a treat.

The perpetual calendars come in a kit that includes the pot, flowers, numbers, straws and bamboo sticks.  You will just need to buy some florist foam to pop in the pot and use what you prefer for the days and months.  I took along some dates that had been printed on the computer, Rose used a cutting machine for hers.  You could also use stamps or just hand write them if you wanted to.

The kits will be released on general sale soon, as I did the workshop at the Craft Barn, they have a few available there to buy, just give them a call.

I'm aiming to get some new releases out during the beginning of May.....we have some really exciting ones coming up too ;o)

May Class at The Craft Barn

Here is a piccie of the project I will be doing for the May Class at the Craft Barn.  I'm using the plaque and lettering from our Home Sweet Home plaque and our Village Scenelit.

It will make a lovely key holder....or anything else you wish to hang from it of course LOL.

If you want to book a place pop along to the class list HERE.  I'll look forward to seeing you.

Using a part of printer tray for a card

As you all know I am deeply in love  with Tando printers trays, and I try to use they one by one, not all 3 pieces together. So this time I used a square one as a part of my card and I just love the final result a lot.

I covered it with crackle Ranger paint (long- long drying time), then added some rub-ons inside the windows and then made some stamped and painted roses for the window corner. It's a kind of all occasions card  you can give to any girl (sorry, boys, I am not a big masculine cardmaker, I need my pinks and flowers). I made the setiment over Tando scalloped rectangle and painted it a bit over the rub- on  word.re
And a  close up to the flowers too- you can see how great the crackle paints over Tando chipboards.

 

See you next time!

Irit

A little inking and Masking

Just a quick little share with you all today.   Recently came into position of the Tando Creative set of Butterfly Masks.   Used here as a stencil to ink through the created at soft background for this floral themed tag.

Just held in place by hand the ink tapped over with a brush.   Clean them off under the tap.   There are several sizes of mask each one designed to work with the Butterfly Chipboard shapes.

Pin Cushion Houses

Helloooo! I have been playing with fabric again :-D This time I used 3 of the little 3D Tando Houses and turned them into pin cushions! Such a lot of fun to do.

For all 3 I assembled the houses first (discard the roof pieces). I attached the doors, windows & any embroidery to the fabrics before I glued onto the bases. It was a little trickier to make the cushions for the rooves but I ended up making long sausage shapes and then just glueing them in the roofspaces. You can see that the one on the left was the 1st one as the others are a little neater hahaha! I just had to make a little needlecase to match as I had one house left! I cut it down and just covered with fabric, using felt for the 'pages'.

The very pretty fabric came from the lovely Sandy at the Craft Barn (do a search for the fabric if you can't find it). Here are the ~Tando Creative~ pieces I used...nekkid...

If you are going the The Craft Barns Extravaganza this year you can have a good look at these houses as they will be on display :-D

Thank you so much for taking a look today, HUGS, Karen xxx

New Home mini tray: I am in Love with them

Hello, my dear Tando friends! Irit is here again and this time with another altered home project- I am just in love with TANDO mini trays.
Home again and with lots of other Tando products, all covered with a heavy layer of embossing powders.

And here are Tando products used for this project:

Keep Calm and Carry On!

This phrase must go down in history as the saying for 2012! other things for 2012 are the Olympics and the Jubilee...

Loving the London elements by Tando - this telephone box is the smaller one of the two in the kit.

For instructions see my blog...xx