Love and hearts week with Tando

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Welcome to my new Tando post and this week we were challenged to make projects with hearts and love things.
So without any  additional thought I grabbed my most loved Heart shaped printer's  Tando tray and made this project that is full of hearts and love and was just a perfect gift  for Valentine.
As you can see I used tons of Tando goodies and you can see the full list at the end of this post.
Anyway all shapes were painted and them glittered or heat embossed with Stampendous glitter or embossing powders.
 The background cardstock is from DCVW, but this is the only products that you can't find in TANDO shop.
Here you can see the hearts painted inside and painted around with DecoArt Copper paint and then glittered over.
 The key hole heart and the key are covered with Stampendous embossing powder.

The sentiment was heat embossed with copper powder and the frame was covered with Crackle glaze over the dark red DecoArt paint.

 Tando products used:
Mini heart printer tray


Set of 5 keys

Tando minis Hearts



Frantage mica kit

DecoArt Media line
I add this piece to some web challenges:
Country view- 30 minute or less- this is sure half an hour art creation, not more

Urban Queen art page with Tando and Stampendous

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last January Tando inspiration.
This week we are sharing projects made with Stampendous products together with Tando products and my share is this pretty large art page.
I need to say that I am a totally urban  girl. I never liked the country side or too much green around and I adore the city skylines and  all those millions of people around.
So this page was made as my tribute to this urban Love and I made the title sayings: I am an Urban Queen" and added some sticker saying to say more, like " this is my lifetime adventure" and " timeless everyday inspiration".
The art journal page was made over thick white cardstock, covered with gesso.
Then I used Stampendous Urban Cling stamp set stamp set and first the stencil that is in this set.
I added random spots with this stencil and Crackle paste over the page.
The city skyline was stamped over the page with white DecoArt acrylic and as usual, white on white is not much seen.
The green  houses that are seen were stamped with the background of  the foam stamp and the cling stamp and then heat embossed with clear powder and hand cut to be added to the page.
The  walls were cut from Tando Grid Rectangle chipboard and painted with white acrylic paint.
The title was made with Tando Alphas letters over Tando Speach Bubbles pieces and  the whole page, titles included was misted with a mix of several mists.
The last Tando piece  added is this key piece and it means that this Queen got the city key for her own use.

I really hope that you like my Urban inspiration and see you again in a couple of weeks.
Tando products used:
Grid Rectangle 


Alphas sheet style block


Speech Bubbles Large


Set of 5 keys


DecoArt Media Line

Urban Cling 3 pieces stamps and stencil

Tando Embossing week

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Embossing week Tando inspiration.
I was not sure if we were asked to make a project with dry or heat embossing, so I just made one with both.
As you can see the background is dry embossed with Sizzix embossing folder. Then I covered it with clear embossing ink and added Stampendous embossing powders and components to get this dark messed look.
The Tando frame was heat embossed with another Stampendous embossing powder.
The both chipboard birds and the bird cage were also heat embossed with some old puffy embossing powder.
The whole piece was done with recycled base: I used Tando packaging for the background  and it's just a perfect piece for any background.

Tando shop products used:
Frantage embossing enamel kit
Frantage Mica kit
Grab bag of mini birds


Bird cages 


Frame - Large rectangle

Tando with Andy Skinner: Steampunk tag

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my project for our  Tando Andy Skinner week.
And it's so obvious that this project should be a Mixed Media one.
So here is my Steampunk Mixed Media tag made with lots of Tando products and even more Andy's ones.

I used Scrapberry's  cardstock to make the basic hand cut tag and added Tando Cogs mini mask with DecoArt Crackle paste over the cardstock.
When the crackles became seen I added a mix of Media line Andy Skinners acrylics from DecoArt mixed with water.
The main spot is Andy's Stampendous stamp from Curiosity stamp set. It was stamped with black pigmented ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.
The Grid- Rectangle chipboard piece was painted with the mix of the same line of acrylics that you can get from Tando shop as well.
The other Tando/Andy's chipboards used are from Industrial elements  set and Cogs set, all painted to get this rusty look.

And here are the products used for this tag:

DecoArt Media Line

Curiosity stamp set 

Industrial elements


Grid- rectangle


Mini mask Cogs



See you soon with more Tando inspiration!

Bon Voyage card with Scrapmatts

My new card made with DCWV cardstock and Scrapmatts fabulous chipboards.
The " globes" were die cut from patterned cardstock and then I added the similar Scrapmatts chipboards called Bubbles over it the make this " round around world". The circled chipboard was heat embossed with Stampendous mix of embossing powder  and got this white/brown vintage look.
The Bon Voyage sentiment is Scrapmatts  Assorted words and were covered with copper embossing powder.

Scrapmatts chipboards used:
Bubbles 01 CB5131
Assorted words 04 CB4051

Words are toxic tag with TANDO Metal week

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Metal week post made for Tando blog.
This week our designers are going to show you all things metal. But actually those are mostly faux metals and as you can see nothing on this tag is made of metal, but of chipboards, paints, texture pastes etc.

I used two Tando stencils to make the backgrounds.
The lower one is Splatters mini mask.. The upper one is Giraffe mini mask . Both were applied with DecoArt modelling paste and then painted with DecoArt Media line Fluid acrylics. Those mini masks are just perfect for tags and small crafts!
The Pen and Ink  chipboards were painted with the same acrylics and then I added some stamped images using Andy Skinner Stampendous stamp sets called Toxic.
I had a  couple of words on those stamp sets and added a couple with stickers.
All stamped images were painted over with Gold DecoArt paint and it sure looks like a shiny metal.
I think that the saying is the most important: yes, words can be TOXIC! So watch your words and think before you say something that is not very nice.

Products used:


DecoArt Media line fluid acrylics
DecoArt white Modelling paste
Toxic stamp set
Giraffe mini mask
Splatters mini mask
Pen and Ink chipboards

Makin's Clay tutorial:Mermade Clay Frame

  

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my July Makin's Clay tutorial.
Summer is here and this is a toally summer project made today- easy to follow and almost anyone with a basic skills and Makin's Clay products can make it in just an hour (without counting the drying time).
I made the clay frame to frame my own art stamped piece (no tutorial for the stamping or making Mixed Media art here). I made this Mermade piece with Stampendous stamp, Tattered Angels mists and paints, heat embossing and it was bare.
I had to add something to make it more artistic and the clay frame was my first choise.
So here is a tutorial for the frame and you sure can frame any sea sna sand piece of art, but this frame was made over the art piece that was larger than the finished seen one.

1. Roll the whole package of White Makin's Clay with Makin's Clay Roller from the Roller and Cutter set over Makin's Clay Large Cutting Mat. 

2. When the clay is flattened to the siZe that fits the art piece to be framed use the usual metal ruler and Makin's Clay Cutter to cut 4 equal pieces that will make the frame.

3. Arrange all 4 cut pieces to make a kind of a frame over the art piece. Don't try to make it pretty and stright. We will do this step later.

4. Make the waves texture using Makin's Clay roller over the Curly Beard texture sheet  from Texture Sheet set E.  Dont' try to make stright lines of your frame yet. It will be done during the next step.

5. Now take you cutter again and cut the left overs from the outside and inside the frame as shown.

6. While your frame is drying make sea shells  and other sea creatures with Sea shells  Push mold  and white clay.

I made a bit more than one of each piece, but didn't use  them all on my final project.

7. Paint your dry  clay shells with a mix of Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam (this is a glittery watery kind of a paint and leaves a lot of surface non painted, but that was what I wanted). Let the paint dry.

8. Paint the textured frame with a mix of Tattered Angels High Impact paints and a bit of Glimmer Glam  and let it dry.

9. Arrange the painted clay shells over the frame corner  and add a few pearl beads around and inside the frame.

And this is how my finished project looks!

Hope you enjoyed my small clay tutorial and see you again next month!

Imagine and Explore you inner Stemapunk art page

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Steampunk page post.

So here is the page made over A4 thick cardstock covered with gesso and then painted, stamped, stencilled and embellished with Scrapmatts chipboards and some  hand made embellishments I made with Makin's Clay, molds and Makin's ClayExtruder.

As you can see I used Scrapmatts Retro Squares stencil with texture paste over the page and then misted it with a mix of Tattered Angels mists.

Stamps used are from Andy Skinner's line of Steampunk stamps and mostly stamped directly over the page (some were stamped over tissue and glued then with Gel Medium).

I also used the second Scrapmatts String Beads  stencil here and you can see the lines in the middle of the page.The chipboard Steampunk frame was added to frame the  funky doll. The head , the hair embellishment and the hair are made with Makin's Clay. I made it with white Makin's Clay and painted with DecoArt paints and pigments.

For the final touch I added a layer of Crackle glaze  and some Scrapmatts  chipboard words.