Pink elephants

Hello…over on the Tando blog the week the theme is animals.  Tando have a great range of chipboard animals, from butterflies and the stunning owls right up to elephants!!

I used the elephant bunting kit for this project.  Within the kit you get 8 elephants and they can be used anyway you like.  For this project I used three elephants and a couple of mini flowers:-

The elephants come in three sections - the main body, an ear and an eye…. all of my elephants were painted with Paperartsy fresco paint, stamped with a crackle stamp for their wrinkles, and their eyes painted with matching colours…black and white pens were used to doodle the edges and add definition to their trunks…lol the flowers were painted with the same pink and grey paint and added in the middle of their ties…

Don't forget that Tando creative will be at the Sincerely Yours show at Thetford on Sunday…pop along and say Hi..

TFL xx

Cards by Carol

Hi, hasn't it turned cold out there! we had our first lot of snow on Thursday, didn't amount to much and quickly disappeared but its left us in the grips of a cold wind and dropping temperatures, mind you, we shouldn't complain as it is January after all!!

Today its my turn to share my piece over on the Tando Creative blog and this week the theme has been cards:-

I started off by making a masterboard using acrylic paint and various stamps…I then cut this to fit onto a black mount and then onto a white 5 x 7 card blank.

The mini butterfly and flower with stem, from a grab bag, were then painted and doodled before being attached to the card…

As is my intention this year, I also made a matching tag and here they are together...

TFL xx

Happy New Year!

I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and a really good start to 2016!
We had Josh home for 10 days which was lovely, it was nice to have the house full and buzzing again! now its all de-christmassed and we are all back to normal tomorrow, which includes the diet

So, onto the first theme for 2016 over on the Tando Creative blog - we have decided to keep the colour themes going for 2016.. and this year I have decided to make all of mine ATC's that way I will have a wonderful page of 12 colourful ATC's - anyone fancy joining me on my journey??

So, the first colour scheme is:-

and my first ATC is:-

Tando product used:-

ATC bases

Mini Stars

Music and notes

Mini sequin mask

I added acrylic paint to the base in two tones of grey, a dark blue  and a dirty orange/yellow colour.  Once dry I added some stencilling using the mini mask… the starts and music were painted using the same paints and a coating of distress paint in rocky road added…some doodling and Tim Holtz typed stickers finished it off…

Do pop on over to the Tando blog for more colour pieces this week.

TFL xx