Tando's Technique Thursday....

Joanne and I have been using Viva's Terra with our white chipboard pieces for our Tando challenge today.

Viva's Terra is like a thick coloured paste which drys like paint but with a grit like texture, almost like fine pebble dash. Once again, the white board hasn't shown any signs of seperating or warping under the use of such thick and wet paste, it has also maintained the true colour of the paste.

This time I've chosen the shaped arch to play with:-

The arch was painted with the Terra and then left to dry. Once dry I then rubbed distress stickles onto the corners and along the edges, I then stamped a paperartsy stamp with black ink and then a gold clock charm was added. The edges were hi-lighted with gold dauber. The piece was then adhered to a brown piece of card which had been edged with utee. The background paper on the card is from seven gypsies, text paper was adhered to grungepaper and butterflies stamped and then cut out, these were adhered to the card using silicone gel.

All the white board shapes are now available to buy from Bubbly Funk.

Pop on over to the Tando Creative blog and see what Joanne has created - it gorgeous!!

Don't forget there's another Tando Creative piece on Tuesday...xx

Tando Creative part 3

and this time Joanne and I are trying utee/triple embossing and seeing how the board reacts...

For my jigsaw piece I used versamark with cosmic shimmer ultra thick embossing crystals, this was repeated twice, then I inked up my stamp with black versafine and added another layer of versamark to the piece - ontop of that I sprinkled cosmic shimmer ultra thick in lapis sapphire, midnight blue and lava black and whilst still moulten pushed my stamp into the enamel....a few minutes later......................

not the easiest thing in the world to photograph, but irl its really striking!

When you do this technique the enamel and the base get exceptionally hot - the board hasn't warped or reacted to the heat at all (well, apart from getting hot! but, thats to be expected of all bases when this technique is used).

All the white board pieces used by Joanne and myself for these technique pieces are now available to buy through BubblyFunk....

Pop on over to Tando Creative and see what Joanne has made.....

TFL xx

and after....

alot of secret emails and secretative meetings the day arrived when we surprised Ang with this:-


20 peeps made a 6x6 page for "Ang's special book" and several others from the crop made tags which fitted into the back page which had a little concertina pocket especially for them....

The front is made from sticky metal with letters under and the flowers are grungepapers...

and.....

was followed by:-

and...

..bless!!

Here is my page...


I want to Thank everyone for their hard work in making the pages and for keeping the secret - we nearly had lots of slip ups but managed to recover!! roflxx - all of the pages are gorgeous and made such a special book xx

...and a big Thank You to Tracey for taking the piccies whilst we all enjoyed Ang's reaction!!

Enjoy your book Ang xx

TFL xx

the first time....

that I've not taken a piccie of my SCD piece!! I've let the battery go flat on my camera and I'm off out tonight with the girls so will take a piccie tomorrow and post it...

But, over at SCD its a new month and a new challenge.

Last months ATC's were just brill and we've got quite a few joined up for the swap! its still not too late to join in....as the closing date, to me, is next Friday 12th March 2010! just contact me via the contact me button on my blog and I'll get the details to you. A Big Thank you also goes to our GD for the month, Chriss Rollins, her ATC's were just fab....xx

So, the theme for March is "THRINCHIES"

and what are they? I hear you cry - 3"x3" pieces of art....

and this weeks theme is:- LOVE AND ROMANCE



So, as I'm a nawty blogger, I'll add my piccie tomorrow, but, this is the description:-

A piece of rum and raisin backing paper by paperartsy - a penny black quote stamped in the corner and embossed with gold powder. Cupid, by Anna Giffin is stamped in black to the side and he's sitting on the word "love".... the edges have all been distressed and a brad is inserted into the phrase....can you picture it?? roflxx

Do pop over to the SCD blog and see what the others have created - and taken pictures off!! lol

TFL xx

Tando Creative

Joanne and I are showcasing some more new Tando Creative white chipboard pieces today...so pop on over and take a look! Joanne has created the most gorgeous necklace, you'll all be totally blown away with it!! I was!

Today we're "Cracking up" using viva crocco paint on the board to see how it fairs....

Here's my piece:-

The base is the new jigsaw piece - I just love altering jigsaws....the first layer was the bronze crocco which I plastered on quite thick inorder to get the deep crevices and then to hi-light same, I added distress stickles - unfortunately, I didn't like it, so added more crocco in blackberry - most board would have struggled with the amount of paint and textures thrown at it, but, it hasn't warped or separated in anyway, shape or form - which is great when you change your mind with pieces (as often as me!! lol). The cracks were hi-lighted using a gold dauber. The middle section is a moo shaped piece of board covered with textured metal, a flower and some watch parts finished it all off.

The next piece that Joanne and I will be showcasing will be next Tuesday so I hope you'll join both of us then.

TFL xx

Tando creative

For the next few weeks on a Tuesday and Thursday I will be publishing some results using various techniques on White Chipboard shapes being created by Di Oliver over at Tando Creative. Both, Joanne and I, will be using the same technique base, but, obviously with "our take" on the technique and using different shapes....

So, the first technique is:- DISTRESSING

There are loads of different distressing technqiues out there but for these two pieces I have used just two.

The first one:-

I coloured the piece using distress ink swooshed onto a mat and then lifted with a blending tool - this was then splashed with water and the following effect created:-

you can see where the water was splashed....this piece was then used to create:-

the stamp is the current freebie from Craft stamper, the circles were hi-lighted with a white pen and the outside daubbed with gold acryllic.

For my second piece - I swished three colours of distress inks onto my mat and spritzed with water from my mister bottle. For this technique just give the ink a few spritzes - if you are too heavy handed the chipboard drinks the ink and it gives you a very weak colour base - too much water can also cause the chipboard to seperate. I then added the shape to the "watered ink" and swished it around allowing all of the shape to become coloured. When dry I then dropped water onto the piece and added colour to the edges with the blending tool (I forgot to take a picture at this stage) with the piece I created:-



The centre image is a stamp which has had some white lines added. you can see how the water/ink have coloured the background. Doodles and bling finish the pieces off.

Pop along to the Tando blog and see what Joanne has come up with and don't forget there's a new technique show casing more new shapes on Thursday. All shapes will be available to buy shortly.

TFL xx

March 1st

and its a new project over at Vanilla Sugar....

This month the challenge is to create a:-

FABRIC BOOK

So, here is my fabric book:-

The basis of the book is Claudine Hellmuth's sticky back canvas - I cut 6 pieces of 4" square and did the background for each sheet whilst still on the backing. when coloured I then stuck the pages to each other and punched the holes for fixing with a crop-a-dile, each page was then decorated and the edges daubed with gold acryllic paint. When complete book rings were used to hold the pages together.

The front page has a glimmer mist mask which was held in place whilst distress ink was sponged over. I then cut strips of paper, one of which was punched and then a further one adhered to the top - a piece of beaded trim was adhered to the bottom of the paper. The butterfly is from craft bitz and you get loads in a packet, unfortunately, during my clear up I've gone and misplaced mine - but, here I have adhered text paper and then chalked the edges, tiny gem stones have been added for effect on the wings and body. The letters "mum" are grungeboard and were painted with gold dauber and then rock candy distress stickles over the top.


Pages 2 and 3
page 2 - painted using acryllic paint - and a mask which only the edges were painted over. The image is one from Crafty individuals. lace and ribbon were added diagonally across the page.

page 3 - a heidi swapp butterfly mask and distress ink to create the background. Butterfly as per front page. Flower made up of primas and punched foilage! the dream embellishment was made using air dry clay and coloured using perfect pearls.

page 4 and 5 page 4 - painted with acryllic paint and stamped over with text stamp and sequin waste - centre panel is a piece of stampboard coloured with chalk ink and stamped with a paperartsy stamp - buttons finish off the corner...

page 5 - is my fav! the background is distress ink, the stamps areTims flourish, the butterfly and word as previous, flowers are prima and the centre is a prima say it with crystals centre, pearls and a pin finish it off.

Back page:-
painted with stream dauber, flowers as previous - a few gems finish it off.

The book has been held together with book rings.

I'm going to use this as a Mothers Day card for my Mum this year so before presentation it will have a few "texts" put in place.

Pop on over to the Vanilla Sugar challenge blog and see what the other DT'ers have come up with.

TFL xx