Tando Creative

Good Morning

Today I would like to share with you a couple of  projects I have made using Tando Creative Wavy Gothic Arch chipboards. 

On this first one it was covered with a Graphic 45 Kraft paper with roses on. This was then inked around the edges with rusty hinge distress ink. The sentiment also came form a Graphic 45 scrapbook page and was die cut using a nestability labels shape. This was also inked with rusty hinge distress.  Using a Cropodile Big Bite I then punched three holes, two at the top for the hanging wire and one at the bottom for the dangly tassle. The cogs were chipboard, with double sided adhesive, die cut using a nestie Cogs & Gears set. Then the adhesive was peeled off and gilding flakes put on to give the metal look. 

For the second one, the Wavy Gothic Arch was painted with a metallic purple paint. The stamp is from Tim Holtz Good Thoughts stamp set. This was stamped in Black ink and then highlighted with a white pen. I then stamped a flourish stamp in black and again highlighted with a white pen. The Bird in a cage metal embellishment was then glued in place as was the metal flower. Some purple satin ribbon was threaded through the jump ring at the top and there we have a lovely hanging decoration.

I have been thinking of getting some more of these and decorating them for christmas, but not sure if I will have the time now.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my cards.

Gill

Tando Gothic Arches

Good morning

Today I would like to share with you 2 chipboard Gothic Arches which have been decorated.
These two were done during a workshop at The Stamp Pad in Greenfield. They are not something which I would normally have picked during my crafty stash shopping.
I have found that sometimes by doing a workshop

For this first one, the inside panel was painted with a metallic green paint and then stamped on with Black Archival ink. The outside of the panel was painted with 'glue and seal', or you could use Indigo Blu's Flitter glue, then a sheet of gilding material. This gives a smooth covering and if you have varigated foil looks fantastic. If you don't have the foil sheets you could use the normal guilding flakes, although this would give a slightly different finish. Assemble the inner and outer pieces together and then turn over and back with patterened paper.

For the second panel was inked in pink and then stamped over with a great script stamp by Stampendous. The inside panel was covered with a matt medium. Into this we stuck metal swirls, small jump rings, any small metal bits you may have lying around. This was then covered with either glue or matt medium.  Then we took a sheet of tin foil (regular kitchen variety) and scrunched  it up. This was then gently laid flat with out pulling all the crinkles out, over the center piece with all the metal findings on. Gently we then rubbed the foil into the metal pieces so that they were raised up under the foil. We then covered the piece with black acrylic paint left it a few minutes and then gently wiped it back. I then went over this with a metallic pink paint. The assemble as before and back with patterned paper.

All the goodies to make these projects were bought from The Stamp Pad in Greenfield.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my cards.

Gill

Playing / Gilding

Hi there

I have not made any cards or scrapbookpages for a few days, but i have been playing. Over the weekend I decided to get out my Gilding Flakes and have a play.

These are some gears and cogs which I cut on my Big Shot with the Tim Holtz Die. The top ones were cut with grungepaper and I am going to try and emboss these later before inking and generally distressing them. The bottom ones I cut from greyboard ( the sort that comes on the back of notepads or packaging). I started off by cutting the board to slightly bigger than the piece I wanted to cut, then I used double sided sticky and stuck this on one side to the board. Then I ran this through the Big Shot. When I had taken all the excess pieces off I removed the other side of the sticky and applied my gilding flakes, I used a mixture pot of flakes.
At some point I will put these onto a card!

These toppers were made with a double sided peel off. The butterfly on the right is the peel of stuck to white card and then guilded, when cut out will be put onto a card. The one on the left was the waste from the peel off! I had cut around the image I was going to use whilst it was still on the peel off sheet. I then stuck the waste onto white card again. I removed the protective backing paper and guilded the image. When this has been cut out and stuck onto a card, you will have had 2 images for the price of one!

White card, Giliding Flakes and double sided peel offs and sticky sheels all from The Stamp Pad

Happy Crafting

Fathers Day

Hi there

Well as you know Fathers Day is fast approaching. These are some cards I made with men in mind.

The first one was a plain card matted and layered, then we used nesties Labels 1which was then inked using distress inks, pumice and broken china. The topper was made using double sided sticky, backed on card, die cut again with a nestie and then covered with gilding flakes.

The second was a card using map paper a plain tag added which was again distressed. A peel off (yes we all have lots of those!) stuck onto brown card and cut out to give a great effect when stuck on with foam tags. A little bit of embellishment and a simple yet effective card. 

This last one if my favourite. A card blank this tme using a medallion stamp to create the background. Ink it up, stamp once onto scrap paper and then stamp off the edge of the card. This gives a very random look but very effective and a great way of using stamps we all have perhaps gathering dust! The tissue paper was scrunched up before being glued to mirri card to give the aged look. The banners cut with Nesties and peel offs used to spell the word Dad. but you could put what ever you wish in these.

Thanks to Gwen at the Stamp Pad in Greenfield for a fantastic workshop. You know how much we all struggle with men!

Happy Crafting