Tando - Printer Trays - Dawn Heald

Hellooo,

Welcome to the weekend!

Wonder what you all have planned??

Here we are again today with Tando Printer Trays
and Dawn has made a stunning project for you!

Dawn says ....

I wanted to create something soft, pretty and a little bit shabby
 chic with light colours ready for summer.

Here's how to make this project -

Glue the layers of the tray together and make some embellishments

 from clay and the Martha Stewart molds. The rose is made by

 squashing some small balls of clay between my fingers and adding

 them around a very small cone of clay as the middle.

Gather some Tando Minis and then give everything a couple coats

 of white Gesso. Punch out three butterflies from pink

 painted card scrap.

Paint the tray, back piece, stand and three focal elements with

 Lake Wanaka.

When dry, apply Crackle Glaze to the tray and backing piece

 and whilst drying (or speed up with heat tool) paint the other 

embellishments in a mix of Fresco Finish Paints.

Use Nougat mixed with a drop of Mocha Mousse to paint over 

the crackle glaze. Dry. With the clay embellishments,after 

painting the lightest colour, use a darker tone on edges.

When dry, colour parts with coordinating colours of Distress Markers. 

This really did make a difference.

For the three blue pieces, sponge with pink paint. 

Then drop tiny amounts of Aged Gold powder and heat.

Edge all blue pieces and tray with Faded Jeans Distress Ink. 

Add some Cantaloupe Liquid Pearls to centres of clay flowers and

 punched butterflies.

Using PaperArtsy stamps and gold ink, stamp all over the

 background with the large spiky flower and the frame with the

 tiny dot flowers. Set the ink with heat tool. Stamp and gold

 heat emboss the word Believe from the sentiment in the set 

onto a scrap of pink painted card and glue to the back of the Tando

 mini bookplate.

Arrange your pieces how you like them and glue down. 

Use either hot glue, Glue gel or silicone glue. Decorate with some

 flatback ivory pearls. Place Tray on stand and admire. X

What a lovely way to end the week, this is absolutely gorgeous!

Thank you Dawn.

So what are you waiting for?

This is what you'll need -

Tando Creative Square Mini Printers Tray

Tando Creative Mini Bookplates

Tando Creative Mini Hearts

Tando Creative Mini Butterflies

PaperArtsy Lin Brown ELB15 stamp set

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paints

PaperArtsy Crackle Glaze

Martha Stewart Molds

Air Dry or Polymer Clay

Stampendous Frantage Embossing Enamel Aged Gold

Distress Markers

Gold Pigment Ink


That's all for this week folks,

See you tomorrow for our new Weekly challenge.

Jane x

Dry embossed Simply Saturday

Hi, 
Simply Saturday with Gay today and two beautiful cards. Particularly love the first one, so elegant. 
I hope you enjoyed this dry embossing week. And I guess we will soon find out. Tomorrow, I will be posting a new challenge for you to have a play.

A wedding or anniversary card, love the peacocks on this folder (Sizzix, Peacocks and Leaves A2 embossing folders), I left it in white. The background was adhered to the filmstrip with the matt medium and it doesn't show through the acetate but the embossing of the peacocks tail is visible. Because the card is wider a larger envelope is required but I don't see that as a major problem and perhaps a box would be nice, I can see where my next project might be LOL

The heart was made with Pardo Clay (Mother of Pearl)

 I used 

Sizzix embossing folders Claudine Hellmuth mediums Core'dinations Cardstock Pardo polymer clay Metal charms Tim Holtz embellishments

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I started this project by spraying Dylusions inks and masking and inking onto white card. Taking the result and passing it through the cuttlebug inside my Sizzix leaf embossing folder, I used Old Silver Inka Gold to highlight the leaves, I then cut them out. I masked the circle on my card blank and shaded the new Summer Distress colours by TH Mowed Lawn, fabulous colour green, and Salty Ocean, a great blue! I couldn't decide which colour ink to do the sentiment in so I stamped three different colours on copy paper and tried them all. Would you have chosen differently? I'm curious, how you would have proceeded with a different colour? I'd love to know?

Anyway I decided on the green text and stamped it on the circle. It all looked a little flat so I masked the circle again and sprayed with the Dylusions sunshine yellow ink, dabbing and lifting some of the green this gave me a little texture and the circle started to look like a grassy patch. That's when I decided to spray with the red ink and bingo all of a sudden I had poppies, magic. This made a lot more sense of the sentiment, I had originally meant it to refer to the leaves but it just fitted better with the poppies! 

A little black center and some glitter pen to highlight the centre, I drew stalks and the card was pretty much made, just shaped and popped the leaves up with Pinflair glue to finish.

This last photo shows my spray box, having made such a mess spraying unprotected I needed to contain the inks so I cut out the lid of a box and use that now, it's not pretty but it's definitely much less messy.

For this card, Gay used:

Sizzix embossing folders Tim Holtz stamps: Steampunk The Crafter's Workshop templates Distress inks Dylusions inks Inka Gold pastes

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See you tomorrow for a challenge ;)

Art Impressions week: Altered spoon with polymer

Hi, 
As promised, here's a project you might have not expected with the Art Impressions stamps. But trust Isa'sArt to make it special. Don't you just want to eat that chocolate? But don't, it's all made out of clay and Isa will show you how... 

As Isa wanted some marbled chocolate and some milk chocolate, she had to play a bit with the colour. 

To lighten the chocolate, add some white. To darken it, add some black (a little bit, it does not take much)

TIP OF THE DAY:

It's very easy to make a chocolate bar.

You spead your clay a bit... you mark the squares with the side of  the pockey tool, and draw lines with the end of the tool. Then take a heart shaped cookie cutter and "munch" the chocolate.. 

Isn't it' cool? 

Bake your "chocolate" according to manufacturer's instruction (and it won't even melt LOL), and adhere to your sample with glue. (Glossy Accents will work)

you can stamp the spoon using StazOn ink. Add a bit of wire to be able to hang the spoon, it even looks good from the front.

Stamp the Art Impressions quote with Versafine ink on a piece of card inked with Distress inks

Et voilà

Art Impressions quote stamps Pardo polymer clay Cookie cutters Glossy Accents Distress inks Versafine ink StazOn ink Craft wire Ultrafine glitter

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See you tomorrow