Soak It Up! @ Tando

Hey folks! Today's blog post is for Tando Creative and the theme this week is "Soak It Up!"

This is an amazing theme to focus towards Tando products as the majority of them are made from greyboard. Greyboard is a fabulous product to work with, and when it gets wet it is highly malleable. Which means you can bend and twist the greyboard to manipulate it in to different shapes. It also behaves like Gremlins, meaning it multiplies to a number of layers - so you can have a number of the same shape only thinner. It is great to experiment with this technique as loads of different outcomes can be created. 

This week, I decided to make a card and play with Tando Bottles and Jars.

Here is what I created...

First I cut a piece of card 7" x 7" and blended a selection of Distress Inks on to it. I then used Creative Expressions Midnight Waltz stamp set designed by Lisa Horton with black Versafine ink to add the stars to the background. 

I collected a selection of the Tando Jars and Bottles and sat them in a tray of water for a couple of minutes. At this point they start to expand and begin to separate. After a couple of minutes, I took them out the tray and squeezed the excess water out of them. Then you can start to manipulate them in to the shape you want. In this case, I moulded the jars and bottles around a paintbrush handle to curve the shapes in to a more 3D shape.  

I then painted them all with DecoArt black gesso. I added DecoArt texture sand paste to some of them and DecoArt white crackle paint to the others. 

When they were dry, I used DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic Gold Metallic paint over the top which I applied with my finger. 

I them covered some of the jars with clear embossing ink and heat embossed clear UTEE over the top.

I stamped the Carabelle Studio wood texture stamp on to white card and cut in to 1.5cm strips. I then painted them with DecoArt Titan Buff and adhered underneath to create shelves to sit the bottles on. 

To finish, I used my Dymo machine to create the words - "get busy creating" and then painted a border around them with the Titan Buff paint. 

I hope you like this weeks themed creation. Leave me a comment telling me your thoughts.

Thanks for popping by,

Lisa xxx 

Here are all the products I used...

            

It's May @ Altered Eclectics

Helllooooo, and welcome to my blog post for the month of May for Altered Eclectics.

Altered Eclectics is a altered art challenge blog and anything can be created to enter except cards.

So, here is my creation...

This is my starting point...

I first wanted to create some texture on the blank circle. So I adhered torn pieces of book pages and added some lines of tape. I then painted the MDF circle with White gesso. I also added some patches of DecoArt crackle paint.

I used Oak House Studio Colour Chemistry sprays to colour the circle. I sprayed and blotted numerous colours until I was happy with the colour.

I used some images from Prima Fairy Belle Collection which I fussy cut and adhered to the circle. 

I stamped the message using a Heartfelt Creations stamp and cut it in to sections and then adhered it.

I highlighted the images and the message with Tim Holtz Distress Crayons. 

I then made a hole in the centre of the circle and painted some clock hands from Tando with black gesso and foxed to the circle. 

Thank you for popping by, hope to see you again soon.

Lisa x