Stampendous - Tando-Creative Blog Hop

 Thanks for stopping by as Today I am taking part in the Stampendous/Tando-Creative Mixed Media Hop.

You can find the Stampendous Blog HERE

And Tando-Creative HERE

Get your fingers into mixed media with one of our fun prize packages. To be eligible, leave a comment and where you live on our blog, Tando Creative blog and the designers blog for our hop. Each comment is an entry to win one of THREE terrific prize packages. This is open to commenters with a US and UK mailing address. Each prize package includes a Tando Creative Mini Heart Printer Tray plus Stampendous NK Studio Fiesta Stamp Set. Winner will be announced early next week!

Here are the people playing today xx

Thursday

Stampendous Blog
Laura Drahozal
Mark Gould 
Lea Fritts
Tando Creative Blog

Ok, So after a little tease on Facebook earlier this week and a rather delayed post today (heat stroke is a Pain)

I am now sharing my Latest (and last ;-) ) Dalek made from one of Tando-Creatives Christmas tree advent calendars.

I have had to improvise a couple of extra pieces for the body and head and the skirt has been made out of strips of masking tape.

The Dalek has been decorated simply with Decoart Media Fluids, Pyrolle Red over a white base coat.

The drawers have been painted black along with the arms and skirt. The fronts of the Drawers have been embossed using Stampendous's Sparkly (yes I used Sparkly) Embossing powder Twilight

I love the different flecks of colour in the Twilight pot of powder.

Now this little fella will be making it's way to Laura from Stampendous as a little thank you for all the amazing help organizing my first crafty trip to California later this year.

I will be visiting three shops in California this October and I will be teaching a new mixed Media class using a brand new kit for my class from Tando-Creative, we will also be using lots of Stampendous and Decoart Media products to create a tag storage box and an assortment of tags using several mixed media techniques.

More class pics coming soon.

This is where I will be, Hopefully I will see some of you there xxx.

Sat 22nd October. It's all about the Scrapbook in Dixon

Sat 29th October. The Stamp Addict in Sand Diego

Sun 30th October. Scrapbooking Forever Westlake Village

Exterminate!! Tando-Creative altered advent calendar

 Happy Wednesday, Second post for me today so thanks for sticking with me, as always it is so great to have you stop by.x

 Now this project goes back a little while, Whilst at the Ally Pally craft show in April having a good look round I got to chatting with Di Oliver of Tando-Creative and Helen Pigott from Its Crafting Time who had been discussing alternate uses for some of the Tando range and that the xmas advent calendar looked a lot like a Dalek, I think it was right place at the right time as I was then given the challenge of turning the tree into the Dr Who villain.
 A little while later I received the kit and set to work figuring out what I needed to do. The kit it's self goes together really easily, this little pic shows how the tree looks un painted and the next one is of a tree fully painted up as an advent calendar, I gave mine a Tarnished Brass finish using Decoarts Acrylic paints and  one of Andy Skinners  on line workshop finishes from Time Worn , details can be found on his blog.
I needed to make a couple of sections for the conversion and after a couple of fails found the right way to make the sections I needed, the dome is from an old telephone bell and the mesh has been cut from some magic mesh and glued down after being painted with decoart paints. The arms are kebab sticks and a tooth pick has been used for the top arm thing.
I wish this had been my idea but I had so much fun creating this, I can already see ways of making it better.
 Now if you do not know who Tando-Creative are follow the link to their blog, they are a UK company that produce brilliant chipboard parts and kits, there should be a product range on their blog as well as a list of suppliers.


I would like to enter this into the challenge over at Simon Says Stamp And Show, they are having a 'Kraft' theme, Im not 100% sure what that is but chip board was mentioned and this has been made from a chipboard kit so hopefully that counts x

Anything But A Card are having a 'Masculine' challenge.

Crafty Cardmakers are having a 'Steam Punk' challenge.

The Stampotique Designers Challenge are having a 'Anything But A Card' theme, I looked at the rules and could not see anything about having to use a stamp so hopefully all is good.

Left Of Center are having an alternative or Embossing challenge.

Punk You Girl Are nearly finished their first challenge, the theme is 'Anything Goes' and they are a new alternative challenge.