Friday 7 August 2015

Tando Tin

Hi everyone!

Bit of a quiet summer for me this year...spending some precious relaxing time with family before the school year begins in September! - I will be back in the Autumn full of fresh ideas, but for now - here is something I made a while ago....



 If any of you follow my wonderful dear friend and OCC team mate Julia you will see where I got my inspiration from! (if you are not following her - why not?!!)

I am, and always have been, an avid follower of her blog and am always looking to learn any little creative trick that she shares....

While I am way off being as talented as Julia is, I do love to use her blog posts for inspiration and her recent teapot post was one of these. I had to have a go.....


I got the tin and gave it a coat of Decoart Gesso - I had never used this product before and I LOVE it! It worked so much better than any other Gesso I have ever used. 

Then I stuck some Tando swirls to the tin lid and covered with another coat of Gesso
 

Then I began to paint inspired by one of Julia's favourite colours - Decoart Media Fluid Acrylic Paint in Green Gold. I have to agree with her - the colour is gorgeous!

I then covered the lid with Decoart Crackle glaze and when dry I covered it with Decoart Carbon Black Antiquing Cream. I left this to dry before wiping away with a baby wipe.


I then dry brushed the lid with a tiny amount of Gold Decoart Media Fluid Acrylic Paint.


I painted some die cuts flowers with a mix of Green Gold, Primary Yellow and Titanium White Decoart Media Fluid Acrylic Paint. The flowers had been embossed and were coated with a coat of Decoart Carbon Black Antiquing Cream which was wiped away when dry with a baby wipe.  I finished the flower off with a light coat of Gold paint and a gold button.


 I used four smaller die cut flowers and painted these with Decoart Media Fluid Acrylic Paint in Gold I dry-brushed the edges with Caron Black and painted a brad with the Carbon Black paint too.


 I glued on some music serviettes to the side of the tin with matte medium and then covered with several coats of Decoart Ultra-Matte Varnish mixed with Green Gold paint. This was also then coated with Carbon Black Antiquing cream before being wiped away...


 Here is the completed altered tin.....




 I do hope you like it

Happy Crafting!

Laura 
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3 comments:

  1. This is such a beauty and you have inspired me lay hands on my tin now! Thanks for the lovely details.

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  2. Gorgeous! LOVE the green and the scrolls! Gorgeous!!!

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  3. Completely LOVE this tin, Laws!! You've just brought to my attention a couple more DecoArt products I need :) :) LOL!! But that's a good thing :) :) You can never have enough paint and such!! :) :) And look at those swirly swirls on top! Tando has the coolest parts and I really need to stop hoarding/saving my Tando goodies!! What am I waiting for? LOL :) :) Fabulous alteration of this tin!! XOXO-Shari

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