YES YOU HAVE ARRIVED SAFELY AT THE NEXT TANDO HOP POST ...

You may have arrived here at the CRAFTY INDIVIDUALS blog as part of your normal routine, or you may have got here via the Tando Creative retailer Blog Hop from http://thecraftbarnblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/tando-creative-blog-hop.html.  If you are on the Blog Hop to check out the lovely Tando themed projects that are going on as part of the Tando Birthday Bash, your next port of call will be http://craftbarjan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/tando-birthday-blog-hop_1.html, where you will find your next link.  If you leave nice comments at each of the TEN participating blogs along the way, you stand a chance of winning giveaways!!! The hop will continue to run over the next week.

If you would like to leave comments at all of the blogs on the Hop to be in with a chance of winning some lovely crafty stuff, and you lose your way, you will find all of the Blog links at: http://www.tando-creative.blogspot.co.uk/.

For my Tando related product I just had to use our new spooky themed ELEMENTS PLATES - CI-360 and CI-361, along with the fantastically gothic TANDO TRIPLE ARCH FRAME.  To begin with I used gold acrylic, then crackle medium, and finally shades of blue acrylic, on the back and the frame layers to give a cool crackly effect:

I then used papers from an old book, sprayed with dye inks, and stencilled one of our new masks - Beautiful Border down the side of the papers to get this -

I cut the papers to size and slotted them into the front arches of the frame, and added some sequin waste to decorate -

Loving that blue!

Then I set about decorating my arches with our rubber stamps CI-360, and CI-361.  I also used the crow from CI-319, as it was the perfect size.

This is the finished article, with the close-ups to follow - Hope you like it?

To achieve the colours on the stamped card I used sprays first and then stamped and embossed the images with black embossing powder.  Whilst the molten powder was still hot I added a little holographic embossing powder to give some sparkle.  I cut out the focal images and then mounted them individually on sparkly card and cut around again.  I added little bottles, coloured micro beads, coloured open weave scrim, antique gold chain and corners, and a key to finish. The small crows 'flying around' at the top are glued onto wire.  The dangly arrow at the bottom was made from one of the pieces of chipboard that comes with the Tando frame.

If you leave a comment at the bottom of THIS POST about the Hop and my offering, you stand a chance of winning this little lot - and maybe you could create your own spooky project too.  There are also some Christmas goodies included.

Then if you leave a comment on all TEN Hop Blogs you could win the following huge Tando collection of goodies -

Wow! - Now that's worth doing isn't it?

Hope you have enjoyed your visit here - don't forget to leave a comment, and if you have liked what you have seen, maybe you could check out my previous posts.  New Followers very welcome!!!

Thanks for looking!

Jean x

p.s  Sorry a little late with this post - its now 8.20am.  Have had to post twice as somehow deleted my first post - aaagh!  Ah well it is very early in the morning for me to be blogging!