Stampendous and Tando Collaboration

Hello, happy Monday and welcome to the first day of a great blog hop this week with Stampendous and Tando Creative!

The Stampendous design team received tons of fabulous chipboard pieces to use in the July catalog AND for this week's blog hop so we have lots of great new product to share with you!

There are hop prizes! You can get all the great information about the prizes for this hop on the Stampendous blog today, but the short information on it is all you have to do is comment and tell us where you live, the more you comment the more entries you are submitting!

My project today is a sweet little Mini Theatre Stage Tall 1 chipboard product with a whole bunch of Pink Your Life stamps and Deco Art Media Fluid paint.

I absolutely love the combination of the sweet chipboard stage and the Pink Your Life images. I hope you might find parts of this piece interesting, so here are a few highlights.

I used 3D Foam Squares to pop out the house sign and lower window, plus my Whisper Friend.

This Whisper Friend has about 4 layers of paint on her face, lol. I just couldn't seem to get the shadow colors right so I quit while I was somewhat ahead.

To add a bit of whimsy to the piece I partially hand stamped (no acrylic block) text onto a few layers.

Before I give you my instructions, here are today's hop list.

Stampendous Blog Kristine Reynolds Wendy Price Janelle Stollfus - you are here! Alison Heikkila  Tando Creative Blog

Supplies:

Stampendous:
Whisper Friends Perfectly Clear Stamps Set (SSCP103)
Whisper Houses Perfectly Clear Stamps Set (SSCP105)

Mushrooms Perfectly Clear Stamps Set (SSCP102)

Dream Text Stamp (RS-R105)

Mixed Media White Paper (MPW811)

Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko® (MEM01)

Perfectly Clear Acrylic Stamp Handle (HANDLES)

Plus:
Mini Theatre Stage Tall 1 by Tando Creative LTD
Memento™ Tuxedo Black Marker by Tsukineko®
MEDIA® Fluid Acrylics by DecoArt (Paynes Gray, Titanium White, Primary Cyan, Phthalo Green-Blue, Primary Yellow, Yellow Oxide, Quinacridone Gold, Raw Sienna, Raw Umber, Cadmium Red Hue, Primary Magenta)
White Media™ Gesso by DecoArt
Zip-Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives
Paintbrushes (Script Liner #1, Liner #5, 1/2" flat brush)
Sponge
Plastic Palette
Scissors or craft knife

Instructions:

1. Plan your scene by tracing the inside and outside edges of the step chipboard pieces on white paper and stamping images where you would like the to be in your scene.
2. On Mixed Media White Paper trace chipboard pieces as many times as you have for the inside chipboard pieces.
3. Paint images with acrylic paints and mixes below (adjust light or dark with Titanium White or Payne's Gray unless otherwise indicated).
• Sky - 1:2 clean drops Primary Blue to Titanium White.
• Pink - 1:1 Cadmium Red Hue to Titanium White used on flowers, dress, house sign and heart. Add Quinacridone Gold and Payne's Gray in very small amounts to darken.
• Lavender - 1:1 Primary Blue to Titanium White then add a smidgen of Primary Magenta.
• Green base - 1:1:1 Phthalo Green-Blue to Primary Yellow and Raw Sienna.
• Stones - 1:1 Payne's Gray and Titanium White, 1:1 Quinacridone Gold and White, 1:1:1 Titanium White, Raw Sienna (then add a smidgen of Cadmium Red Hue, Payne's Gray watered down just a bit
• Yellow - 1:1 Yellow Oxide and Titanium White. Darken with Raw Sienna.
• White Hat - 1:1 Payne's Gray and Titanium White with a smidgen of Primary Blue.
• Skin - 1:1 Quinacridone Gold and Titanium White plus a smidgen of Cadmium Red Hue.
4. Cut out pieces keeping the traced chipboard edges for alignment. They can be trimmed away before gluing together. Use a black marker to hide the white edges of cut paper.
5. Gesso the front and back chipboard pieces of the stage and paint with 1:1 Raw Umber and Titanium White.
6. Stamp bubbles on front by sponging Raw Umber onto stamp and carefully pressing onto paint front and back chipboard pieces.
7. Sandwich painted pieces with stage chipboard.
8. Work from the back forward gluing painted pieces to stage frames.
9. Glue painted flowers on top of theater stage.