Hello everyone! Today’s blog card features dies from Tim Holtz’s Alterations range. This is how we made it (all product links at listed at the end of this blog post): First we took a scrap piece of white card and coloured it with Adirondack color wash in Butterscotch. We let it dry then used the credit card technique to apply a thin layer of white gesso over the top.
We tore it down one side then die cut it with Tim Holtz Alterations die ”Moments”. We covered a piece of card board with Tim Holtz tissue tape and die cut the bodice from Tim Holtz Alterations die ”Sewing Room”.
The bodice was given a light coat of gesso then stamped on with Archival Ink “Sepia” with Tim’s flourish stamp from his “Mini Ornates” set before tying some ribbon and adding a Trinket Pin. We then cut a second complete mannequin in cardboard and a few buttons, we coloured all parts of the mannequin with Distress Stain “Walnut Stain” then attached the 1st tissue taped bodice onto the 2nd mannequin die cut.
The buttons were given a light coat of gesso also and coloured with Distress Stain “Wild Honey”, stamped on then thread tied through button holes to finish. All the pieces were then assembled onto a black card front embossed with Tim Holtz texture fade “Checkerboard and Cracked” . Hope you like it! Have a great day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art!
To all our wonderful friends, blog readers and Destination Art customers who are mums….we wish you a very happy Mother’s Day and hope you get spoilt rotten as you so well deserve. Have a wonderful day spending it with your loved ones. For those of you who are away from your families on this special day, we send you big cyber hugs! (Think of us as your surrogate daughters for the day hehe!). Love Lisa and Elaine x
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
Hi everyone, Elaine here! After a glorious week here in Phuket our holiday is coming to an end and in a couple of days we’ll be on a flight back to the cool Albany climate!! Feeling sooooooo relaxed! So how does 15% off everything and anything on the Destination Art website for today and tomorrow sound?!! Apologies to my best bud and DA partner in crime Lisa who will have to pack all the orders (timed it well didn’t I Lis!!!). A great opportunity to grab new gear, stock up on essential items and treat yourself to those products you’ve been eyeing off! Offer ends midnight Monday. Just use coupon code: PHUKET at checkout for the automatic 15% off. Bye for now – off to get a mmmmm…..massage!!! Hugs Elaine
This simple tag is made with MFT (My Favorite Things) Die-namics Die & Stamp Set – Just My Type & Die Set Simply Scallops Border. The yummy background paper is from Glitz Design 6″ x 6″ Paper Pad – French Kiss. Click on any of the below products to take you to them on our website www.destinationart.net.
Have a fantastic day Lisa & Elaine @ Destination Art
Hi all, welcome to May already!! Today we are playing along with the challenge on the Paper Play Challenges Blog, the theme is Monochromatic and Ribbon. Our entry is a striking red card with different colouring techniques on the main elements. You can find all the quick links to the products we used at the end of this post. The card is A5 in size to which we added a white panel and stamped with doily images around the edges from the luscious My Mind’s Eye Lost and Found 2 Stamps “Everything” using Distress Inks in Barn Door and Fired Brick. LOVE their range of clear stamps, each set has many images and they are only $8.95 each, you can find the full range along with their beautiful 6″x6″ paper pads for the same low price on our website HERE!
You can see the ribbon we used in the background of the main elements, keeping in line with the challenge outline. The red heart is from Collections Elements Chipboard range. We first coloured it with Viva Inka Gold paint in Lava Red and then embossed through Tim Holtz Texture Fade – Checkerboard. SERIOUSLY… we applied the paint with a fingertip and it was dry and ready to emboss within less than a minute…..AWESOME!
For the centre flower we recoloured our own range of Gardenia Flowers in white with Starfish Glimmermist. These flowers just SOAK up the colour and look fantastic!!! The glimmermist gave great coverage on the petals, the leaves and the stamens!! Oh la la!!
Our last colouring was of the gorgeous and sweet little new Scrolls just released from Dusty Attic. We achieved a great glossy finish by swiping them with a Versacolor Pigment Ink CUBE in Burgundy and then giving them just one coat of clear embossing powder. The cubes are the handiest ink pads, come in a great range of colours and are sooo cheap!! You can use them for small and big projects alike!
Hope you have a fantastic day, best wishes Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art
WOW!!!! This week has been epic! With stock orders arriving heavily and customer orders flying out the door, our feet haven’t had much time to touch the ground. Our new products arrivals for April alone have just topped 250 fantastic items. We’ve taken delivery of new Darkroom Door CLING mounted stamp sets,mmmmm!!! A great selection of Crafter’s Workshop 6″x6″ stencils along with Dylusions 8″x5″ stencils PERFECT for journal pages have come in. Also here are the latest releases from Dusty Attic Chipboard (these designs are the BOMB!!), sweet 6″x6″ paper pads from Cosmo Cricket and a luscious array of new Glimmer Mists to our ever growing colour selection. View all these items and more in our APRIL New Stock section of the Destination Art Website.
COMPETITION NEWS
A few weeks ago we mentioned a great competition coming up. We will be running this through Facebook starting next week so join our page by hitting the logo button below and you’ll get the details through one of our future facebook post.
We’ve worked out that using Facebook to load albums of our new stock arrivals is the easiest way to share the latest with our customers so that’s another great reason to FB like us!!
Have a great day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art
Now if you’re a die hard TIM HOLTZ fan, you probably already know this…. BUT if you haven’t ever heard of Tim Holtz (is that even possible???) or only visit his blog once in a while, Tim has just hit the go button on his brand spanking new website http://timholtz.com/! Here you will find links to his blog and also his fabbo video library loaded with ideas on how to use his AMAZING products. It’s a fantastic resource! in these videos, Tim explains his range and ways to get the most from your Tim Holtz product purchases. Remember we stock ALL things Tim including the latest releases from CHA at great prices on the Destination Art website, you can find Tim’s products here!! Be prepared to be BLOWN AWAY!!!x
This is an excerpt from the Australian Army Government website and sums up today’s commemorations better than either of us could put into words:
Today marks the anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli in 1915 by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC’s).
We pause today to acknowledge all current and former members of our defence forces – the brave men and women who represent our country on a daily basis.
We all need to be reminded that happiness has a price. For surely if happiness is the product of freedom, then freedom is the reward of courage. We should be grateful to those that have helped preserve our nation and way of life through their sacrifice. In doing so, we keep bright the memory of those lives. It is in the remembrance of these things that communities across the nation come together on this day.
LEST WE FORGET
Of course most of you know that Tim Holtz is hosting on his blog “12 tags of 2012″ and for April, his tag was inspired by the new bird branch die, “i couldn’t wait to use it” as quoted by Tim himself and neither could we!. We have paired the die with other Tim goodies to make a goulish tag which is great for a party invitation or to use on a card front for a boy themed occasion or maybe a ghost and goblins dress up party! Although we don’t really celebrate Halloween here in Australia, this would work great for a October 31st birthday too!
Below is Tim’s tag for the month, click on it to take you to his blog posting explaining the technique he used.
All products underlined above are available on our website
Destination Art, click on each to take you straight to that item.
Hope you enjoy our take on Tim’s April tag.
Elaine and Lisa @ Destination Art!
This quick and easy card was made by using the MFT (My Favorite Things) dies and stamps. For the gorgeous rolled flowers we used their Retro Flower Die, these are SOOO easy to make and look fantastic when rolled. There are a few rolled flower designs in the MFT range in different shapes and sizes. We also used their awesome Jumbo Monarch border die with some Kaisercraft bling added. Sorry the lighting wasn’t great when we took the photo but the complete embossed stamp saying from the Textile Rectangle Die & Stamp Set reads ”with you by my side anything is possible”. All the paper that we used for the card was from My Minds Eye “Vanity Fair”. The blue paper was embossed using Spellbinders M-Bossabilities folder, Elite. Links for all products are at the bottom of this posting. Have a great day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art
Hi all, just a reminder today that THIS Saturday 21st April, the Destination Art studio shop will be open between 9am and 12pm at 16 Shapcott St, Oyster Harbour in Albany. If you would like to drop in for some discounted shopping, impromptu demos and a cuppa, we’d love to see you. No need to book, feel free to bring along some friends and browse through over 4000 wonderful products. We are awaiting some new deliveries this week too so there’ll be the usual NEW STOCK table to rumble over!
If you can’t make it or live too far away, you can still benefit & shop with our 10% discount off all Destination Art website orders until midnight Sunday 22nd April. Just enter coupon code:APRIL16 at checkout and 10% will be automatically deducted from your order. This includes discounts of all new stock and our already heavily reduced clearance items. Hope to see you Saturday! Have a great day Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art!
We have been working on commissions for some Practical Publishing magazines. This month you can find us in 2 current editions.
In Australian Simply Cards Issue 41 we both have 5 page feature articles. One is a Paris themed melange of 6 cards and the other is 6 cards featuring the FREE cameo embossing folder from Couture Creations. You can order your copy of Australian Simply Cards Issue 41 HERE . Here’s a sneek peek:
In Issue 2 of Cardmaking in Easy Steps we have 9 pages of creations, 3 of those are for a sketch made into 3 different cards and a 6 page spread using the free vintage embellishment kit you get with the magazine using different distressing techniques. You can order your copy of Cardmaking in Easy Steps 2 HERE.
And here is a sneek peek of the projects we have published:
Have a great day everyone, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art x
Hi everyone, we hope you all had a wonderful weekend and maybe got a chance to sneek in some creative time, we sure did! Today we have a tag made with lots of great goodies (find all the links at the end of this post) and it is our entry in this weeks Play Date Cafe challenge using the gorgeous and bright colours of Daffodil…Hydrangea…Kiwi…Cherry. Check out their inspirational photo below!
The tag was cut from Tim Holtz’s tag and bookplate die using 2 different yellow papers that were adhered to card stock before running through the die cut machine to give it extra strength. It was then embossed with folders from Tim’s Pattern and Stitches Texture Fade, the detail of the embossing on the darker yellow paper came out so well, then we gave it a light scuff to highlight the area a bit more. Yummy!!!
On the top third lighter yellow card stock, we used Distress Ink in Seeded Mustard to highlight the embossed stitching and also around the edges of the tag. We cut a bookplate too from the die in the the same card stock and inked also, making the bookplate insert just a bit darker so it stood out more. The little words we’ve used on the tag are from Tim Holt’z new Chit Chat sticker pad, way cool - 1100 little words for so many occasions!! We’ve used Distress Inks and a foam blending tool to go around the edges of them. The gorgeous little brads on the side of the bookplate covering the holes are scrumptious “Toybox” legless Candi brads! These are so adorable!
Lastly, the mannequins we used are mini wooden ones from Kaisercraft, 3 in a pack – we’ve saved the last for another project! We covered them easily and quickly with Viva Decor Inka-Gold Paints. These paints cover every surface imaginable and are dry in seconds!! The metallic lustre they give is amazing! The little frill on each mannequin are our own range of new frill ribbons as is the red rose. Lastly the red die cut border between the yellow papers is an MFT (My Favorite Things) Die – Jumbo Monarch Border! Hope you like our tag, have a wonderful day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art!
Latest release CLING mounted stamps from Darkroom Door have arrived. These stamps are ready to add to an acrylic block and ink up! Darkroom Door sets now come in DVD storage cases! Find them all here on the Destination Art website here:http://www.destinationart.net/brands/new-products/april-2012.html.
Remaining UNMOUNTED tin sets are now discounted to $24.95 (RRP $29.95) and can be found in our clearance section http://www.destinationart.net/brands/clearance.html. As tins are sold out, they are to be replaced by the DVD sets. Until the change over is complete, if you are after a DVD set we don’t stock as yet. please email us as we would be happy to get it in for you! Have a great day, Lisa and Elaine!
Today’s post is a journal cover made with Glitz Design Pretty in Pink “Peekaboos” and “Paper Layers”. It’s our entry for the challenge over at the CR8FN blog using the colours of Pink, Peach and Light Blue. Every challenge there is an inspirational photo like the one below to get the creative juices flowing!
We’ve also added some new flourish rhinestones from Kaisercraft along with one of their sweet paper flowers. The border along the top of the journal is the Jumbo Monarch from MFT ( My Favorite Things)! Background papers and ones used to cut border were from My Mind’s Eye 6″ x 6″ pads, Blush and Be Amazing.To secure the acetate flowers, Claudine Hellmuth matte medium was the bomb and did NOT show through!! The product links for everything used are at the bottom of this blog entry. Hope you like the journal and have a great day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art
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