Catching up on winners for the last 2 Sundays in our weekly blog comment comp, we are happy to announce 2 lovely girls that posted on some earlier blog posts of ours, Nancy Dekker and Jasmine Smythe.  Thanks girls for your great comments, we are happy that you found the Destination Art blog and found our posts inspirational.  We just love to share! We’ll be emailing you through your $15 coupon code to redeem on the Destination Art website! Happy shopping!

Remember you can comment on ANY POSTING NEW OR OLD and there are still 2 weeks of blog comment competition to be won, details below.  Have a great day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art!

DETAILS OF OUR BLOG COMMENT COMPETITION

TO BE IN THE RUNNING ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LEAVE US A BLOG COMMENT ANYTIME BETWEEN SUNDAY 12AM AND THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY 12PM (you can leave comments on old or current posts, all will be entered into the random draw!). THE MORE BLOG LOVE YOU LEAVE US EACH WEEK THE MORE CHANCE YOU HAVE TO WIN THE WEEKLY GIFT VOUCHER! EACH WEEKS WINNER WILL BE DRAWN RANDOMLY FROM THE POOL OF COMMENTS. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, LEAVE US A COMMENT TODAY AND GO IN THE DRAW!  Our last week of voucher giveaways ends on Saturday 3rd March!

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Today’s blog offering is a old fashioned looking card made with Tim Holtz’s Old Jalopy Die (a most favourite of ours from his collection we must say!!)  We cut the die out twice, once from black card stock and again from white card stock which we coloured with Distress Ink pads.  An accidental water spill to the front of the die just offered some “vintage feel” to the card!!  The inked die cut was positioned slightly off centre of the black car die cut to give the depth of field of the inside of the jalopy and attached with 3D mounting foam.

Vintage dictionary paper stained with Distress Ink and layered made a great background for this card and a Tim Holtz Philosophy Tag was stained with Snow Cap Adirondack Paint Dabber. Remember there are still 2 weeks of blog comment competition to be won, details below.  Have a great day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art!

DETAILS OF OUR BLOG COMMENT COMPETITION

TO BE IN THE RUNNING ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LEAVE US A BLOG COMMENT ANYTIME BETWEEN SUNDAY 12AM AND THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY 12PM (you can leave comments on old or current posts, all will be entered into the random draw!). THE MORE BLOG LOVE YOU LEAVE US EACH WEEK THE MORE CHANCE YOU HAVE TO WIN THE WEEKLY GIFT VOUCHER! EACH WEEKS WINNER WILL BE DRAWN RANDOMLY FROM THE POOL OF COMMENTS. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, LEAVE US A COMMENT TODAY AND GO IN THE DRAW!  Our last week of voucher giveaways ends on Saturday 3rd March!

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Hi everyone! Today we’re sharing some cards with you that one of our wonderful ART friends Wendy bought along to show us at our last workshop. Wendy has a knack of bringing everything together so beautifully and everything she has ever shared with us (especially her luscious ATC’s from previous swaps we have held) has been equally AMAZING! Wendy doesn’t blog unfortunately but if you love the cards you see here today, please leave Wendy a comment here on this blog post and we’ll let her know to check out some LURRRVEE! Plus it will give you a chance to win another week of our blog comment competition! Here’s how you can win a $15 shopping voucher to use on the Destination Art website! Read how you can win at the bottom of this blog post.  Thanks Wendy for sharing your amazing cards with us, big hugs from Lisa and Elaine xxx

In the card above Wendy has used some great techniques to achieve a really interesting background. Techniques include inking and stamping in different tones plus a great raised pattern using Crafters Workshop Harlequin Stencil and Ferro Metallic Paints - yummo!! Wendy’s keen attention to detail includes lovely co-ordinated layers of cardstock with the Tim Holtz Umbrella Man die cut from card and painted with Black Soot Crackle Paint with the cracks acentuated with metallic highlights.  There is also a cog from Tim’s Gadget Gear Die and a ticket to finish .

Wendy’s next masterpiece is a card using Tim Holtz’s Bricked embossing folder over Core-dinations cardstock.  Wendy distressed some of the brick lines away to reveal the inner core of the paper then acentuated around the edges with Distress Ink – way too cool!!! The bird and cage is from the ever popular Tim Holtz Caged Bird Die!

And this last card of Wendy’s is just stunning! The stamps used were from Artistic Outpost’s London Underground cling mounted stamp set. Wendy made a faux enamel like badge by building up layers of clear embossing powders. The letters used at the top are Tim Holtz’s Alpha Parts Newsprint!

DETAILS OF OUR BLOG COMMENT COMPETITION

TO BE IN THE RUNNING ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LEAVE US A BLOG COMMENT ANYTIME BETWEEN SUNDAY 12AM AND THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY 12PM (you can leave comments on old or current posts, all will be entered into the random draw!). THE MORE BLOG LOVE YOU LEAVE US EACH WEEK THE MORE CHANCE YOU HAVE TO WIN THE WEEKLY GIFT VOUCHER! EACH WEEKS WINNER WILL BE DRAWN RANDOMLY FROM THE POOL OF COMMENTS. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, LEAVE US A COMMENT TODAY AND GO IN THE DRAW!  Our last week of voucher giveaways ends on Saturday 3rd March!

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We have just received over 20 brand spanking new designs in our ever growing Crafty Individuals unmounted stamp range.  Just some of the new designs you can find HERE in our new section of the Destination Art website we are showing you below.  For all of the beautiful 85 Crafty Individual stamps we stock you can also view HERE!

DAY OUT TICKET

PARIS FRIENDS

A HEART THAT LOVES

WINGED BEAUTY

YOUNG GIRL COLLAGE

INSTRUMENT GIRL

BOY’S TOYS

GARDEN COLLAGE

BICYCLE PAIR

JUST AN OLD FASHIONED GIRL

GARDEN BIRTHDAY

MUSIC BACKGROUND

SEASIDE

NAVIGATION

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Today’s quick card is made with the luscious Darkroom Door unmounted stamp set “Fashionable” . This is a great plate to use in all sorts of  colours and designs.  It is loaded with a great array of adverts, wording and misc pieces like buttons and buckles too! We now stock over 75, yes 75 Darkroom Door sets and single stamps on the Destination Art website and there is definitely something for everyone! You can view all the DD stamps HERE!

First to make this card we used a black A5 folded card.  We cut a just smaller amount of irridescent gold card stock and stamped the Darkroom Door Star Background image over it with Jet Black Archival Ink.

We added lashings of black ribbon down the side and across the bottom of gold card and secured it at the back with tape, we double sided taped this panel to the black card.  Then we stamped out the “fashionable” definition and a couple of the ladies adverts from the stamp plate, using 3D mounting foam to attach a couple of them for added dimension!

The Darkroom Door blog is teaming with great ideas on using their wonderful stamps, you can check it out HERE!

DON’T FORGET TO ENTER OUR BLOG COMMENT COMPETITION

TO BE IN THE RUNNING ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LEAVE US A BLOG COMMENT ANYTIME BETWEEN SUNDAY 12AM AND THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY 12PM (you can leave comments on old or current posts, all will be entered into the random draw!). THE MORE BLOG LOVE YOU LEAVE US EACH WEEK THE MORE CHANCE YOU HAVE TO WIN THE WEEKLY GIFT VOUCHER! EACH WEEKS WINNER WILL BE DRAWN RANDOMLY FROM THE POOL OF COMMENTS. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, LEAVE US A COMMENT TODAY AND GO IN THE DRAW!  Our last week of voucher giveaways ends on Saturday 3rd March!

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We hope you have all missed us the last week! Our absence was unintentional but unavoidable.  We had a day and a half with technical issues that prevented us from posting and THEN!!! grandchildren were christened, interstate trips were made, 12 hour shifts in our “day jobs” were worked, last minute magazine publication submissions were handed out and pulled together , gob loads of new stock were ordered, received, checked and uploaded to the website (check out what’s new this month so far HERE – with much more to come!) and before we knew it………HERE WE ARE!  The good news is that we’ve started work on some lovely posts for the coming weeks!

Some other good news is that we are giving away yet ANOTHER 4 weeks of $15 gift vouchers to spend on the Destination Art website just for leaving us some blog love (comments!).  CONGRATULATIONS to Jasmine Patrick who won last weeks random blog comment voucher (for last Sundays draw).  We still have this week to go and then another 4 weeks will commence.

TO BE IN THE RUNNING ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LEAVE US A BLOG COMMENT ANYTIME BETWEEN SUNDAY 12AM AND THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY 12PM (you can leave comments on old or current posts). THE MORE BLOG LOVE YOU LEAVE US EACH WEEK THE MORE CHANCE YOU HAVE TO WIN THE WEEKLY GIFT VOUCHER! EACH WEEKS WINNER WILL BE DRAWN RANDOMLY FROM THE POOL OF COMMENTS AND ANNOUNCED EVERY SUNDAY. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, LEAVE US A COMMENT TODAY AND GO IN THE DRAW!

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DON’T FORGET THERE ARE STILL 2 MORE WEEKS OF WEEKLY $15 GIFT VOUCHER FOR THE DESTINATION ART WEBSITE TO GIVE AWAY. TO BE IN THE RUNNING ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LEAVE US A BLOG COMMENT ANYTIME BETWEEN SUNDAY 12AM AND THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY 12PM (you can leave comments on old or current posts). THE MORE BLOG LOVE YOU LEAVE US EACH WEEK THE MORE CHANCE YOU HAVE TO WIN THE WEEKLY GIFT VOUCHER! EACH WEEKS WINNER WILL BE DRAWN RANDOMLY FROM THE POOL OF COMMENTS AND ANNOUNCED EVERY SUNDAY. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, LEAVE US A COMMENT TODAY AND GO IN THE DRAW!

The tag we are showing today is made with the Kaisercraft paper pad December 25th, but any of the Kaisercraft paper pads will give you the same effect .The wonderful thing with the 6 1/2″ paper pads is you can get two of Tim Holtz’s tags from the one sheet of paper with no wastage.First of all stick printed paper onto cardboard with Claudine Hellmuth matte medium or X-Tra stick A4 double sided stick sheet. Die cut tag using Tim’s Tag and Book Plate die. Swipe edges of tag with clear embossing ink pad and with  the soft brush supplied with the Perfect Pearl Metallic Pack apply Bronze to edges, brush off excess.With clear embossing ink pad stamp flourish from Tim Holtz’s Shabby French stamp plate onto tag.Apply perfect pearls as before.This will give you a glimmer water mark image onto your tag.From Tim Holtz’s Artistic Collages stamp sheet, stamp out Journey ATC onto cream card stock with Archival Ink Jet Black. Make sure that you clean your stamp well before using clear embossing stamp pad and Journey ATC image again to stamp over the top of the first stamp, do not try and line it up perfectly as you will get a shadow effect if slightly off the first stamped image.With soft brush apply Perfect Pearls “Perfect Bronze” over stamped image, brush off excess.   Mount stamped image that has been trimmed onto a black piece of card slightly larger.Die cut a flourish from the Tim Holtz’s Elegant Flourishes die.Cover die cut with clear embossing ink and add perfect pearls as before.

Die cut jalopy from Movers and Shapers Mini Old Jalopy & Arrow set in black card stock.Stick flourish and car onto ATC sized card made earlier. Stick ATC onto tag and add some black lace from the Destination Art Trim range.

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DON’T FORGET THERE ARE STILL 2 MORE WEEKS OF WEEKLY $15 GIFT VOUCHER FOR THE DESTINATION ART WEBSITE TO GIVE AWAY. TO BE IN THE RUNNING ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LEAVE US A BLOG COMMENT ANYTIME BETWEEN SUNDAY 12AM AND THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY 12PM (you can leave comments on old or current posts). THE MORE BLOG LOVE YOU LEAVE US EACH WEEK THE MORE CHANCE YOU HAVE TO WIN THE WEEKLY GIFT VOUCHER! EACH WEEKS WINNER WILL BE DRAWN RANDOMLY FROM THE POOL OF COMMENTS AND ANNOUNCED EVERY SUNDAY. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, LEAVE US A COMMENT TODAY AND GO IN THE DRAW!

Today’s elegant card is our entry in the weekly Paper Play Blog Challenge, this weeks theme is “LOVELY LACE, such a fun card to make!Paper is from 6″x6″ Glitz Paper Pack “Vintage Blue”.From Spellbinders Picot Edge Circles die cut using largest circle.From Spellbinders Standard Circles Large select circle die that fits inside the previous cut die and cut. Select smallest and second largest Dusty Attic chipboard doily’s from Mini Doily set.

Paint the larger doily with Adirondack Paint dabber Spice Tin.Paint the smaller doily with Adirondack Paint dabber Lemonade.   Paint four Dusty Attic vines from Botanic Accent #1 with Adirondack Paint dabber Lemonade.Assemble die cuts and chipboard as above.Fold a piece of 12″ x 6″ blue card stock in half to form base card. Select a base paper and trim to 5 3/4″ square and stick onto base card. Add lace from Destination Art Trims to top and bottom of card.
Add prepared chipboard pieces.

Thanks for stopping by today! Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art.

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This is our entry in CR84 Colour Challenge which features the colours Pink, Red & Light blue.

All products are available on our website (see below product links).   Here is what we used and how we made it!.For this card we used a pretty stamp  from Crafty Individuals called Large Butterfly Garden Frame.We first stamp this onto white gloss paper using Brilliance teardrop ink pad Pearlescent Poppy, and dried it off with heat tool.We then over stamped the image with Brilliance Sky Blue making sure that the images didn’t quiet line up , dried with heat tool and trimmed to blue frameThe trimmed image was mounted onto a piece of black card stock.We selected a matching paper from Crafty Individuals Background Papers “Book 1″ and trimmed to fit an A5 folded black card.From the Prime Essentials Romantique flower collection we made a three tier flower fastened with a Destination Art brad.

Have a creative day Lisa & Elaine @ Destination Art.

And here’s our winner for the 2nd week of our blog comment competition, congratulations to Kath for her leaving some love on our little house tutorial! Kath, we’ll be in touch with details on how to redeem you $15 Destination Art website voucher!

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Happy Australia Day everyone! To celebrate you can take advantage of 10% off any order placed on the Destination Art website from NOW through until midnight Sunday 29th Jan.  Use coupon code AUSSIE at checkout (place in coupon box) and your discount will be automatically applied to your order total (excluding shipping).  Have a great day all…….hugs from Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art!

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Before we get to todays card entry for the CR8FN blog challenge (which we were humbled to get a top 3 mention last week with our JOURNEY card), we just wanted to remind locals and visitors alike that we are running our next workshop THIS coming Saturday. There are still places left so why not grab a friend or two and come along for some great fun, shopping and companionship with some other creative girls!

VICTORIAN BEAUTY CARDS

Come along to this bevy of 4 beautiful cards using the popular Madame Boutique range from Kaisercraft with great embellishment ideas (click on the picture for a larger view!)  To be held on January 28th from 10am to 1pm. ALL materials & tools supplied, 10% shopping discount on the day. ONLY $29.50

The colour challenge over at the CR8FN blog this week was lovely to play with – Light Pink, Yellow and Neutral (see the inspiration photo above).  Once the original idea was given some thought, it was a relatively quick card to make. A great one to replicate, maybe in different colours too.  Anyway, with it being so easy, it would be a good one to keep in mind when you need a speedy card.  It will definitely be going on our short list of quick cards!

Our card was made with the wonderful Sizzix Birds Die and the Tim Holtz Caged Bird die.  The birds once cut were over stamped with Hero Arts stamp Line Dots with Distress Inks in Mustard Seed and Spun Sugar, adding colour with the ink pads randomly onto the birds.

The birdcage background paper was stuck to card stock with Claudine Hellmuth Matte Medium before cutting to give it strength.  White Icing Sugar CANDI was coloured with the same ink pads and added to the card front.

The cute little words are Authentique Diction Mini Word Stickers – Blissful.

Have an awesome and creative day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art!

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DON’T FORGET THERE ARE ANOTHER 3 WEEKS OF WEEKLY $15 GIFT VOUCHER FOR THE DESTINATION ART WEBSITE TO GIVE AWAY. TO BE IN THE RUNNING ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LEAVE US A BLOG COMMENT ANYTIME BETWEEN SUNDAY 12AM AND THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY 12PM (you can leave comments on old or current posts). THE MORE BLOG LOVE YOU LEAVE US EACH WEEK THE MORE CHANCE YOU HAVE TO WIN THE WEEKLY GIFT VOUCHER! EACH WEEKS WINNER WILL BE DRAWN RANDOMLY FROM THE POOL OF COMMENTS AND ANNOUNCED EVERY SUNDAY. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, LEAVE US A COMMENT TODAY AND GO IN THE DRAW!

Well our girls in Saturday’s workshop really enjoyed themselves making the trio of 3 easel cards. Here is another one we’ve made. The concept has been around for a while, we’ve seen many over the years. Here’s how we make ours….

Take a folded black A5 card and score horizontally along the middle of the card front to make a mountain fold. Open your card out and apply double sided tape in the lower scored section (left hand side) of the card and attach a 10.5cm x 15cm piece of same black card making sure all your edges line up. We’ve used the beautiful Hero Arts stamp Timely Bird and the gorgeous Prima Avon Rose mini Printery flowers..yum yum! plus trim from our own Destination Art line and a micro chipboard butterfly from Collections Elements.

Here’s a side view:

And a close up:

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This weeks randomly picked winner from our blog post comments is TheresaMP!! Congratulations, we’ll be emailing your voucher to you shortly!

DON’T FORGET THERE ARE ANOTHER 3 WEEKS OF WEEKLY $15 GIFT VOUCHER FOR THE DESTINATION ART WEBSITE TO GIVE AWAY. TO BE IN THE RUNNING ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LEAVE US A BLOG COMMENT ANYTIME BETWEEN SUNDAY 12AM AND THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY 12PM (you can leave comments on old or current posts). THE MORE BLOG LOVE YOU LEAVE US EACH WEEK THE MORE CHANCE YOU HAVE TO WIN THE WEEKLY GIFT VOUCHER! EACH WEEKS WINNER WILL BE DRAWN RANDOMLY FROM THE POOL OF COMMENTS AND ANNOUNCED EVERY SUNDAY. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, LEAVE US A COMMENT TODAY AND GO IN THE DRAW!

This Birthday tag was made using papers from the Kaisercraft Madam Boutique 6 1/2″ paper pack.

First paper was stuck onto cardboard before die cutting with Tim Holtz’s Tag and Book Plate die,  the tag was then embossed with Texture Fade Pattern & Stitches and highlighted with Distress Ink Walnut Stain. The leaves are cut from Tim’s Tattered Leaves Bigz Die! Nice and bright and lots of fun! Have a great day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art

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Hi all, just an hour before our workshop yippee! In the coming weeks we will be advertising some great specials for our FACEBOOK fans.  The best way to gain access to these offers is to LIKE US on Facebook (click on the above icon) and start receiving our notifications, that way you won’t miss out! Joining us on Facebook also let’s you know about new stock (with photos and links) and other great news.  Hope to see many more of our wonderful blog readers being able to take advantage of these great specials through Facebook!  Have a wonderful day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art!

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