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Beautiful Twinchie work!!

11 August 2010

Hi everyone, we had awesome entries in our first ever Twinchie Swap.  The theme was “vintage” and the entries were all a little piece of heaven!!! To say that all these creations were made on only 2″x2″ squares is wonderful and inventive!! Here  are all the entries, all unique and bursting with different ideas.  We  [...]

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Stamping Mathilda

5 August 2010

Although we have shared this wonderful blogger with you before and have her on our blogroll, we just thought that newcomers to Destination Art might like to check her out.  Her name is Godlieve and she lives in Belgium.  She is on the design team for one of our favourite companies Darkroom Door http://www.darkroomdoor.com/.  Godlieve’s blog  http://stampingmathilda.blogspot.com/ is full [...]

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“Adore” booklet

1 August 2010

This is a sweet booklet that could easily be used as a mini photo album or keepsake.  Tim Holtz On The Edge Scallop Die was used on every page on various angles. There are 6 pages in total, cut to 3 various lengths (2 pages of each length).  The secret of putting the book together is BEFORE you do [...]

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Jazz it up with Timmy!! part 1!

29 July 2010

This is a great card made with love from a mixture of Tim Holtz Alterations Dies and Texture Fade Plates! We’ve used a few different Texture Fades including the background which is Dot Maxtrix.  Doesn’t it look effective? It was actually embossed on black “stardream” cardstock and then rubbed over with a silver ink pad [...]

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Last call for Twinchie swap!

27 July 2010

If you are planning on joing us for our first ever TWINCHIE swap, we ‘re just reminding y0u there are only a few days left to get your 2×2″ works of art to us.  If you decide to be industrious & creative over the weekend and get some twinchies made, you will find all the information [...]

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Ode to Tim (again)

8 June 2010

We are just loving having a play with the Ten Seconds Studios metals (click on the image for a much bigger view).  Here is a canvas board made with memories from Tim Holtz’s visit to Perth many many moons ago where Lisa not only attended his workshop, met Tim and had workshops with him BUT [...]

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Twinchie Swap

8 June 2010

Here’s another little twichie gem from http://smallworldofinchies.blogspot.com.  We’ve been so inspired that we are going to have our own blog Twinchie Swap. Here’s how to play:  All you need to do is make 6 Twinchies which are 2″x2″ square in size to receive 5  totally different and inspiring Twinchies back from other participants. You can enter up [...]

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Back soon!

31 May 2010

Hi everyone , if you have been wondering where we have been, we are in the middle of a weeks break from blogging but will be back on Wednesday 2 June with lots of inspiration and goodness on the Destination Art blog.  We are spending this time wisely adding finishing touches to new workshops, gathering [...]

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Grungeboard Flowers

17 May 2010

Some beautiful thick grungeboard flowers cut from the Tattered Florals die by the lovely Mr Tim Holtz.  They’ve been cut then painted and decorated with assorted inks and stamps.  Behind is Tim Holtz unmounted stamps that have been stamped out with Adirondack Paint Dabbers in white and black against a Distress Ink background.  A sweet vintage inspired [...]

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Vintaj

16 May 2010

We have had our 1st order of Vintaj jewellery & mixed media findings arrive and anyone who attended our last event would have seen them. A  few pieces managed to find new homes that day too! We have plans of bringing more of the same to you in the near future from several companies who offer pieces [...]

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Take Flight Tag

12 May 2010

The same beautiful die we used in yesterdays posting, Caged Bird from the Tim Holtz Alterations die range.  In this tag we used Adirondack Paint Dabber in Pearl behind the actual cage with a stamp we made using the die and fun foam!!! Fun indeed!! There is a link for showing you how to do [...]

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Happy Mothers Day!!

9 May 2010

A big shout out today to all our mums out there in blogland.   We hope you enjoy your day and get totally spoilt. You definately deserve it!!  Big hugs from the Girls @ Destination Art!

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Playdate with friends

27 April 2010

  We both had a great time meeting our dear friend Nancie’s daughter Louise and granddaughter Shannon.  We made a 7×5 inch canvas board that can either sit on an easel or hang from somewhere.  The background and inking was all done with Distress Ink in Rusty Hinge which really offset the aqua and brown. The rusty [...]

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More awesome font sites

26 April 2010

Can you ever have enough fonts?? NO WAY……… Well after a week or so of poking around some of the more popular font sites out there in cyberland (and downloading 1000 or so fonts we might add!!), we’ve compiled a short list of our favourite sites where you can download AMAZING fonts.  Just check out :http://www.sugarfrogfonts.com/, http://www.1001fonts.com/, http://www.dafont.com/, [...]

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Tattered Floral Card

25 April 2010

A sample using the Tattered Florals and Scrollworks dies from Tim Holtz Alterations Line.  The flowers are cut from dictionary paper that is adhered to cardstock and coloured with Tim Holtz distress inks.  Can you see the sweet memo pin holding the heart? These little gems are so cute, versatile and easy to work with.. [...]

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Coming Soon – Tim Holtz Texture Fades

20 April 2010

These double goodness lickety split embossing folders are delicious and of course, from our favourite designer, Tim Holtz.  There are 16 folders in all and we will be stocking all of the designs.  Stay tuned, we will be advertising some special, great prices on these beauties.  If you were wondering, they work with both grungeboard [...]

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Batch Tag Project – Step by Step

19 April 2010

Hi everyone!!! , we’ve been on the go, go, go!!! we’re up to all sorts of creating & have also been busy sending out some parcels. (lots of Tim Holtz dies finding new homes!). With each one, we’ve been sending a Destination Art tag.  Some one has asked how it was made and what products were used, so here is a [...]

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ATC play day

5 April 2010

An ATC that we made lately in the Destination Art studio on an ATC play day!! This one uses various stamp images from Tim Holtz stamped first with Tim  Holtz distress ink followed by the butterfly image that was stamped out with Adirondack ink dabber over the top.  Two slits were cut into the ATC [...]

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