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What a neat idea!

2 September 2010

Check out this great idea from the Ranger Industries website http://www.rangerink.com/pdf/label_sheets/DistressInkLabels.pdf.  It’s a label sheet for your Distress Inks.  The idea is to colour each one with the co-ordinating ink pad and label the sides of your inkpads if you are stacking them OR you can glue it in a reference book so you have the true colours [...]

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Viva Paints and 10 Seconds Studio

1 September 2010

This is going to be a rather long post as we have lots of info about the amazing range of  VIVA paints that we are now stocking. The other day we showed you this sneek peek of a project:  Here’s the whole deal: It’s a front door house plaque, cool hey?  The metal started off as [...]

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How Cute is this?

30 August 2010

OK, so you know every now and then we have to post something a bit random. Well today we came across this tutorial on how to make a mans shirt shape out of a napkin and thought it was pretty cool, read the tutorial here  http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/2010/06/fold-napkin-shirt-for-fathers-day.html. We thought you might be interested as Father’s Day is [...]

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ATC – A Little Love

29 August 2010

Hope you enjoy this little ATC! It started off as a piece of Strathmore textured cardstock that was swiped with Distress Ink Rusty Hinge and Crushed Olive direct from the pad. The very sweet girl and dog picture was one found on the internet many moons ago so we can’t give credit, sorry!  As always, [...]

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Sneek Peek

28 August 2010

Here’s a sneek preview of some very special samples coming soon on the blog that uses 10 Seconds Studio metal and molds and the new Viva range of paints that we now have in stock.  There’s lots to tell you about these amazing paints available through us in 3 popular lines. Ferro, Terra and Precious Metals, [...]

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A 21st wish

26 August 2010

  This special birthday wish card for a 21st was made with a piece of kraft cardstock embossed through Tim Holtz woodgrain Texture Fade with vintage photo Distress Ink added to the front.  You might also be able to pick that the card opens with a special looking edge.  It was cut with plaque and postage [...]

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Tim shares his secrets!!

24 August 2010

Tim Holtz has a great tip for getting the most out of his Texture Fades embossing folders.  Check out his step by step here http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/08/problem-solved.html.  Enjoy x the girls @ Destination Art

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Must see UTUBE channel

20 August 2010

A big thanks to one of our lovely art girls (Martine) who passed on this fabbo, YOUTUBE channel by Rach http://www.youtube.com/user/RachO113#p/a . We were blown away by Rach’s work and her inspiring filming.  If you hit on ALL at the top of the Rach’s YOUTUBE screen then all of her uploads pop up on the RH side of the [...]

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New 10 Seconds Studio Molds

18 August 2010

We didn’t even have time to upload these 3 new 10 Seconds Studio Metal molds on the blog before they SOLD OUT on Saturday at our VINTAGE FOUNDATION BOX workshop.  Never fear, we have more on the way, should arrive within 7-10 days.  If you would like us to save you any, please email us at tedep@westnet.com.au .  [...]

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Whoo Hoo Ann!!

16 August 2010

Ann is one of our favourite workshop attendees (there’s not many that she has missed).  Well on Saturday’s workshop we were in for a treat when she bought along a couple of workshops that she had taken home and”tweaked” further to suit her familys history and made 2 very lovely keepsakes. Very inspiring, thanks for [...]

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Blog Fodder

3 August 2010

For all you mixed media junkies that love working with and enjoy a vintage feel you MUST check out the following link http://mosshill.blogs.com/.  The blog belongs to JoAnna and is soooooo divine!!  Her work is eclectic and stunning and a visual feast.  Just check out the piece in the photo above, isn’t it dreamy?!!  She [...]

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Jazz it up with Timmy!! part 2!

31 July 2010

We had such fun playing with around with the Tim Holtz dies and texture fades other day, we have another card to share with you.  The red background paper is dry embossed with the Retro Circles texture fade then swiped with Distress Embossing Ink and given a generous coating of black UTEE (Ultra thick embossing [...]

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Tag Recycling

23 July 2010

This project is a great way to show how you can turn a simple old clothing tag into something special! First thing we did was coat the entire tag in distress ink Frayed Burlap, after it was dry we stamped a background image in distress ink Black Soot over the tag.  That gave us the base [...]

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“Adore” tag

21 July 2010

You can’t get more cuter than these kids in a row from “Collections”!  We’ve distressed the edges of the photo with the Tim Holtz paper edge distresser and then treated with distress ink in walnut stain.   The background was a flourish image from Tim Holtz that was first stamped in Crushed Olive, after a light [...]

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Reflections ATC

18 July 2010

This ATC was inspired by the two little girls stamp used in it from our new range of “Artistic Outpost” unmounted images.   Gathering by their identical dress they must have been sisters so we thought “Reflections” was just fitting.  The background paper started out quite a grungy paper from the new “Collections” 6×6 papers but [...]

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Dressmaker Tag

16 July 2010

This tag was made with the yummy chipboard dressforms from the “Collections” range, inked with crushed olive distress ink from Tim Holtz and run through the cuttlebug with one of his amazing ” Texture Fade” plates.  The background paper is also from the new 6×6 Collections range.  The dressform was then highlighted with black soot [...]

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6×6″ Canvas Project

14 July 2010

  This is a canvas made with a background sheet from new 6 x 6″ Collections papers.  The tree and birdhouse is also made from Collections chipboard.  The tree is painted black with Adirondack Paint Dabber in Pitch Black and then overstamped with text images in Brilliance White Ink Pad.  The numerals are from the [...]

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Winter’s Day & Workshop this weekend!!

12 July 2010

It’s a wintery day here in Albany and what better way to spend it than indoors with a warm fire CREATING!!! Hope you are going to find time to do the same! Here’s a little twinchie offering, we can’t wait to see what YOU come up with for our 1st Twinchie Swap (scroll down and [...]

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Mega Post

11 July 2010

Yes, we ‘ve been offline for a while (broken down stupid computers!!!, colds and flus, family & work commitments, network and server issues), all the curve balls life throws at you!!!!  The good news is we’re back (new computer – oh so lovely, faster and fired up to go, time to make art, lots of  lovely new [...]

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Notebook Cover Project

1 July 2010

This spiral bound notebook was a cheap find at the stationery shop.  We’ve given the cover a facelift with some papers and various bits and pieces, this is how we did it.  First thing for this project was to make the JOURNEY tile at the top of the cover using Collections Flash Cards. These come [...]

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