From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Happy Halloween

31 October 2009

Although we don’t celebrate Halloween over here in Australia, with one of us (namely Elaine!!) travelling through the USA at present, we thought it only apt to get into the spirit and wish everyone around the globe who gets the spooky spirit, a very fun Halloween!!! It’s amazing if you google,  just how big celebrations are in [...]

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Craft Critique

30 October 2009

http://www.craftcritique.com/ is a cool site where you can get reviews on lots of your favourite products and new ones.  You can use their search facility, subscribe to their site and more by jumping on the link we have provided above.  What we do love is their review on the very addicitive and oh so cute Tim [...]

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Workshop sneaks

28 October 2009

Well we been up and running on this blog for a few weeks now and although some lucky local gals joined us for our very first workshop on Oct 3rd, we haven’t really been yelling to you all about the great workshops we are running! So over the next few days there will be glimpses [...]

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Cuttlebug – Easy Embossing

26 October 2009

Apart from the cricut, one of our other most loved traditional papercraft tools is the cuttlebug machine.  If you’ve never heard of one, get the low down here on the manufacturers website http://www.provocraft.com/products/index.products.php?cl=cuttlebug.  Most people do know what these little gems of power are all about but just stick to traditional paper and cardstock.  We [...]

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Getting the stick back in Cricut mats

24 October 2009

We should have posted this information in our last blog post but forgot!!  If you do own a Cricut machine and are on the lookout for a way to get more stick out of your mats then go no further.  We researched into lots of different suggestions on resticking the surface of your mats and [...]

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Altered Artists use Cricuts too!

22 October 2009

As neither of us crazy girls at Destination Art are traditional scrapbookers, when we both invested in a Cricut machine, we wondered if we would get our moneys worth.  After the last constant couple of years use, we can only say that there are so many advantages and the uses of the machine are unlimited.  From mask [...]

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Project Clipboard

20 October 2009

This is the way we grunge a clipboard, grunge a clipboard, grunge a clipboard!!!  Hehe…We’re just stepping back into our Playschool days for a moment. Wow, that was a LONGGGG time ago.OK, back to the project! It’s pretty easy to cover and alter clipboards without too much effort.  Using a good glue such as Modge Podge [...]

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18th Album pics

19 October 2009

We’ve just finished working on an 18th birthday album and thought you might like to see some of the results.  Just about everything we started with was a blank canvas including lots of naked chipboard which was lots of fun to recolour.  The colour themes (favourites of  the recepient were black white, green, brown & [...]

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Doodles..

18 October 2009

This is a fun way to add a bit of interest to images you might use from books, magazines or photocopies in your work.  In the past there has been a bit of a rage sweeping amongst papercraft artists by adding hand drawn doodles to their work.  Here’s a little sample we’ve made for you.  This was made on [...]

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Play on Canvas

15 October 2009

This 5″x7″ canvas was so much fun to make.  We started off with an enlarged vintage image that was photocopied greyscale.  This makes your image more user friendly when it comes to colouring than using an inkjet copy.  Using a technique from Claudine Hellmuth we added a small portion of music sheet taped at the back [...]

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Another Quick Technique – Masking

13 October 2009

If you’ve been using your rubber stamps for years then you will  probably remember learning this technique many moons ago.  Sometimes we progress onto other techniques and forget about the old ones.  This one is definately an oldie but a goodie and it’s simplicity brings great results and can rejuvenate the way you look at [...]

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Magnet Tutorial

11 October 2009

Magnets are fun and quick to make.  Here’s what we did to put ours together: Using boxboard or offcuts, we cut shapes out with the cricut machine and with some Spellbinders nestability dies through the Cuttlebug.  Now you need to give your shapes a coat of white gesso with a small amount of water added. Let them [...]

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Rust Recipes

9 October 2009

Rust is a great agent for adding texture and age to your projects. It can be applied to a variety of surfaces including wood, canvas, plastic, metal and fabric to name just a few.  Rust is available as a commercial product in which it comes in 2 parts, a base (which is like paint) and a liquid [...]

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Back to basics – Dual Embossing

7 October 2009

This technique is very basic but just one that never dates and has a look of interest and class.   To try this out all you need is 2 different coloured embossing powders and 2 different coloured cardstocks.   For our ATC sample we used black embossing powder on white cardstock and white embossing powder on black cardstock.  [...]

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Thanks Susan

6 October 2009

Last Saturday saw our inaugural workshop “Art House” kick off in our hometown of Albany, Western Austalia.  Well, what a bunch of great girls and what a fantastic time was had by all!  We will be posting some photos here later in the week but in the meantime just look at this wonderful gated card our [...]

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Jigsaw Fun!

5 October 2009

What do we (Elaine and Lisa) do when we need a good dose of inspiration.  We find ways to work on different surfaces, different sizes of bases and challenging shapes.  Lisa found 2 old wooden jigsaw in her stash made up of 6 pieces each and they became the perfect swap articles.  We both got to work attacking 6 pieces [...]

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Boy oh boy oh boy oh boy!!!

4 October 2009

Isn’t this guy such a cutie?  He was made using background paper techniques from Anna Corba (see our earlier post for details http://destinationart.net/blog/?p=21). He looks like such a happy chap, we just love adopting other people’s families and welcoming them into our studio.  Always remember you should follow copyright laws at all times and give credit [...]

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We love beeswax…

3 October 2009

One of our favourite creative mediums is beeswax.  It plays nicely with so many other products and incidentals.   There are unique effects you can get from working different additives into the melted wax including glitters, perfect pearls, mica and more.  Beeswax are a great treatment over finer papers (such as napkins – check out the [...]

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ATC Inspiration

2 October 2009

ATC’s are a great way to make art.  You can make them just for the sake of them, to use on journal and card fronts, to mount in collections in frames or on canvases and of course, you can trade them!  We love ATC’s, so you need to stay tuned to this blog as we [...]

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Art Backgrounds

1 October 2009

 Not only is this technique fun but it is way, way cool.  We got very inspired after receiving and devouring every morsel of Anna Corba’s Vintage Paper Crafts book a while back.  A self confessed vintage “treasure hunter”, Anna sources products and inspiration from all over the place and has a stash to be envious of! Ok, onto [...]

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