From the monthly archives:

September 2011

Latest Destination Art Newsletter

27 September 2011

The latest Destination Art Newsletter is out with info on all new stock that has arrived plus lucky shopper voucher giveaway winners, stock updates and more. You can read it HERE. If you’re not subscribed to the Destination Art Website Newsletter, all you need to do is pop your email details in the subscription box at the top LH of this blog and you’ll receive news as it comes to hand.  We’ve got lots of exciting news to share over the next few coming weeks! so stay tuned!

Have a wonderful day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art

 

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Paper Play Challenge – Autumn Leaves

26 September 2011

Today’s blog posting is our entry in the Paper Play Challenge of  ”Autumn Leaves”, how could we resist featuring PaperArtsy stamps and dies, they are so great to create with. Below is the step by step tutorial to inspire you.

A little info on the PaperArtsy stamps and dies first. The stamps are on EZ mount cling film so this means you can take them straight out of the pack and attach to an acrylic block. The stamp sheets from Paper Artsy are 5″ x 7″ and co-ordinate with their fantastic range of dies.  You can cut the dies from a range of products like Card, Metal, Grunge paper, Cardboard etc, then stamp the co-ordinating image on top of the die cut shape. Perfect for embellishments to cards, scrapping layouts and altered art pieces. The links below take you straight to the product on our website.

 

All stamps used are from PaperArtsy stamp sheet 11o5 for  just $24.95 AU you get 9 cling mounted stamps that have multiple uses.

We also used the 3 different sized   Oak Leaf dies (small $12.95, medium $16.95 & large $18.95),  keep reading to see how we used the medium die cut leaf  as it is not on the above stamp plate.     

Die cut from natural kraft coloured card stock 2 of each small, medium & large leaves.

On the medium die cut  leaf stamp with Archival Ink Jet Black (this ink will not bleed when the leaves are distressed) with the large  stamp, you can use any stamp at all and either keep stamping untill the die cut is covered with stamped images or leave with no stamping on at all.

 

 

Stamp  the corresponding stamps on the large and small leaf from the stamp set.

Use the small background stamp from same set and Distress Ink “Forest Moss” to stamp the entire background of a A5 folded kraft card.

Repeat stamp in Distress Ink “Wild Honey” .

Then repeat in Distress Ink “Rusty Hinge”.

Colour the leaves with the same Distress inks that was used on the background of the card (a foam blending tool is best for this). Shape the leaves and staple the leaves together.

Stick leaves onto card base and add a flower, this one is from the Prima Vermont – Bella Notte Collection.

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial and have learnt a little about the great range of PaperArtsy stamps and dies!!

Have a great day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art

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Simply Less is More Challenge

23 September 2011

First of all thank you to Simply Less is More for hosting such stunning challenges and all the best to get 1000 submissions, this week SLIM have given us  free range with “anything goes”.This card  is made with  Tim Holtz products, the cute little rose to match is from Prima.  We have an extensive range of these and many other products on our web site.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art

 

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Monotone Steampunk

22 September 2011

Todays  is “Monotone Steampunk”.  In this card we have also featured some recycling ideas along with extending your stamp stash.

We first make our own stamps from Tim’s Bigz die Gadget Gears with fun foam that has adhesive on the back and then stuck them to some recycled packaging.

Also from packaging we cut a mask with the On The Edge die Steampunk.

The gears were then stamped with Adirondack Paint dabber Hazelnut, and then Distress Ink Walnut Stain was use with the mask to finish the background.

Cardboard from an old box had its top layer stripped off it to reveal the corrugations and was die cut with Gadget Gears then coloured with Distress Stains Vintage Photo and highlighted with Distress Ink Walnut Stain. Hope you enjoyed this post and will give you some ideas to make the most from your dies. Elaine & Lisa @ Destination Art.

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Jump start on Christmas – Part 1

20 September 2011

By now you will all be hearing that Christmas is just not that long away (we’re not even mentioning how long because it’s so scary!!). Well for today’s blog posting we thought we would revisit some of our past Christmas blog creations (PART 1 as we have so many we will do another couple of posts soon) to get you in the holly jolly mood.  Don’t do what we’ve done in the past and leave it all to the last minute. We’ve both decide to be pro-active this year and get organised. So today’s revisit is as much for us as it is for you, hehe! We hope you find some inspiration.  Each photo we’ll share will have a link to the original blog post with most of them having tutorials and of course you can find all the supplies at great prices on the Destination Art Website. Have a great day, Lisa and Elaine


This card was used making the Tim Holtz Reindeer and Tag & Bookplate Dies. Check out the details HERE.

A gorgeous tag using ten seconds studio metals, Paper Artsy dies and stamps and Tim Holtz facets. Check out the colour step by step instructions HERE.

Couldn’t resist showing you another ten seconds studio metal tags used with their molds. Check out the colour step by step instructions HERE.

And lastly another awesome tag using Tim Holtz on the Edge dies in a not so traditional way with his Facet line. Check out the step by step instructions HERE.

Don’t forget even though many of our projects are shown as tags they can be quite easily adapted into cards too.

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Paper Play Challenge – Week 37

19 September 2011


Well we’re back to ART today after spending the last 4 days furiously packing orders of goodies for all who took advantage of our 4 day sale. Wowsers, what a response, thanks to everyone who placed an order, we are on track and parcels are on their way!!

Today’s post is for Paper Play Challenge and the subject is Punches & Die Cuts. We used paper from Tim Holtz’s Paper Stash Lost and Found and stuck it onto cardboard, then the houses were die cut using Tim’s Movers and Shapers dies Artfull Dwellings & Mini Openings. The little houses were then stamped using various stamps from  Stamp Plate Urban Chic in Archival Ink Jet Black & Distress Ink Forest Moss, the edges of the houses were also coloured with Forest Moss. A 6″ square card was cut from the same Paper Stash and a 5 1/2″ square piece of black card was embossed with Texture Fade Regal.

Have fun day Lisa & Elaine @ Destination Art.

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25% off SALE – 4 days only

15 September 2011

Today until midnight Sunday, you can save BIG, all orders $50 or more will attract a discount of 25%.  This is a perfect opportunity to stock up on essentials, Christmas products, already heavily discounted Clearance Stock, Stamps, Paints & Inks, Chipboard, Charms, Tim Holtz goods, Glimmer Mist & oh so much more! Don’t miss out on this great 4 day discount!

Please note your 25% discount will be shown at checkout! This discount is not valid with any other discount coupon.

If you are an overseas customer you can find links to all our amazing Australian made products HERE!

www.destinationart.net

HAPPY SHOPPING EVERYONE

Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art

 

 

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Card and a Half & CR84FN37

14 September 2011

Today’s post is a combined challenge from Card and a Half (using textured embossing of your project) and CR84FN37 blogs (which features the colours bright pink(which doesn’t look bright pink here but promise you it is), grey & black.)

This A5 folded black card had a strip of  Butterfly paper from Tim’s Crowded Attic paper stash to the left side of the card front and embossed it with texture fade Cracked. The butterfly was cut from Tim’s die Fanciful Flight the base of the wings were coloured with Tattered Angles Glimmer Glaze Paradise  Pink. The Banner was die cut from  Sizzlit die Tattered Banners then stamped with  “Live the life….” from Tim’s stamp sheet Odds & Ends before being assembled.

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Simply Less is More Challenge

13 September 2011

Today’s post is for Simply Less is More challenge which is “One Layer Seeing Double”. Today we went for ALL TIM (other than ribbon with bling). An A5 folded white card was embossed with the top of texture fade “December Calendar”. The Reindeer’s were from Tim’s stamp sheet Mini Holidays first in Distress Ink Faded Jeans then in Archival Ink Jet Black. To finish off we added a piece of ribbon and some bling.

It’s time to start planning your Christmas cards, we’ll be bring you more ideas in the next coming weeks.  Don’t forget we have literally 100′s of Christmas products in stocks including stamps, embellishments, papers & more.  Check them all out HERE. Have a great day Lisa & Elaine @ Destination Art

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A Delicate Dress Form

12 September 2011

Today we’re sharing a card with you made by our lovely, lovely friend Nancie. What a delicate dress form made with Claudine Hellmuth Foam stamps“Domestic”. Nancie has stamped out the dress form then cut around including the holes in the skirt.  Some ba ba bling added to it – how beautiful!  And such a lovely punch down the complimentary paper, it’s a Martha Stewart punch “Gothic Arches”. A soft pink ribbon with a hat stick just finishes off everything beautifully.  Thanks for sharing Mama Nancie.  Hugs from Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art

 

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Beauty in under 10 minutes

11 September 2011

Today we bring you another of our 10 minute and under cards. The items that are the focus of this card are Tim Holtz’s Movers and Shapers Die “Mini Bird and Cage”, Crafty Individuals Stamp CI-003 Laced Edge Postcard Collage, Distress Stickles in Frayed Burlap and Broken China, Distress Inks in Frayed Burlap and Broken China.  All these items are available on our website, the underlined link will take you straight to the item.

Now, firstly we must point out that this card is a quick card due to the fact that we had already pre-inked the birdcage and bird dies and applied Stickles. We did this in a batch which is a great idea as then you have them on hand ready to use for projects without having to wait for the Stickles to dry.  Of course you can do this with allsorts of dies and use many different colours.  This bird and birdcage die is just a lovely size for a standard card.

For todays creation we used a folded A5 black card.  The beautiful patterned paper used is from 7Gyspies Conservatory 6×6 Paper Pad. After cutting to size we inked around the edges with Ranger Sepia Ink using a Foam Blending Tool.

Next up was to stamp out the “Laced Edge Postcard Collage” onto white cardstock with Sepia Archival Ink. One of the things we really like about this stamp is that the image included a nice straight edged border.  You can of course cut this away if you don’t want the line but for this card it worked well as all we had to do was cut around the border and leave a small amount of white cardstock on each edge.  We then distressed around the edges still with Sepia Ink using the foam blending tool.

A quick application of double sided tape pieced all the elements together and a small word “Beauty” from Darkroom Door “Wordstrips” was edged in Distress Ink Broken China and added.  Have a wonderful day, Lisa and Elaine @ Destination Art

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Make My Monday “Steampunk” Challenge

10 September 2011

Today we are sharing with you our entry in Make My Monday “Steampunk Challenge”. The products used were Tim Holtz texture fade “Steampunk”, Tim Holtz die “Gadget Gears”, stamps were from  Paper Artsy and coloured with Distress Inks. Here’s the step by step directions for how this ATC was made.

1. Emboss top A5 black card with Steampunk texture fade.

2. Stamp steampunk stamp from Paper Artsy stamp plate 1007(Steampunk collage) & 1004  onto white card stock several times then colour with Distress Ink Crushed Olive & Rusty Hinge.

3. Gadget Gears die was cut in craft card stock and the inside was cut away (see below) to form a sprocket frame then the stamped images were trimmed to size to fit frames.

4. Assemble as per photo using mounting foam to give different hight to gears.

Hope you enjoyed our post have a fantastic weekend Elaine & Lisa @Destination Art.

 

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New Workshop – 17th Sept

9 September 2011

The wait is over!

It’s been a while between workshops and many of you have emailed to find out when we are holding our next one.

We’re so very please to announce our NEW workshop, “Life’s Journey” scheduled to be held on Saturday 17th September.And we would love it if you could join us for this awesome day of play!All the details are below, bookings are filling so secure your place today by emailing us at enquiries@destinationart.net

Workshop – Life’s Journey

Saturday Sept 17th 10am – 4pm 

lifes journey canvas

Join us at Lower Kalgan Hall for 6 hours of  play.
This generous sized canvas (40cm x 30cm)
is full of lovely chipboard, metal, charms and lots of great colouring & layering techniques all presented in vintage blue and brown tones.

As always we will have a fully stocked shop there on the day, you are welcome to come earlier (9.30am onwards) to peruse the huge amount of goodies for sale and grab yourself a cuppa.
BYO lunch, as always tea/coffee and cake provided.

You will get to take home a finished canvas,
$85 including all materials
(you don’t need to bring anything).
Bookings: enquiries@destinationart.net
Here’s some upclose photos of the canvas:
lifes journey 2


lifes journey 3
Hope you can join us, Lisa and Elaine!


 

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CR84FN37 Challenge

8 September 2011

 

Today’s post is a challenge for CR84FN37 which is light blue, turquoise & neutral. To make this ATC we used a neutral piece of Collections 6″ x6″ Private Collections paper and adhered it to cardboard before cutting an ATC from Tim’s ATC’s & Corners die. The edge of the ATC was inked with Adirondack Paint Dabber Cloudy Blue then Lemonade then stamped with Inkadinkado Clear Stamps - Flower Sentiments “Friends”.  2 Crafty Chipboard -  ATC Elements were first coloured with Adirondack Paint Dabber Pool then covered with Tim Holtz Distress Stickles – Tumbled Glass. A Destination Art – White Fabric Flower was coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Stains – Broken China before being added to the ATC with Destination Art Charms – Sliver Metal Round Studs Decorative.

Hope you are enjoying our blog, let us know what you think, we love to hear from you Elaine & Lisa @ Destination Art.

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Back to basics – masking!

7 September 2011

 

We’ve noticed so many new subscribers to our blog and we thought it might be nice to produce a post on something that is pretty old school and basic, but maybe something many of you have not tried before. The technique is ”Masking”, it will revolutionise the way you look at your stamps, creates amazing effects that are easy and free and this is how you do it!

Firstly for our project, we have chosen our base which is an ATC. We have cut one easily by using the ATC die cut from Tim Holtz’s ATC’s & Corners die. This gives you wonderful rounded edges too which we particularly love in this die.  Next we stamped our main image directly onto the ATC which is the “Pocket Watch” from Stamp-It stamp sheet siset018. To MASK and give the effect of “layers” ie: the coins you notice are behind the pocket watch, you will need to stamp your image again onto scrap paper. We cut around this scrap image and it has become our mask.  The mask protects your underneath image so as we placed the pocket watch mask over the already stamped out pocket watch, we were able to stamp the bottom coin, when the mask was lifted you can see the dimensional effect in play. The coin is perfectly sitting behind the pocket watch very neatly.

We then cut a coin mask and continued to stamp and mask them to give them a tumbling effect.

To avoid colouring the pocket watch but to add colour to the background, we used the pocket watch mask again, holding it in place whilst the background of the ATC was coloured using Distress Ink “Peeled Paint” & “Forest Moss”. The finishing touch Claudine Hellmuth Studio Multi Medium Gloss was added to the clock face.

Hope you enjoyed this back to basic post. Hugs from Elaine & Lisa @ Destination Art

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MIA & Play Date Cafe Challenge 97

6 September 2011

Hi folks, did you miss us?? We’ve been AWOL for a few days due to some issues we are having uploading new updates on our wordpress blog.  It’s been a frustrating process that our host servers are trying to fix.  We have been unable to do any upgrades for months now and glitches are starting to occur in our blog backend.  The only way they think it’s going to be fixed is with a time consuming one process, hence why we have not been around  for a few days.  The problem is still not rectified so we could be offline again unable to post in the next few days.  Please continue to check back because as soon as we get the go ahead, we have some great postings to share.

Onto today’s post, it is for The Play Date Cafe Challenge and the theme is A Splash of Colour “Red”. For this card we embossed an A5 white card with Tim’s “Bingo” embossing folder, love Tim’s texture fade embossing folders – they leave such a beautiful crisp impression. An ATC was die cut from Tim’s ATC’s & Corners die, then  “Bingo” collage was stamped onto it from the Creative Collages stamp plate. Adirondack Paint Dabber Red Pepper was used on a basic circle stamp to cover the letter 47, a strip of ribbon was threaded through 2 x split rings before sticking onto the card.

Of course, as always the items highlighted above are available on our website. Have fun creating Elaine & Lisa @ Destination Art.

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Paperplay Challenge – Week 34

2 September 2011

 

Today’s post is for over at the Paperplay Challenge and the theme is “Back to School”. It’s a TIM HOLTZ day today because as it worked out everything we have used for this project belongs to his range.  Of course as always, we have an awesome array of Tim’s gear on our WEBSITE at great prices. We stock just about everything of Mr Holtz’s!  Now onto how we made our entry:

A tag was cut from Tim’s “Tag & Bookplate” die, coloured with Distress Stains Peeled Paint & Wild Honey, then stamped with stamps from Tim’s stamp plates“Going Somewhere & Fairytail Frenzy”. The ATC  was cut from Tim’s ATC’s & Corners die, then coloured with Distress Stains Peeled Paint and stamped with numerals from Fairytail Frenzy in Adirondack Paint Dabber pearl. The ABC & 123 were die cut from Sizzlit Alpha Chip Block & Vintage Marketplace Dies from a scrap of Ten Seconds Studio metal. The book was  cut by folding paper in half and die cut using Movers and Shapers die Mini Tickets before stamping, aging and stapling. A sticker of a young lad from Salvage Stickers Lost & Found was stuck onto cardboard the, trimmed, distressed with sandpaper, coloured with ink then mounted onto a scrap of  that was cut from On The Edge die Scallops. Tim Holtz Filmstrip Ribbon was used to embellish tag before assembling.

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