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Canvas Corp Brands is the home of Tattered Angels, 7Gypsies and Canvas Corp (Canvas Home Basics). We are a manufacturer of surfaces, paint and vintage reproductions coming to you from Springdale, Arkansas.


12 Tags adaptation

We know many, many people religiously follow Tim’s 12 days of Christmas tags each year (and this year was no exception).  But for the first time Tim ran a contest for people who completed all of the 12 tags.  (Apparently 300 people completed and entered their tags!)When we checked in to see who won and…

Time for NEW

We are so excited 2010 is here! A season of NEW is in store…What can you look forward to? A NEW product release in a few weeks,NEW ideas,NEW Product Challenges, NEW Guest designers,And a NEW Gypsy Girl joining the Design Team… welcome kerry lynn yeary Can you believe it? How LUCKY are we?We just knew she…

Christmas Project #17

Santa Shadowbox guest designer Kerry Lynn The Santa shadowbox is made with a vintage photo mat and is sitting on an end cap from a vintage player piano roll.  St. Nick peeks out to see who’s been naughty or nice this year in hopes he can deliver presents to those within his gaze. So, this…

Christmas project #17

Cupcake anyone? guest designer Kerry Lynn (This may very well be the cutest thing we have ever seen!) The cupcake stand is made with a vintage embroidery hoop.    I mounted vellum inside the hoop and then applied a cut circle of the number rubbings, in other words, the rubbings were put on as a…

Christmas Project #16

Christmas bags Paula Cheney Fabric bags for Christmas treats and small gifts. Here’s how I did it-  Cut a piece of muslin fabric (for a small bag – 7 x 10″).  I chose two 7gypsies clear stamps Nottinghill and the new Venice stamp. Use the script stamp from the Nottinghill set to stamp the fabric…

Christmas Project #15

It’s all about the trays today!  Family Picture Tray Peg Hewitt  We love this Photo Tray from an artist halfway around the world in Australia.  Peg has taken, what started as a white Photo Tray (not to be confused with the Artist Printer’s Tray that has 12 small squares) and made a very clever, almost window-like…

Christmas Project #14

Friendship Tea  Rachel Carlson In the spirit of holiday entertaining…every year I make my friends “Friendship Tea”.  This year I decided to put the tea in an extra special tin just for holiday giving.  Although it was VERY hard to cut my favorite Barcelona paper – Manresa but I took one for the team –…

Christmas Project #13

Holiday Gift Tags Rachel Carlson I KNOW you are still wrapping presents, you are, YES you are.  I LOVE tags, I just do, all kinds.  7 Gypsies makes it so easy to alter an already printed tag for some vintage holiday paper packaging.  OR you can have them on standby for those last minute gifts…

Little bird wall hanging guest designer Kerry Lynn I used another book cover for this one.  It’s a great size for this project. The large flower is a rosette I created using vintage piano roll paper {i hoard this stuff}.  I layered the rosette, a Christmas tree light reflector and then a metal clock (Vintage…

Christmas Project #12

Gypsy Necklace guest designer Kerry Lynn As far as we can remember we have never had a piece of jewelry featured on the Gypsy Journal… until today! I made the necklace with vintage chain and pieces from the 7gypsies crystal Princesca kit.  For the spoon charm, I drilled a hole at the bottom and added…

This blog is a compilation of inspiration from the Canvas Corp Brands family including Canvas Corp, Tattered Angels and 7Gypsies.