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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.


ATC Tin Challenge

Birthday Memories by Rachel CarlsonThe goodies for the challenge could not have been more perfect timing. I will celebrate my ‘2ND” annual 40th birthday this Saturday. I wanted a way to collect my friend’s thoughts, advice, etc in a special place. The tin would be a great way to capture the day at breakfast and…

Give Thanks Canvas

The fabulous Jenni Boisvert made this beautiful fall canvas using 7gypsies papers, Gypsy Market chipboard letters and the new fall colors of Shimmerz paint. What a great (and easy) idea this is! Since Jenni is part of the educational team for Shimmerz you can find “how to” photos as well as a tutorial video on…

A Gypsy life

As you can imagine, being a gypsy can sometimes influence how we live. So we thought it might be interesting for you to see into some of the homes of our design team and few of our creative friends. Gypsy Life is a new ongoing series about the way we live, things we love and…

A fine trip to Paris

Book Cover-Vintage We were so inspired by Sande Krieger’s Paris Journal made from one of our book covers that we asked if we could share some up close and personal pictures. Sande is the queen of embellishment in our book (no pun intended)! She can use a lot but make it look like it’s just…

7gypsies book covers

This week we have found some interesting uses for our 7gypsies book covers (one thanks to a little bird who told us where to find it…thanks Beth!). See, we really do read the comments you leave us. We love when our products are used in different ways than we might have intended them to be…

ATC Photo Display

Did you see the post on Two Peas blog today about the ATC Photo Display? Garden girls Shannon Tidwell, Kelli Crowe, Jen Gallagher and Kelly Purkey each created a fabulous ATC Display for a different occasion…from back to school to Halloween. Click on the link above to see more pictures and read the comments of…

In search of Good Junk

Time for another adventure with the gypsies while we search for good junk! This time we are in Pasadena, CA at a FABULOUS store called…Zinnia1024 Mission StSouth Pasadena, CA 91030(626) 441-2181http://www.zinnia.biz (this is the kind of store that you have to look up and down to see everything) We had no idea what a treat…

Look who’s come by for a visit…

Our gypsy guest artist this month is none other than Tena Sprenger! Tena has been using good ‘ole gypsy ingenuity since her days at Memory Lane. She brings her own spin to everything she does and we love it! We think she has a soft spot in her heart for everything gypsy too! Thanks Tena……

So here we are in day three of our acrylic challenge with another idea…think Christmas present here. So we asked you if you could figure how you could use a stretched canvas and a piece of acrylic to make a fun project…here it is. Canvas Shadowboxby Paula Cheney Here’s how she did it:1. Start with…

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