From time to time we like to invite one of our followers to be a Guest Designer for a month and in May our Challenge prize was to be our Guest Designer in June. Hina Mirza was our winner and today we want to introduce you to this great source of inspiration. Please join us in…
We are inspired by the world around us and love to showcase new and exciting artist, designers and crafters and our guest designer series is a great way to inspire our Crew as well as each one of you to try something different, show off a new style or help you think outside of your creative box,…
What are Architextures? Inspired by flea market finds and things of the past, Architextures are craftable vintage items you can use for just about anything you wish. The collection is filled with a wide range of different products, icons and textures that are so different from other collections. It is truly fun to create with…
The Architextures line is not only about the 3D, life-like adhesive embellishments. It is also about beautiful, rustic papers that you can use as a whole or cut into pieces (some of them have banners and vintage signs on them – perfect for use as embellishments!). ‘Do you enjoy decorating in the farmhouse style? Combining…
The magic of craft often gives life to items that would otherwise remain plain and boring. With just a lick of paint and a couple of embellishments, you can turn an uninteresting wooden shape into a stunning piece of rustic home decor! Our Crew member, Jennifer Hottinger-Sloan used the ever so versatile Architextures elements to decorate…
This week’s installation of Wings on Wednesday introduces Angelique Jarrier (aka Boule de Scrap) and her mixed media project which uses an embroidery hoop as a base. In a true mixed media style, Angelique mixes and matches not only the various dry and wet media but also products from all three Canvas Corp Brands. Hey ‘hello’…
Canvas Corp 12×12 screen printed cardboard line is one of the hand-screen printed gems we have in store for you. Each of the sheets is manually placed into the screen printing machine, the screen is lowered onto it and black printing ink is manually distributed all over it to make sure that it goes through the…
Wanderlust Junque Book is the perfect mixed media starter book filled with 6×6 pages journal lines, burlap, canvas and fluted paper. The book is covered with printed paper book covers on the front and back and printed on the inside; it is bound together with a sewn strip of natural canvas. So that’s how we made…
Every gypsy loves old, full of history items. But what’s better than that is giving those item a completely new life and prolonging its history-gathering adventures. From old bottles to typewriters to picture frames to furniture. Our Crew member, Kerstin Inga-Peters alters a vintage drawer and turns it into an eye-catching centre piece worthy of being…
The life-like qualities of the Architextures mixed media embellishments almost demand a new kind of art tag. Crew member Betsy Skagen of Paper Calliope answered that call with her unique approach to altered art tags. In addition to the rich layers that mixed media artists regularly bring to altered tags, Betsy has taken her tag…