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Fun and easy uplifting card Crew Member Heidi Jakobs
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Wings on Wednesday: Uplifting Card with matching Envelope

Hi everyone, Heidi here; today I’m on the CCB blog showing you my Wings on Wednesday project. It’s a fun matching card and envelope project. I created this card for a young girl in my family and I feel the sentiment fits her just right! I used the following materials:  Canvas Corp 12 x 12 paper:…

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Snailmail with 7gypsies – cool stationery options

Snailmail and smail (from snail + mail) — named after the snail with its slow speed — is a retronym that refers to letters and missives carried by conventional postal delivery services. (…) It is also known, more neutrally, as paper mail, postal mail, land mail, or simply mail and post. (Wikipedia) When I was much…

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Sew a Pillow Front From Selvage Pieces

The printer’s marks and text on fabric selvage pieces really attract me for some reason. I started collecting cut-off selvage ends from fabric projects and when I had enough I decided to make a pillow front to attach to a canvas pillow blank. Such a pillow makes a great keepsake for someone who sews because…

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Tattered Angels Mermaid on Canvas

Hi, it’s Karen Crossen here today and I have a summery project to share with you – Mermaid on Canvas. It has been inspired by my latest voyages. Few weekends ago, we were driving home through Florida and decided to visit some of roadside America along the way. So we found ourselves in Weeki Wachee Florida –…

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Colourful Paw Print Canvas Paint Brush Holder

Charity here from Scrappin’ Chaos with a project that illustrates the lifeblood of our household…Cats and Art. Painting, drawing, sewing, scrapbooking, it all happens with a cat close by. One of my favorite photos is of my second oldest painting while a cat sleeps in her lap. I mean, if it doesn’t have cat hair…

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Art Journals – the multitude of ideas!

For those that love art making and writing, art journals are a great way to express their inner selves. Most of our Crew members dib and dab into the art of journalling every now and again and today, we’re sharing with you three of them – you know, to give you some ideas as well as…
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Meet Freeda, the canvas chicken

At Canvas Corp, you can buy cotton canvas and burlap by the year. 100% cotton canvas fabric by the yard is 60″ wide stock and available in 3 fabric weights. 100% jute burlap fabric by the yard is 60″ wide stock and available in 2 different quality fabrics.  Our ‘by the yard’ goods are perfect for reupholstering,…

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Bright and Colorful Spring Banner

Spring showers bring May flowers. The first sign of Spring are flowers pushing through the cold ground and birds returning to our gardens. I am Ava Gavloski and it’s my turn to share a Spring banner project with you here. To-day, I wanted to make a banner reflecting the change of seasons and to cheer up a…

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Steampunk Paper Mâché Dress Form

Monica Longard from MonDo Creations is with us today sharing her first project as a CCB Crew member; it’s a Paper Mâché Dress Form which upcycled to become a fancy, vintage-looking handmade gift. Let’s see how she achieved that… I made this dress form as a birthday present for one of my friends. She is a crafter but does…

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8 Point Star Scrapbook Page Tutorial by Connie Hall

Hi! Connie Hall here to share how I created a Faux Quilted Scrapbook Page. I also wanted to incorporate something I don’t usually so Ii decided tog o for a stitched layout – it’s just a frame that I hand stitched but it adds a completely new feel. I had a 4×4 picture of my…

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