Art Journaling

Handmade Thank You Cards
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Handmade Thank Yous For Handmade Gifts

With no idea what to expect when the big 50 birthday is here, will I feel sad, will I feel glad, will the day be like any other or will it be a day to remember?  Well, to be honest, it was all of these and more, but the most amazing part of the entire…

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Home – Junk Journal in the making

A junk journal is typically made with craft supplies, recycled paper, junk mail and other found materials. Do you see where we are going with this? Yes? YES! We all have plenty of those! Craft supplies, scraps of paper, found fabrics and other cartable elements. Now, instead of proudly hoarding them in boxes hidden all over our…

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Using Parchment Rub Ons in your art journal

The Architextures™ Parchment Rub-Ons is a great item to use in many of your craft projects. Crew Member Marie Johansson used elements from the “Build” Parchment for a simple, yet eye-catching Art Journal spread about her creative goals for 2018. Let’s start with describing what you get in just one pack of the Parchment Rub-ons and…

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Life Is Good – altered composition book

One of our new 2018 Crew members, Traci Hayner Vanover has a flair for all things vintage with a design style that is appealing and whimsical, with a decidedly quirky twist. She spends happy hours discovering long-hidden vintage design treasures from the past that become the canvas for her own unique voice. It will be…
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November Challenge Winner & Features

We had a couple of amazing projects entered to our November. YOU all our followers inspire us so much! We love to see those gorgeous entries to our challenges from ALL around the globe. That is one of our biggest goals with our challenges is to reach crafters all over the world.   We want to say THANK…

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Fun Colourful Collage with Ilana

Collage is a technique of an art production where the artwork is created using an assemblage of different forms and shapes using paper as well as other media. Sounds right up the CCB valley, right?! With all the awesome Architextures books that you can use as journals, the never-ending supplies of Tattered Angels Paint and…
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Junk Journal with 7gypsies Architextures and Cardboard

What is a junk journal? A journal filled with old junk?  A journal made with old junk? Or maybe a combination?  We think a junk journal is the perfect combination of something old, something new, something borrowed and well, some things, that might seem like junk, but we think not.  While a traditional journal is…
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Guest Designer Misa

From time to time we like to invite one of our followers to be a Guest Designer for a month and in July our Challenge prize was to be our Guest Designer in October.  Iris was our winner and today we want to introduce you to this great source of inspiration. Please join us in welcoming…

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Wings On Wednesday – All we touch, we change

Vicky Fortier is our designer on this week’s Wings on Wednesday. Using Tattered Angels Paints she put together an amazing collage in her art journal.  See for yourself! I wanted to make something that would fit with the wings concept. I started thinking of turning a magazine image into an angel. I went through my magazine…

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