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July Challenge “Flags of the World”

Our Crew has members from all around the world. This month we want you to use the colors from the flag from YOUR country when you create. There is no limit to what you can do with this challenge – home decor pieces, water color paintings, cards, tags or altered items. The How to: To…

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Sweet Simple Things – altered piece of wood

Mottos or ‘words of wisdom’ are popular decor elements on our homes and we tend to use the ones that appeal to us most. But how about displaying them in a form that we like too? Rather going for a ready-made supermarket versions, why not release your creativity and make your own piece of decor in your…

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Farmers Market Coffee mini-Canvas

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…

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Wings On Wednesday – My sweet angel

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’…

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Playing In the Wanderlust Junque Book

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…
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Use up your scraps on Mixed Media ATCs

How many of you have finished a project thinking… ‘I can throw all those scraps away!’ Well… don’t! Keep them and use them!  Our Crew members, Barbara Housner and Vicki Fortier show us how you can use your bits and bobs and turn them into beautiful pieces of mini art! Barb Housner ‘I had made a journal page…

Fun Background Technique With Glimmer Mist and Gesso tattered angels canvas corp brands
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Fun Background Technique With Glimmer Mists and Gesso

Did you know that Tattered Angels mists react so cool with water? What it means is that even once they’re on paper, you can still play with them using water – you can dilute the colour, do ‘ghost prints’, etc. Add some white gesso to it and you have even more options – lighten the colours,…

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Travelling Art Journal – May 2017, group 1

June is here, which means it’s time to share with you the first part of the May travels of our Art Journals. Our Crew is spread all over the world and the journals are slowly making their way visiting the fabulous places filling up with beautiful, one-off pieces of art. As usual, the entries are full of Tattered Angels…
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June Challenge “Urban Travel”

It´s summertime in a big part of the world and summer means traveling for many of us and that is what our June Challenge is all about. Let´s celebrate June with going on a journey. A journey to a city that you love, a city that you dream of or get inspired by the shiny…
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Altered Birdhouse Canvas Corp Brands style

Spring has been here for a while now and summer is getting closer and closer every day. Flowers and trees are in full bloom, nature is awaken and working hard making the world around us full of colours and noisy life. What better way to bring all this busyness indoors than by replicating the outdoors? Our Crew…

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