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Quick Art Journal Play When You Have a Minute

  Finally managed to find some free time in between the washing, ironing, cooking and looking after the kids? Feeling an overwhelming need to make something pretty but only have half an hour? Sounds so true to many of us, right? Art journalling is the answer – you can take as much or as little time…
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Guest Designer Natassa Blazaki

From time to time we like to invite one of our followers to be a Guest Designer for a month and in March our Challenge prize was to be our Guest Designer in May.  Natassa (Anastasia) Blazaki was our winner and today we want to introduce you to this great source of inspiration. Please join us…

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“Fly” Ledger ART Journal Spread

The Architextures Vintage books and ledgers are available in several different looks and sizes. They work as Art Journals, Photo albums, writing books and are great in combination with your favourite Tattered Angels Mists or any of your other favorite craft products. Today, Crew Member Marie Johansson shows us how she made an Art Journal…

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Creating a Brick Wall as background to Wine Bar Canvas and Matching Card

Naturally Aged Kits are a perfect way of making one thing look like something else; there are plenty of finishes available: from rusty metal, through marble to wood. The kits work on paper just as well as they do on wood, ceramic or stone so the options are aplenty as to what can be achieved with just…

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Wings on Wednesday – Let Your Light Shine Mini-Album

It’s Wings on Wednesday time and this week we have a little twist on the usual for you! Our Crew member, Lena Holmstrom, made a cute mini-album with a cover embellished by a tiny angel with huge wings and a motto ‘Let Your Light Shine’. The twist is… she used only 7gypsies products for her project! Yes,…

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From Scraps to … ATCs – recycle what you have

Boxes full of scraps, drawers full of stamps, shelves filled up with paints and media… Sounds familiar? We are all guilty of that! But what if we took all of these and put them to a good use? Yes, yes, we know… any kind of craft is ‘good use’! So let’s make some little treasures also known…

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Altered Ruler Holder – May Challenge

Today Crew Member Monica Taylor show us how she blew new life into a item she found when out treasure hunting. Inspiered by our main May Challenge “Old is New” she transformed this piece of junk into something new and totally different! Monica tell us: I love finding items at antique shops that I can alter. Bringing…

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Traveling Art Journal – Group 2, April

Hello again! We hope you are still sticking with us while every traveling art journal is making its way around the globe, and are as excited as we are, to view some more pages! Ready? Then let’s have a look! Rosemary Frias morris   “I knew I want to use the rub-ons. I decided on…
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Trash to treasure – Transform packaging into a display book-box

People often ask me, ‘What is altered art?’ While there is more than one definition, it usually involves the transformation of every-day objects into artistic pieces. Although many consider altered art a relatively new phenomenon, its roots go back to the Middle Ages when monks would write new text over old manuscripts in order to conserve costly parchment….

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