Barb Housner Archives - The Creative Studio

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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…

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How To Personalize Graduation Cards for Both Genders

If you’re ever in doubt on how to personalize a card for a male or female recipient, the answer is very straightforward – colours! Using colours to differentiate is a very easy trick – change the background and you have two different cards; add to it a bit of a feminine touch with a doily or a masculine touch…

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Barbara Housner – Crew Interview

It’s time for another post in our 2017 Canvas Corp Crew Interviews. We are extremely privileged to be able to work with a group of over a 100 of amazing designers from around the world. They have all come together to create, share ideas, support each other, let us know what we can do better and remind us of what we…

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Exploring Creative Journals…A New Series from Canvas Corp Brands

Today we are starting a series on creative journals, art journals, junk journals, paint swatch journals, etc. This craze is very popular right now and we want to explore a bit more about why people are making these amazing journals, how they are making them, then share some of our favorite ideas and techniques.Let’s begin…

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Share Halloween ATC Cards

Halloween will be here before you know it, so we love that our Crew has been creating Halloween crafts! What a great idea to create and share ATC’s for the holidays. Barb is here today to show us how she created these really fun Black Cat ATCs for a swap she is taking part in…

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Quick & Quirky Crew Challenge – Magazine Art

We have done our second week of a series of challenges for the Creative Crew called Quick & Quirky – a quick challenge where we share one commonly found object from our homes or studio and the Crew has one week to make something, anything and upload to instagram, facebook using the ‪#‎ccbquickquirkyproject‬. The challenge…

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DIY Spring Banners

Creating banners for Spring, Easter and Everyday are fun and easy to do. We gathered a range of different banner ideas using paper and fabric and a little bit of found things and we know you will inspired to make your own. Gather paper from your stash, pick up some new paper or design your own with a digital download or other fun art. Once you decide the style, you can then gather ribbon, fabrics, flowers, clothespins and other goodies to help bring your banner to life. You can mix your banner shapes or use the same style depending…