We love the look of watercolor and hand-painted fabrics and Canvas Corp just made making your own fabric prints so much easier with their new line of printed canvas blanks. The first item in the collection are these adorable Floral Backpacks. They are sized just right for a notebook, phone, journal and pens or camera…
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…
Hello everyone, this is Patti sharing with you today a post I’m sure you’ll love. I’m going to share ideas on how to use up those scraps and the wonderful bonus with the packaging that comes with all the Architextures! I’ve challenged myself this year to try and use up the leftovers from major projects…
MATA HARI was she a Spy or not? This intriguing woman of Dutch origin remains a mystery. However, THIS October it will be exactly 100 years ago she was executed. Rightfully so? Maybe we will find out after all these years. Her oriental style, costumes, elaborate jewelry… Plenty to inspire you to create something about this…
On one of my daily walks to work, I saw this wheel alloy laying on the side of the road. I thought – what a great shape, perhaps I should use this as a base for a Mixed Media piece… I waited a week or so in case the owner should claim it but he…
Hello everyone, Patti is here today sharing a great card for the boys. As she says, often it’s hard to find a fit for the guys in our life. For some unknown reason they don’t like the bling, flowers and glitter that we find hard to live without. Let’s peek in as Patti shares how…
Claudia Neubacher is today’s Wings On Wednesday designer. Using Architextures Angel Wings, she embellishes the canvas cover of her art journal – the only arty thing she manages to find space for in her over-packed car while preparing for holidays. As I will be leaving on a five weeks holiday next week and can’t take a…
I love altering items and sometimes odd shapes draw my attention. I found these MDF door hangers and knew I would use them, but I didn’t know how. When I received my recent box of CCB products, I was immediately drawn to the Spring Flowers and Butterfly pattern papers and knew they would be my…
Half a birdhouse – the gypsies have claimed it!!! There may or may not have been a party last night. What happens at the gypsy house, stays at the gypsy house! This is how Juli Ondrush introduces her project. Makes it sound interesting and exciting from the word go, right? Materials Julie used in…
Our Crew member, Cristin Stevenson is an artist like no other with her dark grungy paintings. Today, she shares with us one of her pieces where she used Tattered Angels mists and an Architextures base to create this dark, reaction provoking canvas. ‘Every time we create we are telling a story. That story might be told in…