Tagged Ilana Polakiewicz

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Shabby Chic Houses – collage on cardboard shapes

There are plenty of ready made chipboard or cardboard shapes but what if you’re looking for something simple and you cannot find it? The answer is simple – you’re a crafter, right? Do it yourself! Our Crew member, Ilana Polakiewicz cut a big sheet of thick cardboard into small house shapes and using collage technique embellished…

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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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Art in a small form – 3 takes on a tag

Art doesn’t always need to be big in format to be effective or send the message. Sometimes, the small form is enough to pass onto the audience what the artist wanted to express. Three of our Crew members, decided to try their skills in what we called… 3 takes on tag. Amour – Linda Simpson I…

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Summer Memories in Scrapbooking Layouts

Summer is almost over which means there are plenty of memories recorded in photos that now need organising and storing. While most of them will end up in photo albums and maybe photo boxes, there will be some that we’ll want to display and give them something more than just a box to live in. Three of…

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The art of collage with 7gypsies and Tattered Angels

At Canvas Corp Brands, we encourage everyone to express themselves in the way they feel most comfortable. Whether it’s painting, home decor, mixed media, sewing… it really doesn’t matter! What matters is that you are having fun! Collage… for some it will be an easy, effortless form of artistic expression, for others… the worst nightmare…
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How to Make A Feather Notebook

Jumping on the journal and planner craze, Ilana shows us inside the blank journal she made for her husband before they departed on a  special trip.  Here is a peek before he began to sketch, add memories and jot things down.  While the blank inside is inviting, the outside is stunning.  We are having fun this month with our challenge…
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Handmade Book for Isabel, A Birthday Gift From The Heart

Why do you make your handmade books?  Just love to make them, to remember small events, as a gift, to capture a special moment, for someone who means a lot to you?  There are so many reasons and sometimes there isn’t one.  In Crew Member Ilana Polakiewicz case, she made this special book for someone very special…

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