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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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Travelling Art Journal May, Group 2

Some of us might be enjoying their Summer Holiday already. Traveling, or planning to travel…? At CCB we’re letting the art journal travel some more around the globe. It’s time for the May edition of the Second Group already! Curious?     Rosemary Frias-Morris ” I wanted to use the tree rub on and a silhouette…

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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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Canvas Corp Burlap and Canvas Journal

Today we have this lovely little Canvas and Burlap Journal to share with you created by Cindy Utter. She used a fun variety of embellishments and items to decorate in a unique, eclectic style that we just adore! Cindy did an amazing job of showing off the new 7Gpysies Architextures and just how versatile they…

Words of Wisdom - keep them together in a mini book and canvas envelope
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Words of Wisdom – keep them together in a mini book and canvas envelope

We all have our favourite sayings and words of wisdom that we keep referring back to or try living by. They can be passed on to us by family members, friends; we might have got them from a song, movie or in the street overhearing someone’s conversation… All the ‘life words’ but what do we do with them? How…

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Wings on Wednesday – My Guardian Angel

Does it ever happen to you that you dream out your project, literally? It did to me, for the first time. Call me crazy but I woke up in the morning and had to make it happen. When I looked at the finished piece, ‘Guardian Angel’ was the only thing that came to mind… But let’s…

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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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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…

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