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Featured Blogger – Olga Kravets

We are inspired by the world around us and love to showcase new and exciting artist, designers and crafters and our guest designer series is a great way to inspire our Crew as well as each one of you to try something different, show off a new style or help you think outside of your creative box,…
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Turn Plain Card Box Into A Beautiful Jewellery Gift Box

When buying (or making) gifts for other, we tend to focus more on the gift itself than on the way it is presented to its recipient. But did you think about the fact that the wrapping is the first thing the person sees? Not the gift! So why not put some more effort into it and…

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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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Turn Your Food Bag into a Wedding Gift Bag

Recycling is one of the basis of the ‘gypsy crafting’ – it’s fun and it challenges your imagination. From big projects (up-cycled furniture) to small ones (re-purposed playing cards), recycled art is just as rewarding as creating something from scratch. With a little help from Tattered Angels paints, 7gypsies elements and Canvas Corp fabrics and…

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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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‘Enjoy every moment’ – canvas

Sometimes, the creative muse strikes and you just have to make something pretty! And the most important thing about it is to ENJOY EVERY MOMENT! Our Crew member, Viktoriya Porechnaya reminds us how important the enjoyment is in her delicate, feathery, watercolour canvas. ‘I wanted to make spring canvas with white doves and feathers as a symbol…
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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….

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Wings on Wednesday – ‘FLY’ stretched canvas

Wings on Wednesday brings us ‘FLY’ – stretched canvas made by Steph Ackerman. She has played with not only Tattered Angels paints but used the mini Mixed Media Origins papers to build a 3D wing design on her stretched canvas. With the bright, summery tones, this is the perfect home decor piece to introduce some colour into your house. Let’s see…

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