Children's Counting Book designed by Georgie Gerl

I am in LOVE with the new Ready-to-Go! Blank Canvas Books. I have barely tapped into all the creative potential this surface offers. But boy, oh boy – there are some scrappers and crafters and artists out there who are just going to town with it!!

I thought you might enjoy a little blog-hopping tour to see the canvas books in action – amazing stuff out there!

• A group of 13 very talented designers are doing Circle Journals for each other – a great concept that they developed together at Winter CHA this past January. After one year of scrapping each other’s photos, page by page, they will be showing off all 13 finished journals at Winter CHA in January 2010.
• Lorraine, a collage artist in the UK, has been creating a book one page at a time with fabric and found objects…   March 31st –   April 2nd –   April 3rd –   April 8th
• Cheryl, one of the lead Fiskateers, created a gorgeous photo album about her friends – you can watch her “Birds of a Feather” tutorial on Fiskars TV too.
• The popular Crafty Chica used the canvas books for one of her projects on her crafting cruise last month – click here to see more pictures from the cruisers!
• I experimented a little with watercolor pencils – they work so beautifully on raw canvas!
• We taped people at one of our workshops using all kinds of different techniques to create their own personal book
• One of C&T’s authors, Rebekah Meier, makes gorgeous fabric art collage books.

If you have played with canvas books, let us know and we will add your pictures to our Flickr Gallery!  And if you love them as much as I do, grab our blog badge that features one of Rebekah’s creations and show it off!