This is the company’s second acquisition in less than two months – Canvas Corp purchased 7 Gypsies in December 2011 from Ultra-Pro. They also purchased BagWorks, a fabric cut and sew company, in the summer of 2011. BagWorks offers canvas and burlap products that are produced in a facility in Springdale, Arkansas, where Canvas Corp is headquartered. That acquisition, Canvas Corp says, “allows us to offer a wider range of blank items.”

Tattered Angels was founded in 2006 by Wendy Senger, who developed the company’s signature “Glimmer Mist” in her kitchen. “Glimmer Mist” is a water-based dye ink in a spray dispenser that has been widely copied by other companies in the papercrafting market. Although the product was initially a huge success, the huge rise in competition for Glimmer Mist dampened the company’s fortunes the past few years as the company has not been able to duplicate the success of Glimmer Mist’s debut.

Springdale, Arkansas-based Canvas Corp was founded in 2006 by Randy and Christine Meier. The Meiers had previously founded DMD Industries in the mid-1990′s. (That company is now a property of ANW/Crestwood after being sold to them in February 2010 by the now bankrupt Westrim.) Canvas Corp sells products under the name Canvas Home Basics to the scrapbook, craft and home decor market. Although it produces popular patterned papers, the company is perhaps best known for creating products from materials besides paper: burlap, corrugated cardboard, and its namesake canvas. The company also purchased the popular 7 Gypsies brand in December.

Tattered Angels founder Wendy Senger will continue at the company as Tattered Angels’ creative lead. Tattered Angels TV and the Tattered Angels education and design teams will also continue their work for the company. Operations for Tattered Angels will move from Fort Collins, Colorado to the office facilities of Canvas Corp in Springdale, Arkansas. Canvas Corp says that it intends to begin shipping Tattered Angels’ CHA Winter 2012 releases from its Arkansas facilities the first full week February after a two week transition between facilities.

Tattered Angels founder Senger was upbeat about her company’s future with Canvas Corp:

I am excited about joining forces with the Canvas Corp family. Having a huge support team and so many creative people to share ideas with has opened a whole new chapter of my Tattered Angels vision possibilities.Tattered Angels will become the amazing company I have always strived for. In my heart I know it will be amazing!

Randy Meier, co-founder of Canvas Corp, explained the reasoning behind the company’s recent group of acquisitions:

We are in the business of creativity and the team of people and the collection of products that we have brought together is a great platform for the creativity to ignite.

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My Creative Classroom is celebrating!  We’ve been bringing online classes to crafters all over the world for 5 years.  In celebration, we are announcing that we will be allowing lifetime access to course content on our site!  Most of our classes will be offered for lifetime access!  Lifetime access begins with classes taken this past fall and will include classes going forward.   WOW!  Now you can take a class with the instructor and then refer back to the directions in the future.

My Creative Classroom is an online arts and crafts learning center. Our interactive and in-depth courses are instructor led and filled with wonderful projects and techniques to help you get the most out of your supplies. This upcoming Spring MCC will be offering over 100 courses. From the Cricut to Tombow to mixed media to rubber stamping and scrapbooking we have something for everyone. Don’t miss out on some wonderful classes starting January 23rd, including (you can enroll in classes with links NOW!):

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Pink Paislee, founded in January 2008, has rapidly become an industry mainstay by producing not only its own brand of lines but also licensed lines from popular designers such as House of 3 and Collage Press. The company will be at CHA Winter 2012 in booth #2091.

Heidi Swapp, who formerly had a signature line with Advantus, is returning to the market at CHA Winter 2012 as a solo brand after several years as part of the House of 3 brand that created digital products and also has licensed designs through Pink Paislee. Pink Paislee is partnering with Swapp to handle the manufacturing, customer service, logistics and distribution of the Heidi Swapp signature line, while Swapp will maintain ownership and creative direction of the brand and its designs as well as responsibility for product development, marketing, and education.

This arrangement is strikingly similar to the recently announced deal between Studio Calico and American Crafts, and emphasizes the increasing importance of economies of scale in product production in the industry, and the need for the creative business owners in the industry to rely on experts in non-creative areas of running their enterprises.

In addition to her new product line, Swapp also has a show on My Craft Channel called Create to Remember that is currently in its second season of shows. She will also be the subject of the June/July 2012 edition of Northridge Publishing’s new book series, Signature Series.

No peeks at Swapp’s CHA Winter 2012 products have been revealed yet but the line will be on display in the Pink Paislee booth in Anaheim.

Christy Tomlinson, known to many for her work as a CKU instructor and as the owner of the Scarlet Lime online store and kit club, is also partnering with Pink Paislee. Tomlinson is licensing designs for her work to create a line for Pink Paislee called SHE ART. The line is intended to target a wide range of crafting markets: scrapbooking, mixed media, home decor and art journaling among them. SHE ART  will be unveiled the week of January 23rd on Tomlinson’s blog, and will be on display in the Pink Paislee booth at CHA Winter 2012.

“We believe in the process of creating art in whatever form it takes shape,” said Rebecca Cross, owner and creative director for Pink Paislee. “Christy’s SHE ART concept encourages new techniques while also inspiring women everywhere to take a leap of faith into creativity. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to put her designs on paper and to help her reach consumers all across the world.”

“I am excited to develop a line of products that not only have artsy fun possibilities for creating both papercrafting projects and mixed media projects; but meaningful ones as well,” said Christy Tomlinson.

Tomlinson has also just announced a signature stamp line with Unity Stamp Company. The stamp line is a combination of texture backgrounds, and a few doodles and two SHE ART figurines, along with a few other designs.

 Unity Stamp Co. will not be exhibiting at CHA Winter 2012.

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