Making Art Meaningful! ~ $320 Giveaway

A couple of months ago we started the process of taking our barely used Living Room and transform it into a space that was far more family friendly.  Our choice…err I should say, His choice?  A media room.  Out were the beige couches and proper upright chairs.  Gone were the plain white artwork and bland boring coffee table.  In were the four black leather recliners, complete with lumbar support that worked via remote.  It was very …manly.  I did my best to girly it up.  A pop of colour.  A funky moss green rocker and round ottoman.  A willowy silver throw rug and dramatically patterned curtains.  The problem?  It still felt, meh.  Impersonal and incomplete.  Then I was contacted by Canvas Pop and asked if I would be interested in some of their services.  After a quick perusal of the site, I knew I was.

What is Canvaspop?  Canvaspop is the Web’s #1 choice for quality canvas printing and framed prints.  It’s a place to take your treasured photos and have them transformed into treasured pieces of art.  It’s a place to take those digital pixels and have them forever saved into photo art, a collage, on a piece of canvas or even as a framed print.  It’s kind of fabulous.

The process is simple.  Select one of your favourite pictures.  You can upload  this picture from your computer or directly from Instagram or Facebook. (next time I’m using some shots from Instagram!)

Then you customize your photo.  Choose your perfect size, select your framing options, or even add one of their amazing photo filters and effects to make your image really pop!

Then you send it!  Canvaspop takes care of the rest.  Your canvas print or framed print is printed, hand-stretched and carefully packed and delivered to you in a few days.  I chose to have a picture framed.  My 16 x 24 inch picture, was matted and framed in a black frame, and arrived in just over a week in it’s protective bubble wrap and cardboard.  I ripped into it like a little kid and WOW.  Suddenly I was wondering why I had waited so long to take a treasured memory and DO something with it.

You see, I had chosen to send off a picture I’d taken on my 40th Birthday.  It’s a shot looking up into the Eiffel Tower in Paris.  For me, one of those “pinch me” I can’t believe I’m here moments.  One of those “everything in the world is wonderful” days.  And that picture, that thought, that feeling is all there, in that one shot.  That picture had been trapped on a photo card for three years just waiting to be unleashed, I just couldn’t figure out what to do with it because I needed it to be just right.  It turns out, what’s just right was to have it blown up, framed, and placed where we can see it every day.

 

What was right was to trust that image with Canvaspop and let them do their magic.  What was right was to stop procrastinating and start enjoying that shot, that moment that meant so much.

Thank you Canvaspop for helping me to save this moment in time that means so much to me.

EXCLUSIVE: I have an amazing Discount code just for readers of How To Survive Life In The Suburbs!

Enter the code Suburbs35 at check out to receive a shopping 35% off your order!

Promo deal valid until Feb. 29, 2016.

GIVEAWAY:  Thanks to the generous people of Canvaspop I get to gift the same style print to one of you, as I had done!  Yes, one lucky reader of How To Survive Life In The Suburbs will WIN their very own 16×24 framed print, with a mat, shipping of course included!  A value of approximately $320.00 Cdn!

Please enter by telling me what kind of photo you have at home you are itching to have put on canvas of framed?  A family photo, beach shot, Christmas picture, something else?  Then enter using the Rafflecopter form below.

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Open to residents of Canada, the United States and EU!  Entrants must have reached the age of majority in their state.  Contest closes January 11th, 2016.