I love taking pictures of my children and family, in fact, I think that it’s a rule in the mom handbook.  My husband and I make a point to take lots of pictures of the boys while they are growing up.  It’s extremely important to my husband because the first six years of his life he spent in his native country of El Salvador and he just doesn’t have a whole lot of pictures of himself from when he was a child.  I think he has about six or seven total.  So it has been a goal of ours that each of our boys have tons of pictures to look back at when then they are older.

One thing that we did for each of our boys when they were babies was to have their portrait taken and framed.  Now that they have all gotten bigger, but not too big, it’s time to get a large portrait of the three of them together.  We just never seemed to get the money together to set up a portrait session.  Thankfully last Thanksgiving we finally had a wonderful family picture session with a Seattle area photographer and we captured a priceless picture of all three of the boys together.  For the last 10 months I have been meaning to find out how I can get it put on a canvas but I have been putting it off because I thought that it just wasn’t in the budget.  So when an opportunity to review Easy Canvas Prints came to me I was super excited!

Easy Canvas Prints creates beautiful, high quality canvas prints from your favorite photos or designs.  I knew exactly which photo I wanted to see turned into a gorgeous canvas print, none other than the great shot of my three boys.  If for some reason you aren’t sure what you would like to create Easy Canvas Prints has a huge idea gallery at your disposal.  They even have ideas that are ready for you to print if you are are looking to add some art to your walls that isn’t a photo and need some inspiration.

In just four simple steps you can transform any picture or image into a canvas print!  First you choose your canvas size, if you can’t find the size you want you can choose a custom size.  Next upload your photo, you can choose files from your computer or even pictures from Facebook.  Once the photo is uploaded and adjusted the way that you like then you choose the border that you would like to see on your canvas.  I chose the image wrap option as opposed to the mirror or colored border options.  The last step is to choose any image effects you would like to add, if any, like black and white or sepia finishes or retouching areas if needed. Then, voila! Your canvas is ready to be ordered!

After I placed my order I was SO excited to see how it would turn out!  Luckily for me my canvas print came extremely fast, I think I had it in about a week’s time.  The day it came I couldn’t wait to get it out of the packing, which by the way, it was very securely wrapped and held perfectly protected in it’s box.

Here is what it looks like!  Drum roll please…

Aren’t my boys just the cutest?  It’s hard to believe that this picture was taken last Thanksgiving – boy how they have grown!  Check out how it looks on my wall next to the boys’ baby portraits:

The canvas itself is the same size as the other portraits but the frame is something that I might want to add later to make it fit in just a bit better.  I do love that the image is wrapped around the edge of the frame so that guests will see that all though there isn’t a frame the canvas has a finished look to it.  Here is a picture of the image wrap up close:

All in all, I love Easy Canvas Prints.  It really was an easy process to transform my favorite photo of my sons into a beautiful canvas that my husband and I will always treasure.  I would definitely go back to them for any future photos that I would like to see on my wall.  I’m even considering blowing up my Pretty Pink Momma logo into a canvas for my home office, I think that would be such a great way to define what my workspace is all about.

Easy Canvas Prints Sale!

Right now when you order from Easy Canvas Prints they are offering 25% off all canvas’ and free standard shipping!  This is such a great deal and I think that if you are looking to create a fantastic and thoughtful Christmas gift you should definitely take advantage of this sale!

Don’t forget to “Like” Easy Canvas Prints on Facebook and check out their Be Our Fan tab to receive a special discount!

Win an 8×10 Canvas Print from Easy Canvas Prints

Easy Canvas Prints is offering one Pretty Pink Momma reader an 8×10 Easy Canvas Print of their very own!

Mandatory Entry via the Rafflecopter widget is required.  Just simply tell me what you plan to do with your 8×10 canvas if chosen as the winner.  Will it be for a gift, or maybe for yourself?   Will it be a photo or some other graphic?

[Read more...]