***UPDATE*** Congratulations to STEPHANIE who posted, "I would put a picture of my son on
it and I would put in on the fireplace." She won a free 8"x10" print from
EasyCanvasPrints.com.
Stephanie, your email address wasn't in your post or on your blogger
profile. Please contact me by 10:00 p.m. central time on August 19, or I
will have to choose another winner.
Parents aren’t supposed to love one child more than another,
but I’ll admit, I have a very special fondness for one of our youngest. In
2008, I found a little black kitten on the edge of a busy intersection in
Kentucky. I named her Kali after the Hindu Goddess whose name means “the dark
one” (although I pronounce it Callie.) Because she was a particularly
terrible toddler, I gave her a middle name, so I could do that parental thing
of saying sternly (when she was being bad), “Kali Malicious!” Like any doting
parent, I’ve taken tons of pictures of her, but my favorite is a very artsy
extreme close up.
When Easy Canvas Prints offered me the opportunity to review
their service of printing
photos on canvas, and they sent me a code for a free
8” x 10” print, that picture is the first one that came to mind. Trying to be fair
to the others, I went through all the other cat photos on my hard drive, the more
recent ones that I knew were really high resolution, and I picked out a few
good ones and asked my husband for his opinion. You can
read about the choices in my previous post. In the end, we both agreed to send
in my favorite Kali picture for the Easy Canvas Prints treatment.
A few days later, I received the print back, and it is
beautiful. It’s a very nice reproduction of what could have been a difficult
photo to print clearly. I do find it a little bit glossy; the shininess of the
print is not something you can choose. I probably noticed it more because of
the flash bouncing off when I was photographing the picture.
I don’t have photos printed very often, so I don’t know how
Easy Canvas Prints’ prices are in comparison to anyplace else that offers a
similar service. Their price is nearly $45 for an 8” x 10” picture.
That said, they have a sale on as I type this, and you can find coupon codes
online fairly easily.
I love my photo and I wish I could afford to have portraits
of all my cats done up like this. It turns a nice digital snapshot into a
beautiful keepsake portrait. You could use a photo retouching program to make
it really look like it was painted on canvas. I can see family portraits or
scenic photography being turned into fabulous art pieces for your own home, family gifts, or your office (speaking of which, Easy Canvas Prints is a division of Build a Sign, which
prints
signs, banners, and other promotional items.
Now comes the fun part. One of you is going to win the same
thing I received, a free 8” x 10” photo on canvas. Shipping is included as long
as you have a mailing address in what we call the lower 48 (sorry Alaska and
Hawaii). You have four chances to enter (limit four entries per household).
First entry (mandatory): Comment here with what kind of
photo you’d have printed on canvas AND where you’d display it. Is it a family portrait to display in your
living room? A special picture of you for your mom’s “wall of glory”? A gorgeous
landscape for your dining room? Post here and be sure that you either leave
your email address within your post or it’s readily available on the website or
blog you link to in this form.
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| Nose to nose - Kali checks out her portrait. |
Bonus Entries (leave one comment for each):
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Deadline for entries: August 14, 11:59 p.m. CT.
I'd like to offer special thanks to
Easy Canvas Prints for the opportunity to try their service at no cost to myself, and for providing this giveaway opportunity at no cost to me or the winner (except possibly shipping as explained).
The sand cats' big ears help them dispense heat, and they can live on very little water. 
