I’m not a great interior decorator. Creating a warm and inviting atmosphere in my home is one of my biggest challenges. So when I find easy ways to add personality to my sometimes bare walls, I get excited! Using photos of the kids is a great way to breathe life and color into a room, but it’s not always easy to work with small pictures. HelloCanvas.com addresses that issue with canvas prints that can turn your pics into works of art.

The HelloCanvas.com website is easy to navigate and full of ideas that will inspire creative minds. The “Effects” page offers different ways to manipulate your photos to make your canvas a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork. The “Process” tab explains – well, the process – as well as providing important information about framing issues and how to they handle prints when you don’t have a digital photo to upload.
Once you upload the photo of your choice, you will go through a step-by-step process that allows you to choose the size, the color and effects you would like. After that it’s a quick trip through check out and your order is finished!

Worried about how your canvas might look after adding a special effect? HelloCanvas.com eliminates those concerns by sending an email proof for your approval when you choose certain effects, such as Black/White with Spot Color or the Kids Streetsyle background. That way you’ll know what your canvas will look like before it’s ever printed and framed. They will also take care of little edits like red eye and date removal at no charge.

As far as pricing goes, HelloCanvas.com is pretty reasonable. Their prices include sales tax and they always ship for free.
I left the site with all kinds of gift giving and decorating ideas, which is thrilling for those of us who rely on others to help us with home beautification. These canvases would make great housewarming or wedding gifts! I can only imagine how much fun a talented photographer or a gifted Martha Stewart type would have at HelloCanvas.com.
Enter to Win!
HelloCanvas.com wants to give one lucky 5M4M reader two 8 x 10 photo canvases to showcase their best pics! To enter, simply let us know which special effect you might use to add more dimension or creativity to your canvases.
This giveaway will end on December 16, 2011 at midnight ET and a winner will be chosen at random and announced on Sunday in the weekly Around The Blogosphere. Please see our site’s terms and conditions for more information.
Written by 5 Minutes for Mom contributing reviewer, Geri. You can find me picking up Legos and army guys or blogging at I Am Boymom.
Disclosure: This is part of a promotional campaign with Hello Canvas. All opinions are always our own.





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I would so use the black and white color highlight effect! Love that!! Thanks for the giveaway!
I love how pictures look in Sepia, and I love the antique picture frame effect.
I might make my photo black and white!
Black and white with a color highlight looks fun!
I would like to use the black and white with color accent.
I really like Sepia Tone photos, so I would probably go with Sepia
I can agree with a lot of folks above. I can be pretty old school — black and white all the way!
To be honest I like my pictures without effects!
But with the right picture I do like the black and white with spot color!
I like the antique frame effect
I would definitely brighten up the color a bit. I love a color saturated picture!
I’d love to do one with my daughters photo in black and white!
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December 2, 2011 at 4:21 pm
I would choose black and white. I don’t have a black and white photo anywhere in my home and would love to hang one up in my living room.
I’d go with the Vintage Polaroid.
The vintage polaroid effect is interesting.
A beautiful black and white pic of my three little rugrats!!
I have heard of these before, I think the black & white would be the way to go for me.
I’d love the lime flower effect. Thanks.
I like the Black & White with a color highlight effect .
Very nice effect, would love to win this.
Would look nice in our living room.
I like the date remove feature cause it sometimes shows up where you don’t want.
I like the Black & White with a color highlight effect for a recent family photo!
maybwe the sepia
Have never seen this before, look’s neat.
I’d love to use the Sepia!
Toss up between black & white or Sepia
I like my pictures natural but, if i had to choose it would be black and whitee:)
I would like the Sepia effect.
I would use Black and White. I love it!
i like the black and white with colour highlight
I would use the Black and white with color highlight effect !
I would like the Black & White with a color highlight effect!
I would use the black and white for a wonderful picture of my children!
Thank you so much!
I’d most likely use sepia or a black and white with color highlight.
My favorite is the Black and White with Color highlights! I would do photos of my sons!
My daughter would really like the kid’s streetstyle.
Very Neat!
I adore the black and white with color spot effect. It’s gorgeous!
i’d like black and white with color highlight
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Very cool looking. Like the black & white effect.
I would love black and white and a color effect!
I would love the Kids Streetstyle effect!
I would use the black & white photo effect.
i like the black and white effect…so pretty
black and white! makes everything look more precious!
I Love the vintage polariod look!! Very cute
I would use the black/white with color highlight effect.
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I would use the red eye removal
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I definitely love the black and white effect. Beautiful!
Cannot mess with a classic black and white effect! LOVE that!
I think the effect I would pick is Sepia
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I would get the Kids Street Style…heavensent1@yahoo dotcom
I think I’d probably go with Sepia
i would probably use sepia! its always so antique looking!
I THINK THE
Black & White with a color highlight effect
THEY HAVE WOULD REALLY ADD DIMENSION!
I’d choose the black and white with color highlight effect. Thanks.
What an awesome giveaway! We just had a friend take some nice family photos so I’d love to enlarge some on canvas.
I love the black and white with a color highlight effect. Beats having to use photoshop.
have always liked the idea of Sepia so probably would pick that.
The canvases are awesome.
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I might use the black and white or the black with a color accent.
I’d probably pick the Black & White with a color highlight effect – that looks so cool!
The color highlight might be fun
I really like the black and white with touches of color.
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December 15, 2011 at 1:48 pm
I like the vintage poloroid effect. Cool!
Thanks!
I’d use the vintage photo.
The effect I would choose is color highlights…my baby boy has lovely blue eyes and they would look great highlighted with everything else B&W.
I might go with the Black & White with a color highlight effect!
The vintage poloroid effect
vintage poloroid is cool
black and white with vintage poloroid
flowers effect
i like the black and white with touches of color
I would love to do them in black and white. This would go so nice with my pictures!
I love them all, but I think I’d like to try the black and white with pop of bright color! So fun!
I would use the black and white effect! This would make a great gift for the new grandparents in my husband and I’s lives! They would love a canvas print of their new grand baby I’m sure!
I like my pictures in color, but I would like to have the dates removed. Especially on those pictures of scenery.
I love the black and white with the color effect!
i love the black and white with the color highlight