Design Team, Author at Ann Butler Designs

July 8, 2014 By Design Team 2 Comments

Monogram Stamped Note Card Set

Carmen here and my project this month is a note card set stamped with a monogram and wrapped with a colorful paper strip. It’s super quick and easy and makes a fun last minute gift. I loved working with the big 2″ Ann Butler Flourish letter stamps. They are so pretty! While you’re at it, stamp an assortment of extra letters on white squares along with extra envelopes and cards and set them aside. That way you’ll always be ready to put together a quick gift!

Materials:

Plain Note Cards and Envelopes

Construction Paper – Blue, Green

Tools:

Ann Butler’s EZ-De’s Stamps – Flourish 2″ ABC’s

Ann Butler’s EZ-De’s Stamps – 1″ Rail Fence Set A

Ann Butler Colorbox Crafter’s Ink® by Clearsnap: Lilac, Aquamarine, Limelight, Berry

Stamp Blocks

Velcro® Mini Fasteners – 3/4″ x 3/4″ x 1″ Triangles

Scissors

Glue Stick

Instructions:

1. Stamp the note cards with Berry ink and the long rail stamp.

2. Stamp the backs of the envelopes with Lilac ink and your choice of letter stamp. Cut a 2″ square from note card and stamp it with a letter too.

3. Cut a 2 1/2″ green construction paper square and stamp it with Limelight ink and the diamond patterned stamp. Cut a 10″ x 1″ blue construction paper strip and stamp it with Aquamarine ink and the long rail stamp.

4. Gather up the stamped note cards and envelopes and wrap the blue paper strip around them. Use a Velcro mini triangle to fasten the strip together. (That way you’ll be able to neatly unwrap the blue strip when you want to use a note card.) Use glue stick to glue the green paper square to the blue strip and then top that with the white square which you stamped with a letter in Step 2.

See you next time!

July 7, 2014 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Note To Self Clip Board

I find I am always making lists for myself. It is a great thing until I forget where I put the list! So I decided I needed something I could add a magnet to and attach to the fridge to hold my never ending pile of lists!

Basic Supplies: Mini Clip Board, Golden Acrylic Paint, Ann Butler Faux Quilting Stamps, Crafters Ink from Clearsnap, Saying Stamp From Verses.

I started with a blank small clipboard. I added a couple of coats of paint and let dry. I then used the 1″ stamp to make a boarder around the edge. I decided to make yellow the main color. I changed the direction of the stamp with each color change then stamped the saying in th middle. I think adding color to your life is always a very wondrful thing.

Now to attach the magnets to the back and start getting organized! Hope you all have a wonderful and creative day!

Kristi

June 27, 2014 By Design Team 1 Comment

Journal Cover with Faux Quilting Ann Butler’s Stamps

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new monthly post made for Ann Butler’s blog.This time I am going to show you a bit of technique I used to make this altered book cover for my new art/memory journal. The chipboard parts are Tando Creative kit- easy to use and to made your own altered book.And this is a technique I used here: combo of stamping, heat embossing and painting , all in one.

Step 1: Stamp a pattern (all patterns used here are from Ann Butler’s Faux Quilting Unity sets and you can see the names and the store links later) over metallic cardstock. (It works over real metal sheets too, but I was short of those).

Step 2: Heat emboss your stamped patterns with Clear embossing powder

Step 3: Paint the embossed cardstock with a mix of gold, copper and black acrylic paints. As you can see I use the cheap, craft store paints and not those fancy acid free paints for this cover. Wipe the paint until you have a thin layer of it left over the stamped image and you like the color. If not- add more of the paint you want to be seen .

Step 4 and the last: Those 4 squares here were made just as a sample (will be used later for the cover corner embellishment cluster), so go on and make dozens of those squares with 2” stamps and let them dry.Cover the chipboard with a nice vintage looked paper; not much is seen after all.Now cut those pieces to uneven rectangles and squares and made your cover as shown here. Add gold foil tape in between the pieces and be sure to glue it to your cardstock pieces as this ” self- adhesive” tapes are really ” non- adhesive” ones. Paint the chipboard wavy pieces with copper paint, add a bit of copper embossing powder and a splash of black paint and embossing. Add the title.

And now I am going to show you my embellishment cluster. I made a punched circle form the 4 pieces square made as a tutorial as my subtitle base. Then I die cut the title with Die-Versions die form copper cardstock and heat embossed it with gold glitter embossing powder. I die cut the heart medallion from the same copper cardstock and inked it a bit with black ink around. All 3 circles were arranged to one central title piece and glued over the die cut flowers branch that was heat embossed with copper glitter embossing powder and copper pearls.

I hope you like my small tutorial and my finished project and would try to make something similar with those gorgeous Ann Butler’s Faux Quilting stamps.

PRODUCT LIST:

Ann Butler’s products:

Unity Faux Quilting stamps 2” Leaves all over

2” Doily Picnic

Other products:

Clearsnap black pigmented ink

WOW! Embossing Powders clear, copper, glitter gold, glitter copper powders

Tando Creative chipboard book kit

Die Versions dies

FWAB pearls

AC chipboard letters

Marion Smith paper

AC cardstock

See you again next month !

June 17, 2014 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Cupcake Birthday Card with Faux Quilting Stamps

Hi everyone,
Paula here with a birthday card for today. I used the Faux Quilt stamps and Crafters Inks to make some cupcake embellishments for this cute little card!

Supplies:

ColorBox Crafter’s ® by Ann Butler in Lilac, Berry and Aquamarine
EZ-De’s Sampler Set A
EZ-De’s 1″ Rail Fence Set
Stampin’ Up Cupcake Punch
Cardstock, Patterned paper, Embossing Powder, Glitter

1. Randomly place stamps on a large block. Stamp in Berry on white cardstock.

2. Using clear embossing powder, heat emboss the first layer.

3. I used a waterbrush, dipping in Aquamarine and Lilac, and colored lightly over the embossed image.

4. After coloring, I heated once again with the heat gun, applied some glitter and heated again.

5. Using Stampin’ Up’s Cupcake punch, cut out 3 cupcakes of this stamped image just created. A great way to make your own embellishments!

The card is layered with a strip of cardstock and patterned paper. Stamp a sentiment of your choice.

Have a great day!

Paula

June 16, 2014 By Design Team 1 Comment

Faux Quilting with Get-it-Straight Laser Square

June 2, 2014 By Design Team 1 Comment

Watermark Card w/ EZ-De’s Flourish Alphabet

Happy Monday, stampers! Nicole here and I am back with another clean & simple card using EZ-De’s ABC Stamp Set, designed by Ann. Watermark stamping is one of my favorite stamping techniques, because you can create such an elegant look with a very minimal effort! This is perfect way to create a nice, detailed background on a card.

You can choose any colored cardstock, but my favorite cardstock for this technique is a kraft cardstock. I think it captures the wet-watermark look really nicely and make the background shine so well.

ABC stamp set is perfect because you can create a “classic look” background with awesome details.

TIP: I took out some alphabets from the set and created a “love” word cluster. Then inked it up with Versamark Ink Pad and stamped them randomly.

TIP: By “randomly,” I mean stamping the word on a somewhat centered area first and then stamping the rest of the area however you like. This way, you can create a natural looking background and still make sure the word “love” shows well in the main focused area.

This technique is a perfect way to stretch your stamp set! Give this technique a try – it’s simple, easy and fast! I hope you enjoyed my quick tutorial for this month. Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,

Nicole P.

May 30, 2014 By Design Team 1 Comment

EZ-De’s Stamped Graduation Card

Hi everyone. Paula here with today’s project. It’s Graduation season and we have LOTS of graduation open houses to attend. With having so many parties, I needed some “quick and simple” cards.

Supplies:
Card base – White cardstock 8.5″ x 5.5″, folded for 4.25″ x 5 .5″ final size
Cardstock – black (used for mat), cut to 3.5″ x 4.75″
Cardstock – white, cut to 3.25″x 4.5″ and small scrap piece
Oval chipboard (this is old, so unsure which company to credit)
Corduroy brads – Stampin’ Up (retired)
Ez-De’s 1″ Rail Fence Set Ann Butler Designs
Faux Quilting by Ann Butler 1″ Leaves all Over
Earth Safe Finishes Silver

Step 1: Using the 1″ stripe from the Rail Fence Set A, ink and off stamp on scrap paper first. I wanted a very random pattern as my background, so I would stamp in vertical, then horizontal directions. (Please note that this image is not what I finally used- I started doing all one direction but I didn’t like it).

Step 2: I used a 1″ from the Leaves All Over set, stamp the entire background. If you “slightly” overlap the rows, you will get an appearance of a thin border in between.

Step 3: Adhere the cardstock layers together.

Step 4: I used a sponge with black ink to color the chipboard. I then used the Earth Safe Finishes in silver to give a shimmer, rubbing it over the edge with my finger.

Step 5: Stamp a sentiment of your choice on a scrap piece of white cardstock. I cut this to size to fit under my chipboard. Adhere to the back of the chipboard. Put the brads in the chipboard (I did not push these through the cardstock – this piece just has adhesive on the back and attached the card base.

And as mentioned – VERY quick and simple! If you’re doing an assembly, you can do multiple of these, or switch it up and change the designs, which is what I did!

Have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Paula

May 28, 2014 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Mixed Media Art with Ann Butler’s products.

Hello my dear crafty friends !

Irit is here and this is my monthly project made with Ann Butler’s gorgeous products.

This is a chipboard board that became a kind of an art Mixed Media project and I actually tried to show how we can use Ann Buter’s inks and stamps over the different surfaces.

So it’s not a real tutorial (almost impossible to make a Mixed Media project full tutorial , but with video); so I just show you the final result and give some tips.

The white artistic chipboard was covered with tissue paper first. Some tissue was with a pattern and some was just white one. I stamped all over the white tissue with permanent black ink and you can see all Ann’s stamps patterns over the board, mostly around the central space. Then I added some stencil’s writing about art with texture paste and then all the stamped and masked surface was inked with a mix of Ann Butler’s Crafters Clearsnap inks.

I added two masked circles with texture paste and white embossing powder and then inked over the embossed mask with some of Ann’s inks again.

So far we used Ann’s inks over glued tissue, over texture paste and over embossing powder and we can see how great it works over all of those surfaces.

Now for the next surfaces. I inked the wooden panel and as you can see the words are still visible.

The chipboard bird cage was inked over the bare chipboard ans I like this ” like vintage” result. The chipboard Honeycomb was inked with another Ann’s ink and so were the feather’s edges. Two burlap flowers were inked too and look at this perfect colored result!

Then I stamped over diamond chipboard pieces and inked over stamped images: great look again.

The only non Ann’s ink here are those stains over the old brush I added to this art piece.

Supply list

Ann Butler’s products

Clearsnap Crafters inks: Lilac, Sunshine, Aquamarine,Limelight, Berry

Ann Butler’s stamps:

Unity 2” Doily Picnic

2” Leaves all over

1” Diamonds and Plaids

Other products:

Chipboards, wood pieces: Creative Embellishments

Mask: TCW

Embossing powders: WOW! Embossing Powders

Burlap fowers: LYB

Tissue papers

May 26, 2014 By Design Team 1 Comment

EZ De’s Pop-Out Blocks Card

Happy Monday! This is Roberta bringing you a fun pop-out card using Ann’s Flourish Alphabet stamps.

Supplies

Ann Butlers EZ-De’s Flourish Alphabet stamps

Archival Ink – Jet Black

Maya Road paper twine

Recollections Butterfly punch

Instructions

Card base 11 1/2 x 8

1. Score at 3.5″ and 7″ on long side. Create a mountain and a valley fold.

2. Close the valley fold and cut in 2″ at the following; 3/8, 2 3/8, 2 3/4, 4 3/4, 5 1/8, 7 1/8, 7 1/2

3. for narrow panel cut mat 1 1/4 x 7 3/4, and then cut top paper at 1 1/8 x 7 5/8

4. for other panel cut mat at 1 1/4 x 7 3/4 and then cut top paper 1 1/8 x 7 5/8

5. stamp your letters on a 2″ square piece of white cardstock and adhere to each ‘block’.

Decorate rest of card to your taste.

May 24, 2014 By Design Team 42 Comments

Walnut Hollow Woodburned Card Box

Hi all! I’m excited to participate in the Ann Butler Designs and Walnut Hollow Blog Hop! Thanks for stopping by!

Ann Butler Designs is doing a giveaway with today’s BlogHop! To win the prize below, all you need to do is: Leave a comment. For each blog, leave a comment and your name will be entered into the giveaway drawing. Make sure you check the entire Blog Hop for more chances to win! Good luck!

For today’s project, I’ve created the Card Box shown above, using the Card Keeper Box from Walnut Hollow and Ann Butler Designs stamps. I just happened to have Walnut Hollow’s Woodburning Kit in my ever-growing stash of crafting supplies (don’t you love you when find something that you haven’t used in a long while?) This was SO much fun.

Let’s get started. Here’s the supply list that I used:

Walnut Hollow Card Box
Walnut Hollow Woodburning Kit
EZ-De’s Flourish 2″ Alpha
EZ-De’s 1″ Rail Fence Set
Faux Quilting Stamps by Ann Butler (I used MANY of these for the various designs- see below for detail)

Cover – 1″ Leaves all Over
Side 1 – 2″ Stripes.Dots.Hearts (used Polka Dots)
Side 2 – 2″ Doily Picnic (used mini floral design)
Side 3 – Various stripes – 1″ Stripes.Dots.Hearts , 2″ Stripes.Dots.Hearts, 1″ Leaves all Over
Side 4 – used the basket weave from the Ez-De’s 1″ Rail Fence setStep 1: Start by picking a stamp design and stamping an entire side. My first stamp was the 1″ basket weave. I stamped “somewhat” randomly over the entire side.

Step 2: I chose to do the woodburning next. You can choose to stamp all sides if you wish. If you have never used a woodburning pen, it’s pretty simple. There are a variety of tips that can be used – several come with the kit mentioned. For this particular design, I used a very small pointed tip. The woodburning process itself takes a bit of practice to get used to it. You hold it as you would a pen. I always keep a piece of wood scrap that I test on. I am by far “NO” expert on it, but I plan to continue playing around with it since I “have re-found” my tools! Using the small pointed tip, you trace the outline of the stamped images.

PLEASE note that this project is not something to be completed in a day, especially when you have lots of detail. I do a little at a time. It’s actually therapeutic for me. Also note that the woodburning tool will get extremely HOT.

Step 3: Continue stamping other sides, and woodburning each. For my “striped” side, I chose to take multiple stamps, place them on my block and line them up on the box, and stamp. I then flipped it around, stamped on the bottom of that side. I filled in the other areas.

You will also notice that I am normally not very precise. On the dots side, they are somewhat offset. When I burned them, I made some much larger and some smaller. To make them larger, you will just hold the burner tool down a bit longer.

Step 4: Cover / Top – I will be using this as a storage box for cards. So I used the EZ-De’s 2″ Alpha to stamp the word CARD across the top. Burning the letters can be a bit tricky, but take your time curving around the letters, especially as these have a bit more detail within them. I used a small burning tip for the letters as well as to write “pick a” above that. I then stamped leaves randomly using the 1″ Leaves and burned those.

Step 5: After all the sides are stamped burned, I used one of the larger tips to go around each edge of the box to distress. To do this, I just rub the edge of the tip in various directions.

Step 6: My last and final step was to modify a bit more of the small edging on the top of box. Since it’s raised, I chose not to stamp on it, but yet, use a decorative burning tip. I created a crosshatch burn all around the border.

And that’s it! Here are some close ups of each of the sides and the final once again!

I hope you’ve enjoyed the woodburned card box!

Please remember to stop by all the other blogs and check out some awesome projects using Walnut Hollow and Ann Butler Designs!

Ann Butler
Beth Watson
Connie Hall
Irit Shalom
Kristi Parker
Larissa Pitman
Lisa Rojas

Paula DeReamer

Roberta Birnbaum

Steph Ackerman
Vishu Reberholt
Judi Kauffman
Sara Shirman
Chris Wallace
Emma
Jennifer Priest
Melissa Cash

Have a great Memorial Day weekend!

Paula

ColorBox Crafter’s® by Ann Butler in Lilac, Berry and Aquamarine EZ-De’s Sampler Set A EZ-De’s 1″ Rail Fence Set Stampin’ Up Cupcake Punch Cardstock, Patterned paper, Embossing Powder, Glitter

Happy Monday! This is Roberta bringing you a fun pop-out card using Ann’s Flourish Alphabet stamps.

Supplies

Instructions

ColorBox Crafter’s ® by Ann Butler in Lilac, Berry and Aquamarine
EZ-De’s Sampler Set A
EZ-De’s 1″ Rail Fence Set
Stampin’ Up Cupcake Punch
Cardstock, Patterned paper, Embossing Powder, Glitter