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January 27, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Faux Quilted Fabric Bag

Hello my dear crafty friends! Irit is here today with my Faux quilted fabric bag made with Ann Butler’s fabulous Faux Quilting stamps and her Crafter’s inks.

I need to say that this fabric project we need to make this month is a bit too much for me. I can’t sew and yes, I can use fabric glues. So I made a tote. Kind of. Maybe not ” made ” it as it’s a Canvas Corps one, but at least I decorated it and this I sure can do. And as I only have one tote and I was not sure about the results, I made the front canvas stamped piece just to glue it over the tote.

So here is my tutorial and I hope you like my final project.

Step by step tutorial:

1. Cut a piece of Canvas Corps natural canvas to 10*10” piece with good fabric scalloped scissors. Grab all possible Ann Butler’s Backgrounds Basics stamps from Clearsnap and begin your random stamping with Ann Butler’s Blueberry Crafter’s ink. I used both triangles and squares and just tried to arrange them with a bit of gaps that will be filled later with stiches’ stamps.

This is not a step; just a close up to the stamped surface.

2. Now grab the full set of Ann Butler’s Stitch stamps from Clearsnap and your Aquamarine Crafter’s ink and add some stamped stitches in between the stamped triangles and squares.

3. The last step in stamping was to make this Limelight ink stitch around the piece and over and over the gaps.

4. Iron your stamped piece to make the ink permanent. Then glue it with fabric glue over the bag. I added adhesive lace to make the frame for the stamped piece.

And then added this fabric flower on the top. The handles were also embellished with fabric tape. And also it’s ” self adhesive” I added some fabric glue. Believe me this ” self adhesive” thing is usually ” non adhesive” after a few hours.

I think the result is very pretty. Don’t you?

Irit

January 20, 2016 By Design Team 1 Comment

DIY – How to Create a No-Sew Key Fob

Happy New Year everyone! Tammy Santana here today showing you how to make your own DIY No-Sew Key Fobs. I have seen sewn versions of these, but if you use adhesive backed canvas material, you don’t have to sew anything! My kind of project for sure 🙂

Supplies I used:

Ann Butler Designs Colorbox Crafter’s Inks
Ann Butler Designs Unity Stamp Co 1 Inch Faux Quilting Stamps
Black Felt
Adhesive backed canvas material
Key fob hardware
Jewelers pinching pliers

How I made the Faux Quilted Key Fob:

Stamp adhesive backed canvas material with Ann Butler Designs Colorbox Crafter’s Inks and Ann Butler Designs Unity Stamp Co 1 Inch Faux Quilting Stamps of your choice.

2. Heat set the ink on the fabric using a heat tool or iron on a low setting.

3. Cut the canvas fabric the width to fit the key fob hardware of your choice.

4. Cut black felt to fit canvas piece 1/8″ larger on each side and peel off backing and attach stamped canvas to top of felt.

5. Fold key fob in half

6. Attach hardware using jewelers pinching pliers.

I gave one of the key fobs as a thank you gift, so I stamped some ribbon…

and I made some texture stamped sugar cookies, and wrapped them in an organza bag.

I wrapped the cookies and Faux Quilted Key Fob…

In a stamped kraft gift bag with matching stamped tissue paper and matching stamped ribbon 🙂

Isn’t my gift cute? I love how everything looks coordinated and custom made. It was so easy to make using Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps and Ann Butler Designs ColorBox Crafter’s Inks!

I love to see your projects! Tag me on Instagram @TammySmithSantana

January 18, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Fabric Pocket Tag

Hi, everyone. It is a New Year and with a New Year comes new Challenges. Our Creative Team was challenged to use fabric in our creations this month and I am showing how to create a Fabric Pocket Tag. If you are following this blog you have seen some amazing creations. If you are not you need to go back and check them out.

For my creation, I am using a piece of canvas and doing a little Faux Quilting on it using Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps.

Supplies Used:

Ann Butler Designs Faux quilting stamps
Ann Butler Designs ColorBox™ Crafter’s Ink: Ocean Breeze and Berry
cardstock
Mini clothespin
6×6 canvas

To create the pocket tag:

Make a pocket pattern from cardstock.
Stamp a pattern using Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps directly on the piece of canvas.
Using your cardstock pattern, cut the pocket out of the canvas.
Sew a border if you desire around the pocket.
To decorate the pocket you can add some embellishments.
Add a ribbon to use as a hanger for your pocket tag.

I hope you enjoyed my project today. For more inspiration be sure to check back here on Ann Butler Designs blog. Also Follow us on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram.

Happy Crafting.

Alicia

January 8, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

DIY Stenciled Decor Video

Hello, friends, I hope you all had an amazing holiday with your friends and family! I know I did but I sure am glad to be back with a new DIY Stenciled Decor Video project today! I had so much fun making this DIY Stenciled Decor project and it only took me about an hour. There will be pictures and the video to show you exactly what I did to create this. This would be a great gift for someone! I hope you all enjoy the video…

I used:

Ann Butler Designs ColorBox™ Crafter’s Ink Berry
Ann Butler Designs Iridescents
Ann Butler Designs Art Screen: Stars
Fabric
Embroidery Hoop

Here is the video showing you how I made this DIY Decor project.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Hugs, Heather

January 4, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Stamped Valentine’s Day Tote Bag

Hey crafty friends, Einat Kessler with a new project for your inspiration. The new year has started and Valentine’s day will be here before we know it! Here’s a fun Stamped Valentine’s Day Tote Bag with Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps to help you get ready. This month the Creative Team will all be creating with fabric, but as a non-sewer I used a ready made fabric bag. There are a lot of premade fabric products you can use. You can find these little fabric bags anywhere.

This project is pretty easy and doesn’t take a lot of time to create. Here is how I did it.

I arranged a few Ann Butler Designs 1″ Faux Quilting Stamps in a heart shape on my block. I used Ann Butler Designs ColoBox™ Crafter’s Ink to stamp the fabric. This ink works really good on fabric as it does on paper. Just use your heat tool to dry and set it. I rearranged the stamps to form a smaller heart and stamped the image on the bag. I used the vibrant Berry color ink.

Then I cut out a little heart shape and use it as a stencil to stamp smaller heart shapes around the bag.

Now all you need is to fill this bag with lots of candy or chocolate and give it to your Valentine…

Have fun creating!

Einat

December 18, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Custom Stamped Christmas Decorations

Happy holidays everyone! Tammy here, back with a fun Christmas DIY ornament tutorial. I have been seeing clay ornaments all over Pinterest this year, so my daughter and I decided to attempt to make our own Custom Stamped Christmas Decorations. They were so easy to make and we had a blast making them together.

I really love how these turned out, I think they look like mini cable knit sweaters.

Supply List:

Ann Butler Designs 1″ Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Co
Ann Butler Designs Iridescent Powders and Paints from Earth Safe Finishes in Pearl and Russet
Baking Soda
Corn Starch
Water
Heart cookie cutter
Rolling Pin

How I made them:

Clay recipe: Add 1/2 cup cornstarch, 1 cup baking soda, 3/4 cup water, to a saucepan and heat on stove top over medium heat until dough reaches a mashed potato consistency.

Remove from heat and cool until you can roll into a ball.

Use a rolling pin to roll dough to about a 1/4 inch thickness.

I used Ann Butler Designs 1″ Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Co to create texture on top of the ornaments and a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut them out.

I added a small hole to add a ribbon to later. Bake at 175 for about an hour turning half way through cooking time. Make sure ornaments do not brown during baking process.

I painted the ornaments with Ann Butler Designs Iridescent Powders and Paints from Earth Safe Finishes in Pearl and Russet

How cute are these ornaments with the stamped ribbon I made to coordinate with them? I love the custom look of the decorations on my tree, and it is so easy to color coordinate your decorations when you make them yourself 🙂

Tammy

December 11, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

DIY: Faux Quilted Star Card Tutorial

Hey crafty friends, Einat Kessler here with a Faux Quilted Star Card to inspire you. I love Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting stamps and I really love creating patterns with them. You can create amazing patterns just like those intricate patterns on quilts. So I decided to try and create a pattern on a card.

I started with placing two 1″ Faux Quilting square stamps and one triangle. I stamped a piece of cardstock four times rotating my block a quarter turn to the left each time.

Then I removed one square and stamped the cardstock again in a different color. For stamping. I used Ann Butler Designs ColorBox Crafter’s Ink by Clearsnap. After the initial pattern was done I added more squares and triangles around it to create the background.

To finish my card I added some square stickers and a heart I cut from the same piece of cardstock. I hope you were inspired to create some original quilting patterns too!

Have fun creating!

Einat

December 4, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

DIY: Video Layout Family Time

Hello lovely people! It’s Heather again with another project for the design team. Today I will be sharing a 12×12 Family Christmas layout I created using Ann Butler designs stamps and ink pads. Below will be a link to the video where you can see my whole process of how I made my layout.

I used:

Here is my video:

As as you can see I put the layout in a nice shadow box and I will display it for the Christmas season. Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hugs, Heather

November 30, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Precious Card with Faux Metals

Hello, my dear crafty friends and welcome to my post in which I make a precious card with faux metals using several techniques.

I stamped, heat embossed and die cut a lot to make this card and I just used one single metal embellishment- the word “Hello”.

So here is a small tutorial for you I made with full step by step photos.

1. Pick a few of Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting (Unity) stamps 2” size and stamp them all, randomly, over a sheet of metal copper paper. Use VersaMark as your stamping ink and heat emboss each single square with a different metal embossing powder. I used copper, gold and silver powders, but you can add brass, bright gold, sparkling silver etc to get even more metallic shades.

2.Find a Puzzle die that is around card size (I used the very old Cuttlebug die, but there are a lot of similar dies around; you can also use your electronic die cutting device if you have one for this really basic shape.

3. Arrange the die cut pieces over a sheet of white metal cardstock with 3d foam glue.

4. As the next step make another small stamped piece and die cut a label from this piece. Die cut a larger label from the white cardstock too.

5. Arrange both labels over the card as shown. Add the metal Hello word and your fancy card is done.

As you can see you can so a mini album cover in the very same way; you can also use silver or gold cardstock as the base of your stamping and the result will be totally different.

Products used:

Ann Butler’s Faux Quilting stamps 2” – Unity

VersaMark ink

Metal embossing powders

Cardstock

Dies

November 25, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Love Tag with Crafter’s Ink

Hello Crafters!

Today I want to show you how I create this tag using products from Ann Butler’s line.

Products I used are :

I started by using the Colorbox® Art Screens Lattice as stamp. To do so, I simply covered the stencil with Colorbox® Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler Limelight and spritzed over a bit of water to let the color became a bit watered down. Then I simply turned over the stencil and used it as it was a stamp.

To add some more interest I used the same color with the stamp Colorbox® Background Basics by Ann Butler Diamond1 trying to cover the spots where I didn’t use the stencil. I let it carefully completely dry then I applied modeling paste through the Colorbox® Art Screens Lattice and set aside to dry.

While the paste was drying I used clay to make the frame– I of course used a mold to create it! I set aside to dry (it took less than 15 minutes over the heater) and then I colored it using the same Colorbox® Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler Limelight.

The sentiment is a die I had in my stash, I used the Colorbox® Background Basics by Ann Butler Diamond1 and Colorbox® Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler Aquamarine to add some stamping, then with a brush and the same color I added some more color where the stamp didn’t came out perfect (this only because I stamped the sentiment over a non flat surface…smart me! lol).

Then I assembled everything and I put a small photo into the frame and glued everything together. As final touch I used a black pen to draw some lines around the tag.

I hope you like this tag and that you have a great day!

Stay happy, stay creative…till next time!

ciao Zoey

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