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September 14, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Birthday Cards with Crafter’s Ink

Hey crafty friends Einat Kessler here with a new project! I created a special birthday card for a special little girl as part of a volunteer project I’m in Making birthday cards with sick kids. This card is simple and easy to make so all those sick kids can make it themselves.

I started with a piece of white cardstock as my base. I tool a wet brush and dipped it in Ann Butler’s Crafter’s Ink By Clearsnap. I loaded the ink on the brush and painted a thick strip on the white cardstock. I used different colors to create a rainbow effect. If you use different brush width you can change the size of the strip.

Then I used the same ink to stamp a piece of white cardstock with Ann Butler’s 1″ Quilt stamps by Unity. I used a star shape punch out the shapes and added them to the card with a little piece of foam tape. I used different stamps to create the different a pattern on each star.

Finally I added the white cardstock piece to the front of my card with more pieces of foam tape and wrote happy birthday. You can write whatever you want on a card like this it is so versatile!

Thanks for stopping by and have fun creating!

Einat

August 31, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Fashionable Stenciled Hair Clips

Hello, my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Fashionable Stenciled Hair Clips post. So after some paper crafts and cards during the previous months, I decided to make something fashionable and useful and as I do have a relatively long hair and I need hair clips, I made me some using Ann Butler’s lovely products.

Step by step instructions:

1. Use Texture paste and Ann Butler’s Clearsnap Art screen over the wooden clip base (you buy those in any craft store). As you can see I used two ART screens: Stars and Lattice and they are both perfect as they have small designs.

2. Use a few drops of Ann Butler’s Clearsnap Crafter’s inks re- inkers in different colors to cover the dry texture paste over the wood.
Use a baby wipe or even your fingers to make this multi-color look and let it dry.

As you can see I used Aquamarine, Sunshine, Limelight, Tangelo and Berry colors.

3. Glue the metal clips on the back of the wooden shape with Beacon Fabri-Tac glue that is just the perfect one to connect wood with metal.

4. And just enjoy your finished hair clips! You also can cover them with some kind of a glaze, but I love them ” bare”.

August 21, 2015 By Design Team 1 Comment

Mixed Media Monogrammed Gift Bag

Hello, everyone, Zoey, here today and I want to show you an easy way to create a Mixed Media Monogrammed Gift Bag. I made this small bag for my friend’s daughter birthday. Her name is Julia and she is just one.

As I know her mother since a long time, I know her taste very well. She loves green shades and she likes things that are easy!

Products I used are:

ColorBox Crafter’s Ink® by Ann Butler (Evergreen, Deep Woods)
Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Company; 2″ Stripes.
Ann Butler EZ De’s letter stamps

First of all, I sewed together two pages of an old book — I know a lot of people do not like this, but as I said in my previous posts, these are all books I grabbed from a place that they were otherwise going to be trashed away.

After I sewed the pages on 3 sides (I left the top part open for inster the gift) I added gesso with a sponge

I let it dry and then I used Ann Butler Design Faux Quilting stamps and ColorBox Crafter’s Ink in Evergreen to create a “strip” across the gessoed part.

I glued a piece of lace ribbon and then I stamped the letter “J” using two inks. To achieve this result, I did something really easy — I am sure there is a better way, but that is just the way I do it :

First I inked the letter “J” with Deep Woods and I stamped it by adding some pressure in certain parts, this way some part of the stamps where still inked with Deep Woods. At this point I inked with Evergreen and then I stamped. I fussy cut the letter and then glued it over the ribbon lace.

Added some sequins and a wood veneer to add some interest

And here’s the final project…Really easy!

Let me know what you think about it, meanwhile, stay happy stay creative!

Ciao Zoey

August 17, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Inchies Magnets Faux Quilting Stamps

Hey Crafty Friends, Einat Kessler here with a new project!
It’s summer, it’s hot and I find myself making frequent trips to the fridge in hopes of finding some ice-cream or a cold soda. One day I was looking at my fridge and decide it was too boring and needed some color. So I decided to create a colorful and useful creation to put on my fridge. I created a series of inchies magnets!

Inchies are a 1″ x 1″ creation that can include anything you want. There is also a version with 2″ that is called twinchies. I started with an old fridge magnet the ones you get as an advertisement and are annoying 🙂 I covered it with white paper and started stamping.

I wanted my magnets to have an interesting look so I used all the corners in the Ann Butler Faux Quilting Stamp sets. I arranged two corners on an acrylic block facing each other creating a 1″ x 1″ square and stamped the white paper. I loaded each corner with a different Ann Butler’s Crafter’s Ink by Clearsnap so it’ll be even more colorful. I repeated this process, creating a different corners combination each time and changing the color of the ink pads.

After the square was all stamped I cut it into 1″ squares to create my inchies magnets. Now my fridge is colorful and I have something to hold mu notes with!

Have fun creating!

Einat

August 12, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Stamping and Painting on Sneakers

My project this month features stamping and painting on sneakers. ( I really had to force myself to write sneakers, and not ‘running shoes’ as we call them in Canada).I picked up a cute, and extremely inexpensive, pair of white sneakers when I was on my recent trip to Chicago; they were immediately earmarked for an Ann Butler Design team project. We all know that Ann’s Crafter’s™ ink was designed specifically for fabric especially because it reacts so beautifully with fabric and retains its vibrancy. What intrigued me, though, was how would her Earth Safe Finishes Iridescents powders fare? So let me show you…

Design Star Roberta shows you how to make super cute sneakers with stamps and paint #diy #stampingonfabric

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What did I use?

Earth Safe Finishes Iridescents by Ann Butler: Sky, Leaf
Colorbox® Crafter’s™ ink by Ann Butler; Blueberry
Colorbox® Art Screens by Ann Butler, Lattice
Water
Ink dauber
Paint brushes

How did I do it?

First of all, you should be aware that when using Iridescent powders, a little goes a LOOONG way!
Remove the laces from the shoes and set aside.
Before the painting and stamping begins! TIP: stuff the shoes with paper or something that will give you a harder, more stable surface to stamp and paint on.
Mix a small amount of water with a tiny bit of leaf, and the same with the sky.
Using a small, but stiff brush, paint the trim with sky, and then accent with leaf.
Paint the tongue in sky/ and the trim of the tongue in leaf; do the same with the back of the shoes.
Using the Lattice screen, paint some areas in leaf. Using the dauber fill in the other areas with blueberry.
Let the shoes dry.
Paint the shoelaces in both leaf and sky, and let them dry.
Spray with Craftin’ Craft Resin Spray and let dry.
Put on them kicks and go for a crafty run!

So would you try to paint or stamp some shoes? It’s lots of fun and super easy!

For more great ideas and inspiration please check out my blog DecorablesArt

August 3, 2015 By Design Team 2 Comments

Ann Butler’s Crafter’s inks swatch tag book

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my monthly post made for Ann Butler’s blog.
Today I am going to show you a kind of ” organisation with a twist” project.
I already own all 12 of Ann Butler’s Crafter’s inks from Clearsnap (waiting for much more to come in the future);and with 12 inks this is a right time to make a small swatch book for a personal use, like all ” big stars” make and I never thought of.

So I found exactly 12 pre- made tags in the right size to fit Ann Butler’s Faux Quilting 2” Unity stamps on the corner. From here it was a lot of work and a lot of fun.

First I did the cover : this black tag is hand made and I just stamped strips with a few of Ann’s inks and some very primitive masking. I didn’t even want those stripes to be the same; I really wanted to get some color collage and I heat embossed it with Clearsnap clear embossing powder as this is a cover we touch a lot.

I added pink glitter monogram letters and some ribbons and the cover was done.
All tags were made in the same way: I stamped a triangle Faux Quilting 2” stamp on the left corner each time with a different ink and mostly with a different stamp. Each tag was inked around and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. As my tags are white, we can see the actual color of the inks.

I hope you liked my small so called ” organisation” project and you sure can organise you inks, stamps, powders and anything you desire in those kind of small tag books.

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July 31, 2015 By Design Team 1 Comment

Simple Small Tag

Hello everyone,

Zoey’s here to show you a quick and easy way to create simply yet cute backgrounds using ColorBox Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler, Art Screens e Faux Quilting Stamps by Ann Butler.

Products I used are:

ColorBox Crafter’s Ink® by Ann Butler ( Evergreen, Deep woods, Ocean Breeze
Ann Butler Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Company
ColorBox® Art Screens by Ann Butler (Stars)

Here’s what I did :

I covered the tag surface with gesso and I let it dry. I wanted to add gesso because the base of my Tag was craft paper, and I didn’t want dark colors, I wanted to keep the brightness of the ColorBox Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler. I used as always the ink pads as water colors and with a brush I added water and colored the background.

I then added some modeling paste through the Stars ColorBox Art Screens by Ann Butler.
I LOVE the fact that these stencils are so thick, it make it so easier when you are looking for a very thick modeling paste look.

I set aside to dry meanwhile I wrote the little sentiment over a scrap paper I had laying around the desk.

When the modeling paste was dry I added some stamp.
I love using Ann Butler Faux Quilting Stamps by Unity Stamp Company because they are small (they also come in bigger version) and they look great even just stamped one time by thereself
I used again ColorBox Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler for my stamping, and the color is so perfect. The super juicy ink made it easier for me to achieve a great stamping image.

Then what was left to do was adding some flowers and embellish it. I also added a scribbled line with a gel pen and traced around three stars just to make them pop a little.

Stay happy stay creative…till next time!
Ciao Zoey

July 27, 2015 By Design Team 2 Comments

ATC with Colorbox Crafters Ink

Hello everyone,

Zoey’s here today with a quick and easy process to create ATCs!

To create these ATCs I used :

ColorBox Crafter’s® by Ann Butler ( Blueberry , Lilac, Berry )
ColorBox® Background Basics by Ann Butler ( Check 1 , Picnic1)

To create the background of these ATCs I used the ColorBox Crafter’s By Ann Butler using one of my favorite technique.

I smudged the ink pads over an acrylic block that then I spritzed with some water and simply stamped with that over the cardstock. This way I achieved this awesome simil watercolor look.

Using the same colors for the background I added some stamping here and there. I also used ColorBox Background Basic by Ann Butler Check 1 around the corner.

I also scribbled some circle with a black gel pen and I also traced a scribble line around the borders.

I also used ColorBox Background Basic by Ann Butler to stamp over some left over piece of cardstock. I love the tone on tone effect!

To attach everything together I simply stitched every piece with my sewing machine.

I love these rich and bold colors and how they mix together so easily and well.

Here’s the first ATC :

And here’s the second one :

Which one is your favorite? Let me know in the comment!

Stay happy stay creative….till next time!

Ciao Zoey

July 22, 2015 By Design Team 1 Comment

Faux Watercolor Card with Iridescents and Re-inkers

Hi all,

Paula here today and I’ve been playing again with reinkers and Iridescents to make fun backgrounds. I’ve called this faux watercolor, only because that’s what it reminds me of.

Let’s get started! These are the supplies I used:

White cardstock
Iridescents by EarthSafe Finishes in Tangelo
Colorbox Crafter’s by Ann Butler Re-Inkers in Sunshine, Berry and Tangelo
Additional colored cardstock for layering/matting
Ribbon, Sentiment Stamp, Large image stamp, White Ink, Embossing Die (and machine to emboss)
Cotton balls, extra water in a cup
Optional: heat gun

Steps to recreate:

1. I started by pouring a little of the Tangelo Iridescent into a cup and adding a bit of water. I did not measure, but you want this thinned out – not super runny. I then brushed it across the entire piece of cardstock for the image (I made a bit bigger than what I knew I wanted, and would cut it down to the size I needed later).

2. Let this dry or use a heat gun to speed up the process. I was working on something else, so I just let it air dry.

3. Using your reinkers, drop random dots around the painted Iridescent. I used a cotton ball dipped in water and blended the colors. Let this dry. I continued dropping them until I had the desired look. IF you choose to add more drops before it’s dry, that’s totally fine and you’ll get a different look.

4. That’s it for your background. It’s really that simple and I love the look!

5. Next I used a poppy stamp image, stamping with white ink on the background. I used white because I wanted it to somewhat fade into the background. I embossed an image to mat behind this image. To do that, I used an embossing folder. Before I ran it through the machine, I covered the entire area with Colorbox Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler in Berry. Place your cardstock (white) inside the embossing folder and run through the embossing/die cut machine. I started layering and matting, then added a sentiment and ribbon.

I love how this simple little card turned out (and I’m being ‘all about simple’ these days)! I hope you enjoy!

Have a great Wednesday everyone!

Paula

July 15, 2015 By Design Team 3 Comments

Stamped Faux-Quilted Home Sign

As many of you know, I am in a new house and this new house needs many things – like a Stamped Faux-Quilted Home Sign!

Living with blank walls can be tough but I don’t like hanging artwork unless it belongs and contributes to the feel you want for your home… I love the way Ann’s faux-quilting stamps fit and blend together. When I found this ‘home’ sign at Joann’s in the clearance area I knew it was perfect for my project. It is rather large, though it doesn’t look too big in the photo, and it was nice to be able to design it in one of my favorite color palettes: brown, blue, and beige.

What Did I Use:

Domestic Bliss Decor Sign – wood
DecoArt® media FLUID ACRYLIC™, Titanium White
Ann Butler ColorBox Crafter’s™ ink, Desert Sand, Blueberry
Ann Butler Clearsnap faux-quilting stamps: picnic
Ann Butler Faux Quilting Stamps, Diamonds
Ann Butler’s Colorbox Crafter’s Ink: Desert Sand, Blueberry
DecoArt® Metallic Lustre™ Cosmic Blue, Iced Espresso
Clear Embossing Powder
Heat gun
Soft cloth, water, raffia or cord, metal embellishments

How Did I Do It?

Paint the wood with 2 coats of Titanium White. Let the first coat dry before applying the second.
With a sponge smear some Desert Sand over parts of the white surface.
Ink your 2 stamps with Blueberry and alternate stamping the 2 patterns. I found the 2″ stamp size worked best for the configuration of the letters.
Pour clear embossing powder over entire piece and heat set it with a heat gun. Be patient because it can take a while to cover this size of surface.
Once the embossing has cooled down, take the Metallic Ice Espresso and rub it into some of the non-embossed spaces. Buff it up.
Then do the same with the Cosmic Blue.
Attach your metal sentiments to your word art, use the enclosed wall hanging tape, and attach your beautiful new sign to the wall.

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