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Stenciled Spring Frame

Hello Friends, Donna has a wonderful Stenciled Spring Frame to share with you today. She has combined one of my Stencils from StencilGirl and my inks from Clearsnap to create a fun Stenciled Spring Frame.

Stenciled Spring Frame

You can get complete step by step instructions on Donna’s blog by clicking here.

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Ann Butler Products used:

Ann Butler 1×4 Rails Stencil from StencilGirl®

Ann Butler Crafters Ink, Sunshine

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Stamped Snowflake Friends Card

Check out this fun Stamped Snowflake Friends Card created by Donna Budzynski.  This would be a wonderful card to receive in the mail or send to a friend…


Stamped Snowflake Friends Card

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Ann Butler Products Used:

Ann Butler’s Crafter’s Ink, Ocean Breeze

Ann Butler’s Snowflake Frenzy Background Stamp

Ann Butler’s Iridescents, Berry

Ann Butler’s Digi Sentiments

Other Products Needed:

  • Card Stock
  • Card Base
  • Self Stick Gems
  • Pop Dots
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Scissors
  • Heat Gun

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Stamped Christmas Tea Towel

Well it is finally here, the hustle and bustle of holiday parties!  Whether you’re the hostess or the guest, this Stamped Christmas Tea Towel will come in handy!  The Stamped Christmas Tea Towel would make a wonderful addition to a holiday basket for the hostess, or a colorful addition to your kitchen.

Stamped Christmas Tea Towel

Either way this Stamped Christmas Tea Towel will be used and loved!

Let’s get started!

Step 1:

Prepare fabric tea towel. Wash, dry with no dryer sheet. Iron. Gather all material needed.

Stamped Christmas Tea Towel

Step 2:

Using a ruler mark your lines with a pencil or a marker that erases when it gets wet.  The tea towel was as wide as my metal ruler, I used the ruler as my guide.  Tape the ends of the ruler to the table you are working on over your towel.  The ruler will also keep you stamping straight if you line up you stamp with the ruler. (See photo below)

Stamped Christmas Tea Towel

Step 3:

Stamp across the towel using the 1/2″ X 2″ stamp.  Move ruler one ruler space up, tape down and stamp using 2″ Snowflake Frenzy stamp. Repeat and stamp with 1/2″ X 2″ stamp.

Stamped Christmas Tea Towel

Step 4:

Iron the stamped areas to set the ink onto the towel.

Stamped Christmas Tea Towel

Step 5:

Using Beacon FABRI-TAC adhesive, run a bead of adhesive across the top of stamped area and lay ric-rac over the top and press down to make sure it adheres to the fabric.  Repeat this step until you have top and bottom of stamped areas enclosed with ric-rac.

Stamped Christmas Tea Towel

That’s it, you could make a dozen of these so quickly!

Reds, greens, pinks and teal, every color would be beautiful!

Stamped Christmas Tea Towel

I hope you enjoy this Christmas Stamped Tea Towel!

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Ann Butler Design Products used:

Ann Butler Crafter’s® inks by Clearsnap, Canyon 

Ann Butler Stamp Sets by Unity Stamp Company: Snowflake Frenzy, Flourish Wonder

Partner Products:

  • Beacon FABRI-TAC

Other Products:

  • Tea Towel
  • Metal Ruler
  • Iron
  • Acrylic Stamp Blocks
  • Tape

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Snowy Winter Stamped Wine Bag

I simply love this Snowy Winter Stamped Wine Bag created by Donna Budzynski…it uses my new Snowflake Frenzy Stamp Set from Unity Stamp Company, Crafter’s Ink and embossing powder…oh so easy but the results are perfect.

Snowy Winter Stamped Wine Bag

Here is what you need to create your own Snowy Winter Stamped Wine Bag.

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Ann Butler Products Used:

Colorbox Crafter’s Ink – Ocean Breeze

Snowflake Frenzy 2″ Stamp designed by Ann Butler – Unity Stamp Co

Other Products Needed:

  • Paper Wine Bag
  • Jingle Bells – Optional
  • Ribbon
  • Glitter Embossing Powder

Tools:

  • Ruler
  • Pencil
  • Heat Gun
  • Acrylic block for stamp

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Thanksgiving Cutlery Wraps

It’s almost time, what time you ask? Pumpkin pie time! Thanksgiving is coming fast and at out get together we never have any forks left after dinner. We always go for the plastic cutlery when it come to pie.  We wrap our spoons and forks with a napkin and use a wrap to hold it together, hence the name Thanksgiving Cutlery Wraps!

Thanksgiving Cutlery Wraps

These are quick and easy to put together!

Let’s get started!

Step 1:

Gather all materials needed.

Thanksgiving Cutlery Wraps

Step 2:

Trim cardstock into 8 1/2″ X 1″ strips. This will give you 11 strips from a sheet of 8 1/2″ X 11″ cardstock.

Thanksgiving Cutlery Wraps

Step 3:

Stamp strips using Ann Butler Crafter’s ink in Canyon and Ann Butler stamps by Unity, 1″ Plaid.

Thanksgiving Cutlery Wraps

Step 4:

Cut strips in half 4 1/4″ X 1″. You know have 22.

Thanksgiving Cutlery Wraps

Step 5:

Write sentiments onto center of strips. You could use words like “blessed”, “thankful” or “Eat Pie”. I used Fork and Spoon as this is a BIG debate in our house. Some insist to eat with a spoon and others must eat with a fork. It is a huge problem! LOL! As for me…….just give me a whole lot of whip cream and I don’t care if I use a fork or a spoon! Also at this time you can use a blending tool to add some distress to the edges in Tangelo.

Thanksgiving Cutlery Wraps

Step 6:

Wrap cutlery with a napkin and place wrap and secure with a Glue Dot®.

Thanksgiving Cutlery Wraps

When finished toss into a basket for each guest to take one.

Thanksgiving Cutlery Wraps

Thanksgiving Cutlery Wraps

What is nice about these wraps, you can use them for any holiday or birthdays!

Super easy, and fast!

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Ann Butler Design Products used:

Ann Butler Crafter’s® inks by Clearsnap, Tangelo 

Ann Butler Stamps by Unity 1″ Plaid

Partner Products:

ColorBox Art Daubers

Other Products:

  • Cardstock
  • Glue Dots® Craft
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Acrylic Block
  • Napkins
  • Cutlery

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Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

It’s PUMPKIN time! We have just the project you have been looking for! I have made a Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin to welcome friends and family into your home! This guy is so fun to create and super cute no matter where you hang him!

Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

Although you can’t drink this pumpkin spice, I would say this Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin has a-latte spice!

Let’s get started!

Step 1:

Wash and dry all fabrics.

Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

Step 2:

Lay out muslin, Warm and Natural, and one more piece of muslin on top of Warm and Natural. That is your sandwich. Using the end of pencil outline a oval shape (shape of pumpkin, your choice).  Cut out.

Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin   Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

Step 3:

Cut out a brown stem and green leaves, using the same sandwich method as above. Set aside. You can free hand or make a pattern by drawing out on paper first. I free hand mine.

Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

Step 4:

Using narrow masking tape, tape down the center to start stencil with a straight line. Using a blending tool to apply the ink through the stencil.  When one half was done, remove tape and rotate to other side using the same line. My blending tool was dirty with brown ink, so when blended with Tangelo it gave a burnt orange appearance. Once stenciled, I went back over it with the blending tool.

Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

Step 5:

Heat set ink with iron.

Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

Step 6:

Time to stitch! You can be super creative or just straight stitch all the way around the pumpkin. I did a straight stitch and a cross stitch mix. Stitch around leaves and stem also. Attach leaves and stem to pumpkin with straight stitch. You could stop here if you like. But I took it one step further!

Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

Step 7:

Using muslin, cut out two circles. Circles must be bigger then buttons. Using brown fabric and Warm and Natural, cut a nose. Stitch muslin circles onto front of pumpkin, where you want your eyes to be. Stitch buttons on top of muslin circles. Stitch nose on. Using a stick from outside I stitched it on for the mouth, use a cross stitch. Extra touch, I added a rustic flower to the base of the stem and twine.

Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

This Primitive Pumpkin – Stenciled & Stitched is just the perfect piece of fall decor to make just about anyone smile!

Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin

Enjoy your Stenciled Stitched Primitive Pumpkin!

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Ann Butler Design Products used:

Ann Butler Crafter’s® inks by Clearsnap, Tangelo 

Ann Butler Art Screens by Clearsnap, Waves

Partner Products:

Other Products:

  • Scrap Fabric: Brown, Green
  • Buttons: Large (1), Medium (1)
  • Stick
  • Embroidery Floss-Needle
  • Flower
  • Blender Tool
  • Muslin

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Stuffed, Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters

It’s Fall and it is time to get your stuffing out and make some Stuffed,

Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters!

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These Stuffed, Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters are sure to get you into the mood of fall decorating and it is a super easy project for a first time sewer!

Let’s get started:

Step: 1

Wash and dry muslin fabric.  Stamp pattern onto fabric using 2″ Faux Quilting rubber stamps of your choice.  You can stamp wide or tall.

Stuffed,Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters

Step: 2

Press to set the ink.

Stuffed,Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters

Step: 3

Cut out front and back of stamped shapes, leaving about a 1/2″ seam allowance.   Place right sides together.  You can pin if you like. I did not.

Stuffed,Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters
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Stuffed,Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters

Step: 4

Start stitching at top where the stem will be placed and work around to the opposite side of stem, leave it open for stuffing and stem.

Stuffed,Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters

Step: 5

Trim seams down, turn right side out. Press if needed. Stuff.

Stuffed,Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters
Stuffed,Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters

Step: 6

Once all are stuffed, heat glue gun and adhere sticks into pumpkins.  Gather top around sticks and tie burlap to stick.

Stuffed,Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters
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Now you have some fun fall Stuffed, Stamped Pumpkin Shelf Sitters.  These can become fun little gifts.  Using just one pumpkin, wrap some raffia around and attach some fall lip balm, tea, pumpkin spice anything.  Would look really cute in a gift basket with a coffee mug, cinnamon, and muffins.  Another option would be to fill the pumpkins with some cinnamon or use cinnamon sticks for stems.

Ann Butler Products used:

ColorBox Crafter’s Ink – Tangelo

Ann Butler Faux Quilting Rubber Stamps – Unity Stamp Company 2″

Other Products:

  • Muslin
  • Poly-Fil
  • Glue Gun
  • Scissors
  • Sewing Machine – Thread
  • Iron
  • Green Burlap
  • Sticks/branches
  • Pumpkin face buttons by Flair

I hope you enjoyed this Stuffed project as much as I did!

Until next time, Craft on……..

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Delightful Rhinestone Christmas Card

Hello friends, Donna here to share with you a Rhinestone Christmas Card.  Have you made your Christmas Cards yet?

Even if you have, you can still add some sparkle to them using the Ann Butler’s Crystal Templates from the Rhinestone Genie.

Using the Rhinestone Genie is easy and fast.  It is the perfect way to add Rhinestones to your cards and other projects.

Delightful Rhinestone Christmas Card

Shall we get started?

Step 1:

Gather all materials needed.

Trim paper to size of card.  Using a die, cut out second piece out of striped paper. Trim deer out and a piece to add behind deer.

Delightful Rhinestone Christmas Card

Step 2:

Adhere red background card stock to card base.  Adhere striped piece to red background.

Step 3:

Following the manufacturer’s instructions, use the Rhinestone Genie, gather rhinestones into magnetic templates and apply iron-on transfer tape to keep in place.

Delightful Rhinestone Christmas Card

Step 4:

Iron rhinestones in place where desired onto the card front.

Delightful Rhinestone Christmas Card

Delightful Rhinestone Christmas Card

Step 5:

Adhere red card stock to deer.  Using pop dots adhere deer to card.

Delightful Rhinestone Christmas Card

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Rhinestone Genie Featuring Ann Butler Designs

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside Stamped Card

Hello friends, Donna here to bring you some cold weather card inspiration.  I don’t know about where you live, but here in MN we have had snow and cold weather. Makes you say “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”.  That is where the inspiration came for Baby, It’s Cold Outside Stamped Card.  This is perfect to give someone right now, add a gift card inside for some specialty coffee or some yummy hot chocolate.

Here in MN the cold season is upon us and around here it gets mighty cold.  Hockey season is well on its way.  As I write this, it is trying to snow and it is 36° out.  Brrrr!!!

So this card will come in handy to warm someone right up!

Let’s Start!

Step 1:

Die cut mug die from white cardstock.  Trim to size base paper to 4″ X 5 1/4″ and 1/2″ X 4″.  Stitch around the outside edge of the 4″ X 5 1/4″.

Baby, It's Cold Outside Stamped Card

Step 2:

Adhere small piece of trim to bottom of paper.

Baby, It's Cold Outside Stamped Card

Step 3:

Stamp mug die using Ann Butler ColorBox ink in Canyon and the Background Basics Basket Weave stamp.  Heat set ink.

Baby, It's Cold Outside Stamped Card

Step 4:

Attach base paper onto card.  Adhere mug onto card.  Stamp out or use computer for sentiment.  Cut out embellishments and adhere onto card.  Stamp or write sentiment inside card and you are finished.

Baby, It's Cold Outside Stamped Card

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Ann Butler Design Products used:

Ann Butler Crafter’s Inks by Clearsnap: Canyon

Ann Butler’s Faux Quilting Square Basket Weave

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Thanksgiving Napkins – Stamped & Stitched

Hello friends, Donna here with some Thanksgiving Napkins – Stamped & Stitched.  With Halloween just a week away, it is time to think about Thanksgiving and your tablescape.  So, I whipped up a few designs to get a head start.  These are easy and surprisingly fast to do.

thanksgiving-napkins-stamped-stitched

These Thanksgiving Napkins – Stamped & Stitched can be done in a few nights in front of the TV watching your favorite new shows!

Step 1:

Gather all of the materials.

 

Step 2:

Stamp the stitched zig-zag Background Basics pattern onto napkin with Ann Butler ColorBox Crafter’s Ink in Dessert Sand.

thanksgiving-napkins-stamped-stitched

Step 3:

Thread a needle with 3 strands of DMC embroidery floss, tie a knot.  Insert into the back of the napkin and stitch following the stamped design.  Tie off and repeat.

thanksgiving-napkins-stamped-stitched

Step 4:

Adhere a felt leaf onto napkin using Beacon Adhesives Fabri-Tac.  Add a napkin ring and you are done!

Thanksgiving Napkins Stamped Stitched

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Ann Butler Crafter’s Ink by Clearsnap: Desert Sand

Ann Butler Stamps – Stitched Stamp Set – Clearsnap

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