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Trick or Treat Halloween Card

Hello, friends, Larissa, back with you today to share a fun Trick or Treat Halloween Card.

Trick or Treat Halloween Card

This Trick or Treat Halloween Card is quick and easy to make.

What I used:

here’s how:

  1. Stamped the Faux Quilting stamps on a piece of white cardstock using the different colors of ink.
  2. Cut each stamped image out using detailed scissors.
  3. Adhere each square and triangle in a quilt pattern using lZip Dry
  4. Attach the Halloween clipart to the quilt pattern.
  5. Adhere the card front onto the black card stock.
  6. Finished it off with a few black sequins.

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I just love this. It is so fun and perfect for Halloween. What are you working on?

Don’t forget you still have time to send me your submissions to join our fun Design Team.

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We are enjoying all the entries so far. Send in your submission today.

Have a wonderful day friends.

Larissa

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Stenciled Hello Friend Card with Art Screens

Hello, Friends. Larissa here today with a Stenciled Hello Friend Card with Art Screens.
I love Ann Butler Designs Art Screens. They are very sturdy and durable. I also love the way the texture looks with them.
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What I used:

  • Ann Butler Designs ColorBox Crafter’s Ink­® in Aquamarine and Lilac
  • ColorBox Art Screens in Lattice and Wave
  • Modeling Paste
  • Palette Knife
  • White and Lilac Cardstock
  • Hello Friends DieCut words
  • Baby Wipes

What I did:

  1. I mixed a little bit of the Crafter’s Ink with the Modeling paste mixing it together well with my palette knife.
  2. Lay the Art Screen over the top of a piece of white cardstock and smooth an even layer of the paste over the screen.

    Stenciled Hello-Friend-Card-with-Art-Screens
  3. Repeat step 2 on the word die cuts.
  4. Adhere the card front to the Lilac mat and card base.
  5. Adhere the die cut words to the front of the card.

Pretty simple right. And lots of even texture. You can use any color to make a card like this.
Stenciled Hello-Friend-Card-with-Art-Screens

Hope you enjoyed my card today. Don’t forget to check back this week to see what are Design Stars create for you.
Have a wonderful day friend.

Larissa
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Faux Quilted Thank You Card

Hello, friends. Larissa here today with a Faux Quilted Thank You Card.

Faux Quilted Thank You Card

Since I am not a sewer I absolutely love using Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting stamps to recreate quilting blocks. I created this Thank You Card this morning using only one of these stamps.

I used:
Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Co 1″ Stripes Dots Hearts
Ann Butler Designs Colorbox Crafter’s ink from Clearsnap® in Tangelo
Detail Scissors
White Cardstock
Liquid Adhesive
Small Acrylic Block
Black thin tip marker

What I did:
I stamped 16 Dots triangles onto a piece of white cardstock. I then cut each one out. I adhered each triangle on a piece of cardstock to form a square.
I took my detail scissors and roughed up the edges of the cardstock to resemble a material edge.
Faux Quilted Thank You Card

I took a thin tip black marker and added stitch lines down and across the middle.
To finish the card off I add a die cut thanks across the front.

Faux Quilted Thank You Card

Hope you enjoyed my card today. Have a wonderful weekend, friends and don’t forget to check back next week to see what are amazing Design Stars have done for you.

Larissa
Larissa

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Monogram Watercolor Bookmarks

Hello, friends. Larissa here today with some simple monogram watercolor bookmarks created with Ann Butler Designs Colorbox Crafter’s Inks.

Monogram Watercolor Bookmarks You will need:

What you will do:

  1. Smoosh your ink pads on your craft mat and spritz with water.
  2. Take your watercolor paper you have cut 2 1/4 x 6 and smash it into the ink. Turning it different directions will help give it different looks. You can also dry in between with a heat gun.
  3. Stamp your Initial in the middle of the bookmark.Monogram Watercolor Bookmarks
  4. Once it is dry you can punch a hole in the center of the top of the bookmark.
  5. Loop twine in the top of the book mark through the hole you punched.Monogram Watercolor Bookmarks

These make awesome little gifts to go with a book for friends. You can also include them in a card you make for a little extra surprise for your friends.

Hope you enjoyed this super simple tutorial post today.

Have a wonderful day, friends.

Larissa

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Happy Fall Pumpkin Faux Quilted Card

Hello, friends! Larissa here with you today showing you my Happy Fall Pum[kin Faux Quilted Card.

IHappy-Fall-Faux-Quilted-Card used:

  • Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Company; 2″ Doily Picnic, 2″ Leaves All Over, and 1″ Stripes. Dots. Hearts.
  • Ann Butler Designs Colorbox ® Crafter’s Inks from Clearsnap in Tangelo and Sand
  • white and kraft cardstock
  • rhinestones
  • Fall sentiment
  • clear embossing ink
  • copper embossing powder
  • brown ribbon

How I made my card:

  1. Start out stamping the 2″ stamps all over a piece of white cardstock.
  2. Cut out a pumpkin shape from the white cardstock.
  3. Add the brown ribbon to the stem.
  4. Stamp your sentiment and emboss.
  5. Add your rhinestones to embellish the card.
  6. Stamp the card base using Sand ink.
  7. Adhere the pumpkin to the front of the card.
    Happy-Fall-Faux-Quilted-CardTo finish the card, I used the Tangelo ink mixed with water. I took a small brush and went around the edges.Of course,  you can cut out any king of shape from a piece of cardstock. You could even stamp different colors of stamps. As I have said many times before the possibilities with these Faux Quilting Stamps are endless.

I hope you enjoyed my post today. I hope to see what you are doing with these fabulous Faux Quilting Stamps. Make sure to tag me when you post pictures.

Have a wonderfully Blessed day friends.

Larissa

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Happy Birthday Ann Butler

Hello, friends and welcome to our Surprise Birthday Blog Hop for Ann Butler.
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Today is a very special day as we celebrate from one end of the Earth to the other with our very own
Ann Butler.

As you hop with us today each Design Star has a special message for Ann. Would you like to add your own message? You can do just that. At the end of my post you can Link up your Card and or Post for Ann. The Linky will stay open for a week so you will have time to come back and wish her a Fabulous birthday. Make sure you click on each of our Design Stars links to see what they have to say to Ann. 🙂

Happy Birthday

Ann,

Happy Birthday to an amazing woman. I have been blessed to be a part of your team and most importantly your friend. I remember the day I got your phone call asking me to be on your team. I was jumping for joy.
I enjoy our weekly chats. I love that we can talk about anything together not just the world of art.
We are in this together now and I am excited to move forward with you as an amazing artist and friend.

I hope your Birthday is as amazingly special as you are. Thank you for being my friend. Happy Birthday!!!!

Your Friend,
Larissa

Here is our hop order:


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Iridescents Sheer Bronze Note Holder

Hello friends.  Larissa here with you today with my Sheer Bronze Note Holder using Ann Butler Designs Sheer Bronze Iridescent paint. I am in love with this color. It is so pretty.
ESF Iridescents Sheer Bronze

Is that not the prettiest color you have every seen? It almost reminds me of a smooth silky chocolate. 🙂
So here is what I used from my Sheer Bronze Note Holder:

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I painted two coats, allowing each to dry, of the Sheer Bronze Iridescent on the large wooden clothespin. Once the entire clothes pin was painted I laid the Art Screen on top. I then took white texture paste and spread it out evenly over the Art Screen.Once it dried I flipped it over and did the same thing to the other side.

Sheer-Bronze-Note-Holder

Once the texture paste was dry I added clear rhinestones all around. I really love the way this came out and even though the paint is Sheer Bronze it almost looks gold in certain lights. I plan on keeping it on my desk to hold my important notes.

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I think this would make an awesome teacher’s gift don’t you? I think I need to find more big clothespins and make some gifts. Hope you enjoyed my project today. Have a wonderful day friends.

Larissa

Larissa

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Quick and Easy Faux Quilted Card

Hello, friends. Larissa here with you today with a Quick and  Easy Faux Quilted Card.

Quick and Easy Faux Quilted CardI used: 

  • Ann Butler ColorBox Crafter’s Ink® from Clearsnap™ in Limelight and Ocean Breeze
  • Ann Butler Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Company 1′ Stripes.Dots.Hearts and 1″ Leaves all Over
  • Two different pieces of blue cardstock
  • A small piece of white cardstock
  • An acrylic stamping block
  • Button and Rhinestones
  • Hi cut out
  • adhesive

Here is what I did.

I stamped the stripe triangle in Limelight 4 times on a piece of white cardstock. I then stamped the dots triangle with Ocean Breeze 8 times on a piece of blue cardstock. I cut each one out and then arranged them on the card.
I started out with a pinwheel type pattern.

Quick and Easy Faux Quilted Card

I then arranged the blue triangles in a pattern around the pinwheel. I did not follow a quilt block pattern like I normally do I just went with what looked good to me. I adhered everything down with liquid glue. I then added some rhinestones and a button to the middle of the pinwheel. I had a “hi” cut out sitting on my table I had cut out earlier in the day but never used. So I rubbed my finger in the same ink colors and colored the cutout.

You can really arrange these triangles anyway you want.

Hope you enjoyed my post today. Don’t forget so me what you have done with Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps and you could be featured on our new Fan spotlight post each month.

Have a wonderful weekend, friends.

Larissa

Larissa

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Ann Butler Designs and Deflecto Blog Hop

Hello, friends. Welcome to the Ann Butler Designs and Deflecto Blog Hop “Spring into Creativity”!

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Today the Design Stars have some amazing creations for you. Leave a comment on each blog as you hop and let the girls know how much you like their creation.
Today I have for you a quilt block I made and put in the Deflecto 12×12 clear frame.

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I used:
-Ann Butler Designs ColorBox Crafter’s Ink® in Limelight, Lilac, Ocean Breeze, and Berry
-Colorbox® Embossing Powder in Clear
-Ann Butler Designs Colorbox® Background Basic Stamps in Checks 1 and Picnic 2
-Vellum
-Heat Tool
-12×12 white cardstock

What I did:

  1. I stamped the Background Basic stamps on a piece of white cardstock using three colors of ink in a quilt block pattern.
  2. While the ink was drying I stamped the word Faith using the Berry ink on a piece of vellum and embossed it using clear embossing powder.
    I adhered it onto the quilt block with some clear adhesive.
  3. To finish it off I added three small buttons to the bottom.
    I then slid it into the 12×12 frame.

A super simple project to display your favorite quilt block.

I hope you enjoyed my post today. Now it is time to head over to the next stop which is
my blog Muffins and Lace (Larissa Pittman), Can’t wait to see you there.

In case you get lost along the way here is the order of the hop.

Ann Butler **you are here**
Larissa Pittman
Einat Kessler
Zoey
Steph
Irit
Roberta
Vishu
Paula
Beth

Enjoy the Hop!!

Larissa


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Ann Butler Designs Products

Hello, friends. Larissa back with you today sharing some information and Ann Butler Designs Products from Clearsnap™.

Did you know that Ann Butler Designs has 12 fabulous ink colors?

ColorBox Crafter’s Ink® comes in 12 awesome shades.

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You have Tangelo, Sunshine, Aquamarine, Limelight, Lilac and Berry. Perfect Spring and Summer Shades. Which by the way are my all time favorite shades.

Then you have your awesome Fall and Winter shades:

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Desert Sand, Evergreen, Blueberry, Deep Woods, Canyon, and Ocean Breeze.

There are also currently 3 ColorBox®Art Screens.

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Stars, Waves, and Lattice.
I love using these screens as a background for my cards. I take an ink pad and press it on my craft mat and then mix in a little embossing paste. I smooth it over the screen. Once I lift the screen the texture is awesome. You can see it in the picture below where I used the Waves Screen.

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Next we move on to the Faux Quilting Stamps. There are 8 ColorBox® Background Basic stamps. Each stamp is 4.25 x 4.25. They stamp clean and crisp.  The best part is you can stamp them on Fabric using Ann Butler Designs Colorbox Crafter’s Ink®.

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Basket 1 and Basket 2

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Diamond 1 and Diamond 2

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Picnic 1 and Picnic 2

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Checks 1 and Checks 2

All of the above products can be found on Amazon. I have included the links below for you.
If you use Ann Butler Designs products or run out and buy them let me see what you do. You can tag us on Facebook or Instagram, or if you would like you can email me direct Larissa@AnnButlerDesigns.com. You could be features on our monthly Fan Spotlight post.

Have a wonderful day friends.

Larissa


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