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Quick and Easy Stamped Christmas Card

Good morning friends. How is everyone today? Hopefully everyone had a Blessed Thanksgiving! So I am here today to show you a quick and easy Christmas card you can make.
First off I took 2 stamps from Ann Butler 1″ Rail Fence Set A. I am using the stripe and diamond shape. I stamped the stripe straight across with red ink and the diamond shape in the middle a few times with green ink.
to finish it off I added some Christmas twine and a pretty red button. Of course a Merry Christmas sentiment is fitting for the middle of the card.

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This card took me all of about 15 minutes from picking out stamps to adding the button to the twine. So for those of you who think you can not make cute Christmas cards because it takes to long, this one is for you. You could even start an assembly line. Stamp all your red then all your green. Adhere them together then add your twine or even some cute Christmas ribbon. And you are done.

Let us see your cards when you create them. Send them to me at Larissa@AnnButlerDesigns.com and I will post them to our Social Media pages. Who knows you may even see them on our blog this month. 🙂
Have a wonderful week everyone.

 

Larissa

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Halloween Faux Quilting Background Card

cardcGood Monday morning everyone. Larissa here with a Halloween card for you today. I started out with a piece of 110lb white cardstock and stamped Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting stamps alternating patterns and colors down the right side. I then stamped my image Halloween Greetings onto the left side. I colored the image with my Copic markers. I added a cute little cat to the left side. To finish off the card I used some matching sequins and added the sentiment to the top.

Designed by Muffins and Lace using Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps

Thanks for stopping by today. Check back this week for more creations from our fabulous Design Team.

Have a wonderful day.

Larissa


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Re-fillable Sachets

Good afternoon everyone. Did you know we have 16 Fridays before Christmas. That is about 99 days. Who would like to get a jump start on holiday gifts?

Watch this little video tutorial from Ann Butler on how to make these cute little sachet bags.
I think these would make an awesome gift don’t you?

 

If you make some of these wonderful gifts make sure to head over to Ann Butler Designs on Facebook and share your creation with us.

Have a wonderful rest of your day.

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Monogram Coffee Wrap

Good Monday morning everyone! Larissa here with a cute little altered mini coffee cup.
These are the absolute cutest cups ever! I decided to make a little party favor out of it.

First off I cut pieces of pattern paper.

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Then I attached it around the mini coffee cup with Tombow Mono Multi adhesive.

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I then punched a tag out of Black cardstock. Then using my favorite
Ann Butler Designs Crafters Ink color “Berry”, I stamped the letter “L”
on a piece of white cardstock and cut it out.

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I attached it to the black tag again using Tombow Mono Multi adhesive.

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I then used small dimensional pop ups on the back of the tag.

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I attached it to the outside of the cup.

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I was wondering what to put in the cup. I thought maybe
chocolate covered coffee beans or something similar.
Then it came to me. It was the perfect size!

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Hope you enjoyed today’s post. For more of my creations
check out my blog www.muffinsandlace.com.

Have a wonderful day!

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Faux Quilted Background Birthday Card

Larissa here with a Faux quilted background birthday card using Ann Butler Designs Unity Stamp Co Faux Quilted Stamps and ColorBox Inks.

Today I took a piece of 110 lb white cardstock and inked up the stripe stamp from the
1″ Stripes.Dots.and Hearts Stamp set, with ColorBox Ink Aquamarine. I stamped the pattern along the edge of the cardstock creating a pattern. I then took the Dot stamp and inked it in Sunshine first and stamped down the middle of the cardstock. Then took my darker color which was Limelight and did the same thing. I then used the inks with a little water and colored in the birthday cake image. I cut the image out and adhered it to the middle of the pattern background using some foam adhesive squares. I then used a birthday greeting from The Stamps of Life set birthday4cookie to add to the bottom of the card. I finished it off with a few Doodlebug sequins and a piece of twine.

Faux Quilted Background Birthday Card

I hope you enjoyed my card for today. Don’t forget you can see more of my work
on my website www.muffinsandlace.com

Have a wonderful day everyone. Until next time……

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Faux Quilted Happy Birthday Card

Good Monday morning everyone! Larissa here for a little Monday morning inspiration.
Since becoming an Ann Butler Designs Team member I have this great desire to quilt.
Well anyone who knows me knows that I can turn on a sewing machine and sew a straight line. As far as hand stitching.  yea, that isn’t happening. Not yet at least. But I am working on it.
So if I can’t quilt what better way to fake it but with Ann’s beautiful Faux Quilting Stamps.
I have tons of patterns I have found online and I am having so much fun recreating them with Ann’s Stamps.
Today I used 4 different stamps from 3 different sets to create
my card.
I used 4 different colors of ink. I stamped the triangles and squares several times on
a piece of white cardstock.
I cut the triangles and squares out and put them together to form the pattern I wanted.

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I adhered the pattern to a piece of matching solid color cardstock and added a
few embellishments.

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I then took a piece of vellum and heat embossed the sentiment on it.
So easy. I challenge you to use Ann’s stamps and make a quilt
pattern of your own.

Thanks for stopping by today to see my creation.
If you would like to see more of my creations please check out my blog
Muffins and Lace

Have a wonderful day.
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Home Decor Canvas: We are Anchored!

Good Friday morning everyone! How are Y’all today?
Larissa here to show you what I recently created using
Ann Butler Designs products.
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I started out hand drawing this anchor.
I stamped a little of Ann Butlers Sunshine ink pad
on my glass mat and sprayed some water on it.
I then took a paint brush and filled in the anchor.
I took the Aquamarine ink pad and did the same
but added more water to it. I brushed over the entire
background. Sort of washed it out a little.

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I used Ann Butlers EZ-De’s Flourish 2″ ABC’s
and with the Aquamarine Ink Pad stamped the words WE ARE.

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I wrote out the word Anchored and joined all the
letters together. I also filled them in with the Aquamarine
ink using the same technique of putting some ink
down on the glass mat and spraying it with water.
I wanted it just as dark as the words I stamped
at the top so I didn’t add much water.

I also used Ann Butlers 1″ Dolly Picnic and again the
Aquamarine ink pad and went around the entire edge
of the piece.

I added a a few white dots on the yellow anchor and
the letters.

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It does look simple but a little time
consuming.

Hope you enjoyed my post today.

I will be back soon with a new project.
Until then be sure to check back daily to
see what the other Design Team girls
have created. You won’t be sorry.

Have a great Friday!!

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Faux Quilt Pattern Card

Good Wednesday morning everyone! How are Y’all today?

I have been working on quilt patterns with these great Ann Butler stamps. I have been getting a lot of quilting ideas from Pinterest.

So many beautiful patterns out there.

Today I am using 2 different stamp sets.

I am using the diamond stamp from 1″ Diamonds & Plaid and the dots from 1″ Stripes.Dots.Hearts.

I used a piece of watercolor paper and water colors for the background.

Other supplies are listed below.

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I stamped 4 of each stamp and cut them out. Then I lined them all up in the pattern. The square button I actually made from Makin Clay and added some color.

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So putting it all together –

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I was going for spring colors since I am so tired of winter.

Hope you enjoyed my post today. Don’t forget to check back tomorrow and see what other awesome projects our design team comes up with.

Supplies Used: 

Ann Butler Stamps: 1′ Diamonds & Plaids, 1″ Stripes.Dots.Hearts, Imagine, Create, Inspire…{cosmo itty bitty}

ColorBox Crafters Ink by Ann Butler: Aquamarine, Limelight

Earth Safe Finishes by Ann Butler Iridescents Lipgloss

Makin Clay

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Spring Burlap Banner

Good morning everyone! How are Y’all today? I’m Larissa and I am here with my very first post as an Ann Butler Design Team member. I am so excited to be able to sit down and create with these gorgeous stamps and ink.

I have been wanting something to hang on my window for decoration. I had been scrolling Pinterest over and over and over looking for that perfect something.

Well I created my perfect something. I cut up some burlap pieces I had and grabbed some lace and flowers from my stash. I figured out what I wanted it to say and began stamping.

I stamped one letter on each banner piece.

After stamping each letter I attached the lace at the top and a flower on the bottom corner.

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So here is the finished banner.

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This was so easy and Ann’s ink pads worked fabulously.

I used:

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Thanks for stopping by and looking at my project. Don’t forget to come back tomorrow and see what another Design Team member has done. You won’t be disappointed I promise.

Have a great day Y’all.

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