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June 28, 2016 By Steph Ackerman Leave a Comment

Faux Stitched Backgrounds for Cards

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today with 2 cards using the new Stitch Stamps. These stamps, at approximately 4″ long, are perfect for stamping faux stitches on your creations. I decided to use them to create backgrounds for my cards.

Supplies:

ColorBox Crafter’s® by Ann Butler – Desert Sand, Blueberry, Lilac
ColorBox® Background Basics by Ann Butler – Stitch Stamps
Joy Clair Stamps
Couture Creations Embossing Folder
Spellbinders dies
Ribbon

After cutting white cardstock to size, I repeatedly stamped the Stitch Stamps with Blueberry Ink. I inked around the panel with Desert Stand and matted the panel with black cardstock. Before adding the panel to the card with foam adhesives I wrapped the panel with ribbon. A sentiment from JoyClair stamps was added to the card under the ribbon.

Cutting purple cardstock to fit my card, I embossed it and then lightly inked it with Lilac Ink. Using the same Stitch Stamps with Lilac Ink, I stamped a panel of white cardstock. After matting it with black cardstock I wrapped it with purple ribbon and added it to the card with foam adhesives. I die cut the sentiment, adding it to the card with foam adhesives.

These stamps created fun backgrounds for my cards. Thanks for stopping by.

June 23, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Stamped 4th of July Greeting Card

Hi everyone, Tammy here today with a fun 4th of July greeting card tutorial featuring Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting stamps. If you are going to a party for the 4th, this would be a great card to include with a hostess gift or you can even use it as a invitation for a 4th of July party. The Faux Quilting stamps on the cardstock gave the card so much additional interest, I really love how it turned out.

Supplies I used:

Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps
Ann Butler Designs Backgroud Basics Stitch Stamps
Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks
Cardstock
Silhouette machine
Silhouette cutting file for card
Glue Dots® Adhesive

Directions:

Download cutting file and use a Silhouette machine to cut out the cardstock pieces.

Stamp the cardstock pieces with Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting stamps, Ann Butler Designs Background Basics Stitch stamps and Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks

Assemble card with Glue Dots adhesive as per the directions included with the cutting file.

I really love how this greeting card turned out, and it even folds flat for mailing! I know the card will be a big hit with the friend I am giving it to for 4th of July 🙂

June 21, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Last Minute Easy Father’s Day Cards

Hi everyone, Tammy here today with a fun and easy last minute Father’s Day card tutorial. I can’t believe Father’s Day is almost here! My daughter likes to make her dad a Father’s Day card every year, and this year she decided to use Ann Butler’s Faux Quilting Stamps and my Silhouette Machine to create her card. I love how it turned out! We had such a great time making our cards together, here is how we did it…

Supplies:

Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps
Ann Butler Designs Background Basics Stitches Stamps
Ann Butler Designs Background Basics Stamps
Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks by ColorBox in Aquamarine and Tangelo
Adhesive
Cardstock in yellow and blue
Silhouette machine with cutting file

Directions:

Purchase Father’s Day cutting file from the Silhouette Design Store and cut out pieces of the card from colorful cardstock.

Stamp pieces with 1″ Ann Butler Desings Faux Quilting Stamps and Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Ink in Aquamarine

Assemble the pieces of the card with adhesive

Add your sentiment inside, and you are done with the first card.

For the second card, cut out the card using a cutting file from The Silhouette Design Store and Silhouette Machine. Stamp the tie with Ann Butler Designs Background Basics Stitches Stamps and the collar with Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps. I used Ann Butler Designs Background Basics Stamps on the pocket. Ink colors are Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks by ColorBox in Aquamarine and Tangelo

All you need to do is insert a gift card in the pocket and you are done! I hope this tutorial has given you some fun ideas for making Father’s Day cards with Ann Butler’s Designs Faux Quilting stamps and Crafter’s Inks by ColorBox.

June 16, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Artist at Work Tag

Hey crafty friends, Einat Kessler here with a new project for you! Do you have a craft room where you work or just a desk? Do your kids disturb you sometimes, or any other family members? I’m not talking about those cute cats that come and sit on your project exactly when you don’t want them to. I’m talking about people who know how to read… It happens to me all the time! I have a craft studio where I work, or at least try to work and people come in all the time to take scissors or glue or craft knife or to ask me something…you know what I mean. Anyway I decided to gently let them know they are disturbing me by creating a little tag for my door.

I used one of the tags in my stash and I wanted to make it really colorful so I used two Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks Tangelo and Blueberry. I used the Ann Butler Designs Stars art screen to create a pattern on the tag. I started with the Tangelo first and then moved the art screen a little and used the Blueberry ink. This created a double pattern in two colors. Then I want around the edges with a blending tool to smudge the ink a little. Finally I took tp roll and used it a s a stamp. I applied the Blueberry ink to the edge of the tp roll and stamped the tag. I added “Artist at Work” on the tag with a black pen.

I have to say that the tag is hanged on the door but it doesn’t really help… it still feels like a train station in here Lol! You can customize the tag by changing the art screen and the ink colors and of course you can create a bigger size sign, maybe it’ll help…

Have fun creating!

Einat

June 14, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Fancy Gift Card Envelope

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit, here and this is my new fancy gift card envelope tutorial using Ann Butler Designs amazing Faux Quilting Stamps , Iridescents paints and her Stitches stamps.

So here is my tutorial:
1. Arrange a few Stitched Nesting circles dies (Die Versions) over thick white cardstock and die cut them.

2.This is how the negative looks after the die cutting and later I am going to cut it to fit the envelope size.

3. Paint the negative with Ann Butler Designs Iridescents paints in Lilac, Lip Gloss and Ocean Surf. Stamp over the dry painted cardstock using Ann Butler Designs Stitches stamps and permanent black ink.

4. Take the die cut circles and stamp over them with Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting stamps by Unity, using a watermark ink, Clearsnap Black pigmented ink and heat emboss with black embossing powder. I used 2” stamps from different sets and you can see the patterns here.

5. And now without any more step by step photos- my final project.

The stamped and heat embossed circles were painted with the same Iridescents colors with the add of Sunshine. Arrange those painted circles inside the painted negative. Cut it to the Kraft envelope size to cover the front. Cut another piece for the sentiment made with stickers.
Add the Makin’s Clay fairy that was made with a mold. The fairy was painted with a mix of the same Ann Butler Designs Iridescents and glued over envelope front.

Cut another piece from the painted cardstock and add as the closure on the envelope back. Add a piece of Velcro to close the envelope.

This technique is great for card making, ATC making and a lot more of easy to make craft projects and I hope you will use it some day.

Ann Butler’s products used:
Faux Quilting stamps – Unity
Background basic Stitches- Clearsnap
Iridescents paints- Earth Safe Finishes

June 9, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Card and Envelope with Faux Quilting Stamps

Hi crafty friends! Einat Kessler here with a new project. I just love sending cards in the mail and even more so if the envelope matches the card. So this easy and quick project is all about matching colors and patterns.

envelope and card

I started with stamping the card and envelope with a pattern of Ann Butler Designs 1″ Faux Quilting Stamps. I used different stamps and different Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks. I used a large acrylic block to arrange the stamps in a row and then applied the inks in a random way and stamped both the card and envelope. Then I took a baby wipe and applied a little of the inks as background to add a little color to the envelope and card. I didn’t want a busy pattern because it’s not allowed on the envelope and I wanted it to match the card, so I created a very minimal pattern.

I used green and blue colors of the ink because they look so pretty when they mix together, which is exactly what happened after I used the baby wipe. This was something I didn’t plan on but turned out really cool, don’t you think?

If you change the colors of the inks or the size of the stamps, you know Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting stamps come in 2″ and 3″ too, you can change the set’s vibe completely. You can even create a few of these cards and envelopes and give it as a gift for someone you love 🙂

I left the card empty because I still don’t know what I’m going to use it for… But I’m sure who’ll ever get it will have fun opening the envelope and discover what’s inside.

Have fun creating!

Einat
Einat

June 7, 2016 By Vishu Reberholt Leave a Comment

Up-cycled Storage Basket

Hi, Everybody!, Vishu here today to share with you an Up-Cycled Storage Basket using Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilt Stamps. Really enjoyed working on this project as I love how it turned out and how quickly too.

Doesn’t this storage basket look fun and would really jazz up your closet or any shelf. These faux quilt stamps are so versatile which help you create a variety of creative designs on your project as you can see on this Storage Basket Upcycled with Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilt Stamps.

Products Used:

Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps
Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks by Clear Snap Berry, Limelight, Tangelo, Ocean Breeze
golden bead lace, hot glue

Instructions:

First I stamped the pattern using Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilt Stamp by Unity Stamps using the crafter’s ink on the storage basket.
Then I added the gold bead lace around the edges using the hot glue to create this jazzed up storage basket upcycled with Ann Butler Designs faux quilt stamps.

Below are a few more close up shots of the project you can see how a plain looking basket looks jazzed up and pretty after the faux quilt stamping.

Thanks for Stopping by………………

May 31, 2016 By Steph Ackerman Leave a Comment

Father’s Day Canvas

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today to share a mini Father’s Day Canvas that I created to celebrate Father’s Day.

Supplies:

Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Ink – Desert Sand
Ann Butler Designs Iridescents – Onyx
Ann Butler Designs for Unity Stamps – 2″ Doily Picnic
Earth Safe Finishes Gel Medium
ColorBox Crafter’s Ink – Night
ColorBox Embossing Powder – Clear
Gina’s Designs Chipboard
Joy Clair Stamp

I began by mixing Onyx Iridescents with Gel Medium.

I randomly painted the mixture on my canvas. White still wet, I added some lines with a spatula. A little of this mixture goes a long way so be sure to have plenty of surfaces on hand that can be used in future projects. Once dry, you will have a nice 3-dimensional appearance. See my prior post on how I also used this mixture.

Once dry, I randomly stamped about the canvas with Night Ink.

Using Desert Sand I inked and embossed assorted chipboard elements then grouped them on the canvas.

A Father’s Day sentiment from Joy Clair Designs plus scrabble letters spelling dad finished the canvas.

The texture on this canvas looks amazing.

Thanks for stopping by today.

May 26, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Pink And Orange “Thinking Of You” Card

Hello and thank you for stopping by the Ann Butler Designs blog today. Tammy Santana here with a fun shaker greeting card tutorial using Ann Butler Designs Crafting Inks and Ann Butler Designs 1″ Faux Quilting Stamps. As you can see, I love to create fun projects with bright and bold colors and this Summertime greeting card was so easy to make and embellish with Ann’s fun to use products!

Supplies I used:

Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps
Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks by Clear Snap
Pink and orange card stock
Silhouette machine and greeting card cutting file
Glitter
Adhesive tape runner and adhesive foam tape

Directions:

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I used my Silhouette machine to cut out a Silhouette Design Store greeting card file from both orange and pink card stock

ann butler designs greeting card 2

I removed the back portion of the pink card leaving the decorative front to stamp. I used Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps and Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks to stamp a fun pattern on the card for some cute and unique decoration.

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I heat sealed the ink with my heat tool. Then, I ran the pink stamped card front through my Xyron machine to create a sticker.

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I adhered the pink card front to a piece of acetate trimmed to fit the card.

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I turned the card over and placed thin foam tape strips around the perimeter, to allow enough height to hold glitter, to create a shaker card. Next, I removed the tape backing to expose the double sided tape before carefully adding the glitter, using a piece of paper that I folded in half, to create a funnel.

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Next, I added a second layer of acetate on top of the double sided tape to create the shaker card overlay. I used an adhesive tape runner on the pink areas on the back of the card and then turned it over and placed it on top of the orange card base.

I really love how the glitter looks with the faux quilting stamped on the card. It really adds interest to what would have been a cute, but plain card. I hope this gives you some inspiration to create some fun and unique greeting cards with Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps and Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks!

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May 24, 2016 By Steph Ackerman Leave a Comment

For You Gift Bag and Card

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today with a fun card and matching gift bag just right for dad. Father’s Day is coming up fast so why not create something special just for him.

Supplies:

Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Ink – Aquamarine, Canyon, Desert Sand
Ann Butler Designs for Unity Stamps – 1″ Doily Picnic, l” Leaves All Over
Spellbinders dies

Using the 1″ stamps it’s easy to create a variety of patterns. Simply ink the stamps and rotate them on the cardstock to create different looks.

Once I stamped a number of images, I cut them into 1″ strips. for dimension I inked each strip with Canyon Ink and adhered them to layers of white and kraft cardstock. A die cut oval was centered the card and #1 Dad was stamped with Canyon Ink.

The Gift Bag was created the same way. I just inked the edges of the kraft cardstock with Desert Sand and also the edges of the gift bag when I was done. A Spellbinders phrase was added atop the center ovals and ribbon tied the bag closed.

This bag is perfect for adding a little something for dad – perhaps a favorite candy bar, or tickets to a show, or even cash. But it’s also a great little gift bag for the upcoming graduate – don’t you think?

Thanks for stopping by today.