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August 19, 2015 By Larissa Pittman 1 Comment

Happy Fall Pumpkin Faux Quilted Card

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

I 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:

Start out stamping the 2″ stamps all over a piece of white cardstock.
Cut out a pumpkin shape from the white cardstock.
Add the brown ribbon to the stem.
Stamp your sentiment and emboss.
Add your rhinestones to embellish the card.
Stamp the card base using Sand ink.
Adhere the pumpkin to the front of the card.
To 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.

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 14, 2015 By Beth Watson 1 Comment

Background Basics Stamped American Girl Doll Outfit

I have been doing a lot of crafting this Summer with my Niece. She has an American Girl Doll named Sage and we recently found a plain t-shirt and jeans outfit at Michael’s that I thought would be perfect to stamp on.

Here’s what you will need:

Ann Butler Crafter’s® Ink by Clearsnap – Lilac and Berry
Colorbox® Background Basics Stamps by Ann Butler – Diamond and Picnic
18″ Doll Outfit; Lavender Rhinestones; Gem Adhesive and Baby Wipes

Here’s how to make it:

1.) Load the Colorbox® Background Basics Stamps by Ann Butler – Diamond with Ann Butler Crafter’s® Ink by Clearsnap – Lilac mist with water and stamp a square in the center on front of shirt. Re-ink and stamp rectangles on both sleeve cuffs. Clean stamp with Baby Wipe.

2.) Load the Colorbox® Background Basics Stamps by Ann Butler – Picnic with Ann Butler Crafter’s® Ink by Clearsnap – Berry mist with water and stamp a diamond in the center on front of shirt. Re-ink and stamp triangles on both sleeve cuffs. Clean stamp with Baby Wipe.

3.) Attach lavender rhinestones on sleeves and at neckline, securing with Gem Glue.

Sage just loves her new, casual and crafty outfit that we made for her (and so does my Niece) SCORE!

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to like Ann Butler Designs on Facebook for even more inspiration!

August 13, 2015 By Larissa Pittman 2 Comments

Happy Birthday Ann Butler

Hello, friends and welcome to our Surprise Birthday Blog Hop for Ann Butler.

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. 🙂

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:

An InLinkz Link-up

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 10, 2015 By Larissa Pittman 1 Comment

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.

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:

Large wooden clothespin
Ann Butler Designs Earth Safe Finishes™ Sheer Bronze Iridescents
Ann Butler Designs Colorbox® Lattice Art Screen from Clearsnap™
White Texture Paste
Palette Knife
Rhinestones

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.

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.

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

August 7, 2015 By Vishu Reberholt 1 Comment

Stenciled Table Mat

Hello Friends! Vishu here today with a quick and easy Table Mat using Ann Butler Designs.

I can’t believe how quick the summer is slipping by and we are already half way through. My goal has been to make every sunny day count before the snow takes over and I have also been on a recycle and upcycle spree. I found the table mat while cleaning up the basement and decided to give it a new life.

Products Used:

ColorBox® Art Screens by Ann Butler (Lattice)

Earth Safe Finishes Iridescents by Ann Butler Aquamarine

Crafter’s Ink by Clearsnap: Night

Earth Safe Finishes Gesso

Instructions:

1. Apply a layer of ESF Gesso and let it dry. The table mat is originally made of wooden strips so covering it with Gesso was important to make a good base.

2. Apply a layer of Earth Safe Finishes Iridescents by Ann Butler in Aquamarine

3. Once dry use art screens by Ann Butler and dab the pattern using black ink.

So what do you all think? isn’t this such a quick and easy project.

Thanks for stopping by……..

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.

IritS-265x300 Easy made Mixed Media card with Ann Butler s stamps and inks

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 29, 2015 By Steph Ackerman 1 Comment

My Friend Quilted Cards

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today using Ann Butler Designs Background stamps and Crafter’s Inks . I’ve used two different triangular shaped stamps for My Friend Quilted Cards.

I chose to create this card with the Basket 2 Background Basics Stamp and Canyon Crafter’s Ink. It’s hard to see, but in the white sections between the stamped images, I scored diagonal lines. It’s easy to line up the stamps so they fit within a square and just score between them. Once stamped, I inked the edges with Canyon Crafter’s Ink, matted it with red cardstock and then tied a ribbon around the panel before adhering it to the card.

For my next card, I stamped the Picnic 2 Background Basics Stamp with Berry Crafter’s Ink. Then I cut apart the stamped panels and inked them before arranging them on a panel of pink and then sewing them in place. I wrapped ribbon around the panel before adhering it to the card. (The ribbon is pink, NOT purple as it appears in this photo! No matter how many times I photograph it, it still appears purple!)

Both cards have the same stamped flower image which was colored with Sunshine and Limelight Crafter’s Inks using a paint brush and a little water. The images were fussy cut and then inked with Desert Sand Crafter’s Ink before adding them to die cut circles. A simple sentiment was attached to the ribbons with a paper tagger.

These background stamps are lovely and since they come in 3″ squares as well as triangles, the possibilities are endless.

Thanks for stopping by today.

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