October 1, 2014 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Stamped Comic Book Bangle Bracelet

Hi everyone! This is Carmen and today I wanted to share with you a colorful way to show the world that you have action super powers – with a comic book inspired bracelet. I had such fun making this bracelet! The Ann Butler Iridescent paints go on like sparkly butter while the Faux Quilting Dots stamp adds that iconic comic book halftone effect. I am just crazy about that dot stamp! This project will also show you how to use clear adhesive shelf vinyl as a mask so that you can control exactly where the stamping goes. It’s a great technique that you’ll be able to use in other projects.

Here’s how:

Materials:

Ann Butler’s Faux Quilting Stamps – 2″ Stripes / Dots / Hearts

Ann Butler Crafter’s Ink by Clearsnap: Sunshine, Tangelo

Unfinished Wood Bracelet by DiyBangles.com

Ann Butler’s Iridescents by Earth Safe Finishes – Yellow, Orange

Black permanent marker

White paint pen

Clear acrylic sealer – gloss

Clear adhesive shelf vinyl

Tools:

Acrylic block, paintbrush, plastic plate, Sizzix Bigkick die cut machine, Sizzix “Build A Flower #3” die

Instructions:

1. Brush the wood bracelet all over with the yellow Iridescent paint. Add two more coats of paint to build up the color, letting the paint dry in between coats. Brush the inside and edges of the bracelet with several coats of orange Iridescent paint.

2. Die cut four flower shapes from the clear adhesive shelf vinyl.

3. Peel the paper backing from the die cut flower shapes and apply the adhesive flowers to the bracelet. Smooth down. Trace along the outer edge of each flower with the black permanent marker.

4. Use the 2″ dots stamp to stamp Crafter’s Ink Tangelo all over the bracelet including the edges. Let dry 20 minutes.

5. Peel off the clear vinyl flowers from the bracelet. Write an action word in each blank flower area with the black permanent marker. Add highlights with white paint pen. Finish with a coat of clear acrylic sealer.

That’s it! Now you can wear your action bracelet and feel like a comic book hero! Enjoy!

September 26, 2014 By Ann Butler Leave a Comment

Makin’s Clay® Quilted Stamped Bracelet

Today I am sharing a Makin’s Clay® Quilted Stamped Bracelet that is oh so easy to do. By now most of you know that I love Makin’s Clay® and my color of choice is usually black. I like to add color in either powders or inks to create a rich color but, for this project, I decided to start with white clay and use my Crafter’s Inks to give it color…

and created this Quick and Easy Stamped Bracelet…

I started by rolling the clay out to about 1/8″ thick; 2″ wide by 8″ long.

I placed an assortment of my 1″ square Faux Quilting Stamps by Unity Stamp Company diagonally onto the clay…

and pressed each lightly into the clay to make an impression.

Then I trimmed the excess clay away…

on both of the long ends.

I applied my Crafter’s Ink in Tangelo, Limelight and Sunshine randomly over the clay…

and blended the ink with art daubers; I also inked and colored the backside. Then I let the clay dry for a couple hours.

I used Westcott Non-Stick Scissors to cut the clay to size.

Then I attached VELCRO® Sticky Back Adhesive with a dab of Beacon Tacky Glue for a secure bond to the ends of the clay to create the bracelet, letting the glue dry completely.

There you have it a Quick and Easy Stamped Clay Bracelet!

September 23, 2014 By Design Team 1 Comment

Flower Pot with Ann Butler Faux Quilting Stamps

Hi everyone. Living in the midwest, it’s very hard to say good-bye to summer (especially when we see so little of it). Today’s project is a Flower Pot. I used Ann Butler’s Iridescents and Faux Quilting stamps to spruce up a plain old flower pot.

Supplies:
2″ Stripes Hearts Dots Faux Quilting stamp set by Ann Butler
Ann Butler Iridescents by Earth Safe Finishes in Aquamarine
Flower Pot
Staz-On ink in black, ribbon and glue to adhere ribbon
Oh and a cute flower!

Steps:
-I painted the first layer of Aquamarine Iridescents using a foam brush.
-You’ll see from the next couple photos that what I originally intended to do and what I did, resulted in something completely different. That tends to happen quite often for me.
I wanted to paint an overlay color, in this case a mixture of grey and a metallic finish grey. I lightly applied this layer. The initial thought was that I would be able to scratch away /or distress much of it so the Aquamarine would really came through. Well, the greys were a bit thicker than expected, even with the light brushing. So, I moved to plan B.

-After realizing that I wasn’t going to get the results I originally thought, I decided to use this Scratch Art tool that I’ve had for years. I made random scratch marks and lines all over the greys. Some were very deep scratches while others were not. I only did this on the bottom of the pot.

Apologies, but the photos for the last few steps are unavailable. I’m not sure what happened to them, but they did not download. Steps are pretty straightforward though.
-Next, I painted another layer of the Aquamarine Iridescents.
-Stamp the 2″ Dots around the top ledge of the pot with Staz-On ink in black. I then stamped the same 2″ Dots around the bottom of the pot. To ensure this was a straight line, I just took a piece of cardstock and masked around to leave a 1/2″ or so area to stamp.
-Using some scrap pieces of ribbon I had, I adhered this around the edges of stamped images, just to add a little something and to showcase the Dots border.
-Final step is to add some dirt and a cute flower. I had a tiny sunflower that came up in my back yard, so I used it in the pot. I thought this would make a fun addition to my office!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!
Paula

September 22, 2014 By Beth Watson 3 Comments

EZ De’s Stamps and Crafters Ink Candy Corn BOO Banner

Halloween is probably my favorite holiday to make decorations for! All the bright colors and patterns really get my creative juices flowing! These Ann Butler Designs EZ De’s Triangle Stamps reminded me of candy corn – and I just could not resist making this cute BOO banner!

Materials:

Ann Butler Designs EZ De’s 3″ Tri Triangle Set A

Ann Butler Designs EZ De’s Flourish 2″ ABC’s by Kelly Craft

Ann Butler Designs Colorbox Crafters Ink by Clearsnap – Tangelo, Sunshine, Night and Snow

Tombow Xtreme Permanent Adhesive Runner

Cardstock in White, Black, Yellow and Orange, Scissors, Pinking Shears, Ruler, Pencil, Yellow Ribbon (36″), Purple Buttons (6), White Twine, Acrylic Stamp Block, Black Bar Cutouts (4).

Instructions:

1.) Stamp three EZ De’s Stripe Triangles with Snow ink on white cardstock and with Tangelo ink on orange cardstock. Stamp three EZ De’s Woven Triangles with Sunshine ink on yellow cardstock. Cut out all stamped triangles with scissors.

2.) Measure and cut three Sunshine Triangles 2″ from tip. Measure and cut three Snow Triangles 1″ from tip. Run Xtreme Adhesive on back of three Tangelo triangles and place on black cardstock, leaving a 1″ border, all around. Attach three Sunshine triangles, overlapping Tangelo. Attach three Snow triangles, overlapping Sunshine.

3.) Cut out three candy corn triangles with pinking shears, leaving a 1/4″ border. Stamp Ann Butler Designs EZ De’s Flourish letter “B” in Night ink on first candy corn banner piece. Repeat with the letter “O” on two remaining candy corn banner pieces.

4.) Thread white twine through six purple buttons, tie in a knot and trim ends with scissors. Apply adhesive to top back of “O” banner and attach to center of yellow ribbon. Measure left of middle banner edge 2″ and attach “B” banner. Measure right of middle banner edge 2″ and attach second “O” banner.

5.) Attach buttons and bats with adhesive, hang and ENJOY!

Thanks for stopping by! -Beth

September 18, 2014 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Booty Halloween Card

Hi everyone! Today I’m posting a fun birthday card that I made for a friend of mine (birthday is next month, so it seemed fitting to use this color scheme).

Supplies used:
1″ Diamonds and Plaid set by Unity Faux Quilting Stamps by Ann Butler
Colorbox Crafter’s Ink in Tangelo by Ann Butler
Iridescents in Tangelo
other items from my stash: black cardstock, white cardstock, ribbon, scrap patterned paper, Stampin’ Up embossing folder -Argyle pattern

After embossing black cardstock with the embossing folder, I sponged Iridescents in Tangelo all over and around the edges.

Next, I took the white cardstock and stamped the diamond stamp from the 1″ Diamonds and Plaid set. I only stamped on half, leaving the other for the greeting image. After stamping the diamonds, I sponged Tangelo ink over the image. Black is also sponged around the entire cut piece.

Before adhering all the layers, I put a thin ribbon strip along the stamped edge.

It’s that simple. The black is adhered to the white cardstock base. I used a coordinating patterned paper next and the white based stamped image on top of that. The very top layer is the sentiment, and that was matted. And of course, I could not leave it be and had to add a little “sparkle” to the dots on the boot.

Hope you enjoyed this Happy Boot-day card! I think my friend will get a “kick” out of it!
Have a great day!
Paula

September 17, 2014 By Larissa Pittman Leave a Comment

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.

September 14, 2014 By Design Team 1 Comment

Scrapbooking with Ann Butler Designs

I decided to make a fun scrapbook page for my post today. I got a fun package in the mail from my friend Laura with photos from Disney and a page was born! Supplies used: Ann Butler Crafter’s Ink from Clearsnap, Hexigon Stamp set, Paint, Glitter and stickers!

I painted my Hexigon wooden shapes by Kaiser Crafts with the Golden Paint and let dry. I then used 3 inks and 3 designs and stamped all the pieces and again, let them dry. I found the photo I wanted to use and attached it to the black 12 X 12 cardstock. I then started attaching the stamped hexigons around the photo to make a frame. I traced the inside frame with glue and added glitter. I then found some handy dandy embellishments to attach to the page. Add a few stickers and I have Laura, Georgia and I forever saved on a fun scrapbook page.

I hope you enjoyed my Disney fun and Ann Butler Products! May all your dreams come true!

September 8, 2014 By Vishu Reberholt Leave a Comment

Checkered Background Card

Hello everybody! its vishu here, back with another card, which was ezee pezee to put together.

Doesn’t the look gorgeous! very pleased with the results……..

products used:

Ann Butler’s Faux Quilting Stamps – 2″ Doily Picnic

Ann Butler Colorbox Crafter’s Ink by Clearsnap: Limelight,

White and green card stock, ribbon from my stash, want2scrap pearls, dot embossing folder

I created my patterned paper using Ann Butler’s Faux Quilting Stamps – 2″ Doily Picnic and Ann Butler Colorbox Crafter’s Ink by Clearsnap: Limelight, layered my custom patterned paper with white and then green cardstock. I did emboss the white card stock for some texture. Lastly, I embellished the card with a lily stamp, sentiment, ribbon and pearls.

I hope you all enjoyed the project…….untill next time happy crafting.

September 3, 2014 By Design Team 2 Comments

Simple Gift Box and Cards

Hello my dear crafty friends !

Irit is here again and this time I want to show you how to make an easy, fast and even clean and simple gift box and a card using Ann Butler’s gorgeous EZ De’s Kellycraft set and Ann Butler’s Clearsnap Crafters inks.

This is an overall look of this project: a wooden altered box and a matching card made for a friend. The box was painted with white actylic paint and then I added black heat embossed edges for this a bit distressed look.

The front was made with three stamped 1*1” stamps from the set with clear embossing ink and heat embossed with black embossing powder. This are actually what some of us call ” inchies”: small inch by inch shapes embellished to become a piece of art.

I added three of those inchies over the black cardstock that covers the glass lip of this $1 box and embellished them with two chipboard shapes of people from Tando Creative. Each chipboard man or woman were inked with Ann’s Crafters inks .

The card was made in the same style: black cardstock base, white glitter cardstock second layer and 4 inked stamped inchies , this time embellished with 6 people smaller chipboard shapes in more ink colors. I added a sticker sentiments on the top of the card and I think any friend will like this small and easy made gift.

Ann Butler’s products used for this project:

EZ De’s stamps, Sampler set A

Clearsnap Crafter’s inks by Ann Butler

Hope that you like my project and see you again next month.

Irit

August 28, 2014 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Quick and Easy Card and Bookmark with EZ De’s

Hello my dear crafty friends! Irit is here today with my monthly post in Ann Butler’s blog.

Today I want to share my small tutorial made for Ann Butler‘s blog.

I made a bookmark and a card from the single stamped piece and it coordinates in this lovely way and very easy to make.

Step 1: Stamp a few squares with different stamps with black permanent ink over white cardstock.

Step 2: Using all 6 Ann Butler’s Crafters inks (Clearsnap) make a rainbow over the stamped images as shown.

Step 3: Cut the inked piece into two non even parts; one should be a bookmark, so cut it like one third and two thirds.

Step 4: Make the black cardstock matting for the card and for the bookmark. Add some color splashes and stamp the sentiment over both projects. Add ribbons on the bookmark top.

Products used:

Ann Butler’s EZ De’s 2” Checkered Woven Hearts

Ann Butler’s Crafter’s inks by Clearsnap