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Feliz Navidad Card with Faux Quilting Stamps

Hello, Ava here today to share with you a striking statement “look” to Ann Butler’s Unity Stamp collection.

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1.  Start with stamping Ann Butler’s Unity 2″ Leaves all over stamp images and sentiment onto Core’dinations Cardstock.

card stamp rulerHere I have used my Kellycraft Innovations laser square ruler to line up my 1″ Leaves all over stamp.

2.  Once you stamp your image squares using Ann Butler Crafters Ink, Aquamarine, heat emboss with a clear embossing powder.

3.  Die cut your label around the stamped sentiment from cardstock.  Trim your stamped quilt pattern ribbon band and quilt designed squares.

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4.  Paint ScrapFX chipboard lock with Clearsnap Smooch pearlized accent ink, silver fox and coat lock with distressed glossy accents.  Add Zva rhinestones to sentiment label.

5.  Assemble, adhere all embellishments onto Core’dinations Glitter Cardstock card base.

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 Thanks for stopping by the blog today.

Have a creative day today and design some art.

Supplies

Ann Butler 2″ and 1″ Leaves all Over Unity Stamp Co.

Ann Butler Clearsnap ColorBox Crafters Ink, Aquamarine

KellyCraft Innovations Laser Square Ruler

ScrapFx Chipboard, Mini Locks

Zva Creative, Core’dinations Cardstock, May Arts Ribbon, Tombow Adhesive

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Welcome Home EZ DE’S Sign

Today, my dear crafty friends,  I am going to share my Welcome Home sign and I really hope that you like it.

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Welcome Home sign

The idea of this sign came from those kid’s very first houses drawings; those rectangles or squares and triangle roof were my inspiration for this  project. As Ann’s stamps are squares and triangles it was just ” must to do” project. And here it is as a finished sign; add it to a big flower arrangement or put in a nice jar and it can be used again and again.

Welcome Home sign

Welcome Home sign

Each house was hand cut in a different shape after I stamped Ann ‘s stamps over a white thick cardstock. Then I colored the house body with Ann Butler’s Clearsnap Crafter’s Inks and arranged the house  in the final position.  The roofs were stamped with triangle stamps and I tried to fit the roof color to the house and to its neighbours.

I stamped HOME letters with Ann’s delicious alphabet set and added some die cut brick walls around the letters.

Then I added a few of die cut pieces such as Welcome banner and a couple of flowers and butterflies painted with the very same Ann Butler’s inks.

Supply list:

Ann Butler’s products

Other products:

  • Cardstock- American Crafts
  • Dies- Die Versions
  • Bling- Flourish with a Bling
  • Ribbon- May Arts

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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.

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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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Monogram Stamped Note Card Set

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Carmen here and my project this month is a note card set stamped with a monogram and wrapped with a colorful paper strip. It’s super quick and easy and makes a fun last minute gift. I loved working with the big 2″ Ann Butler Flourish letter stamps. They are so pretty! While you’re at it, stamp an assortment of extra letters on white squares along with extra envelopes and cards and set them aside. That way you’ll always be ready to put together a quick gift!

Materials:

Plain Note Cards and Envelopes

Construction Paper – Blue, Green

Tools:

Ann Butler’s EZ-De’s Stamps – Flourish 2″ ABC’s

Ann Butler’s EZ-De’s Stamps – 1″ Rail Fence Set A

Ann Butler Colorbox Crafter’s Ink® by Clearsnap: Lilac, Aquamarine, Limelight, Berry

Stamp Blocks

Velcro® Mini Fasteners – 3/4″ x 3/4″ x 1″ Triangles

Scissors

Glue Stick

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Instructions:

1. Stamp the note cards with Berry ink and the long rail stamp.

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2. Stamp the backs of the envelopes with Lilac ink and your choice of letter stamp. Cut a 2″ square from note card and stamp it with a letter too.

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3. Cut a 2 1/2″ green construction paper square and stamp it with Limelight ink and the diamond patterned stamp. Cut a 10″ x 1″ blue construction paper strip and stamp it with Aquamarine ink and the long rail stamp.

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4. Gather up the stamped note cards and envelopes and wrap the blue paper strip around them. Use a Velcro mini triangle to fasten the strip together. (That way you’ll be able to neatly unwrap the blue strip when you want to use a note card.)  Use glue stick to glue the green paper square to the blue strip and then top that with the white square which you stamped with a letter in Step 2.

See you next time!

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Note To Self Clip Board

I find I am always making lists for myself.  It is a great thing until I forget where I put the list!  So I decided I needed something I could add a magnet to and attach to the fridge to hold my never ending pile of lists!

Basic Supplies: Mini Clip Board, Golden Acrylic Paint, Ann Butler Faux Quilting Stamps, Crafters Ink from Clearsnap, Saying Stamp From Verses.

I started with a blank small clipboard.  I added a couple of coats of paint and let dry.  I then used the 1″ stamp to make a boarder around the edge.  I decided to make yellow the main color.  I changed the direction of the stamp with each color change then stamped the saying in th middle.  I think adding color to your life is always a very wondrful thing.

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Now to attach the magnets to the back and start getting organized!  Hope you all have a wonderful and creative day!

Kristi

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CAS Pretty Hi Card

Steph here today working with Ann Butler’s Crafter’s Ink, Faux Quilting Stamps and EZ-Ds stamps to create this beautiful CAS Pretty Hi card!

Starting with the Doily Picnic stamps, I created the background of my card with Turquoise Crafter’s Ink.  This ink is very moist and needs time to dry before continuing your project.  Heat setting allows the ink to set immediately.

CAS Pretty hi Card

The 2″ alphas were stamped with Sunshine Crafter’s Ink and embossed with Irridiscent embossing powder.  After fussy cutting, I inked the edges with Tangelo Crafter’s Ink.

CAS Pretty hi Card

I tied some ribbon around the card, then placed die cut ovals on top.  The fussy cut  letters were added with glue dots for some dimension.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Steph

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Faux Quilted Note Cards

Back again with another Faux Quilting project using Ann’s wonderful stamps.  I really enjoy the black background and bright colors of a lot of the Amish Quilts, so I decided to recreate that look with some simple notecards that you can make in about an hour!

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Materials:

  • Ann Butler Designs {Faux Quliting} Stamp sets – 2″ Diamonds & Plaid and 1″ Diamonds & Plaids.
  • Colorbox Crafter’s® Ink by Ann Butler – full size ink pads in Tangelo, Lilac, Aquamarine, Sunshine, Berry and Limelight.
  • Tombow – Xtreme Permanent Adhesive Runner and 1/2″ by 1/2″ Power Tabs.
  • Black Cardstock, Orange, Purple, Blue, Pink, Yellow and Green Cardstock, pencil, ruler, paper trimmer, buttons (4), twine, acrylic stamp block, scissors, bone folder, eraser,

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Instructions:

1.) Trim black cardstock to 5″ by 11″ for each card.  Score and fold each card in half.  With a ruler and pencil, measure and mark off a 1/2″ border and a fill in with a 1″ grid.

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2.) Stamp a variety of triangles from the Diamonds and Plaids 1″ and 2″ set, matching up ink colors with cardstock colors.  Let dry.  Cut out triangles.

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3.) Dry fit triangles in the Old Maid’s Puzzle pattern until you are please with the color combinations.  Attach to card with Extreme Permanent Adhesive.  Carefully erase pencil lines.

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4.) Thread twine through button, tie in a knot and trim ends.  Attach to center of card with Power Tabs.

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5.) Write message inside with a Silver Sharpie!

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Thanks for stopping by!  -Beth

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Journal Cover with Faux Quilting Ann Butler’s Stamps

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new monthly post made for Ann Butler’s blog.This time I am going to show you a bit of technique I used to make this altered book cover for my new art/memory journal. The chipboard parts are Tando Creative kit- easy to use and to made your own  altered book.And this is a technique I used here: combo of stamping, heat embossing and painting , all in one.

Step 1: Stamp a pattern (all patterns used here are from Ann Butler’s Faux Quilting Unity sets and you can see the names and the store links later) over metallic  cardstock. (It works over real metal sheets too, but I was short of those).

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Step 2: Heat emboss your stamped patterns with Clear embossing powder

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Step 3: Paint the embossed cardstock with a mix of gold, copper and black acrylic paints. As you can see I use the cheap, craft store paints and not those fancy acid free paints for this cover. Wipe the paint until you have a thin layer  of it left over the stamped image and you like the color. If not- add more of the  paint you want to be seen .

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Step 4 and the last: Those 4 squares here  were made just as a sample (will be used later for the cover corner embellishment cluster), so go on and make dozens of those squares with 2” stamps and let them dry.Cover the chipboard with a nice vintage looked paper; not much is seen after all.Now cut those pieces to uneven rectangles and squares and made your cover  as shown here. Add gold foil tape in between the pieces and be sure to glue it to your cardstock pieces as this ” self- adhesive” tapes are really ” non- adhesive” ones. Paint the chipboard wavy pieces with copper paint, add a bit of copper embossing powder and a splash of black paint and embossing. Add the title.

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And now  I am going to show you my embellishment cluster. I made a punched circle form the 4 pieces square made as a tutorial as my subtitle base. Then I die cut the title with Die-Versions die form copper cardstock and heat embossed it with gold glitter embossing powder. I die cut the heart medallion from the same copper cardstock and inked it a bit with black ink around. All 3 circles were arranged to one central title piece and glued over the die cut flowers branch that was heat embossed with copper glitter embossing powder and copper pearls.

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I hope you like my small tutorial and my finished project and would try to make something similar with those gorgeous Ann Butler’s Faux Quilting stamps.

PRODUCT LIST:

Ann Butler’s products:

Unity Faux Quilting stamps 2” Leaves all over

2” Doily Picnic

Other products:

Clearsnap black pigmented ink

WOW! Embossing Powders clear, copper, glitter gold, glitter copper powders

Tando Creative chipboard book kit

Die Versions dies

FWAB pearls

AC chipboard letters

Marion Smith paper

AC cardstock

See you again next month !

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Faux Quilted Gift Card Holders

Hello everybody, its Vishu here today. We had an awesome summery weekend and I can’t wait to complain about how hot it is after the winter we have had. Today I have a cute girly project to share. This was a quick and easy project made with stuff I had in my craft area.

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Products used:

Cardstock

Ann Butler Faux Quilt 1″ stamps by Unity

Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler

Brads, scallop circle punch, button embellishments

First I cut the cardstock to 7″ X 8″, then score the 7″ side at 1 1/4″ turn the cardstock 180 deg and score again at 1 1/4″. Score the 8″ side at 3″ and 5″. After the score lines I stamped my design and customized them. Fold at the score lines forming a smaller rectangle. Now cut 2 strips 4 1/2″ X 1″ which form the border for the top of the purse and 2 strip of 8″ X 3/4″ strip to form the handles of the purse.

What I loved about using the Ann Butler faux quilt stamps for this project was how easy it was to customize the looks of the purse.

I filled the purse with a gift card and some kisses chocolate.

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That is it for me today, hope you all have a crafty day.

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Cupcake Birthday Card with Faux Quilting Stamps

 

birthday card1Hi everyone,
Paula here with a birthday card for today. I used the Faux Quilt stamps and Crafters Inks to make some cupcake embellishments for this cute little card!

Supplies:supplies

ColorBox Crafter’s® by Ann Butler in Lilac, Berry and Aquamarine
EZ-De’s Sampler Set A
EZ-De’s 1″ Rail Fence Set
Stampin’ Up Cupcake Punch
Cardstock, Patterned paper, Embossing Powder, Glitter

1. Randomly place stamps on a large block. Stamp in Berry on white cardstock.1

2. 2 Using clear embossing powder, heat emboss the first layer.

3. 3 I used a waterbrush, dipping in Aquamarine and Lilac, and colored lightly over the embossed image.

4. 5 After coloring, I heated once again with the heat gun, applied some glitter and heated again.

5. Using Stampin’ Up’s Cupcake punch, cut out 3 cupcakes of this stamped image just created. A great way to make your own embellishments!

The card is layered with a strip of cardstock and patterned paper. Stamp a sentiment of your choice.

Have a great day!

Paula

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