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July 11, 2014 By Larissa Pittman Leave a Comment

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.

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……

Unity Stamp Co Ann Butler 1″ Stripes.Dots.Hearts	*Fiskars Compact STAMPING PRESS Stamp Entire Project at Once! 02958	ColorBox Crafter’sÂ® by Ann Butler Sunshine	ColorBox Crafter’sÂ® by Ann Butler Aquamarine
Colorbox Crafters by Ann Butler Limelight	Unity Stamp Co Kit of the Month “Hey Girl”	*Doodlebug SWIMMING POOL Sequins	*3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4″” Adhesive Glue Gun
The Stamps of Life birthday4cookie stamp set

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July 8, 2014 By Design Team 2 Comments

Monogram Stamped Note Card Set

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

Instructions:

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

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.

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.

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!

July 4, 2014 By Steph Ackerman Leave a Comment

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.

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.

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

June 30, 2014 By Beth Watson 2 Comments

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!

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,

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.

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.

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.

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

5.) Write message inside with a Silver Sharpie!

Thanks for stopping by! -Beth

June 17, 2014 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Cupcake Birthday Card with Faux Quilting Stamps

Hi 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:

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.

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

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

4. 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

June 2, 2014 By Design Team 1 Comment

Watermark Card w/ EZ-De’s Flourish Alphabet

Happy Monday, stampers! Nicole here and I am back with another clean & simple card using EZ-De’s ABC Stamp Set, designed by Ann. Watermark stamping is one of my favorite stamping techniques, because you can create such an elegant look with a very minimal effort! This is perfect way to create a nice, detailed background on a card.

You can choose any colored cardstock, but my favorite cardstock for this technique is a kraft cardstock. I think it captures the wet-watermark look really nicely and make the background shine so well.

ABC stamp set is perfect because you can create a “classic look” background with awesome details.

TIP: I took out some alphabets from the set and created a “love” word cluster. Then inked it up with Versamark Ink Pad and stamped them randomly.

TIP: By “randomly,” I mean stamping the word on a somewhat centered area first and then stamping the rest of the area however you like. This way, you can create a natural looking background and still make sure the word “love” shows well in the main focused area.

This technique is a perfect way to stretch your stamp set! Give this technique a try – it’s simple, easy and fast! I hope you enjoyed my quick tutorial for this month. Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,

Nicole P.

May 30, 2014 By Design Team 1 Comment

EZ-De’s Stamped Graduation Card

Hi everyone. Paula here with today’s project. It’s Graduation season and we have LOTS of graduation open houses to attend. With having so many parties, I needed some “quick and simple” cards.

Supplies:
Card base – White cardstock 8.5″ x 5.5″, folded for 4.25″ x 5 .5″ final size
Cardstock – black (used for mat), cut to 3.5″ x 4.75″
Cardstock – white, cut to 3.25″x 4.5″ and small scrap piece
Oval chipboard (this is old, so unsure which company to credit)
Corduroy brads – Stampin’ Up (retired)
Ez-De’s 1″ Rail Fence Set Ann Butler Designs
Faux Quilting by Ann Butler 1″ Leaves all Over
Earth Safe Finishes Silver

Step 1: Using the 1″ stripe from the Rail Fence Set A, ink and off stamp on scrap paper first. I wanted a very random pattern as my background, so I would stamp in vertical, then horizontal directions. (Please note that this image is not what I finally used- I started doing all one direction but I didn’t like it).

Step 2: I used a 1″ from the Leaves All Over set, stamp the entire background. If you “slightly” overlap the rows, you will get an appearance of a thin border in between.

Step 3: Adhere the cardstock layers together.

Step 4: I used a sponge with black ink to color the chipboard. I then used the Earth Safe Finishes in silver to give a shimmer, rubbing it over the edge with my finger.

Step 5: Stamp a sentiment of your choice on a scrap piece of white cardstock. I cut this to size to fit under my chipboard. Adhere to the back of the chipboard. Put the brads in the chipboard (I did not push these through the cardstock – this piece just has adhesive on the back and attached the card base.

And as mentioned – VERY quick and simple! If you’re doing an assembly, you can do multiple of these, or switch it up and change the designs, which is what I did!

Have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Paula

May 26, 2014 By Design Team 1 Comment

EZ De’s Pop-Out Blocks Card

Happy Monday! This is Roberta bringing you a fun pop-out card using Ann’s Flourish Alphabet stamps.

Supplies

Ann Butlers EZ-De’s Flourish Alphabet stamps

Archival Ink – Jet Black

Maya Road paper twine

Recollections Butterfly punch

Instructions

Card base 11 1/2 x 8

1. Score at 3.5″ and 7″ on long side. Create a mountain and a valley fold.

2. Close the valley fold and cut in 2″ at the following; 3/8, 2 3/8, 2 3/4, 4 3/4, 5 1/8, 7 1/8, 7 1/2

3. for narrow panel cut mat 1 1/4 x 7 3/4, and then cut top paper at 1 1/8 x 7 5/8

4. for other panel cut mat at 1 1/4 x 7 3/4 and then cut top paper 1 1/8 x 7 5/8

5. stamp your letters on a 2″ square piece of white cardstock and adhere to each ‘block’.

Decorate rest of card to your taste.

May 23, 2014 By Design Team 2 Comments

KISS Stamping Card with Faux Quilting Stamps

Happy Friday! Nicole here with a colorful card to share with you all- Rainbow colors have been my current favorite color combination and I wanted to use the Checkered Woven Hearts Stamp Set along with those colors.

Smaller rectangular images were the one I was going for, so I decided to create just that with KISS stamping technique.

You are going to take out a solid stamp set to ink up the colors. I used a small rectangular stamp from my stash and inked it up with Ann’s Crafter’s Ink Pads. They are juicy and bright, perfect for KISS technique!

After inking up your solid stamp set, take out a patterned stamp and put it right on top of the solid stamp, by making them “KISS.” This way your stamp would lift up the colors only where the solid stamp set can reach with its size. So now I have this customized size image to stamp on my card! It is so easy and simple.

I stamped two rows of this image to stamp on the card layer. I think this is a perfect way to bring in lots of colors to the limited stamping space.

Hope you enjoyed my project for today! Thanks for stopping by!!!

Hugs,

Nicole P.

May 12, 2014 By Larissa Pittman 3 Comments

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.

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

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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