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July 10, 2015 By Vishu Reberholt 1 Comment

Hello, my crafty friends, Vishu here, to share this quick and easy faux quilted stamped card.

Design Star Vishu created a Faux Quilt Card with Ann Butler Designs #fauxquilting #cards #annbutlerdesigns

I think the card turned out very elegant, oh how I love, love Ann Butler stamps and inks the possibilities are truly endless.

Products Used:

Ann Butler Design 1″ Faux Quilt Stamps by Unity Stamp Company

ColorBox Crafter’s® by Ann Butler – Sunshine, Tangelo, Desert Sand, Ocean Breeze

Cardstock, sentiment stamp, rhinestones

Instructions:

1. Lay your quilt pattern using the Ann Butler Stamps on an acrylic block

2. Ink your pattern/stamps and stamp on a white cardstock

3. Using the sunshine and tangelo ink pads I added some color to my faux quilt pattern

4. Stamp your sentiment and layer it.

5. I attached my white cardstock on a black card base to make the colors pop.

6. attached the sentiment with foam glue dots and embellished using rhinestones.

I just love the look of this faux quilted stamped card with Ann Butler Designs.

July 6, 2015 By Design Team 1 Comment

Hey, crafty friends, Einat Kessler here with a new project! I’ve been wanting to do a Faux Quilted Baby Card for a long time!

So I started with creating a pattern with an assortment of 1″ Faux Quilting stamps. I used Colorbox Crafter’s ®Ink in Aquamarine which is a perfect light blue color. I stamped a white paper and created a 4″ x 5″ square.

Design Star Einat shows you how to make a beautiful baby card using Faux quilting stamps #annbutlerdesigns, #babycards #fauxquiltingstamps

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I cut it out and added faux black stitches with a black pen to create a blanket look and make it softer and more compatible with the baby theme.

I added a fee buttons in coordinating colors and the word Baby with chipboard letters.

You can easily create the same card for a girl by using Ann Butler Designs Colorbox Crafter’s Ink® in Berry.
Of course, you can be totally untraditional and use other colors too 🙂

Thanks for stopping by and have fun creating!

Einat

May 4, 2015 By Steph Ackerman Leave a Comment

Background Basics Mini Card Set

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today with a quick and easy Background Basics Mini Card Set.

Gather up some cardstock, flowers, brads, punches as well as Ann Butler Designs Stamps and Inks from Clearsnap and these cards come together in less than 30 minutes.

Ann Butler’s new foam stamps from Clearsnap come in 3″ square and 3″ triangles and 4 different styles.

Using Ann Butler’s Crafter’s Ink in Aquamarine, Canyon and Blueberry, I stamped three different faux quilting stamps on white cardstock. I cut around them leaving a little border which I then inked with the same color used on the stamps.

I cut cardstock 3 1/2″ x 7″ and folded to create 3 1/2″ square cards. The stamped panels were centered on the cards. Flowers were added to the corner and the sentiment were stamped with the same color as the quilted pattern.

I’m thinking of making several more of these cards and giving them as gifts. What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by today.

My blog.

April 3, 2015 By Steph Ackerman Leave a Comment

Burlap “Just Saying Hello” Card

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today with a Burlap “Just Saying Hello” Card using Ann Butler Designs Iridescents and Crafter’s Ink.

The colors are gorgeous and can be used with your fingers or a paint brush.

I recently found some printed burlap and decided to see how the Iridescents would work on the burlap.

Using Aquamarine, Limelight, Sheer Copper and Sheer Silver Iridescents, I painted each flower.

I frayed the burlap panel and adhered it to cardstock panels using brads. A little touch of ColorBox Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler in Limelight was added around the panels and the edges of the card. I added a simple sentiment in the upper left corner.

I also came across a burlap bird clip so I decided to paint him with Aquamarine Iridescents. For his stand, I used Limelight Iridescents.

The sentiment was added to the clip and can easily be changed out.

If you haven’t played with Iridescents yet, get ahold of some.

Thanks for stopping by today.

My blog.

March 27, 2015 By Larissa Pittman Leave a Comment

Simple Stenciled Watercolor Card

Good morning friends, Larissa here today with a Simple Stenciled Watercolor Card.

As I said in my Wednesday post I am obsessed with water coloring. I think it is because it is not only easy but I love the way the colors kind of just fall into place. You can paint in lines and have a beautiful creation but I am talking about adding water to your brush picking up some ink and swiping it on the paper.
Today again I did just that. I grabbed my re-inkers in Aquamarine, Limelight and Sunshine. I added a drop to my glass working space and then picked it up with a wet brush. This time I used a larger brush and just swiped it across the paper.

I did add a little more ink here and there using less water just to brighten things up. After the ink dried completely I grabbed my modeling paste and the Lattice Art Screen by Ann Butler Designs and ColorBox. I smoothed the paste over the top of the screen in a couple of places. I let it dry while I rinsed off my art screen. (It did take a little longer.)
Once it was dry I stamped a HELLO sentiment on a piece of white cardstock with ColorBox Black ink. I popped it up on the card using a piece of foam tape.

Again I encourage you to get out your ink pads or re-inkers, a brush and a cup of water. You will not be sorry.
Thank you for popping in today and have a wonderful weekend, friends.

ColorBox Crafter’sÂ® by Ann Butler Aquamarine

Colorbox Crafters by Ann Butler Limelight

ColorBox Crafter’sÂ® by Ann Butler Sunshine

ColorBoxÂ® Art Screens – By Ann Butler Lattice

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March 20, 2015 By Design Team 1 Comment

Stamped and Stenciled Watercolor Card

Hey, crafty friends! Einat Kessler here with an easy, fast and fun idea for a Stamped and Stenciled Watercolor Card.

I needed to make about 20 cards and needed them fast. So I came up with a really fast idea with a colorful fun effect.

I started with putting some of Ann Butler’s Crafter’s Inks on my craft sheet and sprayed it with water. This created a kind of a watercolor consistency to the ink and was perfect for the next step.

I took a card and pressed it against that colorful watery surface. The card was covered with a colorful background that looks exactly like a really pretty water coloring. Then a repeated the process with a white piece of cardstock.

After everything was thoroughly dried I cut five different size hearts from the white cardstock. The beautiful thing about these hearts is that they all got the same colors but they all different because they were cut from different parts of the paper.

I stamped them randomly with Ann Butler’s 1″ Stripes.Dots.Hearts stamp set and the Berry ink. I also stenciled the hearts with the Ann Butler’s Wave Art Screen and black ink. Then I attached the hearts to the card and added Love You on the bottom.

You can personalize the card by cutting a different shape like circles, stars or even letters and add a different sentiment.

Have Fun Creating!

Einat

March 16, 2015 By Beth Watson 1 Comment

Monogram Faux Quilted Note Cards

My sister in law is the queen of the Thank You card, so I have created some bright and cheery monogrammed and faux quilted note cards that she can personalized for any occasion.

Materials:

Ann Butler’s ColorBox® Background Basics Stamps by Clearsnap – 3″ Picnic, Checks, Diamonds and Basket

Ann Butler Crafter’s® Ink by Clearsnap – Ocean Breeze, Limelight, Aquamarine and Lilac
EZ-De’s Flourish 2″ABC’s
Cardstock – natural, black, lilac, lime, aqua and blue, Westcott paper trimmer and scorer, Scissors, acrylic stamp block, baby wipes and off-white colored pencil.

Instructions:
1) Stamp each of the four Background Basics stamps in each of the Crafters Ink colors on natural cardstock, let dry.

2) Place 2″ Flourish monogram on acrylic stamp block, ink with crafters ink in night and stamp in the center of each faux quilted color block, let dry.

3) Trim each of your sixteen color blocks to 3″ square. Measure and cut four 3 1/2″ squares from each of the four colors of card stock. Mount stamped color blocks on contrasting colored cardstock with adhesive runner.
4) Measure and cut sixteen black cardstock rectangles to 4 1/4″ by 5 1/2″. Then score at the 4 1/4″ mark and fold in half.
5) Mount the framed stamped color blocks on to the card blanks with adhesive runner. Write caption under color block with off white colored pencil.
6) Stack cards together and tie with a ribbon. Give as a gift with the off white colored pencil for thank you note writing!

Thanks for stopping by! -Beth

March 9, 2015 By Larissa Pittman Leave a Comment

Water Coloring with Ann Butler Designs Inks

Good afternoon friends. Larissa here with a card I made by Water Coloring with Ann Butler Designs Inks from Clearsnap.

By mixing a couple of drops of ink refill and a few drops of water you can turn any of Ann Butler Designs Colorbox inks into beautiful water colors.

I first stamped an image in Colorbox ink and embossed it in Colorbox Clear powder.
I heated it with my heat gun to dry.
I then used Ann Butler Designs Colorbox Inks in Berry, Tangelo, and Sunshine and mixed it with water. I painted it on the flowers. I used Evergreen for the stems.

I took the Ann Butler Designs Colorbox Ink in Blueberry and used it for the background of the entire card.

I really love this technique of using the inks as watercolors. You have complete control over how much color you want to use.
I also love using the clear embossing powder when I watercolor.

I hope you enjoyed today’s post. And I hope I inspired you to try water coloring with ink.

Have a wonderful week, friends.

February 26, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Stenciled Rainbow Card

Hi everyone! Paula here with today’s project. I think many can relate to this statement, but “I am SO ready for spring!!” Living in the midwest, there’s quite a bit of white this time of year. I need some color. Today’s card is a bit of a bright rainbow, and a very simple one at that.

MATERIALS:

Colorbox Crafters by Ann Butler in Canyon, Tangelo, Berry, Sunshine, Ocean Breeze, Aquamarine, Evergreen, Limelight, Lilac
Colorbox Art Screens by Ann Butler in Lattice
Colorbox Embossing Powder in Clear
Sponges, Sentiment stamp, coordinating cardstock, scrap paper, tape

I started by putting a small amount of adhesive on the back of my card to secure it in place. I then placed the Colorbox Art Screen over my cardstock, and also taped that down to secure it.

Now the fun part–I started with each ink color, and sponging each color individually across the artscreen. Holding a piece of scrap paper over the art screen holes that I “am not” using, I sponged the color I wanted in the openings.

Before I removed the tape, I heat set it. Once removing the tape, the second photo is what it looked like. I then took the sponges for each color and blended across each diagonal, adding a little color to the edge as well.

Using a sentiment stamp, I sponged differing colors across it, in the same order that I used on the background. By the time I finished putting each color on the stamp, they are not as “wet” as when they were first inked. I huffed on it, then stamped onto a smaller piece of white cardstock. This will make the ink moist enough to have vivid colors. I then added embossing powder, and heat set that. I sponged each of the colors around the edge of this card, and double matted it with two coordinating colors. Mount to the background and that’s it!

I said it was simple! Hope you enjoy. Have a great day!

Paula

February 23, 2015 By Design Team 3 Comments

Watercolored Background Basics

Hello it’s Graciellie and today I want to share a very cool technique with you. It’s an easy technique to give your stamped Background Basics patterns a watercolored look. Ann’s Crafter’s Inks are perfect for this technique because of their special formulation. I have a very easy to follow tutorial below so you can try this technique too!

1. Use sponge daubers to apply different colors of Ann’s Crafter’s Inks to a section of the stamp. I used the new Background Basic Checks 1 stamp that has different rows of squares which worked great with this technique.

2. Spray a moderate amount of water using a spritzer to wet the ink on the stamp.

3. Stamp on white cardstock. A white background is ideal to allow the colors to stand out, but you can try stamping on any cardstock color you wish for a different effect.

4. Allow to dry and use on any desired paper crafting project.

I used this technique to stamp two kinds of textured cardstocks, linen and leather textured. The texture shows through the stamping adding a very nice effect to the watercoloring look. When you do watercolor stamping you’ll notice some cardstocks absorb better than others. The more the cardstocks absorb the moisture of the stamp the better the colors will blend. Just so you know I didn’t even have to use watercolor cardstock to stamp… That’s how well Ann’s stamps and inks work with a bit of water!

I made a birthday and a friendship card with the resulting stamped pieces. I wanted them to have clean designs to let the background stand out! Can you imagine all the possibilities with this technique? I hope you are inspired to try it out. All supplies used are linked below!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Make sure you visit us again soon for another fun tutorial!

– Gracie

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Checks 1 Background Basics	Tangelo Crafter’s Ink	Crafter’s Ink – Aquamarine	Crafter’s Ink – Limelight	Lilac Crafter’s Ink by AB	Berry Crafter’s Ink by AB
ColorBox Art Daubers	Crafter’s Tape Permanent Glue Runner-.31	Tacky Glue	Titanium Paper Trimmer	Titanium Non-stick Scissors