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January 25, 2016 By Beth Watson 2 Comments

Faux Quilted Valentine Heart Door Decor with Background Basics

I love all holidays, I am a holiday celebrating kind of gal, which leads me to create unique and inspirational home decor for the holidays! Valentine’s Day is next on the holiday calendar, so I have created this Faux Quilted Heart door decor with Ann Butler Designs Background Basics stamps and Crafter’s Ink from a Heart Quilt pattern I found on Pinterest. I love using this type of door decor instead of a traditional wreath.

Load Ann Butler Designs ColorBox Background Basics with ColorBox Crafter’s Ink in Bark and stamp on a variety of red and pink cardstock. Cut out all shapes with scissors.

Lay out Heart Quilt pattern on white chipboard until you are please with the colors and composition.

Starting at the bottom of the Heart Quilt pattern, attach each shape to chipboard with Xtreme Adhesive.

Neatly cut out the outside edge of the Heart. If you have any edges that didn’t match up perfectly, fill in the space with a Dual Brush Pen. The fine point on the brush tip allows you to get into all the small spaces perfectly!

Measure and cut a 3 1/2″ by 20″ piece on newsprint cardstock, then cut each end in a fishtail. In the center stamp LOVE with Ann Butler Designs EZ-De’s Flourish 2″ ABC’s with ColorBox Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler Designs in Berry. Fold to create a banner, then attach to center of heart with foam tape.

Cut pink crepe paper streamer in half lengthwise and adhere to back edge of Heart with the Xtreme Adhesive, then attach red crepe paper streamer, over top.

Embellish with clear self adhesive rhinestones.

Attach a ribbon loop to the back of the Heart and hang on the inside your front door.

This Faux Quilted Valentine Heart Door Decor was quick and easy to put together, the hardest part was waiting for the ink to dry! Try mixing and matching your colors and message to personalize your Heart – what message would you stamp? Leave us your ideas in the comments!

Check out additional holiday inspiration on the Ann Butler Designs Instagram!

Thanks for stopping by! -Beth

January 4, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Stamped Valentine’s Day Tote Bag

Hey crafty friends, Einat Kessler with a new project for your inspiration. The new year has started and Valentine’s day will be here before we know it! Here’s a fun Stamped Valentine’s Day Tote Bag with Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps to help you get ready. This month the Creative Team will all be creating with fabric, but as a non-sewer I used a ready made fabric bag. There are a lot of premade fabric products you can use. You can find these little fabric bags anywhere.

This project is pretty easy and doesn’t take a lot of time to create. Here is how I did it.

I arranged a few Ann Butler Designs 1″ Faux Quilting Stamps in a heart shape on my block. I used Ann Butler Designs ColoBox™ Crafter’s Ink to stamp the fabric. This ink works really good on fabric as it does on paper. Just use your heat tool to dry and set it. I rearranged the stamps to form a smaller heart and stamped the image on the bag. I used the vibrant Berry color ink.

Then I cut out a little heart shape and use it as a stencil to stamp smaller heart shapes around the bag.

Now all you need is to fill this bag with lots of candy or chocolate and give it to your Valentine…

Have fun creating!

Einat

December 18, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Custom Stamped Christmas Decorations

Happy holidays everyone! Tammy here, back with a fun Christmas DIY ornament tutorial. I have been seeing clay ornaments all over Pinterest this year, so my daughter and I decided to attempt to make our own Custom Stamped Christmas Decorations. They were so easy to make and we had a blast making them together.

I really love how these turned out, I think they look like mini cable knit sweaters.

Supply List:

Ann Butler Designs 1″ Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Co
Ann Butler Designs Iridescent Powders and Paints from Earth Safe Finishes in Pearl and Russet
Baking Soda
Corn Starch
Water
Heart cookie cutter
Rolling Pin

How I made them:

Clay recipe: Add 1/2 cup cornstarch, 1 cup baking soda, 3/4 cup water, to a saucepan and heat on stove top over medium heat until dough reaches a mashed potato consistency.

Remove from heat and cool until you can roll into a ball.

Use a rolling pin to roll dough to about a 1/4 inch thickness.

I used Ann Butler Designs 1″ Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Co to create texture on top of the ornaments and a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut them out.

I added a small hole to add a ribbon to later. Bake at 175 for about an hour turning half way through cooking time. Make sure ornaments do not brown during baking process.

I painted the ornaments with Ann Butler Designs Iridescent Powders and Paints from Earth Safe Finishes in Pearl and Russet

How cute are these ornaments with the stamped ribbon I made to coordinate with them? I love the custom look of the decorations on my tree, and it is so easy to color coordinate your decorations when you make them yourself 🙂

Tammy

December 7, 2015 By Larissa Pittman Leave a Comment

Christmas Stockings Card

Hello friends. By now you have decorations up and Christmas stockings hanging by the fire. Do you buy or make new stockings every year or do you hang the same ones you have had forever?

I made this cute card using Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps and Crafter’s Ink for you today.

I used:

Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Co Leaves All Over and Stripes Dots and Hearts
Ann Butler Designs ColorBox Crafter’s™ Ink from Clearsnap in Canyon and Evergreen
Die cut stocking
sequins
cardstock
Liquid adhesive

What I did:

I stamped the 1″ stripe stamp from Leaves All Over to cover the entire stocking alternating the direction of the stamp.
I stamped the 1″ stripe stamp from Leaves All Over and Stripes Dots and Hearts over the top portion of the stocking alternating stamp and color of ink.
I added the stitches using a black marker.
I adhered the stocking on a piece of pattern paper and then to the card base.
To finish off the card I added a row of silver sequins to the stocking and a sentiment to the card.

I think again the possibilities with this stocking is endless. So many different patterns you can do.

I hope you enjoyed my post today. Have a wonderful day friends.

Larissa

December 2, 2015 By Steph Ackerman Leave a Comment

Stamped Christmas Tags

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today with some Christmas Tags using some wonderful stamps and inks from Ann Butler Designs.

With Christmas less than a month away, why not create some tags to add to those special gifts you will be giving this year. Using products from Ann Butler Designs, these tags were not only fun to create, they also came together quickly. Set them up assembly-line style and you’ll have them done in no time at all.

Supplies:

ColorBox Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler – Canyon, Limelight, Deep Woods, Evergreen
ColorBox Background Basics Stamps – Picnic1, Checks1, Diamonds1
Spellbinders Dies
Rub-ons
Ribbon
Pointsettias

Begin by stamping office supply tags with a variety of Ann Butler Designs stamps and inks. I didn’t clean my stamps between inking so I had several tags with a mix of red and green inks. Then I inked the edges of the tags before continuing.

Using Spellbinders dies, I die cut an oval for each tag and inked the edges in a variety of colors. I found some Christmas rub-ons in my stash and placed them on the ovals. The ovals were then added to the tags with pop dots for dimension.

Pointsettias were added to each tag.

To finish, I inked ribbon with Limelight Ink before adding the ribbon to the tags.

Thanks for stopping by today.

November 27, 2015 By Larissa Pittman Leave a Comment

Merry Christmas Faux Quilted Card

Hello friends. I hope that all my USA friends had a wonderful Thanksgiving and my non USA friends had a wonderful Thursday. The stretch is on for Christmas cards now. Getting those last minute cards done and in the mail in the next couple of weeks.
Today I made a Merry Christmas Faux Quilting card using my favorite products from Ann Butler Designs.

I used:

Ann Butler Designs Iridescent Powders and Paints from Earth Safe Finishes
Ann Butler Designs 1″ Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Co
Ann Butler Designs ColorBox™ Crafter’s Inks: Canyon, Limelight and Evergreen
White Cardstock
Scotch Adhesive
buttons
Merry Christmas Stamp

Instructions:

Use a piece of watercolor paper and painted lines of Iridescent Paints.
Stamp out four different stamp patterns onto a piece of white cardstock two times.
Cut each 1″ inch square.
Place each of the squares into a quilt pattern.
Adhere them to the watercolor paper with Scotch adhesive.
Add a sentiment Merry Christmas to the top of the card front.
Finish off the card front I added two red buttons to the center of each pattern.

I have said it before and I will say it again. I absolutely love stamping with these Faux Quilting stamps onto paper and cutting them out only to piece them together making a different pattern each time.

I hope you enjoyed my card today. Don’t forget to come back to see what our amazing Creative Team has in store for you. Also, check out our Facebook page www.facebook.com/annbutlerdesigns

Have a wonderful weekend.

Larissa

November 16, 2015 By Design Team 1 Comment

Faux Quilted Christmas Tree Card

Hey crafty friends, Einat Kessler here with a new project! ’tis the season to be jolly…and make Christmas cards. Time is short and there are many cards to make so I’ve come up with a design that will be beautiful, festive but also fast.

Start by arranging all of Ann Butler Designs 2″ Faux Quilting stamps on an acrylic block. Squares and triangles will create a more detailed pattern. Then stamp on white cardstock with Ann Butler Designs Limelight Crafter’s ink by Clearsnap a few times to cover a large area. If you only have a few designs then simply stamp and repeat to cover more paper surface. Cut out three different sizes of triangle tree shapes.

Create a sky background on a white card base with Ann Butler Designs Aquamarine Crafter’s Ink and Aruba Ink by Clearsnap by using a sponge. Attach the trees to the card with foam tape, slightly overlapping to create movement.

Draw little stars on the top of each tree with Ann Butler Designs Art Screen and color with Ann Butler Designs Sunshine Crafter’s Ink. I also add some rays of light around each star. Finally I added Merry Christmas with a black pen.

In order to make a few cards simply cut more triangles and attach to your cards. Then add the stars, a title and you’re ready!

Have fun creating!

Einat

November 13, 2015 By Design Team 3 Comments

Ugly Christmas Sweater Card Video

Hello, lovely people! Heather here with my first post for the design team. Today I have anUgly Christmas Sweater Card Video. Below will be some pictures and my supplies I used as well as a link to my video. For more details on how I made this card click the link below to my video. I hope you all enjoyed this card and thank you so much for stopping by! Have an amazing day.

I used:

Here is a picture of the card front.

And a picture of the inside of the card.

Thank you for joining me today. Please don’t forget to give me a Thumbs Up if you enjoyed my video.

October 30, 2015 By Larissa Pittman Leave a Comment

Quick and Easy Halloween Card

Hello friends, Larissa here today with a fun last minute Quick and Easy Halloween Card.

What I used:

Ann Butler ColorBox™ Crafter’s from Clearsnap Ink: Tangelo, Lilac.
Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Company: 1″ Leaves All Over, 1″ Stripes. Dots. Hearts.
White cardstock and a piece of colored cardstock
Blending tool
Heat Tool
Clearsnap Clear Embossing Powder
ColorBox Crafter’s Ink in Snow
Anti-Static Powder Tool
Velum
Clearsnap Black Ink pad
Halloween sentiment and embellishments
Scotch Extra Strength Adhesive Roller

How I made this card:

I rubbed my anti-static powder tool all over the piece of white cardstock and then stamped the images across the cardstock using the snow ink. Once I was finished I poured the embossing powder over the top being sure to coat it all evenly and then tapped the excess off. I heated the cardstock with the heat tool until it was all melted and shiny.
I took the blending tool and blended the Tangelo and Lilac ink onto the cardstock right over the top of the embossing. The embossing makes the ink resist the color.
I hit the card again once I was done blending the color all over with my heat tool just to make sure it was dry.
I stamped the sentiment twice on a piece of vellum and adhered it onto the card front with a small amount of tape.
I kind of liked the plan card it looked nice and clean and not busy. So to finish it off I added these cute little Halloween cupcakes to the bottom corner.
I adhered the card front to the mat and to the card base again using the Scotch adhesive.

And that was all there is. Super simple. You could use any colors and any sentiment too. I just love the way the ink does not stick to the embossed part.

Have a wonderful rest of your day and Happy Halloween friends.

October 12, 2015 By Design Team 1 Comment

Haunted Mansion Tag with Faux Quilting Stamps

__Hey, crafty friends, Einat Kessler here, with a new spook-tacular Haunted Mansion TAG project! Everybody is in Halloween mode so I’ve joined the party with an easy fun tag. Even though I don’t celebrate Halloween (it’s not a holiday in Israel) I think it’s such a fun holiday and I always enjoy creating projects for this time of year.

This tag is really easy to make. First cover the tag with Ann Butler’s Crafter’s Ink in Tangelo. Use a circular motion and a sponge to create a uniform look. Make the edges of the tag a little more bold by applying more ink.

Then arrange some of Ann Butler’s Designs 1″ Faux Quilting stamps on an acrylic block. To create the mansion I arranged the squares in a building shape but slightly tilted to give it more of a crazy Halloween look. Once you are happy with the arrangement stamp the tag with black ink. Trace all the shape with a black pen.

Add a little of the same Tangelo ink on a piece of scrap white cardstock and then cut out a few windows and a door. Add details with a black pen. I also added a few more details like the spider web and the spider as well as a little balcony and a chimney. I also drew bats flying around. Finally, I wrote the word Halloween in ghostly letters.

This tag can be part of your Halloween decorations, a party favor, a Trick or Treat bag topping etc. The options are endless. Have a Happy Halloween!

Einat