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April 13, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Bookmarks with Background Basics

Hi crafters, Paula here today with some Bookmarks using Background Basics, Ann Butler Designs Iridescents, and Colorbox Crafter’s Inks by Ann Butler Designs. So, you’ve probably seen the technique using shaving cream to make backgrounds. Well, today, I’m using Cool Whip. Yes, yes, you read that right. Cool Whip. Keep reading to see more.

Supplies:

Colorbox Background Basics by Ann Butler Designs in Baskets 1, Checks 1, and Stitch Stamps
Ann Butler Designs Iridescents in Amethyst, Sapphire, and Limelight
Colorbox Crafter’s by Ann Butler Designs in Ocean Breeze, Blueberry and Limelight
Cardstock
Yarn/string for toppers
Corner/angle punch and hole punch
Cool Whip
Spatula

Here’s what I did:

A fun way to make some abstract designs on cardstock is a popular technique using shaving cream. I had read that groups with children used Cool Whip instead. I wanted to give it a whirl. So much fun! The only fallback is that it was a little sticky. I started by putting a couple spoons of the whipped topping directly on my cardstock. Then I took a toothpick and grabbed some Iridescents in three different colors (Amethyst, Sapphire, Limelight) and dropped randomly. Taking a clean toothpick, I did a swirl to mix. I next took my spatula and spread the mixture on the cardstock, then scraping it completely off. It will leave the remains of the colors into almost a marble effect. I had enough mixture left over that I scooped it onto two other sheets of cardstock and did the same thing. Each one had a totally different look.

The next step is to just let the cardstock dry. This is a good project to start one day, let it sit and finish the next to make sure it’s completely dry. I did take a heat gun to it prior to letting it sit.

After the sheets are dry, I cut them into strips, approximately 2″ x 7″. Then using the Background Basics stamps, and Crafter’s Inks, I randomly stamped the images. I then used the ink pads to border the bookmarks.

Once stamping is complete, hit the bookmarks with a heat gun.

Punch holes in the top of the bookmarks. Then using a corner punch, trim the edges of each. Add the yarn/fibers in the holes.

Th. at’s it! Hope you enjoyed this simple, yet fun project. Is a great way to just “play” and a great project for kids. I love the way the Iridescents just shimmer in the light!
Plus, I needed a new bookmark for this awesome book I’m reading.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

April 8, 2016 By Vishu Reberholt 1 Comment

Tag with Ann Butler Designs

Hi, Friends! Vishu here today to share an easy Tag using Ann Butler’s Stitch Stamps. This was a fun and quick tag to create.

I just love the look of Ann Butler Designs crafter’s ink, blending them using a blending tool and using a little bit of water which gave this Tag using Ann Butler Designs a water color look.

Products Used:

Earth Safe Finishes™ Iridescents by Ann Butler Designs – Sapphire

ColorBox® Ann Butler Designs Background Basic Stitch Stamp

ColorBox Crafter’s ® ink by Ann Butler Designs – Limelight, Aquamarine, Ocean Breeze, Berry

Black marker, cool2cast, ribbon, tag, blending tool

Instructions:

First I added ColorBox Crafter’s ® ink by Ann Butler Designs using a blending tool directly on the tag and let dry. These inks give a nice water color effect to the tag. Loveeeee it
Then drew an image on the page using a black marker and then colored the bird using ColorBox Crafter’s ® ink by Ann Butler Designs in berry.
Using cool2cast I poured a heart and let it dry and cure. Then colored it using Earth Safe Finishes™ Iridescents by Ann Butler.
Lastly I stamped images using ColorBox® Stitch Stamp and ColorBox Crafter’s ® ink by Ann Butler Designs to create this Tag using Ann Butler Designs.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and will try some of your own. Thanks for stopping by…….

April 4, 2016 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Embellished Paper Bag with Ann Butler Stamps

Hey crafty friends, Einat Kessler here with a new project! Easter is all behind us, but for me the chaos is up ahead. In about three weeks will be celebrating Passover, which is a major holiday for us Jews. Other than constantly eating in the Seder and family dinners (it’s a week long holiday), it is also customary to bring gifts. So I decided this year to embellish some leftover paper bags that I have and use them to wrap my gifts. This will save me lots of time, as well as money 🙂

I created a very quiet design. I didn’t want the gift wrap to be more beautiful or bold than the gift itself so I kept the design minimal. I used Ann Butler Designs Background Basics stamps to create the lines on the front of my paper bag. I used Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks: Aruba, Lilac, Blueberry colors because not only do I really like them they went well with the gray color of the paper bag and they look kind of festive.

Then I used Ann Butler Designs 3″ Faux Quilting stamps to stamp a white piece of cardstock. I stamped the paper on both sides. Then I punched out three flowers and created a 3D flower. I created three layers to the flower: the bottom layer was left as a punched shape. In the middle layer I cut a slit from the edge to the center and closed the flower by gluing the two petals on each side of the slit together. On the top layer I cut out one petal and glued the flower the same way. I attached the layers together and attached the flower to the front of the paper bag.

Now I need to do this a few more times and my holiday gift wraps are ready! This paper bag can be used for any gift not just for a holiday. and you can create as many flowers as you want to embellish it even more.

Have fun creating!

Einat

October 14, 2015 By Larissa Pittman Leave a Comment

Journal Cards with Ann Butler Designs

Hello friends, Larissa here with you today and I have created a few Journal Cards with Ann Butler Designs products. I love planning in my planner. I am always trying to find new ways to make my own cards or stickers to decorate with.

You will need:

Ann Butler Designs Crafter’s Inks by Clearsnap, Limelight
Ann Butler Designs Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Company
Clear Acrylic Block
Black fine tip marker
Various Planner Stamps
Hole Punch
White Cardstock cut 2 3/4 x4
Scotch Washi Tape

What you will do:

Hole punch your white cardstock where it will fit in your planner.
Stamp the cardstock with the different stamps making sure to cover the entire piece.
Add lines using your black marker.
Stamp out what you want to go on your card. And add Washi Tape.

I made a Grocery List, A Currently creating list, and Bill List. You could make any kind of list or maybe a favorite saying or recipe. I feel like I am always doing something for my planner.

Once you are all done you can place them in your planner where ever you would like.

Hope you enjoyed my post today. Have a wonderful day, friends.

Larissa

August 26, 2015 By Larissa Pittman Leave a Comment

Monogram Watercolor Bookmarks

Hello, friends. Larissa here today with some simple monogram watercolor bookmarks created with Ann Butler Designs Colorbox Crafter’s Inks.

You will need:

Watercolor Paper of your choice
Ann Butler Designs ColorBox Crafter’s™ inks in: Tangelo, Sunshine, Aquamarine, Limelight and Berry
EZ-de’s 2″ Flourish Stamps
Twine
Hole punch

What you will do:

Smoosh your ink pads on your craft mat and spritz with water.
Take your watercolor paper you have cut 2 1/4 x 6 and smash it into the ink. Turning it different directions will help give it different looks. You can also dry in between with a heat gun.
Stamp your Initial in the middle of the bookmark.
Once it is dry you can punch a hole in the center of the top of the bookmark.
Loop twine in the top of the book mark through the hole you punched.

These make awesome little gifts to go with a book for friends. You can also include them in a card you make for a little extra surprise for your friends.

Hope you enjoyed this super simple tutorial post today.

Have a wonderful day, friends.

Larissa

July 31, 2015 By Design Team 1 Comment

Simple Small Tag

Hello everyone,

Zoey’s here to show you a quick and easy way to create simply yet cute backgrounds using ColorBox Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler, Art Screens e Faux Quilting Stamps by Ann Butler.

Products I used are:

ColorBox Crafter’s Ink® by Ann Butler ( Evergreen, Deep woods, Ocean Breeze
Ann Butler Faux Quilting Stamps from Unity Stamp Company
ColorBox® Art Screens by Ann Butler (Stars)

Here’s what I did :

I covered the tag surface with gesso and I let it dry. I wanted to add gesso because the base of my Tag was craft paper, and I didn’t want dark colors, I wanted to keep the brightness of the ColorBox Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler. I used as always the ink pads as water colors and with a brush I added water and colored the background.

I then added some modeling paste through the Stars ColorBox Art Screens by Ann Butler.
I LOVE the fact that these stencils are so thick, it make it so easier when you are looking for a very thick modeling paste look.

I set aside to dry meanwhile I wrote the little sentiment over a scrap paper I had laying around the desk.

When the modeling paste was dry I added some stamp.
I love using Ann Butler Faux Quilting Stamps by Unity Stamp Company because they are small (they also come in bigger version) and they look great even just stamped one time by thereself
I used again ColorBox Crafter’s Ink by Ann Butler for my stamping, and the color is so perfect. The super juicy ink made it easier for me to achieve a great stamping image.

Then what was left to do was adding some flowers and embellish it. I also added a scribbled line with a gel pen and traced around three stars just to make them pop a little.

Stay happy stay creative…till next time!
Ciao Zoey

July 17, 2015 By Beth Watson 2 Comments

Background Basics Faux Quilted Gift Bags and Tissue Paper

I am always scrambling at the last minute for something to package a gift in.

I never seem to have the right wrapping paper or gift bag for the gift I am giving, so I decided to get a head start by creating some quick and easy Background Basics Faux Quilted gift bags with coordinating tissue paper. This way I can mix and match to create a variety of color schemes that are perfect for the giftee!

Here’s what you will need:

Ann Butler Crafter’s® Ink by Clearsnap – Limelight, Aquamarine, Sunshine, Lilac and Berry
Colorbox® Background Basics Stamps by Ann Butler – Checks, Diamond, Basket and Picnic
Tissue Paper – Fuchsia, Turquoise, Yellow, Lavender and Green; Kraft Gift Bags; Scissors; Baby Wipes.

Here’s how to make it:

1.) Load Background Basics stamps with Ann Butler Crafter’s Ink and stamp on the like colored tissue paper. Repeat with all stamps until tissue paper surface is covered. Set aside to dry.

2.) Load Background Basics stamps with Ann Butler Crafter’s Ink and stamp on front and back of kraft paper gift bag. Set aside to dry.

3.) Fill bag with tissue (and GIFT) and use for all of those last minute gifting opportunities that arise! These would make great goodie bags for a Birthday or Anniversary Party as well!

Thanks for stopping by! -Beth

April 29, 2015 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Stamped and Stacked: Flower Favor Boxes

Hi everyone! It’s Carmen and today I’m going to share with you a fun and easy way to take a plain jewelry box and make it a super festive favor box by adding a little bit of stamped cardboard. I love to craft with cardboard – you can get it for free and the plain kind comes in so many different color variations and thicknesses. And if you cut the cardboard into large shapes, the large area of the 3″ Ann Butler Background Basics Stamps work really well for stamping in one take which is a real timesaver if you’re making a lot of these for a party or event. Here’s how:

Materials:

Ann Butler’s ColorBox® Background Basics Stamps by Clearsnap – 3″ Basket 1, Checks 1, Picnic 1

Ann Butler Crafter’s Ink by Clearsnap: Deep Woods, Evergreen, Ocean Breeze, White, Berry, Canyon

Cardboard

Ribbon

Assorted buttons

Kraft paper jewelry boxes

Beacon Fabri-Tac Permanent Adhesive

Tools:

Sizzix die cutter & flower and circle dies, scissors

Instructions:

1. Use the die cutter machine and dies to cut the cardboard into various sized flower and circle shapes.

2. Stamp the cardboard shapes. I love how the Ann Butler inks look against the cardboard!

3. Cut a length of ribbon and around the box placing the box on the side. (I used a ribbon that I stamped a while back ago with Ann Butler stamps and inks.)

4. Build a little stack of shapes from large to small and adhere everything together with drops of Fabri-Tac Adhesive in between the layers. Glue buttons to the top of the cardboard shapes to finish.

How fun is that? Try making these in different color combinations for holidays, showers and weddings. And instead of cardboard try using white matte board for a totally different look. Happy stamping!

November 24, 2014 By Design Team Leave a Comment

Mixed Media Tag – Life is good

Hello Crafters!

Zoey‘s here again for another mixed media project!
If there is something that I love, that would experimenting new things (at least that are new for me!) ! I love to start my projects with one idea and then end up with something else because in the process, there is in the back of my head my little “talking cricket” that whisper to me “why don’t you try that!”.

To create this tag I used :

I started by smudging Ann Butler’s Crafter’s Inky by Clearsnap over an acrylic block. In the image you see I used Berry , Tangerine and Sunshine.

I spritzed over the acrylic block a bit of water, waited two seconds and the I let my piece of paper completely adhere to the block. I waited other few seconds to make sure the ink soaked into the paper completely. This was my first time trying to have a watercolor effect with Ann Butler’s Crafter’s Inky by Clearsnap…and I have to tell you that I was quiet impressed by the result I got!

I also wanted to give a really little detail by stamping with white ink and Ann Butler Design Faux Quilting Stamp. The result is very very subtle …but that was what I was looking for

I kept stamping using the same color ink and another stamp from Ann Butler Design Faux Quilting Stamps.

I cut my paper into a tag shape and then I wanted to experiment a little bit more. Since the first watercolor effect attempt worked just fine, I wanted to see if I was going to get the same result by applying color with a brush. And….yes! Even this time the result was what I was looking for. So I added color where the paper was white.

I was really happy with the result of this experiment, for me it was a new thing with this ink pads, and I really hope you will give it a try as well!
Here is a photo of a small detail. As you notice my edge are dark. To achieve this result all I did was applying color directly to the edge and then with a wet brush I let the ink blend into the rest of the paper!

And that is all for today! I hope you had fun and got inspired…stay happy stay creative, till next time!

Ciao, Zoey

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!