Ann Butler Designs and Walnut Hollow Blog Hop

Hello everybody, I am so excited to be a part of this Ann Butler Designs – Walnut Hollow blog hop and share this project with you. This is a very special project since I made it for my mother for Mother’s Day. My mom loves jewelry, surely I don’t take after my mother when it comes to jewelry, so I thought what better gift than a jewelry box. Right from the beginning I wanted this box to look like made in India with the use of bright colors and sparkles. So here it is……………

And now I want to apologize. When I started working on the project I intended to post step by step photo tutorial but I got so engrossed while working that I completely missed taking pictures so I am going to do a written tutorial instead.

Here is the complete list of the products I used:

Wooden Box from walnut hollow

Wooden beads 

Martha Stewart Crafts Satin Paints

Clearsnap Ann Butler ColorBox Crafter’s Ink

White card stock

 Earth Safe Finishes & Ann Butler Iridescents "Aquamarine"

Ann Butler 1” Doily Picnic Faux Quilt Stamps

Ann Butler's EZ-De's sampler set A

Ann Butler's Flourishes 2" ABC's by kellycraft

Momento black ink

Crystal sheets by prima

Stickles

Liquid glass by close to my heart

Zip dry glue

Painter’s tape

Recipe:

Step 1: glue the wooden beads to the bottom of the box

Step 2: while my glue was drying I painted a piece of white cardstock with Ann Butler Iridescents "Aquamarine"

Step3:   Paint the box, I used Martha steward light orange and mixed some bright orange from Ann Butler ColorBox Crafter’s Ink. I had never used walnut hollow products before but I am loving them, great quality and ready to work surfaces.

Step 4: while the box was drying I stamped the Ann Butler 1” Doily Picnic Faux Quilt Stamp image on the painted cardstock and let it dry while I put on another coat on the box

Step 5: Then I cut the faux quilt stamped images.

Step 6:  Now I did some measuring and using the masked technique, first stamped the borders on the box using Ann Butler's EZ-De's sampler set A stamps, then I glued the cut stamped images.

Step 7: I cut out strips from the crystal sheet and stuck that along the stamped border. I used the prima crystal sheet for the first time, just a slight comment here I had brought two sheets one was the great but the other when I started cutting the strips out the crystals started falling off.

Step 8: to decorate the top I painted the center with Ann Butler Iridescents ink, just love the shine you get with these iridescents inks, I also painted by crystals with the iridescent to give it a slight aquamarine hue and finally to personalize it I put my mom's initial and covered it with the liquid glass to give it a glass effect. I used stickles for some more bling because there can never be too much bling.

Easy pesy. So grab a cup of coffee or tea and hop on over to all the other blogs to be blown away creatively of course and along the way be sure to leave a comment to win a giveaway…………………...I love blog hops.

Ann Butler 

Beth Watson

Connie Hall

Irit Shalom

Kristi Parker 

Larissa Pitman

Lisa Rojas

Paula DeReamer  

Roberta Birnbaum

Steph Ackerman

Vishu Reberholt - you are here

Judi Kauffman

Sara Shirman

Chris Wallace

Emma

Jennifer Priest 

Melissa Cash

Here are few more photos of the finished project. You can click on the pictures for a better view.

Hope you enjoyed the project, let me know if you would like to see a photo tutorial because I am sure my sisters are going to want this box too.

To Enter for the giveaway please leave a comment.  For each blog you leave a comment on, your name will be entered into the giveaway drawing, so be sure to check out the entire Blog Hop for more chances to win!

 

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Teacher Appreciation with Faux Quilt Stamps

Hello everybody, today I want a share a project I made for my daughter's teachers as part of the Teacher's Appreciation Week. We absolutely love my daughter's school and what makes this school so amazing are the teacher's, they are truly wonderful and teach the kids so much. Its truly rewarding to see their little minds take off like they are, feel very blessed. So all the parents wanted to do something special for the teacher's to make them feel appreciated and as part of appreciation week I had prepared 5 question list which the kids were answer for each teacher and then I bounded those cute little answered sheets into a book for the teachers. I was pretty happy with the result.

These were very quick and easy to make, especially with Ann Butler's 1" faux quilt stamps and their unique no edge design.

First I arranged my faux quilt pattern on an acrylic block.

Then stamped my card stock.

In the empty squares I stamped some sentiments like "one of a kind", "you're appreciated", stapled the cover with the sheets and covered the staple with a embossed piece of cardstock. I then personalised each book with the teacher's name first letter using the Ann Butler's EZ De.s Flourishes 2" stamp set by kellycraft, put it on spellbinder's die cut and embellished them with want2scrap rhinestones, I also made some flourishes with stickles. Below are all the 10

Hope you enjoyed this project, I sure did enjoy making them. Thanks for stopping by...........

Customized Faux Quilt stamp background

A very sunny hello to everybody, today its really nice outside which is so uplifting and life seems very sunny. I popping in to share this beautiful card that I made using Ann Butler Designs 1" leaves all over stamp set by unity stamp company and the image is from Chi Chi memories (CCM).

First I stamped the background using Ann Butler Design faux quilt stamps by Unity Stamp Company and Ann Butler Crafters limelight ink, then colored the flowers in the stamped image with copic markers and used stickles to give the paper a sparkly shine, absolutely love the way the background turned out and decided to make it the focal point. The girl image is from CCM which I colored with copics and sentiment is from Just Rite grand sentiments.

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One of a kind.............

Welcome to the first CCM blog hop and boy you are going to enjoy this ride. Today CCM is releasing 4 ADORABLE images and you will want to have everyone of them :)

 So what do you guyz think aren't these must haves. So adorable and versatile and who can resist a little girl's smile. Here is my card with the 'candy girl' image LOVE her.

For my card I printed candy girl image on x press it blending paper and inked her with copic markers, I wanted to add a little sparkle to the bow so I added some glitter before coloring it with copics. Cut the image using Spellbinders marvelous square die and then layered with two lacey squares in yellow, which in turn is layered with a square piece of black and cream cardstock. Made some additional layers with black, green cardstock and a patterned paper.My card base is 6-inch square cream cardstock. To embellish the card I made some paper roses, used lace and rhinestones. Also I sprayed my card which tattered angels sparkly spray not sure if you can see it. Below are some close ups.

Every blog hop comes with some PRIZES and this one is no different CCM is giving 2 single DIGIs and a one time use 50% off coupon for the online store, how EXCITING!!. To be entered into the blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT’s posts listed below by April 7, 2014. All winners will be announced the following week on the CCM Blog.

The CCM design team is show casing beautiful projects which are sure to inspire you all. If you have arrived here from Sandie's blog you are in the right place. If not, please start at the beginning and in the end don't forget to like CCM facebook page visit CCM Blog.

To take a peek at today’s fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below…

o Audrey
o Jessie 
o Karen
o Lynda
o Lysa
o Melissa
o Sandie
o Vishu
o CCM

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Adorable

Isn't she adorable and to top it she is free....absolutely adore this image it makes you want to color her. This card is a little different from my usual style but I love the way it turned out and the color combination. Hand ripped the orange cardstock, embossed it and stuck my girl. Hope you are able to notice the two pearls earrings she is wearing :). Grab her and enter CCM monthly challenge.

 

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Ohhh those products...........

So a few days ago I walk into my craft area just to admire all the crafty goodness I have accumulated , thinking about the clothes/shoes I did not buy because my eyes were set on that one tool or stamp I wanted  instead and I am feeling all happy and excited until of course my eyes catch those products that I brought but for some reason was never able to use them, so now some buyer’s remorse kicks in and I  walk out only to come back 5 minutes later as an awesome idea hit me to use atleast one of the products. 

I made these earrings with acrylic mini tags I had brought………. oh I don’t even remember but probably the first things when I started building my stash. The earrings were so easy to make especially with the earth safe finish iridescent inks, love this product so versatile and easy to use. Here is a small tutorial to show the way I made these but you can use your imagination to create some unique pieces. First I stamped the tag with Ann Butler Unity faux quilt stamp embossed it with clear embossing powder, be sure to keep moving the heat gun a little or else the tags start deforming, then I sponged some iridescent ink to give it a hint of color and shimmer, one of the earring I just sponged the earth finish ink directly on the tag and it dried beautifully used some copper powder did I mention I love the Ann Butler iridescent inks already……to finish my earrings I covered them with a layer of liquid glass.

While making these earrings my 3yr old daughter walks in and asks “what are you making mama”, I said earrings and she looking at my desks quickly says “how many are you making?”………….ok so maybe I got a little carried away but in my books a girl can never have enough earrings :). Thanks for stopping by……