Summary of 2024 projects using Anna Griffin products

 Here are a few projects I completed with Anna Griffin products:

 

Made a Valentine’s Day card for my hubby using Carte Canton Bleu as base, topped with Romantic stickers and sentiments. 

Love the Carte Canton Bleu collection. The pretty blue color reminds me of the classic Chinese vase and other art. 

This card was featured on Anna's Feb 15th, 2024 Craftspiration. 

 

 

 

 

 

  

I made these birthday cards at our AZ Griffin Gals Spring Convention a couple of weeks ago. Had fun using the 3D mini birthday cake die set and birthday wishes embellishments and meeting up with all my Griffinite friends! 

These cards were featured on Anna's April 11th, 2024 Craftspiration. 

 

 

 

  

I scrapped an older picture with heirloom paper and embellishments. Love using the new journaling tags cut and emboss folders. They are perfect for any scrapbook pages.

This layout was featured on Anna's April 25th, 2024 Craftspiration. 

 

 

 

 

 

I had fun making this layout with the beautiful papers and embellishments from the Wildflower Meadow scrapbook kit. The picture frame and borders were made with Wildflower Meadow frame and die set and 3D ribbon border dies. 

This layout was featured on Anna's July 18th, 2024 Craftspiration. 

 

 

 

 

 

I used paper from the Lian Multicultural Cardstock collection and a Floral 12" Border Sticker for this travel layout. The title is from Wildflower Meadow Papercraft Kit and the embellishments were made with Spellbinder's Lena Fok lantern die and AG's Christmas Wishes Luxury Matte Foil.  

This layout was featured on Anna's October 17th, 2024 Craftspiration.

 

 

 

  

I crafted with some friends at a Friendsgiving crop. I love how pretty the Lilian paper collection is. I also used the 3D Ribbon Border Dies and Floral Border Stickers as embellishments.

This layout was featured on Anna's December 5th, 2024 Craftspiration
 

Summary of 2023 Projects using Anna Griffin products

Here's the remainder of the projects I did for the year 2023 using Anna Griffin products.  

 

I dug up some old pics of a daughter-father dance and used the floral papers from CAH and made this layout.

This spread was featured on Anna's March 2nd, 2023 Craftspiration. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I made my husband this Father's Day card using AG's cigar labels. I haven't crafted for a while so it feels wonderful to be back at it again.  

This card was featured on Anna's June 22nd, 2023 Craftspiration.  

 

 

I made a few AG Flower Cart birthday cards for my friends. It was 116F outside and the best way to beat the heat was to craft indoors LOL!  

These cards were featured in Anna's July 20th, 2023 Craftspiration.  

 

 

 

My daughter and I visited Greece together recently after her semester abroad in Europe. I love how blue the sky and ocean were. I used AG's Canton Bleu paper and embellishments to highlight those beautiful blues. I'm in love with these blues in this Mother's Day layout. I used the border and frame de from Crop at Home 2 for accents. 

This layout was featured on Anna's July 13th, 2023 Craftspiration. 

 

 

 

 

Making 24 cards for my crafty friends. I did a flat version of the snow globe card using AG's snow globe dies, cartouche cut and emboss folders and Christmas bontanical pattern card stockl It was a lot of fun making these. 

These cards were featured on Anna's December 28, 2023 Craftspiration . 

Lunar New Year Card

Growing up, I loved celebrating Chinese New year with my family. I had such fond memories that I tried to create the same festive atmosphere at home for my kids with special food and decorations. 

However, this is my first year making a Lunar New Year card. The reason I decided to make one this year is because of Anna Griffin's Carte Canton Bleu Finishing Box. The blue vases in the kit reminded me of the beautiful antique vases that my parents had in their home. So I dressed the embellishments up with a little bit of red, pulled out my Chinese Greetings die cut set, together with a cherry blossom die from Hero Arts and Anna Griffin's 3D fantastic fan die and created the card. It is featured in Anna's blog in her Craftspiration - Jan 12, 2023 post.

The sentiment is in Chinese, meaning "blossoming flowers bringing good luck."

A few more cards made in 2022 with Anna Griffin products

In 2022, I made some thank you cards for friends who supported my Go2 foundation for lung cancer 5K walk. I used Anna's Wildflower Garden Collection, 3D Butterfly dies and Cartouche Cut and Emboss folders. It was a lot of fun making them. 

I'm honored to see these being features on Anna's blog in her Craftspiration - August 18, 2022.

 

For my anniversary, I made my hubby a card from Anna's Fantastic Flip Die 2. It was featured on Anna's blog in her Craftspiration - September 29, 2022. 

I also made some cards for my church's caring ministry. I used Anna's Inspirational Collage Card Topper. I made the embellishments with her Pleated Ribbon Die. These cards were featured in her Craftspiration - October, 2022 post. 

New cards made with Anna Griffin products

Lately, I've been using a lot of Anna Griffin's products, for feminine cards and also for those milestone scrapbook pages. 

I am honored to see a few of my cards have been featured in Anna's blog. The first set was featured in her Craftspiration - May 5th, 2022 blog. The two cards were sympathy cards that I needed to send quickly. I was sad to hear of the losses but the "inspiration card toppers" made it easier to put the card together. It was also a pleasure to work with the die and embossing folders from her "wildflower craft box". 

The next set of birthday cards were fun to make. I used Anna's oval easel die, her flourish die and treasury die and stamp sets to create the sentiments. These cards are featured in Anna's Craftspiration - May 25th, 2022 blog. 

March PPC Paper Pad Challenge

 I haven't done any challenges for a long time, and the PPC challenge is just the right one to start out again.  It is a 'use your paperpad' challenge and I used Basic Grey Serendipity & Shine On pad for these two birthday layouts.  I was able to dig up some old Thickers, leftover chipboard from an old BG calendar kit and a K&Co rub-on.   This is the perfect 'use your stash' projects.

Simple yet beautiful card kits in bulk

With the use of Queen & Co foundation and sentiment dies, I find that it's very easy to make simple yet beautiful card kits in bulk for a fun card-making gathering.   I recently made 30 of these (1 card kit, 2 styles)  for our church's women fellowship, and the feedback from my gracious friends was very positive!   Similarly these can be used for teenage outreach program or nursing homes.   It is a fun way to get everyone together and craft.  

It is particularly useful during this time of pandemic since it's hard to have large group congregate (we don't want any super spreader events though we do want to spread the love) and many gatherings have to be on Zoom.  As we can't share tools in person, having these card kits ready makes crafting a breeze.  It is easy to include a simple instruction or video along with the kits.  I think I will do more of these in the future.  

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