My Own Paper Project Runway with Anna Griffin

I am posting another of my paper dresses made to fit a Barbie size mannequin.  This one is made with Anna Griffin's Fan dies. The photo above and below are of the front view.

 I scored the top layer of the skirt, and trimmed it at the top, to make it fit the dress form.  The top layer is made with 3 fans.  The bottom layer is made with 4 fan layers.  I added some iridescent sequin flowers, pink pearls, and iridescent round sequins.  A rolled paper rose, a bit of ribbon, and a stamped white flower.  For the base skirt I used Anna's Scoring Wheel Tricks Cricut Cartridge.  I removed the scoring lines from the cut circle and used a 12 x 12 piece of paper.  I hand cut the white paper lining to the front and back bodice lining.  I used some liquid glue and my glue gun on this project.  Below is the back view.

Faux Folk Art with Cricut and Copic Markers

 

I have been obsessing over folk art painting on Pinterest this week and have been wanting to try this look with my Cricut.  So, last night I gave it a try and hope you like my results as much as I do.  

Here is the inspiration folk art piece and the link.

I started with Cricut and cut a dark blue folk art image from the Paper Lace 2 Cartridge.  I cut the light blue doily from Anna's Spendid Soirees and hit most of the cuts except the outside row.  The sentiment is also Anna Griffin.  I cut a plain white circle to back up the folk art cut.  The dark blue leaves are cut from card stock.  I used Copic markers, and a white colored pencil to color and then finished off with some Stickles, and The Robin's Nest Dew Drops.  

To color the flowers and get them they way I wanted I used my Cricut Bright pad.  I placed the dark blue on the bottom, placed the white paper on top and taped it using some low tack tape.  Then I colored with the Copics and went a little outside the lines.  I flipped this over when done coloring, so that the blue was on top and the white on the bottom.  

The borders are created with SU border punches.  And the light blue strip at the bottom with the blue pattern was made with an SU stamp set.  I borrowed this stamp years ago at a crop and had this piece in my scrap stash.

Copics used BV00, V09m V04, B21, B32, B34, and B66. 

Have Your Own Color Challenge

I am a serious paper crafter, but sometimes I miss the rhythm and the soothing quality of crochet.  So, this weekend I wanted to crochet on some Anna Griffin.  I started with the Anna Griffin Nifty Nested Layers. This was another very generous AG kit.  So, I was looking for a way to make a new look with the Nifty Nested Layer, and decided to use crochet.  I learned this technique years ago from Lolly Chops, and you actually do a blanket stitch first and then crochet around the blanket stitch.  I used a fringe yarn, because I love the look. 

After the crochet, I took a look through my other Anna Griffin products and found the flocked paper base, the die cut lace, the foil paper in the border of the lace paper, the journaling die, and even a border sticker.  I could not get over that border sticker and how it pulled the whole page together!  It was the only border sticker in that pack I thought I would never use.  I saw it and thought of those 70's kitchens with the yellow counters and appliances.  It is a beautiful if color, you just have to use it sparingly!

So, I would like to encourage you to get out that yellow trim, or photo and scrap it with some beautiful blue and brown and Anna Griffin!  Just keep the yellow to a minimum, make blue your main color, then brown and yellow last.  It's that old addage, Gallon, Quart, Pint proportion rule applied.

Thanksgiving Page

 

Another page, I created long ago, but never added the photo to.  I am getting more pages done with the virus concerns.  I have no file to share, sorry. The leaves are from Storybook Cricut cartridge. Thanksgiving is from Cricut Close to My Heart Artiste.

The Girls

 

I have been doing a lot of paper crafting lately and it is saving my sanity!  I am on a mission to use my stash and some of the new tools I have like this Anna Griffin Die set.  So, tonight I am using the Scrap Our Stash August 2020 sketch and bingo to get a page done. 

Below is the Challenge sketch.  I flipped it on it's side for my page and used the Anna Griffin dies for my circle motifs.

 

Old School with Fabric Repurpose in a Page

I am using this summer to catch up on unfinished pages and projects.  I made this page over a year ago and didn't finish it until tonight.  I added the photo of "Pink," my son and Grandpa.  I had some fun repurposing some fabric on this page, and cut up the front placket of an old blouse and there is even a scrap of the lace from my wedding dress lace too!  My die cut is the elephant border and I had it so long, I don't know who made it!

I used a Heidi Swap stamp "Remember," dew drops from the Robin's Nest, Green rose and "Pink" by Anna Griffin.  I am entering this in Cut it Up Challenge #207 Old School.  Thanks Cut it Up, for helping me finish a page with a challenge!

Designing with Cricut DS

 I often pull up my Cricut Design Space for laying out and designing a scrap book page before I start.  Or I create a page in DS, I have started without the Cricut, just to see how big a title I might need.  Here is a page design and finished page.  Above is my finished page, and below is the DS pre-planned page.  

Want to make your own?  Here is the Cricut DS file.

Circle in a Square with Amazing Paper Grace

 

I am circle obsessed, so when I saw this Amazing Paper Grace die I knew I wanted to try it on a scrapbook page as a circle!  And I am using those Dimensional doily dies in a new way here to make a bow in the corner of my circle.

Supplies
Anna Griffin Toile paper

Amazing Paper Grace Timeless Grace Die

Enchantment Tall Flip and Gatefold Card 

Anna Griffin card kit boarder strips

Anna Griffin gold swirls

Basic Grey letters

K and Company Journaling die cut

Sizzix Embossing Folders (letter r and a)

buttons

paper flowers

glue dots

Blue cardstock

Ivory cardstock

Blue ink