Inspired by Altenew's June Challenge

I have been stalking Altenew's website because I love their products!  This month they have a challenge that inspired me to pull out an old Altenew die set and try a stained glassed card.  The Cricut community is buzzing with this technique but they use print and cut. I cut my pieces with white or black card stock using the Altenew Die Layered Floral Cover Die A & B.  I inked the white cardstock with pink, purple and green inks from CTMH or Stampin' Up. Some things I love about this technique are:

1.   I can create this look with white and black paper and my ink pads.  NO expensive ink cartridge for the printer.  No running out of ink!
2.   It gave an older die a new look.  
3.   The look is timeless!  One of the things I love about Altenew is the timelessness of their designs.
   

I am entering this in the June 2023 Inspiration Challenge at Altenew.  At first I thought the color combo to be too challenging, but then I remembered the stained glass craze and thought if I added black I would be happy with the colors.  

It's been a long time since I published anything on the blog, but I am still creating.  In fact, I am crafting everyday and posting my cards and scrapbook pages on instagram.  You can find me there.  

Anniversary Card with Anna Griffin and Cricut

Today I am sharing a special card I made with Anna Griffin paper, embellishements and sentiment.   See below for more detail on the Anna items.  The heart is a Cricut Love Struck file, because I don't have Anna's Heart dies yet!

Supplies
Anna Griffin Eleanor patterned paper

Anna Griffin Mascara Roses

Anna Griffin Sentiment

Anna Griffin Perfect Palette Bow

Anna Griffin Festive Flourish Die (Base of card)

Small Heart punch

Eyelet punch

Cricut Love Struck Cartridge

Cream Card Stock

Black Card Stock

Pink Card Stock

Pop Dots

Glue Dots

Scissors

Liquid Glue

The Gift of Google Slides and Scrapbook Pages

For many this year, the idea of spending money buying gifts or shipping gifts seemed uncessary.  My family circle discussed sharing something and would cost us nothing, like a song, or a memory.  It occured to me after Christmas, as I put away our Christmas Scrapbooks that I could use Google Slides to share the albums I made of all our family Christmas Cards over the years.  I am creating a slide presentation for each sibling who sent me photo Christmas Cards over the years.  You can see my scrapbooking style has evolved and grown over the years.  If you've scrapbooked some special memories, maybe you want to share them too!

I Miss You Card

Here is the perfect card for your Mom, a sister or a girlfriend to send in this pandemic!  I can't get over the figures in the Anna Griffin paper and how perfect they match this card need in my life!  I am a little obsessed with toile fabric and had to have the Anna Griffin Toile paper!  So, this week, while trying to use some of my blue paper scraps, I pulled out my Cricut and Anna's Toile paper, along with  sparkling paper in the blue die cut and the dew drops from the Robin's Nest.  I believe the sentiment is Club Scrap, but is has been in the stash so long, I am unsure.  

More Bells with Anna Griffin and Cricut

Happy New Year!  I was so happy with the jingle bells page I made with Anna's Christmas Card Embellishments cartridge, that I thought I might try the other bells cut on the cartridge.  So here is the page I made with the big bells.  I added a circle cut at 8 inches and slipped it in and around the bells.  To do so, I made one snip in the circle and threaded it through the bells cut, then glued it back together and hid the seam behind the bell cut.  The glitter paper and metallic red paper are also Anna Griffin and I used white, grey and red card stock too.  The holly is also AG!

A Gentlemens' Study Christmas

I love the Anna Griffin Gentlemens' Study paper and thought it would be perfect for a Christmas page!  I used Anna's border stickers and an old Anna Griffin journaling die cut.  I made a 2020 circle and cut it with the Cricut and placed it on top of Anna's journaling die.  I was inspired to add the black by the paisley in Anna's paper and love the pop it gives to the border sticker!  The red and gold doily is Little Yellow Bicycle and has been in my stash for a long time!

 

Christmas Bells Page with Anna Griffin and Cricut

I have had the Anna's Christmas Cards and Embellishments Cartridge for awhile, but am just getting around to using it and I can't get over how beautiful this page looks!  I used all Anna Griffin paper except for the grey and white card stock.  The French Horn is Stampin' Up, the Flute is Creative Embellishements.  The rosette and printed dies are also Anna Griffin.  I used some scrap ribbon to matt the photo as my ribbon stash is out growning it's storage.  

I am going to enter this in the BittenByTheBug Challenge from December 7, 2020.  I managed to include the Thing 1 and Thing 2 Challenge, and maybe Thing 3.  I was confused by Thing 3.