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September 22, 2022 • Anna Griffin

Craftspiration – September 22nd, 2022

By Anna Griffin // //

Comments: 108

Hello crafters,

We want to wish all of you a happy first day of Fall! We hope that you are enjoying at least a slight cooling of temperatures, changing leaves and crafting for the holiday season! We have such wonderful things to share with you today from crafters all over the country. We love seeing your Halloween, Christmas and every day crafts on our social media channels. There are lots of fun, 3D projects all over today’s post. We are so inspired by the wonderful, creative paper projects that you came up with and shared this week!

Come take a look!

Cynthia said, “Grab a broom and sit a spell. I’ll pour you a cup of Toad Tongue Tea while we discuss what’s brewing on my Halloween Hearth.”

We love how you used the Holiday Hearth Dies for Halloween, clever!

Terry wrote, “I can’t seem to pull myself away from the gorgeous Carte Noire paper! The dies featured here are Lace Embossing, Ribbon Edge Layer & Fancy French Frames 2. The bow is from the Basket Cut & Emboss Set, and I added the bees from the Bee, Butterfly & Dragonfly Set.”
Vickie posted, “Finished Halloween! One more pic to add, they are so FUN!”
Each one is more fun than the next!
Jane shared, “Anna Griffin Inc. New Neoclassical arrived this week. Combined it with Rococo, turned out into an easel card. Love all your metal dies, Anna, they really are the best!”
Debbie said, “My son’s friend wanted a birthday card for his 3 year old daughter. I was told at about 9 pm last night.”
Belinda shared, “Made a basketball birthday card for my adult son!”
Becky Jo shared, “After health difficulties & hospital I finally made a card for my daughter in law Brittnee’s birthday. 1st card in awhile & 1st carriage card.”
Tina shared, “Anna’s products go together like peanut butter and jelly! Love the Rococo and Clock dies. Fun mixing the papers, flowers and bees!”
Victoria said, ” I was gifted a old hat box and told, “Make something pretty”.”
Very pretty indeed!
Pamela shared, “It’s Sunday share today so for me I am continuing with organizing my Anna Griffin dies. Right now I’m trying a second suggestion that I received from the Griffinistas for placing my larger dies in a file hanging file location under my desk here’s my version of that and this does fit under my desk too! All that’s left to do is put the labels on and that should be it.”

Janice posted, “Jack’s favorite time of the year is coming up, Halloween puts a hop in his step and a twinkle in his eye!”

Roxanne wrote, “I love the arch die set. This card is a Get Well card for a friend with cancer.”

Carla shared, “Pulley card using Carte Noire flowers and paper, rococo, butterfly and fern die cuts.”

Dayle wrote, “Treat pouch from the finishing school class Halloween tricks and treat class and a matching card. I had to go spooky as it is for my 10 year old grandson. So hard not to add flowers. All Anna except for glitter.”

Barbie shared, “So I shared this two-page spread yesterday but I needed to add something! This is a Valentines Day card to my mom from my grandpa! (From 1952!). I wanted to add it somehow so I bought some flip flaps. I attached ribbon tabs and also had to make an extra slit in it so each flap would move. Isn’t it just too cute?!!”

Thank you for sharing such beautiful memories!

Yadyra wrote, “Yesterday I made 4 more “card albums”… they are so much fun to make, I love looking at the cards, sorting them and assembling the books. Many more to go but I’m currently working on just the bday cards from 2020, 2021 and 2022.”

Christine posted, “I don’t have the haunted house dies, so I used the house from Carte Noel.”

Nancy said, “Finished my 2nd box. This time it’s lighted. This is the first time I have put lights in my project. I’m happy with the way it came out.”

Beth shared, “I had been contemplating on transforming the Antique Train Easel Die into a 3D project . After watching FS Live on Friday and watching how to piece the treat box together, I used the same technique on the engine and caboose . For the center car I constructed an open box to house little 3D presents . I decorated all 4 sides of each train car . Using my Cricut I cut out train tracks small gift boxes and a tree from One of Anna’s image sets . Dies used in this project : Antique Train Easel Die, balcony from Castle Easel die , door frame from the Haunted House, door frame from Holiday Open House Craft Box. Stickers used: Mini Snow globe Stickers, Celebration Chest Stickers , Open House garlands , Mini House tree Garlands, Christmas Banner Sentiments.”

This train is amazing, Beth! Your attention to detail is unparalleled!

Mary wrote, “I love the 3D butterfly dies, and insect specimen displays have always been a little bit creepy to me, so that seemed like a good idea for Halloween.”

Great work, everyone! Keep up the great work, and keep posting your projects with us on our social media channels, and we could feature your projects with everyone next week. We want you to be the first to know that we have a very special live show on AGTV planned for Friday, September 30th at 12pm. There will be new product launches, special bundles, a sneak peek, demos and so much more. We hope to see you there!

Bye for now,

Anna

  • What Wonderful inspiring ideas.
    Thank you for sharing everyone!
    Thank You Anna and team for all your supplies and tools to get our jobs done! ❤

  • There are so many talented paper crafters on the AG blog! I get so much inspiration from each of you, especially when I have a brain freeze on a project….all of you get me jump started again so Ican complete the task at hand, So, thank you all for being so gracious with your sharing of your talent!

  • Anna, I would love to be as creative, organized and artistic as all of these great crafters are! … and Wow! Even a Anna Griffin Hatbox!

  • I am always amazed at the wonderful creations send in by such talented, and gifted individuals. Thank you Anna for you the beautiful materials you create so we have the opportunity to create.

  • As always I just loved to see what others have been creating. Gets my creative juices flowing. Thanks all for sharing.

  • To all Griffinites,
    These cards are absolutely amazing. There is such creativity to Anna’s followers. I am constantly amazed by their work! Keep up the fantastic work, everyone! I LOVE looking at all your creations!

  • WOW, such beautiful cards. I love the Christmas Train. Beth you are an amazing card maker! Such talented card makers!

  • Beautiful projects as always. I am so impressed by the train! It is amazing , and I took a screen shot of it so I can refer to it for inspiration. Just beautiful. Thanks for sharing.😊

  • I just LOVE Thursday’s post so much. So much inspiration in one place. And I can scroll to my hearts content.

    Thank you!!❤️

    Happy Crafting!

  • So many fun and beautiful works of art. Thank you everyone for sharing your projects .
    Beth Turchi your 3D train is fabulous!! My grandson (8yrs old) would love one I’m sure for Christmas decoration. I’m sure I can’t come close to what you’ve done but I will give it my best shot. Thank you so much for sharing.

  • Beth turchi is so talented in all her projects, but her Christmas train is fantastic. Maybe she should give us a class ?

  • I am blown away by the wonderful projects that I see! So much talent and love shared. Thank you for the inspirations and for making me smile!😊❤️

  • I am constantly blown away by the projects here…thank you for sharing your works of art…they are truly gorgeous!

  • Love all the creativity posted today Anna! Would love Beth to show us how to make the train on. Finishing School class if possible! The Christmas Express is out of this world!
    Thanks for making all of us feel special and open to communicate in our Anna Griffin community!💕

  • Love everything! But, I agree that I need more organization ideas. My office/craft room looks like a tornado came through it. HELP PLEASE!

  • So many wonderful crafty ideas. I especially loved the card books. I was gonna put our cards in scrapbook form but looking at what you did Yadyra, I think book form has more room!!
    I still love making scrapbooks. I probably do both!!

  • Finishing school class on Beth’s Christmas train would be incredible on AGTV with Beth as the very special guest. It’s so nice to see & hear about the all crafters and put a face & craft room to the name. Everyone projects are so good it’s great to see all the creativity. Thanks Anna

  • Beth Turchi your train is an amazing piece of artwork, oh to be so talented! God has surely blessed you!
    Congratulations to everyone who submitted such beautiful artistry! I can only pray that someday I will be able to make such beautiful creations! Thank you Anna for sharing!!
    God’s blessings to you all!

  • Many spooktacular designs especially Christine’s Carte Noel card. Pamela thank you and the Griffinistas for the hanging file large die idea. Mary’s butterfly and spider display is creeping me out. There is so much creativity for me to “borrow”. Can Beth Turchi adopt me? Your work is amazing.

  • Wowed again! I always start out trying to decide which one is my favorite project but I can never decide because I’m amazed by everyone! I love Thursdays!

  • 💗💖💗 everything is gorgeous, thanks for sharing. Beth’s train is unbelievable. I just keeping going back and looking at it….it is so detailed. Just marvelous! I love Barbie’s scrapbook layout. All the Halloween cards are great too. Love the idea for hanging folders for large dies. Anna how about a day for sharing ideas for organizing your craft room. Have a great day.😊

  • Wow – so much talent here! I love this section because you can look at the cards as long as you want and figure out some new things to come up with. I don’t think I’ll ever be as good as some of these ladies but it’s fun trying.

  • Thank you Anna for posting my Lighted Halloween Pumpkin. Everyone one was so kind with their comments. I loved Beth’s Christmas Train. She is so talented. Anna we need a Finishing School Class on it-Hint,Hint. Everyone is so talented and I get lots of inspiration from their cards. Great work.

  • This is my favorite day of the blog week seeing all the Griffinite’s, amazing cards! Thanks for the inspiration

  • This is another fantastic craftspiration for me I just totally love The crafty inspiration from everyone, add to that, to look up in surprise and see something that I did on the pages totally of mind blower I love that. So cool. Thank you Anna and team ✨💖✨

  • Wow so much inspirational ideas and the projects are so cool. I love all of the projects they are fantastic. Great job everyone. Anna, team and everyone have a great day.

  • Hello Anna & Everyone 🙂
    What a beautiful group of cards and projects! All are so thoughtful and lovely. Wether it took an hour or days of creativity -seeing each one is a treat Lol 😆 pun intended!
    Blessings

  • Everything is beautiful and amazing. And wouldn’t I just love to get inside Beth Turchi’s head! Ladies (and Gentlemen) Griffinites I salute you! Okay, excuse me now, for I have to go back to Finishing School.

  • Those are the most fantastic cards. I finished my Halloween cards but they don’t look nearly are good as these. And that train is incredible. I don’t know how you made it 3D. I don’t think I could give that one to anyone. It is a work of Art!!
    Thanks to everyone for sharing and telling us which dies they used. That is so helpful.

  • Beth, I am in total awe of that 3D train! You must be extremely creative if you knew to combine all those dies and embellies and come up with that creation. Kudos to you!

  • So grateful for all who share their works of art! But mostly for the inspiration that we draw from Anna’s talent. Keep the creativity flowing and growing.

  • Wonderful cards, scrapbook pages, treat boxes, and 3D projects! Thank you to each of you for sharing your creativity with us!

  • Wow! The VARIETY of the projects you have shared is terrific, and the projects are v-e-r-y impressive! I really appreciate your sharing the tip from Pamela about how she is storing her dies! What a great idea! The pulley card (!), the train, and the elegant pumpkin cards are among my favorites! What a great way to end the week! Thank you.

  • Wow! Sipping my coffee and looking at all the stunning inspirations! Love all the Halloween! And Beth’s 3D train! It’s simply fabulous!! Great job, ladies! And thank you for sharing my scrapbook page too!

  • That train is AWESOME!
    I can’t imagine the time it must have taken to make something so perfect and beautiful!
    Congrats Beth!

  • Sooo much talent!!! Beautiful cards and projects!!! I would love to learn how to make that gift/ candy bag 👏👏👏

  • So much creativeness! Everything turn out so nice. Loving everything from the Halloween down to the Christmas train.

  • Each example was so amazing. I just am in awe of the ability and talent I see in this set of art work. wowow

  • So very fun!! I especially enjoy seeing everything Halloween! Looking forward to September 30th, Anna!

  • Beth Turchi’s train set is every child’s dream. Her ingenuity is amazing. All the cards left me in awe of many talented Griffinites. I don’t think outside the box so the Halloween Hearth card I really enjoyed.

  • Wow! All the ideas are wonderful. Everyone is so creative. I like the hanging file idea for the dies.
    It just hit me with the Art Deco lady in Yadyra post…a lot of my scrapbooking is from the 1920’s era. I would love to see stickers and dies of men and women from the era as well as more Art Deco designs. Anna, please make more! How about Art Deco paper dolls. Art Deco is on fire right now as far as collectables and decoration.
    Thank you all for sharing.

  • Wow! I love, love, love these cards. The creativity is awesome. Thank you for sharing these wonderful cards.

  • Creativity worth celebrating!! So many talented members of this wonderful crafting community. Thank you, everyone, for sharing!!

  • I am always amazed at the creativity of your followers. Seeing these designs is why I desire to attend Create. To be amongst these creators is a dream.

  • Wow, so many gorgeous creations. Beth, your 3d train is fabulous!!! I applaud you all!
    👏👏👏👏

  • I love the idea for the mini albums beautiful and the train I want to see about getting the die and try making that for a Christmas center piece. All the project are beautiful everyone did a wonderful job.

  • I am truly humbled by these projects. And Pamela has given me a great storage idea that I already have the files and plastic cabinet. Thank you. I cannot believe these projects and just in awe of every single card, candy, and the many eye catching examples.

  • Such awesome projects!!!! Loving all the Halloween cards- I haven’t made any- will need to get to it!!!
    Thank you for sharing them!
    Beth- YOU are the Queen of 3D!!! Love the train!

  • I love the variety of inspiration. I think the scrapbook layout is amazing. My favorite cards are the ones for Halloween. The train is so wonderful! Having to get my craft room cleaned up is my first priority. Can’t wait to get it clean so I can create.

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