Anna Griffin's Feel Better Card

Happy Craft Month ya'll.

HSN has been on the telly since midnight. Anna Griffin was on and she got my crafting mojo going, so I got out her Botanical Card Making Kit I bought a while back. Unfortunately, I have someone in mind to send a get well card to. You might be familiar with the situation when someone dear to you tells you someone they love has cancer. It is hard to know what to say and how to comfort someone when they are going through such a rough time. But, I think, Anna Griffin's Feel Better card will at least bring a warm smile to the recipient of such a pretty card.

Another Butterfly Card

I really enjoy creating cards with a butterfly motif. They really make a card pretty. I have 3 friends with birthdays in February so I have to get out my butterfly net and round up some pretty ones for my cards. 

             

Here is the first one for a friend who loves purple.

I used watercolor paper to stamp and color with copic markers one of the stamps from the Anna Griffin 18th Century Garden stamp series.

I used Sizzix's stamp and die-cut "Framelits" butterflies #3 to create the butterflies. Some stickles and copic coloring on the butterflies made them really pop. They were attached to Spellbinders die fancy tag two.

Some paper source 1/4 inch cream ribbon and Martha Stewart's arch punch completes the recipe.

 I am entering this in My Time To Craft #206 'Things with wings' challenge

mytimetocraftchallenge

Dwell in Possibility

Here is a card I made using my new Anna Griffin 18th Century stamps and my new SU designer frames embossing folder and punch.

 The stamp was colored with copic markers Y15, R83, R85, BV02, BV31.

I  went looking for a challenge to enter this card into; no easy task to find during the holiday season.
But I did find a couple that wanted bling, so out came the rhinestones and now it is good to submit there, an anything goes (love those challenges, so easy to enter) and a texture challenge cause I have some embossing on the card.

Here are the links:   simplylessismoore , allsortschallenge, brownsugarchallenge, stampinfortheweekend

Anna Griffin Card Kit

I have been watching HSN's 24 Hour Craft Day Event for um 24 hours and I have resisted buying another craft item because I have already bought in the past 2 different sets of Anna Griffin card kits on auto ship.
We just celebrated my mom's 90th birthday last Saturday and she got some lovely presents so I got out my Anna Griffin Thank You card kit and made this for the neighbor who gave her a pretty lap blanket and slippers.

By the time I got the photo downloaded from my phone to my computer and then onto here I just spent 60 dollars to get her 18th century garden stamp set. Oh well, lady willpower only held out for 20 something hours

HSN's Anna Griffin card kit card

Iphone pictures aren't really that good; I will need to find a way around this problem.
ANYBODY have a good Iphone camera tip?


I made this card for my dear old aunt's 89th birthday.
I think, correct me if I am wrong Cissy , but didn't we buy this wrapping paper at a 99 cent store in Dallas?

Anna Griffin-esque

Hi everybody,
My inspiration for this card came from a book I took out of the library called "Decorative Impressions, Handmade Greeting Cards with Rubber Stamps & Brass Stencils" by Anna Griffin.

Here is the recipe if you are interested:

White cardstock cut to 11" by 6 1/4" and Brilliance Pigment ink pad in Mineral

1. Score along the 11" length at 4 3/8, 6 1/8, 6 5/8, 8 5/8, 9 1/8 and 10 7/8.
2. On the 2 larger side panels I stamped using Anna Griffin's Swirl Motif Stamp #580G04 in silver.
3. On the middle panel I stamped using Stampabilities Frieze Border  #DR1033 in copper.
4. Punch 3/16" holes in the small pleat portion at the top, center and bottom on both sides with a Cropodile then secure the pleats with glue from behind.
5. Thread 1/4" soft white double faced satin ribbon from Paper Source through the top holes on both sides and tie a bow, repeat for the other 2 sets of holes. For the sentiment I used the same white cardstock using Stampendous Everyday Messages 2 Series #SWS045 in copper, punched a small hole and threaded it through the center ribbon before tying the center bow.