THE BLUE HOME TOUR

Six Borders. Six Stories. One Beautiful Place Called Home.

Saturday, October 10, 2026
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Central Time
Live Online Creative Workshop

Come Home to Your Creativity

We are opening our craft rooms and gathering every beautiful shade, pattern, texture, ribbon, trim, and embellishment of blue we already own!

During The Blue HOME Tour, you will learn how to create six elaborate 12-inch designer borders and transform them into:

• Six 12-by-12 scrapbook pages

• Six coordinating cards

• Or both complete versions

Each designer border becomes the foundation for either a scrapbook page or a card. You will learn a beautiful, repeatable design method that you can use again with the papers, dies, and embellishments already in your craft room.

This class is about more than beautiful blue paper. We will take a creative tour through the people, rooms, traditions, treasures, and everyday moments that made home meaningful to us.

Our Six HOME Stories

1. Where My Story Began

Our childhood, birthplace, first home, and earliest memories.

2. The People I Love

The family and friends who made home feel safe, happy, and loved.

3. Around the Table

Family meals, recipes, celebrations, conversations, and traditions.

4. The Rooms I Remember

The doors, wallpaper, furniture, and little details we still remember.

5. The Treasures We Keep

Letters, photographs, jewelry, heirlooms, and meaningful objects.

6. What HOME Means to Me

The life we have created and the memories we hope others will remember.

What You Will Create

• Six elaborate 12-inch designer borders

• Six 12-by-12 scrapbook-page designs

• Six coordinating card adaptations

• Meaningful journaling spaces for your HOME stories

• Beautifully layered blue, ivory, and metallic details

• An exclusive collection of Blue HOME PRINTable artwork

You choose your project! Create the six scrapbook pages, create the six cards, or make both versions.

What You Will Learn

• How to construct an elaborate three-layer designer border

• The Design Rule of Three

• The Color Rule of Three

• How to combine different shades, patterns, weights, and textures of blue

• How to balance detailed die cuts, ribbons, florals, and embellishments

• How to adapt one border design for both scrapbook pages and cards

• How to create meaningful pages that preserve the stories behind your photographs

Featured Dies and Techniques

We will concentrate on the six 12-inch border dies originally released as the 2016 Trimmings Dies and later released as the Grand Borders and Royal Borders collections.

We will also use:

• Anniversary Paper Tricks embossing folders

• One open or lacy decorative border die

• Martha’s sculpted box-pleat ruffle technique

• Lace and ribbon underlayers

• Your favorite photo-corner dies

• Your favorite journaling-tag dies

Martha will be using a 12-inch Crop at Home lacy border, but you may substitute any similar open or lacy border die from your collection. A coordinating seven-inch border may also be used for the card versions.

Exact Preparation Instructions Included

You will receive specific preparation instructions showing you:

• Which dies to cut

• How many die cuts you will need

• Which papers and supplies to prepare

• How to organize your pieces before class

• How to adapt each design for a scrapbook page or card

Shop Your Craft Room

You do not need one perfectly matched paper collection. This is your opportunity to rediscover and use the beautiful supplies you have already collected.

Pull together:

• Light blue, navy, cobalt, denim, dusty blue, and French blue papers

• Solid, patterned, textured, shimmer, vellum, and metallic papers

• Blue ribbon, twine, cord, tassels, and lace

• Classic gold or silver foil

• Blue, ivory, white, and soft-blush florals

• Beautiful HOME embellishments from your collection

This is the perfect class for pulling out everything blue while we prepare our craft rooms and our creativity for Anna Griffin Create.

Your HOME Stories Matter

Your home does not have to look perfect, and your memories do not have to be grand.

This workshop is about preserving the people, rooms, traditions, and little details that made your life yours.

Pull out your blue, gather your memories, and come home to your creativity.