November 22, 2019 • Anna Griffin

Fan Mail Friday – Giving of Yourself

By Anna Griffin // //

Comments: 61

Hello friends,

We’re so happy to be back in the office, and to share all of the A-M-A-Z-I-N-G fan mail that we received during Create and in the mail this week. You all are the most talented and creative group of people, and we are stunned by how beautiful your creations are. You never cease to amaze us with your cards and projects! We had so much fun showing off all of the fan mail in our office to this year’s Create attendees. They ooh-ed and ahh-ed over each and every one.

 

Let’s take an up close look at a few!

Hopi, we loved meeting you at Create, and adore this gorgeous card and mini album.

What a lovely Thanksgiving card, Susan. We hope that you have a wonderful holiday next week!

Ah, another gorgeous Richard card! Thank you for sending us this beautiful creation. We know everyone at Create enjoyed seeing your cards in person this week!

Joyce, we are mesmerized by the incredible marbled card layer and card that you sent. You are quite the artiste!

We’re grateful for this lovely slider card and amazing frame, Pam. Thank you so much for such a beautiful gift!

Thank you for this week’s fan mail and for joining us for the Create festivities last weekend. There will be more fan mail coming from the event, so stay tuned!

Xoxo,

Anna

 

 

  • Thank you kindly, Anna, for mentioning my card creation! On the plane trip home from Create 5, with my new Anna Griffin paints triple wrapped against leakage in my suitcase, I was dreaming up more traditional marbled paper patterns, in Anna Griffin colors, of course! I will be experimenting in my marbling tray very soon.
    Such beautiful creations by everyone! I am thankful that you share the work you inspire others to create. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

  • Another wonderful Fan Mail Friday! Everything is beautiful as always because you are so loved by all. You truly are our Teacher, our Friend, and our Hostess. Create 5 was wonderful and I am so happy I was well enough to attend. Love and love.

  • Anna,
    Amazing Fan mail! I love all of the creations. My favorite is the cross stitched “Buckle up Buttercup.” I laugh when you say that, I cross stitched many years. I really love all the heart put into the creations from first time creations & regular creations.
    ❤️❤️❤️

  • So many beautiful projects and many were just bursting with color!!!!! Love seeing that!!!
    Can’t wait to see .the rest of the goodies you brought back to share! It’s like you’re opening gifts on Christmas morning and we get to be there!!! 🎄🎄🎄🎄💜😻

  • Thanks Anna for sharing today’s FMF.
    So happy that Hopi is going to be on your creative designer team! I also second one of the comments made by Terri, that we’d like to have Hopi teach us how to do that lovely book or any craft that she’s made in the past. They are all exquisitely made! What a blessing!

    Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Anna, and to your staff as well.

  • Such awesome talent from all your fans. I always look forward to see the amazing creativity. The marbling on some cards sent in is something new to me and is giving me the inspiration to try my hand at that some day.

  • Hopi’s work is just amazing. Her craftsmanship and attention to detail are impeccable. I hope you will post a YouTube tutorial of the remembrance book so we can all make it to.

  • I am new to card making and am constantly amazed at the cards that are created. I am so inspired by them all. Thank you Anna for sharing.

  • WOW! Everything is so Beautiful. I wish I was half as talented as they are! I have 2 rooms full of ANNA GRIFFIN dies,Stamps, KITS Papers etc. All the cutting machines(just got my mini Empress ) I love to make cards and I am so happy you have started adding the adhesive!!! PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
    LOVE YOU
    SHIRLEY BARTON DALLAS,Texas

  • All the creative and amazing cards is just evident of the amount of love you generate. Your fan club is so talented that it’s intimidating because they obviously took many hours to make. Carolyn please accept my gratitude for your beautiful heart and kindness, along with such talent, it leaves a lump in my mouth. Happy Holidays to all !

    • Anna my iPhone autocorrected your name Anna and changed it to Carolyn and I didn’t proofread my post prior to sending it for grammatical errors and dumb autocorrect, lol! Please forgive me, Geese.

  • just awesome to see all the ideas and creativity from everyone taking your ideas and making it their own. You are a wonderful teacher! Happy Thanksgiving!

  • Such a fun Fan Mail Friday and the inspiration keeps coming even after Create!! Anna and staff, thank you for such a memorable first Create for me!!

  • Glad you like the wine and tote bag Anna. I was going to make a vinyl stencil and etch the bottle, but etching does not show up good on the dark red wine bottles, only the white wines. So I decided to use the silver foil vinyl. Enjoy that special wine. I cannot tell you in words how much I enjoyed my first Create. The classes, the camaraderie, the fun, the crafting and new friends. What an experience! The tote say “Wine inspires me” in French but Anna Griffin inspires me.
    ENJOY!

  • These items took my breath away as they did yours, Anna, I am sure. To see what your products can become must be so heartwarming. Wow, great job, everyone!

  • Wow! I’ve only watched half of FMF and I’m already amazed! I love getting inspiration from everyone’s creation. I will definitely copy the stencil tip since I just did my first stenciling project at Create. I can’t wait to finish watching the rest of FMF!
    Also – Hopi – 😍😍😍😍😍😍. I love how you take things to the NEXT level! You’re truly an artist. So happy I got to meet you and I can’t wait to see the projects you’ll be creating for Ms. Anna!

  • Is there anyway you can hae , I think her name is Hoppy?, She’s joining your desigb team, but can she give us either a tutorial or the list to make the awezome photo album? I make them, still hae lotz to learn, and her’s if beautiful!!!

  • Oh, everything is so fun and SO beautiful! What grand inspiration you give us, Anna, allowing us to share in your joy! Thank you!

  • ANNA-MAZING friends, fans, and fellowship today and each Friday! It truly inspires me to see the artistry of works if heart here (AND, last weekend at CREATE 5, SUCH A FABULOUS, ONE-OF-A-KIND, CRAFT PARTY OF ALL CRAFT PARTIES–W.O.W.Z.A.!)! THANK YOU, Anna and company (including every member of your company, staff, and family) for ‘bringing it’ to us, because it’s what makes this world a more beautiful place!
    With thanksgiving, gratitude, and (((hugs))), wishing you all a bounteous and blessed holiday season ahead,
    Shellie Fontana

  • Love that green you are wearing. Now I see why I missed FMF last week. There really wasn’t one for those of us who don’t use social media. So I guess the only way I will get to see Create is to win the Lottery so I can go next year. One can dream.

    So many lovely items. The love just oozes out from all these beautiful creations. Inspiring yet intimidating at the same time.

    Looking forward to seeing more love next week.
    Happy Thanksgiving!!
    Happy Crafting!!

  • Beautiful! So creative! Love the wine bag.. need to make my daughter in law one! Have the maker so I just need to get the foil vinyl and use my easy press 2! The cards are so elegant! The album was so beautiful! Love it !

  • I went away from the 2019 CREATE Event with a full heart. It was an amazing event and I was bowled over by everything we participated in and especially the Craft Room that was set up for us. WOW!! I just wanted to write that I was so touched by how wonderful Anna G was to each and every one of us. I TRULY felt loved and appreciated by her. She is so very personable and down to earth. One of a kind. And every single person on her team was amazing!! So sweet, kind and welcoming.

  • Thank you for sharing and for creating such beautiful products that sparks such creativity in so many different ways!

  • Hello Anna and team,
    Wow! What a bunch of
    beautiful cards and gifts
    this week! Eight more
    boxes did you say? How
    Loved are you? 🙂
    I hope my card I sent for
    you this week did’nt get
    lost in the shuffle. I’m
    sure you’ll see it eventually.
    Wonderful work everyone!
    Wish you all a good, Happy
    Thanksgiving and a nice,
    peaceful weekend and
    thank you for sharing all of
    the lovely Creation’s! See
    you soon! Debbie 🌷 🌷 🌷

  • Thank you so very much for sharing! Makes me miss the excitement, compaionship, joy, and creativity from last week at Create 5!

    Anna, you and your team go above and beyond to extend to us Griffinites the crafting experience of a lifetime! I am so grateful; Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

    You are blessing and a treasure!

    Will send you some more pictures of T.S. oceanfront mansion in R.I.!

  • I absolutely love Your card making kits. I am running out of space. All friends
    and family love getting my home made cards and I love making them. I wanted
    to order one of the Christmas cards but too late, it was sold out.

  • You received some beautiful, wonderful, amazing and fabulous cards and gifts and you deserve each and every one of them, Anna.
    I wish for you a happy and safe Thanksgiving, Anna. And I wish the same for everyone in Anna-land!
    Love you, Anna. You’re the best!

  • Thank you Miss Anna for fan mail Friday. It is so inspiring to see all the beautiful creations that is sent to you. I get ideas of my own from seeing how others use colors in there creations. Thank you all for sharing your creatively with all of us.
    Thank you so much Miss Anna for sharing Create with us who couldn’t be there. I loved it all.

  • Wow, every FMF is better than the next! Love all the creativity of your talented crafters. Anna, you’re going to have to build another room for all of your gifts. Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃♥️🥰♥️🦃

  • I bought a mini and I don’t know what I need to buy to make my first birthday card. Do you have a list or idea books for a first time card maker?

    • Linda, Congratulations on your Mini!! IF you bought the Mini, you will likely have the dies that came with it. so, you will need papers, glue, perhaps scissors or a craft knife. Anna has some beautiful samples of work on Pinterest, for inspiration, and she has some books on HSN. Search for Anna Griffin Anniversary Card-Making idea Books, 2 pack. Enjoy! I love papercrafting so, because it takes me back to when I was a little child, much more carefree and creative a time in my life. A chance to make beautiful!

  • Such talented people! Beautiful projects! Maybe some day I will be that good! Thank you for sharing, Anna!

  • FMF is sooooo amazing! I am drooling over the gorgeous cards , gifts, and foods! Thanks to everyone who has shared their talents Thank you Anna for sharing your fab mail .
    You are loved and appreciated by zillions because you are kind and generous to us all. 👏🏻🥰♥️⭐️♥️🥰♥️⭐️🥰

  • In all the ladies and gentlemen that are crafter, I like to say the talent that they all have is just mind-blowing. Thank you for sharing

  • Marvelous show of very creative people. Fan mail Friday is more like gift giving or ultra card making. Cheryl’s gift bag was the best , whimsical well said and well made. Shows get better and better ❤️ it all.

  • Wow! Your Griffinites continue to amaze and inspire me! I’m going to pray for luck that I can get a spot at Create next year!

  • Each card is so pretty I especially love the one in purple/blue so colorful. Wishing everyone a fantastic weekend and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

  • Wow Friday Fan Mail was amazing a lot of beautiful items created by everyone. I cannot wait to see it I will be able to attend one of your classes Anna that is one of crafting dreams. I hope I will be able to attend next year. Thank you for being such an inspiration to me. Have a Happy Thanksgivings.

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