December 27, 2019 • Anna Griffin

Fan Mail Friday – Farewell 2019!

By Anna Griffin // //

Comments: 55

Hello there,

Fan Mail Friday is the best part of every week and today marks the 52nd episode of 2019. As we close the year and look back on all of your beautiful creations, our hearts are full of gratitude for you and your creativity! We are sincerely grateful for this special community that comes together through crafting to make a positive impact on us and on each other. Thank you for the most cards we have ever received in one year of Fan Mail Friday!

Heidi, we love your slider card and the Santa you added to it. So fun!

Jeanie, you layered like a pro! The combination on this card is so pretty!

We hope you had a wonderful holiday, Claire. Thank you for such a wonderful card!

The combination of these diecuts is so inspiring, Crystal. Season’s greetings to you!

Joyeux Noel and Happy New Year to you, Sheila and Rob. Your snow globe is so innovative!

This giant easel card is truly magical, Teresa! You’ve created quite the scene. Seeing the Mini Fretwork Die set used in such an innovative way is inspiring!

Each week, you continue to out do yourselves. Keep those cards and projects coming. We will share your crafting firsts next week! If you would like to send something for Fan Mail Friday, please send to 99 Armour Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30324 Attn: Fan Mail Friday.

Love and best wishes for the New Year,

Anna

  • Happy New Year!! I am late watching this, just lost track of time. Everything is so lovely. But then, it always is. I used your acetate Christmas layers and everyone LOVED the cards they got from me. Thanks for making me look like a pro.

    I LOVE that easel 12X12 card. Wouldn’t that make a fabulous anniversary or wedding card?

    To Anna, her team, and the Griffinites out there, may 2020 bring you much joy and happiness, and the greatest blessing of good heath.

    Crafty New Year!!

  • Anna, I love to see the unique cards every Friday -or in my case Sunday! Next year, I will send you one of mine!
    I hope you all have a rested vacation and look forward to 2020 with new inspiration!

  • Thank you for sharing. I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday season and best wishes for a peaceful, wonderful New Year. Thank you for making 2019 such a nice one.

  • So glad you enjoyed my card! YOU ARE SO LOVED. What beautiful Christmas cards. great inspiration for next year. Wishing you a very Happy New Year.

  • I loved the Nutcracker does but have no time to do the work. PLEASE give us a a Nutcracker themed card set for 2020. Also, black and white check is so very popular that it would be great to see some of that, as well.
    I’ve been buying your card sets on HSN since 2012. Friends and family wait for them every year.
    Thank you for a great product!
    Angie M., San Diego

  • Such talented AG crafters. Always an inspiration. Looking forward to the new year and new products from Anna!!!

  • Happy New Year Anna !!!! Can’t wait to see all the mind-blowing crafting items you are creating for us as we move into a new decade !!!! Wishing you health, happiness and boundless creativity and inspiration for 2020 and beyond !!!!!

  • Anna,
    I just want to thank you for enhancing my crafting in 2019. I hope you have a very Happy and Healthy 2020.
    I am looking forward to the wonderful things you will share with us. Thank you for brightening our world and the worlds of all we share our crafts with.

  • Anna, my husband Doug got a kick out of you showing the card I sent. I loved hearing him laugh and you helped me see the humor in it too. I would normally either lift off what I put on the card or cut off the front and put it on the front of another card. He just thought it was so funny that the first card I made for the Christmas season, which I was making for you, I stuck down well and backward. He thought you would see the humor too and thankfully, he is often right so thank you. I loved seeing all the beautiful cards, I always do. So many of those that send you cards just leave me in awe with their talent. To everyone that sends in their cards for all of us to see, thank you. Happy New Year from Kathy & Doug.

  • Thank you Anna & Company folks
    for a marvelous 25th year . Thanks for all the great Create 5 ….lots of fun!
    Looking forward to another milestone !
    Y’all have a grand New Years Eve and fabulous New Year
    Love to all & Griffinites too

  • WOW! wonderful fmf to close out the year. today my 23 year old grandson called me tp ask if he could come over to make a card for his friend who is getting married tomorrow. it was really a request for me to make. moving christmas items out of the way since not all cleaned up from that, but we were able to put together a pretty, but not too pretty wedding card that he liked and I liked. then we got to visit a bit longer which was my treat since he will be graduating from college in june and has been working almost full time along with helping as football coach at his high school. definitely my treat. all Thanks to my stash of AG items that make our crafting so much easier. HAPPY NEW YEAR ANNA?

  • Thank you Miss Anna for sharing most of your fan mail. Enjoyed seeing all the creativity from your Griffinites. So inspirational!
    I am so wishing to get to Create, if only for once in my lifetime! Would really love to go. Last year I wasn’t able to get in…it was sold out.

    Have a beautiful end of year, and a very healthy and prosperous New Year to you and your family, staff and friends!

    Looking forward to January 3rd. Excited to see what new products you will have for us!

  • I loved everything! I am using both hands to type this, so that means I am healing. Thank you to all of you at Anna Griffin, Inc. for all you do to make our lives easier. Happy New Year to all of you. Love and love.

  • FMF went out with a very big bang!!!! Lots of beautiful and creative Christmas cards and a few others thrown in. 😉 Every single card or project was just gorgeous and inspiring.
    Really love seeing all the die combinations to create new focal points and card fronts on many of these cards!! I love to do that as well, but it’s always great to get new ideas!
    A wish to all Griffinites for a very Happy New Year, one that is healthy and brings each of you many wonderful times and happiness. Hugs!!!!

    • Anna… I’ve fallen twice over Christmas… within 1 week!!!!.. what a clutz… and I’m sitting here with a neck brace and a leg brace, so my project I promised for you will be a little late. Oh lordy, I just can’t seem to walk in a straight line lately. lololol
      My spirits are fine, but my body just doesn’t want to work right now, so I’m taking a little rest.

  • Dear Anna, Team Griffin & Griffinites,
    I don’t get out much and I so look forward to Fan Mail Friday’s! I craft for my friends and grandchildren. My ten year old granddaughter, Nohea, really loves “ our “ cards!
    Anna, thank you so much for giving me such gorgeous way to express myself.
    BTW, I did all five cards from your lovely Vintage Christmas cards made easy! I am disable and have a hard time sitting up. That video was so fun, I didn’t notice the discomfort!

  • all of the cards are so pretty I love seeing the creativity of using dies from different groups represented. Very creative.

  • Happy holidays Anna and to all the talented card makers. Wowza! My face actually hurts from smiling through all the fan mail Friday creations. Delightful! Wishing everyone the best for the new year.

  • Anna and staff, Thank you very much for all that you do.
    Thank you for showing my card on your blog fan mail Friday.
    Wishing you and yours a very Happy Healthy and Safe New Year.
    My Husband Bill and I thought all that was sent to you was amazing.
    Thank you,
    Cathy and Bill

  • Dear Anna, Staff and all the Griffinites out there-

    Thank you all for your beautiful creations.
    I am so grateful to be a part of such a loving, kind and creative community.
    May you all have a wonderful, crafty New Year!

  • So many beautiful cards! As usual, I have picked up many good ideas from your presentation Anna.
    Thank you so much.

  • Wow!! I am speechless!! Those Christmas cards are gorgeous!!!

    Happy Crafting to all and Happy New Year too!

  • Gracious! FMF was just what I needed today! Thank you, Anna! What joy to see you at year’s end, just when I was feeling bereft at not seeing you for a time. 😀 Thank you for taking time to do one more FMF for us this year! It was awesome! I want to know how Sheila did that! And beauty is so soothing to me; I think all you creative crafters just calmed the remainder of the Christmas anxiety from my feathers. ha! THANK YOU!

  • Each card was so pretty. All very creative and unique combinations. What a way to end this year. We had a wonderful year celebrating your Annaversaries. Here’s to you and another creative decade!
    Thank you Anna. Happy New Year.

  • Beautiful & unique cards. I really enjoyed seeing them. Thanks for sharing them with us, Anna. God bless you & Happy New Year 2020!

  • Dear Anna,

    Just loved this FMF. You are the perfect hostess displaying everyone’s beautiful creations. I am hoping to be sending cards to you this new year and this year I made awesome tags for gifts and beautiful cards to mail.

    Happy New Year 2020!!

    Regards,

    Marie T.

  • Oh how I enjoy fan mail Friday. They are all so beautiful! Thanks for sharing and have a happy new year.

  • The cards were beautiful. Sometimes I get just a glimpse of an individuals handwriting & their calligraphy is so beautiful. I loved the cards with the poinsettias ,an angels & the owl. Every card is so unique. Some combine items in such unique ways that I would never have imagined. loved Melissa‘s cards were so lovely and made me I wish I had bought the Birthday Card Dies because they would be perfect for my Granddaughters. . The Santa & pink poinsettia was delightful? Is that Santa one of your products. Love to hear about your cats as they adjust to sharing territory! The snow globe with the bird was inspiring. Anna the quality of your designs are so exceptional. and so many of us appreciate your time and effort to share the work of so many talented individuals who utilize your products. They inspire people to create their very best. I’m
    Final question, How do we find out about Create Before every opening is gone?
    Thank you for all you design because it motivates us to create & share cards. I’m looking forward to all you design next year, I’m sure I will need to win the Lottery!!

    • Kirby Elizabeth, Anna will announce on her website and her FB page when Create tickets are available. Then its a mad dash to get one- part of the FUN! So, if you are signed up here on Anna’s Website for notifications, you will find the announcement in your email inbox… -if you dont see it first on FB. Best of luck to you!

  • So much talent and joy! Thank you for sharing. Happy, healthy and prosperous new year to all. Blessings and joy XO

  • Anna, thought you and the staff might be off til after New Year; so it was a delightful surprise to see FMF! Beautiful cards & projects!

    Everyone, have a Funfilled New Year’s Eve!

  • Everything was so amazing what a way to close 2019 and the century. I loved all of the creation they were so beautiful. Happy New Year’s and I hope to see at Create 2020 Ms. Anna. Thank you for what you do for us crafters.

  • Oh Anna! May I say not only do I look forward to FMF but, I absolutely love your paisley blouse:) Makes me want to get my AG paisley paper, dies, Folders, etc out and make some cards! Thank you for a wonderful 2019. I can’t tell you how much crafting in my AG craft room has changed my life! It’s a bright spot in many of our lives. I hope you and your family and Georgie and Duke have a very Blessed new year! Cant wait to see what you have in store for us in 2020!

  • I am astounded by all the creativity on Fan Mail Friday. Love all the beautiful cards. Thanks for sharing, Anna.♥️

    Happy New Year everyone!?

  • Wow, so insperational to see the influance of Create on everyone’s creations! Well done on you!

    Anna, will the kits, for the beautiful Christmas ornaments we did at Create in Make and Takes be available again?

    I was so dissapointed, that I missed out on them at Create!

    Thank you so very much for all you do in creating something beautiful in our lives!

    Happy, healty, joyful and a prosperous New Year to all.

  • WOW!!! What beautiful cards!!
    Happy New Year Anna and staff!! You make the world a better place!
    Love and God Bless
    Sharon

  • Hello Anna and team,
    I hope you all enjoyed your
    Holidays! We did! All of the
    cards were beautiful, and
    the color scheme’s were so
    different and pretty! Great
    work everyone!!! I wish you
    all the best in the coming
    year!!! Do you think we will
    be able to top 2019? I don’t
    know, it was pretty amazing!
    Have a wonderful weekend
    everyone, and let’s all say a
    toast to our community on
    New Year’s Eve, OK. Thanks
    for sharing Anna. ♥️ Debbie

  • Hello Miss Anna and Team Extraordinaire!

    I enjoyed this year watching FM Friday. So many beautiful creations and wonderful, inspiration! I sense the love and appreciation for you and what you do, most of all, who YOU ARE! This has been a year filled with trials and tribulations, including some of your own and I know that you have encouraged and helped us achieve a sense of accomplishment and value.
    You have taught me so many things that have enriched my life in so many ways, my heart is filled with gratitude.
    As I reflect on 2019 and looking forward to the New Year, may 2020 be filled with joy, health, success, laughter, new memories and most of all; love.

  • Stunning array of creativity!! I hope all of
    Us everyone had a wonderful Christmas
    And will have a good New Year !!
    Leaf
    ?

  • This fan mail Friday was as good as it gets, truly many beautiful cards and I’m sure beautiful and gracious thoughts inside. The best is always seeing so many ways to use many of your dies multiple times, so many creative followers, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all.

  • Thank you for sharing all of those beautiful projects and your heartfelt message! Wishing you and your family great health and happiness in the New Year…and new decade!

  • What a plethora of creativity you had on that table!! I enjoyed every single creation! Happy New Year to you and everyone at Anna Griffin, Inc!

  • These cards are so lovely. Such talented crafters. Cannot wait for the 2020 HSN craft days. Pray you had a good Christmas.

  • So hard to choose a favourite from all these beautiful cards .I love all of them. Well done everyone.
    Hi Anna. will any of your “sale ” items be available from
    QVC over here in the UK ?

  • Happy New Year Anna! I must know where you purchased that dress/blouse? I love it!! You are absolutely beautiful, both now and in the making. Hugs, Sue

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