Christy’s Elephant Parade Card Inspired by a Book


We invite you to share your creativity by linking up your crafty projects HERE! Your project should feature Lawn Fawn stamps, dies, stencils and papers. This challenge will run for 2 weeks and be open until Sunday, April 2 at 11:59PM ET.

For each challenge, we will randomly select an entry to receive a $50.00 gift certificate to the Lawn Fawn shop! Everyone who enters a challenge has a chance to be the random drawing winner! Woohoo!

We will also be highlighting a few of your fabulous projects at the close of each challenge! By linking your projects to our challenges, you will give permission for us to post your work to this blog and our social media sites. Check out the How to Play page for a few guidelines to play along. We want this to be FUN, so we’ll keep the rules to just a few!

Hey friends, it’s Christy here with another card for our Inspired by a Book, Movie, or Song Challenge! This one was inspired by a children’s book with a sweet message and beautiful illustrations.


It’s called An Elephant Nose Best by Sue Samuels, illustrated by Danny Deeptown. I decided to try to recreate the cover and pulled together a TON of Lawn Fawn sets to do it, including Elephant Parade Add-on, Ocean Shell-fie, Beary Rainy Day, You Are Sublime, Wood You Be Mine?, and Toadally Awesome. I stamped all the images in Jet Black Ink, colored them with Copic markers, and trimmed them out with the matching dies.


To build the background, I cut all the elements out of Bristol Smooth Surface Cardstock and colored them with Distress Oxide Inks. On the first panel I used the Cloudy Stencil to blend on Shaded Lilac and Speckled Egg. Next I used Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn for a Grassy Border, Spun Sugar and Gathered Twigs on the Stitched Simple Wavy Border for the ground, and Speckled Egg and Salvaged Patina on the Simple Stitched Hillside Border for the pond. I also used the Ocean Wave Accents to cut some ripples into the water. Then I stamped the corn stalks with Fossilized Amber, using them to represent the tall, leafy plants in the background of the scene.


I adhered everything together and added in my images, then stamped a sentiment from Elphie Selfie at the top in Fish Tank Ink to mimic the title of the book. I also stamped two trail lines with Narwhal Ink and glued on some little flies to replace the bees, since I didn’t have any that were small enough.

I finished the card with a bit of Stardust Stickles on the flies’ wings and on the top edge of the pond. You still have time to play along with our challenge! We can’t wait to see how you interpret this one!


If you’d like to watch this card come together, you can check out the video tutorial on my YouTube channel, Christy Gets Crafty! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Thank you so much for this lovely inspiration, Christy!

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Samantha’s Movie Inspiration!


We invite you to share your creativity by linking up your crafty projects HERE! Your project should feature Lawn Fawn stamps, dies, stencils and papers. This challenge will run for 2 weeks and be open until Sunday, April 2 at 11:59PM ET.

For each challenge, we will randomly select an entry to receive a $50.00 gift certificate to the Lawn Fawn shop! Everyone who enters a challenge has a chance to be the random drawing winner! Woohoo!

We will also be highlighting a few of your fabulous projects at the close of each challenge! By linking your projects to our challenges, you will give permission for us to post your work to this blog and our social media sites. Check out the How to Play page for a few guidelines to play along. We want this to be FUN, so we’ll keep the rules to just a few!

Hi Friends, Sam here! One of my favorite movies to watch is the Emperor’s New Groove! I have seen it countless times. One time when my back went out, I even watched it over and over and over while my
husband was at work, and I couldn’t get up to change the DVD player! (I’m aging myself, I know! lol) Despite having seen it so many times, it still cracks me up so hard that I cry! So it seemed perfect to use it as inspiration for the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge!


I used the llama from Llama Tell You and the jar from How You Bean? to create my own potion
bottle! I colored it in with hot pinks and wild purples (the same color as the ‘poison’ in the movie,
of course). I actually used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers to color all of the images! The
kitten is from Purrfectly Wicked, and she was colored to mimic Yzma (who turns into a cute and
cuddly kitten at the end of the movie)!


I thought the Flippy Flappy die would be perfect to deliver the punchline of the joke! It’s just so
funny! I can hear Yzma saying it so clearly in my head!


I stamped the sentiments with Harold’s ABCs and heat embossed them with white embossing powder onto Black Licorice Cardstock.

Thank you so much for this delightful inspiration, Samantha!

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Featured Fawnatics and Challenge 144 Random Winner!

Thank you so much for celebrating our birthday by joining the All Things Birthday challenge! Your projects made us smile so big! Be sure to check out the Challenge 144 gallery for some amazing birthday inspiration!




If you are one of our Featured Fawnatics today, we invite you to grab this badge to share on your blog or other social sites!


by Eileen
using Platform Pop-Up Cloud Inserts, Wheely Great Day,
Fly High, Coaster Critters, Shadow Box Card

by Daisy
using Peekaboo Pop-Up, Tea-rrific Day, Fly High, Platform Pop-Up Cloud Inserts

by Corinne
using Platform Pop-Up, Fly High, Giant Happy Birthday, Elephant Parade Add-On,
Apple-solutely Awesome, Bubbles of Joy, You Autumn Know, Dandy Day

by Jean
using Wild for You, Party Animal, Party Balloons, Cole’s ABCs, Skinny Stripes Stencil

by Johanna
using Wheely Great Day, Fly High, Happy Village

by Stephanie
using Simply Celebrate Critters

by Diane
using Year Thirteen

by Sammy
using Platform Pop-Up, Platform Pop-Up Cloud Inserts, Village Shops, Fly High, Happy Village





And now we have our random drawing winner from Challenge 144 who wins a $50.00 gift certificate to our shop, lawnfawn.com! And the winner is…#22


Congratulations to Natacha! Please send an email to fawnies(at)lawnfawn(dot)com with “Lawn Fawnatics random winner” in the subject line. Then grab this random winner badge to display on your blog and social media!



We will share Design Team inspiration during the next 2 weeks for Challenge 145 – Inspired by a Book, Movie or Song. This new challenge runs until Sunday, April 2 at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see how you will be inspired!

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