Design Team Inspiration

Christy’s Campfire and S’mores Inspiration

- Nancy Krueger 1 Comment

The Fun with Food challenge will be open until Sunday August 1 at 11:59PM ET! We look forward to seeing how you are inspired by this theme! Click HERE to visit the challenge post and add your entry!

Hello friends, it’s Christy here with another card for our Fun with Food Challenge! It’s the season of campfires, so I just had to use the S’more the Merrier stamp set again, along with the bears from Den Sweet Den. I colored the images with Copic markers and trimmed them out with the matching dies.

For the background, I started with some Blue Jay Cardstock and blended on Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide Ink with the Cloudy Stencil. I splattered some gold Starry Colors paint on the sky to look like stars. Then I trimmed out the Puffy Cloud Border from Noble Fir Cardstock to create the bushes, and the Grassy Border from Cilantro Cardstock.

I blended some Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide on the grass to give it a bit of definition. Then I cut the trees from the Forest Backdrop from Noble fir and Cilantro and the tent from Build-a-Campsite from Chili Pepper Cardstock and Really Rainbow 6×6 patterned paper.

I assembled all my pieces onto a Kraft card base and added a sentiment with Walnut Ink, which I also used to stamp on the inside. You can check that out in the video tutorial on my YouTube channel, Christy Gets Crafty.

Thank you for your adorable inspiration Christy!

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We can’t wait to see your Fun with Food projects! Be sure to link them up HERE!

Caly’s Hap-pea Birthday Card

- Nancy Krueger 1 Comment

We hope you are enjoying the Fun with Food challenge theme! Challenge 105 will be open until Sunday, August 1st at 11:59PM ET. Click HERE to visit the challenge post and add your entry to the challenge gallery! Happy crafting!

Hi Friends! It’s Caly with you today and we are having Fun with Food for the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge!  I was checking to see the last time I used the Be Hap-pea set and it was a year ago for this exact challenge!

My kids don’t love peas.  If I had my way, I’d eat a different vegetable every day!  Why is eating healthy so difficult with kids?  Speaking of kids though – how about a fun birthday card because I never have one in my stash when I need one!  The Be Hap-pea set is perfect for a quick and fun birthday card!

Let’s start with the background because that requires some drying time. On a watercolor panel, I used only water to draw a large area for a watercolor wash. I smooshed Cracked Pistachio, Lucky Clover, Peacock Feathers, and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Inks onto a glass mat and picked it up with my damp brush and allowed it to bloom and blend into each other. I kept applying more color until I was happy with the saturation. Then I set that aside to dry while I colored.

I stamped the images from the Be Hap-pea set and colored them with Copic markers.  So quick and easy when everything is green! I tried to sneak a bit of blue and pink onto the party hat too for some color.
Peas:  G02, G03, G05, G09
Peapod/Leaves:  YG13, YG06, YG09
Pinks:  RV21, RV25
Blues:  B02, B05

When the watercolor wash panel was dry, I used the largest die from the Outside In Stitched Rectangles to cut a stitching border around the panel before adhering my images to it with thin slivers of foam adhesive to give it lots of dimension.  My sentiment is embossed in white over black cardstock and I finished by adhering that to the top of my card.
I hope you like this sweet card!  Thanks so much for visiting today! ~Caly

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 105 – Fun with Food

- Nancy Krueger 8 Comments

Hello and Happy Monday friends! Today we are bringing back another of your favorite challenge themes – Fun with Food! Lots of Lawn Fawn sets include food images so the possibilities for fun are endless!

We invite you to share your creativity by linking up your crafty projects at the end of this post! Your project should feature Lawn Fawn stamps, dies and papers. This challenge will run for 2 weeks and be open until Sunday, August 1st at 11:59PM ET.

For each challenge, we will randomly select an entry to receive a $25.00 gift certificate to the Lawn Fawn shop! 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!

Let’s see how our amazing Design Team was inspired by this new theme!

Caly was inspired by our new Smiley S’more die set to create her love-filled card! She inked the Oliver’s Stitched ABCs to give them a toasty look but kept the background simple! This yummy pair of s’mores are the cute feature of her design!

A variety of our cute little mice are enjoying a fruity drink courtesy of So Smooth! Joyce arranged this adorable scene on a Stitched Scalloped Border with Watercolor Wishes Rainbow paper in the background!

Samantha M had so much Fun with Food! Her clever birthday design pairs the dinosaurs from RAWRSOME with some whimsical Party Animal accessories! She replaced the stegosaurus spikes with colorful ice cream cones! And the pterodactyl has a balloon with a vegan cupcake from A Bug Deal!

The cute critters from S’more the Merrier are having lots of fun with food! Christy created a beautiful nighttime scene with Forest Backdrop!

Karin‘s simply magical design features the yummy goodies from Unicorn Picnic! I love how she added the inky panel to anchor the cute unicorns and treats!

Franci‘s card features the punny sentiment and sweet goodies from Sweet Friends! Her clean and simple design is wonderful inspiration for making multiple cards!

Samantha C created a darling birthday card featuring the caked from Birthday Before ‘n Afters! She used Outside In Stitched Hearts to build her little scene with Tiny Birthday Friends! The Celebrate Border and banner from Virtual Friends Add-On add to her festive design!

Jessica created a happy tropical design with fun food from So Smooth, Happy Summer and Aloha! She used Tropical Leaves and Happy Hibiscus to add more tropical vibes! Her greeting is spelled out with Quinn’s Capital ABCs die cuts!

This super happy birthday card by Jenn stars Smiley S’more with a toasty sentiment from Scripty Bubble Sentiments! The rainbow inked background gets some glittery fun from Confetti Stencils and Hats Off to You party hats get glittery as well!

We will share Design Team inspiration for you over the next 2 weeks and we’ll announce our Featured Fawnatics and random winner for Challenge 104 – Summertime Fun tomorrow!

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