It’s never too early to get started making Christmas cards, so for this challenge let’s celebrate Christmas in July! Make special holiday cards, gift tags, gift boxes or decorations using your favorite Lawn Fawn sets!

You are invited to share your creativity by linking up your crafty projects at the end of this post! Your project should feature Lawn Fawn stamps, dies, stencils and papers. This challenge will run for 2 weeks and be open until Sunday, August 3 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 winner! Yay!

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!

Design Team Inspiration

Christy‘s Treat Cart Add-On: Tacos design is so charming! She used some elements from Critters in the Desert to add Southwestern flair! I love how she separated the scene from the Finley’s ABCs greeting with a Stitched Scalloped Border! The Favorite Flannel paper in the background lends a subtle pattern that is just perfect!

Samantha combined Beachy Christmas with Furry and Bright to create a Christmas scene filled with sand and colorful Christmas lights. For the ocean background she used Stitched Ripple Backdrop, Simple Stitched Wavy Borders and Simple Puffy Clouds.

Mimi‘s “seed-sational” holiday card features Backyard Bird Feeder and Backyard Bird Feeder Add-On in a Spooky Forest Backdrop. Then she used holiday images from lots of sets to decorate the scene for Christmas! Here’s a list of the those sets: Winter Birds, Car Critters Christmas Add-On, Christmas Dreams, Ugly and Bright, Cheery Christmas, Tiny Winter Friends and A Creature was Stirring.

Franci‘s simply adorable scene features Christmas Fishes and a background made with Gleeful Gradients!

Karin‘s frosty design sends a Happy Holidays greeting with a Frosty Family snowman in a Stitched Snowflake window! She stamped the Winter Wavy Sayings sentiment on a Simple Wavy Banner.

Joyce created a whimsical scene with Simply Celebrate Winter Critters and Simply Celebrate Hangouts. The winter hat wearing mice look so cute gathered on the chunk of cheese! For the background Joyce used Let it Shine Starry Skies paper for the Lacy Rectangle, then she layered it on a panel of metallic gold cardstock.

Samantha‘s ocean themed card features the Christmas Fishes jellyfish and a fun punny greeting to match. She used Draped Ribbons Stencil and Stitched Hillside Borders with seaweed from You Are Sublime to create the underwater scene.

Mayra‘s Build-A-Cake design is so elegant! The pops of red and green Poinsettias and Hibiscus fill her card with holiday cheer and a beachy note. The stenciled background has a subtle pattern of poinsettias.

We will have more Design Team inspiration for the Christmas in July challenge over the next 2 weeks! Be sure to come back tomorrow when we’ll announce our Featured Fawnatics and random winner for Challenge 200 – Celebrate Friendship!