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Christy’s Magic Iris Birthday Card Featuring Really High Five!

- Nancy Krueger 3 Comments

Hi friends, it’s Christy here with another card for our Birthday Challenge! I hope you’re all doing well. Today I’m bringing you my first Magic Iris card! I featured the new Really High Five along with Butterfly Kisses. These sets work so well together! I stamped all the images I wanted to use with Jet Black Ink and colored them with Copic markers, then trimmed them out with the matching dies.

Next I created the Magic Iris mechanism, by following the excellent instructions in Kelly Marie’s Intro to Magic Iris video on the Lawn Fawn YouTube channel. I’ll make a confession — interactive cards intimidate me. But this one really is as easy to put together as it looks. The one you’ll see in my video tutorial is my very first attempt, and it works perfectly!

Once I had the mechanism, I die cut the Magic Iris Add-on out of some Spiffy Speckles patterned paper. I added the grass using the Simple Stitched Hillside Borders and stamped part of the sentiment at the bottom. I stamped the rest of the sentiment in the center part of the Magic Iris Add-on die-cut, and then adhered my images to the scene.

I created a card base out of Mermaid cardstock and covered it with a sheet of Hello Sunshine Remix patterned paper, Then I attached the magic iris to the back of the focal panel with tape runner adhesive. With the magic iris in the open position, I fit the center circle and attached it to the card base. Then I popped the focal panel up with a thin strip of foam tape at the top and bottom.

And that’s it! As I mentioned, I’ll have a video tutorial on how this card came together over on my channel, Christy Gets Crafty. And if you’d like to create something for our Birthday Challenge, you still have time to play along! Click HERE for the challenge post!

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Happy crafting, Fawnatics friends!

Karin’s Charming Beatrix Potter Inspired Card

- Nancy Krueger 5 Comments

Karin is here to share her super cute Peter Rabbit card for our Inspired By challenge!

Karin’s Beatrix Potter inspired card includes Peter Rabbit from Eggstra Amazing Easter, Jemima Puddle Duck from Rub-A-Dub-Dub and Mrs Tiggy Winkle from Jump for Joy! She used the grass from Gleeful Gardens and Butterfly Kisses and the pail and shovel from Life is Good!

For her one-layer design, Karin first laid out where everything would go then she started stamping and masking (with full sticky back post-it notes). She left the masks in place to blend on ink for the sky and to fill in the grass!

Thank you so much for sharing this amazing card with us today, Karin!

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The Inspired by Book, Movie or Song challenge will be open for another week! It will close Sunday, March 15th at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see how you will be inspired!

Wishing our Fawnatics friends a very happy and craft-filled weekend!

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 71 – Bring it Back!

- Nancy Krueger 13 Comments

It’s that time of year when we all try to tame our craft stash! You probably have lots of crafty goodies that would be fun to use again so let’s Bring it Back for this challenge! Our Design Team brought back older stamp sets, embossing folders, washi tape, buttons, sequins and flowers! Let’s see what you have been hoarding that just might be perfect for this challenge!

We would love for 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, March 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!

Now let’s see how our amazing designers are bringing all the crafty things back!

This sweet card by Samantha brings back flower embellishments! She also used little pearl gems for the flower centers! Her card features Butterfly Kisses images, a vellum Valentine Border and a sweet Hello Border on a Watercolor Wishes background!

Caly‘s adorable card brings back buttons! She used her buttons as flowers to add a pop of fun color to her sweet Easter Party card!

Joyce brought back color coordinated sequins! They add fun dimension to her adorable Ahoy Matey birthday card! She included a few images from Smooth Sailing as well!

Karin‘s sweet new baby card brings back a doily layered behind the cute critters! She also brought back an older stamp set, Into the Woods! The basket is from Eggstra Amazing Easter, the sentiment is from Rub-A-Dub-Dub and the cute little mouse is from Mice on Ice!

For her adorable Rub-A-Dub-Dub scene, Jessica brought back little pearl gems to use as bubbles!

Christy‘s charming little scene combines the Cheery Christmas squirrels with a palm from Critters from the Past in a terra cotta pot from Our Friendship Grows and a bit of lunch from Bicycle Built for You! She finished this sweet card with her bring it back item, Aquamarine cord!

Samantha brought back a cool embossing folder to add lots of detail in the background of her adorable birthday card! She used elephants from Wild for You, clouds from Starry Backdrops and the balloon and party hats from Party Animal!

For her charming card, Franci used Smooth Sailing to make a little boating scene! She “anchored” her vignette with a strip of washi tape, her bring it back item!

In honor of Hello Sunshine Remix bringing back a favorite paper collection, Jenn brought back the coordinating stamp set Hello Sunshine! This set includes a solid cloud stamp and a dotted cloud! Jenn’s colorful clouds look adorable on the water-colored background!

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 70 tomorrow!

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