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Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 65 – Fun with Dies!

- Nancy Krueger 5 Comments

We have a great new challenge for you! Let’s have fun with dies! For this challenge make Lawn Cuts die sets the focus of your design! Now is the time to use interactive die sets, shapes, bags, boxes, etc! Build scenes, add custom die cut greetings, create a set of shaped tags, the possibilities are endless!

We would love for you to share your die focused 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, December 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, here’s some awesome inspiration to get you started!

Jessica‘s gorgeous holiday card features Happy Mail, Mini Wreath and Stitched Snowflakes!

Christy built cute little Christmas scenes using Peekaboo Backdrop and images from Ho-Ho-Holidays, Christmas Dreams, Holiday Helpers and Toboggan Together!

Karin‘s beautiful alcohol inked background is set off behind an Outside In Stitched Heart! Her lovely design includes Scripty Love and a Fancy Wavy Banner with a sentiment from Wavy Sayings!

I love how Samantha incorporated the Ready Set Snow Shaker Add-On in her beautiful Frosty Fairy Friends design!

Caly‘s brilliant design combines two interactive elements with Flippin’ Awesome and Slide on Over! She filled the flip panels with our Village sets!

Samantha carried her adorable Shadow Box Card scene featuring Holiday Helpers all around the outside of the box!

Franci got really clever and used the A Little Sparkle coordinating die to create an adorable little key chain! She stacked together two layers of cardstock around two layers of craft foam! To make the key chain more sturdy you can laminate the cardstock layers!

Joyce combined the cute penguins from Toboggan Together, Snow Cool and Here We Go A-Waddling to create a very merry Flippin’ Awesome card!

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 64 tomorrow!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Jessica’s Screen Time Card

- Nancy Krueger 2 Comments

Good morning! Jess here with a card for our current Cards For Guys challenge! My husband happens to have a birthday this month so this was the perfect opportunity to create a card for my favorite gaming nerd! 😉

To start I stamped the images from Screen Time and Christmas Dreams with Versafine and colored them with Copic markers before die-cutting them with the coordinating dies. We have a tortoiseshell cat and two Shelties and I tried my hardest to color the animals similar to our pets. In the future I’ll have to remember to pick boring colored pets because merles and torties are HARD to color! Ha! I also stamped the sentiment from Screen Time onto black cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder before trimming it down to a thin label.

Next I created my husband’s very 90s childhood bedroom with some plaid and woodgrain patterned paper using Knock on Wood and Perfectly Plaid Chill! I die-cut them with a Stitched Rectangle die and adhered them to a card base to create the room. Then I simply layered the images with a mix of regular adhesive and foam mounting tape for a little dimension. I kept it simple (and non-sparkly) and just finished the card with a few white gel pen accents!

And that’s it! You have one more weekend to get crafty and I can’t wait to see what you’ll create! Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fantastic weekend!
Jess

The Cards for Guys challenge closes this Sunday, November 17th at 11:59PM ET. We love seeing all the amazing creativity you are adding to the gallery!

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Have a wonderful weekend! See you on Monday with a new challenge!

A Yeti or Not Design with Franci!

- Nancy Krueger 5 Comments

Franci created whimsical holiday cards featuring our charming Yeti or Not critter! She used a fun color palette and a clever Offset Sayings: Christmas “tree” as inspiration for our Cards for Guys challenge!

This is such a fun holiday card design, perfect for making multiples for family and friends! Franci stamped the words from Offset Sayings: Christmas in the shape of a tree then she added the star tree-topper from Christmas Dreams!

She did some simple ink-blending, then attached the cute yeti, snowflakes and gift package! Everything is in a fresh and fun pastel color palette that is so happy!

Thanks for sharing your creative inspiration with us today, Franci!

Our Cards for Guys challenge will continue through Sunday, November 17 at 11:59PM ET. We hope you will join the fun!

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Happy Crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!