deck the halls

Christy’s Sweet Holiday Card

- Nancy Krueger 5 Comments

You’re invited to share your Coffee, Tea & Treats projects by linking up your photos HERE! Your project should feature Lawn Fawn stamps, dies, stencils and papers and focus on coffee and/or tea and yummy treats.  This challenge will be open for 3 weeks closing on Sunday, November 6 at 11:59PM ET.

Hey friends, it’s Christy here with another card for our Coffee, Tea, or Treats Challenge! For this one I decided to make a sweet holiday card, with mice topping off some hot cocoa with marshmallows.

I combined images from Snowball Fight, Thanks A Latte, and Deck the Halls. The branches from Deck the Halls were stamped in Noble Fir Ink. All the rest were stamped in Jet Black and colored with Copic markers. I trimmed them all out with the matching dies.

Then I created a background using some patterned paper. I chose a white and gray print from the Let It Shine Starry Skies 6×6 pad to be my wallpaper and a pink heart print from Knit Picky Winter for my tablecloth. Then I arranged the images into a fun little scene using a combo of foam tape and liquid glue. I also added a sentiment stamped in Bubblegum Ink and trimmed out with an Everyday Sentiment Banner, and a bit of Star Dust Stickles for some shine.

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

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Have a great weekend! Hope it’s filled with friends and crafty fun!

Featured Fawnatics and Challenge 112 Random Winner!

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Hi friends, it’s time once again to share some of your amazing designs! We loved all your projects for Make the Sentiment the Star! The challenge gallery is filled with lots of great ideas! Thank you all so much.

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 Julia
using Giant Let It Snow, Yeti or Not, Snowflake Background Stencils

by Tamara
using Scripty Sweet, A Creature Was Stirring

by Kimberly
using Let’s Go Nuts, Lift the Flap Tree Backdrop, Oliver’s Stitched ABCs, Snowflake Border

by Eleanor
using Giant Let It Snow, Sweet Christmas, Penguin Party

by Rachel
using Holiday Helpers, Deck the Halls

by Neha
using Furry and Bright, Giant Happy Birthday to You

by Sarah
using Oliver’s Stitched ABCs, Starry Sky Stencil, Outside In Stitched Star Stackables

by Tracey
using Giant Let It Snow, Snowflake Background Stencils



And now we have our random drawing winner from Challenge 112 who wins a $25.00 gift certificate to our shop, lawnfawn.com! And the winner is…#44

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


We will share Design Team inspiration during the next 3 weeks for Challenge 113 – Holiday Critters. This new challenge runs until Sunday, December 5th at 11:59PM ET. We are looking forward to seeing your new cards and projects!

Thank you so much for joining us each month for our Lawn Fawnatics challenges! You inspire us with your amazing creativity and kindness!

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Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 18 – Emboss Resist

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Hello Fawnatics! Welcome to Challenge 18! This time we have a fun technique for you! Show us your creative new cards and projects using Emboss Resist! This technique involves stamping and heat embossing using embossing powder, then adding color with ink blending, watercolor or any number of fun ways revealing the heat embossed image below. If you’ve never tried this technique this is the perfect time add it to your crafty repertoire! You can find lots of great tutorials and examples of emboss resist with a quick web search. This challenge will run through December 17 at 11:59PM PT.

For each challenge, we will randomly select a winner 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 will keep the rules few! Note: we’ve amended the rules a bit to limit entries to no more than 4 for each challenge.

We are so excited to have three talented Guest Designers joining us today! Please welcome Lynn Kopas, Kathy Skou and Cheiron Brandon to the blog! I love that they all had the same idea to create wintry snowy skies using emboss-resist!

Lynn‘s beautiful Winter Village landscape gets a fun bit of whimsy from our Critters in the Arctic snow bunny! I love how the pretty snowflakes shine through the inky sky!

Kathy created a lovely winter scene using Ready Set Snow and an Outside In Stitched Circle! I love how she placed the cute snowmen just outside the window! The greeting is from Winter Big Scripty Words.

Cheiron created a super fun Stitched Hillside Pop-Up scene for the Snow Cool penguins! She used the emboss resist technique to make the falling snow pop!

Now let’s check out what our fabulous Design Team has to inspire you!

I love this frosty winter scene by Samantha C.! She combined the falling snow from Snow Cool with the playful bears from Beary Happy Holidays on a Stitched Hillside Backdrop: Landscape!

Wow, the colors on this Winter Village card by Samantha M are amazing! The beautiful stormy sky created with emboss resist uses Snowy Backdrops.

Christy added some emboss resist texture behind our cute Black Friday special mini set, One in a Chameleon! She added cute holiday images from Baaah Humbug! That deep red Bannertastic banner is really cool!

Nancy created a set of Winter Tiny Tags with fun holiday motifs using Lawn Fawn White Embossing Powder and bold Distress ink colors! Check out the Lawn Fawn blog for more on these tags!

We will have Design Team inspiration for you over the next 2 weeks and of course, we will have our Featured Fawnatics and Random Winner from Challenge 17 tomorrow!