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Christy’s Cute New Baby Card

- Nancy Krueger 3 Comments

Hey everyone, it’s Christy here with a sweet baby shower card for our What’s the Weather Challenge. One of my co-workers is about to become a first-time grandma, and she loves elephants for baby girls, so I combined a couple of sets to create her a congratulations card with that theme.

I started by stamping out the mama elephant from Wild for You, the baby elephant from Elphie Selfie, and the umbrella and rattle from Hello Baby. I colored them in Copic markers using a soft color palette of warm gray, pink, and mint. Then I trimmed them out with the matching dies.

For the background, I die cut a Stitched Circle Stackable and sponged on some distress ink using a stencil to create some pale gray clouds and a little patch of grass. I added a sentiment and a few raindrops from Hello Baby as well. I layered this onto a Fancy Scalloped Circle Stackable to give it that delicate eyelet-looking edge.

I layered some patterned papers over my card base, die cutting the largest with a Stitched Rectangle Stackable, and used the Stitched Party Banner to selectively die cut a flag end on my banner. I popped the focal panel up with foam tape for a little dimension and added some white gel pen polka dots to the rattle and umbrella as a finishing touch.

If you’d like to see how this card came together, check out the video tutorial on my YouTube channel, Christy Gets Crafty. There’s still plenty of time to enter our What’s the Weather Challenge! I can’t wait to see what you create!

Our What’s the Weather challenge will be open until Sunday, March 3 at 11:59PM ET. We hope you will join us!
Have an awesome weekend, Fawnatics friends!
Happy Crafting!

Grace’s Thank Ewe Reveal Wheel Card

- Nancy Krueger 8 Comments

Hello Fawnatics friends! Today Grace is sharing a super clever Reveal Wheel card using our Hay There sheep! It’s wonderful inspiration for our Happy Little Critters challenge that will be open until Sunday January 20th at 11:59PM ET.

Grace explains how she created her card: First I decorated the top panel and the rotating circle’s center. I used the Puffy Cloud Borders to make a stencil out of cardstock and sponged the clouds with distress inks. Then I die cut a circle with Outside In Stitched Circle Stackables from the Reveal Wheel panel aligning it so it’s center would match the center of the rotating wheel which was fixed to the back panel with the head of the brad pointing up and being exposed. Then I assembled the mechanism without the images and once both panels were secured, I added the sheep images to the rotating wheel, making sure I used one layer of foam tape (enough for it to fit in the circle and checking it wouldn’t get stuck when rotating, and also enough to hold each image). After the sheep where attached to the Reveal Wheel circle (I could fit two exactly opposite to each other, the closer to the exposed brad as possible). I finished decorating the whole front panel by attaching the fence right in front of the exposed metal brad to cover it but gluing it to the grass so the brad moves freely (the grass panel is attached with foam tape).

Grace used Grassy Hillside Borders and trees from Shadow Box Card to create the fun meadow scene. The sentiment is a combination of Scripty Thanks and a phrase from Hay There.

To see Grace’s adorable card in action check out our Lawn Fawn Instagram later today to see a short video! Thank you so much Grace for inspiring us today!

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Happy crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 44 – Happy Little Critters!

- Nancy Krueger 22 Comments

Yay! It’s the start of a new year and time for a fresh new challenge! We all love our cute Lawn Fawn critters so here’s your chance to get them out to create fabulous and fun projects! This challenge will be open until Sunday, January 20 at 11:59PM ET. Your project should feature Lawn Fawn stamps, dies and papers. Have fun with your favorite critter sets!
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’ll keep the rules to just a few!

Now we have a super awesome announcement! We are so excited to welcome Grace Camou to our Design Team! Her amazing cards and crafty projects have been inspiring and impressing us for a while and we are so happy to have her on the team! To learn more about Grace and the rest of our wonderful designers check out the Design Team Page!

Grace created an amazing and Toadally Awesome scene with a super fun twist! She altered the Let’s Toast Pull Tab Add-On to add 2 extra tabs to give all 3 of her cute critters movement!

When the tab is pulled, 2 frogs jump down while the one in the middle pops up! This beautiful scene is all sorts of gorgeous in pretty pastel colors!

Here’s a quick peek at the modifications that Grace used to create her brilliant interactive card!

And now let’s introduce our Guest Designer for this challenge! We are so happy to have Ildi Imrefalvi share her amazing creativity with us! You will find her on Instagram as hellopilda, give her a follow, you will be inspired!

Ildi created a super cute and festive birthday card with our Party Animal critters and their friend from Holiday Party Animal! How cute are those Pick of the Patch squirrels holding the Celebrate Border!

Ildi added fun detail to her fabulous card with a stamped a backdrop using a sentiment from our Let’s Play set! The little sailboat is from Rub-A-Dub-Dub and the pile of presents are found in our Baaah Humbug and Christmas Dreams sets.

Now let’s see what our amazing Design Team has made created to inspire us!

Jessica‘s beautiful card features Elphie Selfie and Selfie Frames on a sweet Polka Heart Backdrop! She created the custom sentiment by combining the greeting in Elphie Selfie with one from Sweet Friends!

Joyce made a sunshine-y card with the Jump for Joy critters in a whimsical scene that includes Sweet Friends treats and the Thanks a Latte coffee mug!

Samantha C gathered a happy group of elephants from Elphie Selfie and Wild for You to celebrate the cute little mouse’s birthday! She added party fun to her adorable card using Itsy Bitsy Polka Dot Backdrop and Bunting Borders!

I love how Christy combined old and new sets to create this brilliant “down under” inspired card! The koala is brand new from our I Love You(calyptus) mini set and she set the scene using stamps from Critters Down Under!

Karin‘s charming card starts with Quilted Backdrop and a Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Frame with a Mini Picture Frame in a cheery white on white design! It’s the perfect setting for cute Rub-A-Dub-Dub ducklings to frolic! She included a greeting from Tiny Tag Sayings that fits perfectly in the mini frame!

Say What? Christmas Critters sure are a bunch of happy little critters on Franci‘s brilliant card! The fun greetings and speech bubbles are included in this fun set too! I love how she arranged these little cuties!

Samantha‘s underwater birthday scene is so amazing! It features You Are Sublime with a sentiment from Fintastic Friends and party hats and balloon from Party Animal!

The party fun continues on the inside with our Critters in the Sea whale popped up using Everyday Pop-Ups dies! Ocean Wave Borders add ocean detail to the top of the scene!

Jenn‘s Critter Concert critters are creating a symphony of rainbow color for her watercolor gem! Little Music Notes and Thank You Border round out this fabulous card design! Be sure to check out Jenn’s updated class schedule to find where she will be teaching Lawn Fawn cardmaking classes this Spring!

We will have Design Team and Guest Designer inspiration for you over the next 2 weeks and of course we’ll share our Featured Fawnatics and random winner for Challenge 43 tomorrow!