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Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 110 – Spectacular Skies

- Nancy Krueger 9 Comments

It’s new challenge time again! This time we have another favorite for you, Spectacular Skies! Use the photo to inspire you with Fall leaves framing a clear blue sky or create your own idea of a spectacular sky!

We invite 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, October 17th 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!

Let’s see what our amazing Design Team created to inspire us!

Caly‘s card uses Stitched Hillside Pop-Up to create a fun Autumn scene! The Jump for Joy critters are celebrating the arrival of colorful Fall leaves and blue skies! For the background she used Leafy Tree Backdrop: Landscape and Stitched Tree Borders.

Karin‘s spectacular sky is an ink blended beauty! Combining Winter Skies and Over the Mountain Borders she created a simple scene with Scripty Love as the greeting!

Christy‘s adorable card is inspired by the pretty blue sky and colorful leaves in the inspiration photo! She combined Purrfectly Wicked cats with Jump for Joy leaves! The cute little kitten is on a branch from A Bug Deal.

This charming card by Samantha C features Leafy Tree Backdrop: Portrait in glittery Autumn Sparkle cardstock! She stenciled the clouds then added some splatters for texture. The sweet little scene anchored by the Gold Rush cardstock “hill” (found in the Leafy Tree die set) combines Happy Hugs and Let’s Go Nuts! I love the acorns in the speech bubble!

Joyce created an amazing winter sky using Snowflake Background Stencils and Yeti ink on an ink-blended background. The playful scene features our new Penguin Party set!

Jessica focused on the pretty leaves framing the Autumn sky to create a gorgeous thank you card! She layered two Fall Leaves Backdrops, one in a beautiful glittery gold over a Fall Leaves Background Stenciled panel! The Giant Thanks so Much stands out in bold Black Licorice cardstock!

The contrast of the warm colors of the You Autumn Know leaves and dusky colors of the sky is so striking in Samantha‘s design! This card just makes me smile, it’s so happy!

Franci‘s cute Costume Party kids are enjoying trick-or-treating under an amazing purple sky! To complete her Halloween scene she used Spooky Fence Border and a ghost and bats from Happy Haunting!

Jenn finishes out our Spectacular Skies inspiration with the cutest Happy Harvest card! The addition of the cute You Autumn Know mouse is brilliant! I love how she trimmed the Fall Leaves Backdrop to mimic the look of the leaves in the inspiration photo! Her greeting comes from Scripty Autumn Sentiments.

I hope you have been inspired by these amazing projects! We will share more Design Team inspiration for you over the next 2 weeks and we’ll announce our Featured Fawnatics and random winner for Challenge 109 – Awesome Autumn tomorrow! Now it’s time for you to get creative!

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Featured Fawnatics and Challenge 106 Random Winner

- Nancy Krueger 4 Comments

Hi friends! It’s time to show off some of the awesome designs you linked up for the Card Sketch challenge! We saw so much creativity in your cards and we can’t thank you all enough for joining us for this challenge! Please check out the Card Sketch challenge gallery to see all the fabulous entries!

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 Helga
using Delightful Daisy, Simple Stripes: Diagonal, Scripty Bubble Sentiments

by Claire A.
using Simply Celebrate Winter

by Emily
using Happy Hibiscus, Tropical Leaves

by Kelli
using Outside In Stitched Pumpkin, Happy Harvest, Fall Fling paper

by Sarah
using Narwhal and Friends, Mermaid for You

by Kim
using Happy Hugs, Scripty Hugs, Really Rainbow paper

by Jessica
using Car Critters, Out of This World, Scootin’ by, Bannertastic

by Catherine
using Unicorn Picnic, Bubble Border, Rainbow




And now we have our random drawing winner from Challenge 106 who wins a $25.00 gift certificate to our shop, lawnfawn.com! And the winner is…#1

Congratulations to Stephanie! 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 107 – 3D Cards This new challenge runs until Sunday, September 5th at 11:59PM ET.

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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Peter Rabbit Inspiration with Christy

- Nancy Krueger 2 Comments

Hey friends, it’s Christy here with another card for our Inspired by a Book, Movie, or Song Challenge! I have been loving watching the entries come in and am blown away by your creativity!

For my card today, I wanted to depict another classic children’s tale and one of my personal favorites: Peter Rabbit. I pulled together images from Some Bunny, Happy Harvest, A Bug Deal, Our Friendship Grows, and Critters on the Farm to make it happen.

The first thing I needed to do was to alter my bunny and give him a little jacket just like Peter’s. So I drew it in pencil and then traced over it with a Memento Tuxedo Black Pen. I also altered the watering can to give it a top with a little opening at the front, to resemble the one in the illustrations. Then I colored all my images with Copic markers to match as closely as possible, and trimmed them out with the matching dies.

For the background, I took the second largest of the Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables and die cut some Mermaid Cardstock for the sky. Then I used the Grassy Border on some Cilantro for the grass, and the Simple Stitched Hillside Borders on Ground Coffee for the dirt. I stamped a sentiment from Some Bunny at the top of the sky panel in Peacock Ink.

To give the card a cozy look, I added a piece of patterned paper from the Perfectly Plaid Remix 6×6, die cut with the largest of the Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables to my Speckled Eggshell card base. Then I popped my focal panel up with foam tape and adhered my images with liquid glue to create the nostalgic scene in Mr. MacGregor’s garden. I also added a bit of Stardust Stickles for a little sparkle and shine.

I also finished off the inside of the card by stamping another classic scene from the book, but you can check that out in the video tutorial on my YouTube channel, Christy Gets Crafty.

If you haven’t had a chance to play along in our challenge yet, there’s still time! The Inspired By challenge will be open until Sunday, April 4th at 11:59PM ET. I can’t wait to see what you create!

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Happy crafting, friends! Have a wonderful weekend!