harold’s abcs

Samantha’s Adorable Woodland Classroom!

- Nancy Krueger 4 Comments

Hey everyone, Samantha here with a card that is inspired by the current Back to School challenge! I always loved the beginning of the school year. It was so much fun to get new supplies and find out what friends were in your classes. Another reason why it is so great is that fall is right around the corner!

I created a fun woodland scene with the most adorable critters. The classroom is on a large stump, from the Forest Feast stamp set, and the owl teacher is joyfully welcoming the new students. The teacher’s outdoor classroom is full of books, a fun banner, and a chalkboard.

I created a small chalkboard by hand cutting small two rectangles layering them together. I didn’t have to worry about having a perfect frame all the way around the base rectangle, because the tree branches would cover the sides. Then I layered a small strip of cardstock on top of the rectangles for the chalk holder. The hello, from the Speech Bubbles set, was the prefect size for a welcoming message on the chalkboard!

You still have time to enter this super fun challenge! The Back to School challenge is open until Sunday, September 20 at 11:59 EST. It is always so amazing to see all of the creative projects that are submitted! 

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!


This sweet card is so inspiring! Thanks so much for sharing with us today, Samantha!

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Have a wonderful weekend, friends!
We hope you have lots of time to craft!

Samantha’s Punny Holiday Card!

- Nancy Krueger 3 Comments

Samantha Mann visits the blog today to share a “jawsome” ocean-themed holiday card! She used Stitched Hillside Borders dies in a unique way to inspire you for our Fun with Dies challenge!

Samantha used the Stitched Hillside Borders to create the wavy borders on the top and bottom of her ocean scene! She blended Distress Oxide inks in Peacock Feathers, Blueprint Sketch and Wilted Violet, then splattered water over the top for a fun bubbly look! The punny sentiment is stamped with clear embossing ink with Harold’s ABCs then white embossed so it pops on the black cardstock banner!

The cute shark from Duh-Nuh borrowed some fun accessories from Christmas Fishes (Santa hat, seaweed and rock) and Winter Narwhal (scarf)! Samantha colored all of the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers before fussy cutting them to add to the scene!

Thanks so much for this amazing inspiration today, Samantha! I love the punny sentiment!

We hope this inspires you to get creative and join the Fun with Dies challenge! The challenge will be open until Sunday, December 1st at 11:59PM ET.

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Happy crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 48 – Inspired by a Book, Movie or Song!

- Nancy Krueger 33 Comments

Hello friends! We are so excited about this new challenge, we hope you are too! We would love to see your cards, layouts and crafty projects that are inspired by your favorite movie, book, song, musical, TV show, comic strip, etc! Your projects should feature Lawn Fawn stamps, dies and papers. This challenge will be open until Sunday, March 17 at 11:59PM ET.


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!

We are happy to welcome Davina Cantrell as our amazing Guest Designer for this challenge! You know and love her as popsiclesticks on Instagram! Her brilliant cards are frequently inspired by movies, especially Disney and Harry Potter! Wait till you see what she has created for this challenge!

For her featured card, Davina created a tall 8.5″ x 3.5″ card! It really works for this amazing Peter Pan inspired card! She combined so many different sets then used them so creatively to tell this story!

For Peter, she used the boy from Bicycle Built for You and Tinkerbell is a tiny fairy from our Thanksgiving free gift set, A Little Sparkle! To create Skull Rock, Davina started with the speech bubble from Love Letters and added the ghostly eyes and nose with Copic markers. Then she layered the hills from Ahoy Matey in front to finish the pirate lair!

To create the scene, Davina also used Mermaid for You, Wild for You, Toadally Awesome, Ahoy Matey, Meadow Borders, Ocean Wave Borders and Stitched Wave Borders!

Now let’s check out the fantastic inspiration by our Design Team!

Can you guess Jessica‘s inspiration for this amazing Shadow Box Card? To make this scene from Ratatouille come to life she used a whole bunch of sets in totally clever ways! Be sure to click on her name to visit her blog for a full list of all the products she used and more photos of this fun 3D card!

Grace found all the characters for her delightful Winnie the Pooh scene in our sets, Critter Concert, Bicycle Built for You and Hay There! I think it’s so fun that she used Puffy Cloud Borders to make the treetops!

Christy created a lovely scene using Baked with Love to depict her favorite book, The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister!

Karin created a friendly version of the shark from Jaws! It’s hard to believe our cute Duh-nuh critter could be the ruthless shark depicted in the movie; he’s a kinder, gentler version!

Ahoy Matey was used by Franci to create this clean and simple design inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean films! I love how she used a scoring board to add the embossed lines to add interest by framing her cute vignettes!

Samantha‘s beautiful birthday card takes inspiration from The Lion King! The Critters on the Savanna set has the regal lion while the custom sentiment is stamped with Harold’s ABCs! That background is all sorts of awesome!

Joyce‘s La La Land inspired card is totally charming! She used Village Border and the streetlamp from Here We Go A-Waddling to set the scene for the characters from Bicycle Built for You! The song title was added with the help of Violet’s ABCs.

Samantha C used our new RAWRSOME set with some help from Critters from the Past to bring her Land Before Time inspiration to life! How amazing is her prehistoric looking background?!

We will have Design Team inspiration for you over the next 2 weeks and of course we’ll share our Featured Fawnatics and random winner for Challenge 47 tomorrow!