holiday helpers

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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Challenge 48 Featured Fawnatics Part 2

- Nancy Krueger 8 Comments

There were so many more entries that we would have loved to feature for Challenge 48, your creativity was so incredible! Thank you all again for helping us to build this fun and encouraging Lawn Fawnatics community! We are so happy to have your participation! And we want to give a special shout out to our amazing Guest Designer for this challenge; Davina created a project almost every day of the challenge and kept us all inspired! Check out her amazing creativity HERE. Thank you all so much for making this the best challenge ever!

If you are one of our Featured Fawnatics today, we invite you to to grab this badge to share on your blog or other social sites!

 

Ali – inspired by Where the Wild Things Are
(using Let’s Play, Screen Time, Hay There, Ahoy Matey)

Amanda – inspired by Land Before Time
(using RAWRSOME)

Sara – inspired by Song of the Sea
(using Fairy Friends, Sealed with a Kiss)

June – inspired by Bambi
(using Leafy Tree Backdrop, Cheery Christmas, Butterfly Kisses)

Marianne – inspired by Jaws
(using Duh-nuh, Ahoy Matey)

Tiffany – inspired by the song I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
(using Holiday Helpers, Year Four, Christmas Dreams, Milo’s ABCs)

Mona – inspired by Friends
(using Screen Time, Mermaid for You, Pizza My Heart, Violet’s ABCs)

Jessica – inspired by Toy Story
(using Screen Time, Out of this World, Hay There, Critters from the Past, RAWRSOME, Duh-nuh, Smitty’s ABCs)


There are so many of your entries that we would love to share but the photos you’ve linked us to are either too small or they don’t have enough space around them to allow for a consistent look on the blog. Here are some tips for uploading photos that we can share as Featured Fawnatics!

-Set up your photo with some space all around your project to allow for us to crop as needed
-Make sure your photos are at least 1000 pixels wide (we prefer sharing photos that are uniform in size)
-Use a light color as the backdrop for your photos; this helps your cards and crafts to stand out

Thank you for sharing your amazing creativity with us each month. We appreciate it so much! If you have any questions about uploading photos, please leave them in the comments below.

Happy Crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!

Jessica’s Edward Scissorhands Scalloped Box Card!

- Nancy Krueger 12 Comments

Good morning! Jess here with a card for our current Inspired by a Book, Movie, or Song challenge! It’s been so fun figuring out how I can adapt Lawn Fawn sets to fit some of my favorite movies! Today I’ve created a box card pop-up featuring one of my all-time favorites: Edward Scissorhands!!

To start I stamped the mermaid and merman from Mermaid For You, the houses from Happy Village, and lots of scissors from Holiday Helpers with Versafine and heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder. I colored them with Copic markers, added a few Edward Scissorhands accents to the merman, and die-cut them with the coordinating dies.

Next I stamped the giraffe from Critters on the Savanna, the dino from Critters from the Past, the seal from Sealed With a Kiss, and Nessie from Lovable Legends with Celery Stick ink and colored them with Copic markers to recreate the topiaries that Edward creates in the movie. Once I was done I die-cut them with the coordinating dies and added a little YG11 Copic to the edges of the dies to keep them from being too clean cut.

Next I die-cut the Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up with the Spring Fling paper pack and the inner mats of the box card with the Spiffy Speckles paper pack in green and blue. I also used the Simple Stitched Hillside dies to create grassy hills for each layer. I stamped the sentiment from Coaster Critters onto one of the mats with Versafine and heat-embossed it
with clear embossing powder. Then I adhered the box together. I added some of the topiaries to the side panels and tucked the rest around my houses. Finally I added Edward and Kim to complete the scene!

And that’s my card! You have until Sunday, March 17th at 11:59PM ET to get crafty with your Inspired by a Book, Movie, and Song creations and I can’t wait to see what you create! Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend!
-Jess

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Have a wonderful weekend, Fawnatics Friends!