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Grace’s Adorable Fish Tanks!

- Nancy Krueger 2 Comments

Grace joins us today to share some fabulous inspiration for our Pet Love challenge! She remembers seeing colorful fish in tanks at the pet store as a kid and created a whimsical version of those fish for her card today!

For this incredibly cute card Grace started with How You Bean? mason jars as the fish tanks. She used the Shaker Add-On to give them dimension for layering the fish and also to allow the fish to move!

Grace mounted some of the fish on clear thread so they look like they are swimming. The goldfish in the center jar is on the Let’s Toast Pull Tab Add-On so he can jump above the rim!

Grace used a mix of images from Fintastic Friends and Life is Good to fill the “tanks” with color!

Please visit Grace’s instagram allbygracec for more on how she created this fabulous interactive card! Thanks so much for this fabulous inspiration, Grace!

The Pet Love challenge continues through May 19th! We hope you will join us, we can’t wait to see what you create!

Happy Crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 51 – Card Sketch

- Nancy Krueger 13 Comments

Hello Fawnatics Friends! We have a fun new challenge for you! This time we have a card sketch to spark your creativity! Create a new card project using the sketch as your guide. Follow it exactly or use some artistic license! Link up your project that features Lawn Fawn stamps, dies and papers below! This challenge will run for 3 weeks and be open until Sunday, May 5th 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 so happy to welcome Lynn Kramer-Put as our amazing Guest Designer for this challenge! You may know her as thequeensscene on Instagram and her blog! I know her lovely card designs will inspire you!

Lynn created a gorgeous Double Slider Surprise card featuring Be Hap-pea! I love how she incorporated the diagonal stripe from the sketch by placing a pea pod in the top right and bottom left corners, that is just so clever! She added lots of beautiful color with the Spring Fling papers!

Now let’s see how our amazing Design Team was inspired by the card sketch!

Samantha created a clean and simple design without extra layers! Her cute Mermaid for You couple are featured on a beautiful watercolor wave mimics the diagonal stripe!

Joyce omitted the diagonal stripe completely and chose to use the circle shape to create an adorable Oh Gnome scene! She also switched the sentiment to the opposite side! She layered the Stitched Circle with a Zig Zag Circle to frame her scene which she made using Meadow Borders, Simple Puffy Clouds and trees from Stitched Hillside Backdrop: Landscape!

Christy followed the sketch pretty closely when creating this fabulously fun RAWRSOME design! She added in the stripes using Cilantro, Peacock and Fake Tan cardstock on the Narwhal background. The cute stitched clouds are found in the Spring Showers die set!

Grace created her diagonal wave pattern using a Scalloped Rectangle as a stencil for ink blending! Then she used an Outside In Stitched Circle to make the shaker window for the Get Well Before ‘n Afters whales (one of which is mirror stamped).

Jessica color coordinated her Layered Butterfly with a lovely watercolor painted stripe! I love how she added the sparkly silver butterfly body!

The For You, Deer bear is so adorable just hanging out on Karin‘s cheery polka dot card design!

Franci followed the sketch using shiny foiled stripes! Isn’t it so cute how her Butterfly Kisses scene goes beyond the Scalloped Circle background?

Samantha‘s sweet thank you card combines Chirpy Chirp Chirp with with How You Bean?! She created the sketch background using Spring Fling papers!

Jenn created a magical rainbow undersea world for her sketch card! She used Mermaid for You and a rainbow of cardstock and ink colors along with glittery gold sparkle cardstock! The greeting is from Wavy Sentiments stamped on a Fancy Wavy Banner!

We will have Design Team inspiration for you over the next 3 weeks and of course we’ll share our Featured Fawnatics and random winner for Challenge 50 tomorrow!

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Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 50 – Fun with Food!

- Nancy Krueger 22 Comments

It’s time for another Lawn Fawnatics challenge! We aren’t April fooling you, the new theme is Fun with Food! Lawn Fawn has a whole section of stamps with a food theme, from birthday cakes to sushi, lattes to BBQ, donuts to jelly beans and everything in between! Check out all the food-themed sets HERE. For this challenge we are looking for you to make food the star! Create a new project that features Lawn Fawn stamps, dies and papers and link it below! This challenge will be open until Sunday, April 14th 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!

Let’s check out the buffet of yummy Design Team inspiration!

Samantha C made a card that has me craving a pepperoni pizza! I guess the Yeti, Set, Go critter loves Pizza My Heart too!

Karin created a charming little cafe window for the Baked with Love cupcakes! The striped awning is from the Scalloped Treat Box Spring House Add-On! She also used Quinn’s ABCs, Winter Skies, Here We Go A-Waddling and the Quilted Backdrop.

The Let’s Toast avocados are the stars of Joyce’s fun design! She used Spiffy Speckles and Really Rainbow Scallops to give her clean and simple card great color and pattern!

Everything is more fun with s’mores! Jessica combined Sweet Friends with a fun sentiment from Love You S’more to create this happy card!

Let’s taco ’bout Franci‘s adorable card using the Year Nine taco! A Birdie Told Me is an older set but those speech bubbles work perfectly on this adorable birthday card!

Jelly beans are food, right? Christy made a beautiful card for Easter using the Eggstra Special Easter set complete with jelly beans, chocolate bunnies and Easter eggs! I love the pretty background she created with Spiffy Speckles pastel papers!

Grace created a fabulous fiesta in a Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up! The avocados are from Let’s Toast and the tacos are from Year Nine. Then she got really creative and turned the Be Hap-pea pea pods into red chili peppers and the How You Bean? jelly beans became pinto beans!

Samantha M made a beautiful inky background for her tropical pineapples! This cool couple was made using our Aloha mini set along with that cute and punny sentiment!

Jenn created a festive and colorful birthday card featuring the Year Nine tacos! Her die cut Finley’s ABCs letters are inked with eye-catching colors!

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 49 tomorrow!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter