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Glittery String of Lights with Jess!

- Nancy Krueger 4 Comments

Good morning! Jess here with a card for our current Bling It Up challenge! If you know my designs you know that I’m ALL about some sparkle and bling in my crafting! 😉 Earlier this week I used the String of Lights to create a fairy-inspired card for this challenge (you can find that card here). I had a few lights leftover and decided to create a similar but different card!

To start I die-cut both of the light bulb layers with white cardstock. I also die-cut the tops of the bulbs from silver cardstock from the Holiday Sparkle pack. I used Copic markers to color the top layer of the bulbs (BG10, BG11, BG13 and RV21, RV23, RV25) and then adhered them to the bottom layer and added the silver topper. I attached aqua and silver twine to the backs of the bulbs and then set those aside while I worked on the rest of the card.

I wanted to create the idea of a bokeh background so I used round blending tools to blend cracked pistachio and worn lipstick Distress ink in circles on a piece of Strathmore Bristol cardstock. Then I blended spun sugar Distress ink into any white areas. I spritzed the panel several times with water and iridescent spray for a super shimmery background!

Next I stamped the sentiment from Merry Messages onto black cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I trimmed it down to a label and adhered it to the distress inked background with foam mounting tape. Then I adhered the light-bulbs using foam mounting tape and secured the strings to the back of my card panel with washi tape. I adhered the panel to a white card base and then went a little shimmer crazy! 😉

I applied a layer of Nuvo crystal glaze to each light bulb and then sprinkled the glaze with Chunky glitter and Prisma glitter. I also applied a light layer of crystal glaze around the light-bulbs and sprinkled it with Prisma glitter for a little extra glow of sparkle. Once the glaze was dry I added a few sparkling clear sequins and pink gems to finish the card! When this card catches the light it’s practically blinding! 😉

You have another 2 weeks to enter our Bling It Up challenge and I can’t wait to see your entries! Thanks so much for visiting and have a fantastic weekend!

–Jess

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Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 20 – Fun with Food!

- Nancy Krueger 20 Comments

Happy New Year! We are looking forward to a wonderful year of challenges and inspiration with you, our Fawnatics friends! Welcome to Challenge 20 Fun with Food! Use your favorite Lawn Fawn food-themed sets to create a fun new project! Link up your entries by Sunday, January 14th at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see what you will share with us!

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 will keep the rules few! Note: we’ve amended the rules a bit to limit entries to no more than 4 for each challenge.

We are so excited to introduce 2 new Design Team members! Please help us welcome Joyce Heinen and Francesca Vignoli! We know they will have lots of awesome inspiration to share with you! Check out our Design Team page to learn more about our talented new team members!

Let’s see what our amazing Design Team has created for this challenge!

Samantha‘s card is whimsical with a happy little Love You S’more treat!

Kate created a fun and colorful border with Donut Worry and Puffy Cloud Borders!

Karin created a bright and cheerful collage using Baked with Love!

Joyce‘s Love You S’more card is so cute and perfect to send as a Valentine!

Jessica used a cool color combo with an ink “smooshed” background to make this special Baked with Love card!

Franci combined Quinn’s 123s with Pizza My Heart to make a fabulous card to ring in the New Year!

Christy‘s card features a sweet color palette and cute images from Milk and Cookies!

Jenn combined lots of our food-themed and Halloween sets including So Smooth, Bun in the Oven, Spooktacular and Costume Party to create a sweet pattern for her Valentine card!  The greeting is Cole’s ABCs and Claire’s ABCs.

We will have Design Team inspiration for you over the next 2 weeks and of course, we will have our Featured Fawnatics and Random Winner from Challenge 19 tomorrow!


Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 19 – Use your favorite Lawn Fawn set!

- Nancy Krueger 11 Comments

Happy Holidays Fawnatics Friends! Welcome to Challenge 19! If you are anything like me, whatever Lawn Fawn stamp or die set I’m using at the time is my favorite so have fun with this challenge and show us a new card or crafty project using your favorite Lawn Fawn set! Link up your entries by December 31st at 11:59 PM 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 will keep the rules few! Note: we’ve amended the rules a bit to limit entries to no more than 4 for each challenge.

We are so excited to have 2 very talented Guest Designers sharing inspiration for this challenge! Help us welcome Joyce Heinen and Francesca! Please check out their blogs and share some Fawnatics love with them!

Francesca loves to make happy holiday cards using Cheery Christmas and our Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up! She filled this adorable card with lots of fun images!


Joyce combined her favorite stamp set, Happy Harvest with Cheery Christmas to create a delightful holiday card!

Adding fun holiday images can turn any stamp set into a perfect Christmas design!

Now let’s see what our amazing Design Team has created to inspire your crafting!

Christy‘s favorite set is Baaah Humbug! She created 2 cards with the same design, adding some individual personality to the adorable sheep! I love how she used the coordinating Knit Picky papers!

Samantha C loves to make adorable scene cards and this one featuring Christmas Dreams is so sweet and cozy! The mostly red and green color combo gives this charming card traditional style!

Karin‘s awesome Scalloped Treat Box has lots of custom style! She coordinated the Tiny Tag with the window in the treat box! The Here We Go A-Waddling penguins are the perfect addition! She created the window using the oval die found in Fancy Box!


Samantha M created a fun and punny Yeti, Set, Go card! Her sentiment is based on one of my favorite holiday movies, Home Alone! She used Harold’s ABCs to stamp the custom greeting! The merry Christmas greeting is from Toboggan Together!

Jessica used the Upon a Star fox as the focal image for her beautiful holiday card! She added some pretty Mini Snowflakes to the gorgeous night sky and finished her card with a happy holiday greeting from Merry Messages!

We will have Design Team inspiration for you over the next 2 weeks and of course, we will have our Featured Fawnatics and Random Winner from Challenge 18 tomorrow!