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Caly’s Starry Sky Swish n’ Pop Inspiration

- Nancy Krueger 1 Comment

Hi Friends! It’s Caly with you today, sharing an interactive card for the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge!  The current theme uses the photo below as inspiration. This theme runs through Sunday September 19th at 11:59pm PT. We hope you’ll get the chance to participate before it’s over!

I was inspired by the image to create a sky scene.  So I water-colored a background to replicate the inspiration board using Daniel Smith watercolors.  Once it was dry, I splattered the panel with white paint to give it more interest to imitate stars.

While my background was drying, I stamped and colored images from the Super Star and Upon A Star sets.  I used Copic markers to color my images before die-cutting them out to begin my interactive mechanism for this card.

        Fox:  E11, E13, E15

        Mouse:  W0, W2, W4

        Bunny:  E40, E41, E42, E43

        Telescope:  C0, C3, C6

        Star:  Y00, Y15, YR23

        Blush: R30

I die-cut clouds using the Puffy Cloud Borders in both white cardstock and vellum to layer them for interest and to hide my Swish n’ Pop Pull-Tab mechanism.  Be sure to check out the Lawn Fawn YouTube channel to see how the mechanism is put together – it’s really easy!

I used a shooting star for my moving image and embossed the tail lines on vellum using white embossing powder.  Once my mechanism was put together, I attached my images to create my scene.

I finished today’s card by embossing a sentiment in white over black cardstock.  I love interactive cards and hope you like this one!  Thanks so much for visiting!  You still have a few days to participate and I hope you will make some time to create!

Thanks so much for sharing this beautiful inspiration, Caly!

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Happy crafting, friends!

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 108 – Inspiration Photo

- Nancy Krueger 7 Comments

Hello friends! It’s time for a brand new challenge and this time we have something a little different! We would like you to use this interesting photo to inspire your challenge entry! We can’t wait to see where your creativity takes you!

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, September 19th 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 wonderful Design Team was inspired to create!

Jessica was inspired to create an alcohol inked background with the look of cool water! Those pops of red from Happy Hibiscus are so stunning!

Samantha‘s sweet scene uses the inspiration photo as a starry sky! She combined the Den Sweet Den bears with stars and a telescope from Super Star then she grounded the scene with a large cloud from Unicorn Picnic!

Christy‘s Toadally Awesome birthday card is a total delight! She incorporated the colors of the inspiration photo in the Simple Stripes: Landscape background!

Gorgeous alcohol inking creates the perfect backdrop for Caly‘s Christmas Fishes design!

Joyce brightened up the inspiration colors for her whimsical underwater scene! She used Slimline Tropical Leaves Border to create a fun environment for the mermaid, Duh-nuh shark and Ahoy Matey treasure chest!

Karin was inspired to create an amazing birthday card! She layered a gold metallic Giant Happy Birthday greeting over an alcohol inked background; the gold flecks bring it together! She finished the card with some happy toucans!

Samantha inked up a charming underwater scene for the little critters from I Like You (a lotl)! She added cool details to the water using Bubbles Stencil!

Jenn‘s colorful mermaids are waving hello on a gorgeous alcohol-inked backdrop!

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 107 – 3D Cards tomorrow! Now it’s time for you to get creative!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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A Happy Playground with Samantha!

- Nancy Krueger 3 Comments

Hi friends, this is the last weekend for our Cards for Kids challenge! I hope you are filling up your collections of birthday and encouragement cards for all the awesome kids in your lives! This challenge will be open until Sunday, May 16th at 11:59PM ET.

Samantha joins us today with the most adorable inspiration!

This is such a joyful scene! Samantha combined a bunch of sets to create this playground filled with happy critters! She used Let’s Play, Let’s Go Nuts, Really High Five, Yay Kites and Super Star! The greeting is from Let’s Go Nuts! The sweet Hello Sunshine Remix paper and happy color combo add lots of whimsy to the design!

Thank you so much for this absolutely adorable inspiration, Samantha! I’m sure it will spark lots of creative ideas!

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Thanks for stopping by! Happy crafting!