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Grace’s Thank Ewe Reveal Wheel Card

- Nancy Krueger 8 Comments

Hello Fawnatics friends! Today Grace is sharing a super clever Reveal Wheel card using our Hay There sheep! It’s wonderful inspiration for our Happy Little Critters challenge that will be open until Sunday January 20th at 11:59PM ET.

Grace explains how she created her card: First I decorated the top panel and the rotating circle’s center. I used the Puffy Cloud Borders to make a stencil out of cardstock and sponged the clouds with distress inks. Then I die cut a circle with Outside In Stitched Circle Stackables from the Reveal Wheel panel aligning it so it’s center would match the center of the rotating wheel which was fixed to the back panel with the head of the brad pointing up and being exposed. Then I assembled the mechanism without the images and once both panels were secured, I added the sheep images to the rotating wheel, making sure I used one layer of foam tape (enough for it to fit in the circle and checking it wouldn’t get stuck when rotating, and also enough to hold each image). After the sheep where attached to the Reveal Wheel circle (I could fit two exactly opposite to each other, the closer to the exposed brad as possible). I finished decorating the whole front panel by attaching the fence right in front of the exposed metal brad to cover it but gluing it to the grass so the brad moves freely (the grass panel is attached with foam tape).

Grace used Grassy Hillside Borders and trees from Shadow Box Card to create the fun meadow scene. The sentiment is a combination of Scripty Thanks and a phrase from Hay There.

To see Grace’s adorable card in action check out our Lawn Fawn Instagram later today to see a short video! Thank you so much Grace for inspiring us today!

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Happy crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 44 – Happy Little Critters!

- Nancy Krueger 22 Comments

Yay! It’s the start of a new year and time for a fresh new challenge! We all love our cute Lawn Fawn critters so here’s your chance to get them out to create fabulous and fun projects! This challenge will be open until Sunday, January 20 at 11:59PM ET. Your project should feature Lawn Fawn stamps, dies and papers. Have fun with your favorite critter sets!
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!

Now we have a super awesome announcement! We are so excited to welcome Grace Camou to our Design Team! Her amazing cards and crafty projects have been inspiring and impressing us for a while and we are so happy to have her on the team! To learn more about Grace and the rest of our wonderful designers check out the Design Team Page!

Grace created an amazing and Toadally Awesome scene with a super fun twist! She altered the Let’s Toast Pull Tab Add-On to add 2 extra tabs to give all 3 of her cute critters movement!

When the tab is pulled, 2 frogs jump down while the one in the middle pops up! This beautiful scene is all sorts of gorgeous in pretty pastel colors!

Here’s a quick peek at the modifications that Grace used to create her brilliant interactive card!

And now let’s introduce our Guest Designer for this challenge! We are so happy to have Ildi Imrefalvi share her amazing creativity with us! You will find her on Instagram as hellopilda, give her a follow, you will be inspired!

Ildi created a super cute and festive birthday card with our Party Animal critters and their friend from Holiday Party Animal! How cute are those Pick of the Patch squirrels holding the Celebrate Border!

Ildi added fun detail to her fabulous card with a stamped a backdrop using a sentiment from our Let’s Play set! The little sailboat is from Rub-A-Dub-Dub and the pile of presents are found in our Baaah Humbug and Christmas Dreams sets.

Now let’s see what our amazing Design Team has made created to inspire us!

Jessica‘s beautiful card features Elphie Selfie and Selfie Frames on a sweet Polka Heart Backdrop! She created the custom sentiment by combining the greeting in Elphie Selfie with one from Sweet Friends!

Joyce made a sunshine-y card with the Jump for Joy critters in a whimsical scene that includes Sweet Friends treats and the Thanks a Latte coffee mug!

Samantha C gathered a happy group of elephants from Elphie Selfie and Wild for You to celebrate the cute little mouse’s birthday! She added party fun to her adorable card using Itsy Bitsy Polka Dot Backdrop and Bunting Borders!

I love how Christy combined old and new sets to create this brilliant “down under” inspired card! The koala is brand new from our I Love You(calyptus) mini set and she set the scene using stamps from Critters Down Under!

Karin‘s charming card starts with Quilted Backdrop and a Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Frame with a Mini Picture Frame in a cheery white on white design! It’s the perfect setting for cute Rub-A-Dub-Dub ducklings to frolic! She included a greeting from Tiny Tag Sayings that fits perfectly in the mini frame!

Say What? Christmas Critters sure are a bunch of happy little critters on Franci‘s brilliant card! The fun greetings and speech bubbles are included in this fun set too! I love how she arranged these little cuties!

Samantha‘s underwater birthday scene is so amazing! It features You Are Sublime with a sentiment from Fintastic Friends and party hats and balloon from Party Animal!

The party fun continues on the inside with our Critters in the Sea whale popped up using Everyday Pop-Ups dies! Ocean Wave Borders add ocean detail to the top of the scene!

Jenn‘s Critter Concert critters are creating a symphony of rainbow color for her watercolor gem! Little Music Notes and Thank You Border round out this fabulous card design! Be sure to check out Jenn’s updated class schedule to find where she will be teaching Lawn Fawn cardmaking classes this Spring!

We will have Design Team and Guest Designer inspiration for you over the next 2 weeks and of course we’ll share our Featured Fawnatics and random winner for Challenge 43 tomorrow!


Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 43 – Wonderful Winter

- Nancy Krueger 16 Comments

Hello Fawnatics friends! It’s time for a new challenge theme! This time we have a beautiful image and color palette for our Wonderful Winter theme! Feel free to be inspired by the colors (Lawn Fawn ink colors Ballet Slippers, Butter, Moonstone, Forget Me Not, Manatee), the image, the theme or all three! This will be a 3 week challenge that will be open until Sunday, January 6 at 11:59PM ET. Your project should feature Lawn Fawn stamps, dies and papers. Have fun and follow your creativity wherever it takes you!

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 excited to have another talented Guest Designer join us for this challenge! Please welcome Ashley Dearie, you know her as 509inspired on Instagram! She has been one of our Featured Fawnatics more than once for making wonderfully clever cards based around fun themes! Thank you for joining us today, Ashley, we are so happy to have you!!

Ashley was inspired by the color palette and the lovely wintry image to to send warm wishes from this cute crew in the arctic! She used lots of fun sets including Sealed with a Kiss, Critters in the Arctic, Critters in the Snow and Beary Happy Holidays! She combined bits of the costumed kids from Easter Party with the donut from Donut Worry to look like this arctic-dwelling cutie is bundled up for the cold!

Ashley used just the lake die cut from the Dad+Me coordinating die set to cut out the water shape and filled it with inked Ocean Wave Borders! So clever!

Let’s see how our amazing Design Team was inspired for this challenge!

Samantha M took snow angels to a new level of fun with these colorful and cute Yeti Set Go critters! This card is just so clever and so perfect for the Wonderful Winter theme!

One of the Yeti cuties is on an Action Wobbler to add even more fun with an interactive element!

Karin‘s Beary Happy Holidays polar bear family has done some successful ice fishing and are sending a sweet greeting to their friends! This frosty scene is so full of charm and warmth!

Jessica‘s beautiful pastel paradise uses all the colors of the challenge palette! Her skating bear is found in Beary Happy Holidays along with the pretty greeting. The Forest Border provides a snowy tree line in the background! I love how Jessica added the heart from Stitched Trails, this skating bear has some talent!

I just love the sweetness of Christy‘s cute card that combines Thanks a Latte and Oh Snap! The Zig Zag Rectangle panel and the Gotta Have Gingham background give her card a fun homespun look!

Joyce created a fun Wonderful Winter Village Shops scene with cute little Coaster Critters enjoying the small town charm! She used Stitched Hillside Backdrop: Landscape to create her fun scene!

Samantha C borrowed scene builder stamps from Critters in the Arctic and Critters in the Snow to create a frosty winter playground for the happy frogs from Toadally Awesome! I love how she used Itsy Bitsy Polka Dot Backdrop to look like a snowy sky!

Franci‘s Say What? Gift Tags are so fun and magical! I love how she filled the shaker windows with Chunky Glitter for lots of sparkle and shine!

Jenn combined some favorite oldies with new favorites to create an adorable friendship card! Making Frosty Friends snow-people with a custom sentiment made with Quinn’s ABCs work nicely with the new Snowfall Backdrop and a Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Frame!

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 42 tomorrow!