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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!

Click here to enter

Karin’s Fabulous Tropical Shadow Box Card!

- Nancy Krueger 1 Comment

Hi Friends! It’s the last weekend for our 3D Cards Challenge! The challenge closes on Sunday September 5 at 11:59PM ET. Luckily Karin has some really awesome inspiration to spark your creativity today!

Karin created a beautiful Shadow Box Card that is perfect to send some smiles to someone special! She used Happy Hibiscus and Tropical Leaves Backdrop to decorate it in beautiful tropical style!

I love how she colored the birds from Toucan Do It! The lighter colors give them some really cute personality and they look great with the pretty colors of cardstock!

Thank you so much for this lovely inspiration, Karin!

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Happy crafting everyone! Have a wonderful weekend!

Christy’s Wild Shadow Box Card Featuring Toucan Do It

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Our 3D card challenge is a 3 week challenge, open until September 5, at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see your 3-dimensional card creations! Link them up HERE.

Hello friends, it’s Christy here with another card for our 3D Card Challenge! I just can’t get enough of the sweet jaguars from the Toucan Do It stamp set, so I just had to use them again. I also added in the small leaf from Critters in the Jungle. I colored all the images with Copic markers and trimmed them out with the matching dies.

I die cut the two pieces of the Shadow Box Card die from Mermaid Cardstock. Then I cut out the trees from Ground Coffee, the tree tops from Noble Fir, and the Grass from Cilantro. I also cut out the cloud tab from the Shadow Box Rainbow Add-on from Cilantro Cardstock and turned it upside down and trimmed off the tabs to fill in my tree tops. I put the trees on both the front of the Shadow Box and on the back panel to create a little forest.

I assembled everything using 1/8” Double Sided Tape. I also trimmed down more of the grass tabs to finish off the sides of the box, but left the back blank so I have a space to write a message to the recipient. Then I added my images inside and out using Mini Glue Dots and finished with an Everyday Sentiment Banner stamped in Noble Fir Ink.

If you’d like to see this Shadow Box Card come together, check out the video tutorial on my YouTube channel, Christy Gets Crafty!

If you’d like to play along in our 3D Card Challenge, you still have time to enter! We can’t wait to see what you create!

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We hope you have a happy, crafty weekend!