winter alpaca

Featured Fawnatics and Challenge 64 Random Winner!

- Nancy Krueger 4 Comments

Your Cards for Guys were filled with great ideas and so much awesome inspiration! Thank you all so much for sharing all of your awesome creativity with us!

If you are one of our Featured Fawnatics today, we invite you to grab this badge to share on your blog or other social sites!

by Anja
using Yeti or Not

by Megan
using Foursquare Backdrop: Portrait, Winter Alpaca, Winter Narwhal, Winter Otter, Winter Penguin, Party Animal

by Amanda
using Christmas Dreams, Lovable Legends, Baked with Love

by Nicole
using Smooth Sailing, Dad + Me

by Sandra
using Dad + Me, Reveal Wheel

by Laura
using Let’s Roll, Milo’s ABCs, Cole’s ABCs

by Choi Leng Buergi
using Here We Go A-Waddling, Shadow Box Card, Shadow Box Card Ocean Add-On

by Jen
using Beary Happy Holidays, Frosty Fairy Friends, Stitched Mountain Borders

Be sure to click on the names of our Featured Fawnatics to see more photos of their projects and to share some congrats with them! Thanks so much!

And now we have our random drawing winner from Challenge 64 who wins a $25.00 gift certificate to our shop, lawnfawn.com! And the winner is…#16

Congratulations to Steffi Hanuschik! Please send an email to fawnies(at)lawnfawn(dot)com with “Lawn Fawnatics random winner” in the subject line. Then grab this winner badge to display on your blog and social media!

We will share Design Team inspiration during the next 2 weeks for Challenge 65 – Fun with Dies! This new challenge runs until Sunday, December 1st at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see how the card sketch inspires you!

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Happy Crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!

Samantha’s Heart Shaped Winter Alpaca Card!

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Samantha Mann joins us today to share her beautiful heart-shaped card for our current challenge!

Samantha used an Outside In Stitched Heart Stackables for the base of her shaped card! She die cut Stitched Hillside Borders to use as stencils for inking hills onto her beautiful winter scene with Distress Oxide inks!

She colored her images from Winter Alpaca and Winter Village with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and added white splatters to resemble snow!

Thank you for sharing this gorgeous inspiration with us today, Samantha!

Our Shaped Cards challenge will be open until this Sunday, December 2 at 11:59PM ET. We hope you will join us!

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Thanks so much for joining us today! Happy Crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!

Jessica’s Let it Snow Card

- Nancy Krueger 4 Comments

Good morning! Jess here with a card for our current Favorite Places challenge! Earlier I shared an underwater card because there’s nothing I like better than being in the water (preferably a turquoise blue ocean) but a very close second for me is walking outside at night during a winter snowfall. I love the crisp feel to the air, the crunch of the snow under your feet, and the absolute feeling of peace and tranquility…especially late at night (like 1 or 2 am) when no one is on the roads yet, the snow is perfectly pristine, and the sky is brightly lit in jewel tones! So that’s the feeling I decided to recreate today!

To start I water-colored a long panel with Mijello Mission Gold watercolors focusing on jewel tones of blue, purple, and pink fading out to pale pink at the bottom. I let it dry and then went back in and added more paint for a really saturated look! Then I let the panel dry completely while I stamped and colored my alpaca from Winter Alpaca with Copic markers before die-cutting him with the coordinating die. I also die-cut the snowflakes from Mini Snowflakes with white cardstock.

Once the panel was totally dry I pressed an embossing ink pad all over it. Then I sprinkled the panel with hologram clear sparkle embossing powder and heat-embossed it. The powder really picks up the colors of the background resulting in a fabulously sparkly look! I tore a strip of white cardstock to create a snowy bank for my alpaca, adhered the water-colored panel to a side-folding white card base, and then adhered the snow and alpaca over it. Then I stamped the sentiment from Winter Big Scripty Words with embossing ink, heat-embossed it with silver glitter embossing powder, and die-cut it with the coordinating die! I adhered that to the water-colored background and then added the snowflakes to finish the card!

And that’s my other Favorite Place! You have one more weekend to get crafty with your Favorite Place creations (challenge closes at 11:59PM ET on Sunday August 19th) and I can’t wait to see what you create! Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fantastic day!
-Jess