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Franci’s Beautiful Winter Skies Shaker Card

- Nancy Krueger 3 Comments

We can’t wait to see how you are inspired by this Card Sketch! Link up your entry photos HERE! Your project should feature Lawn Fawn stamps, dies, stencils and papers and follow the challenge theme. This challenge will be open until Sunday, December 18 at 11:59PM ET.

For each challenge, we will randomly select an entry to receive a $50.00 gift certificate to the Lawn Fawn shop! Everyone who enters a challenge has a chance to be the random drawing winner! Woohoo!

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!


Franci created a lovely shaker card that closely follows the card sketch! I hope it inspires you!

To make the moon, Franci die cut a Circle Stackable, then she stenciled the “craters” using Nighttime Sky Stencil. She added this to a panel of Let it Shine Starry Skies 6×6 paper following the sketch for placement.

Next, she layered a Stitched Rectangle Frame with a Stitched Hillside Border and a panel of acetate to create the shaker. She stamped the sentiment on the hillside before assembling the shaker, filling it with Chunky and Prisma glitter and some sequins.

To finish her card, she stamped and colored the hugging bears from Winter Skies and attached them with a view of the full moon!

This card is so gorgeous, Franci! Thank you so much for inspiring us today!

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We hope you will join us for this fun Card Sketch challenge. The entries are pretty low so far, so the chances of being the random winner are looking good!

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 138 – Card Sketch

- Nancy Krueger 9 Comments

We have a fun Card Sketch to challenge your creativity this time! You can follow it exactly or use it to inspire your own creation. Have fun!

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, stencils and papers. This challenge will run for 2 weeks and be open until Sunday, December 18 at 11:59PM ET.

For each challenge, we will randomly select an entry to receive a $50.00 gift certificate to the Lawn Fawn shop! Everyone who enters a challenge has a chance to be the random drawing winner! Woohoo!

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!

Design Team Inspiration

Karin created a clean and simple design that is absolutely gorgeous! I love how she curved the strawberry border from Berry Special to fit the sketch shape. Her sunny sentiment is found in Window Scene: Spring!

Christy used lots of creativity to interpret the sketch! The Car Critters car stands in for the half circle element while she flipped the design to add the sentiment at the top! She also used Stitched Mountain Borders, Car Critters Christmas Add-On and Tiny Christmas.

For her beautiful interpretation of the sketch, Mimi created a glowing winter moon! She included a cute wintry scene along with the sentiment. It features Let’s Go Nuts, Winter in the Park and streetlamps from Here We Go A-Waddling. I love how she used Sandy Beach Accents to make snow drifts for the squirrels to hide their acorns.

Samantha‘s design is so charming! She used the igloo from Penguin Party as the circular element with some cute bears from Snow Much Fun! She prettied up the Home for the Holidays sentiment with trees from Yeti or Not.

Franci created a sweet Winter Skies scene that closely follows the sketch. She stenciled the moon using Nighttime Sky Stencil.

Samantha‘s card is perfect to celebrate a birthday! Her design combines Outside In Stitched Balloon Stackables with the sweet little puppy from Joy to All! Her sentiment is found in Meow You Doin’.

The Fangtastic Friends bats are celebrating a happy holiday in Joyce‘s fun design. The Full Moon die fits the sketch perfectly!

The Beary Rainy Day bears are having fun with a giant snowball in Catherine‘s clever interactive design! She altered a Stitched Rectangle using an Outside In Stitched Balloon to work with the wheel from Reveal Wheel. In the background she added Snowflake Background Stencil, then she combined words from Den Sweet Den and Cozy Christmas to make the sentiment.

Jenn followed the sketch using Nighttime Sky Stencil and the Winter Skies bears. She created her “magical” design with beautiful ink-blending and lots of glitter!

We will share more Design Team inspiration for you over the next 2 WEEKS and we’ll announce our Featured Fawnatics and random winner for Challenge 137 – Holiday Critters tomorrow! Now it’s time to get creative with the Card Sketch!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Jessica’s Quiet, Peaceful, Snowy Destination

- Nancy Krueger 1 Comment

Challenge 101 Travel Destination/Favorite Place will be open until Sunday, June 6 at 11:59PM ET.

Good morning!  Jess here with a card for our current challenge! The first card I created for this challenge was beach themed as I love traveling anywhere there’s a beach and today’s card is a different favorite place of mine!

As much as I love the beach, I also LOVE snow so my second favorite travel destination or place is somewhere quiet, peaceful, and snowy! I started by die-cutting a hill using the Simple Stitched Hillside Borders and a circle from masking paper. I placed the masks on a panel of Strathmore Bristol smooth cardstock and then blended Shaded Lilac, Blueprint Sketch, and Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide ink over the panel to create a winter sky. Then I removed the circle masks and stamped the cute bears from Winter Skies.

I fussy cut a mask of the bears and placed it over the stamped image. Then I placed the hill mask back on the panel as well as the negative mask from the die-cut circle. Then I blended Pumice Stone and Black Soot Distress Oxide ink over the moon to create a little shading. I removed the negative mask and splattered the sky and moon with water and white gouache to create a snowy sky.

Once the background was totally dry, I removed the masks from the bears and the hill. I colored the polar bears with Copic markers and added a few accents with a white gel pen. Then I used cool grey Copic markers to add a little shading to the snow around them. Finally, I finished the card with a sentiment stamped from Winter Skies!

And that’s it! You 2 more weeks to get crafty and I can’t wait to see your favorite places! Thanks so much for stopping by and have an amazing weekend!
–Jess

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