Samantha’s Travels to Loch Ness!

Our  Travel Destination/Favorite Place challenge is a 3 week challenge that will be open until Sunday, June 6 at 11:59PM ET! Click HERE to add your entry to the Challenge 101 gallery!

Samantha shares a unique travel memory with her Travel Destination/Favorite Place inspiration today! We will let her tell you about it!

For my card, I kept the current challenge theme going by making it a tribute to Loch Ness! My family and I were so blessed to be able to go to Scotland with my grandpa to see where he was born, and to see some family we had there, for 2 weeks! We took a long trip up to the Isle of Skye (swoon, so gorgeous!) and then on the way back, we stopped at Loch Ness! I had been head over heals with Nessie since I was a girl listening to stories from my grandpa, and couldn’t imagine not stopping by to look for her!

I used the Stitched Mountain Borders to create the backdrop, and then used the Stitched Hillside Borders to die cut the lake shape under the mountains! I used Distress Inks to ink blend everything! The mountains were done with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn, and the lake was done with Blueprint Sketch, Mermaid Lagoon and Salvaged Patina!

I also used the Starry Sky Stencil to ink blend some stars in the sky, then I used it again to add some glittery stars!

I heat embossed the sentiment in white onto some Black Licorice cardstock and then fussy cut it out! I also colored the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and fussy cut them out! Nessie is from Lovable Legends (of course!) and the trees are from Yeti, Set, Go!

Thank you so much for sharing this brilliant inspiration today, Samantha! I love your fun travel story!

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Featured Fawnatics and Challenge 67 Random Winner

You all wowed us with your gorgeous Inspiration Board projects! We loved seeing how you were inspired by the color palette and frosty snowflake image! Thank you so much for sharing your 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 Stephanie
using Stitched Snowflakes, Stitched Woodgrain Backdrop

by June
using Mice on Ice, Winter Village, Forest Border

by Jen H.
using Reveal Wheel, Winter Narwhal

by Fran
using Stud Puffin, Finley’s ABCs, Stitched Mountain Borders

by Katrina
using Party Animal, Birthday Before ‘n Afters, Say What? Pets, You’re Just My Type

by Sou
using Center Picture Window Card, Mom+Me, Gleeful Gardens, Shadow Box Card Mountain Add-On

by Keeway
using Double Slider Surprise, Mice on Ice, Winter Village

by Jess
using Yeti Set Go, Stud Puffin

by Jenna
using You Are Sublime, Mermaid for You, So Jelly, Critters in the Sea, Octopi My Heart

by Maartje
using Yeti or Not, Stitched Mountain Borders

And now we have our random drawing winner from Challenge 67 who wins a $25.00 gift certificate to our shop, lawnfawn.com! And the winner is…#108

Congratulations to Archisha Mukherjee! 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 68 – Something Old, Something New! This new challenge runs until Sunday, January 19th at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see how you will be inspired!

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Happy Crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!

Card Sketch Challenge Inspiration with Samantha M!

Samantha is here today to share some super fun inspiration for our Card Sketch challenge!

Samantha started by stamping and coloring the images from Mice on Ice and the trees from Yeti Set Go with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers before fussy cutting them out!

For the sketch, Samantha first turned the sketch upside down and used the Stitched Pond as the rectangle element! She used Distress ink in Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio and Mermaid Lagoon for the cool blended colors! She placed the trees and the jumping mouse along the edge of the pond to represent the banner, so clever!

The main greeting is found in Ho-Ho-Holidays which is white embossed on Black Licorice cardstock. Samantha added a cute speech bubble from Say What? Pets as the circle element, with a message from Oh What Fun! To stack the sentiment to fit in the speech bubble, Samantha masked each word before stamping on vellum. Then she embossed the speech bubble and sentiment using clear embossing powder.

Thank for sharing this adorable inspiration with us today, Samantha!

The Card Sketch Challenge will be open until Sunday, November 3 at 11:59PM ET. We hope you will join us!

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Happy Crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!