Beachy Christmas in July Inspiration with Christy and Samantha


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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 3 weeks and be open until this Sunday, August 6 at 11:59PM ET. Click HERE to link up your project.

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!

Christy and Samantha both used Beachy Christmas to create their Christmas in July inspiration. Each card is unique though as they brought in other holiday sets.


Hey friends, it’s Christy here with another card for our Christmas in July Challenge! For this one, I wanted to take you to the islands with a tropical theme and color palette. I stamped all the images from Beachy Christmas, Making Frosty Friends and Yeti or Not in Jet Black Ink, colored them with Copic markers, and trimmed them out with the matching dies.

For my background, I cut down two pieces of Bristol Smooth Surface Cardstock, one with the Simple Stitched Hillside Borders and one with the Stitched Simple Wavy Borders. For the island, I blended on Distress Inks in Antique Linen and Gathered Twigs, then did some splatter to give it the look of sand. For the sea, I used Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers. Then I blended some Salvaged Patina directly onto my Mermaid card base for the sky. I stamped my sentiment at the bottom of the sand piece with Walnut Ink.


I glued the sea to my card front with liquid glue. I added two Spring Showers clouds to the sky. Then used the Sandy Beach Accents to cut little swooshes into the sand, glued some of my images into them, and popped that whole panel up with foam tape. I added the rest of the images with liquid glue and finished with a bit of Stardust Stickles.

I also finished off the inside by stamping in Peacock Ink. If you’d like to watch this card come together, you can check out the video tutorial on my YouTube channel, Christy Gets Crafty! Thanks so much for stopping by!



What a fun, beachy scene! I wish I could be there for some of this Christmas fun at the ocean!
All of the images from Yeti or Not, Beachy Christmas and On the Beach were stamped and then water-colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then die cut out with the coordinating dies. I added details to the images with a White Gel Pen, too!



I used a mask of paper to separate the ocean from the sandy horizon line. I used Distress Inks to blend the beach, and then splattered the same colors and white acrylic ink on top to create the sandy texture.
for the sky, I used blue colors and did a smooth blend. The sentiment was heat embossed in white onto black cardstock. Then yeti images and speech bubble were popped up with foam tape. I had a blast adding these festive hats from Furry and Bright and Yeti or Not to the yetis at the beach!

Big thanks to Christy and Samantha for your fantastic Christmas in July inspiration!

There in one more week in the Christmas in July challenge! Click HERE to visit the challenge post.

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Get Into the Holiday Spirits with Mimi!


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 3 weeks and be open until this Sunday, August 6 at 11:59PM ET. Click HERE to link up your project.

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!

Mimi‘s amazing Build-A-Drink card is filled with holiday spirit! Or is that “spirits”?


Mimi used Build-A-Drink glasses filled with ink-tinted vellum “beverages” in holiday colors! She cleverly used the Stitched Umbrella handle as a candy cane for one of the drinks. And she die cut the ice cubes from glittery Pixie Dust cardstock for some holiday sparkle!


The drink glasses look so dramatic on the black background! And the holly and berries from both Woodland Critter Huggers Winter Add-On and Shadow Box Card Fireplace Add-On continue the Christmas theme!


Mimi framed the composition with a striped Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Frame before adding the super cool greeting! She spelled out “spirits” with Henry’s ABCs, then completed the sentiment by combining words and letters from Thanks a Latte, Don’t Worry Be Hoppy, and Slow Down and Enjoy. These sets all use the same whimsical font to create a seamless sentiment!

This is such a delightful design, Mimi! Thank you so much for inspiring us today!

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Have a great weekend! We can’t wait to see your Christmas in July challenge projects!

Christmas at the Beehive with Catherine


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 3 weeks and be open until this Sunday, August 6 at 11:59PM ET. Click HERE to link up your project.

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!

The hive is all abuzz with the arrival of Santa! Catherine brings Christmas fun to her Magic Iris Beehive Add-On design!


Catherine added snowy detail to the beehive using I Scream, You Scream and Art Supplies dies frosted with Chunky Glitter! The Hive Five bees are wearing Santa hats from Ugly and Bright and the gifts are found in Toboggan Together.


Inside the hive, Catherine stenciled the honeycomb. Then she added Santa’s legs from Shadow Box Fireplace Add-On. Framing everything is Snow Flurries Backdrop. The punny greeting is a combination of Henry’s ABCs and Offset Saying: Christmas.

Thank you so much for this brilliant inspiration, Catherine!

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