As we start to say goodbye to summer and move into Fall let’s do a cozy “There’s No Place Like Home” challenge! For this challenge, we would like you to feature your home country, state, city or just a homey scene! Have fun with this one.

You are invited 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, September 1 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

Mimi‘s card is so fun and creative! She replicated an illustrated map of California! So clever! She started by printing out the map outline and die cutting it with a Stitched Rectangle. Then she started adding all the iconic images. The trees from Winter Village and branches from Porcu-pine for You to make up the tops and trunks of the redwood trees. Lake Tahoe, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the palm trees and compass are from Ahoy, Matey. She used the cactus from Critters in the Desert, beachy items from Car Critters Road Trip Add-On and the sun from More Magic Messages.

She had to be really creative to combine the fence from Hay There, the spatula from Let’s BBQ and the embroidery hoop from Sew Very Mice to create the Golden Gate Bridge. And then she pieced together letters and words from Winter Village and Hay There to spell out her greeting.

Karin combined Den Sweet Den, Window Scene: Winter and Christmas Dreams to create a cozy, homey scene! Her simple design is so sweet, it makes me look forward to quiet evenings by the fireplace.

Samantha is definitely not ready to let go of summer! Where she lives in South Carolina the weather is still hot and nothing cools you off better than a day at the beach! She combined On the Beach, Pool Party, Snow Much Fun, Really High Five and Little Snow Globe: Bear. She turned the snow globe into a beach ball, so fun! To build the beach scene she also used Stitched Wave Borders and Stitched Hillside Borders.

Franci also had “beary cozy” thoughts for this challenge! What could be cozier than a family of Den Sweet Den bears enjoying a bit of reading before the winter hibernation!

Samantha was inspired by the sail boats visible from the shore of Lake Erie on the north coast of Ohio! Her paper-pieced scene combines Leafy Tree Backdrop: Portrait, Smooth Sailing, Meadow Borders and Stitched Simple Wavy Borders. She added color to the scene with papers from Watercolor Wishes and What’s Sewing On.

Christy created this card for her son who recently moved to Los Angeles from their home on the East Coast. Living on different oceans now, her card reflects the distance between them. She featured How You Bean? Seashell Add-On and Stitched Wave Borders. She created her custom greeting with Finley’s ABCs and Milo’s ABCs.

Joyce took this opportunity to create a sweet housewarming card! Her design features Window Scene: Winter, Virtual Friends Add-On, Christmas Dreams, Screen Time, Purrfectly Wicked, Porcu-pine for You Add-On, and a sentiment from Happy Village!

Catherine‘s card is so clever depicting little vignettes of a place she once called home. She used Foursquare Backdrop: Portrait to fill the windows with memories of Hong Kong. She built the tiny scenes with Fancy Lattice Backdrop, Ocean Wave Borders and On the Road. Then she used so many different sets in so many clever ways. Be sure to stop by her blog, Crafti-Cat for all the details.

We will have more Design Team inspiration for the No Place Like Home challenge over the next 2 weeks! Be sure to come back tomorrow when we’ll announce our Featured Fawnatics and random raffle winner for Challenge 178 – Color Inspiration!