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Peter Rabbit Inspiration with Christy

- Nancy Krueger 2 Comments

Hey friends, it’s Christy here with another card for our Inspired by a Book, Movie, or Song Challenge! I have been loving watching the entries come in and am blown away by your creativity!

For my card today, I wanted to depict another classic children’s tale and one of my personal favorites: Peter Rabbit. I pulled together images from Some Bunny, Happy Harvest, A Bug Deal, Our Friendship Grows, and Critters on the Farm to make it happen.

The first thing I needed to do was to alter my bunny and give him a little jacket just like Peter’s. So I drew it in pencil and then traced over it with a Memento Tuxedo Black Pen. I also altered the watering can to give it a top with a little opening at the front, to resemble the one in the illustrations. Then I colored all my images with Copic markers to match as closely as possible, and trimmed them out with the matching dies.

For the background, I took the second largest of the Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables and die cut some Mermaid Cardstock for the sky. Then I used the Grassy Border on some Cilantro for the grass, and the Simple Stitched Hillside Borders on Ground Coffee for the dirt. I stamped a sentiment from Some Bunny at the top of the sky panel in Peacock Ink.

To give the card a cozy look, I added a piece of patterned paper from the Perfectly Plaid Remix 6×6, die cut with the largest of the Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables to my Speckled Eggshell card base. Then I popped my focal panel up with foam tape and adhered my images with liquid glue to create the nostalgic scene in Mr. MacGregor’s garden. I also added a bit of Stardust Stickles for a little sparkle and shine.

I also finished off the inside of the card by stamping another classic scene from the book, but you can check that out in the video tutorial on my YouTube channel, Christy Gets Crafty.

If you haven’t had a chance to play along in our challenge yet, there’s still time! The Inspired By challenge will be open until Sunday, April 4th at 11:59PM ET. I can’t wait to see what you create!

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Happy crafting, friends! Have a wonderful weekend!

Jessica’s Purr-fect Wedding Card!

- Nancy Krueger 2 Comments

This is the final weekend for the Outstanding Occasions challenge! We will have a brand new challenge for you on Monday, but for now we have the most awesome inspiration for you by team member, Jessica! Her bright and bold design is a perfectly unique wedding card!

Good morning!  Jess here with a card for our current Outstanding Occasions challenge!  I realized recently that my wedding and anniversary card stash was getting low so I figured I’d use the challenge to build up my stash again!

I love puns and thought it would be fun to build a card around ‘meow and furever’ for a cat-loving friend!  To start I blended picked raspberry and festive berries distress oxide ink onto a panel of Strathmore Bristol smooth cardstock.  I let it dry and then die-cut my sentiment from Finley’s ABCs and the Hearts die set.  I arranged my letters to get a two tone effect from the ink colors and then die-cut the hearts from just one color.  I adhered them to a white card base and used Milo’s ABCs and A Bug Deal to complete the sentiment.

Next I stamped the images from Meow You Doin’ and Bicycle Built for You with Copic friendly Jet Black ink.  I colored them with Copic markers and then die-cut them with the coordinating dies.  I used toner grays for the cats and then RV and cool greys for the rest of the images to keep the palette simple.  The RV shades matched my distress inked hearts nicely!  I added the cats and accessories to my card and finished it with a few white gel pen accents!

And that’s it!  You have one more weekend to get crafty and I can’t wait to see what you’ll create!  Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fantastic weekend! –Jess

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Have a wonderful crafty weekend!

Featured Fawnatics and Challenge 88 Random Winner

- Nancy Krueger 5 Comments

We loved your creativity for the Oh Christmas Tree challenge! You proved that a tree doesn’t necessarily have to be a tree! Thanks so much to everyone for joining this challenge and sharing your tree inspired designs! Be sure to check out this challenge gallery, all the projects are amazing!

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 Jenna
using Year Ten, Believe in Yourself, Winter Big Scripty Words, Reverse Stitched Scalloped Circle Windows

by Annie
using Tiny Gift Box, Tiny Gift Box Unicorn and Horse Add-On, Plan On It: Calendar

by Leah
using Christmas Dreams

by Stacey
using How You Bean? Christmas Cookie Add-On, Baked with Love

by Steph
using Christmas Fishes, Mermaid for You

by Sanna
using A Bug Deal, Upon a Star

by Vita
using Outside In Stitched Christmas Tree Stackables, Stitched Christmas Tree Frames, A Creature Was Stirring, Happy Holidays Line Border

by Sara
using Den Sweet Den, Snow Much Fun, Scripty Merry



And now we have our random drawing winner from Challenge 88 who wins a $25.00 gift certificate to our shop, lawnfawn.com! And the winner is…#46

Congratulations to Christy Sugiarto! 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 3 weeks for Challenge 89 – Happy Holiday Critters! This new challenge runs until Sunday, December 6th at 11:59PM ET.

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Thank you so much for joining us each month for our Lawn Fawnatics challenges! You inspire us with your amazing creativity and kindness!