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Samantha’s Underwater Christmas Fishes Card

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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 3 weeks and be open until Sunday, August 4 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!

Samantha joins us today with fantastic inspiration for Christmas in July!




Christmas Fishes plays nicely with the cute scuba diver from You Are Sublime! Samantha gave the diver fun Christmas vibes with the Santa hat and beard from Ho-Ho-Holidays. She even gave him Santa’s sack of toys! The sentiment from You Are Sublime looks amazing white embossed on vellum Stitched Sentiment Banners.


I love the watercolor background that Samantha created with Distress inks and the “smooshing” method. She smooshed the ink pads on a piece of clear stamp packaging with a little spritz of water before applying the ink to a panel of cardstock. She kept adding different inks and building color until she got the blend she liked. Then she let the panel dry before using a blending tool to add more ink to deepen the color.

Your underwater Christmas scene is so brilliant, Samantha! Thanks for inspiring us today!

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This is a 3-week challenge, so there’s plenty of time to enter! Click HERE for the challenge post.

Featured Fawnatics and Challenge 160 Random Winner

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It was so fun to see all the projects inspired by your holiday favorites! Thank you all so much for sharing your amazing creativity! Be sure to check out all the creativity in the Inspired by Your Favorite Holiday Song or Movie challenge gallery!




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 Stacy, inspired by “Jingle Bells”
using Merry Mice, Dandy Day, Really High Five,
Stitched Mountain Borders, Henry’s ABCs


by Bianca, inspired by “Silent Night, Holy Night”
using Build-A-Snow Globe, Little Snow Globe: Bear, Den Sweet Den,
Winter Village, A Creature Was Stirring, Sparkle Garland, Quilted Backdrop


by Goldklecks, inspired by “The Santa Clause”
using Platform Pop-Up, Ho-Ho-Holidays, Holiday Helpers, Christmas Dreams


by Kathy, inspired by “Winter Wonderland”
using Outside In Stitched Snowflake, Tiny Winter Friends, Jesse’s ABCs


by Erika, inspired by “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”
using Merry Mistletoe, Poinsettia Background Stencils, Christmas Before ‘n Afters


by Michelle, inspired by “Frosty the Snowman”
using Making Frosty Friends, Little Snow Globe: Dog,
Henry’s ABCs, Cheery Christmas, Waving Pull-Tab Starter Set


by Charlene, inspired by “A Christmas Story”
using Ho-Ho-Holidays, Holiday Helpers, Yeti or Not, Snow Much Fun,
Beary Happy Holidays, Coaster Critters Slide on Over Add-On, Milo’s ABCs


by Nina, inspired by “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
using Ho-Ho-Holidays, Happy Village, Village Shops,
Christmas Dreams, Stitched Mountain Borders



And now we have our random drawing winner from Challenge 160 who wins a $50.00 gift certificate to our shop, lawnfawn.com! And the winner is…#22


Congratulations to joy4crafts! Please send an email to fawnies(at)lawnfawn(dot)com with “Lawn Fawnatics random winner” in the subject line. Then grab this random winner badge to display on your blog and social media!



We will share Design Team inspiration during the next 2 weeks for Challenge 161 – Holiday Critters. This new challenge runs until Sunday, December 3 at 11:59PM ET. We hope you have fun with this new Holiday Critters challenge!

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Happy Howlidays with Christy!

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It’s time to use all those Lawn Fawn critters in festive holiday designs! 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 4 at 11:59PM ET.

Hey friends, it’s Christy here with another card for our Holiday Critters Challenge! For this one I decided to make a fun indoor scene with sweet pups getting up to a bit of holiday mischief. I combined images from Furry and Bright and Joy to All, stamped in Jet Black ink and colored them with Copic markers. I trimmed them all out with the matching dies.

Then I created a background using some patterned paper. I chose a tan print from the Let It Shine Starry Skies 6×6 pad to be my wallpaper and the Light Brown Woodgrain Cardstock for a floor, with a strip of leftover Bristol Cardstock for the baseboard. Then I arranged my pups and the holiday elements on the floor, leaving room for a large sentiment above.

Then I spelled out my punny sentiment using Finley’s ABCs die cut from Barn Red Cardstock, and white heat embossed the rest by selectively stamping a phrase from Ho-Ho-Holidays onto Ground Coffee Cardstock. I die cut that with an Everyday Sentiment Banner and trimmed it down to have one flag end and glued that at the top. I finished this card off with a bit of Stardust Stickles for some shine.

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!

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Have a happy and crafty weekend!