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A Fun Magic Iris Card with our Guest Designer, Nancy!

- Nancy Krueger 3 Comments

It’s almost time to celebrate our new Fall & Winter Release! We can’t wait to show you all the fun new products we have coming out soon! Join us at the Lawn Fawn blog for our Big Giveaway Post on Wednesday, September 2!

Our talented Guest Designer, Nancy is back with more awesome inspiration for our Make the Sentiment the Star challenge! Her awesome Magic Iris card has a relaxing theme!

Nancy created an amazing interactive Magic Iris card to celebrate a retirement! I think relaxing on the beach would be first on my list of things to do upon retiring from work!

Let’s let Nancy share about her idea for this card:

I wanted to have a larger scene to build on so I ended up using the Magic Iris Add-On and turned it into landscape style.

Since I made the clouds with white paint I used the Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink to stamp the first sentiment. With this ink you don’t smear the ink on your panel but it stays crisp and black.

I always make bold and bright cards and make use of the space there is on a project. I also love to use different stamps of Lawn Fawn together. Old, new or different seasons it all goes so well together, always! I just love Lawn Fawn so much!

Nancy combined images from Butterfly Kisses, On the Beach, Really High Five, Ahoy Matey and Keep On Swimming along with palms from Hammock and Trees and Palm Trees die sets. She hid part of the sentiment inside the iris and then she finished the sentiment with Oliver’s Stitched ABCs!



Thank you so much for being an awesome Guest Designer, Nancy! Your projects for this challenge have been so brilliant!

You have one more week to enter this challenge. The Make the Sentiment the Star challenge will close at 11:59PM ET on Sunday September 6. We are looking forward to seeing your creative take on this challenge!


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Happy Crafting, friends!

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 78 – Create a Scene

- Nancy Krueger 14 Comments

Hello Fawnatics friends! It’s time for a new challenge! Woohoo! For this challenge we want you to Create a Scene! We know that cards with scenes are so popular and Lawn Fawn sets have lots of cute images to fill those scenes!

We would love for 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 and papers. This challenge will run for 2 weeks and be open until Sunday, June 14th at 11:59PM ET.

For each challenge, we will randomly select an entry to receive a $25.00 gift certificate to the Lawn Fawn shop! 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!

Our Design Team loves to Create A Scene on a card!

Jessica starts us off with a little slice of paradise! Her On the Beach scene includes an interactive slider for the Smooth Sailing sailboat! I love how she added so much great detail to the die cut palm trees!

Who wouldn’t be hoppy to receive a birthday card this adorable! Christy combined Toadally Awesome and Gleeful Gardens with Grassy Border and Meadow Borders!

Joyce‘s sunny scene features lots of our ocean-themed sets including You Are Sublime, Keep on Swimming, Fintastic Friends, Get Well Before ‘n Afters and Ahoy Matey! She used Stitched Wave Borders and Simple Stitched Hillside Borders as scene builders!

I love how Karin used a Stitched Rectangle and an Outside In Stitched Circle to create a fun frame for her Toadally Awesome scene!

Samantha used layers of beautiful color to set the stage for her scene in which Swan Soirée and Rub-A-Dub-Dub are combined!

Franci‘s fantastic scene takes us to Australia with a gorgeous sunset! She used all the fun critters and trees from Critters Down Under!

Caly used Cattails Border to create a silhouette horizon for this beautiful bayou scene! She filled the scene with critters from Toadally Awesome and Swan Soirée!

Samantha‘s pretty pastel scene shows us a day at the amusement park! She paired the cute Coaster Critters images with the scene building Stitched Hillside Backdrop: Landscape!

Jenn‘s fantastic card is a slice of life from her happy place! Her slimline scene shows sun and surf, lobsters and jellyfish in the water and crabs and sand castles on the beach! She combined lots of sets including Life is Good, You Are Sublime, On the Beach, So Jelly, and Smitty’s ABCs!

We will share Design Team inspiration for you over the next 2 weeks and we’ll announce our Featured Fawnatics for Challenge 77 and random winner for tomorrow!

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The Cat in the Hat with Samantha!

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Be sure to join us the Lawn Fawn blog for Inspiration Week, March 11 – 19!

Hey everyone, Samantha here with a card that is inspired by the current Inspired By a Book, Movie or Song challenge! Growing up I loved all Dr. Seuss books, the bright colors and illustrations were always fun to look at. The stories and how they were written always brightened my day. They always had a positive message, so I wanted to make an encouragement card with characters from the Cat in the Hat. 

In order to create my Dr. Seuss inspired characters, I needed to pair a whole bunch of stamp sets together. The proportion of the cat head, from the Meow You Doin’ stamp set, fit perfectly on the bunny body from the Eggstra Amazing Easter stamp set. I used the top hat from the Bicycle Built for You stamp set, and extended it to be taller and more whimsical.  The cookie jar, from the Milk and Cookies stamp, set was the perfect shape for the fish bowl. I used a pen to draw lines to replicate the illustration style in the Dr. Seuss books. By adding the linework, it really helped bring the characters to life. 

I just love this challenge so much. The design team and current entries are so much fun and so inspiring. You still have time to enter the Inspired By a Book, Movie or Song challenge! The challenge will be open until Sunday March 15th at 11:59PM ET. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day! 

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Wishing our Fawnatics friends a happy and crafty weekend!