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Christy’s Thank You Card Inspired by a Gift

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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 2 weeks and be open until Sunday, October 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!

Hey friends, it’s Christy here with another card for our Awesome Autumn Challenge! This card was actually inspired by a handmade birdhouse someone recently gifted me. I wanted to make her a special thank you card, so I took different elements that she used in the design and tried to recreate them in stamp form. I combined images from Winter Birds, Winter Birds Add-on, Our Friendship Grows, A Bug Deal, Scripty Autumn Sentiments, and Christmas Dreams. I stamped them all out with Jet Black Ink, colored them with Copic markers, and trimmed them out with the matching dies.


For the background, I started with a couple pieces of Bristol Cardstock and blended on Distress Oxide Inks. For the sky I used Broken China with the Cloudy Stencil. The grass I trimmed down with the Slimline Grassy Hillside Borders. Then I colored the taller one with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn, and the shorter one with Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness.


I stamped a sentiment at the top right of the focal panel and glued it to a Mermaid card base. I added the taller of the grassy hills over top with liquid glue, and popped the shorter one up with foam tape. Then I adhered my images with a mix of liquid glue and foam tape until the scene was nice and full. I finished with a bit of Stardust Stickles and stamped on the inside with Fish Tank 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! We hope you’re enjoying our Awesome Autumn challenge. Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Featured Fawnatics and Challenge 150 Random Winner!

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The new Summer 2023 Release is now available at lawnfawn.com and your favorite stores! Woohoo!

We are so impressed with the amazing botanical inspired entries for Challenge 150 – Photo Inspiration! Thank you to everyone for sharing with us! Be sure to check out the gallery to be amazed and inspired!


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 Leslie
using Tropical Leaves Background Stencils,
Giant Thank You, Magic Iris Tropical Leaves Add-On


by Waleska
using Dandy Day, Little Flowers, Meadow Backdrop: Landscape


by Michelle
using Our Friendship Grows, Stitched Teapot,
Stitched Teacup, Platform Pop-Up

by Kathrin
using Tropical Leaves Backdrop, Gleeful Gardens,
Our Friendship Grows, Happy Harvest, Just Plane Awesome


by Emma
using Tropical Leaves, Happy Hibiscus, Scripty Aloha


by Erika
using Happy Harvest, Hive Five, Magic Iris Camera Add-On,
Magic Iris Camera Pull-Tab Add-On, Magic Iris Sunflower Add-On


by Donna
using Tropical Leaves Backdrop, Elephant Parade


by Stacy
using Mini Picture Frames, Tree Before ‘n Afters,
Merry Mice, Winter Village, Henry’s ABCs, Little Bundle



And now we have our random drawing winner from Challenge 150 who wins a $50.00 gift certificate to our shop, lawnfawn.com! And the winner is…#30


Congratulations to Helene Siermans! 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 week for Challenge 151 – Summertime Fun: Critters on Vacation. This new challenge runs until Sunday, July 2 at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see where the Lawn Fawn critters are vacationing this summer!

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Peter Rabbit Inspiration with Christy

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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!