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Christy’s Groundhog Day Inspired Birthday Card

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We invite 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, stencils and papers. This challenge will run for 2 weeks and be open until Sunday, March 5 at 11:59PM ET. Link your challenge projects HERE.

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 Show Us Where You Live Challenge! Since I already did a card inspired by Presque Isle State Park, this time I decided to do more subtle nods to my home state of Pennsylvania. Our most famous animal is Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who comes out of his burrow every February 2nd and determines whether or not we will have six more weeks of winter based on if he sees his shadow. Groundhog’s Day has passed but we still have plenty of these critters here so I thought it might be fun to try to recreate one by transforming one of the beavers from Wood You Be Mine?


To turn this into a birthday card, I added in images from A Bug Deal, and Really High Five, stamped them in Jet Black ink, colored them with Copic markers, and trimmed them out with the matching dies. I colored all the little party accessories in blue and gold, our state colors.


Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, and the name means Penn’s Woods. We do have lots of forests here, so I thought the Forest Backdrop would be the perfect frame for my scene. I die cut it from Dark Brown Woodgrain Cardstock, and cut the trees from Cilantro and Noble Fir. I also die cut the grass portion of Mushroom Border from Noble Fir.


Then I created a background by blending Broken China Distress Oxide Inks onto Bristol Smooth Surface Cardstock using the Cloudy Stencil. I also darkened up the edges of the grass and trees by using Mowed Lawn on the Cilantro Cardstock and Pine Needles on the Noble Fir Cardstock.

I popped the frame over the background using Scotch 3M Foam Tape, added my images with liquid glue, and finished with a custom sentiment combining phrases from Let’s Toast and Really High Five. I also finished off the inside of the card using Noble Fir Ink.

You still have time to play along with our challenge! We can’t wait to see how you interpret this one!

Thank so much for this creative inspiration, Christy!

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Featured Fawnatics and Challenge 132 Random Winner

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Woohoo! The gallery for Challenge 132 was filled with awesome color and so many creative ideas! It was so hard to narrow down our Featured Fawnatics, you all did an amazing job with this color theme! Thank you all so much for playing this challenge!



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 Mayumi
using You’re Just My Type, XOXO Backdrop: Portrait, Love Ya Line Border

by Alison
using Fangtastic Friends, Fangtastic Friends Add-On

by Lorena
using Purrfectly Wicked, Henry’s ABCs, Build-A-House Halloween Add-On

by Zornitsa
using Unicorn Picnic, Just Add Glitter, Purrfectly Wicked

by Chris
using Art Supplies, Canvas and Easel, Let’s Go Nuts

by Marge
using Giant Outlined Merry & Bright, Giant Let it Snow, Snow Flurries Backdrop, Say What? Holiday Critters

by Melissa
using Fox Costumes Before ‘n Afters

by Beatrix
using Fangtastic Friends, Really High Five, Fall Leaves Background Stencils, Fox Costumes Before ‘n Afters



And now we have our random drawing winner from Challenge 132 who wins a $50.00 gift certificate to our shop, lawnfawn.com! And the winner is…#81

Congratulations to Zsofia Molnar! 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 2 weeks for Challenge 133 – Awesome Autumn. This new challenge runs until Sunday, October 2 at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see your Awesome Autumn designs!

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Catherine’s Clever Mountain Platform Pop-Up

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We hope you enjoy today’s inspiration! We can’t wait to see your beach or mountain creativity! The Challenge 126 – Beach vs Mountain is a 2-week challenge and will be open until Sunday, June 19 at 11:59PM ET. 

Catherine is back with another cute and clever design to inspire you!

Catherine’s brilliant camping and zip-lining scene is so much fun! And adding it to a Platform Pop-Up makes it even more fun! She used Stitched Mountain Borders to create the 3D scenery along with Forest Border. She decorated the base of the Platform Pop-Up using Build-A-Campsite and a Butterfly Kisses bunny.

The Really High Five critters are zipping over the mountains with the help of acetate strips to suspend them. Catherine fashioned the zip-line using the triangle from Critter Concert. She used a line from a limited edition set but you could substitute with the clothesline from Little Bundle. And because “safety first” these wise critters borrowed helmets from Scootin’ By.

Catherine used the tree die from Build-A-Campsite to make a stencil to create scenery on the platform base.

Thanks so much for this totally adorable inspiration, Catherine!

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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you were inspired!