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Little Flowers and Buttons with Caly

- Nancy Krueger 1 Comment

Hi Friends! This is Caly with you today, sharing a card made with buttons for the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge! We’re bringing forgotten embellishments back and hope that you’ll play along!

Today’s card is made using the Little Flowers Lawn Cuts. These die-cuts create a potted arrangement of flowers and I’ve used little buttons to replace the floral centers. I decided to create a decorative window with a background accented by the Quilted Backdrop and framed by the Reverse Stitched Scallop Circle Windows. My top panel is attached over the quilted backdrop with foam adhesive so the window sits back a little.

I die-cut all of my elements using Lawn cardstock (Cilantro, Noble Fir, Ballet Slippers, Mermaid, Peacock, Apricot, Sugar Plum) and used coordinating inks to ink-blend and color the flowers to give them dimension.

After attaching all my flowers to the pot, I added foam adhesive to the back of the flowers and adhered it to my card so the flowers sit at the same height as the card panel. The pot is glued directly to the card top without additional height.

To give my die-cuts some interest, I added shimmer over the flowers and white gel highlights to the elements. The sentiment is from the Simply Sentiments stamp set and stamped over a Fancy Folded Banner. I did ink-blend a little around the edges to help the banner pop against the white background. Finally, to finish, I looped twine through another button and tied a bow to add one last embellishment to my card.

I hope you enjoyed this! Thanks so much for stopping by today!
~Caly

The Bring it Back challenge will be open until Sunday, March 1st at 11:59PM ET

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Happy Crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!

Just Saying Hello

- Nancy Krueger 3 Comments

Hi Fawnatics friends! It’s Nancy here with a little inspiration “For the Birds“!

I made a clean and simple style card with a bit of a cartoon look! Other than the Simply Sentiments greeting stamped in Deep Sea ink it is all die cut! I framed my picture with a Stitched Scalloped Square Frame die cut from Woodgrain cardstock. For the background I brushed Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink on white cardstock. All of the pieces were die cut from white cardstock and colored with Copic markers with very little shading. The trees are from Shadow Box Card, the sun is from Foursquare Backdrop: Portrait and the cute little bird is from the Center Picture Window Card Add-On! Everything is adhered with Glue Tube and mounted on a simple white card base. Easy!

Our For the Birds challenge will be open until Sunday, February 2 at 11:59PM ET. I hope you will join the fun!

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Happy crafting from everyone at Lawn Fawnatics!

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 31 – Flowers, Floral and Foliage!

- Nancy Krueger 15 Comments

It’s time to switch our focus from masculine to feminine! Our new challenge is all about Flowers, Floral and Foliage! Use your favorite flowery Lawn Fawn sets to make cards, scrapbook pages and crafty projects! However you want to use this theme is okay with us, just make sure that your entry features Lawn Fawn products! This challenge will be open until Sunday July 1st at 11:59PM ET.

For each challenge, we will randomly select a winner 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!

Let’s see how our amazing Design Team was inspired by this challenge theme!

I love how Samantha used the cute little flower girls from Easter Party to send a happy hello!

Kate created a pretty backdrop with repeated Little Flowers! Her card features flowers from Simply Celebrate and a greeting from Simply Sentiments!

Samantha‘s card is so magical! She used flowers from Fairy Friends and paired them with the How You Bean? jar and Scripty Thanks!

Karin‘s card is so charming! She used Bayou Backdrop as the base for her sweet scene with frolicking Rub-A-Dub-Dub ducks and pretty flowers! Scripty Love is the perfect sentiment!

Joyce combined two Spring sets to create this adorable card! She stamped the tiny flowers from Easter Party in a fun pattern then added the bunnies from Some Bunny to complete her sweet card design!

Jessica‘s gorgeous ink blended background sets the stage for our Fairy Friends to have a magical day!

Franci made a beautiful card with a clean and simple style! The fresh ink colors are perfect for the Fab Flowers! I love that her Happy Happy Happy sentiment is embossed with silver embossing powder, it’s so lovely!

Christy‘s adorable card features Gleeful Gardens! She created her happy scene on a Stitched Journaling Card with Grassy Borders and a cute sentiment from Critters on the Savanna!

We will have Design Team inspiration for you over the next two weeks and of course our Featured Fawnatics and Random Winner for Challenge 30 tomorrow!