sweet christmas

Featured Fawnatics and Challenge 42 Random Winner!

- Nancy Krueger 4 Comments

Wow! Your fabulous Winter Holiday cards totally inspired us! There are so many entries and each one is amazing! Thank you all so much for sharing your awesome talent with us, you are all the best! If you are one of our Featured Fawnatics today, we invite you to to grab this badge to share on your blog or other social sites!

by Carol
(using Say What? Christmas Critters, Say What? Gift Tags)

by Ana
(using Christmas Dreams, Quilted Backdrop)

by Kathy
(using Thanks a Latte, Simply Celebrate Winter)

by Jennifer
(using Oh What Fun, Toboggan Together)

by Ellen
(using Sweet Christmas, Here We Go A-Waddling, Holiday Helpers)

by Ulrika
(using Toboggan Together, Here We Go A-Waddling)

by Sharmaine
(using Sweet Christmas, Stitched Star Frames)

by Davina
(using Hay There, Snow Day, Stitched Mountain Borders)

 

And now we have our Random Winner from Challenge 42 Winter Holiday who wins a $25.00 gift certificate to our shop, lawnfawn.com! And the winner is…#90
Congratulations to Lynn Dionne! Please send an email to fawnies(at)lawnfawn(dot)com with “Lawn Fawnatics 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 3 weeks for Challenge 43 – Wonderful Winter! This new challenge runs until Sunday, January 6th at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see your creativity with this inspiring new challenge!

Thank you all so much from everyone at Lawn Fawnatics! Happy crafting!

Jar of Mints Easel Card & Lip Balm Holder Gift Tag by Grace!

- Nancy Krueger 5 Comments

Our sweet and talented Guest Designer, Grace Camou, joins us again today to share her super adorable easell card and matching gift tag!

When Grace’s beautiful card folds flat for mailing, it’s an adorable How You Bean? jar filled with pretty mint candies from Sweet Christmas and white embossed hearts on vellum…

…but when this clever easel card opens, her mason jar is a see-through shaker design with acetate on both sides! The penguins from Toboggan Together add whimsical fun!

Grace created the sweet lip balm holder using Say What? Gift Tags! She did partial die cutting to extend the length of the tag to fit the lip balm, then she used cellophane gift wrap to hold the tube in place! That is such a great idea!

She created a second tag layer with another Toboggan Together penguin and mint candy to coordinate with the fabulous card! The little tag and banner which she white embossed with the sentiments are found in our Double Slider Surprise die set!

The clever easel design allows the cute shaker jar to take center stage on Grace’s brilliant card!

Thank you so much, Grace, for sharing this brilliant card and gift tag with us today! I’m totally inspired and can’t wait to try your great ideas! We are so happy to have you as our Guest Designer!

Our Shaped Cards challenge will be open until Sunday, December 2nd at 11:59PM ET. We are looking forward to seeing your creative shaped card ideas!

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Happy Crafting from your friends at Lawn Fawnatics!

Gingerbread Friends with Christy!

- Nancy Krueger 2 Comments

Hey everyone, it’s Christy! Happy Black Friday to all our friends in the States! To those out shopping, may you find lots of deals, and to those tucked indoors, I wish you lots of yummy leftovers and family cheer!

Today’s card is definitely a sweet treat. And it’s actually not just a card. On Wednesday the Lawn Fawn and Lawn Fawnatics design teams participated in the 25 Days of Christmas Tags event, and I actually made mine as a set with a matching card and gift tags. These could either be used on one family’s gifts, or split up and used individually.

The Gingerbread Friends dies brought back so many childhood memories of when I loved to play with and design my own paper dolls. You start out with a simple gingerbread man shape (or six) and it’s like paper dolls for adults! I had so much fun mixing and matching all the different accessories.

My boys are all teenagers now, but this could absolutely be a wonderful activity for little ones. You could fill little dishes or an empty egg crate with all the different bits and pieces, give them the gingerbread men and a glue stick, and BAM! You can thank me later when you’ve had a solid half hour or more all to yourself to get some Christmas baking done or wrap a few gifts. Use them on cards or as gift tags, or tape some string on the back for a Christmas garland.

Can you tell I miss my kids being little? Back to my card. After I decorated my gingerbread men and lady, I adhered them to a focal panel of patterned paper trimmed down with the Stitched Circle Stackables and Scalloped Circle Stackables. The card base measures 4 1/2′ x 4 1/2” which is the perfect size for the largest of the Cross-Stitched Square Stackables. I layered on another piece of patterned paper and popped the focal panel in the center with foam tape. To finish off the card, I added a white heat embossed sentiment from Sweet Christmas. On the inside I stamped a few of the candies from Sweet Christmas and an additional sentiment from Merry Messages.

You can check out the video on my YouTube Channel, Christy Gets Crafty, if you’d like to see how the card and tags came together.

There’s still time left to enter our Shaped Card Challenge, so if you’ve got a little extra free time over holiday break, now is the perfect time to get crafting! We can’t wait to see what you create!

Have a wonderful and crafty weekend!