Samantha’s Peekaboo Backdrop Card Inspired by Children’s Books!


Save the date, April 19th, for another fun Create with Us! In this free class hosted by Kelly and Jenn, you’ll create two adorable cards featuring Stitched Garden Veggies & Stitched Root Veggies! You can follow along — or just pop in to say hi! — on YouTube Live. You will find all the information to craft with us HERE. We hope to see you there!

Samantha was inspired by the children’s book series by Mo Willems: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and The Duckling Gets a Cookie?! She says, “both of these books are near and dear to my heart since when my little Menn were actually little (ha!). They LOOOOVED these books and always made us ALL crack up!”

She started by stamping the images from the Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Car Critters, All the Speech Bubbles and Milk and Cookies with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then die cut them out. Then she transformed the larger duck image into the Pigeon.


Samantha used the Peekaboo Backdrop dies to create the sort of book/comic book grid that is used in the book. She used Distress Oxide Inks in Abandoned Coral, Picked Raspberry, Dried Marigold and Tattered Rose to add ink blending all around.


The sentiments were stamped from All the Speech Bubbles in all of the tiny speech bubbles!

This is so sweet, Samantha! Thank you for sharing this inspired card!

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We are looking forward to seeing your Inspired by a Book, Movie or Song challenge entries! Click HERE to enter!

Christy’s Cute Carrot Treat Box Design


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, March 31st 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 Inspired by a Book, Movie, or Song Challenge! These sweet little Carrot Treat Boxes and tags were actually inspired by TWO books and a song. Every year when Easter rolls around, there is one song that has played in my head since probably Kindergarten. “Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail, hippity-hoppity Easter’s on its way!”


That’s where the original idea for carrot-treat boxes and tags came from. But as I was laying out the images, I noticed that the big bunny’s hands were outstretched, and the little bunnies were gathered around him as if he were telling a story. So I decided to give him a book and have the story be The Tale of Peter Rabbit, the only book I still have from my own childhood, since it was my favorite.

But the more I looked at the scene that was coming together, the more it reminded me of yet another children’s book that I loved to read to my boys when they were small, Die Häsenschule, a German tale told in rhyme about bunnies that go to school and learn all the things that little bunnies should know, like good manners, how to paint Easter eggs, how to identify plants, and evade the sneaky fox. The bow tie and bowler hat on the big bunny reminded me of the teacher! Perfect!


I started with the tags. I made three of everything, one for each of my boys. First, I stamped the images from Carrot ’bout You and Tea-rrific Day Add-On and a book from Den Sweet Den in Jet Black Ink. Then I colored them with my Copic markers and trimmed them out with their matching dies. I cut three round panels out of Bristol Cardstock with the Stitched Circle Stackables and blended on Distress Oxide Inks, using Tumbled Glass for the sky, and Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn for the ground. I glued these to green gingham patterned paper from the Fruit Salad 6×6, trimmed down with the Scalloped Circle Stackables. I assembled the tags and stamped a sentiment in at the top in black ink.


Then I moved on to the treat boxes. I trimmed two carrot bases for each box from Fake Tan Cardstock, and two tops from Algae. Using the Teflon Bone Folder, I reinforced each fold, then rolled back the tops with a pencil to give them a curve. I added 1/4” Double-sided Adhesive to the tags and attached them to assemble the base of the box. Then I folded the tops on their score line, added more of the tape and adhered them to the bases. I filled the boxes with Jelly Beans and closed them up.

Then I took another piece of Double-sided Tape and ran it vertically down the back of each tag and used that to attach them to the tops of each box. And that’s it! They came together super easily.

If you’d like to watch the whole process of creating these Carrot Treat Boxes, you can check out the video tutorial on my YouTube channel, Christy Gets Crafty! We hope you’re enjoying our Inspired by a Book, Movie, or Song challenge. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Thank you so much for this wonderful inspiration, Christy!

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Catherine’s Sesame Street Inspired Card


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, March 31st 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!

Catherine has some amazing inspiration for us today! Three favorite Sesame Street characters inspired her to make this bright and happy birthday card! She began her card with Really Rainbow and Rainbow Ever After papers in the background. Then she combined Louie’s ABCs, Harold’s ABCs and sentiments from Holiday Party Animal and How You Bean Christmas Cookie Add-On for the clever greeting!


Catherine gathered Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and Elmo together to create this fun card design! Oscar even has his trash can (made with the jar, trimmed to be straight sided, from How You Bean and How You Bean Add-On) and there’s also a cookie for Cookie Monster! Elmo is holding the iconic street sign with sentiments from Simply Sentiments and Scent with Love Add-On! The sign is a combination of Speech Bubbles and Circle Stackables. And she added Party Balloons to add lots of fun to this special birthday card!


To recreate each of the characters, Catherine provided charts with all the components! The characters start with the Tiny Gift Box Skunk Add-On, then she personalized each one.





1 Eyes (Cookie and Elmo) – Out of This World

1(A) Eyes (Oscar)- Egg from Some Bunny

2 Eyeballs – Scripty Bubble Sentiments Lawn Cuts

3 Mouth- Tiny Gift Box Frog Add-On

4 Upper Lip- Ocean Wave Accents (partial die cut the wave)

5 Arm- Fussy Cut from the fur in Tiny Gift Box Skunk

6 Head- Tiny Gift Box Skunk

7 Eyebrow- Fussy Cut from fur in Tiny Gift Box Skunk

8 Hands- Fussy Cut from fur in Tiny Gift Box Hedgehog Add-On

9 Nose- Egg from Baked with Love

Check out the supply list for links to all the products mentioned above.


Thank you so much for sharing this brilliant inspiration, Catherine!

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