Introducing Lawnscaping!

Happy New Year!

Let's start this new year off with a bang, shall we?

When last we left off, I told you I had an exciting secret

that I couldn't share quite yet -- but guess what? I can now!

Introducing...

Lawnscaping!

The new challenge blog dedicated to all things Lawn Fawn.

Oh my gosh, are you excited?

I'm practically hyperventilating over here!

Speaking of "here" -- you'll never guess where I am right now.

I'm in Germany! We're spending the holidays with my in-laws

in the little farming village where we used to live and they still do.

Which means that I'm actually posting this ahead of time

and setting the little timer do-hickey and praying to God it works!

But back to the BIG NEWS:

A couple of weeks ago the lovely Laurel Beard contacted

me and asked me if I'd like to be a part of the design team

 for this amazing new venture.

When I finished scraping my jaw off the floor

(seriously? They wanted ME?) I said,

HECK, yeah! Are you kidding me? Of course I do!

And as the details began to unfold over the next few days

I got more and more amped up, because what's

better than a bunch of Lawn Fawn lovers, using their goodies

to encourage and inspire one another --

plus have a chance at winning some great prizes.

Back up the pony! Did she say PRIZES?

Yes she certainly did. Er, I did.

Prizes. There, I did it again. ;o)

We will be holding two challenges a month,

on the first and third Mondays, and there will be

a winner and a prize awarded each time.

Plus, at the end of the year, one lucky duck will take home

a HUGE bonus prize package full of goodies that

will make your mouth drool and your heart go pitter-patter.

All you have to do to be eligible is to play along.

Each and every Lawnscaping Challenge participant

will have their name added to the pot.

At two challenges a month, that's 24 chances to win

this super-duper amazing prize package.

So what's inside?

Well, if we told you that, we'd have to kill you.

Kidding.

But we're not going to tell you anyway.

Not yet. Yeah, we're mean like that. ;o)

No wait! We've just brought you Lawnscaping Challenges!

We are most definitely nice. The nicest.

This first two-week challenge theme is:

and the prize is:

That's right, one FREE Lawn Fawn stamp set

of your own choosing. Yum!

And here is my very first design team sample:

I decided to use Frosties, stamping the sentiment

and a few snowflakes with Versamark ink

and heat-setting them with white embossing powder.

I piled on some Tumbled Glass distress ink by Ranger,

then chased it with a little Broken China.

Then I punched out six snowflakes using the

Martha Stewart snowflake punch

and stapled them to my panel with

Tim Holtz's Tiny Attacher.

Added a few pearl embellishments and adhered

 to my 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 card front with pop dots.

Please head over to the Lawnscaping Challenge Blog

and get all of the details, plus meet the rest of

the AMAZING design team and catch

a peek at their beautiful samples.

Then head on over to their blogs and congratulate

them on a job well done.

Laurel Beard

Lynette Kauffman

Ashley Newell

Britta Swiderski

Christiana Reuling (me!)

Now, go and get inky!

The challenge is on!