May Inspiration Week – Graduation!

- kellymarie


Hello and welcome to Lawn Fawn’s May 2025 Inspiration Week! Our April 2025 Release is available now at your favorite store and at www.lawnfawn.com! Woohoo!

Since we have already introduced all the wonderful goodness in our April Release, we have a different kind of Inspiration Week planned! Each day this week we will showcase the new release with different themes and today our theme is graduation cards! We are so excited to inspire you with amazing design team samples, inspiring videos and of course, daily giveaways!

Daily Giveaway

We already have four places you can leave comments to win:
Our big giveaway post!!
Birthday Inspiration post!
Pull ‘n Slide Surprise post!
Thank You Inspiration post!
AND today’s post too!

Mindy is back with another video tutorial. This time she shares a fantastic graduation card to inspire you! You can watch the video below or click HERE to watch at our YouTube channel.


Thank you so much for watching! Now let’s check out more Design Team inspiration!


Mindy combined cute mice from You Autumn Know and Whoosh Kites with sentiments from Simply Celebrate Graduation and You Goat This to create a super cute card! And the mortarboard and diploma from Woodland Critter Huggers Graduation Add-On are so charming added to the star!


This Outside In Stitched Star shaker window is so fun and adds a special detail to Mindy’s simple design!


Latisha stenciled her card with Graduation Caps Background Stencils before adding Giant You Did It! She layered the giant greeting on a pink pastel pearlescent vellum circle with a sentiment from Simply Celebrate Graduation.


Perfect for an elementary school graduation, Megan‘s card features a cute chalkboard! She used the Shadow Box Card to make the frame for the chalkboard, cutting it from Woodgrain cardstock. Then she added an apple from Build-A-Barrel: Apple and white embossed messages from Simply Celebrate Graduation.


Melissa‘s card is so eye-catching! With a glittery gold background, she layered on a Candy Cane Lane oval shape. It’s the perfect colorful backdrop for the black Giant You Did It and the graduation cap!


Elena‘s graduation card is a fun shaker design with Simply Celebrate Graduation! The background from Candy Cane Lane petite paper adds fun color and gold foil stripes. Elena used Ta-Da! Diorama! Scalloped Window Add-On to create the shaker window.


The reward for finishing a course of study is a summer filled with sunshine and fun! Yainea‘s card features Giant You Did It with Pool Party! She added a Fly High sentiment on a Fancy Wavy Banner and a strip of Vertical Rainbow Stripes Washi adds lots of happy color!


Audrey used Graduation Caps Background Stencils to create an overall design on her card. Then she added an Outside In Stitched Apple with the cap from Woodland Critter Huggers Graduation Add-On! And then she layered Scripty Congrats in Green Sparkle cardstock on a white Scripty Congrats Outline Add-On.


Tammy‘s graduation card is so elegant, even with the cute mice of Simply Celebrate Graduation! She created a full card shaker filled with star shaker bits. And the Giant You Did It in glittery gold looks so good with the black, red and white mortarboard and diploma from Woodland Critter Huggers Graduation Add-On.


Grace created a glitter filled shaker card to congratulate the graduate! And the colors and collage elements are so fun and perfect for a celebration! She stared with a Stitched Rectangle panel of Rainbow Ever After petite paper that she cut using Reverse Stitched Scalloped Circle Window.


Then Grace created a collage using Woodland Critter Huggers Graduation Add-On, Party Balloons and congrats from Simply Celebrate Graduation. She used the thin guides from Pull ‘n Slide Surprise to cut a rainbow of cardstock strips to layer Louie’s ABCs letters on! So bright and fun!

Giveaway Time

I hope we have inspired you to make clever graduation cards with our April Release! Tomorrow we will have another fun theme and more inspiration for you! But for now, it’s giveaway time! Leave a comment telling us what made you smile this week by May 16th at 5:00pm ET. We will randomly pick one winner to receive a stamp set with coordinating die set along with a petite paper pack of their choice. Make sure to come back tomorrow, Friday, March 16th for our next inspiration week post!

Thank you so much for all of your excitement for our inspiration week! We love your comments, tweets, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube messages! Every one puts a big smile on our faces! We think Lawn Fawn fans are the best in the world. We love you guys!

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Thanks so much for visiting the Lawn Fawn blog, have an amazing day!

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124 thoughts on “May Inspiration Week – Graduation!”

    1. My cat never fails to make me smile 😃. And so far all the people I met this week were super friendly (that’s RARE in Berlin!)

  12. My cat never fails to make me smile 😃. And so far all the people I met this week were super friendly (that’s RARE in Berlin!)

  13. Mother’s day! I had breakfast with my family and then a call from my youngest son who didn’t make it home from college yet. Then I spent the afternoon card making. Such a good day.

  15. When all the pieces finally came together in a card I had been puzzling over for a week. Every time I go by my craft table, I stop and look at it and it makes me smile. Also any time I look at my dog Lucy, I smile.

  16. Has anyone else seen the AI baby judge judy reels? The babies with the mustaches make me smile/laugh every time.

  17. I smiled because – A mama duck incubating her nest! This would be cute … Lawn Fawn ducks with lots of cute little baby ducks! (I know there are swans but ducks would be adorable too.)

  18. We have been watching the birds fluttering around our feeders this week. Fun to watch their antics…also it is a special time here in northern Ohio as the migrating birds are coming north…lots of birdwatchers here!!!

  20. My daughter was hired for a position she really wanted. The lab works with the high school BioTech career block students so it was pretty competitive and not only did she get the job but at her choice location. I’m super excited for her.

  22. GREAT shares!! I love Mindy’s and Elena’s but I like all the “makes” shared. Y’all are incredibly talented! My cats made me smile today. They’re so silly and comical!!
    Lori S in PA

  24. This week we have had warmer temperatures and the birds and squirrels are quite active. My flowers are blooming like crazy on the deck. Those make me smile.

  25. So many things have made me smile this week! But the best one so far today is my granddaughter going potty in her big girl potty for the first time! Happy dance at grandmas house today!

  29. We’ve been exchanging texts with our daughter, who’s in grad school….she’s almost done with finals and we’ve been sending her good vibes along the way!

  32. My grandsons took all of us grannies to the tulip festival and out to dinner for mother’s Day this week. That made me smile…..a lot!!💕

  33. I smiled this week as I thought over the beautiful weekend we just had celebrating at my youngest son’s wedding! 😊

  45. My new grandson made me smile. He’s just 3 1/2 weeks old and we’re all in love. Even his crying is adorable…for now ♥

  46. Celebrating Mother’s Day with my family made me smile! We had a great time together and I’m still smiling!

  48. My daughter’s birthday fell on Mother’s Day this year and we had a great celebration with family. That made me smile!

  53. I smiled a lot yesterday when we celebrated May birthdays for my two daughters and two grandchildrens.

  58. it has been raining all week in md. i just love the sound and the outside smell. springtime rain is the best.

  60. Having time to finally play with my new stamps yesterday made me smile! I’m loving the new interactive dies, super easy to assemble.

  61. Shopping is limited where I live, but Mother’s Day had lovely weather so I decided to explore a few stores. I mostly window shopped, but I did bring home a potted lemon tree! 🍋🍋🍋 I hope it will eventually bear fruit. ☺️

  64. A wonderful Mother’s Day celebration with my daughters and husband made me smile a lot this week!

  69. My son graduated this week so that made me smile (and cry). Of course I made him a Lawn Fawn congrats card.

  72. Something that made me smile this week was seeing how much joy my daughter brings to my mother. They’re relationship is just adorable

  73. I work in an elementary school and the random little things these kids say (sweet, silly, and confusing all at the same time) make me smile every single day.

  88. I had long phone conversation with both my sons. Talking to my kids always makes me smile!

  97. Lawn Fawn you always make me smile in the morning when I read the blog before getting up💚💚💚💕

  106. what made me smile this week: I had a great Hawaiian seafood plate yesterday – yummmm – made me smile after a tough morning.

  109. Snuggles with my dog, Ellie, made me smile. Because she’s not an especially snuggly dog, so it was a rare treat.

  116. Oooo. I love the pull&slide cards. I think they’re both perfect for that surprise in a birthday card, and for enclosing a gc in the back (easy access).

    Truly every one of the cards for inspiration week made me smile. So much cleverness in each card, whether by color, technique, or pun usage: they all made me smile!

  117. My daughter said she liked my spots on my face (I was sans makeup) because they make me look like a giraffe and she loves giraffes ❤️🤦‍♀️❤️😂

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