May Inspiration Week – Graduation!

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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Elena’s Shaker Balloon Birthday Party

It’s time for another brilliant party idea with Elena! This time she created a birthday party with balloons and clever shakers!

This festive birthday party combines balloons, shaker elements and bright cheery colors!

Elena started with a Stitched Party Banner cut from Twinkling Cream paper from the Let It Shine Starry Skies collection. Then she cut a Reverse Stitched Scalloped Square Window from the banner, covering the opening with acetate. She used foam tape and another piece of paper to create the pocket for the shaker bits. And then she added a layered Giant Happy Birthday greeting over the acetate window.

To make the balloons for the banner, Elena used Stitched Balloon Frames and Outside In Stitched Balloon Stackables with more acetate and foam tape.

The cupcake toppers are so creative! I love how she used Tiny Gift Box to look like the balloons are popping up out of the box!

For these smaller balloons, Elena used Party Balloons Lawn Cuts dies and Textured Canvas cardstock. To make the wavy white balloon, she cut one balloon with Ocean Wave Borders, then she glued the pieces to a solid balloon.

A little piece of acetate holds the Tiny Gift Box lid open and stabilizes the balloons!

The party favors feature more balloons on a Goodie Bag!

For the drink bottles, Elena added a Twinkling Cream band to the bottle before decorating with more shakers and star balloons.

This birthday party decor is so brilliant, Elena! I love how you included the shaker elements! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us!

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Elena’s Hoppin’ Cute Frog Party

Elena is back with frog-themed decorations that are full of fun Spring party ideas!

Elena created this fun party for her daughter’s 16th birthday! Her daughter selected a frog theme and Elena pulled it together with a few pond-themed die sets!

The large frog banner is based on one of the frogs in the Toadally Awesome stamp set! Elena’s creativity is larger than life once she has the idea!

To create the fun drink bottle labels, Elena started with Cattails Border cut from white cardstock. She colored each label to look like a pond, then she added cute lily pads from Stitched Pond Frame and candles from Stitched Cupcake!

Bowls of gummy frogs continue the theme! A Party Balloon on a stick is a sweet and festive decoration! I love the pretty green and pink color palette that Elena used to give these decorations a feminine spin!

Wow, these cupcakes are the stars of this party-scape! Elena layered more Cattails Borders with Stitched Scalloped Cupcake Wrappers to continue the pond theme!

For the toppers, what could be more adorable than a Stitched Cupcake decorated with a jumping frog, cattails and lilies? They are all found in the Stitched Pond Frame die set!

Oh my, these favor boxes are so charming! They are made using Tiny Gift Box and Tiny Gift Box Frog Add-On! I love the cute pink cheeks that coordinate with the pink party hat! Elena made the Party Balloons appear helium filled by attaching them to the box with clear acetate! So clever!

Thank you so much for all of these amazing ideas, Elena! I love this toadally awesome party idea!

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