Challenge 252 - Winter/Holiday + DT Call!

Hello friends of Time Out, welcome back!

We have a new nice and easy theme challenge for you... And this challenge doubles up as a DT Call! Let's first go through the challenge details: the theme is 

Winter/Holiday

Pretty perfect for this time of year, right? The sponsor of this challenge is  Birch Press with a generous $20 gift voucher for our winner, chosen by our DT! Thank you so much Birch Press  for sponsoring our challenge. 

Details of the DT Call:

We welcome one new member to the team beginning from January 2024! In our team you are required to make sample cards for our bi weekly challenges, comment on assigned entries, vote for a winner in the end of every challenge and most importantly have fun with the amazing team! We communicate with a DT blog, have a "just for fun" Whatsapp group and we also do group Zoom calls every now and then. As our member you also regularly receive discount codes to our sponsor's stores or get other fun DT perks. 

You can join the DT Call by making a card for this challenge and adding letters DT after your name to the linky. If I Nonni would join for example (luckily I'm already in LOL!) I'd write Nonni DT to the linky when entering.  

Do note that the challenge winner may not necessarily also be the DT Call winner -we'll take other aspects into account too (for example social media activity and relation to Time Out from before). 

Best of luck everyone! We might be wanting just YOU to join so make sure to apply! 

Back to the challenge now. :) We welcome J.K. Elliot of Live.Craft.Repeat. and winner of Time Out #249, as our Guest Designer. You can also find her on Instagram. Jen is a very talented crafter, and a frequent participant and supporter of Time Out. Do treat yourself to a stroll through her blog for some wonderful inspiration!

Here are a few words from Jen about her crafting:

"In this season of gratitude, I am so grateful to have found a hobby I love. I love crafts of all kinds and have quite a collection of paper, fabric, & yarn. Making cards is my number one feel good, therapeutic crafty escape for a project easily finished in a day.  Making & sharing cards feels like sending little bits of happiness out to the world & there’s never “too much happy.”  Enjoy your time with the challenge. I sure know I did!"

You can link to Jen's wonderful card on her blog HERE.

Here's some inspiration from our design team!

Stephanie

Ishani

Deepti

Bobby

Jenny

Kate

Elizabeth

Using Birch Press Frosty Flake Layer set die

Nancy
Using Birch Press Adornment Santa die 

Nonni

Using Birch Press Pinpoint Radial Plate and Pinpoit Snowflake dies

Gerrina

Jennifer and the Design Team have done a fabulous job creating wonderful inspiration projects for us. Now it's your turn to take Time Out and craft! This challenge runs until 5 pm GMT Wed 6th of December. Before linking up below, please have a look at 'How to Play' in the sidebar. At Time Out we only allow five challenges combined, one of them being ours. Thank you for your consideration and happy crafting!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners #250 - Inspired By Words

Hello, friends of Time Out!

It's time to announce the winners of Challenge #250, which was to be inspired by these words:

"When we focus on our gratitude, 

the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes on"

Kristin Armstrong

Our very generous sponsor is Poppystamps.

The challenge winner as chosen by the Design Team will receive a $20.00 Poppystamps Store Credit and will also be invited to Guest Design with us for a future challenge.

Thanks to all who participated in this challenge. We had many fabulous entries inspired by our quote. 

We also had many entries that did not follow our challenge rules in terms of the requirement of using the quote for inspiration, and many participants linking to more than 5 challenges, including ours. Those entries do not qualify for the win, or honorable mention. Those entries may or may not get a comment from the Design Team.

And now it is time to reveal our Challenge Winner and Honorable Mentions.

Our winner is:

Heather of Handmade By Heather

Congratulations, Heather!! Your card is absolutely wonderful and so fitting with our quote. Please grab your Winner's badge from the tab beneath our Blog Header and and display it proudly on your blog and/or other social media.

Please contact Stephanie at slan(dot)zal(at)verizon(dot)net within one week with "TO WINNER" in the subject field for details on how to claim your prize. With your win, you are also invited to join us as a Guest Designer for a future challenge. When contacting Stephanie, please let her know if you are interested.

We had a four way tie for Honorable Mentions! They are awarded to:

Lise Mariann of scrappylisemaa

LeAnne Pugliese of Wee Inklings

Arlene Rose of Sundaystamper Papercrafts

Joanne James of The Crafty Owl

Thank you for playing with us Lise, LeAnne, Arlene and Joanne and for sharing your wonderful creations! Please grab your Honors badge from the tab beneath our Blog Header and and display it proudly on your blog and/or other social media.

Our current challenge is still running for about one week HERE. If you haven't played along yet, now is the time to take Time Out and craft!

Challenge 251 - Photo Inspiration

Hello friends of Time Out!

It's time for a new challenge, and we have another great one for you.

This time, we it's an inspiration photo with a twist which is that the handmade bag in the photo is the prize!

We are sponsored by Running Stitch Design featuring quality handmade products by Kim Heggins, good friend and supporter of Time Out as well as a former Design Team Member. Kim's bags are incredibly well made with fun and fabulous fabrics with all kinds of themes. 

This enlarged photo shows the wonderful detail in the fabric.

We are so pleased to have Ashwini Rao of Experiments With Card Making Etc. Ashwini is a very talented paper crafter with mad design and coloring skills!

Here's a bit about Ashwini in her own words:

"Hi! I am Ashwini, a software engineer by profession based in Bangalore, India and a crafter by hobby. I have loved crafts since I was a little girl. I stumbled upon card making when I was surfing on Pinterest. I began card making late 2013, started this blog in May 2014, when I thought of sharing my little talents with the world. And my love for paper and inks has only increased in the last few years.

I have a mixed style of cardmaking, from CAS to mixed media, but I love watercoloring and am polishing my pencil coloring skill nowadays. I am super delighted today to be participating with Time Out challenge team - that handbag sure looks awesome!!"

This is Ashwini's gorgeous take on our inspiration photo. You can link to it on Ashwini's blog HERE.

Stop by and say hello. I am sure she will be so happy to hear from you.

And now for some inspiration from our design team:

Gerrina

Stephanie

Ishani

Deepti

Bobby

Jenny

Kate

Elizabeth

Nancy

Nonni

Ashwini and the Design Team have done a fabulous job creating wonderful inspiration projects for us. Now it's your turn to take Time Out and craft! This challenge runs until 5 pm GMT Wed 22nd of November. Before linking up below, please have a look at 'How to Play' in the sidebar. At Time Out we only allow five challenges combined, one of them being ours. Thank you for your consideration and happy crafting!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners #249 Vintage

Hi friends! 

We are here to announce the winners of our previous challenge, 'Vintage'. This challenge was generously sponsored by Doodlebugs with $25 voucher to their store, woot woot! 

Without further due, let's see who won!

Jennifer K

Congrats Jennifer, we loved your vintage card! All the details were just perfect for the theme. Please grab your Winner's badge from the tab beneath our Blog Header and and display it proudly on your blog and/or other social media.

Please contact Stephanie at slan(dot)zal(at)verizon(dot)net within one week with "TO WINNER" in the subject field for details on how to claim your prize. With your win, you are also invited to join us as a Guest Designer for a future challenge. When contacting Stephanie, please let her know if you are interested. 

The Honourable Mentions go to:

Esther

Lucy E

Kathy A

Well done, ladies! Gorgeous vintage themed cards. Please grab your Honors badge from the tab beneath our Blog Header and and display it proudly on your blog and/or other social media.

Congratulations again for everyone! Our current Inspired by Words challenge is still running for about one week HERE. If you haven't played along yet, now is the time to take Time Out and craft!

Challenge 250 - Inspired by Words

Hello friends of Time Out!

Thank you everyone who played along in our previous 'Vintage' challenge... It's time for a new challenge for the next fortnight! 

In our new challenge we are Inspired by Words:

"When we focus on our gratitude, 

the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes on"

Kristin Armstrong

You can use the whole quote as your starting point or just be inspired by one word or some words like "tide", "gratitude" or "love". Plenty of possibilities here! 

This challenge is sponsored by Poppy Stamps with a $20 store credit to our winner, chosen by our DT. Our winner also gets called to guest design in a future challenge. Thank you Poppy Stamps for being our generous sponsor!

This time we welcome Deb Horst, frequent player at Time Out and winner of #247, as our Guest Designer.  You can check out Deb's awesome creative work on her blog, Sendable Sentiments. Treat yourself to a visit to her blog and leave her some love. You are sure to be inspired by her wonderful work.

Here is a little bit about Deb in her own words:

"I am married to a wonderful man (next July makes 35 years) and we have 2 adult children--a son who lives on Long Island, NY and a daughter who lives in Chicago. We live in Florida, which feels so very far away from our kids, especially since we have two grandkids (granddaughter who is 3 & grandson who is 1) living in Chicago!! For over 20 years I was a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, but in 2021 I let go of my demonstratorship after our move to FL. I still love scrapbooking & creating cards and have enough Stampin' Up products to last me through eternity...so I will keep on creating!!  Since crafting doesn't pay the bills (it only creates them) I work as a para-professional in our local middle school."

And now for a look at Deb's fabulous card which you can also link to HERE:

Here's some inspiration from our design team!

Nonni

Gerrina

Stephanie

Ishani

Using Sponsor - Orchard leaves and Thanks outline dies

Deepti

Using Poppy Stamps - Wavy Heart, Whittle Happy Hippo, Whittle Floating Hippo & Playful Thank You

Bobby

Jenny

Using Poppy Stamps 2519 Flower Field Frame 

Kate 

Using Poppy Stamps Whittle Dolphin, Wavy Heart, Word Balloons and Whittle Sea Life Sentiments

Elizabeth

Nancy

Stunning inspiration from everyone, I'm sure you agree. It's now your turn to take Time Out and craft! This challenge runs until 5 pm GMT Wed 8th of November. Before linking up below, please have a quick look at 'How to Play' in the sidebar. At Time Out we only allow five challenges combined, one of them being ours. Thank you for your consideration and happy crafting! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter