Winners #195

 Hello Time Out Crafters!

Link up to our current challenge HERE

Its' time to announce the winners to challenge #195 and the winner will receive a $25 gift voucher to Newton's Nook!

So many wonderful creations using Colored Card Bases, so hard to choose the winners!!

Congratulations to Natasa!

Your card is so beautiful, fabulous choice of background colors. 

Please contact Stephanie at slan.zal@verizon.net within one week if you'd like to join us as a guest designer in a future challenge. You can contact joyce.mehrberg@gmail.com with the subject line 'TO WINNER' within one week for your prize. 

Here's the badge for your blog:

And now for a look at those who took Honors at Time Out!

Alicia

Bobby

Chrissie

Simply beautiful cards ladies! 

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Don't forget you still have time to play along on our current challenge, link up HERE

Congratulations everyone! 

You still have one week to link up your cards  (until Wed 22nd of September at 5 pm BST). See you with a new challenge on Thursday the 23rd! 

Challenge #196 - Brave

 Hello Crafters....it's time for another new challenge at Time Out!

We are back with a new challenge and one that is just a bit different - Brave

There are so many ways you can be brave, from starting a new job, going to a new school, moving to a new neighborhood, so many possibilities and we can't wait to see what inspires you!

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is Funky Fossil Designs

winner gets £15 gv British Sterling

 

Our guest designer for this challenge is Rahmat Gouse of Cards And Cooking Corner and winner of Time Out Challenge #193. She is a very talented card artist, and her floral watercoloring is swoon-worthy! Check out her blog, and you will see what I mean.

Here are a few words from Rahmat about her background and her crafting:

"I am originally from India. I have been globe trotting for almost a decade and half, and I live in Macau. I am wife to a hotelier, mother to 2 university kids. A teacher by profession, currently not teaching. I do substitute and volunteer teaching from time to time.

I started serious card making only in 2014, and also started my current blog back then. I love CAS mostly, but I love trying out different techniques. I love playing with stamps, and I always look for creative out of box ways to use, and showcase the stamps. For past year and half I have been hooked to coloring mostly flowers and bubbles. I also enjoy illustrating flowers nowadays. 

Other than card making, I love cooking, reading, traveling and photography."

This is Rahmat's wonderful make for our challenge:

 Here is some inspiration from our design team:

Jill

Shauna

Using sponsor stamp set She is Fierce and stencil Rustic Background.

 

Stephanie using Sponsor stamps "She Is Fierce".

Gerrina

Using sponserstamp Abstract beauty and stencil In Depth

Kim

Ishani

 

Joyce

Using Sponsor Stamps Whimsy Town

Nonni

Using sponsor stamps Bee Geometric

Fabulous inspiration from everyone, I'm sure you agree! Now it's your turn to take Time Out and craft. This challenge runs until 5 pm BST on Wednesday the 22nd of September.  Happy crafting!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners #194

 Hello friends of Time out!

Link up to our current challenge HERE

It's time to announce the winners for our previous challenge where we were inspired by a beautiful tote bag our very own and super talented Kim had made for our inspiration. Kim sells her fabulous designs in her Etsy store RunningStitchDesign and our winner receives the bag  from the photo as a prize! 

Top at Taking Time Out is:

Carol

We were blown away by Carol's take on the challenge -her eye for detail is amazing!! Both of her projects are so inspired. Congratulations Carol!! Please contact Kim at kimheggins@comcast.net for information how the bag will find it's way to you. We'd also like to invite you to guest design in a future challenge so do contact Stephanie at slan.zal@verizon.net for all the details within one week. Here's our badge for your blog:

This time the honourable mentions go to these wonderful crafters:

Charlotte E

Conil

Tracey

Stunning cards from everyone! Here's our Honourable Mention badge for your blogs:

Congratulations again, ladies. I hope to see you all playing along in our current challenge, it still runs for about a week. We want to see you use coloured card -either a coloured card base or a coloured card front- with an optional twist of adding embellishments. Link up your projects HERE.

Thanks for popping by and happy crafting! 

Challenge #195

 Hello all friends of Time Out!

We are back with another fun challenge for you and today it's one of our popular theme challenges: we want to encourage you to use a colored card base or colored card front. For the next fortnight it's time to abandon your basic white card and play with something more colorful! :) 

As always our theme has an optional twist and this time it's 'add embellishments'. If you decide to use the twist you could win a prize from our fabulous sponsor Newton's Nook: they are offering a $25 gift voucher to one of our "twisters", chosen randomly. The overall winner of the challenge, chosen by our DT, will be called to guest design in a future challenge. 

Our guest designer for this challenge is Toni Maddox of Frankie Helps Craft. Toni is a wonderful paper crafter with an eclectic style and a great eye for color and design. Toni was the winner of Tme Out Challenge #192.

Here are a few words from Toni:

"My name is Toni and I live in the Pacific Northwest just a few miles north of Seattle where I work at the University of Washington supporting infectious disease research. I enjoy spending time with family (including my cats), reading, gardening, and, of course, paper crafting."

This is Toni's wonderful make for our challenge, she used beautiful card stock called 'icy blue':

 Here is some inspiration from our design team:

Ishani

Using sponsor stamps Loads of blooms

 

Jill

Stephanie

 

Joyce

Using sponsor stamps Flamingo Flock

Gerrina

Kim

Using Sponsors stamps - Fresh Squeezed (retired)

Nonni

 

 Shauna

Using sponsor stamp set Beautiful Leaves.

Fabulous inspiration from everyone, I'm sure you agree! Now it's your turn to take Time Out and craft. This challenge runs until 5 pm BST on Wednesday the 8th of August.  Happy crafting!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners #193

 Current challenge HERE. 

 We are here today to announce the winner of the recent quote challenge #193!

Our wonderful sponsor was CAS-ual Fridays and the winner will receiver a $25 gift voucher!

 

 

 The winner is:

Rahmat

   Congratulations Rahmat! 

Please contact Stephanie at slan.zal@verizon.net within one week if you'd like to join us as a guest designer in a future challenge. You can contact joyce.mehrberg@gmail.com with the subject line 'TO WINNER' within one week for your prize. 

 Here is your badge for you blog:

 

And now for those who took honors at Time Out:

The Cardogram

 

Hej Ti

 

 

Conil

 

 

Congratulations! Such beautiful cards!

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 Don't forget to join our current challenge!

 Current challenge HERE. 

We are creating cards inspired by this photo:

 

  

 

Our sponsor for this challenge is none other than one of our very own designers, Kim, at RunningStitchDesign ! 

 

All of the products in her Etsy store are hand stitched and she also takes custom orders! Be sure to check out her store and show her some love. 

The winner of this challenge will win the bag featured in our challenge photo!!!

 You have until August 25th to join us.

Challenge #194 - Running Stitch Design

    Welcome back for another challenge!

We have a very special challenge for you today. We are creating cards inspired by this photo:

 

  

 

Here is a closer look:

Our sponsor for this challenge is none other than one of our very own designers, Kim, at RunningStitchDesign! 

 

Here is some information from Kim about the inspiration bag - The inspiration for this challenge is a handmade tote bag using fabric from Cotton and Steel-Girls Club. I made the tote using a NoodleHead pattern, the Crescent Tote. The tote is fully lined and It has a zipper pocket on front, inside pockets and webbing for the handles.  Tote measures 16.5x10.5x6

 

All of the products in her Etsy store are handmade and she also takes custom orders! Be sure to check out her store and show her some love. 

The winner of this challenge will win the bag featured in our challenge photo!!!

Our guest designer for this challenge is Nathalie. You can find her on Instagram as wonderingwabbit. 

Nathalie has always enjoyed being creative. When she was younger, she always loved drawing and painting. As she matured and became a student, then career woman, got married, had kids, pets, etc., she could never find any time to express herself creatively. As her children grew a little older, she decided to just make time! She really wanted to bring some Zen into her hectic life. In doing this, Nathalie did not want to commit to large projects, so she figured, why not cards? Searching for supplies online was a bit overwhelming, but she started to try different brands and products to see what she liked. Turns out she simply adores her pencils 😍. Take a look at her work! Nathalie has mad coloring skills!!! Nathalie says that she thoroughly enjoys Timeout Challenges because they are always different and allow a lot of room for interpretation without too much restriction. Here is her wonderful make for our challenge:

We are thrilled to extend a very warm welcome to another Guest Designer for this challenge - our dear,  crafty friend Sandie Munro of London Days. Sandie is co-founder, former Design Team Member, and long time leader and orchestrator of Time Out Challenges. We are delighted to have her with us, and so excited to see her crafting in her signature CAS style! Here is Sandie's wonderful take on our inspiration photo, which is a picture of the awesome prize that will go to the winner of this challenge. We love and miss you, Sandie! Welcome home...

Sandie

 

Now, let's see what our design team has created to inspire us:

Kim

 

 Stephanie

   

 Joyce

Shauna

  Nonni

Ishani

Gerrina 

Jill

Now it's your turn to take Time Out and craft! This challenge runs until 5 pm BST, 25th of August. Happy crafting! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter