Winners Challenge #277 IBW "There truly is not an occasion that is not improved by wearing something festive"

Hello friends of Time Out. 

Welcome back, and we extend a very warm welcome to newcomers to Time Out Challenges!

We are here to announce the winners of our previous challenge where we were inspired by a a fun, festive quote. Thanks to everyone who played along! 

Our winner receives $25 store credit to spend in Topflight Stamps and an invitation to Guest Design with us for a future challenge. Huge thanks to Topflight Stamps for your generosity and continued support of Time Out Challenges! 

Our winner is:

Arlene

We were really impressed of Arlene's freehand watercolor and the fun touches she added to her CAS design. Congratulations Arlene! 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 Guest Designer for a future challenge. When contacting Stephanie, please let her know if you are interested.

The honourable mentions go to these fabulous cards:

Heather

Claire

Rachel

Toni

Such fun and festive work from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Ladies, 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.

You still have about one week to join our last challenge of 2024! We have a photo inspiration for you and we are celebrating or possible holidays we could think of. :) Head on over to the challenge post HERE for all the details and then it's your turn to Take Time Out and Craft! 

Challenge #278 - Photo Inspiration

Hello friends of Time Out. Welcome back, and we extend a very warm welcome to newcomers to Time Out Challenges!

We are here with our final challenge of 2024 and with warm wishes for a wonderful holiday season, whatever that may look like to you and yours. Happy New Year to all, and may 2025 bring lots of love and light to your life. For those who may be struggling at this time, may the light of the season bring warmth and love and peace into your home and your heart with hope for the year ahead.

We bid a fond farewell to Greta, who is stepping down from her Design Team position at Time Out with this challenge. We are sad to see her go, but this is what is best for her, and that is most important to us. Greta is such a kind and wonderful person, and a fabulous cart artist. We will miss her, but she will still be present in the cardmaking world, and we look forward to seeing her creations in our community and hopefully she will take Time Out to join us in our gallery when she is inspired and able to do so.

 Time Out Challenge #278 opens today and runs through December 18th. This time it is a Photo Inspiration Challenge in celebration of all December Holidays around the world. You can use all or anything from the photo, or you can create anything that depicts a/the holiday that you celebrate at this time of year. Please tell us about your holiday in your post if it is not obvious in your creation.

 Look for our Winners Post on December 26th. Our first challenge of 2025 will go live on January 2, 2025.

Challenge #278

Here is an enlargement of the photo that provides more detail:

We are generously sponsored by Gina K. Designs with a $25.00 store credit as a prize for our challenge winner as chosen by our Design Team. Our challenge winner will also get an invitation to design with us for a future challenge.

Thank you Gina K. to you and your wonderful staff for supporting Time Out! We appreciate you so very much!

We are joined by Verena Shapiro of simple_stamper on Instagram, and winner of Time Out #273 as Guest Designer. Verena's cards are wonderful, simple and clever. Treat yourself to a stroll through her Instagram for some fabulous inspiration.

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

"Hi! My name is Verena, and I live in Ottawa, Canada. I originally started papercrafting about 20 years ago, but as a mom of three life got too busy, and I never fully got into it. During Covid I suddenly had all this spare time available, so I decided to give cardmaking another try. Well, I haven't been able to stop since! I tend to lean towards clean and simple cards. My life can be pretty chaotic, and there's just something incredibly calming about clean lines and white space. I absolutely love card challenges. They push me out of my comfort zone and make me look at my stash differently. Thank you everyone at 

Time Out for the wonderful inspiration you all always provide!"

THIS is Verena's fabulous make for our challenge.

And now for some inspiration from our design team!

Greta

Helen 

Ishani

Jenny

Kate

Nancy

Stephanie 

Bobby

Deepti

Nonni

Wonderful work from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Now it's your turn to Take Time Out and Craft! This challenge runs until 5 PM GMT Wed 18th of December. Before linking up below, please read 'How to Play' from the sidebar. 

Do note that at Time Out we only allow 5 challenges combined, one of them being ours! 

Thank you, happy holidays and happy crafting!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners #276

Hello friends of Time Out. 

Welcome back, and we extend a very warm welcome to newcomers to Time Out Challenges!

We are here to announce the winners of our previous challenge where we wanted to see Cozy projects. Thanks to everyone who played along! 

Our winner receives $25 store credit to spend in Newton's Nook and an invitation to Guest Design with us for a future challenge. Huge thanks to Newton's Nook for your generosity and continued support of Time Out Challenges! 

Our winner is: 

Marcia

Congratulations on your win, Marcia! We loved your cute and cozy CAS design card with the wonderful paper piecing!  

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 Guest Designer for a future challenge. When contacting Stephanie, please let her know if you are interested.

The Honourable Mentions go to these fabulous card makers: 

Donna

Angela

Jennifer K

Such wonderful and inspiring work from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Ladies, 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 Inspired by Words challenge challenge  is still running for about one week. As a special little treat we have some extra inspiration for you from DT members Jenny and Nonni! This is the quote we are inspired by:

 "There is truly not an occasion that is not improved by wearing something festive." 

And here's what Jenny and Nonni created!

Jenny

Nonni

If you haven't played along yet, this is your reminder to Take Time Out and Craft... And join us HERE! 

Challenge #277 - IBW "There truly is not an occasion that is not improved by wearing something festive"

  Hello, friends of Time Out. Welcome back! If you are a newcomer to Time Out Challenges, we extend a very warm welcome to you. We're glad you are here.

We have a new challenge that opens today and runs through December 4th. This time it is an "Inspried By Words" Challenge which means that we are challenged to create a card that is inspired by the words in this quote: "There is truly not an occasion that is not improved by wearing something festive." 

Challenge #277

You can use the whole quote or parts of it to inspire your creation. For example, you can use the word "festive"; or "occasion"; or the words "wearing something festive", etc. You must use something in the quote as your inspiration. In your post, please tell us how the quote inspired you.

Our wonderful sponsor is Top Flight Stamps with a generous offer of a $25.00 store credit as the prize for our Challenge Winner, who will also get an invitation to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

We are joined by Tenia Nelson of Jazzy Paper Designs, and winner of Time Out #272 as Guest Designer.

Tenia's designs are wonderful. She has a very clean style and a wonderful way of embellishing her designs very simply and effectively.

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

Hello all my name is Tenia Nelson and I am a 43 year old jazz pianist, music teacher and paper crafter who lives in Denver, Colorado. I am married to a great guy named Tim, I am momma to my awesome son Thelonious(Theo) and I have a wonderful doggie "kid" Snowball. When I am not playing everywhere in town, teaching wild and crazy kids, or making cards, I play soccer with the hubby and just hang out with my friends!!

This is Tenia's fabulous challenge card. You can get all the details about it on her blog HERE.

And now for some inspiration from our design team!

Deepti

Greta

Helen 

Ishani

Kate

Nancy

Stephanie 

Bobby

Jenny

Wonderful work from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Now it's your turn to Take Time Out and Craft! This challenge runs until 5 PM GMT Wed 4th of December. Before linking up below, please read 'How to Play' from the sidebar. 

Do note that at Time Out we only allow 5 challenges combined, one of them being ours! 

Thank you and happy crafting!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners #275 Baking/Sweets

Hello friends of Time Out. Welcome back, and we extend a very warm welcome to newcomers to       Time Out Challenges!

We are here to announce the winners of our previous challenge where we had a fun Baking/Sweets theme  for our inspiration. The gallery was full of yummy sweetness! Thanks to everyone who played along! 

Our winner receives $25 store credit to spend in the Lawn Fawn and an invitation to Guest Design with us for a future challenge. Huge thanks to Lawn Fawn for your generosity and continued support of Time Out Challenges! 

Our winner is:

Verena

Congratulations on your win, Verena! We loved your delicious CAS design card with those sweet iced and sprinkled donuts!  

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 Guest Designer for a future challenge. When contacting Stephanie, please let her know if you are interested.

The Honourable Mentions go to these fabulous card makers: 

Kathy A

Birgit

Kanan

Such wonderful and inspiring work from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Ladies, 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 where we are challenged to be COZY is still running for about one week. If you haven't played along yet, this is your reminder to Take Time Out and Craft... And join us HERE! 

Challenge #276 - Cozy

      Hello, friends of Time Out. Welcome back! If you are a newcomer to Time Out Challenges, we extend a very warm welcome to you. We're glad you are here.

We have a new challenge for you starting today where we challenge you to be COZY. There are many ways to go with this one: a cozy room, nook, cottage, comfortable; a cozy relationship between 2 people; a padded cloth to keep a teapot warm; a snuggle, fireplace, blanket...  Where does your imagination take you when you think cozy? What makes you feel cozy? or how do you make someone or something cozy??

Please get cozy in your craft space and create something cozy for the gallery. We can't wait to see what you come up with.

Challenge #276

Our wonderful sponsor, Newton's Nook is generously offering a $25 store credit to the challenge winner as chosen by our design team. Our winner will also be invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

We are joined by Kerry Parkinson of Kerry's Papercraft and winner of Time Out #271 as our Guest Designer for this challenge. Here is a little bit about Kerry's crafting journey in her own words:

"Hi, I’m Kerry Parkinson. I began my crafting journey when my daughters were young and I discovered scrapbooking, then from there progressed to stamping and card making, which I’ve enjoyed now for over 15 years. My style for most of that time would probably be called clean and layered, but in the past few years I’ve been experimenting more with clean and simple, shabby chic and mixed media."

This is Kerry's wonderful take on our "COZY" challenge. 

You can get all the details on Kerry's blog HERE.

And now for some inspiration from the design team!

Bobby

Deepti

Greta

Helen 

Ishani

Jenny

Kate

Nancy

Stephanie 

Wonderful work from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Now it's your turn to Take Time Out and Craft! This challenge runs until 5 PM GMT Wed 20th of November. Before linking up below, please read 'How to Play' from the sidebar. 

Do note that at Time Out we only allow 5 challenges combined, one of them being ours! 

Thank you and happy crafting!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter