Challenge #297

 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 September 24. This time it is an Inspired By Challenge and it is... Inspired by 

Your Favorite Season

Our wonderful sponsor, Waffle Flower Crafts is generously offering a $25 store credit as a 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 Darnell Knauss of djkardkreations, and winner of Time Out #292 as Guest Designer. Darnell is well known in our crafting community as a wonderful card maker, but also for her wit, her stories, her kindness and her encouragement for all of us to use our NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff. If you don't know Darnell, do check out her blog and get ready to be inspired and have a belly laugh or two. Here's a little bit about Darnell in her own words:

"I have been stamping and making cards since 2002, thanks to that one time I tagged along with a friend to a Stampin' Up party! I've been married 54 years to Kevin, known affectionately as "The Mister." (Yes, I'm old. Some people prefer to use the word 'mature,' but I prefer to be immature!) For instance, I'm delighted to have two imaginary hamsters named Hammy and Stanley who help me with my crafting! Card-making and blogging are wonderful hobbies which have brought me noodles of friends and pen pals from all over the world! Besides my blog, I run the NBUS Challenge where I challenge you (and myself) to use our never-before-used-schtuff and I'm so gratified that it is supported and loved by many."

This is Darnell's wonderful Challenge Card. Check out all the details HERE. 

And now for some inspiration from our design team!

Carol Mc 

Helen 

Jenny

Kate

Nancy

Nonni

Coming Soon

Stephanie

Bobby

Ishani

Deepti

Coming Soon

Fantastic inspiration from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Now it's your turn to Take Time Out to Craft! Before linking up below, please read How to Play from the sidebar. Do note that at Time Out we only allow five 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 #295 - 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 to announce the winners of Challenge 295 which was a photo inspiration challenge. It's always fun to see the different ways crafters interpret a photo, and this one was no different. There were many wonderful cards inspired by different elements of the photo from coffee, to pastry to the sea to blues and browns and more. As always, it was tough to pick the winner! Thanks so much to everyone who joined in the fun with your creative projects! 

Our wonderful sponsor, lawn fawn, has offered a prize of a $25.00 store credit to our Challenge Winner, who will also get an invitation to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

Our winner is:

Jaydee

Congratulations on your win, Jaydee! We absolutely loved your wonderful take on our inspiration photo. Such a fun, clean design, great background and wonderful sentiment. 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. We'd love to have you!

The Honorable Mentions go to these fabulous card makers in order of entry:

Inkami

Heather

Such wonderful and inspiring work from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Crafters, 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 Theme challenge: Friendship, Encouragement, Support is still running for about one week. If you haven't already played, we encourage you to take some Time Out to craft and play with us. We look forward seeing your projects in the gallery! You can read all challenge details and link your project HERE.

Challenge #296

  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 September 10. This time it is a Theme challenge: Friendship, Encouragement, Support

In earlier years of our challenge, this was a Breast Cancer Support theme. Later on we wanted to expand it to include support for any struggle that our friends and other loved ones are going through and how handmade kindness can be such a powerful aid to anyone going through a tough time for any reason.

Challenge #296

Our wonderful sponsor, Claire Brennan Designs, has generously offered this fabulous stamp set as a 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 LeAnne Pugliese of weeinklings, and winner of Time Out #291 as Guest Designer. We are so excited to have LeAnne with us. Her designs are so inspiring. Do treat yourself to a stroll through her BLOG to get your creative juices flowing!

Here's a little bit about LeAnne in her own words:

"I am thrilled to be asked to Guest Design at Time Out this week!  I discovered stamping and card-making over twenty years ago, but I think crafty blood has been flowing in my veins from a very young age!  I love that stamping allows me to send encouraging messages to my family and friends. Besides stamping, I like cross stitch and knitting, and occasionally, I drag out my sewing machine to create something!  Again, thanks to Stephanie and the Time Out team for asking me to design with them this week!"

This is LeAnne's wonderful Challenge Card. Check out all the details HERE.

And now for some inspiration from our design team!

Bobby

Deepti

Carol Mc 

Helen 

Ishani

Jenny

Kate

using sentiment from Claire Brennan Designs Mid Mod City Stamp Set

Nancy

Stephanie

Fantastic inspiration from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Now it's your turn to Take Time Out to Craft! Before linking up below, please read How to Play from the sidebar. Do note that at Time Out we only allow five 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 #294 Pick Two

 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 Challenge 294 where we were challenged to use at least 2 of the inspiration words provided. There were many great cards and as always, it was hard to pick the winner! Thanks so much to everyone who joined in the fun with your creative projects! 

Our wonderful sponsor, Newton's Nook, has offered a prize of a $25.00 store credit to our Challenge Winner, who will also get an invitation to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

Our winner is:

Verena

Congratulations on your win, Verena! We absolutely loved your contemporary card desgn and how you incorporated stars and stripes to your card! Such a fun design with wonderful color palette. 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. We'd love to have you!

The Honorable Mentions go to these fabulous card makers:

Kerry P

Heather

Jaydee

Such wonderful and inspiring work from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Crafters, 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 photo inspiration challenge is still running for about one week. If you haven't already played, we encourage you to take some Time Out to craft and play with us. We look forward seeing your projects in the gallery! You can read all challenge details and link your project HERE.

Challenge #295 - Photo Inspiration

  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 to August 27.  This time it is a Photo Inspiration challenge.  You can draw inspiration of various aspects of the photo: The coffee or seaside theme, water, boats, sky, clouds... Or the blue-brown color palette of the photo. Plenty of options! 

This enlargement will help you to see some detail:

Photo credit: Jenny Martin,  Queenscliff Harbour, Victoria, Australia - July 2024

Our wonderful sponsor, lawn fawn, is generously offering a $25 store credit as a prize to our Challenge Winner as chosen by the Design Team.  Our winner will also get invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

We are joined by Kathy Schweinfurth of Stamps at Play, and winner of Time Out #290 as Guest Designer. Kathy is such a talented card maker. Her designs are wonderful, colorful and she really rocks her backgrounds. Do take a stroll through her blog for lots of inspiration!

Here is a little bit about Kathy's crafting journey in her own words: 

"I've been card making for over 25 years.  While I've been crafting since a child, card making is by far my passion!  Over the years, I've been blessed to be on several design teams which has been such an honor.  There's nothing more relaxing to me than spending time in my craft room creating.   Thanks so much to Time Out Challenges for having me as their Guest Designer!  I hope you'll play along with us!"

and now for Kathy's fabulous card.

Check out all the details HERE.

And now for some inspiration from our design team!

Stephanie 

Bobby

Deepti

Carol Mc 

Helen 

Ishani

Kate

Fantastic inspiration by everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Now it's your turn to Take Time Out and Craft! Before linking up below, please read How to Play from the sidebar. Do note that at Time Out we only allow five 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 #293 - Inspired By Your Favorite Song

 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 Challenge #293 where were challenged to be inspired by our favorite song. In reality, most people don't have one favorite song! There were many great cards in lots of different categories of song. It was especially wonderful to read the posts of those who told the story of why they made the choice of the song that their project was inspired by. Thanks so much to everyone who joined in the fun with your creative projects! 

Our wonderful sponsor, lawn fawn, has offered a prize of a $25.00 store credit to our Challenge Winner, who will also get an invitation to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

Huge thanks to lawn fawn for their continued, generous support of Time Out. 

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

Our Challenge Winner is:

Jaydee of Stampin! with Jaydee

Congratulations on your win, Jaydee! We absolutely loved your daring dancin' figgy pudding. She is just too cute, and your attention to detail on your card is just wonderful - the lightly stenciled background, the splatters, the shading, the multicolored holly berries... and as much as we loved your card, we loved your post equally. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughtful musical musings and for describing how you chose the song that inspired your creation. 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. We'd love to have you!

The Honorable Mentions go to these fabulous card makers in order of entry:

#10 Bonnie Klass

 #15 Marlena

#48 Sheri

Such wonderful and inspiring work from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Crafters, 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 "Pick 2" challenge is still running for about one week. If you haven't already played, we encourage you to take some Time Out to craft and play with us. We look forward seeing your projects in the gallery! You can read all challenge details and link your project HERE.