Challenge 221 - Festive

 Welcome friends!  

We have a new challenge for you today - 

We challenge you to be inspired by the word/theme FESTIVE! 

 Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is Birch Press Designs!

 

 

 

 

 

Our Guest Designer is Gail Gross of Greetings From Gail, winner of Time Out Challenge #218. Gail is a talented and prolific card maker with an eclectic style. Treat yourself to a stroll through her blog, and you are sure to be inspired.

Gail tells us a little bit about herself and her craft below:

 "I started stamping about 25 years ago.  At the time, I was homeschooling our two sons and was invited by another homeschool mom to attend a party for one of the stamping companies on the weekend.  It was great - it was my "time out" from the kids as my husband was home to watch them.  I had fun creating cards as gifts and using stamping in our art classes for design and coloring.  I really love all aspects of paper crafting, but really love teaching others, which I am fortunate to do on a regular basis.  I rely on challenge blogs like Time Out to stretch my design skills and try something different."

Here is Gail's fabulous, festive card:

 

Here's some inspiration from our design team:

Joyce

Kim

 Nancy

Nonni

 

Shauna

Stephanie

Gerrina

Jill

Ishani

 

 You have until 5pm BST on September 7th to join!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners #219

 You can find out current challenge HERE

We are here today to announce the winner of Time Out Challenge 219 - Photo Inspiration!

Thank you to all those who played!

Our fabulous sponsor Varada Sharma gave us not only one but TWO $15 coupons to give away so we have two prize winners this time! Thank you so much Varada for your generosity. 

Our randomly chosen winner  is 

Hilary

Congratulations Hilary! You can contact Joyce at  joyce.mehrberg@gmail.com with the subject line 'TO WINNER' within one week for your prize. 

Our next winner, chosen by the DT is 

Fran 

Congratulations, this is one over the top gorgeous card! 

Please contact Stephanie at slan.zal@verizon.net within one week with the title "TO GUEST DESIGNER" if you'd like to join us as a guest designer in a future challenge. You can contact Joyce at  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!

Vicki

Cat

Karen

Congratulations!

Here is the badge for your blog:

Don't forget to play in our current challenge! 

Current challenge HERE.

Make Your Own Background

Challenge 220 - Make Your Own Background

Hello Crafty Friends! 

Time for a new challenge at Time Out!

Challenge #220 - Make Your Own Background 

Our sponsor  is STAMPlorations and the prize is a $25 Gift Certificate

We are so excited to have Hannelie Bester of Desert Diva and winner of Challenge #217 as our Guest Designer for this challenge. Hannelie's work is just wonderful, and a delight to behold. If you haven't already, take a stroll through Hannelie's blog and you are sure to be wowed and inspired.

Here is a bit about Hannelie in her own words:

"Hi, my name is Hannelie Bester, I am a South-African living in the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) for the last 14 years. We moved to the UAE because of a job opportunity that was offered to my husband.

I’ve been making cards for many years, but I started blogging soon after we moved here... hence the title of my blog!

Living so far away from my loved ones, made me realize just how much I love them. Card making helps me cope with being far away from home, and challenges my right brain, since I am a left-brained, logical and analytical pharmacist at heart. 

Clean, simple & graphic would be a good description of my card making style."

Here is Hannelie's fabulous card:

Here's some inspiration from our design team!

Jill

Joyce

Using sponsor stencil Almost Shattered and Birthday Word Die

Kim

 Nancy

using sponsor stencil Trees

Nonni

Shauna

Using sponsor products X Marks the Spot stencil and Bloomfully: Faith stamp set. 

 

Stephanie

Gerrina

using sponsor stamp  Blossom Spray #3 and stencil Bubble dance

Ishani

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners #218

 Hello friends of Time Out!

Current challenge HERE

We are here to announce the winners of our previous challenge where we were inspired by a fun literary quote. This challenge was sponsored by Newton's Nook with a generous $25 coupon for our "Top at Taking Time Out" winner! Thank you so much Newton's Nook!

Top at Taking Time Out is

Gail

Congratulations Gail, we loved your card, perfect for the challenge! You can contact Joyce at joyce.mehrberg@gmail.com with the subject line 'TO WINNER' within one week for your prize. Also, please contact Stephanie at slan.zal@verizon.net within one week with the subject line "TO GUEST DESIGNER" if you'd like to join us as a guest designer in a future challenge.

Here's your badge for your blog:

Our honourable mentions go to these talented ladies:

Cornelia

I hope you'll visit Samantha P at Flickr and Meghan K at Instagram for checking out their amazing cards  -unfortunately we are unable to add their card photos here from the galleries. 

Here's your badge!

Our current photo inspiration challenge is still running for about one week. If you haven't joined in yet, now it's your turn to Take Time Out and craft!