Winners - Time Out #254

 Hello, friends of Time Out!

It's time to announce the winners of Challenge #254, where we were challenged to be "NEW".

There were so many ways to go with that theme: new year, new baby, new craft supplies, new spouse, new home... the possibilities were endless, and we had some very creative takes. 

Our challenge winner as chosen by the Design Team will receive a $20.00 store credit from our wonderful sponsor Gina K, Designs. Our winner will also be invited to Guest Design at Time Out for a future challenge. 

Thanks to all who participated in this challenge. The gallery was full of fabulous creations, and choosing the winner and honorable mentions was not an easy task. Be that as it may, I is time to reveal our Challenge Winner and Honorable Mentions.

Drum roll please........

Our winner is:

#90 - Tenia

Congratulations, Tenia!! You made such a fabulous card with your new stamp set. Love the graphic and CAS design and your color scheme. 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.

Our three Honorable Mentions are awarded to:

#51 - Kellianne

#71 - Vicki

#95 - Betty

Thank you for playing with us Kellianne, Vicki and Betty, 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. The challenge is to use the words in the quote on our badge as your inspiration for creating your card. We allow linking to a total of five challenges including our to be considered for the win. If you haven't played along yet, now is the time to take Time Out and craft! Come play with us!

Challenge 255 - Inspired by Words

Hello Friends of Time Out. Welcome back! We are here with a brand new challenge and a brand new sponsor today. Let's get to it!

Challenge #255 is an Inspired By Words challenge. Our inspiration today is a beautiful haiku poem by Matsuo Basho, one of the most famous Zen poets of Japan, who alerts us to the neglected beauty and interest of everyday life. His poem is entitled Winter Solitude.

Winter solitude - 

in a world of one colour

the sound of wind.

Matsuo Basho

 

Our wonderful new sponsor is Stamp Simply, owned and operated by Sharon Johnson. The Stamp Simply Store is one stop shop for beautiful papers, ribbon, stamps, embellishments and supplies enabling you to simply create cards, altered items and scrapbook pages. Sharon is generously offering a $25.00 store credit to our winner as chosen by our Design Team.

We are joined by Fran Wing of FranmadeInOregon, and winner of Time Out #252 as Guest Designer. This is her wonderful card:

Click HERE to get to Fran's blog post where you can get all the details about Fran's wonderful card. While you're at it, take a leisurely stroll through her blog. Fran is a very talented card maker, and you are sure to be inspired by her creations.

And now for some inspiration from our Design Team!

Helen 

Gerrina

Greta - Using Tim Holtz Tree Line die from sponsor store.

Jenny

Kate

Nancy

Nonni

Stephanie 

- Using Sponsor Stamps Snowflake Blessings Border Strip

Bobby

Deepti

Ishani

Fabulous inspiration from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Now it's your time to Take Time Out and Craft! This challenge runs until 5 pm GMT Wed 31st of January. Before linking up below, please check out How to Play from our sidebar. 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

Reminder Post for our current challenge 'NEW'

For current challenge, scroll down or click HERE

Hello everyone!

Because of our Christmas break we do not have winners to announce today. The last winners of 2023 were announced already some weeks ago... So we are here with a little reminder post for our current challenge!

We challenge you to be NEW for still about one week. You can use new supplies... Or make a card with a theme like New Year, New Baby, New Home... Many possibilities! The linky is open until 5 pm GMT Wed 17th of January. 

Some of our DT members have made cards for additional inspiration. Make sure to visit their blogs to find out what's NEW! :) 

Nonni 

Kate

Stephanie

Greta

                                Using sponsor stamp Autumn Wreath Builder

Ready to take Time Out and Craft? Link up to our current challenge HERE. 

See you again next Thursday! 

Challenge 254 - New + Introducing New Design Team Members

 Hello Friends of Time Out,

Welcome back after our short end of year break! We are here with our NEW challenge -where we challenge you to be NEW- and with our NEW DT members! :) We are sadly saying goodbye to our good friend Elizabeth who has been a fantastic addition to the team... But who we will now keep meeting around blogland in other circles. Thank you for all you have done for Time Out, Elizabeth!

We have two wonderful ladies joining us:

Greta 

from GG Card Creations

and

Helen 

from Moments of Crafting

Both Greta and Helen have been regular players and long time supporters of Time Out for several years already. Their amazing work is surely familiar to most of you not only from their own blogs but from many challenges too... and now we couldn't be happier that they are part of the Time Out Design Team! We look forward creating alongside Greta and Helen and being inspired by their talent. 

Now, the challenge... Very appropriately for the New Year and with the new DT members and all... We also challenge you to be NEW. You could use new products, play with a new technique, work around the theme New (like New baby or New Year)... Many possibilities here! 

Our wonderful sponsor is Gina K. They're generously offering a $25.00 store credit which must be used within 90 days.

We are joined by Cynthia Olheiser of Stampin' In Alaska and winner of Time Out #251 as Guest Designer. Cynthia is a very talented crafter and frequent player at Time Out. Here is a little bit about Cynthia in her own words:

"Hi! My name is Cynthia and I live in Anchorage, Alaska. I have been crafting since I was young to include knitting, sewing and macramé. I started my paper crafting journey with scrapbooking then turned to cards. I enjoy trying different stamping techniques but I would say my style is mostly clean and simple.

Thank you to Time Out for the opportunity to share my inspiration with you this week."

You can view and get the details about Cynthia's card on her blog HERE.

And now for some inspiration from our design team!

Bobby

Deepti

Gerrina

Greta

Using sponsor stamp Holiday Tapestry

Helen 

Ishani

Jenny

Kate

Nancy

Using sponsor stamp Doodle Snowflakes

Nonni

Using sponsor die Fancy Feathers 

Stephanie

Fabulous inspiration from everyone, I'm sure you agree! Now it's your time to Take Time Out and Craft! This challenge runs until 5 pm GMT Wed 17th of January. Before linking up below, please check out How to Play from our sidebar. 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