Challenge #260 - Striped

Hello Friends of Time Out. Welcome back! If you are new to our challenge, a warm welcome to you! We are so glad to have you with us. We begin a new challenge today in which we challenge you to be striped! Stripes come in many forms and from many places. Stripes are seen in graphic design,  on fabric, on animals, symbols of accomplishments, on candy... the list goes on. Look around you and you will see them! Use your imagination here to play with us. 

Challenge #260

 

Our wonderful sponsor is Lawn Fawn, a huge supporter of Time Out. They are generously offering a $25.00 store credit for our challenge winner who will also receive an invitation to Guest Design with us in a future challenge.

We are joined by Karen Rogers of kareN stampZ and winner of Time Out #256, as Guest Designer. Karen is a very talented designer with great coloring skills. We are so pleased to have her designing with us. Please treat yourself to a stroll through Karen's blog where you are sure to be inspired!

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

"Hi there I'm Karen from New Zealand. I've been stamping and blogging for approximately 15 years. I'm also known as kareN stampZ on social media which is a play on my name and NZ.

In my free time I love to make cards from CAS to dabbling in mixed media. I really enjoy joining in on challenges as it challenges me and it also helps me find my MOJO when it goes missing, plus it means I get to use the pretty stamps I like collecting. 

I also love to cook, eat, drink Pinot Gris and I may be the only kiwi that does not like sauv blanc plus of course spending time with family, friends and the grand kiddies who are both preschoolers."

Here is Karen's gorgeous card. You can see all the details on Karen's blog HERE.

And now for some inspiration from our design team!

Jenny

Kate 

using Lawn Fawn A Little Sparkle and Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Borders

Nancy

Nonni

Stephanie

Bobby

Deepti

Greta

Using sponsor dies Small Stitched Circle Stackables

Helen

 

Gorgeous 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 check out "How to Play" from the sidebar. Please note that we allow linking to 5 challenges in total, including ours. If it is not obvious how the challenge prompt inspired your project, please explain in your post. Entries that do not adhere to these requirements will not qualify for the win. Thanks so much for your cooperation.

 This challenge runs until 5 pm GMT on Wednesday 10th of April. Happy crafting!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners - Time Out #258 - Leap Day

Hello friends of Time Out and a warm welcome to newcomers to Time Out Challenges!

It's time to announce the winners of Time Out #258 - our Leap Day Photo Inspiration Challenge. This was an especially fun one!

There were many wonderful, creative, lovely and humorous projects in the gallery. We had so much fun checking them all out. Just a reminder that if it is not obvious how you were inspired by the photo (in this case), please describe it in your entry post. We had a few entries for which we could not see a correlation between our photo and the project. Please remember to

check out our general guidelines from "How to Play" on the sidebar.

Thank you everyone who played along and took inspiration from the wonderful tree frog photo!

The winner of our challenge wins a $25 gift voucher to Lawn Fawn, our very loyal and generous sponsor. Thanks Lawn Fawn, for your continuous support of Time Out! We appreciate you so much!

And now, for our Winner and Honorable Mentions!

Our Challenge Winner is:

Cornelia Wenokor of Stempel Spass

Congratulations, Cornelia! We loved your take on the challenge, and as is so often the case, we got some great belly laughs out of your entries. 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.

Honorable Mentions are awarded to:

Jane Taylor of Purplejetjt

Cat Craig of Cat Loves Paper

AND

Christine of Chrilous

Thank you for playing with us Jane, Cat and Christine for sharing your wonderful creations in the gallery! 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 a first time collaboration challenge with Just Us Girls. You can find all the details HERE. Please note that we allow linking to a total of five challenges including our to be considered for the win. Please check the sidebar on our challenge blog for all of the guidelines. If you haven't played along yet, now is the time to take Time Out and craft! Come play with us!

Challenge #259 - Special Collaboration Challenge with JUGS - Birds of a Feather

Hello Friends of Time Out, welcome back.

Our new challenge is a a special collaboration challenge with Just Us Girls Challenge Blog!

By entering the linky tool below you will automatically also join Just Us Girls Challenge, woot woot! 

Your project will gain twice the visibility... You will double your chances to be chosen as a design team favorite and your project may be showcased in one of the challenge blogs... Or in both! Whether you join from Time Out or from Just Us Girls, you have a chance to win $25.00 store credit to Waffle Flower Crafts. 

The challenge theme is:

Birds of a Feather 

So both birds and feathers will work as well as a "birds" referring to ladies too! :)

Before linking up below, make sure to head on over to Just Us Girls Challenge blog to check out their DT inspiration... And do add a comment saying you are coming from Time Out! 

Here's what Bobby, our mutual DT member tells us about Just Us Girls Challenge Blog: 

"We are a weekly challenge with a theme rotation: color, word, mood board and stencil. We have made some changes for 2024  including going live on Thursday which enabled us to collaborate with Time Out for our Word Week - Birds. "

We are joined by Jolanda Johnson of The Inquespot Studio, and winner of Time Out #255 as our Guest Designer.

Jolanda is a very talented designer who frequently plays at Time Out. We ask our Guest designers to tell us a litte bit abut themselves and their crafting journey so that we can share with our participants. Here is what Jolanda had to say:

"Hi, my name is Jolanda and I live in South Carolina.  Originally from Ontario, Canada and happily retired and very happy to have the time to pursue my cardmaking hobby every day.  I have been stamping for most of my adult life and was happy to find Stampin’ Up! when we re-settled.

Along the way, I discovered card challenges and found it a great way to share my creativity.  I love combining challenges.  A layout from here, colors from there, and a theme from yonder. It is exciting to see what develops.  I am such a fan!

What fun to be asked to be a Guest Designer with Time Out.  Cheers!"

And this is Jolanda's Challenge card:

Click HERE to get all the details on Jolanda's blog.

And now for some inspiration from our design team!

Ishani

Jenny

Kate

Nancy

Nonni

Using sponsor's Tropical Kit die set, Pop Up Tropical Leaves Texture die , Duo-Tone Tropical Leaves stencil set and sentiment from Sunflower Love

Stephanie

Using sponsor's Little Birdie Die and Little Birdie Sentiments.

Bobby

Deepti

Greta

Helen 

Gorgeous 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 check out How to Play from the sidebar. 

Because this is a special collaboration challenge combining two challenge blogs with different rules, our regular rule of max 5 challenge combined (with one of them being ours) is not used in this challenge. This time feel free to combine your Time Out entry with as many challenges as you wish... But only in this collaboration challenge! We'll continue with our regular max 5 rule again from next challenge onwards. Thank you for your consideration! 

 This challenge runs until 5 pm GMT on Wednesday 27th of March. Happy crafting!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winners - Time Out #257 - Time Out's 10th Birthday

Hello friends of Time Out!

We are here to announce the 11 winners of Time Out's 10th birthday challenge, woot woot! We'll have one winner chosen by our design team and 10 additional winners, drawn with random.org. From the challenge badge below you can be reminded of all of the amazing companies joining in the fun and offering prizes. We absolutely enjoyed all the beautiful entries and I'm sure our sponsors did too. A big thank you to all the amazing sponsors! 

We'll begin with the winner as chosen by the design team:

158 - Milla

Congratulations, Milla! You have won a $25 store credit at  Lawn Fawn. Our DT loved your beautiful coloring and CAS look of the card. It really makes the beautiful Altenew flowers pop. 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.

Winners chosen with random.org

How to claim your prize if you are a randomly drawn winner:

Contact Stephanie at slan(dot)zal(at)verizon(dot)net within one week with "RANDOM TO WINNER COMPANY NAME" in the subject field for details on how to claim your prize. So if you have won a prize from Lawn Fawn for example, your subject field will say "RANDOM TO WINNER LAWN FAWN". 

Now, let's see whose beautiful cards we get to showcase and what everyone has won! 

#7 - Michele

Michelle wins a $20 coupon to Altenew

Michelle happened to use a stunning bloom by Altenew and Altenew watercolors too so this prize is very fitting! Very beautiful coloring, Michele!

#102 - Heather

Heather wins a $20 coupon to Birch Press Design

Heather went back to 2014 for her inspiration and we love that!! Such a fun card with lots of movement! 

#148 - Lesley

Lesley wins a $25 coupon to Doodlebugs

Beautiful coloring of the mermaid and wow that background looks magical!

#79 - Jennifer K

Jennifer wins a $25 coupon to Gina K Designs

We love the monochrome look and the stunning sentiment. Very cute card!

#157 - Susan

Susan wins a $25 coupon to Lawn Fawn

Wow! Susan went through a lot of work finding, printing and cutting all these Lego themed images, great job! 

#133 - Susan Sudbury

Susan wins a $25 coupon to Newton's Nook

We love the monochrome black and white look, this card gives beautiful art deco feels! 

#109 - Kathy K

Kathy wins a $25 coupon to Picket Fence Studios. 

Kathy's card is perfectly CAS and the pink and yellow flowers look very joyous and fun! 

#120 - Beverly

Beverly wins a $25 coupon to Topflight Stamps.

What an unique card with the year of the dragon theme. We love the blue and gold combo! 

#35 - SmilynStef

Stephanie wins a £25 coupon to Uniko 

This CAS card is so stylish -the mixed media hexagons just pop!! 

#62 - mvenginikal

She wins a $25 voucher to Varada Sharma

Beautiful details yet such a clean look, a great birthday card! 

Congratulations Milla and all 10 randomly chosen winners. This has certainly been very festive and fun! It's not every day we get to showcase 11 beautiful cards from our players. 

Before we go, we want to remind you of our current challenge, still running for about a week. We are celebrating Leap Day with a fun frog photo -click HERE for all the challenge details. Then it's your turn to Take Time Out and Craft!