TIME OUT Challenges: December 2024

Thursday, 26 December 2024

Winners #278 - Photo Inspiration - Happy Holidays

Hello friends of Time Out. Welcome back, and if you are a newcomer to Time Out, we extend a very warm welcome to you!

We are here to announce the winners of our previous challenge where we were inspired by a fun, festive HAPPY HOLIDAYS photo in celebration of the holidays that are celebrated at this time of your all over the world. We hope your holiday season is warm and wonderful and that 2025 arrives with a sparkle.

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

And now for the big reveal...

Our winner is #41 - Jacinda

Congratulations on your win, Jacinda! We loved your gorgeous Christmas scene with your fabulous foiling and wonderful ink blending!

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 Honorable Mentions go to these fabulous cardmakers:

#9 - Flo

#48 - Cynthia

Such wonderful and inspiring work from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Flo and Cynthia, 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 Design Team Members are taking the rest of December off to enjoy the holidays and our families and friends. Please join us for a new challenge on January 2 to kick off 2025 at Time Out Challenges. Thank you for your support of Time Out, and we hope you will play with us often in the coming months. We have a couple of fun changes to share when next we meet. We wish you a happy and healthy new year! See you in 2025!

Thursday, 12 December 2024

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.

The honourable mentions go to these fabulous cards:

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!

Thursday, 5 December 2024

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!

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!