TIME OUT Challenges: July 2025

Thursday, 17 July 2025

Challenge #293 Inspired By Your Favorite Song

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 July 30. This time it is an Inspired by challenge and we ask you to be

Inspired by Your Favorite song

You could draw inspiration of the song lyrics, song title, main topic of the song, the overall vibe of the song... There are many possibilities. If the way you are inspired by the song you chose is less than obvious, please explain it us in your description, thank you!

Our wonderful sponsor, lawn fawn , is generously offering $25.00 in 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.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge was unable to participate, so we do not have a GD project.

We do have some wonderful inspiration from our Design Team. Here we go!

Nancy

Song: Forever Young by Alphaville

Stephanie

Song: Home Again by Batdorf & Rodney 1971

Bobby

What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong on August 16, 1967.

Deepti

Song: Everything I do, I do it for you by Bryan Adams

Carol Mc

Song: Volare by Domenico Modugno

Helen

Song: Sailing by Rod Stewart

Ishani

Songs : Photograph by Ed Sheeran

Saiyyan by Kailash Kher

Jenny

Songs: Missy Higgins - Sound of White

Nick Cave - Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow

Kate

Song : Fireflies by Owl City

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!

Thursday, 10 July 2025

Winners #291 - 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 #291 where were challenged to be inspired by a gorgeous photo. It is always fun to see what catches the eye of the creator, be it the general theme of the photo, colors, shapes and so many other things. The gallery was full of such a wonderful variety of takes on the photo. Thanks so much to everyone who joined the fun with your creative projects!

Our wonderful sponsor, Frantic Stamper, is offering a prize of a $20.00 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 Fran for her generous support of Time Out.

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

Our Challenge Winner is:

LeAnne Pugliese of weeinklings

Congratulations on your win, LeAnne! We loved your beautiful shell assortment that was colored so beautifully. The dome was such a lovely addition to your design along with the details of the splatters and sequins. 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:

Arlene

Greta

Jaydee

Suzanne

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 travel themed 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.

Thursday, 3 July 2025

Challenge #292

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 July 16. This time it is a Theme challenge: Travel.

Time Out Challenge #292

This one is wide open to interpretation - places to go, places you've been or dreamed of going, adventures to have, methods of travel, books about travel, songs about travel, traveling home... anything travel related.

Our wonderful sponsor, Angie Blom Digital Designs, is generously offering a $20.00 Store Credit as a prize for our Challenge Winner. Angie's designs are all fabulous, and there are some wonderful travel related designs too! We greatly appreciate Angie's sponsorship of this challenge and support of Time Out.

We are joined by Sherri Schmidt, winner of Time Out #287, as our Guest Designer for this challenge. Sherri posts her work on Flickr as Sherrisonline. Even if you are not a Flickr member, you can still view her gallery. Sherri's designs are fun and her style is eclectic. Do treat yourself to a stroll through her gallery for some great inspiration.

Here are a few words from Sherri with regard to her crafting journey:

"Hi! My name is Sherri, and I started making my own Christmas cards 25 years ago, as a cost-saving measure (can you believe it?) after my son was born. I didn’t get into making cards as a hobby until the pandemic, when I realized that cutting and pasting little pieces of paper was just so calming. And then I discovered the online crafting community and so many different techniques to spark my creativity. Thank you, Time Out, for the opportunity to contribute a tiny bit to the crafting community myself."

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

And now for some inspiration from our design team!