Challenge #308

  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 March 18 in celebration of Time Out's 12th birthday!

Time Out Challenges was founded by Nonni Niskanen and Sandie Munro - two good friends who loved to take "time out" to craft and invite people in blogland with the same interest to join them. They launched the first challenge on March 13, 2014. You can view it HERE.

Time Out Challenges has grown and thrived over the years and features a very talented and close-knit Design Team comprised of 10 paper crafters from around the world. Each of our challenges are sponsored by generous craft industry companies. We post a new challenge every other Thursday, with winners and Honorable Mentions announced on the alternating Thursdays. Our winners receive the sponsor’s prize along with an invitation to join our Design Team as a Guest Designer for a future challenge.

Today, we proudly celebrate our 12th birthday with Challenge #308. In recent years, we have chosen a muse to create a card for our designers and participants to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit). This year, we are pleased to welcome Stef Perry of Perry Papercrafts as our muse. Stef has created this beautiful card for our celebration and for us to CASE. Use it as direct inspiration to create your own by reproducing the layout, color scheme, techniques, etc., while adding your own unique changes. Projects can be for any occasion. In your post, please explain how your  project is influenced by Stef's card. 

This enlargement will help you to see Stef's card in more detail.

Waffle Flower Crafts is our generous sponsor offering a $25.00 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.

We are joined by Verena Shapiro of Simple Stamper on Instagram, and winner of Time Out #303 as Guest Designer. Verena is a frequent player at Time Out. She has a wonderful sense of color and design and we are so pleased to have her with us as Guest Designer again. Here is a little bit about Verena's crafting journey in her own words:

"Hi! My name is Verena, and I live in Ottawa, Canada. I originally started paper crafting about 20 years ago, but as a mom of three life got too busy to fully get into it. Now, as I have more time again, I'm fully embracing card challenges as they push me out of my comfort zone and make me look at my stash differently. I tend to lean towards clean and simple cards. Life can be pretty chaotic, and there's just something incredibly calming about clean lines and white space. Thank you everyone at Time Out for the wonderful inspiration you always provide!"

This is Verena's gorgeous Challenge Card. Check out all the details HERE. Do treat yourself to a visit to her Instagram and leave her some love. You can't help but be inspired by her work. 

And now for some inspiration from our design team!

Kate

Nancy

Stephanie 

Bobby

Deepti

Carol Mc 

Helen 

using our sponsor, Waffle Flower - Crocus Flowers stamp set

Ishani

Jaydee

Jenny

Fantastic inspiration from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Now it's your turn to Take Time Out to Craft!

Here are some details to keep in mind (See full list of rules on challenge sidebar):

• Upload your project using the Inlinkz below by 5:00 GMT (London), 12:00 Noon EDT (New York) on Wednesday, March 18th.
• Be sure your link is a direct link to your NEW project, not just a generic link to your blog. No back linking.
• Be sure you are actually following the challenge theme and explain in your post how your project fits the challenge. 
• Per our challenge rules, combining of challenges is limited to a total of 5, including ours. A total of 5 entries per challenge is allowed.

Thank you and happy crafting!