Thursday, 18 September 2014

Winners #13

It is time for us to announce the winners of our 'Inspired by Words' challenge. We had such a wonderful variety of cards. The DT found it difficult to choose the winners! But in the end we managed to narrow it down and here we go...

Top at taking TIME OUT is

#31 Carol


Congratulations Carol! A well deserved win. We'd like to invite you as a guest designer to a future challenge so please contact Nonni at korttikarkuri @gmail.com within a week if you are interested! Here's your badge:



This time the Honourable Mentions (in no particular order) go to:

#27 Island Scraps (Margaret)



Jill V



Congratulations Ladies and here is your badge


You still have time to take part in a current Home Sweet Home challenge and be inspired by this photo:


Need some inspiration??? Our DT are on hand and have created these card to inspire you:









Now it is your turn. Take some TIME OUT to yourself and join in the fun!

Plus we are still running our special challenge here for Bev

Double the Joy!

£20 Uniko Studio voucher to be won!



Monday, 15 September 2014

Surprise! An Extra Challenge at Time Out: "Double the Joy"!

SURPRISE!

You are not mistaken, it's Monday, not Thursday... But you are looking at a TIME OUT Challenge all the same! We have an extra special extra challenge for you to congratulate our extra wonderful DT member Bev! Two weeks ago Bev went to hospital for giving birth to two little beans... And is now a proud mum of twin boys, Josh and Ben! Congratulations to Bev, her husband and the boys! We want to celebrate this special occasion by hosting this extra challenge with the theme

Double the Joy

In other words, use two of something in your creation. We are picking a winner for this challenge with random.org and the winner will get a £20 voucher to Bev's own stamp company 



This challenge will run for a fortnight like our challenges always do so we'll be having two challenges that run simultaneously: this one and the Home Sweet Home Photo Inspiration Challenge that started last Thursday. Double the Joy! ;)

Shall we see how our DT members want to congratulate Bev? I hope we'll inspire you to play along!





Sarah
using stamps by Uniko Studio



using stamps by Uniko Studio


using stamps by Uniko Studio


Now it's your turn to take TIME OUT and celebrate with us! We hope to see our gallery filled with Double the Joy creations before 5 pm BST 29th of September. Don't forget to visit Bev -there's super cute photos of Josh and Ben in her blog here. After having a look of those two... It's time for a crafty TIME OUT!



Thursday, 11 September 2014

Challenge #14 Home Sweet Home


Hi friends and followers of TIME OUT!
I'm super excited about our new challenge: not only do we have a FAB inspiration photo for you but this is also the first challenge with our new, BIG design team! If you missed the introductions of our 4 new members last week, click here.   We enjoyed going through the entries in our previous challenge and are eager to see how our Home Sweet Home photo inspires you this fortnight! 

Our guest designer this week is Christine from Poppaea Cards. I hope you'll give her a warm welcome by visiting her blog and leaving her a comment. We love the CAS design Christine created for us. Play along in our challenges and one day you might be guest designing for us!

With the amazing display of DT cards that we have for you not much words are needed for our photo inspiration this time -let's let the photos speak! 

guest designer







Now it's your turn to take TIME OUT and craft! How does our Home Sweet Home photo inspire you? We'd love to see what you create! The challenge runs until 5 pm BST 24th of September. Please check "How to Play" from the right sidebar before linking up. Most importantly, have fun taking TIME OUT!



Friday, 5 September 2014

Our New Design Team Members!

Today is a very special day here at TIME OUT Challenges as we are here to introduce you to our new Design Team members. All the original team members are still with us but we have 4 new fabulous crafters to introduce to you. All of these new DT members are outstanding designers and we are so happy that they have agreed to join us at TIME OUT Challenges.

Why not grab a cuppa and take some TIME OUT to visit their blogs and say hi!

And here they are:

Anita
Her blog is My Papercraft World


Hello ... bonjour ... I’m Anita in France ... and in blogland, my home is at My Papercraft World.  Like many of us, I’ve crafted in one way or another since I can remember and got seriously into card making nearly two years ago, when I started my blog.  My style is mainly clean and simple ... sometimes quirky, sometimes graphic, occasionally whimsical.  I’m blessed to live in a wonderful part of the world … south west France ... where I spend most of my waking hours working on our long term house renovation project.  I’m thrilled and delighted to be joining such a great group of super talented crafters on the Time Out Design Team ... and am looking forward to seeing how you’re inspired by our fortnightly challenges!

        Elizabeta
Her blog is Elizabeta Kushner


"I live in Croatia. It is a small but beautiful country where scrapbooking and cardmaking are just beginning to become popular. When I am not working, studying or serving in my church, I love to read, meet new people, make cards, work in the garden, or watch movies with my husband."

Her blog is Funky Fossils Designs


SAM_3092

Hi there - I’m Sarah and I am delighted to be joining the talented DT here at Time Out!  I live in Yorkshire and am the mum to two fab boys, aged 9 and 11.  I also work full time so don’t have much spare time but spend every minute I can get playing with my stamps and ink.  I have been crafting for a couple of years but only started blogging this March – it has been great to make lots of friends across the world who share this hobby!  I love CAS designs but also like to get my fingers inky and try out lots of techniques so I guess that my style is still evolving.  I love challenges as a way of sparking my creativity and am on the DT over at A Blog Named Hero too.  I look forward to taking Time Out with you and being inspired by all of your creations!

Shona
Her blog is Twine Around



Hi everybody, my name is Shona and I'm a card-making addict!! I'm also a stay-at-home mum to Phoebe (9yrs) and Max (7yrs) and married to forgetful Dave. We live in a small town called Blenheim in New Zealand. I have 2 golden retrievers, love gardening and I'm very addicted to Peanut M&M's. I only started crafting last year and started my blog in Sept 2013 which has been the most amazing adventure. My style is mainly CAS with more and more stamping creeping in.  I was so surprised and honoured to be asked to join the Time Out Design Team. They are such wonderful women and so creative with their projects. I'm looking forward to hopefully inspiring you for each challenge and visiting your own blogs to see what you create. I'm so excited!!!!


We are so pleased these lovely Ladies have joined our Design Team and their first challenge will be next week so we hope you will note that in your diary and see what they have created for you to inspire you to take that valuable TIME OUT to craft with us!


Thursday, 4 September 2014

Winners #12

It's time to announce the winners of challenge #12 where we CASEd the fabulous Anita! I hope you'll have time to read the whole post today: in addition to the winner and honourable mentions this post has more to it too! So, without further do...

Top at taking TIME OUT is 



Congratulations, Loll! We loved the way you CASEd Anita adding your own personal twists. We'd like to invite you as a guest designer to a future challenge so lease contact Sandie at sandiesandie16 @ gmail. com (without the spaces) within a week if you are interested! Here's your badge:



This time the Honourable Mentions (in no particular order) go to 



and



Congratulations, girls! Here's your badge:


Before showing you some inspiration for our current challenge Inspired by Words "If music be the food of love play on" I want to let you know that there will be some very, very, very exciting news here at TIME OUT Challenge blog tomorrow! Do pay us a visit and you'll understand what I talk about! ;) 

Then to the inspiration cards for the current challenge.











Aren't these cards amazing? I'm sure you'll want to take TIME OUT and join us here! Before starting your crafty TIME OUT this weekend, remember to pop by here tomorrow and you'll hear the latest TIME OUT news! Happy crafting!