Challenge #26 and our 1st Birthday!

We are celebrating our 1st Birthday today!!

When Nonni and I started to chat about starting our own challenge we had no idea if it would work but here we are one year later and we are still around and having fun! We want to thank you all for supporting us, with out you we would not be here. This last year has been so much fun and we have loved being inspired by all your wonderful cards. We would also like to thank our amazing Design Team who have all worked so hard to make our little challenge grow!

For this challenge we have this photo to inspire you.

 All our photo challenges are based around interior designs and this collection of brightly coloured frames would look great in any home. You may be inspired by the frames, the colours, the wood grain panels, the branch-just any thing that you spot that makes you want to create.

Our Guest Designer this week is Mandi.

 Her blog Faith Hope and Crafts is full if inspiring and creative projects. Take a look here and I am sure you will come away ready to craft!

As it is our Birthday Challenge we have some prizes!

And our very own DT members Shery and Beverley have both very generously offered these prizes for this challenge.

-The winner chosen by our DT will get a $15 STAMPlorartions Gift Voucher and a £15 Uniko Gift Voucher 

-A randomly chosen winner will get a Celebration/Birthday stencil pack from STAMPlorations

And now for some inspiration from our DT and Guest Designer:

Mandi-our Guest Designer.

Lynn



Anita



Bev
using Uniko Stamps



Sarah




Sandie

using Uniko Stamps

Shona

Gerrina

Nonni

using STAMPlorations stamps

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Shery

using STAMPlorations stamps

Now kick back and please take some TIME OUT and celebrate our 1st Birthday!

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Winners #24

Hi friends of TIME OUT!

It's time to announce the winners of our challenge #24 where we CASEd the wonderful Kylie. 

Top at taking TIME OUT is

Susanne V.

Congratulations! We'd like to invite you to guest design in a future challenge. Please contact Sandie at sandiesandie16@gmail.com within a week if you are interested!

This time the honourable mentions go to 

Claire A.

and

Heather

Congratulations ladies, you all did marvelous work!

I'd also like to remind you of our current Inspired by Words challenge "Rock Around the Clock"which is running here . If you haven't played along yet, here's some DT cards for your inspiration! Enjoy and then... Take some TIME OUT and craft! :)

Hazel

guest designer

Sandie

Sarah

Anita

Shona

Gerrina

Challenge #25: "Rock Around the Clock"

Hi all friends of TIME OUT!
Thank you everyone who CASEd Kylie with us in our previous challenge! Remember to check our blog again next Thursday to see if you won or got honourable mentions.

The next fortnight we are

Inspired by Words

"Rock Around the Clock"

You can be inspired by the whole phrase or choose just one words/some words for your starting point.

Let's see what our talented guest designer Hazel from Hazel's Paper Designs and our regular DT members have created for your inspiration. Remember that you could become our guest designer too by simply playing along!

 Hazel

Sarah

Lynn

Sandie

Shona

Anita

Bev

Nonni

Gerrina

Elizabeta

Stunning work from everyone, I'm sure you agree! Now it's your turn to take a crafty TIME OUT and join us. We are pretty relaxed here at TO but please check out "How to Play" from the sidebar before adding your card. This challenge runs until Wed 4th of March 5 pm GMT. We can't wait to see your interpretations of "Rock Around the Clock"!

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Winners #23

Hello to all our TIME OUT friends,

There has been a lot of love in blogland recently and we are so pleased you shared some of it with us!

Time for us to announce the winners of our Valentines challenge.

First up we have 2 randomly chosen winners:

We have a $15 STAMPlorations gift voucher for twisting along with us and adding hearts to their project. This is for:

#26 Harriet Skelly

And next up we have 2 stencil packs from STAMPlorations for commenting on their blog. Here is our lucky winner:

Suchi

I card everyone-Michele

Please contact Shery at sheryruss@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Our DT have chosen our winner for this challenge:

Mandi M

Congratulations Mandi! Below is your winner's badge. We'd like to invite you to be our guest designer in a future challenge. Please contact Sandie at sandiesandie16@gmail.com within one week if you'd like to join us! 

Our honourable mentions are:

Krisite



Kamila

Jacqui

Congratulations and here is your badge:

Our CASE challenge is still going on, check out the details here and  now for some
inspiration from our DT and our Guest Designer Sarah

Sarah

Lynn

Sarah



Shona



Anita

Sandie

Now it is your time to take some TIME OUT and craft with us x

Challenge #24

Time for us to take some TIME OUT together and get some crafting in.

This week we have our CASE challenge. CASE means we take inspiration from another crafter's card and add our own little twist. 

This week we are CASEing the wonderful Kylie. Kylie is an amazingly talented crafter and her blog Kylie is Addicted to Stamps and More is full of such creative gems-take a browse and you will come away inspired! Kylie also owns 2 very popular challenge sites:

Addicted to CAS

Addicted to Stamps and More

And there is more-she also now designing customised water marks and more.

So you can she why we are so excited to have such a talented crafter to CASE this week.

Lets meet Kylie



For those of you who don't know me, my name is Kylie and I am a craft and blog addict. Now that my confession is out of the way, here is a little about myself. I started cardmaking and blogging in 2012 and love every minute of it. Three months after I started blogging (Kylie is Addicted to Stamps), I decided that I needed to create my own challenge blog so Addicted to Stamps and More was born. I have met so many wonderful people through that venture and formed friendships that will last a lifetime. After making cards for a few months, I came to the realisation that Clean and Simple is my style. Why not create another challenge dedicated to CAS? So I did - Addicted to CAS ;) A few months ago, I felt the need to expand again so I created a craft forum called Happy Little Stampers - a place to chat, share and inspire fellow crafters. I love being part of the craft community. I have now started up my own little design business creating watermarks, blog signatures and blog headers. My most recent creations were revamping the look of the Inkspirational blog. I had so much fun doing this! Please email on kyliepurtell@gmail.com if you would like to know a little more about this - you can see my designs here and testimonials from past clients here The first 5 customers for 2015 will receive a 10% discount of the total invoice! Happy New Year!

Here is Kylie's card we are CASEing today-remember to add your own little twist:

Isn't this a wonder! So much to inspire you here-flowers, scoring, tags are just a few examples.

Today our Guest Designer is Sarah.

Many of you will know her but if you don't check out her blog Sazzle Dazzle Crafts, it is full of the most beautiful CAS cards, we are so pleased Sarah has joined us for this challenge.

Now it is time for our inspiration cards:

Sarah

Shona

Bev

Nonni

Sarah

Lynn

Sandie

Anita

Gerrina

Lisa

Elizabeta

It is your turn now to kick back and take some TIME OUT and craft with us:

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