Time Out's 3rd Birthday Party!

Hello All,

You ready to party?

We hope so because today we are 3 years old!

Yes, you did hear right. We have been taking TIME OUT to craft with you all for 3 years now.

We have had a lot of fun and hope you have too. We want to thank you all for your support for TIME OUT. Without you, we would not be here. It has been a blast visiting your blogs and seeing the amazing creativity within our community. Each and every challenge we are astounded by every entry.

A huge thank you must also go to our present and past Design Team members, many of whom have been with us since day one. Nonni and I thank you all so much for your support, hard work and continual inspiration. We feel blessed to have such an amazing team to craft with.

We want to spread our love and friendship for you all and so the challenge theme for our Birthday is:

Love and/or Friendship with the optional twist of 'spotlight stamping' where you add colour only to one raised area of your image

As we are having a bit of a party we have quite a few prizes up for grabs. We will have prizes for all our winners chosen by the DT, plus prizes for 3 randomly selected winners from those who twists with us....so get those colouring skills brushed off!

We have all these fabulous sponsors offering up super prizes:

Plus the following sponsors are celebrating with us on their blogs-click on the links below to check out their parties:

Happy Little Stampers
STAMPlorations

Uniko
Verve

Here is a list of the prizes that you could win:

-The stamp set below and the stitched pocket die to match from STAMPlorations:



-An 'in stock' stamp set of your choice from Uniko
-$20 gift voucher from Serendipity Stamps
-a stamp set of your choice from Verve
-$20 gift voucher from CAS-ual Friday Stamps
- a $20 gift voucher from Birch Tree Designs
-a $15 gift voucher from Happy Little Stampers.

I said it was a party!!

We are over the moon that our Guest Designer for this challenge is one of the creative stars in our community, Ardyth.

I am sure most of you know Ardyth but if not I urge you to visit her blog MASKerade. Her clean, graphic and bold style will astound you, I guarantee. Plus she is now experimenting more with water colours and, wouldn't you know, she is rocking this style too! We are so lucky to have such a super star joining us for our 3rd Birthday.

Lets see what Arydth and the DT have made to inspire us:

Ardyth

Stephanie

Joyce

Sandie

Anita




Lisa



Jill



Gerrina



Fabulous DT examples, right? Now it's your turn to jump in the 3rd birthday festivities, take TIME OUT and craft! The challenge runs until Wed 15th of March 5 pm GMT. Happy crafting!

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An InLinkz Link-up

Current Challenge Reminder

Hi friends of TIME OUT!

We are here with a second round of DT cards for our current challenge, a Home Sweet Home Photo Inspiration! Our DT has been playing with fun stamps by STAMPlorations, our sponsor -we have 2 prizes for grabs! All the challenge details, prize info and the linky for your cards HERE/ scroll down.

KandA

Guest Designer

Lynn

using Shery Russ Designs Trendy Birds by STAMPlorations

Jenny

using The Bees Knees Houses by STAMPlorations

Shona

using Dee's Artsy Impressions Party Mates by STAMPlorations

Joyce

using Shery Russ Designs Big Bloom Factory by STAMPlorations

Nonni

using Dee's Artsy Impressions Party Mates by STAMPlorations

Shery

using Shery Russ Designs Trendy Birds 2 and Shery Russ Designs Big Bloom Factory by STAMPlorations

Lisa

Shery Russ Designs Trendy Birds by STAMPlorations

Now it's your turn to take TIME OUT and craft if you haven't already! We hope to see you playing along! 

Winners Challenge #76

Hi friends of TIME OUT!

We are here to announce the winner and honourable mentions of our previous challenge, Inspired by Words 

'Friends are connected heart to heart, distance and time can't break them apart'

We want to thank our sponsor, CAS-ual Fridays Stamps, for offering a 25 $ gift voucher for our winner. Without further do, 

Top at Taking Time Out is

Izzy Scrap

Congratulations Isabelle from Izzy Scrap! We loved the soft, artistic look of your card. Please contact Nonni at nonniscards @ gmail. com (without the spaces) within one week for information how to redeem your prize. We'd also like yo invite you to guest design in a future challenge. Here's our badge for your blog:

This challenge was very, very popular and we had so beautiful entries... We simply have to give several Honourable Mentions! Thank you everyone for playing along!  

Conil

Jasleen

Melissa

Rosi

Deb

Sonja K

Well done ladies, we loved your cards! Here's out badge for your blogs:

Congratulations to everyone again. Please come back tomorrow for some DT inspiration for our current challenge! 

Challenge #77

Hi friends of TIME OUT!

Thank you everyone who played along in our previous challenge, Inspired by Words. Don't forget to come back next Wednesday to see if you are one of the winners! 

Now it's time for one of our popular Home Sweet Home Photo Inspirations. We are inspired by home decor in these challenges... And this time only one amazing wall has enough to inspire us!

There's so so so SO many possibilities to be inspired here! Let's see... The colors, the patterns and shapes, the houses, trees, clouds, birds, balloons, stars, the banner... The list is almost never ending! :)  

Our DT has made fun samples for you using products by STAMPlorations, our sponsor! 

There's two prizes on offer:

a 10 $ voucher for our winner, voted by DT

a stamp set prize for one randomly chosen player: choose from the stamp sets the DT has used!

Amazing prizes, right!

Let's have a look at how our DT and our talented guest designer KandA have been inspired by the photo. If you haven't visited KandA Creative Moments before, you are in for a treat! She makes such beautiful card designs you will definitely want to check her out!  

KandA

Guest Designer

Sandie

Using The Bee's Knees Houses by STAMPlorations

Stephanie

using Shery Russ Designs Trendy Birds 2 by STAMPlorations

Jill

using The Bees Knees Houses by STAMPlorations and The Bees Knees Houses Extras by STAMPlorations

Lisa

using The Bee's Knees World Birthday Cakes by STAMPlorations

Anita

using The Bees Knees Folk Flowers by STAMPlorations

Gerrina

using Shery Russ Designs Trendy Birds 2 by STAMPlorations

Our design team had super fun playing with STAMPlorations products and we want to thank Shery, the owner of STAMPlorations, most kindly for her generosity! 

Now it's your turn to take TIME OUT and craft! The challenge runs until Wednesday the 1st of March 5 pm GMT. Happy crafting!

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge #76 Reminder

Hello There,

Have you joined in our latest 'Inspired by Words' challenge?

You still have nearly one more week.

The words are:

'Friends are connected heart to heart, distance and time can't break them apart'

You can use any of these words to inspire you or the whole phrase.

This challenge is sponsored by CAS-ual Fridays stamp. The winner will receive a gift voucher worth $25 to spend in their amazing store here.

Our wonderful Guest Designer Jane and the DT are back this week with some more inspiration for you:

Jane

Lynn
Using Sponsor Stamps-Lovely Greetings

Joyce

Using Sponsor Stamps-Lovely Greetings

Nonni
Using Sponsor stamp-Girlfriend



Shona
Using Sponsor Stamp-Cupid's Arrows



Shery
Using Sponsor Stamp-Girlfriend



Jenny
Using Sponsor die-Friend-Fri-Dies

Ready to take some TIME OUT?

You have until next Wed 15th Feb 5pm GMT to enter.

We are really looking forward to seeing what you create using these words. Most of all just enjoy letting your creativity bloom.

Winners #75

Hi All

We are here to announce the winners of our CASE challenge.

We had so many wonderful entries it was so hard to choose our winners but here goes:

Top at taking TIME OUT is:

#2 Ardyth

Congratulations Ardyth. We would love you to be our Guest Designer for a future challenge. If you would like to do this, please contact Sandie at sandiesandie16@gmail.com within one week.

To redeem your prize from Happy Little Stampers please contact Kylie at kyliepurtell@gmail.com within one week.

Here is the winners badge for your blog:

Here are those who got Honours at Time Out:

#17 Jenny M



#21 Amusing Michelle



#35 Bobby

Super cards and congratulations.

Here is your badge for your blogs:

Our current challenge is our Inspired by Words and the words are:

'Friends are connected heart to heart, distance and time can't break them apart'

You can use any of these words for inspiration or the whole phrase.

We are being sponsored by CAS-ual Fridays with our winner getting a gift voucher worth $25!

 Please come back tomorrow for some inspiration from our Guest Designer Jane and a DT.

See you then.