Challenge #89 Home Sweet Home

Hi friends of TIME OUT,

Welcome to a new challenge! The next fortnight we have one of our Home Sweet Home photo challenges for you -in these challenges we are inspired by home decor and having fun getting ideas from stylish interiors. Here's our photo this time:

There's many ways to find inspiration by this photo. You can use anything you see in the photo like the map wall paper, the sofa, the lamp, or even the cute hat as your starting point... Or just go with the colors or the masculine feel of the scene. 

This challenge is sponsored by STAMPlorations and our winner, chosen by the design team, will receive a $15 voucher to their store. Thank you STAMPlorations for your continuous support to TIME OUT Challenges!

Our guest designer is a regular TIME OUT player and a fantastic card maker Trinia from My Crafting Closet. She has the most fantastic CAS style with fabulous coloring skills and eye for detail... If you don't follow her blog yet, now is the time to click HERE and join the group of her many fans!  

Let's see what Trinia and the TIME OUT design team have created for your inspiration.

Trinia

Guest Designer

Anita

Sandie

Lisa

Jill

Stephanie

Gerrina

Shery

Fantatic inspiration, I'm sure you'll all agree! Now it's your turn to take TIME OUT and craft. This challenge runs until 5 pm BST Wed 16th of August. Have fun creating, we can't wait to visit your blogs!

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Reminder Challenge #88

Hi There,

We are here to remind you that you still have time to join in our latest 'Inspired by Words' challenge. Our words are:

'If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely' 

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

Our Guest Designer Toni is joining us again with this stunning card:

Toni

And some more inspiration from the Design Team:

Lynn

Joyce

Shona



Lisa



Jenny

You still have nearly one week to play. The challenge closes at 5pm BST on 2nd August.

You can see all the details of this challenge, more inspiration from the DT and link your project here.

Take some TIME OUT and enjoy!

Winners #87

Hi Friends of Time Out,

We are here to announce the winners of our last challenge-our CASE of this fabulous card by Cornelia.

We had so many amazing entries.

 A huge thank you Cornelia for continually inspiring us all!

Top at Taking Time Out is:

#8 Elaine

Congratulations Elaine! To redeem your prize from our superb sponsor Happy Little Stampers please email Kylie at kyliepurtell@gmail.com, within one week.

We would like to invite you to be our Guest Designer for a future challenge. Please contact Sandie at sandiesandie16@gmail.com, within one week, if you would like to join us!

Here is Winner's badge for your blog:

Now here are those we chose to get 'Honours at Taking Time Out'

#12 Maria



#16 Pri



#33 Aileen-Colour and Sparkle

Congratulations, amazing cards.

Here's our badge for your blogs:

You still have a week to join in our current 'Inspired by Words' challenge.

Our Words are:

'If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely'

Check out all the details for this challenge here and come back tomorrow to see some more inspiration from our DT.

Enjoy your day x

Challenge #88

Hi All,

Ready to take some TIME OUT and get crafty with us?

We hope we can inspire you with our new 'Inspired by Words' challenge. The words this week come from the Children's novel 'Twits' by Roald Dahl:

'If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely' 

You can use any of these words or the whole phrase to inspire you. You might want to go with 'shine' or 'sunbeams' as many of you are seeing that this time of year. Or why not remind someone they 'look lovely'....perhaps send someone 'good thoughts'. So many possibilities with this one quote!

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very creative Toni.

Her blog Frankie Helps Craft is a delight to visit. Take some Time Out and pop over there and have a browse. We guarantee you will love what you see. We are so happy Toni is joining us for this challenge.

Let's see what Toni and the DT have created, inspired by our phrase:

Toni

Sandie

Gerrina



Anita



Nonni

Stephanie

We hope these inspire you to take some TIME OUT and get crafty.
You have until 5pm BST on Wednesday 2nd August to join us.
Enjoy you TIME OUT!

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Reminder Challenge #87

Hi friends of TIME OUT!

We are here with the second round of Challenge #87 DT cards for your inspiration! In our current challenge we are CASEing a card by Cornelia :

For all the challenge details and prize info, scroll down or click HERE. You still have about one week to take TIME OUT and CASE Cornelia's fun and funky card! 

Now, let's see how our reminder team members along with our talented guest designer Pooja were inspired.

Pooja

Guest Designer

Lynn

Joyce

Shery

Shona

Jenny

Nonni

Fab cards, I'm sure you'll all agree. If you haven't joined in already, don't hesitate to take TIME OUT and craft!

Winners Challenge #86

Hello friends of TIME OUT!

We are here to announce the winners of our previous challenge, 

"Celebrations with the Optional Twist of One Layer Card".

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps generously sponsored this challenge and the $20 voucher to their store goes to this lucky, randomly selected twister:

Nabeela

Congratulations, Nabeela! Please contact Nonni at nonniscards@gmail.com within one week for information how to redeem your prize.

Then our winner and honourable mentions chosen by our DT!

Top at Taking TIME OUT 

is

Trina P

Congratulations Trina! We loved your bright, happy birthday cards! We'd like to invite you to guest design in a future challenge, please contact Nonni at nonniscards@gmail.com within one week if you'd like to join us! Here's our badge for your blog:

Then the honourable mentions.

Hannelie

Ashwini

Charlotte E

Congratulations ladies! Here's our badge for your blogs:

This was the winner's post for this week... Congratulations again to everyone! Please come back tomorrow for second round of DT cards for our current CASE challenge. 

Challenge #87 CASE With Your Own Twist

Hello friends of TIME OUT!

We have a new challenge for you and this time it's one of our CASE With Your Own Twist Challenges. We are CASEing (CASE = Copy and Share Everything) a super fun card by Cornelia of Stempel Spass. The winner of this challenge (chosen by our design team) will receive a $15 gift voucher from  Happy Little Stampers.

Before having a look at her card, let's read Cornelia's greetings to TIME OUT players! 

My name is Cornelia – otherwise known as fun stamping, which translates into Stempel Spass – the name of my blog. I am originally from Germany, hence my blog name, which just means fun stamping. For the last 20 years I have been living in New Jersey with my husband and our younger son. Our daughter right now lives in Germany and is doing her masters degree. I am working full time and like to spend my evenings creating cards. I have been totally hooked now for about four and 1/2 years. I mainly do CAS cards, but occasionally I like to experiment with other styles. Besides card making I enjoy photography, baking, cooking, hiking, biking, reading, classical and all sorts of ethnic music. In addition, I love to travel! Somehow my days are always too short...

Great to learn more about you Cornelia! 

Here's the card we are CASEing:

How fun is that?!? And what a great sentiment. You could be inspired by Cornelia's layout, colors, the theme of the card, the bird, the background stamp... Many possibilities! Remember we allow "own twists" -the main thing is that Cornelia's card inspires you and you have fun creating! You can read more about Cornelia's card in her blog HERE.

Our guest designer this time is the wonderful Pooja from Reusing, Cards and Quilling. She has a very personal, beautiful card making style and her GD card is no exception! We'd love you to visit her blog and leave some comment love. 

Let's have a look at the inspiration cards now!

Pooja

Guest Designer

Sandie

Anita

Stephanie

Jill

Lisa

Gerrina

Now it's your turn to take TIME OUT and craft! This challenge runs until 5 pm BST, 19th of July. Come back next week for the winners of our previous challenge on Wednesday + more inspiration for this challenge by the other half of our design team on Thursday. 

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