Thursday 14 March 2024

Challenge #259 - Special Collaboration Challenge with JUGS - Birds of a Feather

Hello Friends of Time Out, welcome back.

Our new challenge is a a special collaboration challenge with Just Us Girls Challenge Blog!

By entering the linky tool below you will automatically also join Just Us Girls Challenge, woot woot! 

Your project will gain twice the visibility... You will double your chances to be chosen as a design team favorite and your project may be showcased in one of the challenge blogs... Or in both! Whether you join from Time Out or from Just Us Girls, you have a chance to win $25.00 store credit to Waffle Flower Crafts


The challenge theme is:

Birds of a Feather 


So both birds and feathers will work as well as a "birds" referring to ladies too! :)

Before linking up below, make sure to head on over to Just Us Girls Challenge blog to check out their DT inspiration... And do add a comment saying you are coming from Time Out! 

Here's what Bobby, our mutual DT member tells us about Just Us Girls Challenge Blog

"We are a weekly challenge with a theme rotation: color, word, mood board and stencil. We have made some changes for 2024  including going live on Thursday which enabled us to collaborate with Time Out for our Word Week - Birds. "



We are joined by Jolanda Johnson of The Inquespot Studio, and winner of Time Out #255 as our Guest Designer.

Jolanda is a very talented designer who frequently plays at Time Out. We ask our Guest designers to tell us a litte bit abut themselves and their crafting journey so that we can share with our participants. Here is what Jolanda had to say:

"Hi, my name is Jolanda and I live in South Carolina.  Originally from Ontario, Canada and happily retired and very happy to have the time to pursue my cardmaking hobby every day.  I have been stamping for most of my adult life and was happy to find Stampin’ Up! when we re-settled.

Along the way, I discovered card challenges and found it a great way to share my creativity.  I love combining challenges.  A layout from here, colors from there, and a theme from yonder. It is exciting to see what develops.  I am such a fan!

What fun to be asked to be a Guest Designer with Time Out.  Cheers!"

And this is Jolanda's Challenge card:



Click HERE to get all the details on Jolanda's blog.


And now for some inspiration from our design team!


























Gorgeous inspiration from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree. Now it's your turn to Take Time Out to Craft! Before linking up below, please check out How to Play from the sidebar. 

Because this is a special collaboration challenge combining two challenge blogs with different rules, our regular rule of max 5 challenge combined (with one of them being ours) is not used in this challenge. This time feel free to combine your Time Out entry with as many challenges as you wish... But only in this collaboration challenge! We'll continue with our regular max 5 rule again from next challenge onwards. Thank you for your consideration! 

 This challenge runs until 5 pm GMT on Wednesday 27th of March. Happy crafting!


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Thursday 7 March 2024

Winners - Time Out #257 - Time Out's 10th Birthday


Hello friends of Time Out!
We are here to announce the 11 winners of Time Out's 10th birthday challenge, woot woot! We'll have one winner chosen by our design team and 10 additional winners, drawn with random.org. From the challenge badge below you can be reminded of all of the amazing companies joining in the fun and offering prizes. We absolutely enjoyed all the beautiful entries and I'm sure our sponsors did too. A big thank you to all the amazing sponsors! 


We'll begin with the winner as chosen by the design team:



Congratulations, Milla! You have won a $25 store credit at  Lawn Fawn. Our DT loved your beautiful coloring and CAS look of the card. It really makes the beautiful Altenew flowers pop. Please contact Stephanie at slan(dot)zal(at)verizon(dot)net within one week with "TO WINNER" in the subject field for details on how to claim your prize. With your win, you are also invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge. When contacting Stephanie, please let her know if you are interested.

Winners chosen with random.org


How to claim your prize if you are a randomly drawn winner:

Contact Stephanie at slan(dot)zal(at)verizon(dot)net within one week with "RANDOM TO WINNER COMPANY NAME" in the subject field for details on how to claim your prize. So if you have won a prize from Lawn Fawn for example, your subject field will say "RANDOM TO WINNER LAWN FAWN". 

Now, let's see whose beautiful cards we get to showcase and what everyone has won! 

Michelle wins a $20 coupon to Altenew
Michelle happened to use a stunning bloom by Altenew and Altenew watercolors too so this prize is very fitting! Very beautiful coloring, Michele!



Heather wins a $20 coupon to Birch Press Design
Heather went back to 2014 for her inspiration and we love that!! Such a fun card with lots of movement! 



Lesley wins a $25 coupon to Doodlebugs
Beautiful coloring of the mermaid and wow that background looks magical!



Jennifer wins a $25 coupon to Gina K Designs
We love the monochrome look and the stunning sentiment. Very cute card!



Susan wins a $25 coupon to Lawn Fawn
Wow! Susan went through a lot of work finding, printing and cutting all these Lego themed images, great job! 



Susan wins a $25 coupon to Newton's Nook
We love the monochrome black and white look, this card gives beautiful art deco feels! 



Kathy wins a $25 coupon to Picket Fence Studios
Kathy's card is perfectly CAS and the pink and yellow flowers look very joyous and fun! 



Beverly wins a $25 coupon to Topflight Stamps.
What an unique card with the year of the dragon theme. We love the blue and gold combo! 



Stephanie wins a £25 coupon to Uniko 
This CAS card is so stylish -the mixed media hexagons just pop!! 



She wins a $25 voucher to Varada Sharma
Beautiful details yet such a clean look, a great birthday card! 


Congratulations Milla and all 10 randomly chosen winners. This has certainly been very festive and fun! It's not every day we get to showcase 11 beautiful cards from our players. 

Before we go, we want to remind you of our current challenge, still running for about a week. We are celebrating Leap Day with a fun frog photo -click HERE for all the challenge details. Then it's your turn to Take Time Out and Craft! 


Thursday 29 February 2024

Challenge #258 - Photo Inspiration

 


Hello friends of Time Out!

Before we have a look at our new challenge, we unfortunately need to let you all know that this is the last challenge where Gerrina will be part of our design team. Gerrina has created inspiration for Time Out for all of our existence, for 10 years... Which is quite an achievement and not something many crafters have done for one design team. We are truly grateful for Gerrina for all of her hard work and dedication. Thank you for the 10 years together, Gerrina! We'd love you to head on over to Gerrina's blog and let her know how much her artsy work has been appreciated over the years. 

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For the next fortnight we have a photo inspiration challenge for you. It's Leap Year, and our new challenge opens on Leap Day! We thought it fitting to have some leaping inspiration in the form of a frog!

Here's an enlargement of the photo for viewing the marvelous detail within. Do note that you do not need to use a frog image to play along -you can for example only be inspired by the colors, patterns or shapes you see in the photo. We look forward seeing your creative takes!

Photo credit: https://www.vecteezy.com/photo/28244412-green-tree-frog-generative-ai
Artist: Wanapong Phobklang, Thailand.
"https://www.vecteezy.com/free-photos">Free Stock photos by Vecteezy

Lawn Fawn is the generous sponsor of this challenge. Our challenge winner will receive a $25.00 Lawn Fawn store credit and an offer to Guest Design at Time Out for a future challenge.





We are joined by Vicki Dutcher of All I Do Is Stamp as our Guest Designer. Vicki is a very well seasoned and talented crafter with a mostly CAS style and a flair for trying new techniques. Here is what Vicki has to say about her crafting:

"Hi, my name is Vicki and I live in Arizona. I got into stamping a very long time ago, and because this hobby is so versatile, it has kept my interest. Like a lot of you, I went to a Stampin Up party, and I was hooked. Now that I am retired, it also gives me something to do! That my friends, is wonderful! I am basically a CAS stamper, but have been known to do mixed media also. I adore this hobby with all the avenues you can try. I’m thrilled to be Guesting with the Time Out team for this challenge."

This is Vicki's wonderful card. You can see it on her blog HERE to get all the details.




And now for some inspiration from our design team!




















Using sponsor die Layered Butterflies












Using Sponsor Stamp Winter Sparrows and matching dies.



Fun, creative inspiration from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Now it's your turn to Take Time Out and Craft. This challenge runs until 5 pm GMT on Wed 13th of March. Before linking up below, make sure to check out How to Play from the sidebar. It's important to note that at Time Out we only allow five challenges combined, one of them being ours. Thank you and Happy Crafting! 


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Thursday 22 February 2024

Winners - Time Out #256 - CASE The Designer

 Hello, friends of Time Out!

It's time to announce the winners of Challenge #256, where we were challenged to CASE The Designer, Sarah Gray, owner of Funky Fossil Designs.
The entries were very colorful, creative and clever. Thanks to all who joined in this fun challenge, and a huge thanks to Sarah for her generosity in sponsoring this challenge, and for taking time out from her very busy schedule to create a project for us to CASE. A few of the supplies used on her fabulous project she created for us are now available HERE, HERE and HERE in New Arrivals section of the Funky Fossil Catalog.

And now, the big reveal of our Challenge Winner and Honorable Mentions:

Our winner is:


Congratulations, Karen!! You did such a fabulous job CASEing Sarah! We love your design and color choices. Please grab your Winner's Badge from the tab beneath our Blog Header and and display it proudly on your blog and/or other social media.

Please contact Stephanie at slan(dot)zal(at)verizon(dot)net within one week with "TO WINNER" in the subject field for details on how to claim your prize. With your win, you are also invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge. When contacting Stephanie, please let her know if you are interested.


Our three Honorable Mentions are awarded to:





#11 - Jane


Thank you for playing with us Christine, Claire and Jane, and for sharing your wonderful creations! Please grab your Honors Badge from the tab beneath our Blog Header and and display it proudly on your blog and/or other social media.

Our current challenge is still running for about one week HERE. It is Time Out's 10th Birthday Challenge! We have 10 sponsors and 11 prizes for our celebration!! Come play with us. Please review our "How To Play" section of our sidebar on the challenge blog. We allow linking to a total of five challenges including ours to be considered for the win. If you haven't played along yet, now is the time to take Time Out to craft with us!


Thursday 15 February 2024

Challenge #257 - Time Out 10th Birthday!

Hello and welcome, Friends of Time Out. Today we begin a new and special challenge with which we celebrate our 10th birthday! Woot! Woot!! 

Time Out Challenges was born in 2014 of an online friendship between Sandie Munro of London Days and Nonni Niskanen of Nonni's Handmade Cards. Both their friendship and the challenge has stood the test of time. Sandie was the Lead Admin from 2014 to 2021. Unfortunately, circumstances were such that Sandie had to step down in 2021, but she still keeps a fond and supportive eye on this challenge which remains very close to her heart.  Nonni and Stephanie took over as Co-Lead Admins following Sandie's departure.  The challenge is now run in a style that includes many of the Design Team members playing a role in the administration from choosing themes, to creating the challenge badges and the posts, to working with sponsors, etc. The list goes on. It takes a village, and our close-knit group of crafters keep it running strong and smoothly with a lot of heart.

So Happy Birthday, Time Out! Thank you, Sandie and Nonni. Thank you to all the Design Team members, current and past! You are the core of what we do. And thank you to all of our wonderful participants and generous sponsors who give us our reason to be. We are grateful for your sharing the joy of creativity with us over the years.

We celebrate with a birthday theme as our inspiration. We have 10 benevolent sponsors providing 11 fabulous prizes. We will have one challenge winner chosen by the Design Team who will receive a $25.00 Lawn Fawn Store Credit. Ten additional winners will be chosen at random to receive the prizes in the order of their listing.

And now, without further ado, let the game begin!! May the odds be ever in your favor for the win! Please check our challenge rules on our sidebar. In order to qualify for the win, honorable mention and/or a prize, you may link your project to a total of five including ours. 

Challenge #257
 

Our wonderfully generous sponsors are:

Altenew - $15.00 Store Credit
Doodle Bugs - $25.00 Store Credit
Birch Press - $20.00 Store Credit
Gina K. Designs - $25.00 Store Creditt
Lawn Fawn - $25.00 Store Credit
Newton's Nook - $25.00 Store Credit 
Picket Fence Studios - $25.00 Store Credit
Topflight Stamps - $25.00 Store Credit
Uniko- $25.00 Store Credit
Varada Sharma - $25.00 Store Credit

We honor former Co-Owner of Time Out, Sandie Munro,  as our Guest Designer. 
Here is Sandie's signature CAS project, a birthday card for a crafty friend and former Time Out Design Team Member.

For the details, you can link to Sandie's project HERE.


And now for some inspiration from our Design Team!































Greta  



Amazing cards from everyone, I'm sure you'll agree! Now it's your turn to take Time Out and Craft. This challenge runs until 5 pm GMT the 29h of February. 

Before linking up below, do check out 'How to Play' from the sidebar. 

At Time Out we only allow five challenges combined, one of them being ours. 

Thank you and happy crafting! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter