TIME OUT #107 - Spring

We have another challenge for you at TIME OUT - we are looking for Spring themed cards with an optional twist of doing a one-layer card.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Uniko Stamps - they are offering an in-stock stamp set to a random entry that does the one-layer twist. They have so many great stamp sets - like the one I used for my card: English Country Garden Butterflies.

I stamped the large butterfly from the set repeatedly across the water colour paper in Versafine Onyx Black ink and heat embossed them with a clear powder. I then loosely watercoloured the butterflies using Brushos - I ended up going in rainbow order but that wasn't really planned - it just happened that way. I wanted a very simple greeting so I found this old Studio Calico one in my stash that seemed to work. 

Our guest designer this week is Kimberly from Wienerhoneymooners so stop by her blog and check out her wonderful cards.

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #106 - Photo Inspiration

We have another great challenge at TIME OUT - a Home Sweet Home photo challenge that has me thinking of Spring:

Lots of elements to be inspired by in this photo - those gorgeous yellow blooms, the fresh lemons, the pattern on the vase, and so much more. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is Altenew - they are generously giving a $20 gift voucher to the challenge winner - and this photo made me think of one of my Altenew stamp sets, Extra Special. Here is what I came up with:

I stamped the Extra Special bloom in layers of yellow and green Altenew inks, and then fussy cut it. I added some texture paste to the card base through a Tim Holtz stencil and I created a hexagon frame using some Spellbinders nesting dies. The greeting is from the Altenew Birthday Builder stamp set.

Our Guest Designer this week is the incredible Sarah from Funky Fossil - not only is she an amazing card designer (and former TO DT) but she has also designed the most amazing stencils. You really need to check out her designs.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #105 - 4th Birthday

I am so excited to be celebrating the TIME OUT 4th Birthday with the rest of the team. I am so lucky to be part of this wonderful team with this group of incredibly talented designers - the challenges are amazing and we are truly blessed to have Sandie as our leader.

Our challenge this week is very appropriate - we are looking for cards inspired by these words:

We have an amazing sponsor for our Birthday challenge - Concord & 9th - not only are they offering a very generous $25 gift voucher to the challenge winner but they also gave each of the DT a gift voucher so we all made cards with their fabulous and inventive products.

 I used Hi There Bear to create this card:

I couldn't resist making more cards - so I also made these cards using the Everyday Tintables Card Pack with the Hooray die.  

The rest of the DT has some amazing Birthday cards using fabulous Concord & 9th products so make sure you check that out - along with our wonderful Guest Designer - Claire from Life on the Scrap Heap- her cards are always so beautiful.

We would be so happy if you took some TIME OUT to celebrate 4 years along with us!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #104 - Be Bold

There is still some time to play along with the current TIME OUT challenge:

Our challenge this week is sponsored by Poppystamps - they are very generously offering a $20 gift voucher to the winner of the challenge :)

Here is my bold card:

I chose a bold colour scheme (Twisted Citron, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, Blueprint Sketch), a bold triangle pattern, and a bold sentiment.

Make sure to check out how the rest of the design team were inspired to be bold - along with our very talented guest designer, Marieke - you are sure to find some inspiration - nd then take some TIME OUT to join us! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

Winnie & Walter Birthday Bash - Card #6 & #7

The last two cards that I am sharing for Winnie and Walter's Birthday Bash:

Here is the first one:

For this card, I started by die cutting the Polaroid frame (this die is an older one from MFT). I stamped a Happy Dance animal onto each of the four squares and coloured them with Copics. I also added a caption from Bubble Talk onto each of the die cuts. Each of the die cuts was mounted with foam tape onto a card base sponged with some Distress Ink, and then I added the stacked up Celebrate (The Big, the Bold and the Party cutaways) cut from glittery cardstock on top.

I will enter this card into the following challenges:

• Four Challenge with Shay 
• Die Challenge with Lydia
• Grid Challenge with Keren (grid with the placement of the four images)

My final card is for the Comeback Challenge - and was inspired by this card from Lydia:

I loved the way Lydia had stacked the inspirational sentiments from Bubble Talk so I replicated the design. I stamped the solid speech bubbles onto the back side of vellum using Archival ink, and I white heat-embossed the sentiments on the front side of the vellum. I then added some Stick-It to the back side and fussy cut out the speech bubbles to create vellum stickers that I layered up the card - except for the "Hey Girl" speech bubble which was popped up. 

I will enter this card into the following challenge:

• Comeback Challenge with Taheerah

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

Winnie & Walter Birthday Bash - Cards #4 & #5

A couple more card that I created for Winnie & Walter's Birthday Bash:

Here is the first card:

I created this card for the watercolour challenge where the challenge was to use both water colouring and another colouring medium. I stamped the background Into The Woods using some Distress Inks and then I water coloured them out to create a water coloured background. I framed the background using a frame created with the Audrey Cutaways die. I stamped the bear and bunny image from Sweet Holiday onto some Neenah 80# paper, coloured with Copics, and then fussy cut out before adhering to the card front with some foam tape. The greeting is from Sentimental: Winter and is white heat embossed onto a black strip.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

• Four Challenge with Shay (I used four W&W products to create this card)
• Watercolouring with a Twist Challenge with Heather

Here is the second card:

This is the card that I made for the die cutting challenge - although I didn't necessarily use them in a traditional way ;)  I started out by die cutting The Leaf Effect Cutaway into some freezer paper and then ironed on the freezer paper onto some watercolour paper (using my Minc which made it ridiculously easy). I watercoloured over the freezer paper using pearlescent watercolours before removing the die cut mask to reveal the design. I then die cut the In A Word Hugs from white cardstock and silver glitter cardstock. I stacked them and adhered them to the from of the card. The shimmer of the paint is so pretty in real life with the glittery silver - I tried to capture it in a close up:

I am entering this card into the following challenge:

• Die Challenge with Lydia

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

Winnie & Walter Birthday Bash Card #2 & #3

I put together a couple cards for Winnie & Walter's 4th Birthday Bash:

The first card I created for The Grid Challenge with Keren - even though the grid aspect is not quite as evident in the finished design. For the "grid", I applied some embossing paste through the Triangles Creative Screenings to a card base that was die cut using the la

rgest rectangle from the Katharine Cutaways. I then stamped Renee's Leaves onto some watercolour paper in Versafine Onyx Black and embossed with clear powder. I loosely water coloured the leaves with bright colours of Peerless water colours and then fussy cut them. I played around with the arrangement for a long time before adding them to the centre of the card and  adding the inlaid die cut In a Word Thanks die.

I am entering the following challenges:

• Four Challenge with Shay (I used four W&W products)
• Grid Challenge with Keren (the embossing paste grid background)

The next card:

This card is for The Shaker Challenge with Lea. The challenge was to create a shaker card celebrating love, and I think this cute stamped image from Happy Owlidays definitely shows love. I stamped the image onto the card base and coloured with Copics. I die cut a circle in the card front and dry embossed it with a woodgrain texture plate (really hard to see in the photo). For the shaker material, I used Stampendous Shaved Ice - I glued a little bit to the tops of the owls' heads and the branch but the rest can shake around. The greeting, from Sentimental: Winter, was white heat embossed onto the black strip to finish the card.

I am entering the following challenges:

• Shaker Challenge with Lea

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill