TIME OUT #184 - Inspired By Words

For our challenge this fortnight at TIME OUT, we are jumping into Spring and asking you to create a project inspired by the following words:

Our sponsor for this challenge is Altenew - they are generously offering the winner of the challenge a $20 gift voucher :)

I was inspired by the "working in the garden" part of the quote (something that I need to do now that the snow is gone!) to create this Easter card using an older My Monthly Hero kit.

Our wonderful guest designer for this challenge is Helen from Moments of Crafting  :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

PB Social Butterfly

I decided to play along with a few challenges using one of my oldest stamp sets - Penny Black's Social Butterfly. This really is a gorgeous set with lots of butterflies but I decided to use only the triangular mosaic tile butterfly (which I don't think I have ever used before!) to create some different designs.

First up are the two different cards that I created for the Twofer Card Challenge (theme butterflies!): 

For the first card, I stamped the triangle across the lower half of panel and coloured them in rainbow order using Copics. I added a sentiment from Your Next Stamp and mounted the panel with foam tape. The butterflies are shimmery from Wink of Stella as well.

I will be entering this card into the Festive Friday Challenge as well (rainbow, blue, bright colours, butterflies).

For the next card, I stamped the triangle eight times in a square pattern and coloured them with Copics. The colour scheme was inspired by the Card Concept challenge this week. I have to admit that I really didn't like it very much when I was half way through the colouring but I persisted, added some white dots, and this card became my favourite of he three - and I have saved this colour scheme for future use :) I adhered the panel to a kraft card base and added a foiled Spellbinders sentiment with foam tape.

I will be entering this card into the Festive Friday Challenge (blue, bright colours, butterflies, square card) and the Card Concept (Clean and Graphic).

For the final card, I used only four triangles in a diamond shape - and I coloured only the butterflies so they would pop. I adhered this panel directly to the card base and then popped up a panel with a diamond aperture. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.

I will enter this card into Addicted to CAS (Shape - four triangles to make a diamond!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #183 - Be Different

Our TIME OUT challenge this fortnight is going to get you out of your comfort zone - we want you to do something different.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Funky Fossil Designs - they are offering a £15 gift voucher to their store :)

I have to admit that I had a hard time with this challenge - and, at first glance, it might not even look like I stepped outside my comfort zone - so here are the ways that this card is different for me:

• It is coffee themed - I don't drink coffee - I just don't like the taste
• I used 7 different patterned papers on this card - I love patterned paper but I am not goo about incorporating them into my cards - a definitely not this many!
• I did a paper piecing technique - it has been a hot minute since I last did this technique...

I used two different stamp sets for this card - one from Simon Says Stamp and one from Your Next Stamp. A few of the paper pieced coffee cups were mounted with foam tape to add some dimension.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Lisa from Paper Mountain Parcels - we are so happy to have her join us :)

So get ready to step outside your comfort zone and join us at TIME OUT!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill