TIME OUT #228 - Wintery or Holiday Theme

This is the last TIME OUT Challenge for the year and it is also my final challenge as a TIME OUT DT. I have really enjoyed the last seven years as a DT member - I have always loved our challenges and I hope to continue as a player for future challenges :)

Our challenge this fortnight is perfect for the season - we are challenging you to create something wintery or seasonal:

Our sponsor for this challenge is Newton's Nook who are offering the challenge winner a $25 gift voucher :)

When I saw this Riley and Company background die, I knew I it would make a wonderful wintry holiday card. I used 5 different soft colours of glitter paper and some inlaid die-cutting to put the card together. The sentiment strip is foiled from Spellbinders

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT#227 - Photo Inspiration

We have another wonderful TIME OUT challenge for you this fortnight - my favourite type of challenge - a photo inspiration challenge:

Our sponsor for this challenge is our very own Kim and her Etsy shop - Running Stitch Design. She has created this beautiful bag not only as our inspiration photo but also as the prize for the winner of this challenge! Isn't that fabulous!
 

For my card, I decided to focus on the critters in sweaters - I don't have any stamps of dogs wearing sweaters - so I went for the next best thing - cats wearing sweaters! And I took advantage of the situation to create another holiday card.

I used the Simon Says Stamp critter sweaters stamp and die set to create the three cats in sweaters - I used emboss resist and then ironed off the clear embossing powder after inking them. The background was also created using iron-off emboss resist using Simon Says Stamp Lots of Snowflakes. The foiled greeting and curve cut were created with some Spellbinders Kit of the Month products.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Sidan of wenig oder viel who was the winner of challenge #224 - we are thrilled to have her join us for this challenge :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #225 - Thankful

We have a seasonal challenge for you this fortnight at TIME OUT - we are challenging you to be thankful.

And we are thankful to have such a wonderful sponsor for this challenge - Lawn Fawn is offering the challenge winner a $25 gift voucher to their store :)

I had a hard time figuring out what I wanted to do for this card so I turned to my collection of backgrounds and die cuts to see if I could put together something interesting - and this is the result:

The items salvaged from my ever-growing pile of half-made stuff were the panel (embossing paste using an older Memory Box stencil) and the leaf die cuts (using a SSS die and some card stock "painted" using Nuvo shimmer powder). I added an extra die cut from vellum, some pearls, and a layered Honey Bee die cut greeting to finish the card. Oh - and foam tape - lots of foam tape!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #224 - Cancer Awareness - Frienship - Encouragement

Our TIME OUT challenge this fortnight is our annual cancer awareness-friendship-encouragement challenge. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is CAS-ual Friday Stamps - they have been a wonderful sponsor of this challenge every year but, sadly, this will be the last year as they have made the difficult decision to close their shop this year.

I kept my card fairly simple for this challenge - I used an Altenew stamp/stencil/die combo for the floral - the pink is symbolic for the challenge. The mandala die cut is from Honey Bee Stamps and the greeting is from Simon Says Stamp. A few pink pearls for the finishing touch

Our guest designer for this challenge is Elizabeth from Paper Sweetness - she is a regular TIME OUT player and has guest designed with us several times as well. We are thrilled to have her join us again for this special challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #222 - Inspired By Words

Our TIME OUT Challenge this fortnight is to be inspired by this wonderful Maya Angelou quote:

"Try to be the rainbow in someone's cloud"

Our sponsor for this challenge is Lawn Fawn who are offering the winner a $25 store credit :)

For my card, I used a rainbow die from Memory Box and backed the negative space with double sided adhesive sheet so I could put some (very old) glitter from my stash to good use. To keep the glitter theme going (check out the sentiment from YNS if you are wondering why!) - I die cut some MFT clouds from Lawn Fawn white glitter paper and popped them up with some foam tape. 

Our guest designer for this challenge is Fran from Franmade in Oregon - we are so happy to have her join us :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill

TIME OUT #221 - Festive

 This fortnight at TIME OUT, we are challenging you to be festive!

We are thrilled to have Birch Press Design joining us as a sponsor - they are offering the winner a $20 store credit :)

Holiday cards are my favourites to make - and I had to have this new Spellbinders die set - combined with some hot foiling and lots of dimension - I love it! I also hot foiled some MFT snowflakes in Opal foil in the background to create a shiny tone on tone look.

Thanks so much for stopiing by!

Jill

TIME OUT #220 - Make Your Own Background

Our TIME OUT challenge this fortnight is all about the background - we are asking you to create your own 

Our sponsor for this challenge is Stamplorations - they are offering a $25 gift voucher to their digital store :)

I am in the holiday card-making spirit - these are my favourite cards to make. This card is actually one that I mass produced last Christmas but I never shared it and I thought this was the perfect challenge to do so.  The birds are Hero Arts Bird Words (love this set!) - I stamped them once in grey and then stamped them again in Versamark directly over top so I could add some Perfect Pearls and create some shine on them. The holly and berries are also from the set - the berries were embellished using a sparkly pico embellisher to add a little bit of dimension. The greeting strips are from Gina K - they are pre-printed but I foiled them using my Minc in red - to add even more shine to the card.

Our guest designer for this challenge is the very talented Desert Diva, Hannelie :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill