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

TIME OUT #219 - Photo INspiration

I love photo inspiration challenges - definitely my favourite type of challenge and we have a great one for you this week at TIME OUT

Our sponsor for this challenge is a new one - we are so lucky to have Varda Sharma joining us as a sponsor :) They have a wonderful shop and will be offering the challenge winner 2 $15 gift vouchers to their store :)

When I first looked at this photo, I thought about watercolouring or ink blending a sunset scene and then using some silhouette stamp - but then I looked at my desk and spotted some MFT floral circle dies that I just had to have but still haven't used - and I thought it might be fun to go in a different direction. I created my "sunset" scene behind each of the silhouette circles by using coloured card stock strips. I pulled the colours from the photo - light blue, orange, yellow, pink, and dark blue - I never would have put these colours together but somehow they worked (see why I love inpiration photos!). I kept the rest of the card very simple - an MFT white embossed greeting on a strip of the same dark blue that I used behind the image and a few droplets to embellish.

We are very lucky to have Deepti from Handmade By Deepti join us as GD for this challenge. Deepti is a regular player (and winner!) and we are always so inpired by her creations.

Thanks for stopping by!
Jill

TIME OUT #217 - Kind

 The TIME OUT challenge this fortnight is all about kindness

We have the perfect sponsor for this challenge - a very kind company CAS-UAL FRIDAY STAMPS has agreed to provide the challenge winner with a $25 store credit :)

I chose to focus on the sentiment for the kind theme for this challenge - and I created this very simple card using Concord & 9th Silhouette Print stamps.

Our guest designer for this challenge is Arlene from Sunday Stamper Papercrafts - we are thrilled to have her with us :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Jill