Celebrate and Enjoy Your Day

 

Time Out Challenge #244 is up and running. We are challenged to be Monochromatic - use just ONE color in as many  tones and shades as you wish.

We are generously sponsored by Varada Sharma. There will be 2 challenge winners - one drawn at random, and one chosen by the Time Out Design Team. Each will get a $15.00 gift voucher to spend at Varada Sharma's store. Our winner chosen by the Design Team will also be invited to Guest Design with us for a future challenge.

Our Guest Designer this time is Stephanie Serrano of  Stephanie's Stampin' Spot and most frequently on Instagram at @22Stepanieserrano.  Stephanie uses lots of color and humor in her creations. Do visit her Instagram for a good look at her work. You are sure to be inspired.

I used 3 shades of Distress Oxide ink in pink hues to color a die cut made with Altenew's Floral Lace Die and glued it on to a white card base. I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Paper Smooches Birthday Bash stamp set with clear embossing powder and my card was complete.

Please head on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog to see the wonderful creations that Stephanie and the Design Team came up with to inspire you. Come play with us!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Altenew Floral Lace Die Paper Smooches Birthday Bash
Cardstock	110# Neenah Solar Crest 80# Neenah Solar White
Ink	VersaFine Clair Nocturne Kitsch Flamingo, Spun Sugar & Tattered Rose DO inks
Embellishments
Other	Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool SSS Craft Glue Stick WOW Clear Embossing Powder WOW Heat Tool

I'm also playing at:

AAA Birthday #52 - Anything Birthday Goes

Seize The Birthday #266 - Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks #674 - All Occasions

Celebrate In Shades Of Blue

Less Is More Challenge #449 begins today. We are challenged to create a CAS card using shades of blue.

Our Guest Designer is Sid of Harpie's Crafty Corner, and Less Is More May Winner. Sid has a wonderful, colorful, eclectic style. Please visit Sid's blog and be inspired to play with us.

I used this wonderful Balloon Duo Stencil from Neat & Tangled (retired) to create a row of balloons in many shades of blue Distress Oxide Inks. The balloon strings are from Avery Elle's Numbered Balloons (retired). The sentiment stamp and die cut are from Pinkfresh Studio Happy Birthday Sentiments.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple which we define as designs that include large areas of CLEAR AND CLEAN space with NO PATTERN, NO INK and NO TEXTURE See challenge guidelines on the Less Is More Blog.

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I'm also playing at:

The Male Room #153 - Birthday

Try It On Tuesday - Keep It Simple

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Birthday Celebration

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Summertime Blues

Let's Celebrate

 

It's time for a new, and the final LIM challenge of 2020. I am surely looking forward with hope about many things, to a new year.  Here at Less Is More, we finish up with the dreaded or beloved One Layer Card. Way back when this challenge first started, I was terrified of one layer challenges. I have grown to be a lover.

 

We are generously sponsored by CASual Fridays Stamps.

Our Guest Designer is Chrissie Stokes of Simply One Of A Kind. Chrissie is the founder of our challenge, and truly the Queen of CAS design. Please visit Chrissie's blog and leave her some love. Her work is truly inspiring!

I created a card that I just loved for this challenge, but when my alarm went off on the day the card was due, I became aware that I missed the part about the one layer card requirement. I had to punt at the last minute (really) with a different card. I must say that this card was made in record time BEFORE I went to work (5:30 AM) in a very short period of time, and I am incredibly proud and amazed that I pulled it off!!!  Card made, photographed and posted before jumping in the shower at 6:15!! Whew!

I used Winnie & Walter's Party On (circa 2017 - no longer available) for the string that holds the lanterns. I then used the small lantern stamp from The Party (circa 2015 - no longer available) to add the festive lanterns to the string and for the sentiment. I used my Prismacolor Pencils for the first time to color the lanterns and hearts on the string. I would say that it is pretty festive. Love the lanterns!

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations and for a chance to win. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple.

To be eligible for show CASe and PRIZE WINNER choices you will need to carefully follow the guidance on our GLOSSARY OF TERMS and our HOW TO PLAY pages. Your design should feature lots of clean / white / blank / non patterned / non textured space. All challenge details are on the Less Is More blog. Good Luck!

I'm also playing at:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #534 - Clean & Simple

Fab 'n' Funky #503 - Hand Stamped or Die Cut Sentiment

Retro Rubber #148 - They Said It's Your Birthday!

Let's Celebrate!

It's time for a new challenge and a Happy 6th Birthday celebration at Time Out!!! The theme for Time Out Challenge #157 is BIRTHDAY with an optional twist of die cutting or fussy cutting. Our very wonderful and generous sponsor is Shery Russ of STAMPlorations fame.  She has offered a $40.00 gift voucher to the STAMPlorations store for the winner chosen randomly from those who twist. The challenge winner of the DT vote will be offered a future challenge guest designer spot.

Our Guest Designer is Christine. Her designs are spectacular. Please treat yourself to a visit to her blog and give her some love.

I LOVE being a design team member of Time Out Challenges, and I truly LOVE my Time Out Teammates. What a wonderful community of crafters. I started out as a player, and was later invited to join the Design Team. I was so excited. I was introduced as a DT member on 10/08/2016 in THIS post, and my first contribution was with  THIS card on 10/13/2016. I am so happy to be a part of the sixth birthday celebration of this wonderful challenge which was born of the creativity and friendship of 2 amazing papercrafters - Sandie Munro and Nonni Niskanen. The challenge has grown so much since its inception, and it is pure joy to be a part of it. It is currently run by Sandie Munro with the assistance of other team members. This mainly card purple card is in Sandie's honor. She is an awesome administrator and a wonderful person. Happy Birthday Time Out!!!!

For my card,  I used a couple of alcohol inking techniques on 2 different Yupo panels. Both turned out in a way that complimented the other. The panel I used for the base is subtle. The top one is much more bold and is die cut (twist) with STAMPlorations Bloomtangled 2. I added a white, heat embossed sentiment from Winnie and Walter's The Party cut from deep purple card stock to finish  it. Please hop on over to the Time Out Blog to see the wonderful creations that Christine and our Design Team came up with to inspire you. Come play with us!

I'm also playing at:

WWC262 All About Occasions

STAMPlorations Anything Goes Challenge

AAA Birthday Challenge #11

The Flower Challenge #42

Shell-abrate

It's time for a new challenge at Less Is More. This time the theme is CELEBRATIONS. There are a million ways to interpret that theme. The possibilities are endless. Just remember that there must be lots of clean white space on your card.

Our sponsor is Skull and Crossbones.

www.skullandcrossbuns.com

May Winner, Viv of  Daizy-Mae's Crafty Blog, is Guest Designer for this challenge. She is such a talented cardmaker with an ecclectic style. Treat yourself to a stroll though her blog and you will surely be inspired.

For my card, I framed the mermaid's tail from Inner Mermaid by Julie Ebersole on a panel created with liquid watercolr from Hero Arts. The sentiment is heat embossed with silver EP.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog, See what Viv and the Design Team have created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations and have chance to win. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple.

To be eligible for showCASe and PRIZE WINNER choices you will need to carefully follow the guidance on our GLOSSARY OF TERMS and our HOW TO PLAY pages. Your design should feature lots of clean / white / blank / non patterned / non textured space. All challenge details are on the Less Is More blog.

I'm also playing at:

Watercooler Wednesday #228 - Feminine Anything Goes

The Sisterhood Of Crafters - Any Occasion

Celebrate Everything

Time Out Challenge #139 is up and running. This time, it is an "Inspired By Words" challenge with a quote from Oscar Wilde: "With freedom, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?"

This challenge is sponsored by the fabulous Catherine Pooler. Our winner, chosen by the design team, will receive a $25 coupon to the Catherine Pooler store. 

Claire, a regular player at Time Out, is our guest designer. Clair is an incredibly talented card artist whose coloring skills are amazing. Please treat yourself to a visit to her blog: Life on the Scrap Heap for heaps of inspiration. You'll be so glad you did.

Using Sponsor stamps Good Things and Canvas Grunge Background, I interpreted the quote as one of celebration, and how many reasons there always are to do so. 

Today is a huge day of celebration here in the US, which prompted me to use red, white and blue as my color palatte. I created a background with Distress Oxide inks that I inked directly to Catherine Pooler's Canvas Grunge Background stamp. I sprayed it with water and stamped it on Neeneh Solar White 80# paper. Once dry, I spattered it with a little Perfect Pearls mixed with water, then die cut a large star from the background to use as the stage for my quote. I stamped it with VersaFine Onyx Black inside the star, then embossed with clear EP on top of the black ink. I spattered a mixture of red Perfect Pearls and water on a panel die cut with a Lawn Fawn scalloped rectangle, added some twine at the top, popped the star up in the middle, and adhered it to an A2 card base cut from SU Marina Mist cardstock.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenges Blog to see what Claire and the rest of the Design Team have created for your inspiration. Play with us to share your creation, and a chance to win a prize from Catherine Pooler Designs. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

I'm also playing at:

Inkspirational #190 - 3 or 5 of Something

Five points on my star.

SSS Monday Challenge - Make Your Own Background

My star.

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Stars and/or Stripes

Freshly Made Sketches #395

Moving Along With The Times #101 - Stars And Stripes

Addicted To Stamps And More - Holiday

Always Fun #117 - Patriotic

Let's Celebrate

Addicted To CAS Challenge #142 is up and running with code word: MASCULINE. This challenge is hosted by ATCAS Design Team Member, Ellenor.

Our Guest Designer is the incredibly talented Desert Diva, Hannelie. Her work is bold, designed to perfection, colorful and wonderful. I am always inspired by her creativity. Please stop by Hannelie's  blog to say hello. You are sure to be inspired as you visit!

Don't forget, as always, Happy Little Stampers is our Sponsor, and Kylie is generously awarding the winner with a $20.00 gift certificate to the store!

Please remember that this is a CAS challenge. Here is a definition to remind you:

As for my card, my sons wanted to take their father out for sushi as birthday a gift, so I made them a "gift card". To create it, I stamped several images from Lawn Fawn's Let's Roll set, colored them with Copics, die cut and arranged them. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches Birthday Sampler, and is heat embossed on a die cut banner.

Please head over to the ATCAS Challenge Blog and see what Hannelie and the Design Team have come up with to inspire you. Join us in the gallery to share your creation, and for a chance to win!

I'm also playing at:

The Male Room - Birthday

Celebrating The Male Room's 5th Birthday

Seize The Birthday - Anything Goes

Cheers!

Time for a new challenge at Time Out. The theme is Food and Drink with an optional twist of a one layer card. The challenge runs from August 2nd to August 15th. 

Our sponsor is Birch Press Designs.

A randomly drawn winner, chosen from those who twist, will receive a $20 gift voucher to the Birch Press Designs Shop.

Challenge winner, chosen by our Design Team, will win a spot as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the lovely and talented Susie Moore of Created 4 Creativity. She is a very talented designer with a wonderful eye for using lots of wonderful colors on her projects. Please take a stroll through her blog You are sure to be inspired.

For my card, I used a "vintage" stamp that has been in my stash for many years from stampingbella.com - Cosmobella. She has been updated since she was first released in 2006, but I felt that she was perfect for this challenge. I colored her with Copics, stenciled some bubbles with Simonsaysstamp Falling Snow Stencil and added a sentiment from Paper Smooches.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenge Blog to see what Susie and the Design Team have created for your inspiration. Then create a food/drink themed card and link up in the gallery. I can't wait to see how you are inspired!

I'm also playing at:

Watecooloer Wednesday Challenge #181 - Feminine Anything Goes

Let's Celebrate!

It's time for an new challenge at AAA Cards CAS Challenge Blog! Our theme for Game #75 is a photo inspiration.

Our wonderful sponsor is Happy Little Stampers. 

Our first place winner will receive a $20 Gift Certificate from the HLS Store.

Our Guest Designer is Katerina from Make A Wish. Her challenge card is fantastic, as are the creations of the AAA design team. Please head on over to the AAA CAS Challenge Blog and take a look!

Here is my take:

I had a rainbow watercolored panel in my "snippets box". I die cut it with this wonderful Star Garland Confetti Cuts die from Reverse Confetti. After gluing it onto the white linen cardstock panel, I added clear WOS to the stars. You can't see it in the pic, but it gives it a wonderful little sparkle.  The sentiment is from Winnie & Walter's The Party.

I hope you'll join in on this fun challenge at AAA Cards. Remember to keep it CAS!!!!

I am also linking up to Happy Little Stampers October Anything Goes With Dies Challenge.

Thanks for your visit today!