Too Glam To Give A Damn

It's time for a new challenge at Time Out. Challenge #237 challenges us to be FASHIONABLE. Think clothing, design, color trends - even food fashion. Let your imagination run free!

We are generously sponsored by AALL & Create.

Challenge Winner will receive a $20.00 store credit and an invitation to Guest Design with the Time Out Design Team for a future challenge.

We welcome Arlene Rose of Sunday Stamper Papercrafts and Winner of Time Out #234 as our Guest Designer for this challenge. Arlene is a very talented crafter with a style that is often CAS. She has awesome coloring skills. Please visit her blog for some great inspiration. She would welcome your comments on her creations!

I stepped waaaaaay out of my comfort zone on this one when I decided to go with a mixed media creation to showcase AALL & Create's Fashionable Miss Dee. She just cracks me up and was the perfect image for our challenge. I used powdered inks, stencils, Lunar Paste and white ink to create my gel print background. I die cut and foam mounted the background on 110lb cardstock. I stamped, colored and popped up Miss Dee and the sentiment, and my card was complete.

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

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	AALL & Create Miss Dee Waffle Flower A2 Layers Dies Pretty Pink Posh Wonky Stitched Rectangles
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest 90lb. Neenah Cardstock
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black VersaFine Onyx Black VersaMark Brushos & Ken Oliver Color Burst inks Inkon3 Atelier Shark Tooth White ~ Artist Grade Fusion Ink
Embellishments	Recollections Gold Pearl Stickers Ranger Ink Simon Hurley Silver Lining
Other	Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool WOW Heat Tool Bearly Art Precision Glue Scor-Pal Score Tape-1" Waffle Flower 1/16" Foam Strips WOW Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool A Colorful Life Designs Groovy Flowers Stencil AALL & Create Stencil Bursts #13 UNIMEIX Ink Blending Brush Gel Press 5x7 Gel Printing Plate

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Masculine and/or Feminine

Happy Birthday Time Out!

Time for a new challenge at Time Out! Challenge #232 starts today and runs through March 1st. It is a special celebration of Time Out's 9th Birthday!  We are joined by our co-founder Sandie of London Days who was the glue who kept us going for many years. We love you and we are so happy to have you designing with us for this very special occasion!  I have been part of the Time Out Design Team since October 2016, and I am so blessed and privileged to be part of this incredibly talented group of crafters who are as wonderful people as they are artists. 

We welcome Hannelie Bester of Desert Diva and winner of Time Out #230, as our Guest Designer. Hannelie is well known and admired in the card making world. Her creations are consistently stunning and inspiring. Do treat yourself to a visit to her blog. You are sure to be glad that you did.

My card is simply stamped with Newton's Nook Zoo Party image and sentiments and colored with Copics The sentiments are heat embossed. The tropical background is a gel print made with Pretty Pink Posh's Jungle Background stencil.

We are generously sponsored by Newton's Nook. Challenge winner will receive a t

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

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Newton's Nook Zoo Party
Cardstock	80 lb. Neenah Solar Crest Cardstock Recollections Black 110 lb. Cardstock
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black VersaFine Onyx Black Copic markers
Embellishments
Other	Wow Clear Embossing Powder Pretty Pink Posh Jungle Background Stencil Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool Bearly Art Precision Glue Scor-Pal Score Tape-1" 3M foam tape

I'm also playing at:

Shopping Our Stash #490 - Anything starting with the letter B

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Make My Monday #194 - All Creatures Great & Small

We Love Stamping February Challenge

Anything stamped with the option to add a stencil

We're Here For You

 

Time Out #198 begins today, We are challenged to create something to acknowledge Breast Cancer Awareness Month and making a friendship or encouragement card with an optional twist of pink. The challenge runs from Thursday, October 7th to October 20th.

We are generously sponsored by CASual Fridays Stamps.

A $25.00 gift voucher will be given to a randomly drawn winner. Challenge winner as designated by the design team will be eligible for a guest designer spot in a future challenge.

To create my card, I used a white 110# card base. I popped up a gel print panel that was die cut with Spellbinders Rectangular Hemstitch Dies on which I stamped and heat embossed the Hope Ribbon from CASual Fridays along with a sentiment from the same set. I placed a tiny punched heart and old SU punch in in the middles of the ribbon image. That was it. Sadly, I have several people I can send this to at the moment. I am a survivor myself, and I can't tell you how much hope filled cards meant to me when I was sick.

 

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

I'm also playing at:

Krafty Chicks #580 - Stamp Act

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With Brave Wings

Time Out #196 begins today, We are challenged to be BRAVE. The challenge runs from Thursday, September 9th  to September 22nd.

We are generously sponsored by Funky Fossil Designs.

Challenge winner will receive £15 gift voucher and will also be eligible for a guest designer spot in a future challenge.

Our guest designer for this challenge is Rahmat Gouse of Cards And Cooking Corner. Rahmat is also the winner of Time Out Challenge #193. Rahmat is an incredibly talented card artist. Please visit her blog and soak up the inspiration you are sure to experience.

For my card, I started with a gel plate background that I created a while ago. I used Funky Fossil She is Fierce stamp set with heat embossing and Copic coloring. Her wings are made from a stamp and die from Stampendous with some ink blending with PTI inks. I love the way this turned out, though is is quite a departure from my style of late. 

 

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

BE you TIFUL

Time Out Challenge #183 begins today, and challenge is for us to be DIFFERENT. This could be interpreted in many ways like stepping out of your comfort zone in your card making style, clothing style, food that is different for you to eat, etc. Use your imagination and show us your being different in your creation for this challenge. Have fun!

Our challenge runs from Thursday, March 11th to Wednesday, March 24th. Our wonderful sponsor is Funky Fossil Designs. Challenge winner will receive at $15.00 gift voucher to the Funky Fossil Designs Shop.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Lisa Petrella of Paper Mountain Parcels. Lisa is a very talented card maker whose style is largely CAS and often reflects her life as a Coloradan in her creations. Treat yourself to a visit to her wonderful blog, and show her some love. You will be full of inspiration after your visit.

To create my card, I stepped out of my comfort zone once again as I have been trying to do more of lately in my cards. Funky Fossil Designs lends encouragement to me for that purpose. I took one of the gel press backgrounds that I had created with Distress Oxide Inks, stamped an image from Funky Fossil Lotus Reflections stamp set directly onto it with VersaFine Onyx Black ink, and heat embossed it with clear EP. I stamped the lotus flower onto a scrap from a different gel press panel, heat embossed it with clear EP, fussy cut it out and popped it up on top of the lotus flower image on the larger stamped image. I die cut the panel with Spellbinders Hemstitch dies, and added a sentiment from the same stamp set and heat embossed it with Rose Gold EP to go with the rose colored lotus flower. I mounted the top panel on a black card base, and my card was complete.

This one is in honor of women everywhere. I have been enjoying working with my students to raise awareness of the awesome power of women in the world. I asked my Kinder students today to tell the class about a woman in their lives they'd like to honor. One little girl raised her hand, pointed at me and said, "you". Made me a little misty, I must say!

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

I'm also playing at:

Watercooler Wednesday #311 - All Things Feminine

Just Add Ink - Shades Of Green

Fusion Card Challenge - Green

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Use Something Green

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