Merry & Bright

 

Time Out Challenge #228 begins today. This time we have a theme - Winter Holiday. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is Newton's Nook Designs. Challenge winner will receive a $25.00 voucher to use at the Newton's Nook Store.

We welcome Sue Symens of Sentimentally Sue as our Guest Designer. Sue is a very talented card maker with a (most often) CAS style. Her blog and Instagram are chock full of wonderful inspiration. Treat yourself to a look and your creativity is sure to be sparked!

To create my card, I used the Holly Botanical Background Layering Stencil Set from Pinkfresh Studio and various SU inks for my border. I added the CZ Designs Merry & Bright die cut in red foil card stock backed with vellum and three SSS snowflakes cut from glitter card stock. This was an easy, quick and very festive card.

SSS Bliss Snowflake Die, SSS CZD Merry & Bright, Pinkfresh Studio Holiday Botanical Background

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!

I'm also playing at:

Just Us Girls #660 - Photo

Focus on the garland on the mantle

Sunday Stamps #297 - Holiday Greetings

Red, Green & White

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - 52CCT22-44

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #28

You're Tops In My Book

Time Out #218 begins today. It's a Theme Challenge where our challenge is to be inspired by these words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped make my dreams come true."

The challenge runs from Thursday, July 14th  to Wednesday, July 27th. We are generously sponsored by Newton's Nook Designs. Winner will receive a $25.00 gift voucher to the Newton's Nook Store.

My card was created with my NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff) Sugar Pea Designs stamps and dies. See supply list below. I also used my SSS A2 stencils and masks for the first time with DO ink. I love the way my card turned out, and I can't wait to send it to a former boss of mine who is a favorite person of mine and the most wonderful advocate of children's literacy. 

Supplies~

Stamps: Sugar Pea Designs Book Club stamps 

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide

Other: Sugar Pea Designs SugarCut Book Words dies and SugarCut Basic Bookmark Dies, Simon Says Stamp Stencil A2 Masks,Tonic Mirror Card Gloss Card Stock. WOW clear embossing Powder.

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:

CASEing Michele

 Time Out #207 begins today, I am so excited about this challenge because it is our first CASE The Artist challenge, AND even better, our artist to CASE is the incredibly talented, friendly and funny  Michele Ferguson of I Card Everyone. 

We are generously sponsored by STAMPlorations. Winner gets a $25 gift voucher to spend in the STAMPlorations Store.

Michelle's creations are so artful and inspiring. She is a lover of nature and takes a lot of inspiration from it in her art, especially flowers, birds and butterflies. Michele has an enormous talent for design and use of color. She is an artist extraordinaire and my favorite enabler, as I want to buy everything she uses to do her magic LOL. If you haven't already, please treat yourself to a visit to her blog where you can't help but be instantly awestruck.

Here is Michele's fabulous card for the CASE-ing!

We welcome Ashwini Rao of Experiments With Card Making Etc and winner of Time Out #204 as our wonderful Guest Designer. 

It was such a joy to make a card inspired by Michele's. I went with a white heart, surrounded by floral die cuts in shades of pink and a touch of green. I added a foiled die cut sentiment. All of the products except the sentiment (SSS) and the white heart (Spellbinders) are from Pinkfresh Studio. Guess whose work introduced me to that awesome company??? These are the Pinkfresh products I used to create my card:

English Garden Washi Tape and matching dies

Curvy Foliage Die

Curvy Leaves Die Set

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

I'm also playing at:

Pinkfresh Studio February 2022 Challenge

Inkspirational #258

Paper Players #577 - Love & Friendship

Cupcake Inspiration #537 - Valentine Hearts

Love Your Heart

It's time for a new challenge at Festive Friday where every challenge is an inspiration list based on a selected holiday/festivity from the traditional to the unusual. Challenge projects must include at least three items from the festivity inspiration list.

Since the Inspiration List is a mix of elements related to the festivity, the creator has the choice to make something for that festivity, or to ignore the festivity all together and create something using just the three (or more) elements selected.

Today's festivities are in celebration of International Polar Bear Day, which is celebrated on February 27th. The challenge runs from February 5 - February 15.

For my Polar Bear themed project, I used: bear, blue, snowflakes and sentiment from the inspo list. The trees and snow are cur from white glitter paper using the Birch Trees Cover Plate by Julie Ebersole from Essentials By Ellen. That sweet bear is from All Inside, and his little hot cup is from Bear Ware 3, also by Julie Ebersole from Essentials By Ellen. My bear scene is mounted on a sheet of blue foiled card stock. The snowy sky is made from blended Distress Oxide inks and spatters of Mister Huey's Opaque White Color Mist. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Strips and die cut with a Sentiment Strip Die from Pink & Main. The card base is Neenah Solar White 110# card stock.

For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the Festive Friday Challenge Design team.

Ann Schach

Beth McCullough

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings

Stephanie Lanzalotto

Melva Peters

Judy Rozema

I'm also playing at:

The Paper Players #526 - Die Cut, Animal, Scene

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Create Your Own Background

To My Favorite Bookworm

Time Out Challenge #180 begins today.  We are challenged to create a card inspired by the words "In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold."

 Our sponsor for this challenge is 

Newton's Nook Designs

Our Guest Designer this week is Bobby of Bits & Pieces. Bobby is a very talented crafter and lovely person. Treat yourself to a visit to her wonderful blog, and show her some love.

I bought this set of stamps and dies on eBay a while ago. It's called Read Past Your Bedtime by Uniquely Creative, an Australian company. I stamped some of the images on Neenah Solar White 80# card stock, colored them with Copics, and die cut and arranged them over some light stenciling. I used the color scheme from Inkspirational's current challenge. I love that photo! The sentiment is from an ancient set from MFT - I (heart) Books By Stephanie Fizer. This will be a birthday card for one of my favorite bookworms!

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

I'm also playing at:

Inkspirational #231

WWC306 - All About Occasions

Krafty Chicks #533 - Any Occasion

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Lunar New Year

It's time for a new challenge at Festive Friday where every challenge is an inspiration list based on a selected holiday/festivity from the traditional to the unusual. Challenge projects must include at least three items from the festivity inspiration list.

Since the Inspiration List is a mix of elements related to the festivity, the creator has the choice to make something for that festivity, or to ignore the festivity all together and create something using just the three (or more) elements selected.

Today's festivities are in celebration of Lunar New Year which is celebrated on Friday, February 12th this year.  The challenge runs from January 22-February 5.

For my Lunar New Year themed project, I used: red, lanterns, gold and foil paper from the inspo list. I used Mama Elephant's Sakura Creative Cuts for the frame, branch, flowers and lanterns, and Mama Elephant's Lunar Sayings stamp set for the sentiment. Both stamps and dies are brand new (to me). The frame is cut from gold foil paper. The other die cuts are done with 80# Neenah Solar White card stock and colored with Copic Markers. The clouds were stenciled with the Cloud Edger from A Colorful Life Designs. The card base is Neenah Solar White 110# card stock.

For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the Festive Friday Challenge Design team.

Ann Schach

Beth McCullough

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings

Melva Peters

Judy Rozema

I'm also playing at:

NBUS #22

Moving Along With The Times #126 - New

Salty But Sweet

Time Out Challenge #179 begins today.  We are challenged to create a card inspired by the word "YOU"! Create a card that says something about YOU. This could be your favorite card-making style, favorite food, movie, book...

 Our sponsor for this challenge is Stamplorations

 

STAMPlorations is offering a prize of a $25 gift voucher for our winner!
 Additionally, the winner will be asked to be the Guest Designer for a future challenge.

Our Guest Designer this week is Anila. Be sure to visit her awesome blog and show her some love.

Nothing says "me" more than anything related to the sea. I always say that I was a mermaid in a former life. My place of peace is the beach. My favorite sound is ocean waves crashing on the sand. My favorite day is a day at the beach. So, I created a card with ocean waves and a mermaid tail using Essentials By Ellen Inner Mermaid stamps and die by Julie Ebersole.  It is very ME!

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

I'm also playing at:

Happy Little Stampers January Anything Goes With Dies

Little Red Wagon #584 - Friendship

Sisterhood Of Crafters - Die Cuts and/or Embossing Folders

Festive Happy Birthday

 

It's time for a new challenge at Festive Friday where every challenge is an inspiration list based on a selected holiday/festivity from the traditional to the unusual. Challenge projects must include at least three items from the festivity inspiration list.

Since the Inspiration List is a mix of elements related to the festivity, the creator has the choice to make something for that festivity, or to ignore the festivity all together and create something using just the three (or more) elements selected.

For my Cat-themed project, I used: a cat, sparkle (the cat, banner and balloons are all coated with Wink Of Stella but I could not capture it with my camera), and clean and simple design. I used a variety of Copic markers for coloring, and die cut the small square with Spellbinders Hemstitch Squares. All stamps are from Simon Says Stamp Baby Party Animals.

For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the  Festive Friday Challenge Design team.

Ann Schach  

Beth McCullough

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings

Melva Peters

Judy Rozema

I'm also playing at:

AAA Birthday #17 - Animals & Critters

Let's Dance It Out

It's time for a new challenge at Time Out!!! Time Out Challenge #167 - Inspired By Words: "Your love starts a dance party in my heart",

We are generously sponsored by Top Flight Stamps. The Challenge Winner will receive a 25.00 gift voucher to use in the Top Flight Store.

Our Guest Designer is Ashwini a wonderful designer whose creations are always so wonderful and fresh. She has a wonderful way with flowers! Do treat yourself to a stroll through her blog for some awesome inspiration.

To create my card, I used Casual Fridays Tutu stamps and dies, and Simon 
Says Stamp Radiant Heart s Stencil and several shades of red Distress oxide Inks. I flicked water on the hearts after I colored them. I stamped my little dancer with VersaFine Onlyx Black Ink, heat embossed the image with clear embossing powder and die cut it. The sentiment from the same stamp set is heat embossed in whitte on black and and die cut with a MFT Fishtail Flag die.

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

I'm also playing at:

Krafty Chicks KCC# 518 - Anything Goes

Watercooler Wednesday #282 - Anything Goes

Always Fun Challenge #173 - Use Stencils

Oh Ship!

I was just so amused by this photo inspiration at Inskpirational #218, and as soon as I saw it, I knew just what supplies I was going to use to play! The tentacles are from a Hero Arts wood mounted stamp that I have had forever and never used. The ship and sentiment are from a Hero Arts clear stamp set called Enjoy The Journey. I stamped and clear embossed the tentacles, then masked them and stenciled the dots using the Falling Snow stencil from SSS with Memento Love Letter ink. I colored everything with Zigs and popped up the boat and sentiment. It just keeps cracking me up. I love it.

I'm also playing at:

A Blog Named Hero July Challenge - Embossing

Always Fun Challenge #173 - Use Stencils