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

Birthday

Make My Monday #194 - All Creatures Great & Small

We Love Stamping February Challenge

Anything stamped with the option to add a stencil

Slimline Christmas Joy 1

 2023 Christmas card #1. I loved making this paper pieced bauble for another card HERE, so I wanted to try it in a slimline design. I like it a lot!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	SSS Christmas Foliage Dies The Greetery Opposites Attract Stamps and Dies Catherine Pooler Essential Slimline Dies PTI Bells & Boughs Stamps & Dies Memory Box Drop Ornament Die
Cardstock	110 lb. Neenah Classic Crest Solar  White 80 lb. Neenah Classic Crest Solar  White Neenah Desert Storm 80 lb. Cover Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses 6x6 Paper Pad American Crafts 6x6 Glitter Paper Pad.
Ink	Versa Mark, SU Real Red, PTI Various Greens
Embellishments
Other	Spellbinders Ski Lodge Embossing Folder Ranger Queen's Gold Embossing Powder Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer Scor-Pal Score Board Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine MISTI Stamping Tool Bearly Art Precision Glue Sookwang Double SidedAdhesive Tape 3M foam tape.

I'm playing at:

Peace On Earth #31 - Anything Goes Christmas

Jingle Belles Rock - What Did Santa Bring You?

Spellbinders Ski Lodge Embossing Folder

Make My Monday Challenge $191 - Something New

Spellbinders Ski Lodge Embossing Folder

Hey Love

It's a new year with a new year's worth of challenges at Time Out, and we welcome 5 new Design Team Members: Bobby, Deepti, Elizabeth, Jenny and Kate! You can "meet" them HERE. I am so excited to begin a new year of creative journey designing with Gerrina, Ishani Nancy and Nonni and with our new members. It's going to be a great year, and we all look forward to inspiring your creativity and to have yours inspire us.

Time Out #229 begins today. We are challenged to be Romantic. 

We are generously sponsored by Jane's Doodles. Challenge Winner will receive a $20.00 Store Credit at Jane's wonderful store.

I love all the strip designs out there, so I decided to use that technique on my card.

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	Pinkfresh Studio Shaker Heart Die Waffle Flower Slimline Stripes Die Simon Says Stamp Hey Love Wafer Die. Card Stock 110 lb. Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80 lb. Neenah Classic Crest Solar White SU and PTI solid color card stock strips DCWV gold foiled card stock Tonic Glossy Black Mirror card stock
Ink	None
Embellishments	None
Other	Sizzix Hearts 3D Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer Scor Pal Score Board ScorPal Score Tape-1" Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine MISTI Stamping Tool Bearly Art Precision Glue White Sticky Foam Sheets

I'm also playing at: 

Die Cut Divas - Valentines

Make My Monday Challenge $191 - Something New

Sizzix Hearts 3D Textured Impressions
Embossing Folder and Simon Says Stamp Hey Love Wafer

Die.

us. friends. always.

Less Is More #474 starts today and ends on October 7th. We are challenged to create a Clean & Simple card with the theme of FRIENDSHIP.

I have had this wonderful Spellbinders die set for a long time, and finally used it. I have also had this wonderful sentiment from Impression Obsession for a long time. At long last, they both got some love. Perfect for this challenge.

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.

LIM BLOG

LIM FACEBOOK PAGE

LIM INSTAGRAM

I'm also playing at:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #630 - All Occasions

Fab 'n' Funky #557 - Autumn Colors

Make My Monday #183 - Friendship

Four Seasons Challenge - September Anything Goes Fall

Alice In Wonderland

 

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. Your project does not have to go with the challenge theme. You can just use 3 or more items from the inspo list for your creation.

Today's festivities are inspired by Alice In Wonderland Day which takes place on July 4th.

The challenge runs from June 24th - July 4th.

I like to create a card for our challenge that goes with the theme. This one was tricky, as I really had few things in my stash that would work for this celebration. With a little Googling, I found the perfect supplies (among many - who knew?).  I did have this wonderful embossing folder with time/clock/watch images, and decided to make that my background. My Alice images and sentiment are from Carabelle Studio's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" stamp set. which is comprised of the two images and sentiment on my card. I stamped Alice and the rabbit with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, colored them with Copics, fussy cut them, and mounted them with Dimensionals. The sentiment was stamped with VersaFine Onyx Black ink, die cut, matted with black card stock, and glued to the embossed panel which was glued to a Night of Navy card base.  

  

From the Inspo list I used rabbit, watch/clock and magic. Magic was a bit of a stretch, but I'm going with that. I think the card is pretty magical... just sayin'

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

Jaydee

Diane Evans 

Joanne James

I'm also playing at:

Little Red Wagon #659 - Make It Count

The numbers are on all the clocks in the embossed background.

Make My Monday #177 - Colouring Any Medium

Have a Joyous Easter

I am here as Guest Designer with my reminder card for the March/April Uniko Challenge #64 - Signs of Spring with an optional twist of Easter. It has been such an honor and a joy to design among these lovely people who are some of my favorite crafting rock stars. I am grateful to have had the opportunity.

For my card, I chose to use the Uniko Mid Century Modern Florals Clear Stamp Set. I just love the images in the set. I binge-watched the entire Mad Men series while on lockdown and I can't tell you how many times I thought of these stamps as I studied the furniture and fashion on the sets of the show. Rather than go with spring pastel colors, I went with some bolder colors in rainbow order. I popped an Easter sentiment from Paper smooched in as it fit perfectly between two of the flowers. I just love the way it turned out.

Please head over to the Uniko Challenge to be inspired and to play along. Thank you Bev and the Uniko Brand Ambassadors for having me.

 I'm also playing at:

Krafty Chicks #553 - Stamp Act

The Card Concept #152 - Celebrate Easter

My Clean & Graphic card is inspired by the theme of Easter.

Shopping Our Stash #442 - Celebrating All Things Spring

Retro Rubber #155 - Rainbow Connection

I purchased Uniko's Mid Century Modern Florals when it was released in May of 2019.

Always Fun #207 - Rainbows

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Easter/Spring

Make My Monday #145 - Easter/Spring

The Sisterhood Of Crafters - Easter/Spring

There Are No Words

Less Is More Challenge #439 begins today. We are challenged to use CAS Inking on our projects  i.e., inking a masked area on your card, using inked die cuts, inking the edges of your card, etc. etc.

 

I used a masking stencil and inked the rectangular aperture with DO inks. I then stamped one of the images from the wonderful SSS Wildflowers silhouette stamp set on top of the inking and clear heat embossed. I added a sentiment from SSS Tiny Tiny Words Support stamp set and my card was complete.

 

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.

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:

Krafty Chicks #551 - CAS

Double D Challenges - Skies

Make My Monday #144 - Clean & Simple

The Tide Will Turn

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 actual festivity, or to ignore the festivity all together and create something using just the elements selected.

I created my project to go with the theme and used bright colors, heart(s), and an uplifting sentiment. Watercoloring is done with Zigs and Inktense Pencils.

FF0066 is a celebration of National Day Of Encouragement. See the Inspiration List above. It has lots of wonderful elements to choose from. You can visit the Festive Friday blog to see the awesome inspiration that the Design Team has created to spark your imagination, or you can link to their blogs here by clicking each designer's name:

Ann Schach

Beth McCullough

Sharon Hashimoto Burkett

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings

Melva Peters

Judy Rozema

Supplies used:
Stamps~Wilson Designs Teeny Bikini, SSS Simple Sentiments No. 01 - CA Design
Ink~VersaFine Clair Nocturne, VersaMark
Accessories~Inktense pencils, Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens, Paper Smooches Clouds Dies, Lawn Fawn Scalloped Rectangle Dies.

I'm also playing at:

Make My Monday #129 - On The Beach

Doodlie Doo

Time for a new challenge at Less Is More.

I must say that for some reason, this one threw me. Like so many, I have doodled my way through many a business or faculty meeting. I find it relaxing. But doodling on a DT card just scared me a little. So I went with the safety doodle above. Yep, my big doodle creation was a string for Christmas Lights. The rest of the card was perfectly die cut and stamped. Done. I used  Paper Smooches Holiday Lights Dies, and Joyful Greetings Stamps. I was not completely happy with my doodled light string because my hand shook a little, but doodle I did.

~~THEN~~

I was commenting on Challenge entries, and I came upon THIS post by Billie A. She made these wonderful cards and entered them at Time Out. I was intrigued with the technique she used. Billie referenced Creations Cee Cee. I went to You Tube and looked her up. Guess what?? Cee Cee is a major doodler!!! She is also an incredible watercolor artist. So I watched THIS video and followed along to create my own CASEd design using many of her tips and details. The final result was the card above. I LOVE this doodle thing. I can see many more doodles in my future! Thanks Billie, and thank you Cee Cee. I will be watching and learning more soon!

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 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. Good Luck!

I'm also playing Card #1 at:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #520 - Christmas

Jingle Belles - Cardstock  Christmas

I'm playing Card #2 at:

TGIF #277

Make My Monday #128 - Clean & Simple