Happy New Year, Next Year!!!

 It's time for our first challenge of 2024 at Time Out! We have planned a great year ahead with super fun and creative bi-weekly challenges, our 10th birthday celebration and many wonderful sponsors. For our first challenge of the new year, we challenge you to be... NEW. 

You can take this in many different directions, but I went with "New Year". And I do know that this is 2024 and not 2025! I was not ready with nearly enough Christmas cards this year, so I decided to make New Year cards. When that did not happen, I decided to make this New Year card for next year. If I am going to be honest, I will tell you that my champagne bottle was stamped, cut and colored for 2022, and it never got to the post office, so I re-did the label for this bottle for next year and made this card. I vowed to do a Christmas challenge every week this year so I am ready in December. We will see how that goes. LOL.

We are generously sponsored by Gina K. Designs. Challenge Winner will get a $25.00 store credit and an offer to join the Time Out Design Team as a Guest Designer for a future challenge.

We are joined by Cynthia Olheiser of Stampin' In Alaska as Guest Designer. Please head on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog to check out Cynthia's wonderful, then take some Time Out to play with us. 

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Pretty Pink Posh Happy New Year Mama Elephant Lunar Sayings Just Rite Alpha Numeric stamps
Cardstock	80 lb. Neenah Solar Crest Recollections 110 lb. Black Cardstock
Ink	Memento Tuxedo Black VersaMark Copic markers
Embellishments	Cosmic Shimmer Gold Treasure Metallic Gilding Polish
Other	Ranger Superfine White Embossing Powder Pretty Pink Posh Fireworks Stencil Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer MISTI Stamping Tool Scor-Pal Score Tape-3/4" 3M foam tape

I'm also playing at:

Little Red Wagon #737 - What's New

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - New

Make My Monday #216 - New Year

The Alphabet Challenge - T is for Texture

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

The Best Time Of Your Life

 

It's time for a new challenge at Time Out. Challenge #174 is a theme challenge of Festivals with an optional twist of adding shimmer or glitter. We are sponsored by CrafTangles. Their products can be purchased at here. A random winner using the twist will receive a $20 discount at the Craft Tangles Store.

For my card, I used Mama Elephant's Around We Go set that I have had for years and never used. I stamped over a blended ink background and added a sentiment on a banner. I embossed the fire works With silver 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:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #532 - Stamp Act

Retro Rubber Challenge #147

Mama Elephant's Around We Go stamp set is about 6 years old and retired now.

Rainbow Card Challenge #23 - Sparkling Sapphire

Inkspirational #225 - Night

Daring Cardmakers - Fireworks