Time Out Challenge #35 - Theme: Nature with a Twist of Animals

Hi friends!  Ready for a new challenge from Time Out?  This challenge is a theme challenge.  We want you to use the theme of nature and if you want to twist with us, add an animal too!

 

I've had this stamp set from Inky Antics for a couple of years now and it needed to finally see some ink.  (See, hubby?  I do need all these stamps cause some day I'll need them!)  I stamped the jar and the bug on watercolor paper with Archival ink.  I colored them with the new Zig Clean Color Real Brushes.  (I looked online for them a few weeks ago and no one had them.  I saw a post from my local stamp store who said they had them.  One phone call to hold the last set of 24 for me and they were mine!)  I added glossy accents to the bug's eyes and star dust stickles to its wings. 

 

My layout comes from this week's Retro Sketches.  I changed the orientation for my card to vertical.

 

You can see more from the Time Out design team and our guest for this challenge, Barb Ghig.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Bug B Gone (Inky Antics), Friendship Jar Summer Fillers (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white, pacific point, Good Morning Sunshine dp (SU)

Ink:  Archival jet black, Zig Clean Color Real Brushes

Accessories:  Friendship Jar Summer Fillers die (PTI), On the diagonal die (Lil' Inkers), Borders 1 die (Paper Smooches), Banner Trio die (WP9), candy dots, star dust stickles, glossy accents, fun foam





Time Out Challenge #5 - Inspired By Words

Hi everyone!  I cannot believe we are in our 5th challenge over at the Time Out blog!  We've got a good one for you this week.  You are to create a project inspired by the following words:

 

"Time flies, Love lasts"

 

Aren't these great words to live by?  Time certainly does fly, but hopefully love stays constant.

 

Here's my interpretation of these words.  Just this weekend, I went to my LSS and purchased this stamp set and coordinating dies from MFT.  As I was looking at them, I thought it would fit with this challenge.  I was thinking of my good friend in Columbus, OH that I haven't seen in a few years and how we keep saying we are going to get together soon.  We remain good friends, but time sure has flown since we've seen each other.  We have to rectify that real soon!  I added the hearts on the phone and impressed them on the black panel to get the "love" in there.

 

I also used the sketch from Retro Sketches.

 

You can see more inspiration from the team at these blogs, as well as from our guest designer for this challenge, Karen.

 

Nonni

Sandie

Lynn

Shery
Dawn

Bev

Gerrina

 Time Out blog

 

You have two weeks to play with this challenge.  We hope to see you playing along!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Friend request (MFT)

Paper:  Neenah white, black, marina mist, real red, Bitty Dot dp (PTI)

Ink:  Versafine black onyx

Accessories:  Smart phone die (MFT), Sizzix heart embossing folder, glossy accents, Wink of Stella shimmer brush, dimensionals

 



Time Out #2 - Home Sweet Home Challenge

It's time for the second Time Out Challenge.  This time the challenge is called Home Sweet Home, and for this challenge we provide a photo from a part of a home for your inspiration.  I love the clean look of this bedding and those butterflies are just so beautiful!

 

I went very CAS with my card.  But just because it's CAS, doesn't mean it's a 1-2-3 card!  I had to do the main panel at least twice before I got it right on this one.  I was using a new bottle of Tombow mono multi glue and it was getting everywhere and leaving spots on the white card stock!  Then I tried using a new SU chocolate chip ink (I don't like the new pads) and ink got on my hands and invariably the card!  Anyway....I finally got it right with no (visible) spots!  I stuck with the patterned butterflies you see on the spread and that little strip is like the edging on the spread.  The base of the card was run through the linen impression plate for a little bit of texture.  I added some shimmer with the Wink of Stella brush.

 

This is the sketch I used from this week's Retro Sketches.  Loved it!  So different!

 

You can see more fabby designs from the Time Out DT at these blogs.

 

Nonni

Sandie

Lynn

Shery
Dawn

Bev

Gerrina

 Time Out blog

 

This challenge is on a two week run, so you have lots of time to link up!  Hope to see you taking the Time Out to play with us!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Tag You're It (MFT)

Paper:  Neenah white, Market Square (Farmhouse)

Ink:  Memento rich cocoa

Accessories:  Linen impression plate (PTI), Darla Butterfly die (Memory Box), Wink of Stella shimmer brush, dimensionals



Time Out Challenge #1

Hi everyone!  Today is the day the design team at the Time Out Challenge has been waiting for...it's our very first challenge!  Out challenges will run every two weeks with a different challenge each time.  The rotation of challenges will be as follows:

1.  Inspired by words

2.  Home sweet home (photo inspiration)

3.  Theme with an optional twist

4.  CASE with your own twist

Our first challenge is Inspired the Words:  Dancing in the Rain.   I chose this old stamp from a Paper Makeup Stamps set called Raindrops and Rainbows.  I thought it fit the challenge well.  I started with some modeling paste colored with distress ink and spread onto a stencil from Tim Holtz.  While it was still wet, I sprinkled on some Martha Stewart glitter.  The umbrella was first cut from pretty paper by Memory Box called Minuet.  I've had it for quite some time and this is the first time using it!  I then cut the handle from chocolate cardstock and added a felt bow. 

 I loved this sketch from Retro Sketches when I first saw it, and I had another idea for it that I still may play with if I find some time!

We have two sponsors for our first challenge and they are:

Make the Day Special - 10 £ credit to the store

Avocado Arts - One free item from the store



We hope you come out and play with us in our first challenge and beyond!  Stop by these blogs from the design team to get more inspiration, then over to the Time Out blog and enter your creation!

Nonni

Sandie

Lynn

Shery
Dawn

Bev

Gerrina

 Time Out blog

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you play along with us this week!

Recipe

Stamps:  Raindrops and Rainbows (Paper Makeup Stamps)

Paper:  Neenah white, Baja breeze, chocolate chip, vellum, Minute (Memory Box)

Ink:  Memento rich cocoa, tumbled glass distress ink

Accessories:  Scattered showers die (PTI), basic bow die (Taylored Expressions), lattice work stencil, pearls, modeling paste, Martha Stewart glitter, felt, Perfect Pearls mist





Retro Sketches #98 - With Sympathy

Hi friends!  I have another sympathy card to share, only this time it's for the loss of a beloved pet.  Our dear friends recently lost their beautiful Bernese Mountain dog, Zoe, to cancer.  She was only 6 1/2 years old.  We all loved Zoe.  She had a very sweet personality and will be missed especially by my dog, Lizzie.  She and Zoe were very best friends.

 

Bernese Mountain dogs are black with a little brown and white markings.  I tried to find paper that incorporated those colors.  I chose the Little Black Dress pad from Basic Grey.  The butterfly was die cut from a brown piece from the pack and I added some pearls for the body and Wink of Stella shimmer brush.  In the picture it looks leathery.  The sentiment is from PTI and was stamped in Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder.

 

I used this week's sketch from Retro Sketches.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  With Sympathy: Loss of Pet (Papertrey Ink)

Paper:  Vintage cream, Little Black Dress (Basic Grey)

Ink:  Versamark

Accessories:  Beautiful Butterflies die (PTI), white embossing powder, pearls, corner rounder, Wink of Stella shimmer brush

Everywhere an Oink Oink

Hi everyone!  I made this card to enter into our county fair.  I have to take it there tomorrow (Thursday) and just made it tonight.  The category is paper tole.  I looked it up and the definition is taking parts of the same image and popping it up.  I can do that!  The problem was finding the right stamp (of which I have many!)!  So I chose this Miss Peggy stamp from High Hopes.  I stamped it three times on X-Press It Blending Card and cut out the head from one and the nose and ears from another.   The head is actually on one of those wobble things, so it moves.  The image is colored with copic markers.  I stamped the chicken wire (from a company called Stamp Camp) onto a wood grain paper from Authentique.  The sentiment is also from High Hopes and I stamped it on the backside of the woodgrain paper.  It's cut with a WPlus9 flag die.  I accented the card with a button strung with some floss and some pearls.

Here's a blurry side view.  The only thing I don't like about that wobble thing is that the back side of it has writing on it.  Can you see it?  How dumb!

I used this sketch from Retro Sketches.

 

I hope I get some recognition at the fair!  If not, it was fun creating this one!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Miss Peggy and sentiment (High Hopes)

Paper:  X-Press It Blending Card, Papertrey Ink white, Carefree (Authentique), Hopskotch (Basic Grey)

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, copic markers

Accessories:  Square nestie, WPlus9 flag die, wobble (Action Wobble), pearls, button, floss, dimensionals

 



10 Minute Dash x 5!

Like my title?  I'm taking the Summer Card Camp 2 from Online Card Classes and the challenge today was to create a card in 10 minutes or less.  Well I failed miserably!  I had my timer on and was on my way, but I hit the 10 minute mark and probably would have finished in about 12 minutes, but then the phone rang (my iPhone which is what I was using as my timer).  Well, I forgot all about the challenge and kept on talking.  When I hung up, I remembered the timer.  It was at about 51 minutes!  Hence the 10 x 5 in my title!  Oh well!

 

Here's my 51 minute card!  I made this for my father-in-law who had some minor surgery this week and is in some discomfort.  I like this sentiment from a Paper Smooches set called First Aid Kit.  I stamped the bandage on Blush Blossom cardstock in Versamark then embossed it in white ep so that it looked like a bandage.  I stamped the heart (from Verve's Hearts on Fire set) in the middle with Dusty Durango ink.  I cut it out and mounted it on the panel with dimensionals.  The sentiment, from the same PS set, was stamped in Memento cocoa ink.  The dp is Basic Grey's Life of the Party.  I added a piece of ribbon and a button threaded with some twine.  The main panel and the base of the card are Cajun Craze.

 

I don't always finish off the inside of my cards until I need them so here is the finished off inside.  I used First Aid Kit and Sentiment Sampler for the sentiments.  The "and" is from PTI's Fresh Alphabet set.

 

I used this Retro Sketch for my layout.



Thanks for stopping by!

 

Retro

Stamps:  First Aid Kit and Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches), Hearts on Fire (Verve), Fresh Alphabet (PTI)

Paper:  Vintage Ivory, Cajrun craze, Life of the Party (Basic Grey)

Ink:  Memento rich cocoa, dusty Durango, Versamark

Accessories:  White ep, button, ribbon, twine, dimensionals, corner rounder

Pretty Palette #78 - Happy New Year!

Hi there!  There is a new Pretty Palette challenge over on the My Time Made Easy blog.  These colors are taken from the latest digital paper pack called Table for Two Patterns. 

Since I didn't make any Christmas cards to send out to some of my crafty friends, I figured I'd send New Year's cards.  This image is from the new Christmas Swag digital stamp set.  It's colored in GIMP with three of the challenge colors.  I used the new You're Invited cut file for the large shape.  The green polka dotted paper is one of the designs from Table for Two Patterns.  The base of the card is basic gray (it looks black!), and I added an orchid and white gingham ribbon to finish it off.

I used this great sketch from Retro Sketches.  Loved it!

You can see more from the Pretty Palette girls at these blogs.

 

MTME blog

Jackie Randolph

Mary Vogel

Romaine Rancier

Tracy Holmes



Thanks for stopping by!  Happy New Year!