New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

We have a new challenge for you at Time Out... It is to be Inspired by Your Favorite Thing to Do in January! There's lots of inspiration on how to interpret this theme in our challenge blog... Along with all the other challenge details and guidelines. Don't miss any of it, click HERE! By playing along you could win a prize from Lawn Fawn and you could also be called to guest design in a future challenge. This time our guest is Verena with a super fun CAS card! 

I live in Finland and January is one of our most wintry months. When it comes to card making in January, I usually try to make cards that reflect that and are wintry without being Christmas cards... And that can be sometimes tricky! Also the upcoming Valentine's Day is celebrated as a Friendship Day in Finland and I do like sending those cards... So most of my January cards are made for friends. 

I used a Waffle Flower cover plate and created 3 different white on white cards (there's a white on white theme in Simon Says Stamp Instagram challenge which gave me this idea). The "Hello Friend"-cards are a "two for one design" where I used paper with handmade quality (it has some small color variations) combined with white glitter card in the other and pearly white shimmery card in the other. The pearly white is an inlaid design and is maybe my favorite -after inlaying the pieces I ran the whole thing through my die cutiing machine with the embossing plates (I protected it with a folded piece of copy paper) and it just looks so smooth and lovely IRL! In the "Hello"-card I've embossed the die on white card and also then "flattened" it with the same method than the pearl card -love how that looks too. The white glitter version is simply a die cut panel glued on glitter card. It looks nice too, but the two other ones are more special! :) 

I hope to see you joining us and than you for popping by! xxx

 

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

We have the first challenge of 2025 for you at Inkspirational and it's a super fun one!! Our team mate Julia has chosen "Pretty Quilt" and there's tons of inspiration for the theme in the challenge blog, as well as a link to tutorials. Don't miss any of the fun, click HERE.

I decided to be very literal with Julia's theme and created something that very much looks like an actual bed spread (or at least that's how I intended it!). I formed the quilt pattern from white card and patterned paper and then die cut it with an Altenew cover plate that gave it a sort of "stitched" feel. The white dry embossed snowflake background is made with a  Honey Bee folder and I found just the perfect sentiment from a stamp set from Three Room Studio. Making the quilt was so fun and I'm in love with the outcome. Thank you Julia for choosing this theme! xxx

I hope to see you joining us at Inkspirational!  

 

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

It's the first challenge of the year at Time Out and we are starting with a theme challenge of 'Beginnings'. We also have some fun news: we have a new DT member, Carol McFarland!! We look forward creating alongside Carol and are thankful that she could join us. Our challenge rota is also changing a little bit this year. Do head on over to our post with lots of information and all the challenge details HERE.

I made a card for the  beginning of a New Year using products from Honey Bee Stamps (patterned paper, embossing folder and flower dies) and sentiment from Hero Arts. I'm so into cards with slight vintage feel but still quite clean and not overly "shabby chic" if that makes sense!

I'd like to join:

Snippets #496 Anything Goes with Snippets (lots of paper scraps used for the roses)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Something New (New Year)

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you playing along at Time Out!

 

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for Time Out Challenges, where our last challenge of 2024 is a fun photo inspiration! We are celebrating holidays of all kinds and hope to see you playing along. 

I was inspired by the peppermint stripes of the letter "p" in the photo... And dark blue background and some greenery. I used a large Joy-die from Altenew and used the stencils that go with it for creating the stripes. The greenery and bow are Hero Arts dies. Background embossing folder is by Altenew. This was very fun to make! Some simple die cutting, inking and copic coloring (for the greenery) and of course lots of paint splatters. :)

Please head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge details and lots of more DT inspiration from our DT members and talented guest designer Verena. Then it's your turn to Take Time Out and Craft! 

 

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here today with my DT card for the new challenge at Inkspirational where we have a very cool moodboard for your inspiration. I'm sure you'll find something that inspires you from the photos of the it!

I was inspired by only one photo this time -the top right photo with black and white wreath and Christmas text. I pretty much tried to replicate the photo with my own supplies. I stamped a wreath style of image from Pinkfresh Studio with white ink on black card stock and after that was dry, I heat embossed a Colorado Craft Company sentiment with white powder. I really love how this turned out and if I'll be short on Christmas cards I think I'll re-make this design -it would work in other colors too I think... Stamping the florals tone on tone on pink for example and with a black sentiment, that could be fun! 

Do head on over to our challenge blog where we have lots of more inspiration for you along with all the challenge details and linky for your projects. Thank you for popping by! 

 

 

Time Out Challenges Reminder!

Hi friends!

I'm here today to remind you of our challenge at Time Out, where we have a wonderful inspirational quote for you:

 "There is truly not an occasion that is not improved by wearing something festive." 

These are the instructions:

You can use the whole quote or parts of it to inspire your creation. For example, you can use the word "festive"; or "occasion"; or the words "wearing something festive", etc. You must use something in the quote as your inspiration. In your post, please tell us how the quote inspired you.

I'm pretty much inspired by the whole quote... A festive dress to wear on a special occasion day. :) The dress die is by Honey Bee Stamps, the sentiment stamp comes from Penny Black... The oval die is from a Marianne design set and the mini slimline die comes from Crealies. I have added extra shading to the dress with Copic markers.

There's plenty of design team inspiration -and also inspiration in the players gallery- along with all challenge details HERE. If you haven't played along yet, now is the perfect time! Thanks for popping by!

 

 

 

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with a quick post for Inkspirational, where our new challenge is "Santa". I had very fun creating this card with various dies and other products! The Merry die is by Sizzix/Tim Holtz and the Santa die comes from Simon Says Stamp. I created the post stamps with Marianne Design dies and patterned paper from Dear Santa paper pack from memory-place. I gave a vintage look to the background with some 49 and Market rub ons and finished my postage stamps by adding detail with Waffle Flower Crafts postage collage stamps. All and all this card needed lots of die cutting, glueing and fiddling with things but it was very fun! 

I hope to see you joining us! Lots of more DT inspiration and all of the challenge details HERE. 

I'd like to join:

Snippets Playground #493

Lots and lots of paper scraps where used for die cutting the Santa, the stamps and the Merry-sentiment