Time Out Challenge #5

Happy Friday Eve and you know what that means??? Yep it is time for you to take some time out to craft and join in our new challenge at TIME OUT Challenges.

This week we have our 'Inspired by words' challenge and this week we have this phrase for you

'Time Flies, Love Lasts'

You can be inspired by the whole phrase or just one single word. For example you might want to use 'Love' or 'Flies' and make a paper crafting project inspired by just this word....butterflies comes to mind and we all love them! 

I went with the whole phrase and this is what I came up with:

I chose the whole phrase as when my parents celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary I gave them some champagne flutes engraved with these words. 50 years is long time and I am not so sure they will say it has all flown but the love has lasted and that is a very special!

This week at TIME OUT we have one of my favourite card makers as our Guest Designer, Karen. Her blog Made By Meadie is well worth a visit as her designs are so inspiring and we are very honoured to have her join us this week.

Our DT have all interpreted our phrase in their own unique way, so please pop over to our blog and take a look here. Then get inky my friends and the winner will be offered the chance to be a Guest Designer for us in a future challenge.

Have fun!

These are all Clearly Besotted Stamps and dies.

I will enter this into the 'button' challenge at Catered Crop and the photo challenge at (Pin)spirational Challenges-here is their photo:

STAMPlorations May Challenge

A very happy Friday my crafting friends.

It is time for our new monthly challenge at STAMPlorations and this month we are going with 'Stamps and Flowers'

What a great theme for this time of year. Your project can be any style as long as you use some kind of stamping and we some flowers!

Here is my card for this month using STAMPlorartons eclectic florals and our soon to be released sentiment builders 

This card was actually inspired by a card I got in the post from Anita at My Paper Craft World-see her card below. I loved Anita's design and she very kindly agreed I could CASE it for my DT card this month-thank you Anita x

This month our Guest Designer is the very talented Sue and to see what she has created for us check out our blog here. This is also where you will see what all the DT have made to inspire you to play along.

Need a little more motivation? How about some prizes?

The winner will get to choose 2 clear stamps set from our shop here and will be asked to be our Guest Designer for a future monthly challenge. 

If you take part in all 3 challenges at STAMPlorations in May you will be entered into the random draw for this prize:

Cloud9 Design Epoxy Accent Stickers, K&Co. Blue Awning Die-Cut Cardstock Tags, Elle's Studio Day to Day Tabs,Bella Blvd Crochet Flowers, The Card Co. Funky Lipstick Paper Flowers, and Heidi Grace Printed Flowers.

I will enter this into the 'photo' challenge at Pinspirational Challenges-I loved the colours of the flowers in the gorgeous little basket

 I will also enter this into the 'three thirds' challenge at CAS-ual Fridays as I have used 3 flowers, 3 enamel dots.

Plus One Layer Simplicity Challenge is having a 'Fabulous Flowers' month, so this card is entering there!

 Here is Anita's card: that inspired me.

Have fun playing along with us, you have all month to stamp!

Tender Shoots Cards Challenge

Hello my crafting friends,

Today my card is for the challenge that Jackie has started on her blog here. She has had the funky idea of changing the colour of her blog header using all the Spring Pantone 2013 colours by Autumn. Plus make cards to match these changes! With these changes she has challenged us to join in the fun and make a card using the colour scheme she posts every week or fortnight. And this is a very special challenge as if you link up your card to this post you could be in for a chance to win a new custom designed blog header designed by Jackie. Jackie is not only a fabulous card making blogger but also a super talented graphic designer who I called upon when I wanted my blog to reflect its name! I told Jackie my ideas and she came up with the header I have now. And I love it..........enter this challenge and you could have the same done for you, all for free!!

Here is my card using my favourite stamp set at the moment 'On Trend' by Fresh Squeezed Stamps

Firstly I used a grey card base. I stamped the photo frame in green then cut it out and masked it so I could stamp part of the cityscape inside the frame in grey. I then stamped the whole of the cityscape onto white card stock and embossed this with the linen impression plate from PTI. I popped up my cut out frame on foam pads making sure I lined up the buildings. Then used a gelly roll green sparkle pen to colour some windows to finish up. 

I am also going to enter this into the following challenges:

(PIN)spirational-I saw the challenge photo a few days ago and immediately thought grey building blocks and knew my cityscape would have to be stamped. Here is the photo

Inky Chicks-mask tow or more images.

And don't forget to pop over to Jackie's blog here to be in for a chance to win a new blog header-you have until September 22nd to play along with any of the colour challenges that Jackie posts.