All at Sea

Challenge #317 has just gone live at Time Out Challenges and this fortnight we have the theme challenge

Water

Think ocean, lake, pool, bathtub, rain, fountain, in a glass, sprinkler, river, etc - any way you want to interpret the word!

We don't have a sponsor for Challenge #317 but our lovely team member Jaydee has kindly donated some brand new crafting stash for our Top Pick this fortnight as chosen by the design team!

The Top Pick will also be invited to join Time Out as a guest designer in a future challenge!  Speaking of guest designers, our guest designer this fortnight is Kathy Asper of MyAsperations and winner of Time Out #312.  Kathy is a frequent player and big supporter of Time Out. Her cards are quite unique and she loves to decorate the insides as well.  Do treat yourself to a stroll though her blog and you are sure to be inspired!

For my card today I've gone with a patterned paper for my water theme and created a spinner/easel card using various nautically themed sets (Verve Strong Anchor, Couture Creations Compass and Wheel die, Spellbinders Wonky Rectangles set)!

I hope you can take some Time Out and join us this fortnight for our Water Theme - you have until the July 22nd to link up your entries ... can't wait to see your creations in the gallery!

I and grateful for and would like to enter the following challenges

Neglected Stuff Challenge July - Verve Strong Anchor Set purchased 2016;

Love Those Pretty Papers July Challenge - Optional Theme Coastal;

The Male Room Challenge #212 - Hobbies (my hubby's hobby is sailing);

The Card Concept Challenge 228a - Summer by the Sea (see Inspiration Pic below)!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!   Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!   And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and should be able to find you!

Kate

Ain't You Grand!

 

Challenge #313 has just gone live at Time Out Challenges and this fortnight we have the theme

Playing Music 

Playing music could be playing a musical instrument or playing music on a turntable or cassette deck or walkman, or a pair of headphones or a CD - whatever playing music means to you!

Challenge #313 is generously being sponsored by Gina K and they are offering our Top Pick as chosen by the design teams $25 credit to their store!  

The Top Pick will also be invited to join Time Out as a guest designer in a future challenge!  Speaking of guest designers, our guest designer this fortnight is Cindy Chui, one of our honourable mentions from Challenge #308!   You can check out how Cindy and my talented team mates have interpreted our Playing Music theme over on the Time Out Blog!

I had quite a few NBUS dies that I could have used for this theme but I decided on this Grand Piano die from Gummiapan and made a card for my choir director's birthday!

I snipped and stacked several die-cuts of the piano to give it dimension.  I winked it as well but it's not obvious from the photo. 

I had this lovely frame (Gummiapan) already cut and used it to showcase the grand piano.  I cut some quavers and semi-quavers to indicate music being played and coated them with Glossy Accents.

The sentiment (Spellbinders GLP-380 Must Have Sentiments) was foiled using black foil and mounted with foam tape.

The bouquet of yellow roses (Spellbinders Flower Cart) helped break up all that black and white - my choir director also loves flowers and her favourite colour is yellow!  I mounted the bouquet on double foam tape so it sat neatly on top of the piano - there's quite a lot of dimension to the piano!

Here's a closeup though it still doesn't show up the sparkle of the winking on the piano.

TWOFER :

Since I had the Flower Cart set out, I made up another card using the other bouquet from the Flower Cart set.  I added centres to these flowers with White Enamel Accents.

I hope you can take some Time Out and join us this fortnight for our Playing Music Theme - you have until the May 27th to link up your entries ... can't wait to see your creations in the gallery!

I and grateful for and would like to enter the following challenges

NBUS Challenge #86 - NBUS dies - Gummiapan Piano;

Inkspirational Challenge #367 - Inspired by the purple bouquet on the palette;

Triple B May Challenge - Just Blooms today;

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use craft dies;

A Cut Above May Challenge - Anything Goes using Die Cuts;

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!   Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!   And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and should be able to find you!

Kate

Ahoy 70

 

Challenge #309 has just gone live at Time Out Challenges and this fortnight we have the theme

In the Clear 

We would like to see you use at least one clear element on your project.   That might be acetate, vellum, glossy accents, crystal drops etc. - as long as you can see through it, it's clear!

Challenge #309 is generously being sponsored by Uniko and they are offering our Top Pick as chosen by the design teams £25 credit to their store!  

The Top Pick will also be invited to join Time Out as a guest designer in a future challenge!  Speaking of guest designers, our guest designer this fortnight is Verena of Simple Stamper, our winner from Challenge #304!   You can check out how Verena and my talented team mates have interpreted our CLEAR theme over on the Time Out Blog!

My husband is a bit of a sea dog and around this time of the year I'm always trying to think of a new nautical idea for his birthday ... and this year it's a big one!

This clear theme was the perfect opportunity to dig out this NBUS window die (Memory Box Ocean Porthole) and a yellow submarine (Gummiapan Cute Submarine) seemed like the perfect thing to put on the other side of that window!

I cut an aperture in a front panel and the card front using a circle die slightly larger than my porthole and sandwiched a sheet of acetate between them.  Then I cut the porthole twice - to cover the hole on the front and back sides of the aperture (inside of the card).  I cut them from the same dark grey card stock but applied gilding wax to get that tarnished brass look!

The submarine was cut three times.  The bottom layer was kept intact.  The next layer up, I trimmed off the periscope and propellor.  From the last submarine I trimmed off the turret.  These Gummiapan dies are designed so that you only need to snip in one or two places to build up 3-D images.  Finally I cut just the porthole from another snippet and removed the inside window part.  I blacked out the window then added the porthole on top.  I cut all the layers from yellow cardstock but added shading with alcohol markers.  To give the submarine's porthole a glassy appearance I added glossy accents.

I found this DP featuring ocean creatures and cut a circle just large enough to be seen through the porthole.  In this way the DP was visible through the window but there was enough white space inside on which to write (I thought the pattern was a bit too busy)!

So I hope I've given you some ideas on using a clear element and I hope you can take some Time Out and join us this fortnight.  You have until the April 1st to link up your entries ... we can't wait to see how you get In the Clear this fortnight!

I and grateful for and would like to enter the following challenges

NBUS Challenge #84 - NBUS dies - Ocean Porthole, Cute Submarine;

Shopping Our Stash Challenge SOS569 - I'm Counting On You (use numbers);

Krafty Chicks Challenge #812 - CAS;

Neglected Stuff Challenge March - Porthole die has been waiting since May 2023 to be used, Submarine since January 2024;

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!  And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and should be able to find you!

Kate