Exciting News

Hi All

We have exciting news here at Time Out!

We have a few new Design Team/Administrator members joining our team!
Not only will these fabulous crafters be Design Team members but will also be doing administrating work to help Time Out run smoothly!

First off we have 2 amazing designers who will be helping me-Sandie of London Days-on the administration side of the blog. I am sure you will know them but here they are to introduce themselves:

Kim
Check out here blog Cupcakes Cards and Kim

Kim here from Cupcakes, Cards, and Kim and I am so excited to be part of the Time Out team, what an honour. I am a retired preschool teacher that loves to sew and make cards.I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and a big baseball fan. My style is CAS with a twist and I can't wait to get started!

Shauna

Check out her blog Creating with Paper

Hello! My name is Shauna and I am so excited to be a part of the Time Out team!  I work a full time job, but I love to be creative in my spare time and I enjoy sharing ideas with others. When making cards I enjoy using different patterns and textures and I tend to lean towards darker colors and tones. I look forward to working with this team and visiting your sites to see your creations!

And we also have a new Design Team/Administer who will be responsible for our Instagram account. (see icon top right to take you straight there and follow us so you don't miss out!).

She will feature all Design Team members cards, our winners and feature some entries each challenge!

And that Design Team member is:

Ishani

Check out her blog Quillish

I am Ishani known as Quillish to the crafting world. I am so honoured to be a part of TO team. I live in Ambala, India. I am a Stay-at-home mum and a full time crafter after 10 years in the Indian Air Force. I love colouring, building scenes and I love to learn and experiment new techniques but I think I’m slightly bent towards CAS style of card making. Hope you'll like my cards

We are so excited that Kim, Shauna and Ishani are joining us from Thursday and do hope you pop on by to say hello to then all!

We are very sad to say that Jenny is leaving the team this week. As I am sure you know she is one busy crafter, a mum and holds down a full time job and needed to drop a few things. But we thank you Jenny for all your inspirations and hard work for Time Out. We will miss you and know we will see you in blogland......and hope that you join us and play along at Time Out!

So exciting news here and we wish you all a good day and hope you get some TIME OUT to craft!

Enjoy!!

Our New Design Team Members!

Today is a very special day here at TIME OUT Challenges as we are here to introduce you to our new Design Team members. All the original team members are still with us but we have 4 new fabulous crafters to introduce to you. All of these new DT members are outstanding designers and we are so happy that they have agreed to join us at TIME OUT Challenges.

Why not grab a cuppa and take some TIME OUT to visit their blogs and say hi!

And here they are:

Anita
Her blog is My Papercraft World

Hello ... bonjour ... I’m Anita in France ... and in blogland, my home is at My Papercraft World.  Like many of us, I’ve crafted in one way or another since I can remember and got seriously into card making nearly two years ago, when I started my blog.  My style is mainly clean and simple ... sometimes quirky, sometimes graphic, occasionally whimsical.  I’m blessed to live in a wonderful part of the world … south west France ... where I spend most of my waking hours working on our long term house renovation project.  I’m thrilled and delighted to be joining such a great group of super talented crafters on the Time Out Design Team ... and am looking forward to seeing how you’re inspired by our fortnightly challenges!

        Elizabeta

Her blog is Elizabeta Kushner

"I live in Croatia. It is a small but beautiful country where scrapbooking and cardmaking are just beginning to become popular. When I am not working, studying or serving in my church, I love to read, meet new people, make cards, work in the garden, or watch movies with my husband."

Sarah

Her blog is Funky Fossils Designs

Hi there - I’m Sarah and I am delighted to be joining the talented DT here at Time Out!  I live in Yorkshire and am the mum to two fab boys, aged 9 and 11.  I also work full time so don’t have much spare time but spend every minute I can get playing with my stamps and ink.  I have been crafting for a couple of years but only started blogging this March – it has been great to make lots of friends across the world who share this hobby!  I love CAS designs but also like to get my fingers inky and try out lots of techniques so I guess that my style is still evolving.  I love challenges as a way of sparking my creativity and am on the DT over at A Blog Named Hero too.  I look forward to taking Time Out with you and being inspired by all of your creations!

Shona
Her blog is Twine Around

Hi everybody, my name is Shona and I'm a card-making addict!! I'm also a stay-at-home mum to Phoebe (9yrs) and Max (7yrs) and married to forgetful Dave. We live in a small town called Blenheim in New Zealand. I have 2 golden retrievers, love gardening and I'm very addicted to Peanut M&M's. I only started crafting last year and started my blog in Sept 2013 which has been the most amazing adventure. My style is mainly CAS with more and more stamping creeping in.  I was so surprised and honoured to be asked to join the Time Out Design Team. They are such wonderful women and so creative with their projects. I'm looking forward to hopefully inspiring you for each challenge and visiting your own blogs to see what you create. I'm so excited!!!!


We are so pleased these lovely Ladies have joined our Design Team and their first challenge will be next week so we hope you will note that in your diary and see what they have created for you to inspire you to take that valuable TIME OUT to craft with us!

New Design Team Members

Happy Friday Eve to all,

At the end of January we had our first Design Team call and we had entries from all over the world. The standard was very high and we had a hard time choosing. We think we have chosen a group of very talented designers and are very excited to introduce you to them. Please give our new Design Team a very warm welcome!

Bev from Uniko Studios 

Hi, I’m Beverley, the owner & designer of Uniko Studio clear stamps & designer dies. I live in the North East of England with my husband and fluffy black & white cat AKA Mr Cat! I have been paper crafting and making cards for over 10 years now and my style has changed considerably over the years, I would say my style now is Clean & Simple (CAS). I am honoured to be part of the TO Challenge team & look forward to seeing everyone’s wonderful creations”.

Dawn from LilyPinkScraps

I have been an enthusiastic crafter for many years and love to have a go at most things-papercrafting, scrapbooking, mixed media, painting ans playing with clay! I am also a keen photographer and gardener and cook, I really do prefer to work with my hands.

I am on the Copics DT for Outlawz and the DT for Eclectic Ellapu-I also design digis for my Etsy shop, along with my super talented hubby who does some super amazing digis and full colour renditions of cars and bikes (yes I am highly biased!).

I love to re-do and upcyle furniture using paint and we are both keen junkers and love to head at weekends and trawl for treasure.

Lisa from Kind Creations

I'm so happy to have been chosen to be on this new team!  I'm a 5th grade teacher, so that keeps me pretty busy.  I live outside of Buffalo, NY with my husband Kevin and our Springer Spaniel Lizzie.  We love to travel and spend time at our cabin in the woods.  I've been stamping for over 10 years now and while I don't spend every day stamping, I enjoy it when I can.  I love trying new techniques I learn from other stampers.  I also love stalking other crafters' blogs for new ideas!  I've been on many design teams and have met some fabulous people.  I thing that is my most favourite thing about this craft!

Gerrina from Gerrina's Creatieve Wereld

Hi, I am Gerrina and did a happy dance when I heard I was asked for the Designers Team of this great new challenge blog! With my hubby and daughter I live in the Netherlands near Eindhoven. I have been crafting since I was a little girl, not so strange since my mother was a crafts/needlework teacher and started her own wool and needleworkshop that grew so much that even my father was working there till they retired … I started photography at eight and put the photos in books in a way that I found out in 2000 that it was called scrapbooking. From buying a few stamps to stamp some quotes in my books, now I am addicted to stamps! I like to use them on cards, in books, on canvas, Aj´s and whatever I can think of… So you can imagine that I think it is great to show a card every two weeks!

We are very excited to have such fabulous designers joining our team. Do come back next week to meet the rest of the team and then it is time for us to get started!!

Remember to take TIME OUT today to craft!!