You Have (Christmas) Mail

 

Time Out Challenge #302 has just gone live and it's our last Pick 2 Challenge for 2025!  

The concept of a Pick 2 Challenge is obvious - we give you 6 word prompts to choose from and you use at least 2 to inspire your creation!  To be clear, you can pick more than 2 if you like - all 6 if you really want a challenge but just make sure to pick at least 2!

The Word Prompts for this challenge are

Emboss, Movie, Nature, Corner, White, Sparkle

You can interpret these words any way you like but please explain if it isn't obvious and please remember we only allow a total of 5 challenges - ours plus 4 others!  I hope you enjoy our challenge and that you can take a little Time Out and join us for some fun!  

Challenge #302 is generously being sponsored by Poppystamps and they are offering our Top Pick as chosen by the design teams a $20 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 Margreet Burger of Margreet's Scrapcards our winner of Challenge #297!  Be sure to check out the Time Out Blog to see how how Margreet and my talented team mates were inspired by these six words!

Since this is the last Pick 2 Challenge of the Year, I wanted to use all 6 prompts but I wanted to make it a Christmas card and movie had me stumped - all the Christmas movies I could think of (Elf, the Santa Chronicles, The Santa Clause) all seemed to require red and/or green and I wanted to keep it white on white!  In hindsight I could just as easily have made a white elf (these words are only meant to inspire not restrict) but that didn't occur to me (blame it on a MIA mojo)!  In the end I changed tactic and tried to think about any movie (I started with ones I own on DVD and enjoy watching again and again) and finally You Have Mail popped into my head ... which was perfect because I have loads of NBUS Mail stash!  So now I had my movie, it was just as a matter of how the other 5 prompts could work!

I began with a dry embossed background panel (Cuttlebug Snowflakes) to add some background interest and use that word emboss!   

I made up an envelope (NBUS Poppystamps Large Stitched Envelope and Postage) then cut a deckle edged note to slip inside it and tried the word "joy" (Sizzix Holiday Words Script By Tim Holtz) cut from white glitter card stock for some sparkle!

I wasn't happy with it (way too plain) so embossed the notelet with some background text using an NBUS stamp (Kaisercraft Script Texture) with Weiße Diamenten embossing Powder) - more emboss and sparkle!   

It still needed something more and as I wanted some nature I added a flower spray from another NBUS set (Spellbinders Sitting Pretty) cut from white and glitter card stock.  

To finish it all off, I added a "25" to the smaller of the 2 postage stamps (from the envelope set) and added it in the top right corner!

Then the design seemed a bit unbalanced so I added a "Sending" sentiment (Simon Says Stamp) cut from more white glitter card stock (yet more sparkle).  I should have stacked it as it's lost on this embossed background but it was very late, I was tired and TBH I couldn't be bothered (I almost always regret these decisions the next morning)!  Still, overall I was pleased with this card (and lately that's not often been the case) and I managed to use all 6 word prompts!

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

NBUS Challenge #80 - NBUS Envelope, Text Stamp, Flowers;

Triple B November Challenge - Blooms (no Birds or Butterflies);

Cut it Up Challenge #343 - Favourite Colour (I love white esp the challenge of only using white);

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenge for November - Anything Goes;

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 how to find you!

Kate