Movie Star

 

Challenge #321 has just gone live at Time Out Challenges and this fortnight we have a theme challenge and it's 

The Movies

Challenge #321 is generously being sponsored by STAMPlorations 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 the very talented Kim Higgins, our winner of Challenge #316!   You can check out how Kim and my talented team mates have interpreted our The Movies theme over on the Time Out Blog!

You may be inspired by a specific movie (perhaps a favourite of yours) or a camera, film strip or any of the many other icons often associated with The Movies

I thought this one would be a quick and easy project - I already had an NBUS die set (Decotime ) that I'd bought a few years earlier!  I made up a bucket of popcorn, some 3D glasses and a large film strip frame from the set ... and I hated it!  I tried a little background stamping ... still hated it!  

 I was really annoyed with myself when I finally folded and had a peek on Amazon for yet more schtuff that would end up joining my already mounting supply of NBUS!  All I found was this (unbranded) die set but it did look like it might give me some other options and was cheap, quickly deliverable, and didn't seem to be a knockoff of another company's set (at least not a company that I could find)!  

I already knew this lovely panel (Memory Box Matinee Rectangle Layers) would be perfect to frame my card and I did like this curved piece of film strip from the unbranded set.  I thought I'd add the word "MOVIE" but as there were 6 apertures on the filmstrip I wondered what I could add in the 6th, when in a face palm moment the song  Movie Star by Harpo popped into my head and finally I had an idea I could run with!  

The letters from this alphabet set (Tim Holtz World Travels set) fitted perfectly in the apertures I love its Art Deco / Golden Age of Cinema vibe but I'm not gonna lie, I really struggled to fit enough onto the card so that it depicted "The Movies" but not look too crowded ... and the bucket of popcorn I had my carefully constructed had no place!  Eventually I found a way to fit the bucket of popcorn (enough of it anyway) and everything else I'd already cut onto the card - they just had to hang off the edge or be carefully placed so that they overhung the film strip (strategically placed foam tape) without obscuring the "sentiment" 

Movie ⭐️

I still wasn't 100% satisfied - the 3D glasses looked out of place among the movie making elements!  So I carefully removed which left a bit of a hole in the upper right corner that I filled with a pair of sunglasses (PTI Beach Bag) that an up and coming starlet might wear!  I couldn't find a place for the 3D glasses and was going to leave them off entirely when I had the idea to place them on the popcorn ... as if they're in the front row at the cinema looking up at the big screen!

And there's room on that clapboard for some personalisation if I want to add it with a 

white marker or a very small alphabet at a later date!

I hope you can find some Time Out and come join us this fortnight at The Movies!

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

NBUS Challenge #89 - NBUS Decotime and unbranded sets;

Die Cut Divas September Challenge - Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose - everything except the panel and base were cut from snippets left over from previous projects;

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