NBUS Challenge #2! Here We Go!

Hello, my lovely lovely friends!

I am into and over my next milestone in follower numbers, so here we go with the second NBUS challenge!!

For those of you who have joined recently, NBUS stands for "never-before-used schtuff." The challenge is to use your virginal NBUS on a new creation, simple as that. Well, I mean there are other rules (below), but the theme is as simple as that. To see the first challenge, click here.

I made up the aachronym NBUS because I was purchasing product at a faster rate than I was using it. (I see you nodding your head in sisterhood and brotherhood.) Often I was just plain forgetting I owned the schtuff. Also, I'm old, so there's that. I started challenging myself to turn my NBUS into US and that has helped me use it up at a faster rate.

And you dearies have picked up the NBUS moniker, joined the brigattitude, and encouraged me to start a challenge. It was so much fun last time and the 281 entries were so amazing, I hope you will play this time, too! With the holidays, I won't be holding another challenge until the new year.

Rules

I have created a tab at the top of my blog for the NBUS Rules, so please refer to that before you begin. Some of you have asked if you can use brand-spanking new schtuff for the challenge and the answer is YES. That's the word "yes" as in "certainly." (I didn't want you to think it stood for another new aachronym!) 

Prizes

09/11/14 UPDATE: It's been a week and I see there are over 100 entries in the challenge, so five prizes doesn't seem like enough, does it? Let's up your odds a bit, shall we!

FIVE (5) TEN (10) $25 gift certificates will be

awarded to your choice of either

Inspiration Emporium or Simon Says Stamp!!

Since the first challenge, Simon Says Stamp (SSS) now offers online gift certificates. Inspiration Emporium is an American company, but they have a flat rate $10 overseas shipping rate which is exceptional. I hope these choices will be pleasing to everyone. 

Optional

The side option this time is the following multiple choice. Just to be clear, this option is just for fun and will not be considered when I throw you in the random thingie for prizes. 

1. Christmas
2. Make two cards using the same stamp.
3. Both of the above.
4. None of the above.

I chose number 3 for my Inspiration make:

I made my sediment banner with the Flying Nun wings because I thought it was different and also it looked a bit like the roof of a house. If you don't know what "Flying Nun wings" are, God bless you for your youth.

The sediment was made using the PTI die from "Wonderful Words Christmas" and I can't remember if I've used it before. (Goshwillikers, I wonder if the new computer will come with an extra memory chip?) The red sparkle paper is SU and the gold is cut from an ancient piece of handmade paper in my stash. Isn't it cool? I would never have remembered I had this paper if I hadn't organized all my papers recently. Both die cut sediments were outlined with white, but you have to look hard at a close-up to see that bit.

I used WOW cable car red and PSE gold embossing powders on the background. I'm sorry the embossed red houses didn't photograph as shiny and glossy as the gold ones did, but really, you would expect gold to show better considering the price.

My NBUS items are two Hero Arts stamps. That background was made using S5532 "Home and House Background," and the the inside (below) was made using K5534 "Winter Village." I only Versamarked and embossed part of the Winter Village stamp so I could add the sticker greeting.

So then the next thing that happened was Hammy woke up from his afternoon nap and said sardonically, "How are you going to mail those, Cap'n Think About It?"

Oh.

And now my cards look like this, ready for signing and mailing!

I am entering the gold card immediately above in the Jingle Belles challenge "Baby, It's Gold Outside" and the gold one with "wings" into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. The red one immediately above is for the "Anything Goes" Christmas Card Challenges.

Thank you! Mwah!!

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OKAY, GO FOR IT! I can't wait to see what you bring me! 

The challenge will end at noon on Thursday, September 25, 2014 and the winners will be announced at noon on Sunday, September 28, 2014.

Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS!*  

 

*Life Is Too Short!

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