Web 2.0 Christmas Email Designs

Fun Christmas email template needed for http://www.XperienceDays.com. Feel free to be original fun and creative! Our products are fun and so the email should be as well. Christmas characters welcome. Read full brief for extra prize money info.

http://www.XperienceDays.com

CHANCE FOR EXTRA PRIZE MONEY BELOW:

Christmas is right around the corner and as a gift company, this is our most important time of year so, WE NEED YOUR HELP!

We are looking for a design idea for an email and/or an email 'template' design(s) that we can send to our current customers in order to drive traffic to our site (http://www.XperienceDays.com) and ultimately sales.

Some email templates we've used so far with Constant Contact are available at the links below: (and we don't like them!)

http://www.xperiencedays.com/downlo…0Email.gif

http://www.xperiencedays.com/downlo…20Mail.gif

We would like to move towards a more coherent email design that can use interchangable images (Images of our experiences) + interchangable text, without looking like a template.

We recently ran a completion for the redesign of our Homepage.  The link to the winner and the other contest entrees and our feedback are below so you can see the type of designs we like.

Winning Design

http://99designs.com/contests/12969…ies/941180

All Designs Submitted & Feedback

http://99designs.com/contests/12969

Website Brief Link - (Additional Likes / Dislikes)

http://99designs.com/contests/12969/brief

Be creative -  Be original -  Be fun – Be humorous

We would like to receive as many ideas as possible - as we need to send emails once a week for the next 7 weeks. Therefore, feel free to have your designs create a 'christmas story' or be evolutionary / themed.

While the prize is set at $300, if the final email(s) / email story has more than one design then we are happy to pay an addtional fee/prize.

- Christmas/Holiday
- Clean
- Clear
- FUN
- Funky
- 2.0

- Standard Template Design (Like Cheetah Mail or Constant Contact)
- Religious Symbols or Text