Feature Friday Challenge #2

I {Diane} am honored to be hosting this week's Feature Friday here at The Character Cafe. This week's challenge is a sketch challenge that I created myself. I did some homework to see how to make my own sketches using Microsoft Word. It is so easy, I am really enjoying it!

Here is my sketch for this week:


The girls from our design team that are working with me this week have come up with some amazing creations using my sketch. Without further ado, here they are:

Diane (Me):


Angie:


Donna:


Heather:


Piali:

Sara:

Be sure to check out the rest of the design team's wonderful work too:

Billie
Deannne
Lola
Rachel
Sarabeth
Sheri "Fink"

When you are uploading your card into SCS, PCP or other stamping community, please be sure to use TCCFF2 for this challenge. Thanks for playing along with this week's Feature Friday!

This weeks' winner will receive the Dayzee image pack as well as Stewie Snowman pack, a winner's button for your blog, AND a coupon for 15% off at The Character Cafe store!
So get crafty & win!

~Diane

NOTE: Mr. Linky has disappeared recently and so if you play with us, please also comment just in case! We'd hate to lose you :)

Winner TCCFF#1 - Stitching

Thank you to all those who participated in this weeks' challenge (stitching). We hope to see you again over the next week with more fabulous projects! I have really enjoyed visiting all your blogs and can't wait to see more :)

So, the winner of this weeks' challenge is.....

Avril Watson

Congrats Avril, you have won the Pilgrim Petra and Pumpkins images from The Cafe as well as a 15% off Discount Coupon!!!

I'll be trying to e-mail you in the next little while, but if you see this and haven't heard from me, please contact us :)

You will also be receiving a Winners Badge to place on your blog... hope you like it!

Don't forget about Tek Tuesday this week by Meredith. It's a fabulous tutorial on making a shaker card, perfect for the holidays! Hey, maybe you incorporate the shaker card into this weeks' challenge????? You can do it, I know you can.... show us!

Happy crafting,
Kendra

Tek Tuesday - Shaker Card

Welcome Everyone to another TEK TUESDAY!!! I am your host Meredith Winston and I work with the fabulous designers at TCC to bring you new ideas, tutorials, techniques, trends, etc!!!

This week I chose something relatively simple but it's something I've always wanted to do but have never gotten around to it! A Shaker Card!!

Seeing as it's been really chilly this last week or so in the Northeast my thoughts have turned to Autumn which quickly turns to Winter around here! So I decided to use this ADORABLE snowman available in the new TCC shop!!!


I've included pictures of all the things that I assembled and may (or may not) use in this creation. All Designer Papers are from the Love, Elsie brand. The solid paper is an assortment of SU! and PTI.
I chose to use a 5.5 x 5.5 card. It's a 'go-to' size for me....I just love it! I used my Basic Grey magnetic mat (I use it for every project I make!!) and I measured in 1" on each side. Connecting the dots to make a square. I then used my Exacto knife to CAREFULLY follow my ruler to trim out the square.

This is the "frame" of your card.
I then measured the acetate that you need as the "glass" in your frame. You don't need to be as precise with this as the inside cover is covered in the end.
I used traditional "red liner" tape to adhere the acetate to the inside of the frame.
I then brought out my Copics, Marvy, Pilot and Sakura pens and set to coloring this cutie pie snowman!!
I LOVE how he came out!!!
I then took 3-D foam runner tape (it comes on a spool...as opposed to 3-D squares or dots). I made absolute sure that I covered corner to corner so that my "snow" aka glitter didn't come shooting out the sides or corners when the card was shook. I adhered the top of my picture first to make sure that my alignment was correct. I then shook in about...a tablespoon or so of chunky, silver art glitter. I then peeled the backing off of the other 3 sides of the 3-D tape and pressed my image firmly down. I shook any excess glitter off and.....
VOILA!!! You have your shaker card!!!
Now all I had to do was DECORATE!!! These papers literally warm my heart!! I have had quite a stash for a few years now and I ONLY dip into it when I have something special to make. =)
As you can see...I used my varying circle punches ranging from 1- 3/4" all the way down to 3/4" having the BEST time mixing and matching and unmatching and making an intentional mish mash of circles!!
I adhered the circles to each other with my standard tape runner adhesive and then added them to the frame with 3-D foam squares and 3-D glue dots (depending on the positioning).
I truly hope you enjoyed this tutorial and don't hesitate to post comments with any questions!!!

Have a crafty Tuesday!!

XOXO-

Feature Friday CHALLENGE #1

THANK YOU for stopping by today to check out the first Feature Friday challenge for this term with our new DT! I {Billie} was asked to post this week’s challenge! I must say, I am LOVING these new images! I’m not sure which is my favorite out of the pumpkins or Christmas Scamp!

So…what is your challenge for today?

To use STITCHING on your project!

It can be any type of project, and the stitching can be machine stitching, hand stitching, faux stitching with a doodle pen, etc…but it must include some type of “stitching”! This challenge ends at 11:59 PM CST on Thursday, October 15, 2009. At that time, a new challenge will be issued and the winner of this challenge will be posted shortly thereafter.

The winner of this weeks' challenge will receive both Pilgrim Petra and the Pumpkins images as well as a 15% off coupon for The Character Cafe Store!

Our DT members have done a GREAT job with their inspiration this week. I have included photos of their work below, but also feel free to click on the DT member's name to visit her blog for more details and possibly more photos.

Billie

Sarabeth

Deanne

Fink

Lola

Rachel

If you upload your project to a gallery such as SCS, please note TCCFF1 :)

Also, please be sure to check out our other DT members who have been asked to take part in other challenges around the web!

Angie

Sara

Donna

Diane

Piali

Heather

Hope you are enjoying your day! And thanks again for stopping by!!!!

Billie

LiveJournal Tags: The Character Cafe,Cardstock Online,Skittles Ribbon,Copics

Winner of TCC October Blog Hop!

Well, our first Blog Hop with our New Design Team and New Website was a grand success if I do say so myself! Although we had a few hiccups along the way, all in all, I had a blast and boy did our new Team blow us away.

Okay, so I put all the ballots in the tree and drew "Donna's" name of Indiana Inking.

Congratulations Donna, you've won our entire October Release!
Please e-mail me and I'll send you the download links :)

Coming up we've got our 1st Feature Friday Challenge hosted by Billie with some fantastic inspirational projects. Enter to win some great digis by The Character Cafe!!! Check it out :)

Happy Crafting,
Kendra

Tek Tuesday - Penny Slider Card Tutorial

Welcome to the very first Tek Tuesday post, where we intend to bring you a new Tutorial/Technique or template created by us or found around blogville each week (of course we'll be using TCC images!)... you know you have a list of "things to try/do", well so do we and we thought why not have a compilation of those ideas in one general spot for reference, so that's what we're doing. Each week, we will post here on the blog, but afterwards, you will also be able to find a copy of the posting at The Character Cafe store for future reference.

If you have a tutorial/technique or template that you would like us to share/use or add to the list, please don't hesitate to contact us and we'll "add it to the list"!!!

Without further ado....

Hello Everyone, My Name is Angie aka lilacanglia, and I am proud to do the first of the Tutorials

here on the Character Cafe.

For this first tutorial I am showing how to make a penny slider card,

The supplies you will need are -

1 Small Image for slider
2 x one pence coins (approx size 2mm for those not in UK)

1 sheet of A4 card made into an A5 card
3d foam tape or pads,

1 circle (or make your own) foam pad,
1 sheet of A5 card
Ruler
Craft Knife.

I printed off the trick or treat digi image freebie from The Character Cafe blog hop this weekend (still open for freebie draws & 30% discount good until Friday!)

and stuck it to my A5 piece of card.

Turn it over, and using a ruler and pencil, draw an oblong, approx 1/2" in depth, and as long as you want it

BUT REMEMBER TO LEAVE ABOUT 3/4" FROM EITHER EDGE OF THE CARD,
as you can see from the above photo. Then cut it out using your craft knife or whatever you feel comfortable with,

Then it should look like the photo below.

Get your two coins and put your round 3d pad in the center and stick the two together. Put this in the slot you have made, by angling it and moving the card about so both sides of the coins sit on the top and bottom of the slot.

Should end up looking like the photo above and below, the coins should be able to roll up and down the slot freely now.

Now add your 3d foam tape or pads like shown in the photo below.

Take off the backing tape and stick to your card, then stick on your small image.

Here is the finished result.

Tilt the card and your penny should roll back and forth.

I used a small trick or treat bag for mine to go along with the cheeky ghost image.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial, which I have also posted on my blog handmade by lilacanglia

and that you come back next week to see Meredith's tutorial.

Hugs

Angie

Blog Hop Finale (NEW Website!)

Hey there if you've just stumbled upon our blog and want to join in the fun with our New release/Design Team Blog Hop. You'll want to go back and start at the beginning at The Character Cafe Store (which is NEW by the way!).

For those of you who are already hopping along you should have just come from Piali's Blog, and this is the final blog. I hope you shared some love in the form of a comment with our extremely talented team members for a chance to win the image they used.

For a chance to win our Grand Prize (all of our new images) you just need to leave us a comment about the blog hop. We will be drawing 1 lucky winner from the good ol' cat tree.
If you mentioned our blog hop somewhere else on the web, tell us where and we'll enter your name again, Easy Peasy!! If the grand prize winner, has horseshoe's up their butt and has already won an image from a DT blog, we will substitute 1 of our previous images for that duplicate.

Last but not least a little thank-you to all of our supporters and followers, yes a FREEBIE (some Halloween trickery ;)!!


Now for some news...
We have two new additions to the Cafe, we introduce you to Angie and Meredith aka. "The Tek Team". They will be alternating every Tuesday for "Tek Tuesday" here, at the Cafe Blog.
Angie & Meredith will be searching out various techniques in blogville, they will post a link to the site of the technique and show their own sample project using The Character Cafe images.
Sounds pretty funky huh?? Their first post will be Tuesday October 6, 2009, Angie's up first, can't wait to see what she comes up with. So don't forget to come back and visit, see you then!!

Kelly "The imaginary illusrator" ;)