It's Time for Feature Friday's Challenge - This week make a 3 Piece gifts set that contains 3-D items in it!!!

Happy Friday Everyone!!!!

I am so excited this week it was my turn to pick the Feature Friday Challenge with The Character Cafe Design Team!!!!  We only get to do this once in our 6 month term so hope I do a good job on it!!!

Every Friday we have Feature Fridays and each week one of the DT girls issues the challenge to half the team, the other half the team head out to Blog/Stamp land and find a challenge to play in!!!  How fun right???  So Kendra and Kelly issued me a 3-D challenge and I choose to make it a 3 Piece Gift Set with at least one of the items being 3-D, they could all be 3-D or just one of them, but one of the 3 pieces had to be 3-D.

So this week on the Challenge Team for my Challenge we have these girls playing along:

Angie...Deanne...Diane...Piali...Rachel....Heather (Me)

This set of girls headed out to Blog/Stamp world and found a challenge of their own they have posts up to though so don't forget to go to their blogs and check them out as well!!!

Billie...Sara...Annamarie "Lola"...Sheri ..."Fink"


So Here are the Creations from our Lovely DT members:

Deanne:

Deanne's Set is just to adorable I do not know where to begin I love this image Christmas Scamp is so adorable don't you think???  I also adore Deanne's orniment she gave us a tutorial earlier this week she just totally rocks these orniments out!!!!  Seriously love how she transformed that tin (is it a prima flower tin I wonder I have 2 just like it only not near as cute as this one decorated up!!!!

Piali:

I adore Piali's use of all that Glitter and the Nesties shape throughout the projects and the bright colors Way to Go!!!!

Rachel:

Seriously is this not the coolest gift for those pre-teen or teen age girls what girl would not adore getting somthing like this as a gift???  Rachel you can send this one to Kansas I love it!!!

Diane:

Diane totally rocked this challenge!!!!  I do not think she could have been any more creative if she tried check out those two tins and all the things she put in them all I can say is WOW!!!!!!

Angie:

I love Angies use of color and I think this is an awesome Birthday set you need one of these around the house handy for those last minute invitations or parties!!!

Heather (That's Me)

I decided to make a 3 piece gift set based on the card I did for last weeks new release Blog Hop using my Santa's List Image and my Christmas Ali Image.   I also took some inspiration off of what my neighbor and I have been doing all week preparing for a Craft Show at the Hospital I used to work for and we made 15 Dozen Home Made (100 times better than store bought) Chocolate Covered Cherries, 10 dozen Orange Cream Patties, and the best Pepermint Bark I have ever had!!  So my Basket is one of the Baskets we made to sell at the Craft Show it has 6 Chocolate Covered Cherries and 4 Orange Cream Patties in it.  I have not decided what I want to put in the Tote/Treat Box I made, and the Card is just like the card I made for last weeks Blog Hop Have you been Naughty or Nice Card.

I forgot to take a picture of all 3 items together but I got the two treat holders and my card seperately

Below are the stages of how I made the Larger Treat Box

Take a solid 12 x 12 piece of Card Stock and score it at 4" and 8" on all four sides The score the corners diagonally then take the patterned paper and create this pattern Top picture inside of box bottom picture outside of box.

Add eyelets to each triangle piece of PP and then take 24" of twine, ribbon, or twill and run it through the eyelets and tie a bow and you have your treat box so cool hungh???

View from Above

Side View

Front View Santa was on the other side

Here is my Basket we put the Cherries and Pepermint Paties in to sell at the Craft Fair I cut out all the material to make 19 of these I think I finished assembling 9 of them today!!!

Side View

Top view so you can see the cherries

Several of the Baskets with Cherries and Orange Cream Patties in them.  For some reason Teal and Tourqouise Card Stock never photographs well.  the Teal Baskets are a really rich royal teal color here they look really muted!!!!

Chocolate Covered Cherries packaged in 3's no Basket.
I think it is so cool that without knowing anything about each others projects we all went with way different images and way different projects I love these girls the talent on this team is just simply AMAZING!!!!

Now how could you not want to paly along in the challenge this week?????  Best part when you are done with the challenge you have a gift set for a friend or a birthday what can be better than that right???

If you play along please enter a link to your creation in Mr. Linky below.

 Prizes this week to the winner of the challenge is:

The prize is  2 images (of your choice), 15% off discount in The Character Cafe Store, and the winner will get a winners badge for their blog (as well as their card will be showcased!)

I can not wait to see what you come up with!!!  Hope to see you play along this week and have a very, very, Stampendous Friday Everyone!!!!

I will be at a Craft Fair from 6am to 5pm and I still have things to finish off and it is almost midnight so I am thinking I might get to sleep from about 2am to 5am!!!!  Uuugggghhh!!!!  Thanks to all those years on Night Shift at the Hospital working in nursing I can handle that but I am finding the older I get the harder it is to do it!!!!

Heather

Winners from the November Blog Hop!

Thanks for hopping along with us, we hope you enjoyed what you sawa and now... we have some winners!

From Piali's Blog...

Iluvmybugs won Santa's List

From Rachel's Blog...

Heather's Coffee Break won Izzy Elf

From Sara's Blog...

A Paper Buffet won Pax Penguin

From Angela Cortes' Blog...

Iluvmybugs won Tobogganing Twosome

From Billie's Blog...

Rhonda won Bernard Bear

From Heather's Blog...

Stef - GlitterBabe won Santa's List

From Meredith's Blog...

Stitchinwitch won Izzy Elf

From Angie E's Blog...

Crystal won Remy Reindeer

From Lola's Blog...

Regina won Pax Penguin

From Deanne's Blog...

Dragonlady won Remy Reindeer

From Fink's Blog...

Stitchinwitch won Bernard Bear

From Diane's Blog...

Ronnie won Tobogganing Twosome


And our GRAND PRIZE winner of the entire Collection for November is...

Dragonlady!!! I see you also won Remy Reindeer so we'll substitute it with another image for you :)

As you can see, some of the winners are not yet posted, but we'll edit the post as they roll in. I'll be contacting all the winners over the next couple days to get your image(s) to you, however, if you haven't heard from me yet, feel free to send us an e-mail, just in case we can't find yours!!!

Don't forget to check out our Tek Tuesday post... it's a really cool gel card tut with a template by Meredith!

Also, although the hop is over now, the discount of 40% off your entire order is good until Friday, Nov. 13th, so head on over there and get while the gettin's good! In case you forgot, the code is "Remember" he he he (it's case sensitive if you're having trouble).

Now on to my major Brain Toot....

It would seem that I neglected to post the winner of Feature Friday Challenge #4 (duh!)... not sure how or why that happened, but it did and I'm extremely sorry!!!!!

Anyway, the winner of Challenge #4 is...

Cassie with this card:
Cassie, you have won Pilgrim Petra & Turkey Tom as well as the Harvest Pumpkins image packs... you will also receive a Winner's Badge for your blog and a 15% off Discount Coupon to use at The Cafe Store :) I'll be e-mailing you shortly with your badge & discount & images... but if you haven't heard from me yet, feel free to e-mail me just in case!

Sorry for the delay, my bad and I'll try extra hard to make sure it doesn't happen again!

Happy crafting,
Kendra

Tek Tuesday - Gel Card!

Good morning everyone!!! Welcome to another fabulous TEK TUESDAY!!!

Today's tutorial blows my mind...and I say that NOT because I am bringing it to you but because the genius ladies over at PTI came up with this. It's SOOOOOOOOO cool and SOOOOOOOO easy!!! And it has a BIG WOW effect!!!

We will be making a GEL CARD today!!

It's great for the image/tag plus it can be used as a nifty gift card or cash holder if you wanted to give those as a gift!!

The first thing I did was print out the template. I then cut my paper at the measured amounts:

Vertically at 10.75"
Horizontally at 6"

I then scored vertically at 5" then at 8" leaving you with 3 sections measuring 5", 3" and 2.75".

You will then score in 1" on each side and trim the 1" pieces on both sides of the 5" section and the 2.5 " section. Leaving the 1" side tabs on either side of the 3" section. (these will be your tabs that will hold your pocket in place later.


I then chose my image and my DP. I chose PAX the ridiculously adorable Penguin to work with. But definitely hop on over to the shop and see what images you could use for this technique!!!
I then scored on all lines making sure that every line was nice and crisp.
I added my DP and then folded the 2 smaller sections together and punched a 1 3/4" hole through both pieces at the same time. That way they match up perfectly. This will serve as your "window".

The next part is adding the "gel". A tiny Ziploc bag such as the kind the extra button comes in when you buy a sweater or the ones you can buy at beading stores, etc are the best for this project but I didn't have one available so I used a small gift bag and trimmed it down. You only need a VERY SMALL amount of gel - approximately a teaspoon or so (otherwise it's too puffy) in the bag. Seal the bag - as you see here I've used double sided liner tape to close my bag. We don't want any gel leaking out!!! =)

You want to add liner tape along the insides of the circular window, as well as on the tabs that were the ones left after you trimmed the rest out. These will wrap around at the end.
Once your liner tape is in place you can adhere your gel pack to the inside of the card.
You then want to fold up the front of the "pocket" and adhere.
You will then flip your card over, fold the front piece (with the gel) up and wrap the tabs around the back of the card adhering them.

As you see I originally stuck my DP on the incorrect side of the card but I'll probably adorn the tabs so it looks like it was intentional!! =) But you see how you then adhere the tabs to the back. This will now create your pocket on the front!
Here it is once the gel pocket is complete!!!
I then measured my "tag" that would be inserted into the card with my image. This measures at 3.5" x 4.75". I chose to round the edges of the corner. But you don't have to depending on your design.
I tested it to make sure it fit properly before adorning it with Pax.
I then set to coloring Pax!!! I had to resize him down a bit so he fit properly (one of the BEST things about DIGI stamps! I used my Copics to color him and my glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds glitter to sparkle up his belly and feathers on the tippy top of his head. I then stitched him to the "tag" with white thread using a zig zag stitch. I used my SU! slot punch to create a proper hole in the top of my tag and PTI perfect match ribbon with the Swiss dots to complete my tag!!
I then slid the tag into the pocket behind the gel pocket!!!
So now our adorable Pax looks like he's underwater!!



Like I said, you could easily slip a gift card, a check or cash in behind the tag as an added gift!!

I would really like to thank the ladies at PTI for this AWESOME tutorial.

As ALWAYS, please feel free to leave a comment here if you have ANY questions regarding this tutorial!!!

I hope everyone has an amazing and creative Tuesday!!!

XOXO

November New Release Blog Hop!!

Yay!! It's that time again...Our new release blog hop is here. If you've just stumbled upon our blog and want to join in the fun with our November New release Blog Hop, you'll want to go back and start at the beginning at The Character Cafe Store .

For those of you who are already hopping along, you should have just come from Angie E's Blog, and this is your final stop. 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 and become a follower if you haven't yet. If you mentioned our blog hop somewhere else on the web, tell us where and we'll enter your name again, Easy Peasy!!

We will be drawing 1 lucky winner from the good ol' cat tree on Wed., Nov. 11th. 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.

By now, you should have received the DISCOUNT CODE (about 12 times! LOL), but just in case, you lost it, or forgot to write it down, it's "Remember"... You have until Friday, Nov. 13th to use this for 40% off your entire purchase at TCC Store! (hey, why not head over there now?!) Oh, and if you buy and then you win, we'll refund you, so no worries :)

Last but not least a little thank-you to all of our supporters and followers, yes a FREEBIE (something in honour of our brave service men & women).
We've included both the blog badges that you see here as well as the black and whites for you if you'd like to do up your own tribute :)

Kendra & Kelly "The imaginary illustrator" ;)