Last Chance to get in on the Blog Candy!!!!

Just a reminder to you all that this is the last chance to get in on the HUGE Blog Candy here at the cafe ;) (you can START HERE if you haven't yet)

We'll be doing the draw tomorrow and posting about noon-ish (yeah, we've got kids home so hopefully it will be there around then, pending no kiddie chaos!)...

We will also post all the winners from our DT blogs as well... GOOD LUCK to all those that play!!!

"See" you tomorrow.

Happy crafting,
Kendra

Tuesday Tutorial - Tri Shutter Card with Scamp.

If you're looking for the LAST STOP of the 12 Hops of Christmas... go HERE Don't miss your chance to get in on the super Blog Candy (including a Copic Airbrush System!)... draws will be held Dec. 18th :)

Good Morning All, I (lilacanglia) have been asked how to make a Tri Fold Shutter card,

This is the first time for me as well, and believe me it is not hard,

I found the measurements for this over at Splitcoaststampers.

For this card you will need -

5.5" x 12" card stock,

backing papers of your choice,

Images of your choice,

I have used Christmas Scamp, I just adore this image.

and this is suitable for my friend as she has 3 cheeky dogs.

Score the card on the long edge at 2" 4" 8" and 10"

the on the short side measure in 1.5" and from the 2 score line cut till you get to the 10" score line, repeat this on the other edge of the short side,

Once the two cuts are done,

you can fold it like the photo below.

Then you can

Cut 4 pieces of patterned paper 1 7/8” x 1 3/8”. Cut 2 pieces of patterned paper 1 7/8” x 3 7/8”. Cut 1 piece of patterned paper 2 3/8” x 3 7/8”.

these will make fantastic layering pieces like I have done below,

make sure they are the right sizes before you stick them, once you are happy then stick them.

I have used nice bright colours for mine.

I printed and coloured christmas scamp with sakura pens,

used mirror board, holographic board and plain coloured board for the layers.

Here are close ups of the finished card, before I added personalisation

I do hope you will give this a go,

look forward to seeing your finished projects,

you could combine them with the Character Cafe's friday challenges.

Thank You for popping by,

Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did making the tutorial for you.

Hugs

Lilacanglia

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Feature Friday - Freebie Challenge

Hey Bloggers!

Today's Feature Friday is not our usual. As you hopefully know by now, we're hosting some pretty scrumptious BLOG CANDY to celebrate the Holiday Season!!! Yeah, including a Copic Airbrush System and 12 TCC images :) You totally want to get in on the action!!!!

So, this week, Kelly and I decided that we'd give you another freebie in addition to Rosebud to play with... We picked Miss. Priss because she's got major attitude to go along with Rosebud's sweet innocence.

This is what we were thinking...
Use one of our freebies to make something (anything your heart desires), post it and voila, a ballot in the tree for our 12 Hops of Christmas prizes, including the Grand Prize. Simple huh?!

But wait, there's more... the more challenges you enter, the more ballots you get... So, if you enter our challenge, 1 ballot... if you also enter 3 other challenges (like the Etsy Inspired Challenge - which we're sponsoring on Saturday for instance!) you'll get a total of 4 ballots in the tree!!!!!

We figure this will be easy for lots of you since a great deal of you already enter challenges... AND we're not putting any other restraints on our challenge but to use one of our images!!! We're even offering you 2 freebies to choose from too, just in case you don't have any.

Here's some samples that we've created for you...


And a fab creation from Kelly (check out her colouring! It rocks)...


Now, here's the freebies in case you don't have any TCC images :)

4-shared download link

Our new Artist, Maddy created this little Chibi, Rosebud (ain't she cute?!)

4-shared download link

Well, there you have it! Even more chances to win :) Our draws will be made on the 18th of December for all winners. If you need more information on our 12 Days of Christmas Hop and haven't checked it out yet, START HERE. There are some fabulous creations I must say!

Also, our DT are out in blogville this week, enjoying themselves participating in other challenges so check out what they're doing if you have a chance, I'm sure they'd love to hear from you :)

Heather, Billie, Sara, Lola, Rachel, Deanne, Diane, Angie C, Piali, Fink and our Tekkies, Meredith and Angie E!!! Don't forget to try and use one of our Tek Tuesday project ideas for your challenge entry to receive another FREE TCC image just because (and an additional ballot!).

Enough of my blabbering... gotta get some pain meds in me I think!!!
Happy crafting,
Kendra

Tek Tuesday!!! Altered Gift Bag!!

If you're looking for the end of The 12 Hops of Christmas (and the fabulous Blog Candy up for grabs - including a Copic Airbrush System!), you want to go HERE... If you incorporate Tek Tuesday with the Freebie being offered, we'll add an additional ballot to the tree for you!


Hi Everyone!!! Welcome to another super fun Tek Tuesday!!!

Today I will be showing you how to alter all of those really nice store bags that you get when you shop...particularly this time of year.

The bag I started with was a store bag that measured 10 x 10. I found paper that matched the pretty chocolate brown that the bag color that was my base. It's all past season SU! holiday scraps. I then chose my image, Christmas Scamp and he's the CUTEST!!

I measured the DP mattes one inch down for each design.

I matted the images together and sewed 2 of them together using red thread.

I then colored Scamp with my Copics and Sakura gel pens. I used Stickles to glitter-fy his hat trimmings and then sprinkled white velvet flock over that. It's SO cute and 3-D in person!!

I added some embellishments and adhered it all together. I then put a plain piece of cardstock on the back (or you could embellish both sides!!!)
I then used my SU! word punch to punch out the handle on both sides of the bag.

You could tie a ribbon or fibers here for an easy closure or add a small magnetic snap!!

It's SUCH a fabulous way to recycle the bags rather than use them to take your lunch to work in!!! They are better than that!!!

I wanted to share with you my inspiration for this bag. A LONG time ago...my darlingist friend Joanne, who was our SU! demo, taught us how to alter a simple and so affordable paper bag. You could easily do these for goodie bags for a child's party for SO much less than buying the themed ones!!!

But I digress. Joanne showed us how to do this and I was HOOKED!!! I've used it over and over and am surprised that I'm just now showing you this!!
Thank you for the inspiration Jo!!! AS ALWAYS!!!
Thanks for visiting!! And have fun altering!!!


XOXO
Meredith

12 Hops of Christmas FINAL STOP!

This is the LAST stop of the Hop, if you haven't started yet, go HERE

Sing it with me....

12 T C C digis
11 Sheets of DP
10 Bright Buttons
9 Beautiful Brads
8 Yards of Ribbon
7 Fancy Flowers
6 Blank Cards and Envelopes

5.... Bits of Bling

4 Feet of Hemp
3 Jingle Bells
2 Copic Sketch Markers

and a

Copic Airbrush System for YOU!!!!!

Oh yeah............. (you're soooo lucky you can't hear me!!!)

Tada...... our Christmas Goodies waiting to be won by some lucky hopper.... could be you, but first, better make sure you're in the running. Did you:

• Comment on all the DT blogs?
• Become a follower of our blog if you're not already?
• Let us know what your favorite TCC image was?

If you did all that, you qualify for the Grand Prize mentioned above! But wait... if you didn't do all that, or just don't want to, you may just win something anyway since our DT are also drawing from comments on their blogs! The more players, the more winners :) (you can see all the details at the START of the hop if you missed it).

So, I bet you're wondering where that freebie is so you can make something and come back to have more ballots entered in the tree right? Well, wait no longer...

As you may have noticed, we have some new designs... yes, we have a new Artist at The Cafe! Her name is Maddy Nupp and she's the creator of Chibis (pronounced "cheebees") and Chibitude TM!!! I've snagged a little piece from Maddy's Site to tell you a bit about her...

"Hi! My name is Maddy, and I am an artist and sculptor and crafter and animator. I love to do lots and lots of different projects. The best description would be that I'm a sculptor, because what I make are Chibis. And I sculpt them in various mediums. Polymer Clay, Fabric, Felt, Paper, and even Electronically Sculpt them on the computer. There's no denying I'm obsessed with my little critters, and I make no apologies for that, because it's these little ones that keep me on track, reminding me to be kind, laugh as much as possible, play whenever I can, and to try with all my heart to have those that I meet feel the same feelings."



If you like these little ones, you should definitely go check out Maddy's sculptures (I have the pleasure of owning one!), they are FABULOUS! What a great gift that would make too... hmmm a Chibi and matching card!!! Anyway, back to the CANDY!!!!

For more entries, be sure to let us know if you:

• Posted about our Hop & Candy somewhere
• Were referred by someone (you'll both get an additional ballot!)
• Made something with Rosebud (your freebie!) and posted it

Don't forget to check back for Tek Tuesday! As well, our Feature Friday next week... if you choose to play along, you'll get MORE ballots in the draw, YIPEE!!!

The draws will all be done on Friday, December 18th around noon, so you have until then to finish the hop (I will update all the links to our DTS to reflect the post addys on the Hop Start page)... remember, the more players, the more draws, so more chances to win!

Happy crafting & fa la la la la.... la la la la.
Kendra & Kelly

Winner TCCFF #7 - Colour Challenge

Hope everyone's having a great week so far and that you're looking forward to having a relaxing weekend. Its been raining here alot this past week, and starting to get a wee bit chilly...snow should be here soon, Yay!! ;)

The winner of last weeks Colour Challenge hosted by our very own Angie Cortes is

Avril with her adorable card...

Congratulations Avril!! If you'd like to see her details about her card and more of her wonderful creations, visit her blog here.

Avril, we will be contactiong you soon about your prize of "Santa's list" and "the Bernard Bear "images from The Character Cafe, as well as a 15% 0ff Discount Coupon for your entire purchase at the store.... a blog badge if you wish to use it, and your card will go in our Specials of the Week

at the Store for all to see and use for inspiration! If you haven't heard from me and you're reading this, feel free to e-mail me just in case I can't get in touch with you. Thanks!

Is everyone getting pumped up about the "12 hops of Christmas" tomorrow...I know I am, we have amazing Blog Candy to give away....WHOO HOO !!! I can't wait to see our talented teams creations. We have 12 new images to release + 1 new artist and a Freebie!

Hope you have a great weekend!!

Kelly ;) " The imaginary Illustrator"

Tuesday Tutorial - No Glue Gift Boxes with Pax the Penguin

Yes its my (lilacanglia's) turn to do the Tuesday Tutorial over at The Character Cafe today,

so I chose something that might be handy with us all doing Christmas things.

I learnt this from the nice lady at my local craft shop.

It is a no glue required box, the materials you will need for this are -

2 sheets of paper, one is 11" x 11" for the base and the other is 11.5" x 11.5" this is the lid,

a bone folder would be helpful but not totally necessary, and Character Cafe digi images to decorate with. (these measurements will make a 4" finished box)

The folds on both lid and bottom of the box are the same.

fold the piece of paper in half, then undo and fold in half the other way as well,

so you have a cross in the centre.

Then take one corner and fold so it meets the middle,

repeat this for all 4 corners.

Leave these folded in, then take one side and fold that to the middle like shown below.

and then the opposite side,

unfold these two, and repeat the same on the other two sides.

Unfold all, should look like the photo below.

then fold two side in like show in this photo below,

and after that fold the edges in and one of the triangles to look like picture below,

do this to the other end as well and your finished result should look like this box below.

Do exactly same for the lid, but remember the lid needs to be 11.5" x 11.5" so when folded it is slightly bigger hence why it is the lid.

I then coloured Pax The Penguin digi image from The Character Cafe 4 times in all for these two boxes, and stuck (this is the only time you need glue) on the lids and inside the bases of the boxes. I think these will make great gift boxes for all kinds of goodies for Christmas.

Please leave a link here on The Character Cafe, look forward to seeing your boxes.

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You can also do different size as long as you start with a square and remember to add half a inch to the lid square.

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Thank you for stopping by, have fun creating,

have a happy day,

hugs

lilacanglia

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