Design Team Announcement!!!!

Hey bloggers, we’re here with our DT pics…. ummmm, we neglected to send them the acceptance e-mail as of yet (just realized this!), however, we’ll announce it here, hope they accept and if they don’t well, I guess we’ll be back for an update in a few days!

The drum roll please………

Rachael

Georgia

Deanette

Audrey

Margie

Ladies, we will e-mail you a more formal acceptance with the invites to the group and forum tomorrow (been a LONG day)

Returning team members (hey, I guess you are now Senior too… Sara, you’re ancient! LOL)

Rachel

Fink

Sara

Angie E

Angie C

Deanne

Lola 

 

So, we’ve heard from both our winners of our Anniversary candy and we’ll be heading to the Post Office tomorrow to get your goodies out to you :)

Bye for now, gotta pick up the teenager… late for a very important date!!!! he he he

Happy crafting,

Kendra & Kelly

Winner of TCC Anniversary Candy

Hey there crafters, it's time to announce the winner of our Anniversary Candy...

Congratulations goes to...#21 Vicki Mazetti, picked by random.org.

...along with the Crafting Goodies, you will also receive a $15.00 dollar gift certificate to The Character Cafe Store.

Since we had a fair number of entrants, we decided to pick a second place winner using random.org.

Our second place winner will receive 12 TCC images already printed, heat set and ready to colour.

Congratulations goes to... #34 Audrey, picked by random.org.

On another note, we are still going through our applicants for our new DT members and will be back Tuesday morning to announce them. Sorry for the delay!

See you on Tuesday!!


Kelly & Kendra

P.S. Vicki & Audrey don't forget to e-mail us with your addresses so we can get your goodies out to you :)

Happy Anniversary to TCC & Winner of TCCFF#17

Yay...it's our 1 year Anniversary for The Character Cafe and to celebrate we are offering some CANDY!!!

From today until April 15 come add your name to Mr. Linky for a chance to win.

Our candy will be a $15.00 gift certificate for The Cafe store and we also have a small bag of miscellaneous crafty goodies to go with it. We hope you'll join in on the fun for a chance to win!! We will announce our winner of the Anniversary candy after the 15th of April, when we also announce our new DT!!

And now to announce last week's Feature Friday winner - Anything but a card challenge. We had so many beautiful & creative entries in this challenge, we had fun checking out everyone's creations, so thanks to all that participated.

Congratulations goes to... #15,
Lisa C from Stamped Art by Lisa with these cuties and more... (picked by random.org, but not sure how to post the pic of it here - or get the pic at all!)

You have won Jocelyn Fairy and Hoppy Frog images as well as a $5.00 gift certificate from The Cafe Store.
You also will get a winner's blog badge and your blog will be featured in the winner's section of our store when we figure out what happened to it...aughhh!!

We are taking a break from our challenges for a few weeks while we get organized going through all the applicants for our next DT term. Hopefully Kendra and I will get a chance in between to get some crafting done and we'll be blogging to show you. In the meantime, it would be great if you see a TCC image around blogville and/or have created something yourself, give us a shout and we'll post it on the blog for all to see!!! Let's try something new?

We wish everyone a Happy Easter spending time with family & friends!! Don't forget, our $1 digi sale is ending soon, so if you want something, better get going to the Cafe while they're a steal!

Also, don't forget to check out our DT call, it's posted on SCS, PCP, SNR and our website home page for your convenience... why not come have some fun with us?!

Chat with you soon
Kelly "The imaginary illustrator" ;)

Tutorial Tuesday - Little Easter Gift Pocket,

Wow, where does time go, I can't believe its time for another Tuesday Tutorial,

This weeks tutorial is a little pocket for some Easter treats,

The materials you need for this are a square of paper, my square was 6"

(this can be any size all depends on how big you want your pocket)

and decorations to finish it of with, I chose Buddy again,

I just love Buddy.

Fold your square in half diagonally like the photo below,

Then take one of the sides and fold to reach the other side,

I did from right to left first, like in the photo below,

I used a bone folder to get the folds nice and crisp,

then take the other point and bring across the one you have just folded,

this time was from left to right.

So it looks like the photo below,

and turn the front top down,

you will have this little shaped pocket that you can see in the picture below,

only one more step to go,

Decorate and fill with what you would like,

I used the Buddy Image, as I am stuck on cute dogs at the moment,

Hope you enjoyed this quick and easy tutorial,

This could even be used for our current Challenge running at the moment.

Thank You for stopping by, hope to see your Easter Pockets.

Hugs

Lilacanglia

xx

Feature Friday Challenge #17 Anything But A Card

Todays Friday Feature Challenge has been set by me (Angie aka Lilacanglia) this week,

I chose to give everyone a nice simple week, by opting for ANYTHING BUT A CARD,

we all would love to see your wonderful creations,

Our PRIZE this week is

Fairy Jocelyn and Hoppy Frog images as well as a $5.00 Gift Certificate for The Cafe Store, a Winner's Blog Badge, and your blog featured in the Winner's Section of the Store.

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Here are our DT's lovely inspiration for you,

Lola's Basket

Billie's Gift Bag

Deanne's Gift Box - altered Q-tip box

Angie's Clipboard,

Diane's Bookmark

Rachel's Treat Bag

Look forward to popping round all the entrants blogs and leaving comments,

and to seeing what lovely idea's you all come up with.

While your surfing some blogs, why not check out our other DT Girls who are participating in other challenges in blogville...

Piali, Heather, Sara, Angie C and Fink

Hugs

Angie aka lilacanglia

x X x

Hey bloggers, it's Kendra here... Just wanted to pop in and remind you all that this is the LAST Feature Friday with our DT Members for this term!!!! How about we show them lots of love and try to get a record number entries for the challenge???

In exchange for the efforts we're asking of you, we're going to go ahead and have a STOREWIDE SALE.... everything for $1... yes, it's true $1, (for a limited time only) so head on over there, grab your favs and get crafty with us!!!!

Can't wait to see your creations :)

... and a sad so long to Billie, Heather, Piali and Diane, we're sorry to see you leave, but we'll stay in touch and hope to have you back for some Guest Designing ;)

Winner of TCCFF #16 - A Color Challenge

Hey it's Thuuurrrsssday!! Time to announce the winner from this past week's FF #16 - a colour challenge.

The prize this week is the adorable Buddy digi image and the beautiful Piper n' Prince digi image + a $5.00 Gift Certificate for The Character Cafe Store. Included with this prize the winner will receive a winner's blog badge and your blog will be featured in the winner's section of our store (if we can find the right hand side of our website - any suggestions???!!! aughh).

Congratulations to Yuliya, we will be sending you your prize soon.

Here is her winning card



Please don't hesitate to e-mail us if you haven't received it by next week as sometimes our e-mail goes to spam or gets lost in cyberspace...Lol :>

One last thing I'd like to mention we are having a sale starting tomorrow, in honour of some team members that are leaving. Everything is on sale at the store for $1.00, yes, you read that right $1.00 for any digital image. So, hurry in to the store, it's only on sale for a limited time.

Come on by tomorrow and see what our crafty ladies have in store for our challenge. Angie E. is our host, I can't tell you what the challenge is that wouldn't be fair, but I can tell you it's not a card...hee,hee.
Chat with you later.

Kelly "The imaginary illustrator" ;)

Tek Tuesday and cards to show

Hey there crafty ladies (guys too, you know who you are),

Hope everyone's having a great week and weather to match!! It's a beautiful sunny day here in Delaware, Ontario...Canada (the sun is finally melting our igloos, hee,hee)

Seriously now, first off I would like to remind everyone about our DT call we announced last week. We've posted it on SCS, (should be up there soon), SNR and PCP. Or, you can always go to our Store or here.

Now for our Technique this week Kendra stumbled upon this neat die cut technique on how to incorporate your cricut (or any other similar cutting machine) with using digis.

Here's the link for printable diecuts. There's so much you could do with this, I think I need to try this at my friendly neighbourhood craft store soon (aka. Kendra's).

I also have some cards I've done recently to show you. I've been using OMS lately instead of water with my watercolour pencils... I'm liking it, especially how it doesn't wrinkle the cardstock.

Here's some examples of coloured digi images I did last week.







Here's a couple of my cards.

If you like what you see, you can find all these images and tons more at The Cafe Store.

Hope you continue to have a great week, we'll see you on Thursday to announce our FF Challenge winner from this week, and then Friday for our last Challenge with this terms' DT Members. Hope to "see" you then!

Kelly "The imaginary illustrator" ;)