Character Cafe Grand Opening
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Blog Hop!!!
Hello Friends, Readers, and Fans of The Character Cafe Digital Stamps!!!
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If you are new to my Blog My Name is Heather Schlatter and I am so super excited to be sharing this new Company and their WONDERFUL images with you today!!!
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(if you are not viewing the Blog hop on day one Thursday the 18th do not worry all the freebee's discounts, and prizes are still good until Tuesday the 23rd as long as you follow the blog hop rules!!!) Have Fun!!!!!
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Now for a few little rules for our Super Fun Blog Hop.
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2. There will be Prizes and Giveaways along the Blog Hop, Plus each of us will be giving you a code that in the end will give you a discount on your very first Character Cafe Digi Stamp order. The Code must be entered in the correct order to get your HUGE discount, so you do not want to miss or skip one of your stops along the way!!!
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3. How do you win the Prizes???As you Hop along with us write down on each stop the Code we give you, Leave a comment on each of our Blogs including the first and last stop, and finally become a follower of the Character Cafe Store at the end of the Hop. When all is said and done there will be 1 Grand Prize Winner, 1 Runner up Winner, and 1 winner of the Give Away hidden somewhere in the Blog Hop!!!! There will be Random Drawings and if you have met all the above criteria to win you will be notified and given your Super Cool Prize!!!!
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So Start your Blog Hop
Here on our Character Cafe DT Page. There will be a full list of the entire Blog Hop and addresses there if you happen to get lost along the way and need to get back on track.
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O.K. Are you ready now??? So if you are back here now you should have already been to the DT Page, Tessa, Billie, Shelley, Elaine, and Mary's Blogs, Now you are at Heathers Blog and my Piece of the Code for you is the number 9.
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Now onto my very First Character Cafe Project.
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Here is my card. I had so much fun playing around with my new favorite image Fairy Belle from The Character Cafe!!!!
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My First idea was to print off these Mini Fairy Belles above and create a Home Made Designer Patterned Paper with them in the background, but as I was coloring them up I ended up morphing my idea into this Fairy Land Scene.
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I created the Background by starting off with a solid White piece of Card stock. I sponged on the Sky by using sponges and 4 Ink colors SU! Bashful Blue, Ballet Blue, Brocade Blue, and Whisper White Craft Ink to make the clouds. I added the Whisper White Clouds with a Baby wipe swiped across the blue sky.
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I created the Grass using my Copic in G03, G04, and G06 greens by shading and blending.
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First of all I used her Head 2 times one on the main image is colored and then again I colored her head up then cut it out, and popped her head up above the other head to give her more dimension too.
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Next to color up Sweet Fairy Belle, I used my Copics for coloring, shading, and blending. For some reason all my shading and blending are not showing up as good as they look on the card.
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Her Wings are colored up in RV00, RV02, RV04, and RV09, each section of the wing is then shaded and blended with the next color up on the list to give it dimension. I lastly painted on some Angel Wings Shimmerz and Some Bubble Gum Shimmerz to add some real Sparkle and Bling.
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Her Hair is colored in Y11, Yo8, and Y38 Copics. Her skin is colored with R00, E00. E95, and RV21 for the cheeks. Her Dress is colored up in G06, and G04, and her tights are colored in G00, and G02.
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So what I did to get the Popped up Framed Nestie shape was I adhered all my elements of the card popped up or not and then I put my Nestie (Labels 4) over the part of the Card with big Fairy Belle then I cut out my Nestie shape which cut out the background, Belle, and parts of the flowers. I then took excess rubber and foam from my stamps and popped that up from the rest of the card to Frame it out. I also sponged a new piece of background under the nestie so you still could see the sky behind the popped out Frame.
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The little Fairy's and the Flower heads are popped up using Stampin Dimensionals and the popped up nestie frame is using excess foam and rubber so it is popped out even higher than the rest of the card.
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To get the stems and leaves of the flowers popped up I took 1 glue dot and put it at the bottom of the stem up a tiny bit from where it would normally go and that popped out the rounded stem too.
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Well I hope you enjoyed my part of The Character Cafe Blog Hop and now you want to Hop on over to my lovely team mate Colleen's Blog. Don't forget once you have made it through the whole hop you will have all the code pieces we have given you in order so you can head on over to The Character Cafe Store and order those stamps at 50% off!!!!
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Have a wonderful evening and I hope your Thursday was very Stampendous!!!!
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Heather