3D Caramel Apple

Hi all! Just wanted to remind you about this week's Pile It On challenge: Holidays. We have a special sponsor this time, Flavorlopes, the Flavored Envelope Company! I ordered a pack of their Caramel Apple-flavored envelopes, so I wanted to make a card that would work well with them. 

The envelopes come with coordinating notecards, so it will make a fun gift. I had already decided to make something caramel-apple shaped to send in with envelope, but I hadn't quite decided on the design ... then I started flipping through the Australian Simply Cards Christmas Special magazine from last year, and saw Ellen Kharade's wonderful 3D Christmas Pudding (here's a photo of the page and my little hindrance helper, Allen):

Here's my Treat closed flat, for mailing:

I made the "stick" with coasterboard & the woodgrain embossing plate from a•muse studio. All the pieces (except the ribbon & tag) are edged with Antique Linen distress ink.

I cut the circles from shiny paper (Recollections) with a Spellbinders die on my Bigshot, and hand-cut the "drips". The sentiment was a scrap from my recent Chups Chups card, and I stamped a tag frame and attached it to the ribbon with a flower-shaped eyelet (and with help from my Crop-O-Dile).

Many thanks to Flavorlopes, Ellen Kharade, and Australian Simply Cards magazine for the inspiration!

I'm entering this into the following fabulous Challenges:
MilkCoffee Challenge: Your favourite treats (When my husband saw this, we both agreed that we'll be making caramel apples in the near future!)
Winter Wonderland: Anything BUT a card + must be Christmas (This isn't obviously Christmasy, but I do plan to use it for the holidays, hence the red ribbon.)

Hope you'll join us at Pile It On! Thank you for visiting,

Andy reading, Andy tired; Andy take a little snooze

Matt Hawkins of Custom Papertoys made this most-groovy homage to Warhol, Paper Pop, and has the template on his site for free! Oh it's so fun to make.

Being me, I sized it down to about 3.5 inches high, so some of the smaller pieces (like that fantastic nose!) were a little difficult to get in place. Thank goodness for reverse tweezers!

I actually made this is January, but recently I ran across these tiny origami books at Extreme Cards & Papercrafting and just had to give Andy some reading material! I made the books from 2x2 pieces of paper torn from a magazine.


The book in the foreground was actually made from a Post-it. Let me know if you try either of these projects!