Right, well Blender is not my 3D app of choice but its the one most people try to use. You can look over my initiation thread here:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...ough-a-Blender
but its not the simplest app to use. In fact it has to be one of the most unintuitive.

If you could post a link to a free download & free to use true type font that could be used then I could make the text if I catch the post in time. In any case, getting a font would be the best first thing you could do unless your planning on drawing the font as well.

With so little time maybe you would be better off trying to make it in a paint program. Here are some tuts I found for making shiny text.

http://designwithathought.com/tutori...eps-photoshop/

http://www.youthedesigner.com/2010/0...-and-advanced/