Terriffically Thrilling Thursday Challenge - Show Us Your Stripes!

Happy Thursday, Everyone!

Are You Ready For A New Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge?!

We have a fun one for you this week! Our theme is

Show Us Your Stripes!

We want to see your fabulous striped projects!
Show us your creativity by linking up for your chance to win!

You Could Be Our Top Hat Winner, Or Even Win One
Of Our Gold, Bronze Or Silver Medals!

Let's Talk About Our Featured Images and Then We'll See
Projects From The Awesome DT!

This Week's Featured Image is

Easter Chick

And Now, Creations From The Lovely Ladies at Shelly's Images:


Here is Amanda's Beautiful Floral Creation:




And, A very Special Guest This Week - It's Amanda's Daughter, Lisa, With This Little Cutie:




Jenn Showed Her Style With A Mix of Stripes and Spots:




Darlene Showed Off All Her Colored Eggs In Her Creation:




Pandy Is In A Pastel Kind of Mood:



Min Dazzles Us With Her Sparkly Creation:



Stephanie Does Some Fun Tricks With Her Punches:




And, Sammi (That's Me!) Mixes Up All Kinds Of Pastels And Patterns!




Now That We've Inspired You, It's Your Turn To

Show Us Your Stripes!

Are You Ready?

Get Set....

Link It Up!

TTT Challenge Winners - Color Challenge Kraft, Pink, and Orange

Whew...everyone must have had a crazy busy week like we have had here at my house.  The weather has been fantastic and it just seems like there have been so many things to do.  Not to mention beginning to work in the yard to get it back into shape after winter.  We have already mowed twice and it isn't even April yet!

Only 3 entries this week...but still so much creativity and inspiration!  So we will have a Gold and Silver Medal Award winner and a Top Hat Award winner. 

The Gold Medal Award winner is Ginger from Ginger's Stamping Spot.

Ginger, we loved this amazing project.  Not only did you use a SI digi stamp, but you used the one we featured this week.  Just adorable.  Thanks for making such an amazing project with 1 Bunny Trail Lane.

Our Silver Medal Award winner is Olga from Elephant Fairies.

Olga, this card is a beautiful use of this week's color challenge colors.  I love the little orange embellies.  Just goes to show that this combination of colors is amazing together.

And the Top Hat Award (first name out of the hat using random.org) is Pia from Pias Papir og Perler

Pia, this is an adorable little gift sack!  And wonderful to see a Kraft gift sack used for this challenge.  Anyone would feel so special to get a gift in this pretty sack.

Ladies...thanks so much for your entries this week!

Our Gold Medal and Top Hat winners both receive an image of their choice (up to $3 value) from www.shellysimages.com. Just email Shelly at shelly@shellysimages.com to let her know which image you would like. And our Silver Medal winner receives a "Buy One Get One Free" voucher to our store. To get your voucher just visit the store and register.  Once your registration is complete Shelly will add your voucher to your account.  Email Shelly once your registration is complete.

All medal winners this week can find the medal badge to display at their blog *here*. We hope that all of our winners this week will proudly display their winning badge.

 We can't wait to see what you create for our new challenge.

Tutorial Tuesday: Get All Taped Up!

Good Morning, Everyone!

Welcome to technique/Tutorial Tuesday!

I'm sure you've seen one of the hottest new trends in scrapbooking and cardmaking - Patterned, printed tape! They're sooooo much fun to play with, and look great on scrapbook pages or cards! More and more companies are coming out with thier own versions, to entice us to spend our money!

Well, today is your lucky day, because I'm going to show you how to make your own! (This is my first attempt at making them and I'm still learning, so I did make a few mistakes - Please be gentle with me! LOL)

Ready? Okay, here we go:

Supplies Needed:

Paint Daubers, Alcohol Inks or Distress Stains (I used Paint Daubers)
Non Stick Craft mat or large piece of acetate
Rubber Stamps for making your background
Masking Tape

First, lay down your craft mat or acetate, for a work station. You want to use only acetate or a non stick craft mat, so that the tape can be easily removed.

Here is a pic of my paint dauber bottles, and some strips of the tape on my craft mat.




Now, take your paint daubers or other coloring medium, and color in your tape strips, then set aside to dry.






Once your strips of tape are dry, use the same inks to ink up your background stamps and then stamp then onto your tape. Set aside to dry. Once dry, you can peel off the tapes, flip over your craft mat or acetate, and put the tapes on the back, so that you can clean the access off the side you worked with. They will need to stay there or on a spare craft mat or acetate piece, for storage, till you use them.

Here is a pic of a few of the pieces of the self made patterned tapes:



How's that for a money saver?! These are awesome to use on your cards or layouts and the possibilites are endless - Only you are the limit to the possibilities!

Hope you enjoyed today's tutorial! Come back Thursday for our new challenge!

Always something fun, here, at Shelly's Images!

TTT Challenge Winners - Show us what you got!

WOW!  116 Entries from so many of our talented friends.  When I am looking for inspiration for my projects I always visit our challenge entries to see the amazing creations entered.  Thank you all!
The Gold Medal Award winner is Karen from Feline Creative!
Karen we loved your project this week.  Just amazing.  I think by this time everyone has heard how much I love stitching on projects.  And your zig zag stitching is so great.  The double ribbon under the image is so interesting too. Congratulations!

Our Silver Medal Award winner is Janiel from Scrappyjan Designs!
Janiel, we loved your altered book.  It is so beautiful and so creative.  All of the elements really come together on this amazing project.

And, Our Bronze Medal Award winner is Kathy.  Kathy, your basket project is just wonderful.  Thanks so much for entering a project using our Shelly's Images basket.  Your gray basket is so unique and pretty.  I love the sentiment tags.  And the flowers in your basket are the perfect addition.

And the Top Hat Award (first name out of the hat using random.org) is Olga from Elephant Fairies.
Olga, this card is so perfectly Easter.  The colors you used just scream Spring.  And thanks to you for also using the basket image this week.  I love the basket used here with another stamp.

Our Gold Medal and Top Hat winners both receive an image of their choice (up to $3 value) from www.shellysimages.com. Just email Shelly at shelly@shellysimages.com to let her know which image you would like. And our Silver and Bronze Medal winners both receive a "Buy One Get One Free" voucher to our store. To get your voucher just visit the store and register.  Once your registration is complete Shelly will add your voucher to your account.  Email Shelly once your registration is complete.

All medal winners this week can find the medal badge to display at their blog *here*. We hope that all of our winners this week will proudly display their winning badge.

Thanks for the beautiful entries this week everyone.  We can't wait to see what you create for our new challenge.

Terrically Thrilling Thursday - Color Challenge with a TWIST

Time for another fun challenge here at Shelly's Images!
This week we are featuring another digi that would be PERFECT for the upcoming Easter holiday.  It's called "1 Bunny Trail Lane" and you can purchase it TODAY ONLY at a REDUCED PRICE.

1 Bunny Trail Lane

And, our challenge theme today is:

 COLORS:  Kraft, Pink & Orange
* AND *

USE EMBOSSING (wet or dry)

You say you need a little inspiration on using these colors!  Well, look no further than below at the fabulous creation the design team has come up with.

STEPHANIE

 PANDY

SAMMIBUG

JEN

AMANDA 

DARLENE

Now it's YOUR turn to join in the fun!

 Just by playing along, YOU could be this weeks WINNER!!

Please follow these simple challenge rules:
1. Link directly to your blog post entry, NOT your entire blog.
2. Shelly's Images are NOT required (but we'd LOVE to see them).
3. New projects ONLY ... NO back linking.
4. Your entry must follow the theme.
5. Only FIVE entries per challenge PLEASE. Any additional entries will be deleted in an effort to keep our challenge fair for all participants.
6. Challenge entry ends at 12:00 Noon (CST) on Wednesday.
7. Prizes are awarded through store vouchers.  You must be registered at the store to get your voucher so be sure to head over and get your registration in.   

Ready, Set, Link It!

Inked Embossing Folder Background Tutorial

Hello Everyone! 

Today on Shelly's Images Tutorial/Technique Tuesday, I'd like to share/remind you of an easy, fun technique to use in making your background paper panels.  It is simply INKING your EMBOSSING FOLDERS and running it through your Cuttlebug, Big Shot, Vagabond ... whatever embossing machine you may use.  Here are the easy steps:

For my card creation, I am using SU River Rock cardstock, White cardstock, SU River Rock ink and a Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder.

 

 Simply add ink to the 'UNraised' side of your embossing folder (usually the side with the name on it) by either sliding your pad across it or for more coverage, patting your ink pad on the embossing folder.

 Once you have your embossing folder inked up, place your white card stock inside the folder and run it through your embossing machine.  Below is a sample of what it will look like.  Of course, the end result varies dependent upon how much ink you apply to your folder. 

 

Here is my card creation using this panel as background with Shelly's "Hen" digi image. 

I hope you'll give this fun, EASY technique a try the next time you're looking for that background panel that is subtle, yet STRIKING!!

 * * *

Here are two more cards using the same technique with different colors / embossing folders.

 Recipe:  SU Soft Sky ink, Cuttlebug EF, Sizzix Snowflake Dies, Shelly's 'SnowLady' digi stamp

 

Recipe: SU Old Olive ink, Sizzix EF, Shelly's 'Pot of Gold'

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and give it a try.  It's really very easy and looks great!

Happy Crafting!

Sooo exciting!

I have SUCH exciting news for you today!

Shelly's Images has a brand new store and website! The website address will remain the same so not to worry.  Your Shelly's Images.com bookmarks will continue to work. We have been hard at work for the last 4 weeks to get the new site and store ready for all of our friends.  

There are lots of great new features that come with our store.  We hope you will drop in and take a look around.  If you haven't signed up for our newsletter be sure to do that.  And be sure to click on the Store tab and then register for your Shelly's Images account.  There are so many great benefits to registering! Oh...and you still have time to enter for our March Digi Stamp Giveaway.  Enter once each month for your chance to win. 

We would love to hear what you think of our new home.  And to celebrate we are offering a 30% off coupon from now until April 15th.  This offer can not be combined with other sales or vouchers.  

Please leave us a little comment to let us know what you think of our new home.  We think you will find it much easier to find exactly what you are looking for.  And it is loaded with inspiration to help you with all of your projects.

Spotlight On...

...Easter

I love making special little crafts for holidays.  The kids always look forward to the special little things that I make.  Hopefully they look back on holidays and remember those special touches.  So Darlene's Candy Bar holder using our Easter Bunny digi stamp is definitely on  my list of things to make.  Of course this candy bar holder would be wonderful for any holiday or even birthday.

Darlene has some wonderful instructions at her blog on how to make these fun candy bar holders.

TTT Challenge Winners - Green and Gold

Well, our Green and Gold challenge has come to an end.  And the DT and I have worked hard to choose 3 medal winners from the amazing entries we had this week.

The Gold Medal Award winner is Jill from Jie Craft!
Jill this is an amazing project.  And the DT and I LOVE it!  The shape is amazing and we love all the additions.  Congratulations!

Our Silver Medal Award winner is Donna from Popsicle Toes!
Donna, we absolutely loved the colors, embellishments and additions.  This card is everything we were looking for in a green and gold challenge.  

And, Our Bronze Medal Award winner is Ginger from Ginger's Stamping Spot!   Ginger you did an amazing job with our Beary Lucky image! We love the shape of your card and that you chose to use the image that we featured this week.  Thanks so much and congratulations!

And the Top Hat Award (first name out of the hat using random.org) is Karen from Karen's Kreative Kards!
Karen, we loved the project and your shamrocks!  So cute!  

Our Gold Medal and Top Hat winners both receive an image of their choice (up to $3 value) from www.shellysimages.com. Just email Shelly at shelly@shellysimages.com to let her know which image you would like. And our Silver and Bronze Medal winners both receive a "Buy One Get One Free" voucher to our store (buy one image and get a second image of equal or lesser value free). Just add the words "silver" or "bronze" and your free image choice to the comment section when placing your order.

All medal winners this week can find the medal badge to display at their blog *here*. We hope that all of our winners this week will proudly display their winning badge.

Thanks for the beautiful entries this week everyone.  We can't wait to see what you create for our new challenge.

Terifically Thrilling Thursday - Show Us What You Got

Welcome to another Terrifically Thrilling Thursday!  Our challenge for you this week is one of my favorites.  This week we want you to "Show Us What You Got!."  That is right, you heard correctly, it is anything goes week.

Be sure to check back, later today, to see if you were one of the winners from last week's challenge! Be sure you play along this week for your chance to win!

You could be our next Top Hat Winner, or even win one of our Gold, Silver or Bronze Medals!

This Week's Featured Image is Easter Bunny, make sure to stop by Shelly's Images Store, to get your copy today.

Sammi

Darlene

Pandy

Amanda

Jen

Stephanie

Now it's YOUR turn to join in the fun!

Just by playing along, YOU could be this weeks WINNER!!

Please follow these simple challenge rules:

1. Link directly to your blog post entry, NOT your entire blog.
2. Shelly's Images are NOT required (but we'd LOVE to see them).
3. New projects ONLY ... NO back linking.
4. Your entry must follow the theme.
5. Only FIVE entries per challenge PLEASE. Any additional entries will be deleted in an effort to keep our challenge fair for all participants.
6. Challenge entry ends at 12:00 Noon (CST) on Wednesday.

Ready, Set, Link It!

Show us what you got!

Tuesday Tutorial - The making of "Easter Bunny"

I hope you enjoy this little peek at the process I use for making 

the digi stamps for Shelly's Images.com

If you have trouble seeing the video please click here.

Please leave us a little note.  We love hearing from you.

Spotlight On...

...St. Patrick's Day

Jen always adds such detail to her projects.  Her project featuring Beary Lucky is truly a work of art.

Be sure to browse through all of our labels in the right sidebar.  Lots and lots of great information for all of your projects.

Spotlight On...

...St. Patrick's Day

Here is a cute Popcorn Box made by Shelly using our Beary Lucky digi stamp.

Shelly has more information about this fun project at her blog.

Stella Says Sketch with Bugaboo Stamps!

We're so happy to be partnering up with Bugaboo Stamps again this week and to play along with the Stella Says Sketch challenge!

R U Ready to Sketch??

This one is a bit like a Tent Topper card – of course, using the sketch you can whip up ANY kind of project!

One of the things we really love about our Stella Says Sketch challenges is our team gets to play with some Bugaboo Stamps digis!

Sammi featuring Skelekinz – You Have My Heart

Min featuring Gus – Fish Whisperer

And this week, Billie A and Jenn Zeeb created some FAN-TAB-ULOUS cards using a few Shelly's Images digis!

Jenn Zeeb featuring Carrot Patch

 

Billie A featuring Pansies

So, what do you think? 

Inspired enough to join the FUN??

Maybe we give you the deets on what you can WIN if you play along......
sound good???
The rules are simple: Create a Project based on Stella's Sketch above and post a link to it on Bugaboo Stamps' challenge blog, Catch the Bug,  by 3/25/12 at 6:00 AM EST to be entered a random drawing for FOUR digi prize packs - seven (7) (using a Bugaboo image only), four (4), or two (2) using any image AND one winner will also win a $9 gift certificate to Shelly's Images Store!

TTT Challenge Winners - Seeing Spots

Another challenge has already come to a close so time again to choose the winner's of our "Seeing Spots" Challenge.

The Gold Medal Award winner is Grace from "the-INK-ing of you"
Grace we loved the colors and the frames.  You added so many beautiful elements.  And the sentiment is so meaningful.  Congratulations on being our Gold Medal Winner this week.

Our Silver Medal Award winner is Cheryl from She Stamps.

Cheryl, I am such a huge fan of your work.  Your projects always inspire us.  We loved the way your ribbon lays down over the edge of the paper seemingly held in place by the beautiful layers of buttons.  And your stitching (which I think of as one of your trademarks) is always so lovely and the perfect addition.  We love the little shine of bling near the bottom of your project and again on the tag.  Just so lovely.

And, Our Bronze Medal Award winner is Vicky from Paw Prince!  Vicky this is an amazing project.  So much love and attention has obviously gone into the creation of this project. We love how the dot or spot elements compliment the stripes.  And the added flowers balance everything so beautifully. And you can never go wrong with an added splash of glitter.  :)

And the Top Hat Award (first name out of the hat using random.org) is Patty from Patty's Kreativ Seite. Patty your project may be our random draw winner, but wow is it a beauty.  I love the oranges and greens on this project.  What a calm and happy color scheme.  And the layered flowers are fabulous.  I need to go back and translate your sight to see exactly how you made those.  Congratulations!

Our Gold Medal and Top Hat winners both receive an image of their choice (up to $3 value) from www.shellysimages.com. Just email Shelly at shelly@shellysimages.com to let her know which image you would like. And our Silver and Bronze Medal winners both receive a "Buy One Get One Free" voucher to our store (buy one image and get a second image of equal or lesser value free). Just add the words "silver" or "bronze" and your free image choice to the comment section when placing your order.

All medal winners this week can find the medal badge to display at their blog *here*. We hope that all of our winners this week will proudly display their winning badge.

Terrifically Thrilling Thursday - Green and Gold

Hello Friends!  Hope you all enjoyed our challenge last week

Welcome To Another Terrifically Thrilling Thursday!

Today - in honour of St Patrick's day - we want to see

greens and golds

Be Sure To Check Back, Later Today, To See
If You Were One Of The Winners From Last Week's Challenge!
Be Sure You Play Along This Week,
For Your Chance To Win!

You Could Be Our Top Hat Winner, Or Even Win One
Of Our Gold, Bronze Or Silver Medals!

This Week's Featured Image is our dear friend Beary - all dressed up in honour of the day Available In The Shelly's Images Store, Today.

Are You Ready To See The Fabulous Creations
From The DT?!

Amanda

Darlene

Stephanie

Pandy

Sammibug

Jen

Shelly

Now it's YOUR turn to join in the fun!

 Just by playing along, YOU could be this weeks WINNER!!

Please follow these simple challenge rules:
1. Link directly to your blog post entry, NOT your entire blog.
2. Shelly's Images are NOT required (but we'd LOVE to see them).
3. New projects ONLY ... NO back linking.
4. Your entry must follow the theme.
5. Only FIVE entries per challenge PLEASE. Any additional entries will be deleted in an effort to keep our challenge fair for all participants.
6. Challenge entry ends at 12:00 Noon (CST) on Wednesday.

Ready, Set, Link It!