Congratulations Christi. The DT and I loved this beautiful explosion box. There were so many wonderful decorative elements inside. I especially love the little slide in tag. And a project for the 4th of July is perfect for this challenge. I will be emailing you in just a few minutes with your $6 gift voucher.
Paul, we loved this circular easel card. And having the numbers hold the easel when it is open was just PERFECT for this challenge. I also love the detail in the lettering of the name. All of those touches really make the project so special. Please be sure to grab the silver medal badge to display at your blog. You can find your badge here.
And, Our Bronze Medal Awardwinner is Kim from Kreations by Kim Kutie. Kim we loved the way you incorporated the number on your project. And the colors you chose for your papers are some of my current favorites to work with. Lovely project. Please be sure to grab the bronze medal badge to display at your blog. You can find your badge here.
Be sure to join in the fun with our "You Pick2" challenge.
With the RIGHT shoe image, ANYTHING is possible!! And the digi we're sharing with you today makes great cards possible - and it gives you so many ways you can use it too!! You'll see that when you take a look at the awesome projects our wonderful little team here has put together! =)
Today, our FEATURED image today is "High Heels.” You can get this amazing image with butt shrinking powers*, TODAY ONLY at a REDUCED PRICE!! Click on the image name below the watermarked photo to go directly to its location in our new store! (If you haven't registered for the new store, yet, be sure you do so you get the special perks!)
* Digi High Heel Shoes image above don't really have butt shrinking powers, but I know from my experience when I get a pair of shoes like this and put them on, my butt looks smaller.
Just didn't want you to think for less than $3 you could get an image that would instantly make your butt look smaller. =)
In addition to an awesome pair of shoes - with great Butt shrinking capabilities*, we have a Terrrifically FUN challenge for you this week!
Have you ever visited Panera Bread? It's my most FAVORITE stop for an Iced
Tea and Asiago Cheese Bagel or Cranberry Orange Muffin.
Well, at lunch they have a YOU PICK 2 option - you get to pick two
parts to make your lunch - like a 1/2 sammie (My fave- Sierra Turkey) and a small salad (my 2nd pick - Asian Sesame Chicken Salad). You get the idea.
Yep, anytime I can combine food & crafting, it's a good day! =)
So, that's what we're doing with today's Challenge at Shelly's
Images -
It's a YOU PICK TWO challenge.
Pick at least two of the following and use on your creation -
Your choices?
* Ribbon
* Bling
* The Color Blue
* Flowers * Markers
* A digi
* A monochromatic color scheme
* A Punched Border
YOU PICK TWO and show us what you come up with!
Our design team was busy You Picking Two and here's what they came up with -
Amanda went crazy and picked lots of stuff on the list - A Digi, Flowers, BLING & Markers. Aren't you just lovin' these shoes in Red & Black?
Darlene is lookin' particularly pleasant in purple and black and I think the ONLY thing she didn't pick was the color blue! WOW Darlene! =) AND she also included a great sentiment (which was a suggested sentiment idea offered in the description area for the image in Shelly's store) for this card!
Stephanie combined a little digi and some blue (with some flowers)!
Sammibug created some very cool shoes - love the pattern and she included a digi, ribbon, flowers, markers and blue!
Jen used 'em all AND a spotlight technique too!
And Min - that's me - I went a little color crazy, but hey, why not some crazy colored shoes? I used some Ribbon, Markers and Bling - not quite the over-achiever like some of the other girls - you know who you are! =)
Inspired??
Well, get busy creating, so you can play along with us for your chance to win!
Please remember our 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. The entry can be any type of project so long as it follows 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.
I wanted to share a little something I figured out tinkering with my copics the other day.
I love tinkering with products to see what out of the ordinary things I can do with them.
I'm sure someone has long since come up with this, but it's new to me, so I thought I'd share it with you!
It involves an Embossing folder, a Copic Color of your choice, a Copic colorless blender and some paper.
Color the amount of paper you're going to need with your Copic color
Get out your Embossing folder
Run your colored paper and embossing folder through your Embossing machine
Here is what your paper should look like after you've embossed it.
Take your colorless blender and carefully color over the bumpy part of your embossing - in this case it's the words that will be embossed.
You may have to go over it a few times depending on how much you want your raised embossing to pop. Here I went over it 3 times. Of course you could do it more. Totally up to you and what you're trying to accomplish.
It's kind of hard to photograph, but you can see the raised embossing is a bit lighter than the actual background.
Here's a little snippet of how it turned out on my card.
Thanks so much for coming by today to check out this little tutorial!
I hope you enjoyed it and give it a try.
Stop back on Thursday to see the completed project!
Whew....you all kept the DT hoppin this week with commenting on the entries. All of the entries are so wonderful and we can't thank you enough for sharing your talents here with us.
This project is SOOOO pretty! We loved the colors and papers you chose. And the image surrounded by the tall skinny oval and the flowers is just beautiful. I also love how you finished the inside of the card. Beautiful work. I will be emailing you in just a few minutes with your $6 gift voucher.
Suzette we loved this simple card. The bright and colorful image really stands out against the white embossed background. And your coloring of this digi is so wonderful. Please be sure to grab the silver medal badge to display at your blog. You can find your badge here.
And, Our Bronze Medal Awardwinner is Jan from She's Gone Digital. Jan we loved this cute project for OWH. All of the elements, papers, colors, and image come together to make a wonderful project. Please be sure to grab the bronze medal badge to display at your blog. You can find your badge here.
Be sure to join in the fun with our "It's all in the NUMBERs" challenge. And visit the blog of our Design Team Leader and our Special Invited Guest Designer for a chance to win $3 gift vouchers.
Hear ye, hear ye ... It’s Jen Leeflang, your DT Lead
for the week.
Are you ready for another challenge?!
I'm sure you are, but
first I have some TERRIFICALLY THRILLING
news to share with you!
Every now and again we will
have a SPECIAL INVITED GUEST DESIGNER joining us to showcase the image of the
week on our Terrifically Thrilling Thursday posts, and inspire you for the week's
challenge. It will be someone whose creative talent we admire and would
like to share with you.
And even MORE
THRILLING will be the special GIFT CERTIFICATES that can be won by a lucky
commenter on the blog of the Shelly's Images Design Team Lead for the week and
the blog of the Special Invited Guest Designer! A certificate to be won
at each of the two blogs ... WOW!
Today
I have the privilege of introducing Desire Fourie, a fellow South African whose
work I admire enormously! Desire puts so
much work into a creative project, and each one is a masterpiece! She has joined the Shelly’s Images Design Team as our first Special Guest
to showcase our image of the week, and to introduce our new challenge to you
all.
This is how Desire describes herself : “Doing
Life in beautiful sunny South Africa. Loving wife for 27+ years. Keen
Photographer. Avid Gardener. Energetic Hiker. Ad hoc Race Walker. Addicted to
Spinning. Scrapaholic. Committed Scrapbook Teacher. Founder/Manager Doing Life
Online Shoppe. Bedazzled Beader. Card creator. Mosaic Enthusiast.
PA/Secretary/Bookkeeper. Chocoholic. Right now I would love to be outdoors
blending with nature.”
And I thought I was a busy bee!!!
You
can visit Desire’s blog and you will see just how busy
and talented she really is!
As I said, today is a really TERRIFICALLY
THRILLING THURSDAY indeed!
You’re here for lots of fun, creating, for a new challenge and some more
chances to WIN!!
Our theme, this week, is
"It's in the #'s -!"
… use a NUMBER somewhere on your project
Today, our FEATURED image today is "Kings Proclamation” You can get
this awesome image, TODAY ONLY at a REDUCED PRICE!! Click on the image
name below the watermarked photo to go directly to its location in our new
store! (If you haven't registered for the new store, yet, be sure you do
so you get the special perks!)
Jen
(don’t forget to visit my blog and leave a comment on my card to stand a chance
of winning that Gift Card)
How's that for inspiration?! Are you inspired yet?!
Sure you are!
Now get busy creating, so you can play along with us for your
chance to win!
Please
remember our 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. The entry can be
any type of project so long as it follows 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.
A tutorial by Jen Leeflang for Shelly’s
Images.com
You will need:
Computer
Printer
MS Word
Stick-on Alphabet individual letters
Here’s what you do:
Decide on the sentiment (words) you want to use and count
the number of Scrabble tiles you will need. Remember to include a ‘blank’ tile
for the space between each word.
Measure the size of your stick-on letters as this will
determine the size of your Scrabble tile.
Open a new document in MS Word
Click on “Insert”
Click on “Shapes”
Select this shape from the "Basic Shapes"
Click and drag the shape to the size you require to fit
your stick-on letter (you use the ruler on your MS Word document to help you)
Once you have your first tile, click on tile, then
right-click and select “Copy”.
Now you can right-click and “Paste” the number of tiles
you will need, eg
The last step is to click and drag the tiles into line,
horizontally, or vertically according to the design of your sentiment, eg
Now you can print your sentiment
directly onto your cardbase, or you can cut out each individual tile to add to
your creation.
A little tip: If you right-click on your shape/tile,
you can select “Format AutoShape” and then use the drop-down arrow to select a
new colour or texture for your tile.
I hope you found that
simple enough to do and enjoyed learning something new.Pop back here on Thursday to see how I used this technique on my Terrifically Thrilling Thursday inspiration card I have to share with you.
See you here on Thursday to see who our TERRICIALLY THRILLING GUEST DESIGNER is!
I have some TERRIFICALLY THRILLING news to share with you about our
TERRIFICALLY THRILLING THURSDAYS
Every now and again we will have a SPECIAL INVITED GUEST DESIGNER joining us to showcase the image of the week and inspire you for the week's challenge. It will be someone whose creative talent we admire and would like to share with you.
And even MORE THRILLING will be the special GIFT CERTIFICATES that can be won by a lucky commenter on the blog of the Shelly's Images Design Team Lead for the week and the blog of the Special Invited Guest Designer! A certificate to be won at each of the two blogs ... WOW!
And our first SPECIAL INVITED GUEST DESIGNER will join us this Thursday!
Who will it be?
Do you know her?
See you on Thursday .... can you stand the anticipation?!
Hello, Hello, Everyone!
Are You Ready for Another Challenge?!
It's Terrifically Thrilling Thursday, And That Means Lots Of Fun Creating, For a New Challenge!
Our Theme, this week, is
"Show us What You Got!"
That's Our Way Of Saying, "Anything Goes!"
So, Get Out Your Markers, Chalks Or Other Favorite Coloring Medium And
Show us What You Got!
Today, Our FEATURED image today is "Balancing Act." You Can Get This Awesome Image, TODAY ONLY at a REDUCED PRICE!! Click on the image name below the watermarked photo to go directly to it's location in our new store! (If You Haven't Registered For The New Store, Yet, Be Sure You Do So You Get The Special Perks!)
And Me, Sammi (be sure to stop by my blog and leave a comment for your chance to win a $3 gift voucher from Shelly's Images Store. I'm Buttoning Up Some Spots:
How's That For Inspiration?! Are You Inspired Yet?!
Sure You Are! Now Get Busy Creating, So You Can Play Along With Us For
Your Chance To Win!
Please remember our
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. The entry can be any type of project so long as it follows 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.
A change to our challenges....beginning with this challenge we will changing our awards a bit. We will still award a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal to the three top projects as chosen by our DT. The Gold Medal winner will receive a badge for their blog and a $6 Gift Voucher to the Shelly's Images store. The Silver and Bronze Medal winner's will receive a badge for their blog. Also....one random comment will be chosen each week from comments at the DT Leader's blog. So be sure to stop by Sammi's blog this week for your chance to win a $3 gift voucher.
Congratulations Glenda! The DT and I felt like this project was perfect for our challenge this week. How can you not look at this and just be happy! Great work.
Our Silver Medal Awardwinner is Karen C. from Busy Honeybees Blog. Karen, we loved a couple of your projects from this week, but this one was my personal favorite. There aren't many things that make me any happier than spending a day at the beach. Lovely, lovely project!
And, Our Bronze Medal Awardwinner is Ruthie from My Hobby = My Art. Ruthie you absolutely made us so happy by using our tutorial. We love seeing projects from the tutorials that we post. Thank you so much!
And the Top Hat Award(first name out of the hat using random.org) is Janette from Cosas de La Janette. Cute, cute project. And I so agree about copics making me happy. ;) Congratulations!
Winners...please email Shelly at shelly@shellysimages.com to receive your gift voucher code.
Our Gold Medal and Top Hat winners both receive a $3 Gift Voucher. And our Silver and Bronze Medal winners both receive a
"$3 off an order of $6 or More" (buy one get one free) voucher to our store.
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.
*NOTICE* - we will be changing our challenges slightly next week. Be sure to check out our challenge post tomorrow for some fun and exciting changes coming to our challenges.
Time to start creating for our new challenge. I can't wait to see what you will enter.
Seems like it has been forever since I have done a video tutorial for you. So today I wanted to share a short video about coloring "Invisible Line" digi stamps.
We hope you can see from the video how fun these "invisible line" digi stamps are to work with. We would love to hear what you think. Remember to leave us a little comment.
Shelly's Images.com will be offline and unavailable for 1 to 2 hours within the next 48 hours. The outage will likely occur sometime in the early morning hours (CST) but since many of our friends are from other countries I wanted to let everyone know.
Our website is being moved to a new hosting server and the upgrade will require the website to be offline for a short period of time.
Each week I am so excited to see the entries for our challenge. We heard from many of our friends that the "no punch and no die cut" challenge was a challenge for sure. And the DT had trouble with it too. But I love it when we have to think outside of our normal comfort zone. The results were fabulous!
Doreen the DT and I just fell in love with this project. It has such a fresh and airy feel to it and all of the parts come together SO beautifully. Oh...and amazing sentiment. I know, I know...I always say how much I love sentiments, but I just can't help it. The sentiment is the real soul to a handmade card. And this one is perfect.
Hannelie we just love this bright project. It has a little bit of the feel of a clean and simple card which makes the image and the elements really stand out.
And, Our Bronze Medal Awardwinner is Lisa from Adventures in Card Land. Lisa we loved the warmth of this project and your amazing coloring. The tattered edges on the paper really give even more of a feel of "old". Beautiful!
And the Top Hat Award(first name out of the hat using random.org) is Pinky from Pinky's World. Soooo pretty! I love the colors and once again the sentiment is amazing.
Winners...An email will be sent shortly to each of you at the address listed with your inlinkz entry. Your email contains your voucher code to use to redeem your prize. If you don't get an email within 4 hours of this post please email Shelly at shelly@shellysimages.com
Our Gold Medal and Top Hat winners both receive a $3 Gift Voucher. And our Silver and Bronze Medal winners both receive a
"$3 off an order of $6 or More" (buy one get one free) voucher to our store.
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.
Time to start creating for our new challenge. I can't wait to see what you will enter.
Our FEATURED image today is "Carousel" and can be purchased TODAY ONLY at a REDUCED PRICE!! Click on the image name below the watermarked photo to go directly to it's location in our new store! (Have you registered at the new store? Hurry ... there are perks for doing that!)
Now let's see what our very talented team has to share with you today and hear what makes THEM HAPPY!
Sammi says, "Bright colors make me happy and carousel horses make me happy because
they remind me of going to the local fair as a kid and riding the
carousel."
Stephanie's being a little 'quiet' on the subject ...
I guess she finds happiness in ALL THINGS CRAFTY!
Now it's YOUR turn! We hope you will share your creations and happiness here with us at Shelly's Images. Please remember we have a FIVE entry limit and you have until noon on Wednesday, May 16th to enter your creation(s). Have FUN and BE HAPPY!
