Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge - SEW MUCH FUN!!

Can you say we're going to have SEW MUCH FUN today?!

You better believe it!!!

No only do we get to play with this FABULOUS new Bluebirds image (which can be found at the Shelly's Images Store), we get to have SEW MUCH FUN playing with it!!!

Yep, we've got a SEWING challenge for you this week - use some type of SEWING on your project - it can be FAUX SEWING or, it can be the REAL thing!!  

Ready for a little inspiration from our Uber-Talented designers??  Hang on to your knickers and lets go!  =)

Gerda

DARLENE

MARIANNE

MIRANDA

AMANDA

Min

Jackie 

Priscilla

SEW, get out that SEWING machine or your FAUX SEWING machine (aka pen/paper piercer etc), and PLAY along with us today!!

HOW TO PLAY ALONG -

YOU could be chosen as our "Beary Favorite" project and win a $6 gift voucher to Shelly's Images Store. We also choose 2 additional projects that receive a "Top 3" badge." 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. Just use sewing or faux sewing on your project.

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 March 6th, 2013.

7. Please turn word verification off at your blog if you would enjoy a comment from us. It is just too time consuming to type in word verification at each challenge entry. Thank you for understanding.

Hugs & Happy Days!

TTT Challenge Winners - Neutrals with a POP of color

Such wonderful projects for our challenge.  I can't tell you all how fun it is to see the amazing talent that our Shelly's Images friends have.  Thank you for always inspiring us.

Our "Beary" Favorite project is Marjan from Handmade by March.  Marjan, the Design Team and I absolutely loved this beautiful project.  And even though our challenge theme kind of changed because the DT were bad and didn't follow the rules, we felt that this card was perfect for our Neutral challenge!  I love the cute skates and the way you used the paper clip.  Just genius!  

Marjan,  I will be emailing you very soon with your $6 gift voucher.  Please also be sure to grab your "Beary" Favorite badge here.

We also have two more awards to round out our Top 3 for this challenge.  These awards go to Leeann from Paper Doll's Creations and Divinity from Scrap 'n Patch!

Leeann, we love this bright and happy project. The contrast of the red, white, and black are so stunning.  And the cute hearts in the corner with the bling are so cute!

Divinity, these are fabulous cards.  I am a sentiment lover and these really are so meaningful.  The clean and simple look really makes those meaningful words stand out even more.

Leeann and Divinity please be sure to grab your Top 3 badge here.

Thanks again to everyone who entered our challenge.  Your creativity always inspires us.    If you didn't win today please be sure to visit www.shellysimages.com and click "Monthly Digi Giveaway".  Then just enter your name and email address to enter for our February giveaway.  Be sure to enter once each month for your chance to win.  Winners of the Monthly Digi Giveaway are announced in our Newsletter and notified by email.

Our new challenge is starting today.  I hope you will join us again.  We can't wait to see what you will create.   

Tutorial Tuesday: Dimensional Card

Happy Tutorial Tuesday!  

Anytime I'm scheduled for a 'head-poobah' week (are you thinking Flintstones?  Can you see Fred in his Furry oversized Poobah hat?  =)

Okay, back to the thought - anytime I'm scheduled for a week, I always ask myself, "Self, what would I like to learn today?"

Well, today I have decided to show you how to make this popped up 'dimensional' card.

I LOVE DIMENSION (almost as much as I love BLING!)  =)

But TODAY - it's all about DIMENSION!!!

So here we go!

Grab some paper you want to use - as you can see, I picked a few complimentary papers & patterns.

I started by using my Cuttlebug and my Circle Nestie to cut out the image I'm planning to use (the new Bluebirds image)

 

I'm putting a border around this image that will be dropped below a frame and several layers of paper, so I took two nesties - one for an outside frame and the circle for the center of the frame. 

Below is what the frame will look like once it's been cut out. 

So, now we'll cut a hole in the base of the card we plan to use - I used my cuttlebug again and the same size circle nestie that I used to cut out my image as well as the center of the frame.

Below I cut through 2 pieces of paper - the Green cardstock base as well as the patterned paper. 

Now that the hole is cut below, I'll begin to assemble my card. 

I placed the image below  this two layer mat on the Kraft base.

This is where we start adding the dimensionals - there are two layers, one layer on the print/green layer as well as the Peach Frame that we cut out earlier.

This is a photo so you can see some of the layers. 

After the layers are put together, I added some bling, a sentiment, border and a little ribbon to finish it off!

And VOILA - here's the beauty I ended up with - 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial today - I had so much fun making this one, I can't wait to make another one!  =)

Hugs & Happy Days!

TTT Challenge Neutrals with POP of colour

Neutrals with a Pop of Colour (or Anything Goes)

Hi there, another Thursday, 2 weeks are gone with the wind, so time for our 2-weekly new Challenge that lasts till February 20th. The team had the opportunity to play with the re-featured Image, Key to your Heart, a special one now Valentine is coming and our lovely Shelly has given it away on the blog too at our BONUS Challenge. The Challenge is Neutrals with a POP of colour, and Ooohw My Goodness, the team was so anxious to start with their projects, most girls totally forgot about fitting in the challenge......Shelly ordered us to sit in the corner, so that's where we are rigth now.....But we still have some beautifull cards to share to give you some inspiration. Here they are, in alphabetical order.

Darlene

Gerda

Jackie

Marianne

Miranda

Priscilla

Amanda

Please come join in our challenge fun! YOU could be chosen as our "Beary Favorite" project and win a $6 gift voucher to Shelly's Images Store. We also choose 2 additional projects that receive a "Top 3" badge."

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. Which is so simple for this challenge. :)  You may consider this an "Anything Goes" Challenge.

 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 February 20th. 

7. Please turn word verification off at your blog if you would enjoy a comment from us. It is just too time consuming to type in word verification at each challenge entry. Thank you for understanding.

You can enter your card/creation here with Mr. Linky

TTT Challenge Winners - Easy as 123

Great entries everyone!  We hope you enjoyed our Easy as 123 TTT Challenge.  And before I announce the winners of the challenge I want to remind everyone to take a look at our BONUS Challenge.  You still have time to get your freebie to use for the challenge.  When downloading just remember that you are promising to link a project before February 28th.  I am planning a very special BONUS Challenge beginning March 1st so be sure you check back for that challenge.

Our "Beary" Favorite project is entry #35 Michaela from Michaela's Blog.  Michaela, the DT and I absolutely loved this stunning project.  There is so much to see and so many beautiful details.  I love the beautiful lace underneath the scalloped paper border.  And the pearls on the paper border are the perfect touch.  Thank you for sharing this amazing project.  I will be emailing you very soon with your $6 gift voucher.  Please also be sure to grab your "Beary" Favorite badge here.

We also have two more awards to round out our Top 3 for this challenge.  These awards go to #20 Stephanie from Whimsical Designs and #04 Manderly from Manderly Lynn Blog!

Stephanie, such a fun shaped card!  And I love the use of the wood grain embossing plate on the wrapper of the cupcake.  Just genius!  I had to look twice to see what you used and it worked just perfectly! I also love the pretty embellishment detail on the bottom ruffle.  So pretty in orange.  :) 

Manderly, we loved this bright and happy project!  I love all the layers and ribbon and the glossy accent details are perfect! 

Stephanie and Manderly please be sure to grab your Top 3 badge here.

Thanks again to everyone who entered our challenge.  Your creativity always inspires us.    If you didn't win today please be sure to visit www.shellysimages.com and click "Monthly Digi Giveaway".  Then just enter your name and email address to enter for our February giveaway.  Be sure to enter once each month for your chance to win.  Winners of the Monthly Digi Giveaway are announced in our Newsletter and notified by email.

Our new challenge is starting today.  Be sure to visit the Neutrals with a POP of Color challenge and see why ALMOST ALL of the DT girls are sitting in the corner.  ;)  I hope you will join us again.  We can't wait to see what you will create.   

Tutorial Tuesday - 3-D Card

Hi girls it's Tuesday again, so time for a new Tutorial. And this time a special fold again, I just love them. It's called a 3-D Card, and perhaps you've seen them already, but didn't know how to make it. I'll show you today.

You don't need a lot of things, only 2 pieces of cardstock (6 x 10 3/4 and 3 3/8 x 6 inches), a scoretool, tape, a digi and some designpapers.

Score the big piece at 6, 7 1/8, 9 1/8, and 10 1/4 inch. Score the smaller piece at 3/8 and 1 1/2 inch.

Fold both pieces as to photo shows you.

Now it's time to decorate your project cause when it's taped you can't do that anymore....be sure to do some backsides also as the photo shows you.

After putting together the big piece, you put on the smallpiece as shown.

Your project is all together now and should look like this, now you can decorate it as you please. If you want to know how mine turned out, you have to come back on Thursday.....when the team has some lovely cards for you. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and you can make one of your one. If you did please let us know, we love to see what you came up with.

BONUS Valentine Challenge

Announcing our very first 

Shelly's Images BONUS Challenge!!!
February 1 - February 28, 2013

Sounds exciting right?  It really is!

What is our BONUS Challenge?  Very simple.  

For this challenge everyone who chooses to participate will receive the Key to My Heart set FREE!

Everyone wins. 

**But, by accepting the free digi you are promising to submit a project using the Key to My Heart digi stamp by linking it below.  Projects must be submitted by February 28th at midnight CST.  So this challenge is truly on the honor system. ** 

Please follow a few simple rules:

1. Download your digi from www.shellysimages.com by using voucher code K3ZXL8MM (BE SURE TO CLICK "CONFIRM MY ORDER" Clicking "Pay with PayPal" will cause an error if your balance is zero. 

This voucher is valid from now through February 28th, 2013 at midnight CST.  Please refer to the easy tutorial page if you are unsure of how to use our voucher.  And feel free to email me at shelly@shellysimages.com if you have any trouble at all. 

2. Complete your project using Key to My Heart and make a blog post at your blog.  Be sure to place a link on your blog post to our challenge here at Shelly's Images.  Your project can be any paper crafting project that you like.  Ideas include scrapbook page, card, altered project, box...you get the idea.

3. Use the inlinkz button below to enter your project here before February 28th, 2013 at midnight CST.  Remember...ONLY projects using Shelly's Images Key to My Heart digi stamp should be entered here. 

3. Feel free to use this digi stamp for our other challenges here at Shelly's Images, HOWEVER you can not use the same project for more than one challenge here at Shelly's Images.  And of course link the project to as many other challenges as you like.

I can't wait to see the projects that you make!  If everyone seems to enjoy this challenge then we will be planning future BONUS Challenges!!!!

We always appreciate it when people help spread the word about Shelly's Images.  Here are a few great ways that you can help us spread the word.
* Place our blinkie on your blog.  You can find it in the sidebar
* Like our Shelly's Images Facebook Page
*Share the projects that you make using SI digi stamps to your Facebook.
*Click the "Share" button on our posts at Shelly's Images Facebook Page.  All of those shares really help SO MUCH!