WE HAVE A WINNER!!!


Woot Woot! What great cards, layouts and projects you all made for the challenge. We've just loved all creative entries this week! We went to Random.org, and....
This week's winner is #5 Melanie (Merniebug!)

We love your glittery card and all the beautiful embellies. Those roses are just GORGEOUS too!

Melanie,
Please go to the SI Shop to choose your favorite image! Email you pick to shelly@shellysimages.com and Shelly will get you all hooked up with your own wonderful SI digi!!

TTT June 17th

TTT Challenge for this week

What a week I had. My son heard Tuesday that he's approved on his internship in a bakery/pastry store

and yesterday he graduated so he can start on a new part of his life.

He will begin on a school that makes him a first class breadbaker and Pastry master.

And I'm so proud of him.

So for today's challege I decided to make it a Fathers Day card or Masculine card.

To celebrate the fine men in our lives.

And here is my part for this week:

A Fathers day card

This toolbox and the Freebie Sentiments for Fathersday can be found in 

THE STORE

And a masculine card

And this wonderful image can be found in THE STORE as well.

So come on over and show your wonderful work.

Wednesday teaser....

What will Wednesday bring today?

Well for my family and specially my son it's and exciting day today. During the day his school is going to call him and then he will know if he has graduated. 

So we are all anxious and waiting and hanging around in the house... LOL

I think that I'm more nervous then he is...

And the fun part is we have ordered a big cake already. So as soon as he get's the news we can go and pick up his special cake and start the celebrations.

Next to that I have a fun challenge planned for you tomorrow.

shall I give you a hint??? 

Well I give you the first letter of the challenge... let's see what you can make of it..

AGWC

So.. what will bring this Wednesday for you? Please share your stories with us.

Love

Marion

Technique Tuesday

Tutorial for Tuesday

I'm into those copics... I can't explain why i love them so much. Well I can. Before I started with scrapbooking and making cards I painted with watercolors and I love that medium. It's transparent and soft and gentle. And when I first colored with copics I found out that I can get almost the same results with them. But I could also make bold and strong colors with them. So I started coloring Stamps and then Digital Stamps with them.

But when I got started I had no idea which colors to use for what and where to start with buying colors. I started surfing the internet and found some advices and I bought my first copics...

Well that didn't turn out the way I had hoped. Not all of those colors blended so well together and although the numbers were close to each other... they didn't match the way I hoped.

After quite some months and mistakes I can say that I have a clue on which colors to use for what.

And this tutorial is all about that.

To start to make you familiar with the colors you can start with I made a list for you.

My copic combinations:

Skin:

E51 , E000, E21, (R30 Pale Yellowish pink for the blush on the cheeks)

Hair:

Blonde: Y21, YR24, E42

Jeans: (blue)

E91, E93, E95

Water:

BG75, G28

Greens for Flora

YG11, YG23, YG63

Violet

BV0000, BV02

Pink:

RV000, RV32, RV34, R85

Red:

R24, R27, R29

Earthtones:

E35, E55, E57

Grey tones:

C0, C1, C3 (cool grey)

W0, W3, W5 (warm grey)

Well I hope you all have some benefit from this list. Next time I will talk a bit more about how to color and blend colors and several techniques.

Please let me know if this helped you in any way.

Love

Marion

Spotlight On . . .

Mother or Father

Here is a fantastic project by Scrappy using Shelly's Images "Tool Box" digi stamp.

 

 

 

We hope this cute card will inspire your projects.  Be sure to click on our "Spotlight On" category in the side bar for more great projects.  Or click on the specific Holiday or project type that you are working on for more great ideas and inspiration.

Marvelous Monday

Good Morning Marvelous Monday

Yes, I also can't believe it... but the weekend is over and it's another Marvelous Monday here at the SI blog. And we all know by now that this means that there is a New Image to show to you

And today it's my honor to present to you:

This Marvelous toolbox that can be used for so many occasions. This great Digital Stamp can be found HERE in the store

So here is what the fabulous Design Team came up with.

A card made by me with this great toolbox and the Freebie sentiment from the store:

And this great card is made by Audrey and I love the twist she gave to this image...

(and girls, we all agree with this sentiment, don't we?)

And the vibrant colors and fabulous coloring on this card is made by Scrappy:

I don't think that I say too much when I say that my fellow DT members really made this image come to life....

Girls thanks for these magnificent cards for Marvelous Monday. And don't forget that this image is available at a special price for today only. Hurry to the store to enjoy $1 off the regular price.

Be sure to check back tomorrow for another fun tutorial.

Love

xxxx

Marion

Weekly wrap up...

This week we've had so much fun and shared so many great ideas! On Monday, we had our exciting DOUBLE RELEASE in the Shelly's Images store! On Tuesday, we kept the excitement rolling with my Tutorial on Alcohol Inking! On Wednesday, I gave you a hint of what this weeks new Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge is. We also found out who won last weeks exciting challenge which was hosted by our own wonderful Marion! I am so looking forward to seeing what is in store for next week! Marion will again be helming the SI Blog, and it is bound to be another fantastically exciting week! Stay tuned for more fun!

Scrappy