Show Us What You Got for Terrifically Thrilling Thursday!

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!)

BALANCING ACT

And Now, Let's See What The Design Team Has To Show You, Today:

Stephanie Has Lots of Buttons On her Card:

Amanda Also has Buttons, As Well As Other Fun Circles:

Lisa, Who is Amanda's Daughter, Is Joining Us, This Week!
She Has Lots Of Flowers To Show Us:

Darlene Is Showing Off Her Spots And Dots:

Jen Has Stars In Her Eyes:

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.

Ready, Set, Link It!

TTT Challenge Winners - C'mon Let's get HAPPY

The entries this week sure made me happy.  Great work everyone!

The Gold Medal Award winner is Glenda from Gilby's Corner.

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 Award winner 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 Award winner 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.

"Invisible Line" Digi Video Tutorial

Happy Tuesday everyone!

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. 

Here are the links that I promised to give you.

My Diamond Fold Tutorial 

Darlene's Z fold to Diamond Fold Tutorial

Shelly's Images - Tulip Digi Stamp (now comes with the invisible line digi stamp included)

Flower Shaping Tool Kit and Paper Blossoms Molding Mat from Joan's Gardens

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.

Just a note....

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.  

I hope everyone is having a great Friday.  

TTT Challenge Winners - Don't Punch Me

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!

The Gold Medal Award winner is Doreen from Doreen's Dream.

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.

Our Silver Medal Award winner is Hannelie from Desert Diva.

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 Award winner 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.

Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge

Happy Thursday Everyone and welcome back to another fun challenge at Shelly's Images!

Today's a HAPPY DAY ... and come to think of it ... that happens to be our theme for today's challenge!!

"C'mon, Let's get HAPPY!"

(Use something that makes YOU HAPPY!)

The possibilities are ENDLESS and we can't wait to see your creations!  I'm sure what you will share with us today will make US happy too!

CAROUSEL

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!

 AMANDA

Amanda says, "Using flowers & brads makes me Happy!"

 LISA (Amanda's daughter)

 Amanda says, "Lisa loves making cards with the Images of Shelly, and then of course using mama's new design papers! That makes her happy!"

 JENLEE

 Jen says, "C'mon - bling makes me happy - I'm a GIRL!"

 DARLENE

Darlene says, "Making homemade paper flowers has been my latest crafting joy!"

 

 PANDY

Pandy says, "My cuttlebug and inks make me happy!"

SAMMIBUG

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

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!

Tutorial Tuesday - Double Z to Diamond Fold

I've been having a great time lately producing cards using ALL DIFFERENT FANCY FOLDS and came upon a fabulous discovery that I think you'll enjoy!

I started out by working on a Double Z-Fold 

card using the following instructions:

• One 5 1/4 x 12" piece of cardstock for card base (you get TWO out of a 12x12)
• Two 1 3/4" x 5" piece of cardstock (or patterned paper) for side panels
• One 3 3/4" x 5" piece of cardstock (or patterned paper) for inside of card

 STEP 1:

Score the 5 1/4" x 12" piece at 2", 4", 8" and 10"

STEP 2:

Fold second score line in.

STEP 3:

Fold the first score line back.

(sorry for the blurry photo)

STEP 4:

Repeat Steps 2 & 3 on other side of cardstock.  

Your card base is done.

Now you can decorate the outside & inside panels to your liking using designer paper, images & embellishments.  Here is how I finished my card which AT THIS POINT is a DOUBLE Z-FOLD creation.

I have used one of the images from Shelly's 'CARNATIONS' set for this creation.

NOW HERE COMES THE TWIST!

 I discovered that with just a few more FOLDS, you will have created Shelly's 'Diamond Fold Card' but in the smaller A2 size!  How cool is that!  

All you have to do is mark the CENTER of your inside panel (top and bottom) ... then with the card opening DOWN ... fold the four corners into those center lines.  It will look like this:

(again sorry for the blurry photo)

I seem to be having technical difficulties so from this point I will use Shelly's photos from her tutorial on the larger sized Diamond Fold card.

 Unfold all of the folds and open your card base out flat.  You will see little triangles.  Fold these triangles down as shown here.  Once all corners are folded lay your card down flat and again use the bone folder.  This will help your card stand up nice.

 All of the folds are now done and you are ready to start decorating your card.

If it helps ... you can refer to Shelly's post HERE for better clarity.  

The only difference between her's and mine is the FINISHED CARD SIZE.  

The process is the same!

Here is my finished 'Diamond Fold' card using Shelly's 'APRIL SHOWERS' image.

 I hope you will give these two Fun, Fancy Folds a try and please, share a link if you do, we'd love to come and see what you've created!  Remember, we have SEVERAL tutorials to help inspire you.  Just click on the TUTORIAL LIBRARY logo in our sidebar to find one that catches your eye!

Hope to see you back here on Thursday for another Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge!