Three Fold Card Tutorial

It's time once again for Tutorial/Technique Tuesday here at Shelly's Images.

Today I'd like to share another fancy fold card design with you.

It's the THREE FOLD CARD ...

You will need TWO pieces of card stock (or design paper) to make a Three Fold Card.  Your FIRST piece of paper will be cut 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" and scored to make the sides meet in the middle.  If you have a Scor-Pal there are score lines already marked for you (see next photo) to achieve equal sides.

See the DOTS next to the 2 and close to the 6 1/2?  

Those are the score lines you will follow to achieve this 'gate' fold. 

Your SECOND piece will be cut 4 1/4" x 9 1/8" and scored at 5 1/2". This piece will be adhered to the back of your 'gate' folded card and the short flap will come down over the front.  I chose to BORDER PUNCH the front flap for extra character.

 Now you can decorate it anyway you would like!

Here is my finished card . . .

The design paper used for my card is from the Graphic45 Le' Romantique 8x8 pack (2 sided).  My inside sentiment is from the Shelly's Images 'Key To My Heart' stamp set.

This is such a fun, fancy fold to create and can be decorated in so many ways ... for so many occasions!

I hope you'll give it a try and please let us know if you do ... we'd love to come to see what you create!

Have a fabulous day and be sure to stop back on Thursday for our next Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge and meet my Special Guest Designer!  See you then!

Darlene

PROUD member of the Shelly's Images DT!

TERRIFICALLY THRILLING THURSDAY

Hi to all you girls, it's Thursday again, so time for 2 things, our Featured Image and a new Challenge! Our Featured Image today is a beautiful set actually, called Butterfly and it contains a lovely Butterfly it's suits the Season of Spring and a lovely Text to match with it. Today you can buy it in the shop for a special price, but only today, so hop over and grab your chance!
Shelly's got (I think, blush) a wonderful Design Team, the girls are so talented, and Shelly herself also did a great job with this Image. They all made some gorgeous Cards to inspire you.
Shelly
 Darlene  


Sammi

  
 
Stephanie

Jen

Amanda

The new Challenge for this week is Blingage, I think this isn't to difficult, so start making a brand new Creation using lots of bling, we hope to have a lot of entries this week.

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.

TTT Challenge Winners - You Pick 2

Happy Thursday everyone!  

Thanks so much for the lovely entries for our "You Pick 2 Challenge".  It is so inspirational to see all of the amazing projects each week.  

Picking just three medal winners this week was so hard.  But here are the favorites from the Design Team and I.

The Gold Medal Award winner is Ann Marie from My Eclectic Spirit.

Ann we loved all the details of your project.  The pearls are perfect and really add to the theme.  And the flourish punch looks like waves around the image.  Sooooo pretty!  I will be emailing you very soon with your $6 gift voucher.

Our Silver Medal Award winner is Patricia from Rubber Stamping is my Game.

Patricia we loved the bright colors of this fun project.  We love how you cut some fish that you added below the punched image.  Please be sure to grab the silver medal badge to display at your blog.  You can find your badge here.

And, Our Bronze Medal Award winner is Kevin from McCrafty's Cards.  Kevin, we loved your project.  The stick pins are the perfect addition to this project.  And the soft lavender color in the papers and embellishments work so nice.  Great job!  Please be sure to grab the bronze medal badge to display at your blog.  You can find your badge here.

Thanks again to everyone who entered our challenge this week.  Please be sure to join our new challenge which begins today.  We can't wait to see what you create.  

TUESDAY TUTORIAL

TEA LIGHT HOLDER Hi Girls, it's Tuesday, so time for another Tutorial, You all know by now that I love to make special fold cards or little boxes. This time I wanna show you a Tea-Light-Holder.

You need: 1 piece of cardstock 6 x 11 inches 1 piece of cardstock 4 x 9 inches scoretool tape circle cutter of spellbinder circles tealight (you can use an electric of a tealight in a glass) stuff to pimp it up

Take the largest piece of cardstock and score it at 1, 5, 6 and 10 inches

Turn your paper around and score at 1 and 5 inches

Fold an cut the lines as shown, and draw an X, this is for helping you cutting the cricle.

Here you can see how you cut out the circle and how it turns out.

Tape or glue your box together.

For the backside, take the other piece of cardstock and score at 4 and 5 inches.

Now glue the second piece of cardstock at bottom and back of the box and you have a Tea-Light-Holder. And now it's time to decorate it as you please. If you want to see mine pimped up, come back on Thursday, I will show it to you, I made it with our Featured Image.

Shelly's Images & Bugaboo Sketch with Stella!

HAPPY Stella Says Sketch Sunday!!

We're joining up with the Bugaboo Stamps team this week for the Stella Says Sketch Challenge.
Lots of good stuff to WIN if you play along!

Ready for the sketch?

Min whipped up this cutie featuring the Birdhouse – Flower digi

And Sandye from Bugaboo created this fabulous card featuring the Shelly’s Images Island Life

Ready to join us??
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 6/17/12 at 6:00 AM EST to be entered a random drawing for FOUR digi prize packs – TEN (10) (using a Bugaboo image only), SEVEN (7), or FOUR (4) using any image AND one winner will WIN a Gift Certificate from Shelly’s Images!

TTT Challenge Winners - It's all in the NUMBERS

Happy Thursday everyone!  

I am running a little behind today.  :(  Seems like everything should be a little less rushed with Summer in full swing, but I never seem to catch up.

Thanks so much to the entries for our "Numbers" challenge.  

The Gold Medal Award winner is Christi from Christi's Creations.

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.

Our Silver Medal Award winner is Paul from Crafty Blogocks.

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 Award winner 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.  

Terrifically Thrilling Thursday

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.  =)

High Heel Shoes

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.

Hugs & Happy Days!