Let's Get Sketchy for Terrifically Thrilling Thursday!

Good Morning, Friends!

Welcome to another Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge

at Shelly's Images!

Thank you, everyone, for playing along with us last time!  There were

so many fabulous entries, and we appreciate

each and every one of them!

Hopefully, all of you will play along with us,

this time, too!

This time, we are challenging you to use our sketch, to create an

awesome and creative project! I love, love, love

sketches! hopefully you do, too!

Here is our sketch for this challenge:

We're so excited to see what fabulous creativity you have for

us, using this sketch!

This week, most of the DT has used this cute image,

Summer Days, from Shelly's Images,

for their projects.

Now, get ready for some creative goodness, because I have Fabulous creations 

to show you, compliments of the Design Team:

Darlene Is Thinking of The Beach and Seashells. With Her Creation:

Jen Has Thoughts of Sailboats and Sailing down The Lake In Her Tube:

Oh, Look! Here Comes Stephanie, Splashing Around In her Tube!

Then, Amanda Comes Along. Floating Her Tube Alongside The Dolphins!

Unfortunately, I (Sammi)  Had To Come Along And Ruin Thier Summer Party! LOL

I'm Already Tired Of The Heat and Humidity of Summer,

And Am Thinking Ahead to Christmas, Using Shelly's

Holly Image For This Christmas Card:

Are You Sketch Inspired, Yet?!

We Hope So, Because We Would LOVE To See You Play Along With Us!

Remember, There's A Chance To Win a Prize From The

Shelly's Images Store!

Please Remember to Respect Our Challenge Rules, When You

Play Along With Us:

* You May Enter A Maximum of 5 Times Per Challenge

* New Entries, Only, Please.  No Backlinking

*Entries Must Be Linked Up By Wednesday, 12 Noon CST on Aug 16

* Please Link Directly To Your Project Post Entry, NOT, To Your Entire Blog

* You Entry MUST Follow Our Challenge Theme

* You Are NOT Required To Use An Image By Shelly's Images, But We'd LOVE It If You Did!

Are You Ready To Play Along?! I Hope So!

Now, Get Busy Creating and Show Us How You Get Sketchy 

With Your Creativity!

Ready, Set, Link It!

TTT Challenge Winner's - Show Us What You Got!!! Christmas Edition

Wow!  Thanks everyone!  Your creations helped me feel a little cooler these last two weeks.  It has been SO hot and looking at the Christmas creations makes me long for a few snow flakes.  :)  Someone remind me that I said that when I complain about the bitterly cold winter weather.  

The Gold Medal Award winner is Carol from Crafty-Stamper. 

Carol this is the perfect project for our challenge this week.  And I can almost feel those cold snowflakes.  We loved the layout of this project.  Your star embellishments are the perfect addition to this cute digi stamp.  I will be emailing you very soon with your $6 gift voucher.  Please also be sure to grab your Gold Medal Badge here.

Our Silver Medal Award winner is Rina from Scrapbook Fashionista.

Rina, we loved all of the details on this beautiful shaped easel card.  It feels so warm and welcoming.  Oh, and I had to visit your other site too.  I LOVE Cocker Spaniels!  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 Shell from The Camels Hump.  Shell, we just loved the folding you did for the Christmas tree on this awesome project.  We hope you had a wonderful "belated" honeymoon weekend.  :)  Please be sure to grab the bronze medal badge to display at your blog.  You can find your badge here.

Thank you all so much again for the beautiful entries.  I am always inspired by the projects that are entered.  Please be sure to enter our new challenge that begins today. 

Tutorial Tuesday! Let's Have A Ball For Christmas!

Hello everyone! Are you ready to have a ball?! If so, then I have the tutorial for you!

Today, we are going to make a fun christmas ornament using digi images! How fun is that?

Are you ready to get started?!  Okay, let's go!

Supplies You Will Need

One clear glass (or plastic, if you prefer) Christmas ornament

Scissors

Acetate Sheet

Digi Image

Markers

Fishing Line

Tiny Hole Punch

Ribbon

White Glitter (Optional)

Funnel (If Using Glitter

Pic Of Supplies Assembled

The first thing you want to do, is to color your image, then cut it out, using fussy cutting.  Next, cut out a piece of acetate, to fit inside your ornament.  TIP: If you want your image not to move inside the bulb, cut the acetate only slightly smaller than the bulb.  If You'd like your image to dangle and swing freely inside the bulb, cut your acetate 1/4 - 1/2" smaller than the bulb.

Once You have colored your image and cut your acetate,  adhere your image to the acetate piece.  Be sure you use a very sticky adhesive!  I used glossy accents, as I have found this works best, since you will be manipulating this piece a bit, later.  Allow image to fully dry to the acetate, before completing the next steps!

Once your image is fully dried to the acetate, take a tiny hold punch and punch a hole in the center of the acetate, near the top edge.  now, run your fishing line through the hole, and tie it off to hold the image securely onto the line, as in the pic below:

Now, carefully roll the acetate up into a tube, small enough to fit the opening in your ornament.

Gently slide the rolled up acetate into the top of the ornament.  Be very careful to make sure the ends of the fishing line do not slip down into the ornament.  You want the ends of the fishing line to stick out from the top.  (I suggest leaving the line very long, to avoid the ends slipping down into the ornament.

Once the acetate is inside the ornament, it will still be partially curled up. You will need to take a long thin object, such as tweezers or the blade of a pair of scissor, and slide down into the ornament to straighten out the sides of the acetate, so that it lays flat.

At this point, now you may add glitter to the inside of your ornament, if you choose.  I have chosen not to add glitter inside this one, so that the image can be the main focus.  However, if you choose to use glitter inside yours, simply take a funnel, slide it inside the opening of the bulb and pour glitter in.  It looks best if you put glitter both in front of, and behind, the image.

Now, we are ready to cap our ornament.  Remove the metal hanger from the ornament cap.  Run the ends of the fishing line through the holes in the ornament cap.  One end in each hole.  Once the fishing line is in, pull it all the way though and tie it off in a knot, on the outside of the cap, to secure the acetate inside.  far you pull the fishing line through, will determine how much "wiggle" ability your image has inside, so play with it and decide the look you like, before tieing the fishing line.

Easy so far, right?! Oh and wow, we are almost done!

Take the metal hanger and slide it back into the holes in the cap, so that it fits securely into the ornament.  Once the hanger is back in place, add your ribbon through the hanger, tie it off in a bow, and voila! Your have a cute customized Christmas ornament!

So cute and Simple to make and everyone will love them! 

Every year, it is a tradition to make ornaments for my coworkers, for Christmas.

Of course, I can't give them the same thing every year, so I'm always on 

The lookout for new ideas for something different.

I think they are going to love these, and I hope YOU will, too!

Thank you so much for stopping by, today, and viewing my tutorial!  

I hope you've enjoyed your stay here and I'd love to

hear what you think of the tutorial!

Please stop back, on Thursday, for a new challenge and your chance to win

a digi prize from Shelly's Images!

Have A Wonderful Day!

TTT Challenge Winners - What the TEXT

Happy Thursday everyone.  We are currently on vacation in Florida and we are very much enjoying some relaxing time at the beach.  But I tore myself away from vacation to come in and announce our winners for our "What the TEXT" challenge.  As many of you probably know by now, I am a sentiment junkie.  I am not sure when my addiction to sentiments started, but I just can't get enough of the meaningful, and quirky, and funny, and loving, and...and...and....well, you get the idea.  I LOVE sentiments.  And everyone who entered our challenge this week really put those sentiments to good work.

The Gold Medal Award winner is Regan from Charmed Stamping. 

Regan, the DT and I truly loved this project.  The sentiment is awesome and just perfect for this TEXT challenge.  Great, great, great work!  I will be emailing you very soon with your $6 gift voucher.  Please also be sure to grab your Gold Medal Badge here.

Our Silver Medal Award winner is Ellen from ScrapEllen.

Wow, Ellen.  You made our job this week difficult.  Your project is truly stunning too.  The sentiment is also just perfect.  I love all of the detail with the flowers and those beautiful butterflies.  And I love your addition of the cut out grass popped up in front of the image.  A true work of art!   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 Betty from Crafting with Betty.  Betty, once again we loved your sentiment.  So meaningful.  And the stitching and beautiful flowers are the perfect addition.  We also loved the colors on your project.  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.  It is so, so, so hard to choose one Gold Medal winner.  Please be sure to join our new challenge which begins today.  And remember that our challenges are now on a new schedule beginning every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month.  So you have more time to create and enter.  We can't wait to see what you create.  

TERRIFICALLY THRILLING THURSDAY: SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT - Christmas Edition

Welcome back everyone!  

Before I tell you about today's Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge, I'd like to remind you that our challenges at Shelly's Images are now FORTNIGHTLY!

Our challenges will now be offered on the 

1st and 3rd Thursday 

of each month.

In our sidebar you can still see our upcoming challenge themes/dates and NOW you can also see the dates for the upcoming Tutorial/Technique Tuesday postings.

We have another exciting announcement ... we are celebrating

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

with a fabulous  40% off all Christmas digi stamps... see the advert below

NB : You will need to type in the code "ChristmasInJuly" when checking out to receive your sale price.

Now onto today's challenge

 (which will run through August 1st).

SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT! Christmas Edition

(which is our way of saying 'ANYTHING GOES' only for this challenge we are asking that you make a Christmas project)

 and today's featured image is 'NATIVITY'

I am proud to announce the Special Invited Guest Designer for this challenge ....

 

 In a nutshell, Margy is a Christian, widow, mom to 3 beautiful daughters, and granny to 4 absolutely delightful, grandchildren. She was born in the UK in a small town called Tunstall, one of the 5 “pottery” towns in Staffordshire.  Her dad made a bold decision just after she was born, to emigrate to South Africa, and she therefore considers herself as a South African, with British and Dutch blood lines.

Her crafting life took off just after she was married, and Margy has probably tried every new craft that has hit the South African scene! However it was only after she turned 55, that she attended oil painting classes. Apart from painting, her other interests/hobbies are genealogy (already traced her family lines back to the 1600’s), scrapbooking, restoring wooden furniture, mosaic, and now card making and digistamp designing.   Her day job is a locust researcher (yes, the insect with 6 legs), as well as the Project Office Manager for a South African research organization.

You can visit Margy's blog here

  Now let's see what Margy and the Design Team have created to inspire you . . .

MARGY created a little stable scene 

  

AMANDA created this beautiful card with perfectly matched DP's

DARLENE created this masterpiece with the gorgeous festive DP's and embellishments

 

SAMMIBUG created this skillfully coloured card, certainly a study in elegance

and finally, JEN (that's me) created a card using the Tuesday tutorial on the SI blog here

We hope you'll come join in our Show us What You got! Christmas Edition challenge fun this week.
You will have from July 19th through August 1st to submit your entry and
all winner's will be announced on August 2nd

AND ... don't forget ...
Besides a $6 Shelly's Images Gift Voucher to one lucky challenge participant ...

You can also win a $3 Shelly's Images Gift Voucher by leaving a comment at 

MARGY'S BLOG

and

JEN'S BLOG

You can find our rules in the sidebar but here's a quick summary:

• DIRECT Link to your blog posting
• Shelly's Image NOT required
• Follow the theme
• FIVE entry limit
• No backlinking
• Entries for this challenge must be submitted
  by 12:00 noon CST on August 1

Now it's YOUR turn!

READY ... SET ... LINK

TEN MINUTE MULTIFOLD CARD : A TUTORIAL

So we all love those multi-fold cards but seldom attempt them because there is just so much measuring, cutting and confusing instructions, right?

Well here is one that takes just ten minutes to do, with no fancy cutting or confusing folds ...

Here are the instructions:

 

 

And that's all there is to it ....

Please remember to pop back tomorrow for our next fabulous challenge, and you'll get to see the inspiration card I made using this tutorial.

We also have a Special Invited Guest joining us for the challenge, but just who it is will have to remain a secret until then ....

Thanks for visiting, see you tomorrow!

Jen Leeflang

Shelly's Images Design Team

TTT Challenge Winners - Stars, Strips, and SPARKLE

Good morning everyone.  If you are one of our friends in the United States then I hope you had a wonderful 4th of July with your friends and family.  We had a very quiet little celebration here at home, but still went to bed entirely too late last night.  Holidays in the middle of the week sure make it hard to get up and get to work the next day.

Here are our winners for our Stars, Stripes, and SPARKLE challenge.

The Gold Medal Award winner is Olivia from ORM Crafty Nights. 

Olivia we think that your project is just perfect for our challenge.  Your papers are fantastic and the bling really sets everything off.  I will be emailing you very soon with your $6 gift voucher.  Please also be sure to grab your Gold Medal Badge here.

Our Silver Medal Award winner is Stephanie from Steph's Scrap Happenings.

Stephanie, we loved the clean and simple approach to your card.  The die cut shape that the image is on really makes the image and sentiment stand out.   And the red, white, and blue twine is the perfect finishing touch.  We just loved it.  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 Carol from Domestic Goddess Crafts.  Carol we loved how you incorporated stars and stripes into your project.  And the sparkly swirls are perfect.  The image really stands out being cut out and placed on the star.    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.