TERRIFICALLY THRILLING THURSDAY

Hello ladies, it's Thursday again, I bet you can't wait to see what the new challenge is......It's so good and exciting, today we have the first creations from our New DT-ladies, and I can say from the bottom of my heart, they did such an awesome job, thanks girls! And of course slowly we are going into Autumn, and then it's time for Halloween, so you have to get your cards and creations ready in a few weeks, we thought we should help you a bit, with this challenge: Show us your Shape, make your card or project a shape other than a square or rectangle! To inspire you, here are the cards and creations of the team we all used Full Moon Flight, and how diverse the projects turned out:  

Darlene

Jackie

Marianne

Miranda

Priscilla

Sammi

Amanda (made a project according to the tutorial from Tuesday)

I should say with this you should be able to work something out, from here you're on your own, surprise us! We look forward to seeing what you have made, but first there are a few simple rules that we have here at Shelly's Images but our most important rule is that you HAVE FUN!!!

TTT Challenge - Show us your shape.  Make a project in a shape other than a square or rectangle.

 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. 

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 the Wednesday before our new challenge begins. This Challenge ends on October 3 at 12:00 Noon (CST).

TUTORIAL TUESDAY

Hi girls, it's me Amanda again, hope you're all are doing fine! Today I'm gonna share an oldie, but a goodie, a criss-cross card, and you don't need a bunch of stuff. So let's begin: You Need:

a piece of cardstock side 12 x 4 inch, a scoringtool, tape, knife.

Score at 4 and 8 inch and fold it.

Cut diagonal at the left and the right stroke, as shown.

Put some tape left and right at the bottom, after that fold the card together. A little tip, if you want to decorate the inside, you first have to do, before closing the card with the tape.

For finishing it, you need an extra piece of papier, just a little smaller than 4 x 4 to put into it. Now you can decorate it as you please. This criss-cross-card is 4 x 4 inch, you can adjust the size easy, only you need more paper, for a 6 x 6 you need to cut two strokes 6 x 12, socre at 6 and glue the 2 strokes together, the middle piece would be a double then.

I hope you like it, and if you're curious how mine turned out, you just have to come back on Thursday, we have an awesome new challenge for you, and the team made some real great and gorgeous creations to share with you, really spectacular!!!

Greetings Amanda for Shelly's Images DT

Our new DT Family

Our DT Call has ended and I am so happy to announce our 4 new members.  

Before I get to the announcement I want to thank everyone who applied to join our team.  Everyone is so talented and creative and I wish we could just accept everyone.  We hope that each of you will apply again in the future.

Please help me welcome 4 new DT members.  We are very excited to have these 4 talented ladies joining us and I can't wait to see their projects featured here.

Priscilla from Belgium - http://5wondertjes.blogspot.com/

Marianne from the Netherlands - http://marianne9999.blogspot.nl/

Jackie (Jacqueline) from Canada - http://www.stamping4you.blogspot.com/

and...

Miranda from the Netherlands - http://mirandaswenskaarten.blogspot.nl/

Congratulations!  We are honored to have you joining us!!!

And while we are talking about the DT, I want to mention the 4 ladies that are staying on with us.  These ladies really do so much for Shelly's Images and it always feels like there aren't enough ways to thank them.  

Min - Senior DT Member/Administration
Sammi - Senior DT Member
Amanda
and

Darlene

TTT - Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge

Welcome back friends to another fun challenge here at Shelly's Images!  Before we get to our current challenge, WE HAVE SOME EXCITING NEWS!!   Shelly's Images now has a Company Gallery at Splitcoast Stampers!!!!    If you have a gallery over on SCS, you can now add the keyword shellysimages to any of your projects using Shelly's digi images that you created & shared on SCS.  We are thrilled to be able to share Shelly's Images with the SCS family and we hope you are too!   Now onto today's challenge.

Today's an EASY challenge for you .. .

SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT!

(Anything Goes)

We've changed things up a bit this week with our FEATURED IMAGE!  Since it's an ANYTHING GOES challenge, the design team could pick ANY Shelly's Image to showcase this week.  Are you ready to see what they've come up with??  Well, here we go . . .

DARLENE (me)

Since I shared the tri-shutter tutorial with you on Tuesday, I wanted to show you just how cute this card fold is using some of Shelly's Images.  Here are the images I have used  . . . 'Fall Fence' and 'Fall Friends'.

AMANDA

Using "Beary Lucky" 

Darlene again ... since we're sharing creations made using various Shelly's Images digi images, I thought I'd show you some cute Kids Kard Kits I'm making for an upcoming craft show using some of Shelly's Images.

Using Shelly's Images 'Presents'

 

Using Shelly's Images 'Balloons'

Shelly couldn't wait to color up our newest digi stamp called "One Last Stop"

Now we look forward to seeing what YOU have created! Here are a few simple rules that we have here at Shelly's Images but our most important rule is that you HAVE FUN!!!

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.
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 the Wednesday before our new challenge begins.

You will have until September 19th to join in this ANYTHING GOES challenge fun!

TTT Challenge Winners - Color Challenge

Hi everyone!

I hope this post finds everyone well and inspired.  I don't know about your house, but things have sure changed in the last few weeks at my house.  We are back to the days of asking "do you have any homework?"  Not to mention volleyball practices and games.  That means that the Holidays are right around the corner.  I know I am itching to make some Halloween and Christmas projects.

It is time to announce the winners of our Color Challenge.  Thanks so much to our friends who took the time to enter this challenge.  Every so often we like to have challenges that are a little more specific and make you think outside the box a little more. 

Our winners for this challenge are.....

The Gold Medal Award winner is Laine from Dream Laine.

Laine we loved the colors you chose for your project and we felt that your creation was perfect for our color challenge.  I love the punches and the pearls and especially love that beautiful butterfly over the ribbon.  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 Nana Connie from Grammy's Attic.

So cute!  And the sentiment is just too adorable!!!!  I have to make a project with this sentiment soon.  Thanks so much for the inspiration.   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 Gill from Crafty Stamper. Carol, first I have to say that I am so jealous that you got your first eggs.  I had a chicken house a few years ago and miss it so much.   We love your project for our challenge.  It fit in perfectly with the "Back to School" theme that we used for our DT projects.  I also love how you layered the two images.  Please be sure to grab the bronze medal badge to display at your blog.  You can find your badge here.

Our new challenge kicks off today and it is one of your favorites.  Get ready to "Show us what you got!!!"

Hurry! Our DT Call ends soon!!!

Thanks so much to everyone who has submitted an application for our current DT Call.  I am so excited to welcome our new DT member (s) to our DT Family.

This is just a friendly reminder that applications should be received by midnight on September 6th.  (That's TOMORROW!)  If you are working on your application and need just a tad longer please be sure to email Shelly at shelly@shellysimages.com.

Tri Shutter Card Tutorial

Welcome to another Tutorial/Technique Tuesday 

here at Shelly's Images.

I know you've seen this fancy fold card tutorial around the internet but it's worth showcasing once again.

It's the TRI-SHUTTER FOLD CARD.

I have made several of this type of card for this fall's craftshow ... it always carries that WOW! factor.

LET'S GET STARTED!
You can created TWO Tri-Shutter cards from
ONE 12x12 sheet of cardstock
(at least 80# weight or more is best for this style).  

For your base you will need to cut your 12 x 12 paper
at 5-1/2" x 12".
Then with your 12" length across your Scor Pal,  
score down at 2", 4", 8", 10".

Next you will need to TURN your paper,
and 1-1/2" in from each side you will CUT 
between the 2" & 10" Score Lines.

(HINT:  I score my line first ... then use my craft knife and cut down through the score line.)

Now accordion fold your score lines ...
REVERSE the fold on the middle panel ...
It will look like this, looking DOWN on it ...

Now it's time to choose & cut your design panels.
 (HINT:  I have made myself a template and marked the dimensions for the inside panels on each section ... that way I don't have to read over again & again from my notes or remeasure each time.)

 Today I'm making a children's birthday card using  Winnie-The-Pooh so I'm going to use cardstock panels that match the rub-on stickers I have to decorate the card with.

AND HERE'S MY FINISHED CARD!
Isn't it cute?

BELOW is the card closed ...
You will notice that when you close it, the two 'inner' longer panels do show  ... which means that I should have positioned Eeyore more to the right on the top panel ... and maybe cut my sentiment panel so just the word 'friends' showed on the bottom panel.

SEE THERE ... we are learning together!!!  LOL!!

(NOTE TO SELF:  look at the card in 'closed' position before adhering characters!) 

Well that's my tutorial for you today!
I hope you'll give this fancy fold a try, then come back and share it with us!

PLEASE BE SURE TO COME BACK THURSDAY FOR ANOTHER FUN CHALLENGE!

Have a FABULOUS, FUN day!