TTT Challenge Winners - Out with the Old, In with the NEW!

Good morning friends!  Sorry to be running a bit behind schedule with today's post.  My daughter Taylor is still on Christmas Break so we are still on "holiday time".  

I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and a wonderful New Year celebration.  I thought I would share a couple of pictures from our Christmas and New Year celebration.

The first picture is our stockings hung on Christmas Eve.  Now that our children are older they hang their stockings when they are on their way to bed.  And of course Santa can't come until everyone has hung their stocking.

The second picture is a picture of our traditional "Minutes to Midnight" cake.  It is actually a brownie that is covered in chocolate ganache.  The clock numbers and hands are piped from white chocolate and then buttercream frosting is used for the pretty finishing touches.  We generally have a very quiet celebration here at home and there is no where I would rather be than safe and sound here at home with my family.  

Ok...I better get back to the task at hand here and announce the winners of our challenge.  

For this challenge our "Beary" Favorite" project is Peggy from Colorful Designs.   

Peggy we just loved this wonderful project.  I love how the beautiful snowflake seems to be part of the other sparkly frost that the fairy is blowing. I will be emailing you very soon with your $6 gift voucher.  Please also be sure to grab your "Beary" Favorite badge here.

We also have two more awards to round out our Top 3 for this challenge.  These awards go to Gem from Handmade by Gem and Gail from I like Paper!

Gem, the DT and I loved this pretty card in blue and you really put your new Spellbinders to great use here. 

Gail, this project is truly wonderful.  I love how you used the "Fall Fence" digi and turned it into an amazing background for a winter scene.  So well done and a perfect example of how versatile digi stamps can be.    

Gem and Gail, please be sure to grab your Top 3 badge here.

Thanks again to everyone who entered our challenge.  Your creativity always inspires us.    If you didn't win today please be sure to visit www.shellysimages.com and click "Monthly Digi Giveaway".  Then just enter your name and email address to enter for our January giveaway.  Be sure to enter once each month for your chance to win.  And we hope you will head over to our new challenge post.  Miranda has done a great job as Design Team Leader for our first Technique/Tutorial Tuesday and TTT challenge of the new year. 

TTT Challenge - Show us what you got! Anything Goes

Hi girls, it's time for the new challenge. To start off,  it's an easy one. Show us what you got and anything goes.
Our DT members have chosen their favorite stamp and made some lovely cards with it.


Miranda

Marianne

Amanda



Jackie



Darlene

 

Priscilla

Have fun with this challenge and we hope that a lot of you are joining.

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.  Which is so simple for this challenge.  :)
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 January 16, 2013.

7. Please turn word verification off at your blog if you would enjoy a comment from us. It is just too time consuming to type in word verification at each challenge entry. Thank you for understanding.



Technique Tuesday

Hi everyone. First of all I want to wish you all a happy new year with lots of creativity.

Today I want to show you how you can make a quick card with just some leftover scraps. You all have those little 6x6 paperpads and when you make a card you allways have some little strips left. You don't want to throw them away but you also don't know what to do with them.

To make a card you only need some cardstock as the base of your card, some leftover pieces of scrap paper and a stamp.

I just glued the pieces of cardstock on top of each other. On top of that I put some leftover pieces of scrap paper.

Then just decorate your card with a nice border and your coloured stamp. It's just so easy to make a nice card with just some leftovers.

Have fun!

TTT Challenge out with the Old, In with the NEW"!!!

Hello girls, it's time for a new challenge and also our last for this year so a last change for 2012 to win a beautiful prize. This challenge is so great, I bet you have some oldies and some new, so show them off! Our great DT did their utmost to give you some excitement and inspiration, using the gorgeous Image called "Jingle Bells" you can have your own, it's available in the shop.

Amanda

Amanda used her NEW swirls from Marianne Design and corners from Joy 

Darlene

Darlene used her NEW Cheery Lynn Holly Branch Die
Jackie

Jackie used her NEW Marianne Design Creatable 
Marianne

Marianne used her NEW Desing Papers 
Miranda

Miranda used her NEW Design Papers.

We would love to have a lot of entries, for entries we have some rules:
1. Put a direct link to your blogpost NOT your entire blog, using mr. Linky beneath.
2. We would LOVE it, when you use an Image of Shelly, but it's not required.
3. Only NEW projects can participate, no backlinking to old ones.
4. Follow the theme (yeah we look into that).  Be sure to specify in your post which NEW item you used.
5. Only 5 entries per person.
6. PLEASE turn of your wordverification, we love to comment on your entry but if it's on, it takes too much time.

Have tons of fun with the new Challenge, and since we're ahead of the holidays, the team all wishes you a fabulous Christmas time, with love and health of your families and beloved ones!

TTT Challenge Winners - Christmas is in the air

Wow....it is snowing and blowing outside and my internet is extremely slow.  

I know some in 

the area are without power so I am going to try to quickly get this post up before

 I lose internet or electricity.  :) 

Since this challenge was part of our very special 12 Days of Christmas event, we will have 3 Beary Favorite projects that will win a gift voucher to Shelly's Images.  

Our 3 Beary Favorites are...

Jo Ann from J. Atterbury Creations

Desiree from Doing Life

Stephanie from Steph's Scrap Happenings.  

I will be emailing each of you very soon with your $6 gift voucher.  (assuming our power stays on)  Please also be sure to grab your "Beary" Favorite badge here.

Thanks again to everyone who entered our challenge.  Your creativity always inspires us.    If you didn't win today please be sure to visit www.shellysimages.com and click "Monthly Digi Giveaway".  Then just enter your name and email address to enter for our October giveaway.  Be sure to enter once each month for your chance to win.  

Our new challenge begins very soon and we hope you will all join us again.  

Technique Tuesday

Hi girls, it's my turn again, to share something with you. Most of the times I shared a special fold or a little project, giftbox, but not this time, I have something different. But I think it's important. Please use your stuff!!! Pimp up your card!!! I really do love Clean And Simple, but most of the time, we girls forget to use our lovely supplies, I know some of you have stuff they bought and really never ever used it. And it makes such a difference if you DO use them. To show you I have made a card with the wonderful digi Jingle Bells, this is the lay-out and how I colourd it, only using my nesties.

Nothing wrong about it, but we can do better. We can ink the edges of our fabulous designpapers, and please use them, I love layers. Use foam to lift up your image, I used foam behind my nestie and behind my image, so it has more attitude now. Use the wonderful ribbons and lace, use your dies, don't leave them behind.....

Now my card is finished, it has so much more, and if I wanna do something extra I decorate the inside too, it only takes a minute, but it gives an extra touch, don't you think?

12 Days of Christmas - Winners Announcement

Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for our 12 Days of Christmas here at Shelly's Images.

I had such fun reading all the posts, reading the letters to Santa, learning new recipes, and hearing from many of our friends.

Our prize winners are...

1st Day of Christmas - Guess How Many Game

The correct answer was 81 (Min promises she didn't eat any out of the jar)

Lorianna guessed exactly right.  And Mina was the 2nd closest guess.  You will each receive a $6 Gift Voucher.

Congratulations Lorianna and Mina.  Please email me at shelly@shellysimages.com so I can send you your Gift Vouchers.

3rd Day of Christmas - Crafty Letter to Santa

The design team and I chose two letters as our very favorite.  Congratulations to Edwina Brown and Crafty Girl.  I have your email addresses and will email you very soon with the digi stamps that you asked Santa to bring you.  I checked with Santa and he said it was ok for you to have these gifts a little early.

10th Day of Christmas - Christmas Cookie Exchange

Congratulations to Gail Scott ($6 Gift Voucher) and Sharon ($3 Gift Voucher).

Ladies, please email me so that I can send your gift vouchers.

11th Day of Christmas - Christmas' Past

Thank you all for your nice comments.  

Congratulations to Sharon ($6 Gift Voucher) and Edwina Brown ($3 Gift Voucher)

Sharon, I will email your voucher as soon as I receive your email.  Edwina, I have your email address and will send your prize very soon.

12th Day of Christmas - What is under the tree at Shelly's Images?

Such a fun game.  And we got many, many great entries.  We had so many wonderful entries that I randomly chose 4 winners!!!!

Congratulations to Donna Walker, Komala, Sandra Hawes, and Charlene Bell.  

I will be emailing all 4 of you very soon with all of the gifts that you found under the tree at Shelly's Images.

I truly love this fun event each year!  Thanks again to everyone.  And a VERY, VERY special thanks to the Design Team who put lots of thought and work into this fun event.  There aren't enough ways for me to thank these wonderful ladies.  I am very lucky to have such an amazing team and such amazing friends. 

Merry Christmas!!!!!