TTT Challenge Winner's - Sew Much Fun!

As many of you may know, I love seeing sewing on projects.  It just seems to add such interest and texture and somehow I think it adds to that "homemade" feeling. Thank you so much to everyone who entered our SEW Much Fun Challenge.

Our "Beary" Favorite project is Sarah from Plain and Fancy Crafts.  Sarah, this project is just stunning. The Design Team and I love the lattice and how you used it in this project.  And we loved those beautiful flowers climbing over the lattice.  Such a wonderful touch! To top it all off the blanket stitching that you used really makes a statement and is PERFECT for our SEW Much Fun Challenge. 

Sarah,  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 Emily from Em's Many Thoughts and Susie from Susie's Craft Creations!

Emily, what an astounding job you did with our Bluebirds digi stamp.  I am absolutely in love with this project.  I love how you used the blank sign included in the set and added your own sentiment.  Just perfect!

Susie, such a fun project.  We loved the stitching on your sentiment.  What a great touch for this challenge.  And all of the lace and pearls are so fun on this amazing project.

Emily  and Susie 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 March giveaway.  Be sure to enter once each month for your chance to win.  Winners of the Monthly Digi Giveaway are announced in our Newsletter and notified by email.

And don't forget about our current BONUS Challenge.  We are offering a wonderful digi stamp to all those who commit to making one project and linking it with the inlinkz.  Entries are open from now until March 31st.

Our new challenge is starting today.  I hope you will join us again.  We can't wait to see what you will create.   

Tutorial/Technique Tuesday: Making It Fit

Hello Everyone and welcome to another Tutorial/Technique Tuesday here at Shelly's Images!

Have you ever had a pretty piece of design paper you'd love to use on a card but just know that once you cut it to fit you are going to loose the pretty pattern?  Well here's a trick I use ALL THE TIME!

Here is a piece of adorable design paper from the Prima Sweet Fairy 6x6 paper stack that I would like to use on my A-6 size card (6 1/4" x 4 1/2").  

As you can see, when you cut the paper to the 6 x 4 1/4" panel you need for the front of your card, you loose part of the pretty pattern!  Here is my solution to the problem . . .

Take the piece that you cut off and layer it on top of your 6 x 4 1/4" panel and adhere the two together.  Now you say ... BUT THEY DON'T MATCH UP!  Well, here's my solution to THAT problem . . .

By taking a strip of paper that matches your base card (this is actually one of the pieces I cut off my 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock to make my base card), punch it on both sides using your favorite border punch or die and adhere it over top where your design paper is seamed.  That's basically all you have to do!  As you can see, once again it appears that the background paper is all one piece and perfectly matched!  Now have fun decorating the front of your card.  Here are a couple of samples I have to share with you today.

For my first card I've simply added a Birthday stamped sentiment to my lacy panel.

And here I've gotten a little fancier by adding a strip of pink satin ribbon over my lacy panel ... then printed out Shelly's Images "B is for Birthday Sentiment".  I achieved the yellow shadowing by leaving my die cut circle inside the die and sponging a little Momento Dandelion ink around the edge before removing it from the die.  This is a nice way to make it look like you have another mat without the bulk of more paper.

I hope you have enjoyed today's little tip and find it useful.  Please be sure to stop back on Thursday for theTerrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge and check out another AMAZING NEW IMAGE from Shelly!  I tell you ... this girl is ON A ROLL!!!

See you there!

Houston...we have a problem!!!

Unfortunately our Shelly's Images.com website is down.

I have been in touch with technical support and have been told that the issue seems to be a server problem.  It is very rare to have outages like this and especially for this period of time.

Hopefully things will be fixed and everything will be back online soon.

Thanks for your patience.

-Shelly

"Get Together" Event

"Get Together" Event

We are so excited about teaming up with Digi Stamps 4 Joy for this fun event.  As far as I know two digi companies have never teamed up for an event like this so be sure to join us for a great "get together". 

 Visit our Paper Craft Planet groups on March 1st after 10 a.m. CST (6 p.m. South Africa time) for all the information.

Shelly's Images at Paper Craft Planet

Digi Stamps 4 Joy at Paper Craft Planet

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Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge - SEW MUCH FUN!!

Can you say we're going to have SEW MUCH FUN today?!

You better believe it!!!

No only do we get to play with this FABULOUS new Bluebirds image (which can be found at the Shelly's Images Store), we get to have SEW MUCH FUN playing with it!!!

Yep, we've got a SEWING challenge for you this week - use some type of SEWING on your project - it can be FAUX SEWING or, it can be the REAL thing!!  

Ready for a little inspiration from our Uber-Talented designers??  Hang on to your knickers and lets go!  =)

Gerda

DARLENE

MARIANNE

MIRANDA

AMANDA

Min

Jackie 

Priscilla

SEW, get out that SEWING machine or your FAUX SEWING machine (aka pen/paper piercer etc), and PLAY along with us today!!

HOW TO PLAY ALONG -

YOU could be chosen as our "Beary Favorite" project and win a $6 gift voucher to Shelly's Images Store. We also choose 2 additional projects that receive a "Top 3" badge." 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. Just use sewing or faux sewing on your project.

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 March 6th, 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.

Hugs & Happy Days!

TTT Challenge Winners - Neutrals with a POP of color

Such wonderful projects for our challenge.  I can't tell you all how fun it is to see the amazing talent that our Shelly's Images friends have.  Thank you for always inspiring us.

Our "Beary" Favorite project is Marjan from Handmade by March.  Marjan, the Design Team and I absolutely loved this beautiful project.  And even though our challenge theme kind of changed because the DT were bad and didn't follow the rules, we felt that this card was perfect for our Neutral challenge!  I love the cute skates and the way you used the paper clip.  Just genius!  

Marjan,  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 Leeann from Paper Doll's Creations and Divinity from Scrap 'n Patch!

Leeann, we love this bright and happy project. The contrast of the red, white, and black are so stunning.  And the cute hearts in the corner with the bling are so cute!

Divinity, these are fabulous cards.  I am a sentiment lover and these really are so meaningful.  The clean and simple look really makes those meaningful words stand out even more.

Leeann and Divinity 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 February giveaway.  Be sure to enter once each month for your chance to win.  Winners of the Monthly Digi Giveaway are announced in our Newsletter and notified by email.

Our new challenge is starting today.  I hope you will join us again.  We can't wait to see what you will create.   

Tutorial Tuesday: Dimensional Card

Happy Tutorial Tuesday!  

Anytime I'm scheduled for a 'head-poobah' week (are you thinking Flintstones?  Can you see Fred in his Furry oversized Poobah hat?  =)

Okay, back to the thought - anytime I'm scheduled for a week, I always ask myself, "Self, what would I like to learn today?"

Well, today I have decided to show you how to make this popped up 'dimensional' card.

I LOVE DIMENSION (almost as much as I love BLING!)  =)

But TODAY - it's all about DIMENSION!!!

So here we go!

Grab some paper you want to use - as you can see, I picked a few complimentary papers & patterns.

I started by using my Cuttlebug and my Circle Nestie to cut out the image I'm planning to use (the new Bluebirds image)

 

I'm putting a border around this image that will be dropped below a frame and several layers of paper, so I took two nesties - one for an outside frame and the circle for the center of the frame. 

Below is what the frame will look like once it's been cut out. 

So, now we'll cut a hole in the base of the card we plan to use - I used my cuttlebug again and the same size circle nestie that I used to cut out my image as well as the center of the frame.

Below I cut through 2 pieces of paper - the Green cardstock base as well as the patterned paper. 

Now that the hole is cut below, I'll begin to assemble my card. 

I placed the image below  this two layer mat on the Kraft base.

This is where we start adding the dimensionals - there are two layers, one layer on the print/green layer as well as the Peach Frame that we cut out earlier.

This is a photo so you can see some of the layers. 

After the layers are put together, I added some bling, a sentiment, border and a little ribbon to finish it off!

And VOILA - here's the beauty I ended up with - 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial today - I had so much fun making this one, I can't wait to make another one!  =)

Hugs & Happy Days!