Monday, January 31, 2011

Spotlight On . . .

Valentine's Day

Here is a fantastic project by Stephanie using Shelly's Images "Beary Much Love" digi stamp.
 
 
We hope this cute card will inspire your projects.  Be sure to click on our "Spotlight On" category in the side bar for more great projects.  Or click on the specific Holiday or project type that you are working on for more great ideas and inspiration.

Spotlight On . . .

Valentine's Day

Here is a fantastic project by Shelly using Shelly's Images "Beary Much Love" digi stamp.
 
We hope this cute card will inspire your projects.  Be sure to click on our "Spotlight On" category in the side bar for more great projects.  Or click on the specific Holiday or project type that you are working on for more great ideas and inspiration.

Marvelous Monday - Beary Much Love

Happy Monday everyone!  Hope you have had a glorious weekend! 

We have a WONDERFUL image to share with you this week for MARVELOUS MONDAY and the image is called "Beary Much Love."  Remember, you will be able to get this image at SHELLY'S IMAGES SHOP at a SPECIAL PRICE TODAY ONLY!!  So, what are you waiting for?!?  Head on over and pick it up.
Here are some fabulous projects from the Design Team!


Here is Scrappy's beautiful fluffy bear.  Isn't the texture awesome.


Here is my easel card with this wonderful image.

Shelly made this "front fold" card.
Here is Sammi's super cute creation.  So much to see on this card!
Audrey made this adorable card.  I love that she used this image for a "You're Special" card.

Thanks for dropping in today.  Please leave us a little note if you dropped in to see our projects today.  And have a Marvelous Monday!  We hope you get crafty with us this week.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge - TTT

Happy Thursday everyone!

A few months ago Min offered a Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge and I just LOVED it.  And I think our friends loved it too.  So this week I thought I would bring back the Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge.  

Up and Down, Right to Left and Diagonally - pick your TIC TAC TOE and create a project that includes those three items.  How fun is that?


Please remember that projects submitted should be new projects.  No backlinking to older posts.  Just enter your creation below with In-Linkz.  Please specify which "tic tac toe" you chose when you post your project at your blog.







Winner of 1st Birthday TTT Challenge

Thanks so much, to everyone that joined in our "Let's Celebrate" challenge, last week!

We loved seeing your birthday creations!


And now, if I could have your attention, please:


We have a winner! Whooo Hooo!



The winner of our "1st Birthday" challenge is...

......

........

..........

............ #2



Anne, that's you!


Congrats, Anne!! You lucky girl!

Head on over to the SI store and choose your free image, and send Shelly an email, with your image choice.

Thank you so much, to everyone who played along with us this week! Join us, again, later today, for another fun challenge!


We want to thank everyone, for playing along! The DT loved visiting your blogs and seeing your projects.

Check back later, today, for a brand new Terrifically Thrilling Thursday challenge!

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Fab Follower of the Week!


Happy Hump Day All!
Nice knowing we've made it half way through the week, huh?
Welcome to today's edition of Shelly's Images - Fab Follower of the Week!
This week we want to thank Judi of Judi's Craft Corner for being our Fab Follower of the Week!

If you've never been to Judi's Craft Corner, check it out -
She's got adorable projects ranging from SWEET to SASSY!!

Judi - Thank you for being one of Shelly's Images Fab Followers - we are so blessed to have you!


Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Tuesday Tutorial - Cropping in Word

Here is a quick little tutorial for ya.

There are a ton of ways to crop an image so you have only the pieces that you want to create with.  And at Shelly's Images we have quite a few "sets" for you to use.  But sometimes we are in a hurry and we just want a fast way to print just the parts of the image that we are going to use.  Ok, ok....I don't know about you, but I seem to ALWAYS be in a hurry.  Here is a fast way to do a simple crop in using Microsoft Word.  There are alot of different versions of Word out there so if you have a different version than I do then the steps might be slightly different.

To start open your Word Program.  Now click insert and then click picture.  This will pull up window where you can choose the picture you want to work with.  I am using Shelly's Images "Cupcake" today.

Once you have inserted your picture your Word program will automatically change to the "Picture Tools" tab.

Now click Crop.  You can find it toward the right side of the toolbar.  This screen shot shows "Crop" at the top red arrow.  Once you click crop you will see little ":crop marks" at each corner and along each side.  To keep the image in proportion ONLY drag the corner marks.  I want to use just the cupcake today.  So using the top right corner mark I want to click and drag until I have the marks surrounding just the part of the image that I want to use.

This screenshot shows my image after I dragged the corner.  Now I can print just the cupcake.

I hope this tutorial helps you.  I know it is a lifesaver for me when I am working on those last minute projects.


Monday, January 24, 2011

Marvelous Monday - Best Friends Forever!

Since our Amanda is out with an injury I am here to show you our Marvelous Monday image for today.  This special image was inspired by my puppy Toby.  He has such expressive eyes and that is really what I wanted to try to capture in this digi.  I think he would be perfect for upcoming Valentine's Day cards and projects.  Click here to go to "Best Friends Forever" at the store.

Here are a few projects from the Design Team.

I love the black and white of Scrappy's card!

Stephanie found some wonderful patterned papers for her card too.  And I think Stephanie really captured the expression in the eyes. (I am so sorry for listing the wrong name on this card earlier.)
 And I love the technique that Sammi used for her card!

Thanks for dropping in today.  Please leave us a little note if you dropped in to see our projects today.  And have a Marvelous Monday!


Saturday, January 22, 2011

Yeah! 200 Followers!!!!!!

What a great surprise this morning!  

I am so happy to be able to post our 200 Follower freebie this morning.  

We will offer the freebie until Monday morning.  So be sure to send all of your friends in to get their freebie too.  And help us spread the word.  We will offer another freebie at 300 followers.


Sorry....our freebie offer has expired.


Please remember that our angel policy applies to freebies too.  No sharing is permitted.

I can't wait to see the creations with our "lipstick" image.  We thought it would go nicely with the "purse" and "shoes" freebies that we have already offered for our follower freebies.  Please leave us a comment if you drop in to get our freebie.  We love hearing from you!