Let's Go Back To School

It's Terrifically Thrilling Thursday at Shelly's Images, which means challenge time!

As our followers know, we are starting to change the way challenges and featured images work at Shelly's Images. Our featured images and challenge posts will now be incorporated into one post, on a single day, rather than spread out over two days in the week. Some of the challenge themes and featured images were already set, before the decision was made to combine them. So, for a brief period of time, the featured images may not match the challenge theme. Please bear with us while we ease into this adjustment. Everything is starting to come together and we're thrilled with the new format!

Now that I have that out of the way, let me tell you about the new challenge at Shelly's Images! August is almost half over and the schools are gearing up to start back, so what a perfectly fitting challenge team we have for you this week!

Back To School!

Come over to Shelly's Images and show us your back to school projects! You may be our Top hat winner or even land yourself one of our Gold, Silver or Bronze medals, for playing along!

I'm the lucky one to have created the eye candy for you today, for our weekly challenge. My card uses back to this new school paper. I added sparkle to the flourish on the paper with my clearstar gelly roll pen. The black and white polkda dotted brads are from my stash. The images (apple and pencil) and sentiment are from the Kidz Korner at Shelly's Images. The Kidz Korner section are all freebies and the images were drawn by Shelly's daughter, Taylor. If you haven't ever checked out Kidz Korner, be sure you do! Taylor has drawn some cute cute images and they're all free!



I'm entering this card in the following challenges:


August Digi Day at Stamp Something
Coloring at Frosted Designs
Challenge #60 Sparkly at Wags 'n Whiskers
Challenge #74 use A Digi at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #14 Spots and Dots (on the brads) at Stampin' For The Weekend
GL#22 Make It Sparkle at Gingerloft
Challenge #133 Gone Fruity (Apple) at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #15 Glitter and Glitz at Crafter's Companion Monthly
Polka Dots (on the brads) at House of Gilli
Challenge #94 Back To School at Crafty Catz
Challenge #66 School at My Sheri Crafts
Challenge #69 Anything Goes at Raise The Bar
Anything Goes at AI Factory
Challenge #16 Photo Inspiration at Papercrafting Journey
Challenge #106 Something Old (Brads) Something New (Patterned paper) at Incy Wincy
Round and Round The Garden (Worm In Apple) at The Poodles Parlour
Challenge #25 Back To School at Celebrate The Occasion
Challenge #5 School Days at Little Darlings
Challenge #47 Make It Count at Crafts And Me
Challenge #6 School at Floweret
Hot Colors at Crafty Calendar
Challenge #10 Back To School at Heartsong Inspirations
Challenge #5 Digi + The Color Green at Kich N Bleus

Halloween Pencil Toppers

This is my hosting week for the DT at Shelly's Images, and today is Technique Tuesday. Since we are featuring Halloween images this month at Shelly's Images, I thought it would be great to do a Halloween favor tutorial. Halloween is one of my favorite things about Fall.

Aren't these just too cute?! They are very quick and simple to do, and would be great favors for the kiddies to take to school for Halloween favors.

The Haunted House image is from Shelly's Images. The ghost with pumpkins image and the Trick or Treat bag image are from the Kidz Korner section of Images. The Kidz Korner images are freebies and are drawn by Shelly's daughter, Taylor. I love Taylor's images, they are so cute!

You can check out the complete tutorial on how to make these cuties, here.

I am entering these pencil toppers in the following challenges:


The Owl And/Or Their Habitat (Haunted House Image with tree and Owl) at Clearly I Stamp
Challenge #14 Anything Goes at Scrappekammert
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Gingerloft
Challenge #59 Autumn Colors (Ghost Image)at Incy Wincy
Challenge #17 Clean & Simple at Daisy Doodles
Autumn or Fall at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #121 Fall Into Fall at Spoon Full of Sugar
Challenge #21 Home (Haunted House Image) at Easy Craft Projects

Let's Get Back To School

It's Back To School Time, so I made a card in honor of school! This card is for a co worker to give to her newphew, who just started first grade.

I used the sketch at Some Odd Girl for card design, but I changed one shape (pencil) and changed the direction of that piece of the sketch. The apple image is from Inktegrity. The pencil image if from the Kidz Korner section of Shelly's Images.The images at Kidz Korner are hand drawn by Shelly's daughter, Taylor, and they are too cute! If you haven't checked out Shelly's Images, and Kidz Korner, you are missing out! I colored both images with Promarkers. The DP and the awesome ruler ribbon are from my stash.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #18 Back To School at Fussy and Fancy
Challenge #67 Park Inspiration (Mouse) at All Sorts
Challenge #37 Anything Goes at Bee Crafty
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Crafty Emma's
Use Your School Supplies at Crafty Ho's
Challenge #106 Something Digital at Cupcake Crafts
Challenge #59 Add A Little Nature at Pollycraft
Challenge #57 back To School at Incy Wincy
Challenge #16 Anything Goes at Daisy Doodles
Just The One (One DP) at Papertake Weekly
Back To School at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #105 In The Garden (Worm) at My Time To Craft
Challenge #23 Stripes at Meljen's Designs
Challenge #38 Living In A Material World at Fab 'n' Funky
Challenge #38 Back To School at Pixie Dust Studio
Challenge #35 Inspired By A Song (School Days) at Charisma Cardz
Challenge #10 Anything Goes at Just Inspirational
Challenge #7 3D at Sarah Hurley Challenges
Something Cute at Stamp Something