SHELLY'S IMAGES : TERRIFICALLY THRILLING THURSDAY

Welcome back everyone!  

Before I tell you about today's Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge, I'd like to remind you that our challenges at Shelly's Images are now FORTNIGHTLY!

Our challenges will now be offered on the 

1st and 3rd Thursday 

of each month.

In our sidebar you can still see our upcoming challenge themes/dates and NOW you can also see the dates for the upcoming Tutorial/Technique Tuesday postings.

We have another exciting announcement ... we are celebrating

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

with a fabulous  40% off all Christmas digi stamps... see the advert below

NB : You will need to type in the code "ChristmasInJuly" when checking out to receive your sale price.

Now onto today's challenge

 (which will run through August 1st).

SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT!

(which is our way of saying 'ANYTHING GOES' 

 and today's featured image is 'NATIVITY'

I am proud to announce the Special Invited Guest Designer for this challenge ....

 

 In a nutshell, Margy is a Christian, widow, mom to 3 beautiful daughters, and granny to 4 absolutely delightful, grandchildren. She was born in the UK in a small town called Tunstall, one of the 5 “pottery” towns in Staffordshire.  Her dad made a bold decision just after she was born, to emigrate to South Africa, and she therefore considers herself as a South African, with British and Dutch blood lines.

Her crafting life took off just after she was married, and Margy has probably tried every new craft that has hit the South African scene! However it was only after she turned 55, that she attended oil painting classes. Apart from painting, her other interests/hobbies are genealogy (already traced her family lines back to the 1600’s), scrapbooking, restoring wooden furniture, mosaic, and now card making and digistamp designing.   Her day job is a locust researcher (yes, the insect with 6 legs), as well as the Project Office Manager for a South African research organization.

You can visit Margy's blog here

Here is my card to inspire you:

I created the card using the Tuesday tutorial on the SI blog here

The image is coloured using alcohol markers.  To make the thatched roof, I used kraft CS, and snipped and inked it.  The little picket fence is an offcut of cork cut using a Marianne's Creatables die.

There is an EXTRA chance to win ... if you leave a comment on my post, you will get to be included in the draw for the voucher below:

AND ... don't forget ...
Besides a $6 Shelly's Images Gift Voucher to one lucky challenge participant ...

You can also win a $3 Shelly's Images Gift Voucher by leaving a comment at 

MARGY'S BLOG

You can find our rules in the sidebar but here's a quick summary:

• DIRECT Link to your blog posting
• Shelly's Image NOT required
• Follow the theme
• FIVE entry limit
• No backlinking
• Entries for this challenge must be submitted
  by 12:00 noon CST on August 1

Now it's YOUR turn!

I would like to add my project to the following challenges:
 

CRAFTER’S COMPANION, #26, ‘HO HO HO CHRISTMAS’

CREATALICIOUS CHALLENGE, #36, CHRISTMAS IN JULY’

HOOKED ON CRAFTS, #22, ‘CHRISTMAS IN JULY’

THE CRAZY CHALLENGE, #124, ‘CHRISTMAS IN JULY’

THERE SHE GOES, TSG165, ‘CHRISTMAS IN JULY’
 The Outlawz, Twisted Thursday, 'Christmas in July'

luv'n huggz

Jen Leeflang

Durban

South Africa