Week #178 - 'Lazy Days'

Click -> HERE for our current DESIGN TEAM CALL!

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Starr is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Lazy Days' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Starr asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS FROM THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE A METAL ELEMENT!

FOR YOUR SUBMISSION TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE WEEKLY PRIZE AND HONORS: Because we are sponsored weekly by wonderful businesses who have graciously donated products and in the interest of fairness to all participants, any entries that do not follow our simple challenge rules will remain in the gallery but will not be eligible for the weekly prizes and top honors. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Tina Milbourn!  Tina earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #174 challenge - 'Cherry Pie'. 

And some more beautiful inspiration from our August Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    

Jean Martin!   Jean used the Emma and Dream a Little Dream stamp sets from Paper Sweeties on her darling card!

Do you want to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer with the Shabby Girls?  It's as simple as participating in our weekly challenges and WOW-ing us with your projects!  The Shabby Girls might be calling on YOU to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer!!!

And now for some more GOR-JUS inspiration from the Shabby Girls ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Paper Sweeties
Paper Sweeties - Make Today Beautiful

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
{on vacation}

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Paper Sweeties - Join Me For Tea

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Paper Sweeties - Rainbows and Roses

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Paper Sweeties - Live Love Grow

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration, additional pictures and instructions for these projects !

 The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsor - Paper Sweeties!

 

 Paper Sweeties™ LLC is owned and illustrated by Debbie Marcinkiewicz, and offers  high quality photopolymer acrylic stamps.  Our heartwarming images allow paper crafters to create adorable dolls with interchangeable outfits and accessories! We also have a wide variety of wonderful all-occasion sentiments, labels, frames and accessory sets - perfect for every paper crafted project!  The Paper Sweeties shop carries hand tea-stained seam binding too!  The Sweeties dolls, accessories and sentiments are so much fun to play with and are sure to bring back fond childhood memories!  You’ll enjoy using the Sweeties to create projects for card making, scrap booking, party invitations and favors, home decor, gifts and so much more!

Winner will receive a $20 gift certificate from the Paper Sweeties shop!


Please link your creations below by Sunday, August 11th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, August 12th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 12th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #177 - 'Oh Baby!' WINNERS!

A big, shabby THANK YOU to all of our friends for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an fun week here in the Tea Room for our 'Oh Baby!' challenge -- we received 30 BEAUTIFUL cards and projects this week WOW - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!!  We also would like to recognize and thank our 2,519 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!

Don't forget ... if you're sporting either a Shabby Tea Room pink tea pot blinkie, Tea Time Terrific Top Three badge, Winner badge or Guest Designer badge, contact me via e-mail to be added to the Shabby Girlfriends Page!

Please join me in thanking Monika Davis for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Kristi Schurr for joining us as our July Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Bugaboo Stamps, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge!

The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration continuously amazes and inspires us all!!!  Your talent and creativity makes it nearly impossible to pick winners each week!   And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught our eyes this week for capturing the essence of the 'Oh Baby!' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Angela Marie #3

2.  Ela #17

3.  Tina M. #10

4.  Karen O. #12

5.  Cathy Mc #13

6.  Karen Davis #16

7.  Coops #18

8.  Michelle L. #19

9.  Padoriaa #21

10.  Doreen #25

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Michelle L. #7

2.  Agnieszka Onaija #14

3.  Glenda Boyd

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Karien #26!  Oh my shabby goodness - WOW!  What an absolutely darling set Karien has created for this week's Oh Baby challenge -- a sweet little rattle and adorable baby shoes -- LOVE them!

Congratulations to ALL! Tea Time Terrific Top Three and Winner, please grab your badges from our sidebar that you can proudly display on your blogs! Winner, please contact me via e-mail to claim your prize!

Please be sure to review the rules on our sidebar in order to be considered for the weekly top honors and prizes!

It's PARTY TIME ... come hop with us!

Scroll down or click HERE for this week's 'Oh Baby' challenge!
Scroll down or click HERE for the current DESIGN TEAM CALL!

Today begins our three-day long 1st Birthday Party Hop over at Paper Sweeties!  We have 25 designers over the next three days sharing amazing and creative projects -- all designed using Paper Sweeties stamps!

You can't have a party without gifts, right?  We're giving away the ENTIRE AUGUST RELEASE ... that's FIVE *new* stamp sets with a $50 retail value ... to one lucky fan.  Visit the Paper Sweeties blog to see how you can hop along and be eligible for the GRAND PRIZE!

Happy hopping my crafty friends!

It's a shabby DESIGN TEAM CALL!

Here it is ... the long-awaited and much-anticipated DESIGN TEAM CALL at The Shabby Tea Room!!  The Shabby Girls cannot wait to see your creativity and inspiration shine and hope to see many of you submit your creations for a chance to earn one of FIVE available spots on The Shabby Tea Room Design Team!

Please read the following INSTRUCTIONS and REQUIREMENTS very carefully as your ability to follow these instructions and submit complete projects and applications will directly impact your success on making the Design Team! 

Creativity + Inspiration = FUN!

 

The Shabby Tea Room is looking for a few creative designers to join our team of Shabby Girls!
This call will be open until August 31st at 12 pm EST.   The new Shabby Girls will be chosen and notified by September 1st.

Here are the details regarding requirements of the position and instructions on how to apply.  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me before you submit!

 
Requirements:

• Actively post to your own blog in English
• Participate in our weekly challenges for six months
• Ability to print and work with digital images, acrylic stamps, dies, embellishments, templates, ribbons, trims (as supplied by our weekly sponsors)
• Comment on participant submissions as per your two assigned rotation numbers
• Link to our challenge blog, your fellow Design Team members, post our pink Tea Pot blinkie and Design Team Badge on your blog sidebar or featured page
• Join our Design Team Yahoo Group to receive and post DT assignment info
• Create a theme and host a weekly challenge once every six weeks per your DT rotation

What the Shabby Girls are searching for:  

• High quality work
• Ability to photograph your work well and brightly lit
• Ability to follow the directions in the Design Team Application
•  Fun, social, out-going, creative, happy-spirited individuals who love to create with paper, stamps and glue and who love to share with and inspire others

What this team offers:

• Sponsor digital images, stamps, papers, templates, embellishments, ribbons
• Fun and creative inspiration along with a 'family-like' team atmosphere
• Links to your blog from our Challenge Blog and your fellow Shabby Girls' blogs
• Blog community socialization, friendship, creativity, inspiration ... FUN
• A Six-Month Design Team Term beginning on September 16, 2013 and running through March 18, 2014

How to Apply:

1. Become a follower of The Shabby Tea Room
2. Email deb4tasteful@earthlink.net with subject "DT Application" as subject
3. Include the following in your email:

• Full Name
• Blog Address
• Current and previous Design Team experience (current or past DT experience is not required)
• Tell us a little bit about yourself and why you would like to be a Shabby Girl
• Submit a newly created card and/or project (never before shared on your blog) based on the following INSPIRATION PHOTO.  You may be inspired by the colors, theme, objects in photo or all of the above!  Remember ... we ARE The Shabby Tea Room, so we really adore anything shabby, vintage and tea-related, but these design styles are not all inclusive, ALL design styles are welcome and will be considered.  Please ATTACH your submission to your e-mail.  We are looking for your BEST WORK, so let your creativity soar and 'wow us' with your application projects!

You may submit as many times as you wish.  Only your first application will require all of the above ... any subsequent applications need only include 'DT Application' in the subject like of your e-mail, your name in the body and a picture of your submission attached to the e-mail. 

GOOD LUCK to all who apply!  The Shabby Girls cannot wait to see your beautiful creations!

1K Fan Page celebration ...

Whoooo hoooo!  Did you see?  Our Paper Sweeties FAN PAGE reached 1,000 fans today!  THANK YOU to everyone who has LIKED and SHARED our page over the past 11 months — you all are so sweet!  Our goal was to reach 1,000 fans by our 1st Birthday on August 15th, but thanks to all of you, we reached our goal a couple weeks early!

Hop on over to see who the lucky winner is of the $25 gift certificate to the boutique!  Next prize given out at the 1,050 level — won’t you help us reach our next goal by sharing our Fan Page with your crafty friends?

Until next time, my friends, happy stamping

Fan Page 'Tag You're It' CONTEST!

 TAG ... you're it!  Hop on over to Facebook to read all about the current Paper Sweeties TAG contest -- by playing along, you and a friend that you tag will earn a double chance to win this soon-to-be-released stamp set!  It is part of our regular *new* stamp release line up in August, but is a CKC-Charlotte show exclusive, so although it's part of the August release on the 15th, it won't be available in the boutique until the 18th -- after we return from the show!  Play along with our contest to win your set for FREE!!!

 LIKE our Fan Page and SHARE us to be eligible to win a $20 gift certificate on 8/1 to kick off our month-long 1st birthday festivities!!

Week #177 - 'Oh Baby!'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Rebekah is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Oh Baby!' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Rebekah asks that you create a BABY CARD OR PROJECT FOR A BOY OR GIRL inspired by the photo!

FOR YOUR SUBMISSION TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE WEEKLY PRIZE AND HONORS: Because we are sponsored weekly by wonderful businesses who have graciously donated products and in the interest of fairness to all participants, any entries that do not follow our simple challenge rules will remain in the gallery but will not be eligible for the weekly prizes and top honors. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Monika Davis!  Monika earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #173 challenge - 'Glorious Flowers'. 

And some more beautiful inspiration from our July Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    

Kristi Schurr!  

Do you want to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer with the Shabby Girls?  It's as simple as participating in our weekly challenges and WOW-ing us with your projects!  The Shabby Girls might be calling on YOU to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer!!!

And now for some more GOR-JUS inspiration from the Shabby Girls ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Paper Sweeties
Bugaboo Stamps - Boo Peeker Rocking Horse
Paper Sweeties - Once Upon a Time

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
{On Vacation}



Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
 Bugaboo Stamps - Sugar and Spice Sentiment

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Bugaboo Stamps - Boo Peeker Carriage

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
 Bugaboo Stamps - Sugar and Spice Sentiment
Paper Sweeties - Pennant Party

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
 Bugaboo Stamps - Wee One Bug Butterfly
Paper Sweeties - You Are Amazing

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration, additional pictures and instructions for these projects !

 The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsor - Bugaboo Stamps!

As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of paper crafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing!  From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!

If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps stamps at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT   for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug.

Our links are:
Store : http://www.bugaboostamps.com/
Catch the bug Challenge blog:  http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/

 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, August 4th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, August 5th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 5th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!