Week #27 - 'Fresh Living'

Well, how time has flown!  This week marks The Shabby Tea Room's SIX MONTH anniversary!  Whoo hoo :)  We have loved seeing all of your gorgeous creations week after week and look forward to the next six months of creativity, inspiration and FUN :)

Sadly, today marks the final week that we will have the pleasure of being inspired by two of our Shabby Girls ... Audrey Pettit and Melissa Hubert.  We have thoroughly enjoyed seeing their beautiful work week after week, and I think I can speak for everyone on the team and all of our followers when I say that they will be missed terribly here in the Tea Room.  I thank both Audrey and Melissa for joining me in this journey ... they didn't know what they were signing up for way back in March when I searched them out and invited them to join the team!  My gratitude for all the time and efforts they put into inspiring us with wonderful designs and touching all of your lives with sweet comments on your projects is simply immeasurable!  Best wishes girlies ... please come back and visit us as often as you can!!

So, the exciting news is that next Monday we will be announcing who the two brand new shabby girls will be who have agreed to join our shabby little family ... stay tuned!!  You won't want to miss the announcement!

And, onto this week's challenge ...

Audrey is our lovely host this week and she has chosen this beautiful photo for us all to be inspired by --

and asks that we create a card or project inspired by NATURE and/or using GREEN!

Note: 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 guidelines will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for understanding and playing along!

•Cards/projects must be newly created following the current challenge guidelines. You may enter as many times as you wish.

•Cards/projects must DIRECT LINK back to The Shabby Tea Room.  Please only link your submission POST - not your entire blog or multiple challenge submissions.

•Please do not cross-promote (advertising) events unrelated to The Shabby Tea Room Challenge.

Please take a moment to help me welcome our Guest Designer this week - Dana Gustafson from Paper Daydream!  Dana is a 'regular' here in the Tea Room and I have been so inspired by her work week after week!  Her soft and lovely designs just bring a smile to my face - simply gorgeous!  Please take a minute to visit Dana's blog and leave her some sweet {love}!

Dana Gustafson - Paper Daydream

And now for some more inspiration from the Shabby Girls  ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

'Bless This Home Birdhouse'

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog - Week #27 Host

'Lilly stems with oval'

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

'Tree Set'

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

'Topiary 3'

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

'Poppy with oval'

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

'Palm Trees'

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

Please welcome this week's Tea Room sponsor ... Tiffany Doodles!

All of my digital stamps are originally created by me and of the multiple styles I offer, most are hand-drawn images. Some are brushed up in Photoshop using the pen tool to produce very clean lines and others are left with a sketchy, rustic, hand-drawn look. An additional digi-style is one that I’ve dubbed as PhotoSketches and these are images from my own photographs which I transformed into sketches with a little help from Photoshop. These beauties make splendid realistic images for stamping!

One of the ways that I wish to say “thank you” to all of the folks that follow Tiffany Doodles is by offering a brand new Freebie every Thursday. I’ve received a hefty response from this, which has encouraged me to continue creating even more! Tiffany.

Tiffany has graciously donated (2) images to our 3rd place Tea Time Terrific Top Three Winner, (4) images to our 2nd place TTTTT Winner, (6) images to our 1st place TTTTT Winner ... and (10) images for The Shabby Tea Room Winner - WOW!!!
We will award a 'The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three' badge to the three most creative projects ... plus, this week only, all the Tea Time Terrific Top Three Winners will receive free images from Tiffany!!! One lucky participant will earn 'The Shabby Tea Room Winner' badge and 10 digi images from Tiffany! 

Link your creations below by Sunday, September 19th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, September 20th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 20th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #26 - 'Tag You're It' WINNERS!

We had 114 fantastic paper crafters who submitted projects and cards this week! A big thank you to one and all for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog!!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 678 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!

The design team members thank everyone who has adjusted your blog settings to turn Word Verification OFF and leave Comment Moderation ON! We love to leave you all some sweet comments and having Word Verification turned off makes our jobs much quicker and easier -- not to mention is allows us to visit without our computers 'freezing up'!!

Please join me in thanking the talented Tracy Clark for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer!

Thank you to Bugaboo Stamps for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing 7 digi images for our winner!

We thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! And without further ado, here are the designs that caught my eye for capturing the essence of the 'Tag You're It' challenge ...

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Deb Hickman #26

2.   Linda, the funkie junkie #28

3.  Deb Saaranen #32

4.   Chris Olsen #62

5.   Gloria Dawson #64

6.   Tanya Phillips #105

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Lizzi #12

2.   Betty Wright #14

3.   Cabio #99

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Lenet #94!  Lenet created a vintage and shabby set of SIX charming tags for our challenge this week!  They are one of the prettiest sets I have ever seen!  So many lovely embellishments to create such a stunning collection!  Thank you, Lenet, for sharing your amazing talents with us weekly in the Tea Room :)

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!

Week #26 - 'Tag You're It'

I am the host for this week's challenge here in the Tea Room, and I'd love to see you all create a card or project with a tag included on it! You can have full creative license here ... create a set of tags to top your holiday packages, create a card with a tag on it, create a pocket card with a pull-out tag.  We want to see your creative juices flow here this week ... bring us your best TAGS!!!

Note: 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 guidelines will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for understanding and playing along!

•Cards/projects must be newly created following the current challenge guidelines. You may enter as many times as you wish.

•Cards/projects must DIRECT LINK back to The Shabby Tea Room.

•Please do not cross-promote (advertising) events unrelated to The Shabby Tea Room Challenge.

•Please only link your submission POST - not your entire blog or multiple challenge submissions.

Please take a moment to help me welcome our Guest Designer this week - Tracy Clark!  Tracy is joining us as a Guest this week because she was the winner of our Week #14 challenge - 'Summer Fun' for THIS stunning creation!!  Tracy is visiting with us this week all the way from AUSTRALIA!  Wow!!  My husband {dreams} that we will be fortunate enough some day to visit that beautiful country on a family vacation!!  Please take a minute and visit Tracy's blog ... and be sure to leave her a bit of {sweet} love too!

Tracy Clark - Creative Playtime

And now for some more inspiration from our A-MAZING Shabby Girls Design Team Members ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures - Week #26 Host

'Flower Block Sweet Pea'

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

'Butterfly Border 5'

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

'Night Moon'

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

'Strawberry Basket'

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

'FB Sunflower' 

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

'CB Monkey'

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

Please welcome this week's Tea Room sponsor ... Bugaboo Stamps!

Jodie says ... My name is Jodie Mackrell, I am a WAHM of 5 from Saskatchewan , Canada. I have been drawing for about 8 years now and started Bugaboo stamps about 8 months ago and loving it! The store has a variety of images from cutesy to sassy ladies.  Everyone's favorite seeming to be Stella. The best thing I love about creating digi stamps is making people smile.

Jodie has graciously donate SEVEN of her AMAZING digital images for this week's prize - WOW!  I think I can speak for all of us here on the design team when I say that we {heart} Bugaboo Stamps :)

We will award a 'The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three' badge to the three most creative projects!!! One lucky participant will earn 'The Shabby Tea Room Winner' badge and the digi package donated by Bugaboo Stamps!

Link your creations below by Sunday, September 12th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, September 13th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 13th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #25 - 'Old Meets New' WINNERS!

What an A-MAZING week here in the Tea Room with so many great cards and projects! We had a RECORD BREAKING 186 wonderful paper crafters who submitted designs for cards and projects this week! A big thank you to one and all for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog ... we {heart} you all!!!  We also would like to recognize and thank our 669 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!


The design team members thank everyone who has adjusted your blog settings to turn Word Verification OFF and leave Comment Moderation ON! We love to leave you all some sweet comments and having Word Verification turned off makes our jobs much easier!!

Please join me in thanking the talented Ros Crawford for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer!

Thank you to Deb's Simple Treasures Etsy Shop and Pattie Goldman from the Pampered Paper Patch for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing 6 yards of Shabby Vintage Seam Binding and a beautiful vintage-inspired rubber stamp for our winner!

The sheer amount of amazing cards and projects submitted this week made the task of choosing this week's winners and honorable mentions a very difficult job ... the quality and caliber of work each week just keeps getting better and better!! It was simply impossible to narrow the 186 entries down to just 6 honorable mentions, 3 Terrific Top Threes and 1 winner, so this week we have 12 designs highlighted instead of the 'usual' 10! We thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! And without further ado, here are the designs that caught my eye for capturing the essence of the 'Old Meets New' challenge ...

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Lin #23

2.   Shirley #33

3.   Lenet #84

4.   Diane Hov #96

5.   Kirsty Vittetoe #136

6.   Dana Gustafson #152

7.   Jodi S. #161

8.   Pattie Goldman #181

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Betty Wright #29

2.   Linda the funkie junkie #40
 
3.   Heather Maria #63

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Cheryl #167!  Cheryl not only created the most adorable baby dress shabby cards, but she also created a paper set of vintage shoes -- oh my shabby goodness ... pure eye candy!  I simply fell in love with all three of Cheryl's projects this week, but really and truly was amazed by the vintage paper shoes!  Simply stunning work and detailing -- lovely embellies -- absolutely beautiful!  Thank you, Cheryl, for sharing your wonderful talents with us all in the Tea Room this week!

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!

Week #25 - 'Old Meets New'

For this week's challenge, we'd love to see you all create a card or project with something OLD and something NEW!  Basically, the sky's the limit as long as you tell us in your blog post which items were NEW to you and which items were OLD from your stash!  Have fun with this one, folks!!

Note: 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 guidelines will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for understanding and playing along!


•Cards/projects must be newly created following the current challenge guidelines. You may enter as many times as you wish.


•Cards/projects must DIRECT LINK back to The Shabby Tea Room.


•Please do not cross-promote (advertising) events unrelated to The Shabby Tea Room Challenge.

•Please only link your submission POST - not your entire blog or multiple challenge submissions.

Please take a moment to help me welcome our Guest Designer this week - Ros Crawford! Ros has been a weekly participant in the Tea Room almost since day one and has earned many honorable mention cups of tea and Tea Time Terrific Top Three honors too!  Ros' lovely, shabby chic designing style is simply eye candy for us all to be inspired by week after week and we are so lucky to have her joining us this week!  Please stop by her blog and leave her a bit of {love}!

Ros Crawford - Mikey's Mom

And now for some more inspiration from our Shabby Girls Design Team Members ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

'Vintage Winter White Shabby Seam Binding'

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

'Oatmeal Cream Shabby Seam Binding'

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

'Lilac Lace Shabby Seam Binding'

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

'Lacey Blueberry Shabby Seam Binding'

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

'Oatmeal Cream Shabby Seam Binding'

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations - Week #25 Host

'Oatmeal Cream Shabby Seam Binding'

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

Please welcome this week's Tea Room sponsor ... Deb's Simple Treasures Etsy Shop  (that's me)!  And I'm excited to announce that we also have a double prize this week for one lucky winner...  one of our loyal followers, Pattie Goldman from The Pampered Paper Patch,  has graciously donated a beautiful vintage perfume bottle rubber stamp to be included with the six yards of Seam Binding prize this week!

We will award a 'The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three' badge to the three most creative projects!!! One lucky participant will earn 'The Shabby Tea Room Winner' badge, six yards of Shabby Vintage Seam Binding and the perfume bottle rubber stamp!

Link your creations below by Sunday, September 5th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, September 6th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 6th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #24 - 'A Little Bit of Metal' WINNERS!

What a wonderful week here in the Tea Room with so many LOVELY cards and projects! Big hugs and thanks you to the 127 wonderful paper crafters who submitted designs for cards and projects this week! We also would like to recognize and thank our 657 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!


The design team members thank everyone who has adjusted your blog settings to turn Word Verification OFF and leave Comment Moderation ON!  We love to leave you all some sweet comments and having Word Verification turned off makes our jobs much easier!!

Please join me in thanking Laurel Seabrook for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer!

Thank you to Some Odd Girl for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week, providing such adorable images for the design team to work with for inspiration and supplying the 30% off discount for our followers and 3 digi images for our winner!!

The level of creativity and expertise made the task of choosing this week's winners and honorable mentions a very difficult job ... the quality and caliber of work this week was simply AMAZING!! It was simply impossible to narrow the 127 entries down to just 6 honorable mentions, 3 Terrific Top Threes and 1 winner, so this week we have 12 designs highlighted instead of the 'usual' 10! We thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! And without further ado, here are the designs that caught my eye for capturing the essence of the 'A Little Bit of Metal' challenge ...

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Silke Ledlow #11

2.  Browyn Eastley #17

3.   Cheryl Walker #38

4.   Clare Buswell #47

5.   Beth C. #52

6.   Lizzi D. #59

7.  Kaylou #60

8.  Deb Hickman #89

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.  Dana Gustafston #28

2.   Nomi-Lou #56

3.   Ira #58

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Rachael #78!  This absolutely amazing and gorgeous birdhouse is simply stunning.  The metal scalloped roof is out of this world creative and all the wonderful embellishments that Rachel added to her project this week -- what can I say, just over the top beautiful, creative and inspiring!  Thank you, Rachael, for sharing your talents with us this week in the Tea Room :)
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!

Week #24 - 'A Little Bit of Metal'

Using this photo for inspiration, create a card or project with something metal on it (brad, tag, charm, library clip, paper clip, eyelet, metal cording, metallic paper/embossing powder, etc.)

Note: 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 guidelines will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for understanding and playing along!

•Cards/projects must be newly created following the current challenge guidelines. You may enter as many times as you wish.


•Cards/projects must DIRECT LINK back to The Shabby Tea Room.


•Please do not cross-promote (advertising) events unrelated to The Shabby Tea Room Challenge.


•Please only link your submission POST - not your entire blog or multiple challenge submissions.

Please take a moment to help me welcome our Guest Designer this week - Laurel Seabrook! Laurel's lovely Clean and Simple card design style is absolutely beautiful and we've had the pleasure of enjoying many of her designs over the weeks here in the Tea Room! Please be sure to visit her blog and leave her a bit of {love} -- and it's her anniversary this week too, so wish her a happy one!

Laurel Seabrook - Seabrook Designs

And now for some more inspiration from our Shabby Girls Design Team Members ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

'Going Out For Coffee'

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

'Hoot'

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

'Hoot'

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

'Fairy Mae'

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession - Week #24 Host

'Fairy Mae'

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

'Inchie'

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

Please welcome this week's Tea Room sponsor ... Some Odd Girl!

Kristy, owner/designer of Some Odd Girl Digital Stamps, is thrilled to be sponsoring The Shabby Tea Room! Kristy has offered three digital images of the winner's choice from her on-line shop (a $9 value)! Some Odd Girl was launched in January 2010 and they are proudly bringing some fun and quirky images to the paper crafting market! The idea to start Some Odd Girl was inspired by two great friends! They took one of Kristy's pencil drawings, made it into a rubber stamp and that act of generosity spiraled into what you see today! Kristy is ALSO offering The Shabby Tea Room followers a 30% discount on any purchases from her shop during her week of sponsorship here in the Tea Room.

We will award a 'The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three' badge to the three most creative projects!!! One lucky participant will earn 'The Shabby Tea Room Winner' badge three digital images from Some Odd Girl!

Link your creations below by Sunday, August 29th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, August 30th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 30th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!