Week #29 - "Pearls and Pastels" WINNERS!

A big shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog!!! The 81 projects submitted for our 'Pearls and Pastels' projects this week were AWESOME!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 712 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 Rachael Mitchell for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer!

A BIG thank you to JustRite Stamps for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome $60 prize package 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 'Pearls and Pastels' challenge ...

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Simply Shaz #19

2.   Mariyca #22

3.   Stella #36

4.   Melissa Bove #44

5.   Maddy Hill #48

6.   Tanya Phillips #65

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Marilyn McIldoon #16

2.   Steph #51

3.   Rachel #66

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Becky Jo #71!   My breath was {literally} taken away when I saw Becky Jo's GORGEOUS card creation for this week's challenge!  Her design looked exactly like the inspiration picture -- full of pearls, bobbles, pastel pinks and blues with stitching, ribbon, charms ... simply divine and one of the prettiest cards I've ever laid my eyes on!  Thank you so much, Becky Jo, for sharing your amazing talents with us all 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 #29 - 'Pearls and Pastels'

{EDIT ... Clare is our host this week and she has provided this lovely picture for inspiration.  Many of you have inquired about the bracelet -- please visit Clare's site and/or e-mail her directly for details on where she found it!  I hope you'll be inspired to design something for the Tea Room this week based off this amazing photo!!}

One of our newest Shabby Girls, Clare, is our lovely host this week and she has chosen this absolutely stunning photo for us all to be inspired by --

I'm completely in {love} with this bracelet ... it's on my 'wish list' for Christmas!!  Isn't it magnificent!

We would love to see you all create a card or project inspired by the pastel colors and/or be-jeweled theme of this picture!  Have fun with this ... I {know} you'll enjoy working with the gorgeous inspiration this week!!

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 and you may combine challenges.

•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 events (advertising) unrelated to The Shabby Tea Room Challenge.

Please take a moment to help me welcome our Guest Designer this week, Rachael Mitchell!  Rachael earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #24 - 'A Little Bit of Metal' challenge!  Please take a minute to visit Rachael's blog and leave her a bit of sweet {love}!

Rachael Mitchell - Creative Hope

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

'Vintage Christmas' and 'Christmas Nested Sentiments'

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

'Hearts Come Home'

Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations

'Whimsical Christmas Set' and 'Christmas Nested Sentiments'

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

'Something Sweet'

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

'Groovy Snowman'

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

'Groovy Snowman'

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

Please welcome back this week's Tea Room sponsor ... JustRite Stampers!

JustRite is hosting the 12 Weeks of Christmas blog hops each Wednesday through Thanksgiving -- wonderful Christmas project inspiration from about 20 different designers each week! Details at the JustRite Inspiration blog.  The Shabby Girls will be hopping with JustRite on October 27th ... so mark your calenders for this fun event that you won't want to miss :)

This week awesome prize package valued at almost $60:

Current sales (please visit the JustRite website for all details):

- Free 1-3/16” wood stamper with the purchase of Witch Way To The Treats or Holiday Cheer stamp sets.

- 25% off new configurations of font.

We will award a 'The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three' badge to the three most creative projects!!! The Shabby Tea Room Winner will earn our adorable pink tea pot winner badge and the prize package showcased above from JustRite Stamps!

Link your creations below by Sunday, October 3rd to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 4th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 4th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #28 - 'School Days' WINNERS!

A big shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog!!! Your schhol themed projects this week were AWESOME!!  We also would like to recognize and thank our 697 WONDERFUL 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 oh-so talented and sweet Anabelle O'Malley for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer!

Thank you to Digi Doodle Shop for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing 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 'School Days' challenge ...

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. Victoria #1

2. Susan Kohl #2

3. Debra #4

4. June Lanum #5

5. Lee Anne #10

6. Jo #19

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.  Susan B. #11

2.  Julia Aston #14

3.  Cindy Holshouser #21

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Anya Schrier #20!  Anya's adorable creation just made me smile this week!  How clever to use a label maker to create the sentiment and all that adorable patterned paper, buttons, baker's twine, ledger paper, staples, die cut apple ... oh my shabby cuteness!!!  Congratulations, Anya!  Thanks for sharing your {sweet} work with us all 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 #28 - 'School Days'

Well, it's finally time to announce the two newest Shabby Girls who are joining the Tea Room family!! These two super talented paper crafters are sure to bring a breath of fresh air to our shabby little challenge blog, not to mention that I know you will be wow-ed by their talent!  Please help me welcome:

Clare Buswell

and

Pattie Goldman

I know I speak for the entire team when I say that we are so happy to have them as part of the family and look forward to many amazing designs and inspiration from them both over the next six months :)

And, onto this week's challenge ...

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

and asks that we create a card or project inspired by the photo -- using a 'school theme' and the colors from the inspiration photo!

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 and you may combine challenges.

•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 events (advertising) unrelated to The Shabby Tea Room Challenge.

Please take a moment to help me welcome our Guest Designer this week - back by popular demand - Anabelle O'Malley!  We are all such {huge} fans of Anabelle's lovely, shabby and vintage designs!  We're so honored that she had a bit of time to join us again this week!  Please take a minute to stop by Anabelle's blog and leave her a little 'shabby love'!!!

Anabelle O'Malley - Bits and Pieces

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

'Vintage School Desk'

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

'Sewing Machine'

Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations

'Hoot Owl'

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

'Clutch Purse 3'

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

'Bookworm'

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

'Vintage Bike'

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 ... Digi Doodle Shop!

Digi Doodle Shop is the result of a mother and daughter’s love for the arts and crafts. It was started just a couple of months ago with a little more than 100 stamps, and has since then grown to over 250 stamps - now available.

Joy (the mother of this team) designs realistic images, while I (Judy aka/daughter) love the “fun side of life”, and create images with cartoon flair. Having these two complimenting styles have enabled Digi Doodle Shop to offer just about any type of stamp. Plus, we also offer “custom made stamps”, and blog designs. Our best work comes from request, so if you don’t see what you’re looking for, just send us an email and before long you’ll see it in the shop.

It is a real honor and pleasure to sponsor this challenge, and we look forward to seeing all the amazing creations. We thank the design team for their incredible creations, and wish all the participants the very best of luck in this challenge.

Thank you so much for having us, and again the very best of luck to all of you.

Sincerely,  Judy and Joy

We will award a 'The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three' badge to the three most creative projects!!!  The Shabby Tea Room Winner will earn our adorable pink tea pot winner badge and a $10 Gift Certificate donated by Digi Doodle Shop!

Link your creations below by Sunday, September 26th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, September 27th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 27th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #27 - ' Fresh Living' WINNERS!

We had 129 fabulous 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 692 WONDERFUL 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'!!

Thank you to Audrey Pettit and Melissa Hubert for the past six months of inspiration and phenominal team work as members of our Shabby Girl Design Team!!

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

Thank you to Tiffany Doodles for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing  digi images for our Winner and all three of our Top Three picks!!!

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 'Fresh Living' challenge ...

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Colleen Dietrich #11

2.   Kathy Wattle #21

3.   Ashley Lydia #31

4.   Sabrina #54

5.  Carol R. #58

6.   Cindy Holshouser #95

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1st Runner Up (6 digi images):  Sue Lelli #41

2nd Runner Up (4 digi images):  Ros Crawford #34

3rd Runner Up (2 digi images):  Lizzi #56

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER (10 digi images):

Dawn Burnworth #128!  Dawn's amazing coloring of the delicious apples in her design just took my breath away!  Oh ... to be able to color like that!!  What a fabulous card ... thanks for sharing your talents with us in the Tea Room this week, Dawn!
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 #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!