Simple Treasures Turns Two ...

Deb's Simple Treasures turns TWO today and to celebrate there is BLOG CANDY worth approximately $200 and a CHALLENGE with some Shabby Vintage Seam Binding up for grabs!  I hope you can join us all for the fun and festivities :)

Please visit the Simple Treasures blog at the link above to enter for your chance to win the BLOG CANDY and to enter the CHALLENGE to win the Shabby Vintage Seam Binding ... two separate contests, so much fun!

Week #31 - 'Pumpkin Patch'

Week #31 in the Tea Room brings Nicole as our host and she has chosen this wonderful seasonal photo as inspiration for us to work with ...

... and Nicole asks us all to create a card or project inspired by the colors in this picture and/or to make sure you have a pumpkin somewhere in your design!

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, Naomi Harris!  Naomi earned this Guest Designer Spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #22 - "Reflections" challenge. Please stop by her blog and leave her a bit of shabby {love}!

Naomi Harris - Nomi-Lou's Magic Door

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures
My Favorite Things - Die-Namics Spiral Flower

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations
My Favorite Things - We're Not Scared

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch
My Favorite Things - L'il Pumpkin

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 ... My Favorite Things!

My Favorite Things is a delightful clear rubber stamp company! Their stamps are designed by various artists and are down right to die for. The possibilities don't stop at rubber stamps My Favorite Things also offers digital stamps, digital papers, stamps pads, stamp cleaner, ribbon and paper, and much, much more! Stop by and check out their store complete with ideas and a blog.

Kim, owner of My Favorite Things, has graciously donated a $15 gift certificate to our winner this week!

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 gift certificate from My Favorite Things!

Link your creations below by Sunday, October 17th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 18th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 18th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #30 - 'Vintage Halloween' WINNERS!

A big shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog!!! The 65 projects submitted for our 'Vintage Halloween' projects this week were AWESOME!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 723 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 Kirsty Vittetoe for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer!

A BIG thank you to Sassy Studio Designs for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome digital 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 'Vintage Halloween' challenge ...

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Bonnie McLain #3

2.  Monique #6

3.   Sandi M #14

4.  Vicky #38

5.   Lenet #58

6.   Beth C. #65

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Lindsay #12

2.   Jo #26

3.   Leslie #41

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

SmilynStef #62!  This card design just made my jaw drop ... it is so close to the inspiration photo -- simply perfect!  The candleabras, the vintage white lace, the black lacey border punch, the absolutely gorgeous background patterned paper and bling -- just STUNNING!  Thanks for sharing your 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 #30 - 'Vintage Halloween'

Week #30 in the Tea Room brings Lisa as our fabby host and she has chosen this gorgeous photo for us all to be inspired by:

... and Lisa asks us all to create a card or project inspired by the colors and images in this picture with a Vintage Halloween theme! 

*Provided for your assistance, there are some guidelines on our sidebar from the gals at the Card Style Magazine outlining the components you would use in a Vintage design -- Soft, distressed elements, vintage images and found elements such as buttons, crochet trim, flowers made out of old dress patterns.*

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, Kirsty Vittetoe!  I've enjoyed seeing so many of Kirsty's lovely, shabby and vintage creations for the Tea Room challenges!  It's such a treat to have her creating with our Shabby Girls DT this week.  Please stop by her blog and leave her a bit of shabby {love}!

Kirsty Vittetoe - Handmade Little Things

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

Our sponsor has donated 'Halloween Sentiments' and 'Halloween Tags' for the design team to create with for our Vintage Halloween Challenge!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

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 ... Sassy Studio Designs!

Sassy Studio Designs is a fresh new company. We have been designing and selling for a year now, and we have been kindly received into the community of digi stampers and crafters. I started designing images shortly after I started stamping, reason being...I didn't hardly like anything else out there I was a young adult woman at the time I was engaged, had no kids, I wanted fun sexy images that I would enjoy using and my friends and hubby would enjoy receiving. I designed images for 2 other digi stamp companies when my wonderful hubby kept trying to get me to go out on my own. So in June 2009 thanks to the few faithful followers I had, Sassy Studio Designs was born! It has been a wonderful journey starting my own store. We have just grown so much these past months.  I still try to keep with my original philosophy and reason for designing stamps, make them fun and keep them sassy...and yes sometimes even sexy!

Lindsay

Sassy Studio Designs has graciously donated four (4) digital images to our winner this week!

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 from Sassy Studio Designs!

Link your creations below by Sunday, October 10th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 11th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 11th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

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!