The Shabby Tea Room

Week #54 - 'BINGO'

Welcome Friends! Today marks the start of our third six months here in the Tea Room ... and we have a couple new, smiling and talented designers to share their talents with us all! Let us all {officially} welcome Charlene, Danielle and Kristin to our Shabby Tea Room Family! The excitement of the new DT members joining the team today is also bittersweet, as we say goodbye to Cathy, Clare and Nicole. We so enjoyed being inspired by their beautiful designs for the past six months and look forward to seeing them in the Tea Room again for our weekly challenges as their schedules allow! Thank you girls :) Miss you already!!

This week I am your host and have a challenge with a fun little twist for you all to shake things up a bit ...

... using this inspiration board as a starting point for your design, please choose any THREE IN A ROW embellishments to create a card or project with this week! For example, you may decide to use brads, buttons and die cuts on your card ... OR you may decide to use buttons, flowers and glitter on your project! Basically, a wild card week! Use ANY THREE IN A ROW, and please be sure to include which items you chose in your blog post!

BONUS ... anyone using all 9 embellishment choices will go into a random drawing for 5 yards of Shabby Vintage Seam Binding from my Etsy Shop! Just be sure to leave me a comment on my Simple Treasures blog post HERE letting me know your submission number and that you used all nine embellishments in order to be considered for the BONUS prize :)

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 challenge rules will remain in the gallery but will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer - Michelle Bala! Michelle is a 'regular' here in the Tea Room ... treating us all weekly to some of her delicious paper crafted confections!!!

Michelle Bala - Passionate Crafter

And ... INTRODUCING a BRAND NEW feature beginning this March in the Tea Room -- MONTH-LONG GUEST DESIGNER SPOTS - yippiee! We had so many fabulous entries for our most recent Design Team Call that is was impossible to narrow all of the gorgeousness down to just two positions. After giving it some careful thought and consulting with the Design Team girlies, we decided to invite a few designers that are regulars here in the Tea Room and who submitted exceptionally beautiful application projects to Guest Design with the Shabby Girls for a month at a time -- FUN! Please help me welcome our very first month-long Guest Designer ... Deb Saaranen!

Deb Saaranen - Dream In Color

Do you want to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer with the Shabby Girls? It's very simple to apply ... simply participate in our weekly challenges and WOW us with your projects! The Shabby Girls might be calling on you to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer!!! Stay tuned :)

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune

Kristin Wilson - Lilsweetpea's Place

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

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

I'm so happy to welcome our Tea Room sponsor this week - Pixie Dust Paperie!

Pixie Dust Paperie - A place for pretty paper crafting products and lots of inspiration.

Pixie Dust Paperie is a monthly kit club dedicated to bringing you the newest products available in the paper crafting industry. Each month, you will receive a beautifully designed kit with the latest papers and embellishments, all designed to coordinate perfectly, and ready for you to create, whether it's scrapbook pages, cards, mini album, coffee table brag book, or altered projects, you will find lots of inspiration and new ideas here at Pixie Dust Paperie.

At The Pixie Blog (www.pixiedustpaperie.blogspot.com), we have a new project every single day, giveaways and monthly challenge too, so please come visit us!

Besides the $20 Pixie Gift Certificate for the winner, we would like to offer your readers a coupon code - tearoom-special, use code during check out to get 20% off our Pixie Kits.

And don't forget to check HERE to see if you're a winner of one of the TWENTY prize packages during our week-long Birthday Bash Celebration! You have one week from Monday to claim your prize :)

Link your creations below by Sunday, March 27th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, March 28th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 28th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #53 - 'Party Time' WINNERS!

A HUGE shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, shabby little challenge blog!!! We enjoyed an AMAZING Birthday Bash week full of festivities, inspiration and FUN! We received 162 OUTSTANDING cards and projects for our 'Party Time' challenge this week - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,143 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!

Please join me in thanking Sherry Wright, Deb Saaranen, Melissa Philips, Anabelle O'Malley, Dana Gustafson and Audrey Petitt for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Special Guest Designers!

A very special thank you to Blackleaf Studios for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome digital prize package to our Winner!

The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration was so FESTIVE this week! It was next to impossible to narrow the top honors and winners down to our usual 10, so this week we are delighted to spotlight SIXTEEN of the most exceptional designs! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Party Time' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Karin #5

2.   Diane Hover #6

3. Donna #15

4. Dana Gustafson #20

5. Robin Shakoor #49

6. Carol H. #61

7. Karen Mar #62

8. Sari #95

9.  Simply Shaz #102

10. Tammy Roberts #110

11.   Jen Adcock #138

12.   2amscrapper #142

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Steph #46

2.    Mandy #47

3.    Ros Crawford #73

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Heather H. #126! Heather's absolutely gorgeous Happy Birthday card just made me {swoon}! The layers, the lace and trims, the tickets, the seam binding the beautiful pinks and florals ... just one of the prettiest cards I've ever seen! Thanks you, Heather, for sharing your magnificent talents with us all 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!

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

Birthday Presents WINNERS!

We had an amazing number of submissions for last week's Birthday Bash Celebration! Thank you to everyone who submitted a card or project for our challenge! In order to be eligible for one of the TWENTY fabulous prizes donated for the festivities by our wonderful sponsors, you needed to be or become a follower of The Shabby Tea Room blog AND submit a card or project for the Week #53 'Party Time' challenge. Only those who completed both of the above-mentioned steps will be considered for the randomly drawn prizes. The prize winners were drawn from the Week #53 submissions gallery and we will verify that they are followers before the prizes are released.

*A special THANK YOU to my dear stampy friend, Susan Killiam, from The Beary Scrap Design Team for helping me with the Random.org graphics! After the winners were choosen, she saved all the graphics for me and forwarded the files back to me for posting here. I couldn't figure out how to save the graphics for the life of me. I so appreciate your time and efforts, Susan!!!*

If you are one of the lucky winners noted below, please contact me via e-mail (on sidebar) to claim your prize. The RESULT numbers correspond to the SUBMISSION numbers in the Week #53 gallery. There were 162 participants. You will have one week from today to claim your prize.

And now ... DRUM ROLL please! Here are the lucky winners of each of the twenty FAB prizes:

12 yards of Shabby Vintage Seam Binding from Deb's Simple Treasures Etsy Shop

#17 Pep Pop

1 custom blog header from Viola Mahr's Etsy Shop

#32 Charlene

Baker's Twine and ribbon pack from The Ribbon Reel

#76 Cindy Beach

Have Cake stamp set ($15 retail value) from Whimsie Doodles

AND

A special offer for The Shabby Tea Room Fans - use the discount code STR10 at the Whimsie Doodles online store and receive 10% off your next order! Code expires 30 days from today (April 14th)