The Shabby Tea Room

Monday, October 17, 2011

Week #83 - 'Fall Flowers' 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 'Fall Flowers' challenge -- we received 56 STUNNING 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 1,640 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 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 Inger Harding for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Melissa Phillips for joining us as our October Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Digi My World, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing an awesome gift certificate for our lucky 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 continuously amazes and inspires us all!!! Your extreme talent and creativity makes it nearly impossible to pick winners each week! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Fall Flowers' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   E.T. #3

2.   Lenet #16

3.   Kristi S. #17

4.   Lea L. #20

5.   Sara #23

6.   Chupa (1st card in post) #25

7. Linda, The Funkie Junkie #38

8. Jane Johnson #41

9. Kim Duran #48

10. Geri #52

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Lizzi #6

2. Maria P. #43

3. Bligu #56

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Magda(i)Lena #42! What an absolute beauty packed with Fall Flowers FUN! Just look at all those gorgeous flowers ... from the pretty patterned paper and blossoms on the stunning die cut butterfly down to the second page of this easel card and another layers of flowers and butterflies ... stunning layering and loads of yummy fall flowers!!! Thanks for sharing your talents with us all Magda Lena!

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!

Monday, October 10, 2011

Week #83 - 'Fall Flowers'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week Sheri is our fabby shabby host and she has chosen the theme of 'Fall Flowers' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and Sheri asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS from the photo and USE FLOWERS! You'll get 'bonus points' if you include HANDMADE FLOWERS ... but if you can't make a handmade flower, we'd still love to see all your fall-inspired flowers -- stamped, colored, digital, patterned paper, manufactured ... just make sure you include LOTS OF FLOWERS!!!

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, Inger Harding - Simply Inger ! Inger earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #73 challenge - 'Mix & Match'.

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

Melissa Phillips, Lily Bean's Paperie! It's always such a treat when Melissa stops by for a sweet visit ... her shabby creations are mini masterpieces created with handmade tending loving care!!!

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 - Simple Treasures

Manequin Card

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Manequin Card

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

Manequin Card

Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog

Manequin Card

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Manequin Card

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Tea Time

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

The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome back our sponsor - Digi My World !

Digi My World opened its doors in April 2011. It was created by me, Annie Kelly, a self taught artist, crafter and web designer. I has always dabbled in doodling and creating from even an early age. Whatever the craft, I have tried it. From drawing, painting, sewing, doll & pattern making, I have tried it all. Mind you, not successful at it all, but I sure did try it all!

Clipart has taken on a whole new art form in recent years. The world of paper crafts have brought line art to a whole new level - being dubbed "digital stamps". It is with all these new developments that Digi My World was created.

I am a stay at home mom to 2 boys. My oldest son is ADD and my youngest is autistic. It is because of my youngest son that I was not able to initially go back into the work force. I have been selling and working online since 2001, owning and creating for the web. If it wasn't for the wonderful connection of the internet, I am not sure where I would be today.

All of my digital stamps and clip art are my own creations. I get inspired by the most random and silly things. Long trips in the car can give me 7 -10 new mini collection ideas. It is a wondrous feeling being inspired by the simple things in life! I hope you enjoyed visiting with me today -- and if you are in need of some adorable and original images, please make sure to visit Digi My World. I hope it brings a smile to your face!

A special thanks for Debbie and the Shabby Tea Room for allowing me this opportunity to share my creations.
Annie

Please link your creations below by Sunday, October 16th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 17th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 17th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #82 - 'A Shabby Autumn' 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 'A Shabby Autumn' challenge -- we received 90 STUNNING 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 1,631 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 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 Wanda Guess for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Melissa Phillips for joining us as our October Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Robyn's Fetish, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing an awesome digital prize package for our lucky 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 continuously amazes and inspires us all!!! Your extreme talent and creativity makes it nearly impossible to pick winners each week -- this week was EXCEPTIONALLY difficult! This week we were looking for the shabbiest projects here in our gallery to pick as our honorable mentions and winners. The definition of 'Shabby Design' is: Layers of softness characterized by the use of ribbon and lace, a time-worn look achieved by inking, pearls, glitter and other such embellishments. And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'A Shabby Autumn' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Clare Buswell #3

2.   Cathy #15

3.   Chupa #17

4.   Lea L. #26

5.   Kristi S. #47

6.   Mindy Baxter #55

7. Lizzi #64 and #88

8. 2amscrapper #68

9. bilgu #72

10. Lenet #82

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Pauline #1

2. Pastila #10

3. Magda(i) Lena #27

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Amber G. #78! WOWOWOW! Amber's shabby design just wow-ed me this week! The lovely layers piled high with gorgeous papers, doilies and die cuts were beautifully executed! The addition of some vintage seam binding, lacey pom-pom trim and rustic twine came together seamlessly to add to the charm of this card. The sweet little leaf trinket pin and clothes pin were the icing on the cake ... thanks for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room, Amber!

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

Monday, October 3, 2011

Week #82 - 'A Shabby Autumn'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week Melissa is our fabby shabby host and she has chosen the theme of 'A Shabby Autumn' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and Melissa asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo with an autumn or fall theme! Easy peesy, right??!!??

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Wanda Guess - A Blog Called Wanda! Wanda earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #72 challenge - 'Relax and Enjoy'.

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

Melissa Phillips, Lily Bean's Paperie! It's always such a treat when Melissa stops by for a sweet visit ... her shabby creations are mini masterpieces created with handmade tending loving care!!!

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Apple Cider

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Basket of Apples

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

Scarecrow and Pumpkin

Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog

Happy Fall

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Scarecrow

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Happy Fall

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

The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome back our regular bi-monthly sponsor - Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps!

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers,designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5 digital stamps of their choice.

Please link your creations below by Sunday, October 9th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 10th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 10th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #81 - 'Chevrons' 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 'Chevrons' challenge -- this challenge proved to be a bit difficult for some, but we still received 29 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 1,613 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 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!

NEW FEATURE ... Top 10 Members {on our sidebar}! Click to sign in and have each of your visits to the Tea Room registered ... you just may find yourself spotlighted as one of the Top 10 Featured Favorites in the Tea Room :) It's so fun to see visiting numbers rising!

Please join me in thanking Anabelle O'Malley for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Sherry Wright for joining us as our September Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our regular bi-monthly sponsor last week, JustRite Stamps, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing an awesome prize package for our lucky winner!

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filled with such inspiration, but with the increasing popularity of the Tea Room challenges, it is becoming more time consuming to get around to each and every applicant's submission in order to leave comments. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON. Word Verification will NOT protect you from spam comments, and if you have Word Verification turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog. Thank you for your cooperation!

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!!! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Chevrons' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Lisa Dorsey #5

2.   Moonchick #6

3.   Diane H. #7

4.   Diane H. #8

5.   Vics #9

6.   Ingrid #10

7. Gini Cagle #14

8. Beth C. #16

9. Simply Shaz #19

10. Charis #25

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Jen Adcock #11

2. Lenet #20

3. Cathy #26

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Chupa #4! Wow ... what a beautiful card Chupa created this week for our Chevrons challenge! I adore how she incorporated all the colors of blue, green, orange, cream and brown into her design along with the requisite chevron patterns and some pretty floral stamping and embellishments. Great work -- thanks for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room, Chupa!!

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

Monday, September 26, 2011

Week #81 - 'Chevrons'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week Char is our host and she has chosen the theme of 'Chevrons' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and Char asks that you create a card or project using BLUE, GREEN, ORANGE, CREAM AND BROWN WITH CHEVRONS! You can create your chevrons in a multitude of ways - patterned paper, cardstock, ribbon, trim, markers, crayons, colored pencils, beads, glitter ... just as long as we can see the chevron pattern in your design!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Anabelle O'Malley - Bits and Pieces! Anabelle is no stranger to The Shabby Tea Room Blog and we always find it such a delicious treat when she joins us with some shabby confections that she has created!!

And some more beautiful inspiration from our September Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ... Sherry Wright - Seasons of Change!

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Greetings From Paris and Fancy Frames

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Greetings From Paris

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

Shabby Chic Labels Four

Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog

Greetings From Paris

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart
Greetings From Paris

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Shabby Chic Labels Four

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

The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome back our regular bi-monthly sponsor - JustRite Stamps!

JustRite is very excited to announce that they will be adding Clear Stamps to their product assortment! The JustRite October Release consists of 8 new Sets – 3 JustRite Original Sets, 2 Cling Sets and 3 Clear Sets. Starting on September 27th on the JustRite Blog they will begin debuting their October Release sets!!

As a special treat, JustRite is debuting two of their Autumn sets here today with The Shabby Tea Room readers!! For this week's Shabby Tea Room Challenge, JustRite will be giving the lucky winner 2 of their new sets from the October Release -- Autumn Labels Twenty Two – a JustRite Cling set with 6 images which retails for $19.95 and Autumn Words a Clear set with 40 stamps which retails for $14.95. WOW!! Now, get busy creating using our color inspiration palette and chevrons for YOUR chance to win this AWESOME prize package generously donated by JustRite Stamps!!!

Link your creations below by Sunday, October 2nd to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 3rd. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 3rd as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #80 - 'Vintage White' 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 'Vintage White' challenge -- 91 STUNNING 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 1,601 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 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!

NEW FEATURE ... Top 10 Members {on our sidebar}! Click to sign in and have each of your visits to the Tea Room registered ... you just may find yourself spotlighted as one of the Top 10 Featured Favorites in the Tea Room :) It's so fun to see visiting numbers rising!

Please join me in thanking Pattie Goldman for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Sherry Wright for joining us as our September Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Ellephantastic, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing a digital prize package for our lucky winner!

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filled with such inspiration, but with the increasing popularity of the Tea Room challenges, it is becoming more time consuming to get around to each and every applicant's submission in order to leave comments. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON. Word Verification will NOT protect you from spam comments, and if you have Word Verification turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog. Thank you for your cooperation!

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 us all ... it was a seriously difficult week to pick honorable mentions, tea time terrific top threes and the winner -- there were SO MANY gorgeous creations - WOW!!! I had to keep going back and checking the 'definition' of Vintage Style --Soft, distressed elements, vintage images and found elements such as buttons, crochet trim, flowers made out of old dress patterns. And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Vintage White' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Andrea Ewen #4

2.   Kortmanitove #13

3.   Lenet #15

4.   Ellen #27

5.   Rudlis #29

6.   Lea L. #41

7. Charlotte Zweigoron #44

8. Rosemary D. #59

9. Ivy #79

10. Michelle Bala #81

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Inger #21

2. Dobra #47

3. Magda(i)Lena #60

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Tammy Roberts #80! Tammy's use of found elements and vintage treasures in the design of her card is what captured my attention ... the lovely lace, vintage buttons, resin frame, adorable felt rose, pearls, seam binding, damask patterned paper, doilie and sewing elements all come together seamlessly to create this vintage stunner! Thanks, Tammy, for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room this week!