The Shabby Tea Room

Monday, March 12, 2012

Week #104 - 'Colorful Confections' 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 'Colorful Confections' challenge -- we received 68 BRIGHT & CHEERY 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 1,937 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 Pattie Goldman for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Iwona Palamountain for joining us as our March Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Robyn's Fetish Digtial Stamps & More, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge!

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 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 'Colorful Confections' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. Karien #18

2. Lizzi #19

3. Lori U. #24

4. Elizabeth #25

5. Lea L. #32

6. Mandee #40

7. Maria P. #55

8. Heidi Gonzales #57

9. Dani A. #62

10. Vickie O'Dell #65

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Andrea Ewen #1

2. Stacy Koo #16

3. Anna #29

And ... check out this amazing inspiration project from one of the newest Shabby Girls, Lenet Mos:

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Tracey #37! So, so sweet and pretty! How adorable is that little blue bird perched on top of the birdhouse? I adore the sweet roses embossed in the background, the pretty doilie and all those gorgeous blooms, lace and embellies. This card brought a smile to my face the minute I laid eyes on it ... thanks, Tracey, 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!

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

Monday, March 5, 2012

Let's meet the {newest} Shabby Girls!

Please click HERE for this week's 'Colorful Confections' challenge!

Today is a very exciting day here in the Tea Room ... I have the pleasure of announcing the brand new Shabby Girls who will be joining our sweet and creative little family beginning on March 19th!

Before I announce the new teamies, I want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank each and every one of you who took the time to submit projects for the call! We were honored to receive nearly 60 gorgeous, shabby and beautiful cards and projects ... which made the task of narrowing the applications down to just four new team members very, very difficult. We saw many familiar faces and a couple of brand newbies ... all the projects were so lovely and we really appreciate you ALL!

So, with that said, we simply couldn't pick just four designers to join us in the Tea Room!!!! Besides inviting four designers to join us as Shabby Girl team members for the next six months, we also invited four additional designers to join us as Month-Long Guest Designers!

All accepted designer projects were based off of this gorgeous inspiration photo:

Here are the four creative designers who 'wowed' us with their projects and will be joining us as Month-Long Guest Designers in the Tea Room beginning in April:

April Month-Long Guest Designer: Lori Ulrich - Papercrafts by SaintsRule!

May Month-Long Guest Designer: Heidi Gonzales - My Lil' Scrap Corner!

June Month-Long Guest Designer: Dawn Barwick - All Things Pretty Craftee!

July Month-Long Guest Designer: Heather Hudson - My Artistic Adventures!

Beautiful creations, right??!!

Now ... DRUM ROLL PLEASE! I am super excited to introduce you all to the {newest} Shabby Girls! All of the winning projects just took our breath away ... the creative use of embellishments, templates, altered art, fabrics and stamping along with the way these designer's thought outside the box while designing projects so beautifully inspired by the photo we provided simply wowed us:

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That is the Question!

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio!

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase!

Tammy Roberts - Paperie Sweetness!

We all are in for a treat over the next six months ... we'll have plenty of creativity, inspiration and eye candy to share with you!

Thank you so very much for following along on this amazing and creative journey with us!

Hugs!
xoxoxo

Week #104 - 'Colorful Confections'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week I am our host and I have chosen the theme of 'Colorful Confections' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and I ask that you create a card or project inspired by the photo and USE AQUA (or BLUE), PINK, GREEN plus A TAG!

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, Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch! Pattie earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #92 challenge - 'The Stockings Were Hung by the Chimney With Care'. Many of you will also recognize Pattie as being a former Shabby Girl!!

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

I am super pleased to introduce Iwona Palamountain - Random Acts of Creativity!

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

Easter Egg

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Ornate Frame

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

Easter Egg

Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog

Ornate Frame

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Strawberry Word Art

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

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 our sponsor -Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More!

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, March 11th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, March 12th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 12th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #103 - 'Shabby Shutters' 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 'Shabby Shutters' challenge -- we received 56 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 1,922 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 Amelia Breytenbach for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Joanna Munster for joining us as our February Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Little Darlings Rubber Stamps, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge!

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 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 'Shabby Shutters' challenge by using navy blue and a distressed element:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. Sandy G. #1

2. My Artistic Adventures #6

3. Mervi #8

4. Anu #10

5. Monika/buzsy #27

6. Brises #29

7. Annar #44

8. Dana #48

9. Anj #52

10. Sharon Wheet #53

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Elizabeth #34

2. Babs #23

3. Lori U. #54

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Jinny Newlin #36! Wow ... what a beauty Jinny created this week for our navy and distressed challenge! I adore all the lovely stamping and machine sewing and how adorable is that tiny little pocket created from an old pair of blue jeans as her distressed element -- LOVE! Thanks, Jinny, for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room this week!

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

Monday, February 27, 2012

Design Team updates ...

Click HERE for this week's 'Shabby Shutters' challenge or scroll down!

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all your wonderful applications for the Tea Room's recent Design Team call! We received nearly 60 shabby-licious projects for review ... the task of selecting just four new designers was daunting amongst the array of talent and creativity we received!

We wanted to share with you that the four new Shabby Girls have been contacted and plans are in the works for them to begin bringing you some lovely inspiration beginning March 19th! The new designers will be announced here on March 5th ... stay tuned!

We have also extended Month-Long Special Guest Designer spots to an additional four designers that caught our eye for their beautiful application projects.

Again, thank you to all who took the time to submit their work ... the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every gorgeous submission and are awed at the response to our shabby little call!

Hugs!

xoxoxo

Week #103 - 'Shabby Shutters'

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

... and Fran asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo USING NAVY BLUE AND NEUTRALS PLUS A DISTRESSED ELEMENT!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Amelia Breytenbach - Stamped for the Occasion! Amelia earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #91 challenge - 'The Magic of Christmas'.

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

Joanna Munster - Inspired by Stamping!

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Going for a Ride

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Going for a Ride

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

Going for a Ride

Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog

Going for a Ride

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Going for a Ride

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Going for a Ride

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 our sponsor - Little Darlings Rubber Stamps!

Welcome to the home of Little Darlings Rubber Stamps! Here you can also find paper, sentiment stamps, tools and other embellishments, for all your crafting needs.

Little Darlings Rubber Stamps will be offering one stamp set of winner's choice to our lucky Tea Room winner this week!

Please link your creations below by Sunday, March 4th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, March 5th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 5th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #102 - 'High Tea' 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 'High Tea' challenge -- we received 69 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 1,909 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 pink tea pot 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 Heather Hudson for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Joanna Munster for joining us as our February Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, The Stamp Fairy, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge!

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 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 'High Tea' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Dee #2

2.   Karli CwC #6

3.   Rosemary D. #14

4.   Sent Sue #15

5. Heidi Gonzales #16

6.   Michelle Bala #22

7.   Starr T. #28

8. Lea L. #29

9. Deb Hickman #42

10. Karien #46

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Stacy Koo #36

2. Dana #52

3. Kimberly Morrow #66

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Jeanne J. #10! Wow ... Jeanne sure captured the essence of the High Tea inspiration photo to a 'T'! What an absolute beauty this card is -- thanks, Jeanne, for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room this week!