The Shabby Tea Room

Monday, May 6, 2013

Week #165 - 'Totally Textured'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week Rebekah is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Totally Textured' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Rebekah asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo USING DRY EMBOSSING AND STITCHING TO CREATE TEXTURE!

FOR YOUR SUBMISSION TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE WEEKLY PRIZE AND HONORS: 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 and top honors. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Lisa Blastick! Lisa earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #156 challenge - 'Frame It'.

And some more beautiful inspiration from our May Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ... please help me welcome Silke Ledlow!

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 - Paper Sweeties
Fancy Monograms & Make Today Beautiful

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Join Me For Tea

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Fancy Monograms

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Fancy Monograms

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
#1 You Are Amazing

#2 I'm Having a Tea Party

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
You Are Special

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration, additional pictures and instructions for these projects !

The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsor - Paper Sweeties!

Paper Sweeties™ LLC is owned and illustrated by Debbie Marcinkiewicz, and offers hand drawn, high quality photopolymer acrylic stamps. Our heartwarming images allow paper crafters to create adorable dolls with interchangeable outfits and accessories! We also have a wide variety of wonderful all-occasion sentiments, labels and accessory sets - perfect for every paper crafted project! The Paper Sweeties Shoppe carries hand tea-stained seam binding too! The Sweeties dolls, accessories and sentiments are so much fun to play with and are sure to bring back fond childhood memories! You’ll enjoy using the Sweeties to create projects for card making, scrap booking, party invitations and favors, home decor, gifts and so much more!

This week's winner will receive a $20 gift certificate to the Paper Sweeties shoppe!

Please link your creations below by Sunday, May 12th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 13th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 13th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #164 - 'Beautiful Spring' 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 'Beautiful Spring' challenge -- we received 55 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 2,469 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 Sylwia for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Lea Lawson for joining us as our April Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, The Cutting Cafe, 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 our eyes this week for capturing the essence of the 'Beautiful Spring' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. Llama #2

2. Vickie O'Dell #13

3.   Heather A. Hudson #19

4.   Henniette #26

5. Jinny Newlin #31

6.   Paper Profusion #32

7.   Ritak #33

8. Stacey Schafer #42

9. Gia #44

10. Rudlis #46

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. R Meyers #7

2. Julie P. #16

3. Kristi Schurr #25

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Sharon Wheet #55! Stunning take on this week's inspiration photo -- from the colors and mason jar theme, to the inclusion of flowers, lace and ribbon ... perfect! Thank you, Sharon, for sharing your talents with us 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!

Monday, April 29, 2013

Week #164 - 'Beautiful Spring'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week Lenet is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Beautiful Spring' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Lenet asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS IN THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE FLOWERS, LACE & RIBBON!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Sylwia! Sylwia earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #155 challenge - 'Pink Party'.

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

Lea Lawson!

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Paper Sweeties
The Cutting Cafe - Window Sill Shaped Card
Paper Sweeties - Stand Add-on #2

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
The Cutting Cafe - Seed Packet Holder

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
The Cutting Cafe - Window Sill Shaped Card
Paper Sweeties - Banner Wishes

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
The Cutting Cafe - Seed Packet Holder
Paper Sweeties - I'm Having a Tea Party

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
The Cutting Cafe - Window Sill Shaped Card
Paper Sweeties - You Are Amazing

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
The Cutting Cafe - Window Sill Shaped Card
Paper Sweeties - Abigail

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration, additional pictures and instructions for these projects !

The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsor - The Cutting Cafe!

The Cutting Cafe is your one stop for affordable cutting files and printable stamps. We offer a huge selections on just about any occasion.

This week's winner will receive three cutting files from The Cutting Cafe!

Please link your creations below by Sunday, May 5th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 6th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 6th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #163 - 'Spring Bliss' 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 'Spring Bliss' challenge -- we received 39 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 2,463 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 Kathy Montgomery for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Lea Lawson for joining us as our April Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Manor House Creations, 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 our eyes this week for capturing the essence of the 'Spring Bliss' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. LeAnn #4

2. Andrea Ewen #6

3. Lisa Blastick #7

4. Katie Tate #11

5. Alyson M. #18

6. Coco #19

7. Char #27

8. Paper Profusion #31

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Monika/buzsy #13

2. Jill Norwood #22

3. Amelia #29

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

RMeyers #3! Wow, what a stunning easel card filled with beautiful embellishments and lovely coloring!

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

Monday, April 22, 2013

Week #163 - 'Spring Bliss'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week I am our creative host and I have chosen the theme of 'Spring Bliss' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and I ask that you create a card or project inspired by the INSPIRATION PHOTO USING YELLOW, GREEN, WHITE (OR CREAM) AND INCLUDE FLOWERS AND POLKA DOTS!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Kathy Montgomery! Kathy earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #152 challenge - 'Happy Birthday in Pink and Blue'.

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

Lea Lawson!

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Paper Sweeties
Paper Sweeties - Fancy Monograms, Beautiful

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Paper Sweeties - I'm Having a Tea Party

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Paper Sweeties - Join Me For Tea

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Paper Sweeties - I'm Having a Tea Party

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Paper Sweeties - Tea For Two

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration, additional pictures and instructions for these projects !

The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsor - Manor House Creations!

Manor House Creations was born in June 2011. The owners, seeing a need for a greater choice of flowers on the scrapbooking market, and having a desire to promote excellent product and efficient service, formed a new company. The focus at Manor House Creations is on providing quality, highly sort after products.

Manor House Creations blooms are diverse in size and design, and available in a multitude of colours. We spend considerable time with the factory managers, carefully choosing colours and adding our own personal touch to each flower design. Prints are selected exclusively for Manor House Flowers. With such a versatile range, we cater to both the avid scrapbooker and off-the-page crafter alike.

Winner will receive 4 flower packs!

Please link your creations below by Sunday, April 28th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, April 29th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 29th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #162 - 'Pretty Shabby' 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 'Pretty Shabby' challenge -- we received 38 gorgeous 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 2,461 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 Kristi Schurr for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Lea Lawson for joining us as our April Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Creations by AR, 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 our eyes this week for capturing the essence of the 'Pretty Shabby' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. Heather A. Hudson #2

2.   Vilini #3

3.   Junhild #6

4.   2amscrapper #7

5. Matyda #13

6.   Milagros C. Rivera #18

7. Lisa Blastick #20

8. Barb King #36

9. Agna #34

10. Kbrandy4 #35

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Denise VR #15

2. Tanja #23

3. Shea Marshall #25

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Teresa Kline #28! Lovely -- just so pretty and wonderful! I adore the recycled coffee sleeve on the bottom of Teresa's card -- brilliant!