The Shabby Tea Room

Friday, June 14, 2013

Friday Featured Fan!

Scroll down or click HERE for this week's 'Sweet As Sugar' challenge!

Congratulations to today's Friday Featured Fan at Paper Sweeties -- Kristi Schurr!

Kristi created this stunning card using the Banner Wishes stamp set - WOW!

I love seeing what you create using your Paper Sweeties stamps! Send me a link to your project and you may be the NEXT Friday Featured Fan!

Hugs!

Monday, June 10, 2013

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 'Sweet as Sugar' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Lenet asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo USING BLUE, PINK, WHITE (OR CREAM) AND FLOWERS!

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, Sharon Wheet! Sharon earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #164 challenge - 'Beautiful Spring'.

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

Jeanne Jachna!

Created using Wedding Day and Faith Hope Love stamp sets from Paper Sweeties.

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
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Little Patisserie
Paper Sweeties - You Are Fabulous stamp set; Paradise Aqua Mist, Vintage Winter White seam binding

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Little Patisserie
Paper Sweeties - You Are Fabulous

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Little Patisserie

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Little Patisserie

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Little Patisserie & Romantic Time
Paper Sweeties - You Are Fabulous

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Little Patisserie

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 - Digital Papers by Janet Etsy!

My name is Janet, I'm Polish, live in the south of Italy and the mother of two children!! I am a printing technician by profession, but an artist by passion. I really like to draw and photograph everything with my camera. I am in love with old graphics and illustrations, and I always have my colored markers and pencils around me to sketch with. I'm so happy to be sponsoring this week's Tea Room challenge!

Janet

Tea Time Top Three Winners will receive:
1st place = three collage files
2nd place = two collage files
3rd place = one collage files

Please link your creations below by Sunday, June 16th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, June 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 #169 - 'Let's Have 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 'Let's Have Tea' challenge -- we received 21 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 2,486 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 Rina Meyers for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Jeanne Jachna for joining us as our June Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Paper Sweeties, 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 'Let's Have Tea' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. Karen Wallace #2

2. Shea Marshall #4

3. Meihsia Lu #5

4. Cathy Mc. #12

5. Jill Norwood #16

6. Rudlis #19

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Monika Buzsy #6

2. Marybeth L. #9

3. Elaine Fleming #13

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Kristi Schurr #17! Wowzers -- stunning comes to mind when I look at Kristi's tea themed card ... I especially adore the beautiful pink grosgrain ribbon, yummy seam binding and Paper Sweeties sentiment! Thanks for sharing your talents with us this week in the Tea Room, Kristi!

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, June 3, 2013

Wek #169 - 'Let's Have Tea'

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 'Let's Have Tea' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and I ask that you create a card or project inspired by THE COLORS FROM THE PHOTO, INCLUDE FLOWERS AND A TEA THEME!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Rina Meyers! Rina earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #163 challenge - 'Spring Bliss'.

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

Jeanne Jachna!

Created using Tea For Two from Paper Sweeties!

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Paper Sweeties
I'm Having a Tea Party

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Tea For Two, You Make Me Smile

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Join Me For Tea

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Join Me For Tea

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

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
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 - Paper Sweeties!

Paper Sweeties™ LLC is owned and illustrated by Debbie Marcinkiewicz, and offers 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, frames and accessory sets - perfect for every paper crafted project! The Paper Sweeties shop 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!

Winner will receive a $20 gift certificate from the Paper Sweeties shop!

Please link your creations below by Sunday, June 9th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, June 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 #168 - 'Shabby Sunshine' 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 Sunshine' challenge -- we received 30 BRIGHT AND 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 2,484 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 Teresa Kline for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Silke Ledlow for joining us as our May Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Bugaboo, 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 'Shabby Sunshine' challenge by using aqua, yellow, white and twine:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. Stacey Schafer #5

2. Glenda Boyd #7

3. Maria Patrick #9

4. Dawn #12

5. Lilavadi #13

6. Sylwia-eR #16

7. Macarena #17

8. Jill Norwood #18

9. Vikki W. #22

10. Judith #24

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Cathy Mc #19

2. Linda Langes #26

3. Jinny Newlin #28

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Tammy #14! Ohhhhh ... Tammy's little 'sweetie' captured my heart! The perfect design to go along with our inspiration photo this week! Thank you, Tammy, 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, May 27, 2013

Week #169 - 'Shabby Sunshine'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week Tracey is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Shabby Sunshine' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Tracey asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo USING AQUA, YELLOW and WHITE/CREAM AND INCLUDE TWINE!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Teresa Kline! Teresa earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #162 challenge - 'Pretty Shabby'.

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

Silke Ledlow!

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Paper Sweeties
Bugaboo Stamps - Flower Jar
Paper Sweeties - Beautiful

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Bugaboo Stamps - Flower Pot

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Bugaboo Stamps - Teacup Flowers
Paper Sweeties - Jelly Bean Time

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Bugaboo Stamps - Teacup Flowers
Paper Sweeties - You're My Hero

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Bugaboo Stamps - Flower Pot
Paper Sweeties - You Make Me Smile

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Bugaboo Stamps - Dandelion & Butterflies
Paper Sweeties - You are Amazing

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 - Bugaboo Stamps!

As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing! From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects. Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!

If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps stamps at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug.

Our links are:
Store : http://www.bugaboostamps.com/
Catch the bug Challenge blog: http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/

Please link your creations below by Sunday, June2nd to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, June 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 #167 - 'Open Window' 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 'Open Window' challenge -- we received 13 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 2,482 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 Silke Ledlow for joining us as our May Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, My Time Made Easy, 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 'Open Window' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. Liana Elbekova #1

2. Helene #2

3. Babs #3

4. Mary Alice Bellis #4

5. Glenda Boyd #5

6. Francesca #6

7. Yogi #9

8. Betta #10

9. Sunehra #10

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Militariy A. #7

2. Sylwia-eR #8

3. Primia #13

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Sharon Wheet #12! Wow, Sharon has done it again with this stunner! Thanks, Sharon, for sharing your talents with us all this week!