Week #12 - 'Dear to my Heart"

Using a heart as the main focal point or spotlight of your design, create a card or project for the Tea Room challenge this week!  We're excited to see lots of hearts ... get creative ... use heart embellishments, heart patterned papers, heart stamps, heart shaped cards -- anything goes!

Note:  You must use the Week #12 challenge requirements and DIRECT LINK your project back to The Shabby Tea Room in order to be considered for the weekly prizes.  Please only link your submission for this challenge POST and not your entire blog or multiple project submissions.  Questions?  Contact me!

I am very pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, LIZZI DROEGE!  For those of you who are regular followers in the Tea Room, you will recognize Lizzi's gorgeous, scrumptious vintage work!  Lizzi's incredible design sense has earned her a few Tea Time Terrific Top Three and Winner honor's, including her win during our Week #4 Challenge - Embrace the White!  Please stop by Lizzi's blog when you have a minute and leave her a little {love}!

Lizzie Droege - buttercream and roses

And now for some more inspiration from our Design Team Members ... we have some extra inspiration this week due to the generosity of our sponsor - - -

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

JustRite - Friendship Set

JustRite - Applique Set

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog - Week #12 Host

JustRite - Plant a Little Love

Jill Hilliard - Jill's Card Creations

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

JustRite - Girl Time

Nicole Segnere - My Craftroom Creations

JustRite - Just a Note

JustRite - Let's Celebrate

Hop on over to the design team individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

So, drum roll please ... if you haven't guessed it by now, this week's fabulous sponsor is none other than JUSTRITE!

 

JustRite's new 84-page full-color 2010 Catalog & Idea Book, with over 100 projects, can be preordered here: http://preorder.justritestampers.com/category.aspx?categoryID=194 and will begin shipping July 12.

Beginning June 1, JustRite will be previewing their June release on the JustRite Inspiration blog: http://justritestampers.typepad.com/justrite-inspiration/ and will be taking preorders of the new June product here: http://preorder.justritestampers.com/category.aspx?categoryID=194. They will be rolling out a brand new concept of Nested Frames, Sentiments & Verse, and the new CLEAR stampers they fit on! Same great JustRite interlocking grid system.

And now for the PRIZE!!!  We will award a "The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three" badge to the three most creative projects!!!  One lucky participant will earn "The Shabby Tea Room Winner" badge and this prize package donated by JustRite:

JB 09210 All Occasions Nested Sentiments - $14.95

JB 09215 Cherish the Memories Nested Sentiments- $14.95

JB 09520 Clear Horizontal Stamper - $23.95

JB 09200 Baroques Nested Sentiments - $14.95

These goodies are from the new June release and are valued at nearly $70!!!  WOW!!!

Get your creative juices flowing and participate in this week's 'Dear to my Heart' challenge.  Play as many time as you wish!  We love to see your work!

Please do take some time to visit the sweet gals over at JustRite this week.  Leave them a comment and let them know that you heard about them from The Shabby Tea Room :)  Good luck to everyone!

Link your creations below by Sunday, June 6th to play along.  Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced on Monday, June 7th.  We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on June 7th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #11 - 'Polka Dot Tea Party' WINNERS!

OH MY SHABBY GOODNESS ... a record breaking week here in the Tea Room!  I'm so happy to see that so many of you {heart} polka dots and tea parties as much as I do - yippiee! 

We received an A-MAZING 137 submissions this week which broke all submission records during the past eleven weeks. 

Thank you, thank you, thank you all for sharing your beautiful creations with us here in the Tea Room.  We sure do appreciate your creativity and participation and it's so much fun to see this shabby little challenge blog growing so rapidly!  We now have 403 fantastic followers in only our first 3 months ... if you're not a follower yet, consider joining us!  It's a lot of fun -- we have GREAT sponsors and GREAT prizes each week  :) 

Thank you to Maddy Hill for being our wonderful Guest Designer this week and creating the most lovely card and fimo fairy for us all to ooohh and ahhhh over too!

A bit of Tea Room housekeeping next!  I've made a request the past couple weeks from myself and the DT members for your consideration in turning WORD VERIFICATION off and COMMENT MODERATION on ... thanks to all those that have adjusted the settings on your blogs!  I really have noticed a difference!

The wonderful ladies on the Tea Room's design team really do make an effort to visit and comment on all of your lovely submissions!  We simply love to see the creativity in all of your designs!  The Word Verification prompt is making our visits harder to achieve as it adds time to the commenting process, and in some instances, will cause computers to 'freeze'.  We want to be sure that you know how much we appreciate all of you taking the time to stop by and submit a project, and we can do so by leaving you some {love}!  We'd sure appreciate it if you would consider changing the settings on your blogs to comment moderation only.  This way you still are in control of which comments you choose to allow and which you will reject.

The Shabby Tea Room Design Team thanks you in advance!!

A special thank you to our wonderful sponsor last week, Sharon Johnson from The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store!  Thanks also to Sharon and the gals on her design team, Deb Saaranen, Barb Schram, Sherry Cheever and Michelle Woerner, for sharing their lovely creations with us in the Tea Room using polka dots and all things tea!

It was next to impossible to choose winners for this week's challenge.  There were so many submissions and so many outstanding designs.  In my book, you are ALL winners and I appreciate you all taking the time to design and submit to the Tea Room.  I loved looking and commenting on every single one of your creations this week! 

Okay ... and without a further moments ado, here are the designs that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Polka Dot Tea Party' challenge by using a tea or tea party theme or polka dots .... OR BOTH:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Deb Hickman #49

2.  Michele Gross #52

3.  Nerina #56

4.  Carol R. #70

5.  Jo #90

6.  Terrie Bailey #101

7.  Lisa G. #124

8.  Chris #129

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.  April Rose #63

2.  Irit #102

3.  Mindy Baxter #106

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER - Week #11:

Clare Buswell #122!  Clare designed three cards, a 3-D tea cup, a spoon and a handmade tea bag for our Polka Dot Tea Party Challenge!  Oh my shabby goodness ... each creation that Clare designed was even better than the last!  The soft baby pink and robin egg blue theme she picked was just simply beautiful!  The soft vintage feel of all her projects with the added elements of lace, ribbons, buttons and sewing was simply stunning!  The little rose petal patterned paper Clare used for the handmade tag on the tea bag is just precious!  I just loved all the projects and am wondering if Clare needs my address to mail these all off to me {giggle}!!!  Thank you, Clare, for sharing your wonderful talents with us all in the Tea Room this week!  You will now be eligible to be a Guest Design Team Member with us in an up-coming challenge :)  Well done!

Congratulations to ALL!  Tea Time Terrific Top Three and Winner, please contact me via e-mail to claim your winner badges that you can proudly display on your blogs and the winner prize!

Week #11 - 'Polka Dot Tea Party'

Using this adorable photo for inspiration, create a card or project using either a tea or tea party theme or polka dots ... or BOTH!!

We're excited to see what you create for the Tea Room challenge this week!!!

Note:  You must use the Week #11 challenge requirements and DIRECT LINK your project back to The Shabby Tea Room in order to be considered for the weekly prizes.  Please only link your card or project POST and not your entire blog or multiple project submissions.  Questions?  Contact me!

I am very pleased to introduce our Guest Designer for this week's challenge ... MADDY HILL!  I simply fell in {love} with Maddy's lovely creations, both the paper ones and the fimo clay ones, since she first made an appearance in the Tea Room during our inaugural Week #1 challenge!!  Maddy's beautiful creations for the Week #1 challenge won her first place and this Guest Spot here in the Tea Room!  Please take a minute and hop on over to Maddy's blog to view her gorgeous inspiration and take a peek here at what Maddy created especially for us here in the Tea Room this week: 

Maddy Hill - Madimaginations

And now for some more inspiration from our Design Team Members ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures - Week #11 host

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Jill Hilliard - Jill's Card Creations

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

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

We will award a "The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three" badge to the three most creative projects!!!  One lucky participant will earn "The Shabby Tea Room Winner" badge and this prize package donated this week by our sponsor - Sharon Johnson from the Stamp Simply Store:

Look at all that scrumptious ribbon and those gorgeous designer papers from October Afternoon's Thrift Shop Series - YUM!  Thanks so much to Sharon for sponsoring Week #11 in the Tea Room.  I {heart} all the lovely products that Sharon carries in her shop and am a frequent shopper of her store!!  Please visit Sharon's blog this week and leave her a sweet comment letting her know you're visiting from the Tea Room blog - she'd love to hear from you!  Sharon and her talented Design Team will be playing along with the Tea Room challenge this week and are doing a blog hop ... more inspiration ... check it out!!

Link your creations below by Sunday, May 30th to play along.  Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 31st.  We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 31st as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #10 - 'Stars & Stripes' WINNERS!

Another totally FUN week in the Tea Room!  So many of you enjoyed our 'Stars & Stripes' challenge and got so creative with your use of either stars, stripes, the colors red, white and blue ... or all THREE!  We had 42 simply wonderful submissions -- so many designers went patriotic with their creations for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday!

Thanks to our WONDERFUL GUEST DESIGNER, LINDA COUGHLIN, for sharing one of her lovely creations with us all this week!

A big thank you also to Rae Barthel from Rae's Cards for sponsoring Week #10 in the Tea Room and providing such a lovely prize package!!

So, here we go!  Here are the submissions this week that caught my eye for capturing the essence of the 'Stars and Stripes' challenge by using stars, stripes, the colors red, white and blue ... or all three:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Cammie M. #38

2.  Beth C. # 15

3.  Simply Shaz #23

4.  Marsha Sanderlin #22

5.  Tracy MacDonald #24

6.  Justine #30

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.  Ashley Cannon Newell #13

2.  Carol R. #25

3.  Jo #26

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER - Week #10:

Lisa G. #5!  Lisa's amazing design this week really captured the essence of our challenge -- Lisa used all of the elements we included for the challenge - colors, stars and stripes!  The vintage sheet music DSP is simply scrumptious!  All the embossing and folded acordian flowers - wonderful!  The vintage image and Shabby Vintage Seam Binding all just add such charm to Lisa's card!  Thank you so much, Lisa, for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room this week!

Congratulations to ALL!  Tea Time Terrific Top Three and Winner, please contact me via e-mail to claim your winner badges that you can proudly display on your blogs and the winner prize!  Lisa will now be eligible to Guest Design with us in the Tea Room during an upcoming challenge!!

Week #10 - Stars & Stripes!

With Memorial Day right around the corner, we here in the Tea Room decided to do a Red, White & Blue and/or stars & stripes theme this week!  Nicole is our cutie pie host and here is the photo she has chosen for us all to be inspired by:

We're excited to see your creations this week inspired by this photo ... use Red, White & Blue for your theme, use stars and/or stripes ... or use BOTH!!!  Have fun with our challenge this week :)

Note:  You must use the Week #9 challenge requirements and DIRECT LINK your project back to The Shabby Tea Room in order to be considered for the weekly prizes.  Please only link your card or project POST and not your entire blog or multiple project submissions.  Questions?  Contact me!

I am very happy to introduce you all to our talented GUEST DESIGNER this week - Linda Coughlin, The Funkie Junkie!  I fell in love with and began following Linda's work when she started participating in the weekly challenges here in the Tea Room!  Her lovely, shabby and vintage style just catches my eye each and every week and takes my breath away!  Linda was the winner of our Week #2 Challenge - 'Spring Inspired' and use stitching which you can view here!   Please take some time and flip through the pages on Linda's fabulous blog ... so much goodness there!!  And here is her submission this week for 'Stars & Stripes' ...

Linda Coughlin, The Funkie Junkie

And now some more inspiration from our Design Team Members ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit  - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Jill Hilliard - Jill's Card Creations

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations - Week #10 host

Hop on over to our Design Team individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

Our sponsor this week is Rae Barthel from Simply Rae!  Among many other accomplishments in the paper crafting industry, Rae is a Design Team Member for the Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker company and has graciously donated some yummy goodies for our prize this week!  I hope you can stop by Rae's blog and leave her a sweet comment to show some appreciation for her sponsorship with the Tea Room this week :)  Look at all the goodness Rae sent - stickers, patterned papers, buttons, silk flowers and tons of embellishments to create with!

We will award a "The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three" badge to the three most creative projects!!!  One lucky participant will earn "The Shabby Tea Room Winner" badge and the prize package donated by Rae!

Link your creations below by Sunday, May 23rd to play along.  Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 24th.  We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 24th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #9 - 'Chipboard" WINNERS!

WOW ... so many chipboard fans!!  Another fun and inspiring week of 63 amazing designs submitted in the Tea Room :)  You guys are AWESOME!!!  This is SO MUCH FUN :)

Thank you to our fabulous GUEST DESIGNER, CATHY CLARK, for sharing of her time and talents with us this week in the Tea Room too!!

A special thank you to Kim, from My Favorite Things, for her sponsorship this week at The Shabby Tea Room ... the winner of the week #9 challenge will be treated to a $15 gift certificate from the My Favorite Things Shop - yippiee!!

And without further ado, here are the designs that caught my eye this week that capured the essence of the 'Chipboard'  challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Dru #6

2.  Terrie Bailey #10

3.  Linda, the funkie junkie #14

4. Lisa G. #17

5.  Sarah Martina #43

6.  Carol R. #61

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.  Simply Shaz #20

2.  Beth C. #38

3.  Geri #55

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER - Week #9:

Melissa Bove #19!  Melissa {hearts} chipboard so much that she not only created a design to submit to the Tea Room this week ... she created FOUR designs for submission!  The two cards were so pretty, the wall hanging was over the top beautiful with so many embellies and goodness ... BUT, the project that caught my eye was the picture frame that Melissa created using so many yummy chipboard pieces  -- pure deliciousness!  Thank you, Melissa, for sharing your talents and wonderful designs with us all in the Tea Room!!!

Congratulations to ALL!  Tea Time Terrific Top Three and Winner, please contact me via e-mail to claim your winner badges that you can proudly display on your blogs and the winner prize!  Melissa will be eligible to Guest Design with us during an up-coming challenge too :)

Week #9 - "Chipboard Challenge"

Melissa is our hostest with the mostest this week and she has chosen a fun theme for us all to play along with ... "Chipboard Technique Challenge" - use some chipboard in your design!  This can be store bought or hand made -- get creative!  We can't wait to see your awesome designs!!

Note:  You must use the Week #9 challenge requirements and DIRECT LINK your project back to The Shabby Tea Room in order to be considered for the weekly prizes.  Please only link your card or project POST and not your entire blog or multiple project submissions.  Questions?  Contact me!

I am so tickled pink to share with you all my good stampy friend that will be joining us as a Guest Designer this week ... Cathy Clark!  I found Cathy's blog nine weeks ago when I launched The Shabby Tea Room Challenge Blog.  Cathy was one of our very first participants and I simply fell in love with her shabby, vintage paper crafting style!  I think we are sisters from a'notha m'otha!!!  I have found such inspiration in Cathy's gorgeous designs.  It's always delightful to pop over and peek at her blog - her designs are all such special little treasures and I'm so pleased to have her share her talents with us all this week :)

Cathy Clark - Papier Girl

And now for some more inspiration from our Design Team Members ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Jill Hilliard - Jill's Card Creations

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

Hop on over to our Design Team individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!!

We will award a "The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three" badge to the three most creative projects!!!  One lucky participant will earn "The Shabby Tea Room Winner" badge and a $15 Gift Certificate donated this week by our wonderful sponsor ...

Please visit Kim and the gals at My Favorite Things when you have a moment this week.  Such adorable stamp sets and wonderful crafting supplies ... brand new dies and impression plates.  Great stuff!!  Be sure to check out the MFT Blog for more inspiration using supplies you can find in Kim's shop!

Link your creations below by Sunday, May 16th to play along.  Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 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 #8 'Get Your Bling On' - WINNERS!

A-MAZING ... 78 sparkle-y, bling-y and fabulous designs submitted for the Tea Room's 'Get Your Bling On' challenge this week!  Thanks to all of you for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us all in the Tea Room this week -- we appreciate your participation, support and such lovely comments!!

Thank you to our wonderful GUEST DESIGNER, KAREN GIRON, for sharing one of her lovely creations with us all this week and for being our sponsor as well - the winner will enjoy a custom made watermark from Karen's on-line site!

Picking honorable mentions, Tea Time Terrific Top Three and our Winner each week is such a daunting task ... so much talent -- every design is special and unique itself!  So, here we go -- here are the designs that caught my eye for capturing the essence of this week's 'Get Your Bling On' technique challenge - use glitter, LOTS of it:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Heather #19

2. Ros Crawford #35

3. Linda R #39

4.  Joanne #50

5.  Lori T #62

6.  Crafting Gina G #64

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Terrie Bailey #9

2.  Lenet #33

3.  Kelly Becker #34

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER - Week #8:

Lizzi Droege #16!   WOW ... Lizzi has done it again!  There was so much sparkle, glitter and bling on Lizzi's card that I almost needed sunglasses to peek at it :)  I simply {heart} everything about Lizzi's beautiful creation this week for our bling challenge.  The way she used the glitter to look like tea pouring out of the tea pot was so clever!  The handmade vintage seam binding flowers were simply gorgeous!  Lizzi, thank you, once again, for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us all in the Tea Room this week!!

Congratulations to ALL!  Tea Time Terrific Top Three and Winner, please contact me via e-mail to claim your winner badges that you can proudly display on your blogs and the winner prize!

Week #8 - "Get Your Bling On"

For this week's challenge, create a card or project using GLITTER ... lots of it! The more the better!

Note: You must use the Week #8 Challenge requirements and DIRECT LINK your project back to The Shabby Tea Room in order to be considered for the weekly prizes. Please only link your card or project POST and not your entire blog or multiple project submissions. Questions? Contact me!

Please help me welcome the talented Guest Designer that will be joining us this week in the Tea Room ... KAREN GIRON! Karen has the {Sweetest} blog and offers weekly sketch challenges each Sunday called the 'Sweet Sunday Sketch'! She also is the talented creator of the watermarks you see on all of my designs! Karen has graciously agreed to not only Guest Design with us this week, but she is also our Sponsor this week and will offer one of her custom designed watermarks to the lucky winner of the Week #8 challenge here in the Tea Room :) How cool is that??? Please hop on over to Karen's blog when you have a minute and check out her {sweet} creations!

Karen Giron - The Sweetest Thing

And now for some more inspiration from our Design Team Members ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Jill Hilliard - Jill's Card Creations - Host Week #8

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

Hop on over to our Design Team individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

We will award a "The Shabby Tea Room Terrific Top Three" badge to the three most creative projects!!! One lucky participant will earn "The Shabby Tea Room Winner" badge and this prize donated for Week #8 by Karen Giron:

One custom created Watermark Design from Karen's on-line shop!

Link your creations below by Sunday, May 9th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 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!