The Shabby Tea Room

Monday, May 20, 2013

Paper Sweeties Sketch Inspiration #7 ...

Click on over HERE to check out this month's sketch challenge at Paper Sweeties! This challenge runs through May 31 ... enter your cards using any of your favorite crafty supplies for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to the shop! Use Paper Sweeties stamps for an *extra vote*!

Week #167 - 'Open Window'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week Rebecca is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Open Window' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Rebecca asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS FROM THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE A WINDOW!

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, Kristi Schurr! Kristi earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #160 challenge - 'Beautiful Blues'.

Paper Sweeties - Fancy Monograms

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

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
My Time Made Easy - Carry It template, Construction Materials paper
Paper Sweeties - Stand Add-on 5, Sending Springtime, Mint Green Tea seam binding

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question

{Coming Soon}

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
My Time Made Easy - Carry It template

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
My Time Made Easy - Carry It template

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
My Time Made Easy - Carry It template
Paper Sweeties - You Are Amazing

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
My Time Made Easy - Carry It template
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 - My Time Made Easy!

My Time Made Easy™ LLC provides you with the basics for creating your own coordinating handmade cards, tags, and gift packaging in no time. It is fun, affordable, and we made it easier than ever! I have always said that it really is all about the TOTAL package. Now you can afford to create and dress up the simplest of gifts on your own, and make them appear to be that much more special. Nothing says love like something handmade.

This week's lucky winner will receive:

Carry It template
Construction Materials paper
A Lil' Cafe digital stamps

Please link your creations below by Sunday, May 26th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 27th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 27th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #166 - 'Sweet Springtime' 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 'Sweet Springtime' challenge -- we received 44 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 2,478 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, Digital Papers by Janet Etsy, 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 'Sweet Springtime' challenge by using PINK, GREEN, WHITE AND A SEWING ELEMENT in their design:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Karen Wallace #5

2.   Sharon Wheet #15

3.   Asha #17

4.   Three Trees #19

5.   R Meyers #20

6.   Elena Olinevich #22

7.   Alyson M. #27

8. Teresa Kline #35

9. Sywia-eR #26

10. Glenda Boyd #39

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Winner of 3 collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Dani A. #44

2. Winner of 2 collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Kathy M. #18

3. Winner of 1 collage file from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Synnove #25

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, May 13, 2013

Week #166 - 'Sweet Springtime'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week Starr is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Sweet Springtime' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Starr asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo USING PINK, GREEN, WHITE (or CREAM) and a SEWING ELEMENT!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Kristi Schurr! Kristi earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #159 challenge - 'Lovely Layers'.

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
Digital Paper by Janet Etsy - Sweet Color Paper
Paper Sweeties - Little Wishes

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Digital Paper by Janet Etsy - Sweet Color Paper
Paper Sweeties - So Sweet of You

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Digital Paper by Janet Etsy - Sweet Color Paper
Paper Sweeties - You Are Amazing

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Digital Paper by Janet Etsy - Sweet Color Paper
Paper Sweeties - Join Me For Tea

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Digital Paper by Janet Etsy - Sweet Color Paper

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Digital Paper by Janet Etsy - Sweet Color Paper
Paper Sweeties - Friendship Warms the Heart

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 Paper 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

This week's Tea Time Top Three Winners will receive:
1st place = 3 collage files
2nd place = 2 collage files
3rd place = 1 collage file

Please link your creations below by Sunday, May 19th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 20th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 20th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #165 - 'Totally Textured' 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 'Totally Textured' challenge -- we received 25 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 2,470 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 Lisa Blastick 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, 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 'Totally Textured' challenge by using DRY EMBOSSING and STITCHING to create texture:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. Marbella #4

2. Yulis #6

3. Alyson #7

4. Sarah Stone #10

5. Birgit #12

6. RMeyers #16

7. Teresa Kline #17

8. Sylwia-eR #19

9. Maria #23

10. Matylda #24

*Tea Time Terrific Top Three Winners and this week's winner were chosen from submissions that used DRY EMBOSSING, STITCHING AND TEXTURE in their projects*

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Michelle Bala #11

2. Sunehra #14

3. Synnove #15

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Sharon Wheet #20!

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

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!

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!

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!