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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Shabby Girls are Hopping with JustRite Stamps today!

Welcome to JustRite Stampers’ newest Wednesday feature, 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops! Every Wednesday up until Thanksgiving some of your favorite designers will be joining some of the JustRite design team for a series of Christmas blog hops, showcasing JustRite’s entire Christmas Collection of stamps! And don’t forget that JustRite has some Christmas stamps in their newly released CLING line of stamp sets -- you can find them HERE. This week, the designers joining the JustRite design team are the Flower Soft and The Shabby Tea Room challenge blog design teams! So mark your calendars for Wednesdays at 9am Central for great Christmas gift, card & project ideas, starting at the JustRite Inspiration blog!

Here are some projects the Shabby Girls have designed for your inspiration today:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures
'Christmas Nested Sentiments, Something Sweet, Baking Stamp Ensemble'


Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl
'Hearts Come Home'


Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations
'Christmas Nested Sentiments'


Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa
'Something Sweet'

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations
'Christmas Nested Sentiments'


Pattie Goldman - My Pampered Paper Patch
'Christmas Ornament, Christmas Nested Sentiments'

Please visit these designers’ blogs to see what fabulous JustRite Christmas inspiration they have for you on the hop today!


JustRite Design Team:

Flower Soft Design Team:

The Shabby Tea Room Design Team:

Thanks for peeking :)

Monday, October 25, 2010

Week #33 - 'Consider it CASED!'

I am your host this week for our Tea Room Challenge and I've chosen the theme of  'Consider it CASED'!  How fun!  This week I'd love for you to create a card or project that is inspired by one of the Shabby Girls' Design Team projects listed below!  CASE = Copy And Edit Slightly, so pick your favorite card and designer from this post and then CASE it!  Maybe you like the layout, maybe you love the colors, maybe you're inspired by the theme, maybe you love the embellies used ... that's it!  Just pick one designer and her DT card below and then go make one similar to it!  Can't choose just one DT member, then feel free to CASE two, three or everyone on the team and submit all your cards and projects!  BE SURE TO TELL US WHICH DESIGNER'S CARD YOU CASED FOR YOUR DESIGN!

We cannot wait to see what you design this week for our 'Consider It Cased' Challenge based off of the shabby girls' creations showcased here!!!

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 guidelines (listed on sidebar) will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for understanding and playing along! 

Please take a moment to help me welcome our Guest Designer this week, Cheryl Baker!  Cheryl earned this Guest Designer Spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #25 - "Old Meets New" challenge. Please stop by her blog and leave her a bit of shabby {love}!








And now for some more inspiration from the Shabby Girls ...


Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures - Week #33 Host
'Primitive Bear'




Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl
'Waking Up Ms. Birdie'




Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations
'Fruity Strawberries'




Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa
'Lucy Angel'




Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations
'Don't Rain on my Parade'




Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch
'Waking Up Ms. Birdie'



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

Please welcome this week's Tea Room sponsor ... Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps!

Robyn also hosts a weekly challenge blog called I Did It Creations!




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 or 4 digital stamps and 1 paper set of their choice.

We will award a 'The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three' badge to the three most creative projects!!! The Shabby Tea Room Winner will earn our adorable pink tea pot winner badge and the prize package from Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More!

Link your creations below by Sunday, October 31st to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, November 1st. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 1st as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #32 - 'Chocolate Covered Autumn' WINNERS!

A big thank you to everyone for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog!!! The 60 projects submitted for our 'Chocolate Covered Autumn' challenge this week were WONDERFUL!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 744 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!





The design team members thank everyone who has adjusted your blog settings to turn Word Verification OFF and leave Comment Moderation ON! We really enjoy visiting each and every one of your blogs to see all of your lovely creations ... turning Word Verification off saves us time and allows us to visit without any computer glitches!
Please join me in thanking Lenet Mos for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer!

A BIG thank you to Meljen's Designs for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome digital prize package for our Winner!

We thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! And without further ado, here are the designs that caught my eye for capturing the essence of the 'Chocolate Covered Autumn' challenge ...

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Stampin' Pam #8

2.   Rae Ann #9

3.   Silke #10

4.   Grace N. #26

5.   Cabio #31

6.   Betty Wright #53

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   2amscrapper #6

2.   Ros Crawford #24

3.   Sarah Nelson #58

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Lizzi #22!  Well, Miss Lizzi has done it again!  Her shabby and vintage creations never cease to amaze me -- her creativity is endless!  This week Lizzi created a beautiful card that was directly inspired by our photo and, for the icing on the cake (no pun intended!), Lizzi created the most scrumptious 3 dimensional floral cake -- it just took my breath away!  So lovely, so elegant, so beautiful ... such inspiration for us all!  Thank you, Lizzi, for sharing your talents with us all weekly 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!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Week #32 - 'Chocolate Covered Autumn'

Week #33 in the Tea Room brings Pattie as our host and she has chosen this scrumptious photo as inspiration for us to work with ...

... and Pattie asks us all to create a card or project inspired by the colors and/or the theme of this picture!  Yummy!!!

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 guidelines will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for understanding and playing along!

•Cards/projects must be newly created following the current challenge guidelines. You may enter as many times as you wish and you may combine challenges.


•Cards/projects must DIRECT LINK back to The Shabby Tea Room. Please only link your submission POST - not your entire blog OR multiple challenge submissions.


•Please do not cross-promote events (advertising) unrelated to The Shabby Tea Room Challenge.

Please take a moment to help me welcome our Guest Designer this week, Lenet Mos! Lenet earned this Guest Designer Spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #23 - "The Delicate Cottage Rose" challenge. Please stop by her blog and leave her a bit of shabby {love}!









And now for some more inspiration from the Shabby Girls ...
Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures
'Country Star Pumpkin, Cutie Sitter Witch, Happy Fall, Friends, Pumpkin Trio, Stanley Scarecrow'





Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl
'Stanely Scarecrow'





Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations
'Autumn Leaf & Acorn, Happy Fall'





Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa
'Country Pumpkins'


Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations
'Country Pumpkins'




Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch
'Squirrel's Little Acorn, Autumn Leaf & Acorn, Little Layered Flowers Mini Cuties & Round Leaf, Rose Bloom'



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

Please welcome this week's Tea Room sponsor ... Meljen's Designs!



Meljen's Designs has graciously donated four (4) stamps to our winner this week!

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!


We will award a 'The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three' badge to the three most creative projects!!! The Shabby Tea Room Winner will earn our adorable pink tea pot winner badge and the prize package from Meljen's Designs!

Link your creations below by Sunday, October 24th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 25th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 25th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #31 - 'Pumpkin Patch' WINNERS!

A big shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog!!! The 85 projects submitted for our 'Pumpkin Patch' projects this week were AWESOME!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 734 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!



The design team members thank everyone who has adjusted your blog settings to turn Word Verification OFF and leave Comment Moderation ON! We love to leave you all some sweet comments and having Word Verification turned off makes our jobs much quicker and easier -- not to mention is allows us to visit without our computers 'freezing up'!!

Please join me in thanking Naomi Harris for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer!

A BIG thank you to My Favorite Things for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome $15 gift certificate for our Winner!

We thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! And without further ado, here are the designs that caught my eye for capturing the essence of the 'Pumpkin Patch' challenge ...

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Jen McLaughlin #14

2.  Sharm #33
 
3.  Kim #43

4.   Catz #57

5.   Deb Saaranen #63

6.   Cindy Holshouser #79

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Carolyn #3

2.   Susan B. #48

3.   Betty Wright #75

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Ira #8!  Ira's adorable 3- D pumpkin adorned with all those gorgeous leaves is simply beautiful, but the icing on the cake for this week's creation is the adorable Magnolia Tilda image Ira created to sit on top of the pumpkin!  So fabby ... what a wonderful creation!  Thanks for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room, Ira!!

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!

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Simple Treasures Turns Two ...


Deb's Simple Treasures turns TWO today and to celebrate there is BLOG CANDY worth approximately $200 and a CHALLENGE with some Shabby Vintage Seam Binding up for grabs!  I hope you can join us all for the fun and festivities :)

Please visit the Simple Treasures blog at the link above to enter for your chance to win the BLOG CANDY and to enter the CHALLENGE to win the Shabby Vintage Seam Binding ... two separate contests, so much fun!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Week #31 - 'Pumpkin Patch'

Week #31 in the Tea Room brings Nicole as our host and she has chosen this wonderful seasonal photo as inspiration for us to work with ...



... and Nicole asks us all to create a card or project inspired by the colors in this picture and/or to make sure you have a pumpkin somewhere in your design!

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 guidelines will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for understanding and playing along!

•Cards/projects must be newly created following the current challenge guidelines. You may enter as many times as you wish and you may combine challenges.

•Cards/projects must DIRECT LINK back to The Shabby Tea Room. Please only link your submission POST - not your entire blog OR multiple challenge submissions.
•Please do not cross-promote events (advertising) unrelated to The Shabby Tea Room Challenge.

Please take a moment to help me welcome our Guest Designer this week, Naomi Harris!  Naomi earned this Guest Designer Spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #22 - "Reflections" challenge. Please stop by her blog and leave her a bit of shabby {love}!




Naomi Harris - Nomi-Lou's Magic Door




And now for some more inspiration from the Shabby Girls ...


Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures
My Favorite Things - Die-Namics Spiral Flower



Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl



Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations



Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa



Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations
My Favorite Things - We're Not Scared



Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch
My Favorite Things - L'il Pumpkin



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

Please welcome this week's Tea Room sponsor ... My Favorite Things!



My Favorite Things is a delightful clear rubber stamp company! Their stamps are designed by various artists and are down right to die for. The possibilities don't stop at rubber stamps My Favorite Things also offers digital stamps, digital papers, stamps pads, stamp cleaner, ribbon and paper, and much, much more! Stop by and check out their store complete with ideas and a blog.

Kim, owner of My Favorite Things, has graciously donated a $15 gift certificate to our winner this week!

We will award a 'The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three' badge to the three most creative projects!!! The Shabby Tea Room Winner will earn our adorable pink tea pot winner badge and a gift certificate from My Favorite Things!

Link your creations below by Sunday, October 17th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 18th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 18th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!


Week #30 - 'Vintage Halloween' WINNERS!

A big shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog!!! The 65 projects submitted for our 'Vintage Halloween' projects this week were AWESOME!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 723 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!



The design team members thank everyone who has adjusted your blog settings to turn Word Verification OFF and leave Comment Moderation ON! We love to leave you all some sweet comments and having Word Verification turned off makes our jobs much quicker and easier -- not to mention is allows us to visit without our computers 'freezing up'!!

Please join me in thanking Kirsty Vittetoe for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer!

A BIG thank you to Sassy Studio Designs for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome digital prize package for our Winner!

We thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! And without further ado, here are the designs that caught my eye for capturing the essence of the 'Vintage Halloween' challenge ...

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Bonnie McLain #3

2.  Monique #6

3.   Sandi M #14

4.  Vicky #38

5.   Lenet #58

6.   Beth C. #65

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Lindsay #12

2.   Jo #26

3.   Leslie #41

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

SmilynStef #62!  This card design just made my jaw drop ... it is so close to the inspiration photo -- simply perfect!  The candleabras, the vintage white lace, the black lacey border punch, the absolutely gorgeous background patterned paper and bling -- just STUNNING!  Thanks 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!

Monday, October 4, 2010

Week #30 - 'Vintage Halloween'

Week #30 in the Tea Room brings Lisa as our fabby host and she has chosen this gorgeous photo for us all to be inspired by:


... and Lisa asks us all to create a card or project inspired by the colors and images in this picture with a Vintage Halloween theme! 

*Provided for your assistance, there are some guidelines on our sidebar from the gals at the Card Style Magazine outlining the components you would use in a Vintage design -- Soft, distressed elements, vintage images and found elements such as buttons, crochet trim, flowers made out of old dress patterns.*

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 guidelines will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for understanding and playing along!

Cards/projects must be newly created following the current challenge guidelines. You may enter as many times as you wish and you may combine challenges.


•Cards/projects must DIRECT LINK back to The Shabby Tea Room. Please only link your submission POST - not your entire blog or multiple challenge submissions.

•Please do not cross-promote events (advertising) unrelated to The Shabby Tea Room Challenge.

Please take a moment to help me welcome our Guest Designer this week, Kirsty Vittetoe!  I've enjoyed seeing so many of Kirsty's lovely, shabby and vintage creations for the Tea Room challenges!  It's such a treat to have her creating with our Shabby Girls DT this week.  Please stop by her blog and leave her a bit of shabby {love}!



Kirsty Vittetoe - Handmade Little Things



And now for some more inspiration from the Shabby Girls ...

Our sponsor has donated 'Halloween Sentiments' and 'Halloween Tags' for the design team to create with for our Vintage Halloween Challenge!


Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures




Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl




Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations




Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa




Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations




Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch



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

Please welcome this week's Tea Room sponsor ... Sassy Studio Designs!

Sassy Studio Designs is a fresh new company. We have been designing and selling for a year now, and we have been kindly received into the community of digi stampers and crafters. I started designing images shortly after I started stamping, reason being...I didn't hardly like anything else out there I was a young adult woman at the time I was engaged, had no kids, I wanted fun sexy images that I would enjoy using and my friends and hubby would enjoy receiving. I designed images for 2 other digi stamp companies when my wonderful hubby kept trying to get me to go out on my own. So in June 2009 thanks to the few faithful followers I had, Sassy Studio Designs was born! It has been a wonderful journey starting my own store. We have just grown so much these past months.  I still try to keep with my original philosophy and reason for designing stamps, make them fun and keep them sassy...and yes sometimes even sexy!

Lindsay

Sassy Studio Designs has graciously donated four (4) digital images to our winner this week!

We will award a 'The Shabby Tea Room Tea Time Terrific Top Three' badge to the three most creative projects!!! The Shabby Tea Room Winner will earn our adorable pink tea pot winner badge and the prize package from Sassy Studio Designs!

Link your creations below by Sunday, October 10th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 11th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 11th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!