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 'Shabby Autumn' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and I ask that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS FROM THE PICTURE, INCLUDE A PUMPKIN and MAKE IT SHABBY!
'Shabby Chic Style Elements'
Layers of softness characterized by the use of ribbon and lace, a
time-worn look achieved by inking, pearls, glitter and other such
embellishments.
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,
Lauren Bergold - All The Good Blog Names Were Taken!
Lauren earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #127 challenge - 'For The Love of Books'.
And, on a personal note, Lauren's card this week has got to be the 'most special' card we've ever spotlighted here in the Tea Room! Among all of the talented people that grace our blog pages here daily, you may be wondering why I said that. Well, Lauren lives in New Jersey, which, as most of you all know, was ground zero for the land falling Hurricane Sandy which came ashore last week and caused such total devastation along the Jersey Shore and the New England Seaboard. Lauren's home was spared from any of the horrific damage that we've all been seeing on TV, but she has been without power for six+ days as of when this post goes live, so it's truly incredible that she was still able to make a card to participate as our guest this week! Lauren shared with me the heroic efforts she went through to take her crafty supplies to her mom's house - about 30 minutes away - who still has power. There she was able to complete her card, photograph it and blog about it. Now ... if that is not a 'die hard' crafter, I don't know what is! THANK YOU, Lauren, for sharing your passion and creativity with us all this week in the Tea Room! I hope you all pop on over to Lauren's blog and leave her a little bit of love ... I am sure it will brighten her dark, and electric-less day :) I'm praying that the powers to be can restore your electricity soon, Lauren, so you can begin to make strides to get things back to normal!!
And some more beautiful inspiration from our November Special
MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...
Maria Patrick - Maria's Merry Makings!
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 ...
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 sponsors
- Paper Sweeties and
Robyn's Fetish!
#1 - Paper Sweeties
Paper Sweeties is owned and illustrated by
Debbie Marcinkiewicz, and offers clear acrylic stamps that allow paper crafters to create adorable dolls with interchangeable outfits and accessories! We also have a variety of wonderful all-occasion sentiment 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 fun to play with – they will bring back fond childhood memories of special moments from the past! You’ll enjoy using the Sweeties to create projects for card making, scrap booking, party favors, invitations and so much more!
Winner will receive one stamp set as prize!
#2 - Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps
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 of their choice!
Please link your creations below by Sunday, November 11th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, November 12th.
We will have an all-new challenge for you to
play along with on the 12th as well, so please come
back and visit with us again for another chance
to win!
