Week #242 - 'Shabby Chic Holiday'

I'm sooo sorry y'all but wow, I've been burning my candle at both ends here lately and was unable to make a project for today's challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room. Sometimes in life you have to do what you have to do even if it means making yourself crazed! I hope you enjoy what rest of the DT has made using products from our gracious sponsors!! 

Week #242 - 'Shabby Chic Holiday'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week our challenge is called 'Shabby Chic Holiday'!  Please create a card/project INSPIRED BY THE PHOTO USING PINK, AQUA, IVORY + GLITTER!

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, Beth Johnson!  Beth earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #238 challenge - 'Spooky Wishes'.

And now for some more beautiful inspiration from the Shabby Girls (please click on each designer's blog link to view additional photos of their projects) ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Paper Sweeties
{Creator}

 Alyson MacDonald - Paper Cake Trail
Creations by AR: Ornaments Box Set
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Romantic Paper

Diane Hover - Nellie's Nest
Creations by AR:  Ornaments Box Set
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy:  Christmas Baubles

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or not to Scrap, that is the Question
Creations by AR: Ornaments Box Set
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy:  Christmas Circles

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose

Creations by AR: Bottle of Cheer

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Creations by AR: Gift card box
 Digital Papers by Janet Etsy:   Sweet color paper 2 &Christmas Circles

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 -Creations by AR and Digital Papers by Janet Etsy!

 Sponsor #1:

Creations by AR is all about paper crafting specializing in 3D templates, cutting files and digital images. Visit www.creationsbyar.com for inspiration!

I am pleased to offer The Shabby Tea Room participants a challenge discount of 10% off entire purchase during the week of my sponsorship.  The discount code is challenge10.

Sponsor #2:

 

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 Terrific Top Three first place winner will receive three collage files.

Tea Time Terrific Top Three second place winner will receive two collage files.

Tea Time Terrific Top Three third place winner will receive one collage file.

 

Please link your creations at The Shabby Tea Room by Sunday, January 4th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, January 5th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 5th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

The Shabby Tea Room - Challenge #240

Welcome to another fun challenge at The Shabby Tearoom!! This time around we are celebrating the Autumn season and being thankful....

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week our challenge is called 'Grateful!  Please create a card/projectINSPIRED BY THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE TWINE and/or BURLAP!

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!

Well as I was browsing through the images by one of our sponsors, Bugaboo Stamps, I came across a cute little guy that I just HAD to have...

I started off with an A2 sized card base then layered on a piece of digital background paper from Papers By Janet then added my layered image. I wasn't so happy with it so I dis-assembled it and added a little doily that I distressed with a little tan & teal ink. A little seam binding from Paper Sweeties and some little accent leaves tied it all together. Ohh, my burlap...way cool, I found it in a little paper pack at Hobby Lobby. It's a 4X6 (I think) paper pack with several colors of paper lined burlap. I couldn't cut it on my paper trimmer so I had to free hand it, but as you can see it worked just fine with a die from Pretty Pink Posh and running it through a die cutting machine. I'm fairly happy with my Copic coloring job. I would have liked to added a little darker golden/yellow to his hair but I didn't have the right color. I thought about a little brown but then thought that with the basket it'd be too much brown...sigh. I wish I was a better picture taker so you could see all the shaddowing/shading. He really is adorable though!!

Items Used:
Bugaboo Stamps - Bobblehead Thanksgiving Scarecrow
Digital Papers By Janet - Antique Paper 6 - Backgrounds
Dies by Pretty Pink Posh - stitched borders - 1
Seam Binding by Paper Sweeties - frosting

 The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsors - Bugaboo Stamps and Digital Papers by Janet Etsy!

Sponsor #1:

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/

Sponsor #2:

 

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 Terrific Top Three first place winner will receive three collage files.

Tea Time Terrific Top Three second place winner will receive two collage files.

Tea Time Terrific Top Three third place winner will receive one collage file.

 

Please link your creations at The Shabby Tea Room by Sunday, November 30th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, December 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!

The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #238

Week #238 - 'Spooky Wishes'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week our challenge is called 'Spooky Wishes'!  Please create a card/project INSPIRED BY THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE A BOW!

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, Tracey Kelly!  Tracey earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #229 challenge - 'Ring Around the Rosie'.

And now for some more beautiful inspiration from the Shabby Girls (please click on each designer's blog link to view additional photos of their projects) ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Paper Sweeties
{off this week}

Alyson MacDonald - Paper Cake Trail

Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Halloween Post Card

Creations By AR ~ Jack-O-Box

Diane Hover - Nellie's Nest
Creations by AR:  Pun'kin Card and Party Set
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy:  Halloween Tickets

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose

Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Halloween Tickets

Creations by AR: Harvest Pumpkin Set

Tina Milbourn - Confessions of a DeNami Addict

{off this week)

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or not to Scrap, that is the Question

{off this week}

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 - Creations by AR and Digital Papers by Janet Etsy!

Sponsor #1:

Creations by AR is all about paper crafting specializing in 3D templates, cutting files and digital images. Visit www.creationsbyar.com for inspiration!

I am pleased to offer The Shabby Tea Room participants a challenge discount of 10% off entire purchase during the week of my sponsorship.  The discount code is challenge10.

Sponsor #2:

 

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 Terrific Top Three first place winner will receive three collage files.

Tea Time Terrific Top Three second place winner will receive two collage files.

Tea Time Terrific Top Three third place winner will receive one collage file.

 

Please link your creations at The Shabby Tea Room by Sunday, November 2nd to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, November 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!

Thank you for playing along with The Shabby Tea Room this week!  Please post a DIRECT LINK to your project here.

The Shabby Tea Room - challenge #236

Hello everyone and welcome to another fun challenge brought to you from The Shabby Tea Room!! This week we have a BIG announcement! We've decided to change things up a bit and go bi-weekly! We feel that by doing this it gives all of you more of a chance to enter our little challenge AND since we will be bi-weekly (1st & 3rd Monday of the month), we will have 2 sponsors for each challenge and that gives you more prizes since we will be picking 2 winners per challenge!!! If you have any questions at all, please drop us an email and I'll be happy to talk to you :)

Ready to get on with the challenge? Umm, wait, one more tiny thing, due to an unexpected mishap, I've been nursing a slight infection from cellulitis in my right hand and have been unable to create anything...BUMMER! I'm dying to play with my crafty goodies, I just got some new Halloween papers and embellishments. :(    Well, I dug through the archives and found two cards that fit this weeks challenge and showcases some yummy-ness from our sponsors!

How pretty is that pumpkin stack??  Please create a card/project INSPIRED BY THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE A PUMPKIN!

FOR YOUR SUBMISSION TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE BI-WEEKLY PRIZE AND HONORS: Because we are sponsored 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!

Here are the cards I made last fall....

Well, I'm glad to see that my coloring has much improved from last fall, lol!! For my focal image, I used the Pumpkin Patch from Bugaboo Stamps. Their digi stamps are too cute!! I simply print them out on Michael's brand white cardstock using my home ink jet printer. This was colored using Prismacolor pencils & a blending solution, but I've found that they turn out great even with alcohol markers such as my Copics.

Bugaboo Stamps: Pumpkin Patch

Ahhh, one of my first attempts at "chalk board". Not too bad if I say so myself ;) lol! I used some beautiful background papers from Papers By Janet. Again, I just print them out on regular ole Michaels cardstock using my ink jet printer at home...nothing fancy.

Papers By Janet: Antique Background 1 & Antique Background 2

Paper Sweeties: Stand Add On Fresh Baked, Stand Add On Fall Harvest

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/

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 Terrific Top Three first place winner will receive three collage files.

Tea Time Terrific Top Three second place winner will receive two collage files.

Tea Time Terrific Top Three third place winner will receive one collage file.

Website: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bydigitalpaper?ref=l2-shopheader-name

Please link your creations at The Shabby Tea Room by Sunday, October 5th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 6th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 6th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

The Shabby tea Room #233 - celebration

Hello and happy Monday!! Okay, okay, I know that Monday's blow, but I'm trying to be optimistic!!! hehehe ;)

Welcome to a fun new week at The Shabby Tea Room! This week we are asked to "celebrate"!

 Rules: 'celebration theme' using pink, flowers and a lace element

Our sponsor this week is Digital papers By Janet and I knew just the perfect patterned papers I wanted to use!! 

 I started off by die cutting a cream card base then layered on 2 patterned papers from our sponsor, Digital Papers By Janet, that I printed out and die cut. I finished it off with a fun focal point tag that I had die cut and stamped.

•  Papers By Janet: Super Cupcake Set
• Pretty Pink Posh: Stitched Borders die 1, stitched duo 1 (tag), 4mm sparkling clear sequins, 8mm sparkling clear sequins, chevron yellow twill ribbon
• Paper Sweeties: cookie dough sequins
• Lawn fawn: Penelope's Blossoms
• DeNami Design: Calligraphy Happy Birthday (check it out...it's on sale!!)
• DeNami Design: Polka Dot Background

Tea Time Terrific Top Three first place winner will receive three collage files.

Tea Time Terrific Top Three second place winner will receive two collage files.

Tea Time Terrific Top Three third place winner will receive one collage file.

Please link your creations at The Shabby Tea Room by Sunday, August 31st to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, September 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!

 Well that's it for me today...see ya on Wednesday!!!