Monday, September 5, 2011

♥ Pink Wedded Bliss ♥

This week's challenge at The Shabby Tea Room is called "Pink Wedded Bliss". And there are not 1 but 4 lovely inspiration photos for you to choose from! Just make a card and/or project with a Wedding or Anniversary theme and the colors from the inspiration photos.


For my card, I used the beautiful Rose digi stamp from our wonderful monthly sponsor, Robyn's Fetish. I colored it in with some Copics and added some glitter for some sparkle. The gorgeous papers I used are new ones from Simple Stories called "Baby Steps". They are so beautiful!! (One of my new faves!)


I finished my card with some pink satin ribbon, a Jenni Bowlin stick pin, some punched MS butterflies, Rouge Liquid Pearls, black adhesive pearls, a paper doily and the stamped sentiment is from Studio G. This card could probably be used for both a Wedding or an Anniversary.  

This week's challenge winner will receive 5 Digi Images of their choice from Robyn's Fetish!


Here is 1 of 4 inspiration photos for you!



Don't forget to visit the rest of the Shabby Girls too!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures
Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch
Danielle Greenwood - Au Claire De La Lune
Charlene Cundy - Expressions of Me!
Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Have a wonderful day! And a Happy Labor Day to everyone in the U.S.! My son starts Kindergarten tomorrow and my tummy is in knots!! His is fine, it's mine that is upset!! :) 

Thursday, September 1, 2011

♥ Shabby Team Room DT Call Reminder! ♥

Well, as you can see, we survived the Hurricane! Sunday morning as we woke up, it was still a little windy out and rain here and there. But we had power! Just some branches and leaves everywhere, but we had power!! We felt so lucky and happy! So off we went outside to clean up the yard and pool. My sister and brother-in-law was here for my son's 1st Birthday, so they even helped us clean up. (Thank you Stacey and Tim!) As soon as we were done cleaning up, guess what happened next?!! Yup! Our power went out for almost 3 days! Lost all our food in both refrigerators. But I know we are still one of the lucky ones! Some people will be without power until next week! But we are all alive and healthy! So we are truly blessed and lucky! Thank you to you all for all your well wishes and prayers!


♥ Now onto the Shabby Tea Room DT Call! ♥

Sadly we will be saying goodbye to two of our Shabby Girls in a couple weeks when the current term comes to an end. The happy news is that we're looking for {new talent} to join the Shabby Girls for our weekly challenges!

If you love a challenge and are interested in applying to be a part of this fun little family, then read over all the requirements. If you feel you can meet all the requirements, then check out the details of this call at the end of this post and send in your submission!

Good luck to all that apply!

REQUIREMENTS FOR OUR SHABBY GIRL DESIGNERS:

1. You must have a blog and be an active blogger!
2. You must speak fluent English!
3. You must create one card or project per week for our Monday challenges!
4. You must be willing and able to work with sponsor supplied products, including but not limited to digital images, digital papers, stamps, ribbons, templates and dies.
5. You must be willing to comment on our followers' weekly submissions. You will be assigned two numbers to comment on weekly -- there are no exceptions to this requirement!
6. You must be able to meet weekly deadlines, submit projects in a timely manner, have your blog posts go live in conjunction with our weekly challenges and link back to The Shabby Tea Room and to our weekly sponsors.
7. You must be able to commit to a six-month term with the Shabby Girls.
8. You must be able to create and host weekly challenges once every six weeks.

Want to apply for the team? Here's the challenge:

'Let's Have Tea'



Create a card or project inspired by the photo using pastels in blue, pink and yellow plus flowers!

This Design Team Call will run from 12:00 am EST Monday, August 22nd through 11:59 pm EST Sunday, September 4th. The two new Shabby Girls will be contacted on Monday, September 5th and the announcement of the new team members will be made on Sunday, September 12th. The two new Shabby Girls will officially begin on Monday, September 19th.

How to submit your application:

1. Send a picture of your completed card or project to me at deb4tasteful@earthlink.net as an e-mail ATTACHMENT.
2. Send your complete name, address, phone, e-mail address and blog address.
3. Include a brief bio about yourself to include how long you've been paper crafting, what inspires you with your paper crafting and what are your favorite paper crafting mediums ... ie: cards, layouts, altered art, 3-D projects.
4. Send your resume to include any design teams you are currently participating on as well as any past positions. Please also include any publications you have earned. {A past or present design team position is not a requirement to earn a spot here with the Shabby Girls, we just want to know your experience level.}
5. Let us know why you want to be a Shabby Girl!!!

You may submit AS MANY times as you wish ... we are excited to see your best projects and awesome creativity!!

Good luck to all who submit!

Hugs...

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

♥ Simon Says...SUPER Hop and Treasure Hunt! ♥


For the second year in a row, Simon Says Stamp and Show and The Simon Says Stamp Challenges  are joining forces to bring you a SUPER hop and treasure hunt to celebrate the approaching fall and winter holidays.

To help celebrate we will be giving a BIG BASKET OF CRAFTING GOODIES to the winner of this hop! PLUS 3 $25 VOUCHERS to the Simon Says Stamp Store! The vouchers will be the hidden treasure on 3 DT blogs and you have to find them.

The Blog hop will start, today, August 31st, on the Simon Says Challenge Blog
and will finish on September 5th, at on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Blog.
The theme for both challenges this week will be ANYTHING GOES. You can make anything you like … a card, an ATC, a Scrapbook layout … the possibilities are endless!

You will need to hop through each blog, find the little parcel of goodies and make a note on which designer’s blog you found them. You do not HAVE to comment on all the DT blogs but we would appreciate any comments you would like to leave. If you lose your way at any time a full list of all the participating blogs with links will be available on Simon Says Stamp Challenge and the Stamp and Show Challenge blogs
For more details please refer to the Simon Says Stamp Challenge or the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge blogs for more details.

The last stop on the hop is the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge blog. You will need to leave a comment there with the names of the 3 blogs with treasure chest pictures. The comments will be moderated so you will not be able to see the answers.

If you arrived here from the super talented Mandy's Blog,  then you are going in the right direction otherwise you need to start at the beginning on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge.

For my card, I used the adorable Itty Bitty stamp set called "Enjoy this Day" by Unity Stamps. I love the vintage style bicycle and beautiful sentiment. I used some pretty paper by Cosmo Cricket. I also dry embossed the paper with an old Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. I don't remember the name of it but it has alot of vines and flowers on it. I then ran some Pebbles pastel chalks over the embossed areas to give it color. I also ran my paper doily and tag through the Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder.


To finish off my card, I added some Prima trim, seam binding ribbon, glitter and some Liquid Pearls in White Opal.

From here you need to go to the super talented and very sweet Heather's Blog for more inspiration :-) I would appreciate a comment if you would like to leave one Smile

Have fun hopping along!!