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Monday, January 27, 2014

Week #203 - 'Warm & Cozy'


Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Aneta is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Warm & Cozy' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration!   Aneta asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo USING WHITE/CREAM WITH CUPS AND/OR TEAPOTS!

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, Alyson MacDonaldAlyson earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #197 challenge - 'Sweet Christmas'.



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 (please click on each designer's blog link to view additional photos of their projects) ...

Debbie MarcinkiewiczPaper Sweeties
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: The Good Time, Vintage Tape Strips
Paper Sweeties:  Tea For Two, Alphas Upper, Frosting Sequins, Rusty Bells, Cotton Candy seam binding




Aneta Matuszewska - Artisant
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Antique Paper


Heidi Gonzales - My Lil' Scrap Corner
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: The Good Time
Paper Sweeties: It's Tea Time




Jill Norwood - Greenwood Girl Cards
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy:  Antique Paper 3




Linda Dudziak - Made by Groszek
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Romantic Paper Roses






Tina Milbourn - Confessions of a DeNami Addict
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Alice In Wonderland collage, Antique paper 2
Paper Sweeties: Vintage Winter White Seam Binding, Baby Pink Berry Seam Binding


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 Papers 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

Tea Time Terrific Top Three first place winner = 3 collage files
Tea Time Terrific Top Three second place winner = 2 collage files
Tea Time Terrific Top Three third place winner = 1 collage file
 
Please link your creations below by Sunday, February 2nd to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, February 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!

Week #202 - ' Baby it's Cold Outside' 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 'Baby it's Cold Outside' challenge -- we received 7 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 2,626 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 Clara LesFleurs for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Jill Norwood for joining us as our January Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Bugaboo Stamps, 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 'Baby it's Cold Outside' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Dottie Seubert #1

2.  Lenet #3

3.  Susan #6

 
THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE'S:
 
1.  Mary Puskar #2

2.  Birgit #5

3.  Dawn #7

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Diane H. #4Wowzers ... Diane's card is perfectly crafted from this week's inspiration photo -- LOVE!  Thank you, Diane, for sharing your lovely creation with us 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!

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

Monday, January 20, 2014

Week #202 - 'Baby It's Cold Outside'


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 'Baby It's Cold Outside' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration!   I ask that you create a card or project inspired by the photo and INCLUDE WHITE/CREAM, GREEN, RED, A BOW & SOMETHING SILVER!

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, Clara LesfleursClara earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #196 challenge - 'Noel'.




And some more beautiful inspiration from our January Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer -
Jill Norwood Jill used the Make the Season Bright and Christmas Blessings stamp sets along with the Make the Season Bright Sweet Cuts die from Paper Sweeties!
 


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 (please click on each designer's blog link to view additional photos of their projects) ...

Debbie MarcinkiewiczPaper Sweeties
Bugaboo: Snowman Skates
Paper Sweeties: Thanks Snow Much, Thanks Snow Much Sweet Cuts




Aneta Matuszewska - Artisant
Bugaboo: Skates





Heidi Gonzales - My Lil' Scrap Corner
Bugaboo: Skates
Paper Sweeties: Let It Snow




Linda Dudziak - Made by Groszek
Bugaboo:  Polar Bear





Tina Milbourn - Confessions of a DeNami Addict
Bugaboo: Winter Circle Sentiments - Seasons Greetings




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 - Bugaboo Stamps!


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/


 
Please link your creations below by Sunday, January 26th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, January 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 #201 - 'Fun With Sketches' 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 'Fun With Sketches' challenge -- we received 31 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 2,620 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 Kim Lackenbach for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Jill Norwood for joining us as our January Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Ribbon Carousel, 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 'Fun With Sketches' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Diane H. #15

2.  Mila #19

3.  Cindy Brumbaugh #24

 
THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE'S:
 
1.  Lenet #5

2.  Sandy M. #13

3.  Tracey K. #14

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Susan #27!  Oh my shabby goodness, this sweet and darling card just stole my heart!  The soft pink palette, the sweet snowman image and all that glitter -- yum!!  Thank you, Susan, for sharing your beautiful card with us all 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!

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

Monday, January 13, 2014

Week #201 - 'Fun With Sketches'


Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Tina is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Fun With Sketches' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration!   Tina asks that you create a card or project inspired by the SKETCH GRAPHIC!

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, Kim LackenbachKim earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #195 challenge - 'Terrific Tags'.




And some more beautiful inspiration from our January Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer -
Jill Norwood using stamped sentiments from Paper Sweeties




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 (please click on each designer's blog link to view additional photos of their projects) ...


Debbie MarcinkiewiczPaper Sweeties
 Paper Sweeties: Make Today Beautiful, Borders, Celebrate




Aneta Matuszewska - Artisant




Heidi Gonzales - My Lil' Scrap Corner
Paper Sweeties - Friendship Warms the Heart 




Linda Dudziak - Made by Groszek





Tina Milbourn - Confessions of a DeNami Addict


Lesley Croghan - Always Playing With Paper
{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 sponsor - Ribbon Carousel!

This week's lucky winner will receive a $20 gift certificate to the Ribbon Carousel!




And for another chance to win some goodness along with a Guest Designer spot for the next challenge, play along with the January Paper Sweeties Inspiration Challenge!!
 
Please link your creations below by Sunday, January 19th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday,January 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 #200 - 'So Romantic' 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 'So Romantic' challenge -- we received 79 STUNNNG 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 2,616 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 Nancy Guse for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Jill Norwood for joining us as our January 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 'So Romantic' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Yulit #11

2.  Karen Wallace #23

3.  Maria Patrick #24

4.  Cathy Mc #35

5.  Meretek j #39

6.  Carolanne Wright #44

 
THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE'S:
 
1.  Sylwia-eR #8

2.  Carmen Alice #37

3.  Hussena #59

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Diane H. #54!  What an absolute shabby chic stunner!  So soft, beautiful and sweet!  Thank you, Dian, for sharing your lovely work with us all 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!

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

Monday, January 6, 2014

Week #200 - 'So Romantic'


Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Linda is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'So Romantic' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration!   Linda asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo and INCLUDE ROSES!

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, Nancy GuseNancy earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #194 challenge - 'Christmas is Coming'.




And some more beautiful inspiration from our January Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer - please help me extend a warm welcome to Jill Norwood!  




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 (please click on each designer's blog link to view additional photos of their projects) ...

Debbie MarcinkiewiczPaper Sweeties
Paper Sweeties - So Sweet of You




Aneta Matuszewska - Artisant
Paper Sweeties - Fancy Monograms




Heidi Gonzales - My Lil' Scrap Corner
Paper Sweeties - Abigail, It's Tea Time, Pennant Party





Lesley Croghan - Always Playing With Paper
Paper Sweeties - Beautiful





Linda Dudziak - Made by Groszek
Paper Sweeties -  Beautiful 




 
Tina Milbourn - Confessions of a DeNami Addict
Paper Sweeties - So Sweet of You, Happy Summer




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 is owned and illustrated by Debbie Marcinkiewicz, and offers  high quality, on trend acrylic stamps, metal dies and embellishments.  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, frames and accessory sets - perfect for every paper crafted project!  The Paper Sweeties boutique carries 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 stamps and dies to create projects for card making, scrap booking, party invitations and favors, home decor, gifts and so much more!

Winner will receive a $20 gift certificate from the Paper Sweeties boutique!


And for another chance to win some goodness along with a Guest Designer spot for the next challenge, play along with the January Paper Sweeties Inspiration Challenge!!

 
Please link your creations below by Sunday, January 12th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, January 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 #199 - 'Color Challenge' 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 'Color Challenge' challenge -- we received 48 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 2,602 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 Angela Wilson for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Kimi Blundell for joining us as our December 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 'Color Challenge' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Teresa Kline #11

2.  Cathy Mc #28

3.  Hussena #30

 
THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE'S:
 
1.  Karen Day #7

2.  Kim L. #25

3.  Carolyn King #39

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Narelle Farrugia #26!  Wowzers ... what an absolute beauty Narelle created for last week's color challenge!  I love the scalloped round shape of this lovely card!  Thanks for sharing your talents with us all, Narelle!




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!