Week #49 - 'Keeping Warm' WINNERS!

A big shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog!!! We received 50 WONDERFUL cards and projects for our 'Keeping Warm' challenge this week - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 974 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!


Keep peeking in ... we are T-minus 3 weeks until our big FIRST BIRTHDAY BASH!! We're lining up sponsors to join us and will have a very special birthday celebration challenge for you all to play along with during Week #53 - March 14, 2011! If you're not a follower yet, please consider becoming one before the Birthday Bash Celebration ... many prizes to give out to our loyal followers. Our goal is to hit 1,000 followers by time the Birthday Bash rolls around ... won't you help us by becoming a follower and spreading the word to your blog friends too? It'll be such a fun celebration that you won't want to miss - nearly 20 sponsors to date have signed up to partner with us for the Birthday Bash - WOW! Mark your calendars!!

Please join me in thanking Michelle Bala for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our regular monthly sponsor, Stamping Dragon Designs, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome digital prize package to our Winner!

The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration was fabulous this week! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Keeping Warm' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Nancy in Iowa #14

2.  Monika #21

3.  Rosemary D. #22

4.  Maria Matter #31

5.  Maria P. #42

6.  Romaine #49

And, Danielle Greenwood #47, who will be joining the Design Team in March!

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Kate #28

2.  Beverly G. #32

3.  Andrea Ewen #33

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

M@rjan #1!  What an exquisite paper crafted creation!  The colors were spot on and so many gorgeous layers, images and embellishments!  Thank you, M@rjan, for sharing your talents 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!

Week #49 - 'Keeping Warm'

Welcome Friends!!  This week Nicole is our host and she has chosen the theme of 'Keeping Warm'!

Using this snuggly photo for inspiration ...

... please create a card or project with a 'KEEP WARM' theme and/or any additional inspiration from the photo colors (suggestions: scarves, mittens, hats, coffee, tea, hot cocoa/marshmellows, fireplace, blankets, felt, wool, fleece, yarn, etc.)  The Shabby Girls cannot wait to see what you create this week :)

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 challenge rules will remain in the gallery but will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I'm happy to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer - Michelle Bala! Michelle earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #42 in the Tea Room - 'Shabby Chic Baby'!  Michelle's designs have 'wowed' us week after week in the Tea Room -- she is a very talented paper crafter and we're very lucky she could join the Shabby Girls this week!

Michelle Bala - My Passion For Crafting

And now for some more GOR-JUS inspiration from the Shabby Girls ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Postcards Stamp Pack, Sewing Stamp Pack

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

Sewing Stamp Pack

Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations

Postcards Stamp Pack

Melissa Bove - Creating From The Heart

Postcards Stamp Pack

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

Sewing Stamp Pack

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch 

Sewing Stamp Pack

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

I'm so happy to announce our sponsor this week - Stamping Dragon Designs!

Hi my name is Janette aka Stamping Dragon Designs/Dragons Lair Designs.  I live in the UK with my two children and puddy tat.  I started with Graphic Design in 2001, initially creating sig tags in AOL groups but, moved on and found digital scrapbooking.  It wasn’t long before that, I started making my own kits under the Dragons Lair Designs name and the rest as they say is history.  Two years ago I was introduced to digital stamps and started drawing and before I knew it Stamping Dragon Designs was born.  I am now not only addicted to scrapbooking my photo's but making cards too.  All I need now is more hours in a day.

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 4 digital images donated by Stamping Dragon Designs!

Link your creations below by Sunday, February 20th  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, February 21st. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 21st as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #48 - 'Sweet Hearts' WINNERS!

A big shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog!!! We received 94 GORGEOUS cards and projects for our 'Sweet Hearts' challenge this week - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 957 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!

Keep peeking in ... we are T-minus 4 weeks until our big FIRST BIRTHDAY BASH!! We're lining up sponsors to join us and will have a very special birthday celebration challenge for you all to play along with during Week #53 - March 14, 2011! If you're not a follower yet, please consider becoming one before the Birthday Bash Celebration ... many prizes to give out to our loyal followers. Our goal is to hit 1,000 followers by time the Birthday Bash rolls around ... won't you help us by becoming a follower and spreading the word to your blog friends too?  It'll be such a fun celebration that you won't want to miss - nearly 20 sponsors to date have signed up to partner with us for the Birthday Bash - WOW! Mark your calendars!!

Please join me in thanking Julia Aston for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our regular monthly sponsor, Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome digital prize package to our Winner!

The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration was simply beautiful this week!  And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Sweet Hearts' challenge ... by using a HEART in their designs and the colors and/or theme from the inspiration photo:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.    Lizzi Droege #15

2.    Silke Ledlow #18

3.    Kristin #38

4.    Agnieszka #63

5.    Kerrianne #67

6.    Becky Jo #89


THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Sherry Wright #8

2.   Chupa #16

3.   Andrea Ewen #32

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Geri #48!  Oh my shabby goodness ... the card Geri created this week was so soft, so beautiful ... so STUNNING!  The watercolored images of the birds and cage - softly blended - amazing!  The heart-shaped paper doilie, inking, flowers, vintage seam binding, tags and sentiments -- just so much eye candy to behold on this lovely creation!  Thanks for sharing your wonderful talents with us all this week in the Tea Room, Geri :)

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!

Meet the {newest} SHABBY GIRLS!

First, I must say a big and shabby, heartfelt THANK YOU to the nearly 40 talented paper crafters that took the time to create beautiful designs for submission to the Tea Room's latest Design Team Call.  We received nearly 40 stunning creations ... making our job very hard to narrow the field down to just TWO new Shabby Girls!

We so appreciate your time and talents ... and your willingness to share your creativity with others who share your passion for paper crafting.  This truly is a wonderful community that we all are fortunate enough to be a part of.  I consider myself very lucky and blessed to have such wonderful friends all over the world to craft with every day -- it doesn't get much better than this!  I so enjoyed visiting each and every one of your blogs to pour over your designs and was inspired to read over your follow up bio applications.  We had such a variety of paper crafting expertise levels ... from beginners to seasoned pros!  Each one of you are WINNERS in my book!

The Shabby Girls also wanted me to extend their heartfelt thanks for your lovely submissions ... they all really enjoyed spending time perusing through your blogs!  We here in the Tea Room just adore our followers and enjoy creating alongside you all each week!  Such a fun spot for inspiration, creativity ... and FUN :)

Okay, so with all that said, it was next to impossible to narrow the field of nearly 40 applications down to just two, so we are doing something a bit different this time around!  We've added a fun little {twist} to allow not only the two newest Shabby Girls join the team ... but we've invited an additional SIX designers to join us as well as Weekly Guest Designers ... and introducing a brand new program to begin in March - MONTH-LONG GUEST DESIGNERS!

Announcing the newest Weekly Guest Designers who will join the Shabby Girls:

6th Runner Up - Robin Shakoor!  Robin will be joining us as a Guest Designer in the Tea Room the Week of April 11, 2011!  

5th Runner Up - Lizzi Droege!  Lizzi will be joining us as a Guest Designer in the Tea Room the Week of April 4, 2011! 

4th Runner Up - Linda Langes!  Linda will be joining us as a Guest Designer in the Tea Room the Week of March 28, 2011!

And now, announcing the newest Month-Long Guest Designers who will join the Shabby Girls:

3rd Runner Up - Michelle Bala!  Michelle will be joining us as a Month-Long Guest Designer in the Tea Room for the Month of May 2011!

2nd Runner Up - Sheri Holt!  Sheri will be joining us as a Month-Long Guest Designer in the Tea Room for the Month of April 2011!

1st Runner Up - Deb Saaranen!  Deb will be joining us as a Month-Long Guest Designer in the Tea Room for the Month of March 2011!

Congratulations, ladies!!!

And ... without further ado, DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!  I am pleased to introduce you to the NEWEST SHABBY GIRLS who will join our team on March 21, 2011:

Danielle Greenwood - Au Claire De La Lune

 

{Winner Week #47 - Get Creative!}

Kristin Wilson - Lilsweetpea's Place

 

{Winner Week #46 - Winter Wonderland}

Each of these ladies are no strangers to the Tea Room challenges.  We have been very inspired by their work and are confident that they will bring amazing energy and talent to the Shabby Girls' team!  I know you will love to be inspired by these girls' work each week.  I am looking forward to the next term of design work in the Tea Room ... won't you join us for some weekly FUN :)

Again, thank you to all that participated in this DT Call!  Looking forward to seeing more of your lovely work in the weekly Tea Room challenges!!!

IT'S A SHABBY DESIGN TEAM CALL!

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO TOOK THE TIME TO CREATE SOMETHING TO SUBMIT FOR THE SHABBY TEA ROOM'S DESIGN TEAM CALL!  THE SHABBY GIRLS APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND EFFORTS!  WE ARE POURING OVER ALL OF THE AMAZING SUBMISSIONS AND WILL ANNOUNCE THE TWO NEW SHABBY GIRLS ON FEBRUARY 14TH!  GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!

It's almost that time again ... WOW how the past six months have just flown by!  Sadly we will be saying goodbye to two of our Shabby Girls in a couple of weeks at the end of the current term.  What does this mean ... we are looking for some new, fresh talent to add to our wonderful Design Team family!

Please read over the DT requirements and application instructions VERY CAREFULLY!  Only applications that have followed all the outlined steps will be considered for these two open positions.

Please only apply if you feel that you will be able to fulfill ALL of the outlined DT requirements!

This Design Team Call will be open from January 31st (12:00 am) through February 13, 2011 (12:00 pm) - EST.  You may enter as many times as you wish. 

Any questions, please contact Debbie BEFORE you submit!

Thank you for your interest in The Shabby Tea Room Design Team Call.  GOOD LUCK to all who choose to apply.  The two new Shabby Girls will be announced on VALENTINE'S DAY :)

DT Requirements:

1.  Have an active blog and take excellent quality, clear, clean, crisp photos!  Blog posts must be made in English!

2.  Be able to work to deadlines, follow directions and submit projects electronically!

3.  Be willing to work with sponsor supplied digital images and/or products!

4.  Post positive comments on your assigned participants' weekly submissions - REQUIRED .. NO EXCEPTIONS!  Comments must be specific to each entry!

5.  Be available to commit to a six-month term from March 21st through September 12th, 2011.

6.  Be a team player who enjoys creating to inspire others!

If, during your term, any of the above requirements are not met, your term may be discontinued immediately.

Application Requirements:

1.  Using the photo inspiration provided below, please create a NEW card or project specifically for this call that shows us your 'go to' style!  Is it Shabby, Vintage, Graphic, Clean & Simple, Elegant?  Our name is shabby and we adore shabby, cottage and vintage design styles in the Tea Room, but we will consider all kinds of design styles ... most importantly, your submission must 'WOW' us!  Send us your 'best' work!!

2.  When your submission is complete, please post to your blog mentioning this DT Call, and link below using the provided linking system.  THIS LINK IS FOR DESIGN TEAM SUBMISSIONS ONLY.  Any projects linked here for the current weekly challenge and not the Design Team Call will be removed!

3.  After you have linked your submission below, please send an e-mail to Debbie (address on sidebar) titled TSTR MARCH 2011 DT CALL.  In this e-mail, please include your full name, address, phone number, e-mail address, blog address and a short bio about yourself and any DT experience (past or present), including links to any sites you currently design for.  Please also attach your DT submission to this application e-mail and application must be in ENGLISH.  Design Team experience is NOT required for this call! 

You may apply as many times as you wish ... we {love} seeing your work in the Tea Room!

THIS DESIGN TEAM CALL DEADLINE IS 12:00 PM ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2011.

'Pretty in {pink} Polka Dot Tea Party'

**PLEASE ONLY ENTER DESIGN TEAM SUBMISSIONS HERE.  ANY WEEKLY CHALLENGE SUBMISSIONS LINKED HERE WILL BE REMOVED!**

Week #48 - 'Sweet Hearts'

Welcome Friends!!  This week Melissa is our 'sweet' host and she has chosen the theme of 'Sweet Hearts'!

Using this delicious photo for inspiration ...

... please create a card or project using HEARTS and any additional inspiration from the photo -- colors of pink, green, brown & neutral, doilies, polka dots, flowers, lace, ribbons ... OR ALL!  Have fun -- the Shabby Girls cannot wait to see what you create this week :)

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 challenge rules will remain in the gallery but will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I'm happy to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer - Julia Aston! Julia earned this Guest Designer spot to create with the Shabby Girls based upon her win during Week #41 in the Tea Room - 'Scandinavian Christmas'!  Julia has 'wowed' us week after week in the Tea Room with her lovely creations -- she is a very talented paper artiist and we're very lucky she could join the Shabby Girls this week!

Julia Aston - Create With Me

And now for some more GOR-JUS inspiration from the Shabby Girls ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures

Flowers & Hearts

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

Hot Cocoa

Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations

I {heart} U

Melissa Bove - Creating From The Heart

Pussy Cat Love

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

Lucy Valentine Girl

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch 

Fruity Strawberries & I {heart} U

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

I'm so happy to announce our monthly sponsor this week - Robyn's Fetish!

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!

Link your creations below by Sunday, February 13th  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, February 14th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 14th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #47 - 'Get Creative' WINNERS!

A big shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog!!! We received 69 STUNNING cards and projects for our 'Get Creative' challenge this week - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 938 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!

Keep peeking in ... we are T-minus 4 weeks until our big FIRST BIRTHDAY BASH!! We're lining up sponsors to join us and will have a very special birthday celebration challenge for you all to play along with during Week #53 - March 14, 2011! If you're not a follower yet, please consider becoming one before the Birthday Bash Celebration ... many prizes to give out to our loyal followers. Our goal is to hit 1,000 followers by time the Birthday Bash rolls around ... won't you help us by becoming a follower and spreading the word to your blog friends too?  It'll be such a fun celebration that you won't want to miss - nearly 20 sponsors to date have signed up to partner with us for the Birthday Bash - WOW! Mark your calendars!!

Please join me in thanking Piali Biswas for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our regular bi-monthly sponsor, JustRite Stamps, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome prize package to our Winner!

The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration was simply beautiful this week -- I couldn't narrow it down to {only} 6 Honorable Mention Cups of Tea, so this week we have 10 to showcase! And now, without further ado, here are the creations this week that caught my eye for capturing the essence of the 'Get Creative' challenge by using just stamping (no patterned papers) and handmade embellishments ...

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Ros Crawford #3

2.  Sparklygirl Tina #12

3.   Diane H. #13

4.   Stella #18

5.   Michelle #20

6.   Ann #27

7.   Audrey Pettit #29

8.  Dani C. #40

9.  Kristin #44

10.  Suze #62

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Andrea Ewen #35

2.  Lin #45

3.   Gini Cagle #66

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Danielle G. #67!  Oh my shabby goodness!  Danielle's card just popped right off the page at me this week ... the handmade shabby flower looks so real, it could be just picked from the garden!  The details and stamping elements Danielle added to her design are simply STUNNING!  The little polka dot birdie and sweet paper doilie just melted my heart!  Thank you, Danielle, for sharing your talents with us all this week 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!