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Monday, February 28, 2011

Week #51 - Classic Elegance!

Welcome Friends!!  This week I am your host I've chosen the theme of  'Classic Elegance' for us to design with this week along with this beautiful inspiration photo ...



... and ask that you design a card or project using RED, WHITE (OR CREAM) AND BLACK!

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 am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer - Adela Rossol! Adela earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #40 in the Tea Room - 'Warm and Snuggly'! 


Adela Rossol - Creations by AR


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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures
Mail Girl




Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl
Audrey The Chef




Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations
Love Birds




Farm Window




Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations
Audrey The Builder



Pantry Shelf



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 - The Stamping Boutique!


I'm Tracey Malnofski, the artist and owner of The Stamping Boutique.
My team and I are very happy to sponsor The Shabby Tea Room. My store has been open since September 2009.I am currently a stamp artist for Unity Stamp Co. and I've worked for InStyleStamps, Squigglefly, and TheDigiShack in the past. I'm a professional artist and an active member of the Artist' Guild in my community. I have quite a busy household with a husband, 3 teenagers, 5 mini-dachshunds and an Appaloosa mare. It's noisy, but I love them all. I'm truly blessed.

 "The Stamping Boutique" is dedicated to quality products and original artwork. We not only provide wonderful digital images in our store, but also several lines of red rubber images. Our designers are chosen for their character and personality,as well as, their beautiful designs. We work hard to give you our very best. Thank you so much for having us as your sponsor this week.

Store: http://thestampingboutique.com/
Challenge Blog: http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/


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 5 digital images donated by The Stamping Boutique!

Link your creations below by Sunday, March 6th  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, March 7th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 7th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!



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Week #50 - Buttons and Bows WINNERS!

A HUGE shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of our shabby little challenge blog!!! We received 122 OUTSTANDING cards and projects for our 'Buttons and Bows' 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 1,014 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!  We set a goal to reach 1,000 followers by our 1st Birthday Bash Celebration and, thanks to all of you sweeties, we reached this goal two weeks early - WOW!  How this shabby little challenge blog has grown in just 11 1/2 months :)


Keep peeking in ... we are T-minus 2 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!  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! We'll even have some Alumni Design Team Members coming back to design with us and a few extra special invited guests!!  Mark your calendars!!

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

A very special thank you toThe Cutting Cafe', 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 over the top gorgeous this week! With 122 beautiful submissions, it was next to impossible to choose one winner, 2 tea time terrific top three honors and 6 honorable mentions, so this week we have 12 honorable mentions!!  And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Buttons and Bows' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Betty Wright #12 

2.   Andrea Ewen #16

3.  Liz Droege #18

4.   Silke Ledlow #19

5.   Karin Peppermint Patty #30

6.   Michelle #43

7.  Cindy Beach #88

8.  Karien #91

9.  Linda The Funkie Junkie #98

10.  Stella #100

11.  Lenet #103

12.  Lindy G. #105

And, Kristin #39 as well as Danielle Greenwood #73, who will be joining the Design Team on March 21st!

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1. Rosemary D. #23

2.  Terrie Bailey #32

3. Tammy Roberts #114

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Denise J. #48!  Denise sweet and shabby baby card just stole my heart this week!  The soft pink, vanilla and kraft color palette along with the buttons, baby onesie and all the love put into this handmade from the heart card was breathtaking ... well done, Denise!  Thanks so much for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room 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!
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Week #50 WINNERS and Week #51 Challenge coming soon!

Busy couple of days here at my house -- wrapping up our remodeling project and have had contractors at the house non-stop since last Monday.  I didn't have much time to get on the computer this past week, but see that there are more than 100 fabulous entries for Week #50.  I want to be sure to visit each and every one before the winners are picked, so the winner announcement and next challenge will be posted live sometime Monday morning.  Stay tuned and thanks for your patience!!
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Monday, February 21, 2011

Week #50 - 'Buttons and Bows'

Welcome Friends!!  This week Pattie is our host and she has chosen the theme of 'Buttons and Bows' for us to design with this week along with these fabby inspiration photos ...




... and Pattie asks that you please create a card or project using BUTTONS AND BOWS! Easy peesy!!

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 am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer - Annette Dayot! Annette earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #35 in the Tea Room - 'Lavender and Lace'!  Please take a moment to visit Annette's blog and leave her a bit of {love}!  Isn't her project this week A-MAZING ...




Annette Dayot - Studio A Paper Creations



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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures
Dress card, Tea Pot card, Flower Pot card






Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl
Tea Pot card




Clare Buswell - Clare's Creations
Tea Pot card




Candy card




Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations
Cap card



Flower Pot card



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 - The Cutting Cafe'!


Hello, my name is Regina Easter. I have 4 wonderful children and an awesome supportive husband. I have for as long as I can remember loved all the aspects of creating things with paper and drawing. So it was only fitting that I decided to open up The Cutting Cafe' and I am loving every bit of this new venture. The Cutting Cafe' offers affordable Printable Stamps and Cutting Files. The Cutting Files which are basically just like templates are files that you Print out using your home printer, Cut, Assemble and then Embellish.....Very Easy.....The Cutting Files also come in the format where you can cut out the files using some of the latest Machine Cutters like the Pazzles Inspiration, Bosskut Gazelle and Cricut (with Scal software). The Printable Stamps are just that, images that are sent to you through email that you print out using your home printer. After the images are printed out, you can just color them in like you would any other stamped imaged...One great thing about the Printable Stamps and Cutting Files is that you no longer have to worry about finding space to store all of your stamps....You can keep them all in a folder in your computer and use over and over again.

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 3 cutting files donated by The Cutting Cafe'!

Link your creations below by Sunday, February 27th  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, February 28th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 28th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

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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!
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Monday, February 14, 2011

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




Postcards Stamp Pack





Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations
Sewing Stamp Pack



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!


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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!
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