Week #56 - 'Spring Color Challenge'

Welcome shabby friends - so happy you're here!  Today is Kristin's very first time to host a challenge here in the Tea Room, and she has chosen this pretty inspiration photo for us all ...

... and asks that we create a card or project based on the colors from the inspiration picture {yellow, pink, green, peach & lavender} and a neutral (white, cream, kraft)!

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 -the talented Miss Lizzi Droege - Buttercreme n' Roses!  All the Shabby Girls are such {fans} of Miss Lizzi's vintage and shabby chic designs ... pure eye candy!

 

And our April Month-Long Guest Designer is Miss Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards!

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 ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Simple Treasures

Lilly and Easter Egg

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!
Kid Bunny

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune
Lamb

Kristin Wilson - Lilsweetpea's Place
Babette Bunny

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart
Babette Bunny

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch
Easter Egg

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

I'm so happy to welcome our regular monthly Tea Room sponsor this week - Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps!

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.

Link your creations below by Sunday, April 10th  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, April 11th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 11th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #55 - 'Flower Palette' WINNERS!

A HUGE shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, shabby little challenge blog!!!   Another fabby week here in the Tea Room for our Flower Palette challenge --  139 BEAUTIFUL cards and projects 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 1,208 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 blinkie, Tea Time Terrific Top Three badge, Winner badge or Guest Designer badge, contact me to be added to the Shabby Girlfriends page!

Please join me in thanking Linda Langes 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, Just Rite Stamps,  for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome cling stamp set and coordinating die kit for our lucky winner!

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filed with such inspiration, but with the increasing popularity of the Tea Room challenges, it is becoming more time consuming to get around to each and every applicant's submission in order to leave comments.  Here in the Tea Room, we work on an odd/even commenting rotation, so if you are an odd number, you'll find comments from three of the Shabby Girls and the even numbers will find comments from the other three Shabby Girls.  Those who still have WORD VERIFICATION turned on are making our jobs more difficult and sometimes causing computer problems.  Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON.   By turning Word Verification off, those that wish to leave comments on your projects will not have to go through the added steps of typing in the caption of random letters before the comment will be posted.  By leaving Comment Moderation on, YOU choose which comments you wish to add to your blog -- so no worries of any spam getting through since you have complete control over which comments you allow and which you delete.  Moving forward, due to the increasing numbers of participants weekly, if you have Word Verification turned on, the Shabby Girls may not be able to leave you sweet comments.  Thanks for your cooperation!

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 so WONDERFUL this week!   And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Flower Palette' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Mango #40

2.   Evelina #47

3.    Liz Droege #52 

4.   Fran #54

5.   Kristy Vittetoe #75

6.    Sylvia/LT #80

7.    Tracy C. #102

8.    Betik #107

9.    Catz #110

10.  Ivy #129

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.    Sheri H. #7

2.    Jean Martin #117

3.   Tammy Roberts #138

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Geri #108!  WOWOWOWOW!!!  This week Geri not only provided us a card directly inspired by our lovely photo to feast our eyes on, she also provided a great tutorial on how she made her very own mulberry paper 3-D flower!  All I can say is just STUNNING, Geri, simply breathtaking!  Thanks so much for sharing your amazing talents with us in the Tea Room weekly!


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!

Some 'JustRite' Shabby {Love}!

Hello friends ... just a quick little post here to direct you over to the JustRite Inspiration Blog where you'll see a couple of the Shabby Girls creations showcased for participating in the most recent 'Kindness' challenge!

The Shabby Girls {heart} Sharon, Kellie and JustRite Stamps :)  

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Week #55 - 'Flower Palette'

Welcome shabby friends!  Today is Danielle's very first time to host a challenge here in the Tea Room, and she has chosen this GORGEOUS inspiration photo for us all ...

... and asks that we create a card or project based on the colors from the inspiration picture and use FLOWERS!  Easy peesy, right?!?

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 - Linda Langes! 

Linda Langes - A Happy Scramper

And ... INTRODUCING a BRAND NEW feature beginning this March in the Tea Room -- MONTH-LONG GUEST DESIGNER SPOTS - yippiee!  We had so many fabulous entries for our most recent Design Team Call that is was impossible to narrow all of the gorgeousness down to just two positions.   After giving it some careful thought and consulting with the Design Team girlies, we decided to invite a few designers that are regulars here in the Tea Room and who submitted exceptionally beautiful application projects to Guest Design with the Shabby Girls for a month at a time -- FUN!  Please help me welcome our very first month-long Guest Designer ... Deb Saaranen!

Deb Saaranen - Dream In Color

Do you want to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer with the Shabby Girls?  It's very simple to apply ... simply participate in our weekly challenges and WOW us with your projects!  The Shabby Girls might be calling on you to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer!!!  Stay tuned :)

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Simple Treasures

Kindness and Friendship Blooms cling sets

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!
Kindness and Friendship Blooms cling sets

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune
Kindness, Friendship Blooms and Fancy Labels cling sets

Kristin Wilson - Lilsweetpea's Place
Friendship Blooms and Fancy Labels cling sets

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Kindness, Friendship Blooms and Fancy Labels cling sets

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Kindness and Friendship Blooms cling sets

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

I'm so happy to welcome our regular bi-monthly Tea Room sponsor this week - JustRite Stamps!

We are so excited about our new introductions for Spring- they are Fresh, Fun and more versatile than ever!! 

JustRite Cling Stamps & Spellbinders Dies a perfect match

2011 brings the opportunity for JustRite to introduce new cling stamp sets designed to coordinate with Spellbinders CHA Winter 2011 Release.  JustRite’s new cling line is also designed to coordinate with their JustRite Original line of stamps --- add a cling stamp set to your JustRite Collection to give a set in your collection a bold new look.

This week's prize donated by JustRite Stamps will be the Kindness cling stamp set and coordinating Spellbinders Labels 20 die set - WOW!!!

Link your creations below by Sunday, April 3rd  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, April 4th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 4th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #54 - 'BINGO' WINNERS!

A HUGE shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, shabby little challenge blog!!!   WOWOWOW ... we had a RECORD BREAKING week in the Tea Room for our BINGO challenge and received 200 WONDERFUL cards and projects 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 1,172 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!

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 Pixie Dust Paperie for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome gift certificate to our Winner and 20% off coupon for our followers!

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 so BEAUTIFUL this week!  With 200 talented participants, it was next to impossible to narrow the top honors and winners down to our usual 10, so this week we are delighted to spotlight SIXTEEN of the most exceptional designs!  And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'BINGO' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Amelia #7

2.   Monika Buzsy #39

3.  Terrie Bailey #53 

4.   Lena Katrine #87

5.   Wanda Cullen #113

6.  Lori Leng #127

7.   Cindy Holshouser #139

8.   Juls #143

9.   Ruby M. #153

10.  Debbie Dolphin #162

11.   Linda, the funkie junkie #166

12.  Susan Killiam #180  

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Tammy Roberts #122

2.    Kylie #164

3.    Rebekah #189

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Simply Shaz #9!  Oh my shabby dabby goodness ... pure delight!!  The fabulous gift set Sharon created using the bird cage template from My Time Made Easy is just STUNNING!  Sharon also created a coordinating card ... both projects loaded with pink, frilly embellishments to create one of the prettiest gift sets I've ever seen!  Well done, Sharon ... well done!  Thanks for sharing your amazing talents 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!

FINAL DAY TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZES!

Just a quick little reminder, today is the final day to claim your prize if you were one of the twenty lucky winners for the Birthday Bash Celebration.  Check HERE to see if you're a winner and contact me VIA E-MAIL (on sidebar) in order to claim your prize ... by MIDNIGHT, (EST) SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2011!

Week #54 - 'BINGO'

Welcome Friends!  Today marks the start of our third six months here in the Tea Room ... and we have a couple new, smiling and talented designers to share their talents with us all!  Let us all {officially} welcome Charlene, Danielle and Kristin to our Shabby Tea Room Family!  The excitement of the new DT members joining the team today is also bittersweet, as we say goodbye to Cathy, Clare and Nicole.  We so enjoyed being inspired by their beautiful designs for the past six months and look forward to seeing them in the Tea Room again for our weekly challenges as their schedules allow!  Thank you girls :)  Miss you already!!

This week I am your host and have a challenge with a fun little twist for you all to shake things up a bit ...

... using this inspiration board as a starting point for your design, please choose any THREE IN A ROW embellishments to create a card or project with this week!  For example, you may decide to use brads, buttons and die cuts on your card ... OR you may decide to use buttons, flowers and glitter on your project!  Basically, a wild card week!  Use ANY THREE IN A ROW, and please be sure to include which items you chose in your blog post!

BONUS ... anyone using all 9 embellishment choices will go into a random drawing for 5 yards of Shabby Vintage Seam Binding from my Etsy Shop!  Just be sure to leave me a comment on my Simple Treasures blog post HERE letting me know your submission number and that you used all nine embellishments in order to be considered for the BONUS prize :)

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 - Michelle Bala!  Michelle is a 'regular' here in the Tea Room ... treating us all weekly to some of her delicious paper crafted confections!!!

Michelle Bala - Passionate Crafter

And ... INTRODUCING a BRAND NEW feature beginning this March in the Tea Room -- MONTH-LONG GUEST DESIGNER SPOTS - yippiee!  We had so many fabulous entries for our most recent Design Team Call that is was impossible to narrow all of the gorgeousness down to just two positions.   After giving it some careful thought and consulting with the Design Team girlies, we decided to invite a few designers that are regulars here in the Tea Room and who submitted exceptionally beautiful application projects to Guest Design with the Shabby Girls for a month at a time -- FUN!  Please help me welcome our very first month-long Guest Designer ... Deb Saaranen!

Deb Saaranen - Dream In Color

Do you want to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer with the Shabby Girls?  It's very simple to apply ... simply participate in our weekly challenges and WOW us with your projects!  The Shabby Girls might be calling on you to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer!!!  Stay tuned :)

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Simple Treasures

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune

 

Kristin Wilson - Lilsweetpea's Place

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

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

I'm so happy to welcome our Tea Room sponsor this week - Pixie Dust Paperie!

Pixie Dust Paperie - A place for pretty paper crafting products and lots of inspiration.

Pixie Dust Paperie is a monthly kit club dedicated to bringing you the newest products available in the paper crafting industry. Each month, you will receive a beautifully designed kit with the latest papers and embellishments, all designed to coordinate perfectly, and ready for you to create, whether it's scrapbook pages, cards, mini album, coffee table brag book, or altered projects, you will find lots of inspiration and new ideas here at Pixie Dust Paperie.

At The Pixie Blog (www.pixiedustpaperie.blogspot.com), we have a new project every single day, giveaways and monthly challenge too, so please come visit us!

Besides the $20 Pixie Gift Certificate for the winner, we would like to offer your readers a coupon code - tearoom-special, use code during check out to get 20% off our Pixie Kits.

And don't forget to check HERE to see if you're a winner of one of the TWENTY prize packages during our week-long Birthday Bash Celebration!  You have one week from Monday to claim your prize :)

Link your creations below by Sunday, March 27th  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, March 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!