Week #59 - 'Butterfly Wishes' WINNERS!

A BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, shabby little challenge blog!!! Another beautiful week here in the Tea Room for our 'How Egg-cellent' challenge -- 162 GORGEOUS 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 1,300 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 via e-mail to be added to the Shabby Girlfriends page!

Please join me in thanking M@rjan Kuppers for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Anabelle O'Malley for joining us as our Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, The Stamp Fairy, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome $15 store voucher for our lucky winner!

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filled 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. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON. Word Verification will NOT protect you from spam comments, and if you have Word Verification turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog.

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 'Butterfly Wishes' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Lori Leng #4

2. Sherry Wright #20

3. Rebekah F. #25

4. Kasey in Oz #29

5. Andrea Ewen #33
 
6. Maureen #37

7. Liz Marsden #43

8. Marisa #65

9. Sari #79

10. Diane Hover #100

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.  Cindy Holshouser #51

2. Bronwyn E. #78
 
3.  Fran #128

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:


Robin Shakoor #158 AND #113!  Robin not only created the most beautiful card with lovely papers and a gorgeous butterfly, but she also shared an amazing layout as well with a pretty butterfly and more wonderful papers and embellishments - WOW!  Such a talented lady and so nice to share her talents with us all in the Tea Room weekly ... thank you, Robin :)

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 #59 - 'Butterfly Wishes'

Welcome shabby friends - so happy you're here!  Today brings Pattie as our host here in the Tea Room, and she chose this pretty little inspiration photo for us all ...

... and asks that we create a card or project based on the inspiration photo and use BUTTERFLIES!  You need not use the colors from the inspiration photo unless you want to :)

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!

For our APRIL SPECIAL GUEST DESIGNER SPOTS --  this week we will be treated to a handmade card made by ANABELLE O'MALLEY!  Last week we were inspired by BEATRIZ JENNINGS!  And the week previous to last week we had the treat of a handmade treasure from MELISSA PHILLIPS!!!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, M@rjan Kuppers, M@rjan's Blog!  M@rjan earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #49 - Keeping Warm :)

And our Special Guest Designer, Anabelle O'Malley, Bits and Pieces ... 

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

Nelly & Leo #6

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Nelly and Leo #6

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune

Nelly and Leo #6

 

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards 

Lenny Flowers

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 super happy to welcome this week's sponsor, The Stamp Fairy!

Stamp Fairy officially launched on November 5th 2010. Gerda Burghardt artist and owner creates cute and whimsical digital images for the young and old, inspired by her life, love and 4 cute cats. You will find adorable teddies bears, young boys and girls to fuzzy little bunnies and whimsical critters.

Stamp Fairy has new releases along with a free image every Friday, a weekly challenge on Mondays and Guest Designers each month on their challenge blog.  Please visit the store and browse StampFairy’s wonderful images. We hope Stamp Fairy’s images inspire YOUR creativity.

The Stamp Fairy will be providing our lucky winner this week with a $15 store voucher!

Link your creations below by Sunday, May 1st to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 2nd. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 2nd as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #58 - 'How 'Egg'cellent - WINNERS!

A BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, shabby little challenge blog!!! Another beautiful week here in the Tea Room for our 'How Egg-cellent' challenge -- 78 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 1,269 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 via e-mail to be added to the Shabby Girlfriends page!

Please join me in thanking Geri Freeman for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Beatriz Jennings for joining us as our Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, The Ribbon Reel, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome trim, ribbon and lace package to our winner!  Mark your calendars ... the ALL NEW bi-weekly challenges will begin at The Ribbon Reel on May 2nd -- you won't want to miss any of the fun :)

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filled 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. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON. Word Verification will NOT protect you from spam comments, and if you have Word Verification turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog.

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 'How Egg-cellent' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Michelle #8

2.  Amelia #20

3.  Linda, The Funkie Junkie #27

4.  Keilly #29

5.  Simply Shaz #30
 
6.  Carol R. #39

7.  Kianel #44

8.  Mariyea #58

9.  Fran #62

10.  Kerry #71

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Phillipa #48

2.  Andrea Ewen #49
 
3.  Robin Shakoor #74

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Tammy Roberts #75!  WOW ... Tammy has done it again!  This ultra vintage and shabby creation is one of the most beautiful card creations I've ever seen!  The attention to detail is fabulous ... so soft, so shabby, so vintage ... so wonderful!  Thank you, Tammy, for sharing your amazing talents with us all weekly 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 #58 - 'How Egg-cellent'

Welcome shabby friends - so happy you're here!  Today brings Charlene's very first time as our hostess with the mostest here in the Tea Room, and she chose this adorable inspiration photo for us all ...

... and asks that we create a card or project based on the inspiration photo and use PASTELS and STRIPES! 

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!

For our APRIL SPECIAL GUEST DESIGNER SPOTS --  this week we will be treated to a handmade card made by BEATRIZ JENNINGS!  Next week we'll be inspired by ANABELLE O'MALLEY!  And last week we had the treat of a handmade treasure from MELISSA PHILLIPS!!!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Geri Freeman, Geri's Paper Wishes!  Geri's shabby and vintage designs are so beautiful and Geri is a 'regular' in the Tea Room!!  Geri has prepared not only one, but TWO gorgeous creations to inspire us all with this week ...

And our Special Guest Designer, Beatriz Jennings - Iralamiga ...

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

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

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

I'm super happy to welcome this week's sponsor, The Ribbon Reel!

The Ribbon Reel is based in the UK and owned by Keilly Mulvihill.  The Ribbon Reel on-line boutique is your one-stop source for all things ribbon, lace, trims, seam binding, velvets, baker's twine, buttons and more!  Keilly will be launching her brand new bi-weekly challenge BLOG on May 2, 2011, so be sure to bookmark the site, mark your calender and play along!  In the meantime, please visit the shop and let Keilly know you found her from here in the Tea Room :)

Keilly provided each of the Shabby Girls with very generous packets of lovely herringbone twill tape, baker's twine, buttons, velvet trim and lots of lovely seam binding trims to design with this week!  Thank you, Keilly!

And here is this week's fabby prize package from The Ribbon Reel ...

... DELICIOUS, huh!!

Link your creations below by Sunday, April 24th  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, April 25th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 25th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #57 - 'Doilies & Lace' WINNERS!

A BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, shabby little challenge blog!!!   Another beautiful week here in the Tea Room for our 'Doilies and Lace' challenge --  119 STUNNING 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 1,259 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 via e-mail to be added to the Shabby Girlfriends page!

Please join me in thanking Robin Shakoor for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Melissa Phillips for joining us as our Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Cupcake Card Craft, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome digital paper set to our winner!

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filled 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. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON.  Comment Moderation will NOT protect you from spam comments, and if you have Comment Moderation turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog.

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 'Doilies and Lace' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Karien #1

2.  Sherry Wright #6

3.  Kylie #10 and #97

4.  Cathy #12

5.   Lea L. #21

6.  Rosemary D. #29

7.  Rebekah R. #42

8.   Phillipa #89

9.  Heather Hudson #110

10.  Maria P. #115

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.  Tab #48

2.  Geri #82

3.  Tammy Roberts #111

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Jean Martin #75!  Jean's design this week just absolutely took my breath away ... the soft colors, the attention to detail, the mix of paper lace and stamped lace, the pretty color palette, seam binding and gorgeous bloom ... oh my shabby goodness - pure love!  Thank you, Jean, for sharing your amazing 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!

Week #57 - 'Doilies & Lace'

Welcome shabby friends - so happy you're here!  Today brings Melissa as our shabby host here in the Tea Room, and she chose this pretty inspiration photo for us all ...

... and asks that we create a card or project based on the inspiration photo and use DOILIES and/or LACE!  You are welcome to use stamps, die cuts, paper, lace, doilies, or fabric in any way you are inspired to create with ... but be sure to show us some doilies and lace!  What a YUMMY challenge :)

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!

Before we get started, we have a bit of news to announce.  Kristin Wilson had to unexpectedly step down from her Design Team position for personal reasons.  So, with an open spot on our Tea Room Design Team, we asked our month-long Guest Designer, Sheri Holt, if she would be interested in stepping up into a permanent Design Team position, and she graciously agreed!  Please join me in welcoming Sheri to our shabby little family!

This left an open position in our month-long Guest Designer spot for April since Sheri was April's GDT, so we invited a couple of our Shabby Girlfriends to join us each of the next three weeks, and I'm happy to report that all three of the talented gals who were invited said YES!  This week we will be treated to a handmade card made by MELISSA PHILLIPS!  Next week we'll be inspired by BEATRIZ JENNINGS!  And the last week of April we'll have the treat of a handmade treasure from ANABELLE O'MALLEY!!!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Robin Shakoor, Designs by Robin!  Robin's elegant and beautiful designs are so pretty and inspirational!!

 

And our Special Guest Designer, Melissa Phillips - Lilly Bean's Paperie! 

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

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

 

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

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

I'm so happy to welcome this week's sponsor, Cupcake Card Craft!

Our little shop Cupcake Cards & Crafts is full of beautiful and trendy papers for card making and paper crafting.  Website address is www.cupcakecardcraft.co.uk.
Instant and affordable down loadable papers and lots more.

Cupcake Card Craft will be offering this beautiful digital paper pack to this week's lucky winner ...

Link your creations below by Sunday, April 17th  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, April 18th. 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 #56 - 'Spring Color Challenge' WINNERS!

A BIG 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 --  138 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 1,242 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 via e-mail to be added to the Shabby Girlfriends page!

Please join me in thanking Lizzi Droege for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Sheri Holt for joining us as our Month-Long Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our regular monthly sponsor, Robyn's Fetish, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome digital set to our 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. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON.  If you have Comment Moderation turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog.

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 'Spring Color' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Kathleen #19

2.   Elizabeth H. #28

3.     Loriete #59

4.   Deb Saaranen #64

5.   Gro Tjelveit #81

6.    Fran #87

7.    Sarah B. #90

8.    Suevan911 #102

9.    Tammy Roberts #127

10.  Carol R. #131

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.    Mandy #36

2.    Emily Keaton #54

3.   Tracey #94

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Cindy Holshouser #96!  WOW ... the basket filled with beautifully colored Easter eggs looks just like the inspiration picture!  How absolutely sweet and adorable ... the eggs are so delicately colored and glittered that they look good enough to eat!  Thank you, Cindy, 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!