Week #61 - 'Ruffled Up'

Hello my shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week brings Danielle as our lovely host and she has chosen this beautiful photo as inspiration ...

... and asks that we create a card or project based on the inspiration photo and use RUFFLES!  You can make ruffles from ribbon or paper or trims ... whatever inspires you!  (You need not use the colors in the inspiration photo unless you feel inspired by them).

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, Terri Moore - Life With Terri!  Terri earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #51 - Classic Elegance!

And our May Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer is Michelle Bala - My Passion For Crafting!

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

 Dreams Do Come True Sentiment

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Congrats on Your New Home

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune

Happy Mother's Day Sentiment

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Ice Cream Cart

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Loving You Sentiment

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards 

Birthday Pippin

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

 I am pleased to welcome our sponsor this week - Digital Delights By Louby Loo!

 

Welcome to Digital Delights, a magical place filled with little digi creations from all walks of life. We have a wide range of digital stamps which are delivered straight to your email 24/7!
In addition we also have a growing range of "Delightful Piecings" which are paper pieced files designed to be used with your cutting machines or for hand cutting.
Fancy a new blog makeover, header or new watermark, then stop by our sister site Delightful Custom blogs.

And the prize this week for our lucky winner ...

Link your creations below by Sunday, May 15th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 16th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 16th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #60 - 'Sweet Dreams' 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 -- 82 PRETTY 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 1,310 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 Denise January for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Michelle Bala for joining us as our Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

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

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Cathy D. #5

2.  Sherry Wright #6

3.  Linda, the funkie junkie #24

4.  Lin #33

5.  Jan Garber #46
 
6.  Blackdragon #50

7.  Jane Johnson #61

8.  Deb.x #70

9.  Ingrid Danvers #76

10.  Naomi #77

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.  Amelia #54

2.  Debbie Dolphin #67
 
3.   Robin Shakoor #81

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Andrea Ewen #4!  Oh my shabby goodness ... what pure blissfulness!  The lovely papers, gorgeous flower and pearls, beautiful tag and all-around design just stole my heart this week!  Such a beauty!  Thank you, Andrea, 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 #60 - 'Sweet Dreams'

Welcome shabby friends ... so glad you're here today!  This week I am our challenge host and I've chosen this BEAUTIFUL, SOFT and SOOTHING photo as inspiration for our creativity this week ... 

... and I ask that we create a card or project based on the inspiration photo and use BLUE, WHITE (or CREAM) and a NEUTRAL (KRAFT, BROWN, BLACK, TAN).  

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, Denise January - Sassy Stampin'!  Denise earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #50 - Buttons and Bows :)

And our May Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer is none other than ... DRUM ROLL PLEASE -- Michelle Bala - My Passion For Crafting!

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

Birdies Nest

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Waking Up Birdie

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune

I {heart} U

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Rock-a-Bye Baby

 

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards 

Good Night Princess

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

 I am pleased to welcome back our regular monthly sponsor in the Tea Room 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, May 8th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 9th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 9th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

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!