Week #65 - 'Technique Week' WINNERS!

BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Another creative week here in the Tea Room for our 'Technique Week - Embossing' challenge -- 90 BEAUTIFUL cards and projects this week - WOW - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,386 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!

NEW FEATURE ... Top 10 Members {on our sidebar}!  Click to sign in and have each of your visits to the Tea Room registered ... you just may find yourself spotlighted as one of the Top 10 Featured Favorites in the Tea Room :)  It's so fun to see visiting numbers rising!

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 Viola Mahr for joining us as our June Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our regular monthly sponsor last week, Robyn's Fetish, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge and providing an awesome stamp set prize 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. Thank you 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 GORGEOUS this week! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Sweet Baby' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Joanna M. #13

2.  Lori Leng #15

3.  Lea L. #21

4.  Victoria Lavender #35

5.  Michelle Bala #41
 
6.  Susan B. #57

7.  Clare Buswell #63

8.  E. Marie #72

9.  Fran #81

10. Tammy Roberts #84

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Andrea Ewen #6   

2.  Eli #24

3.  Nicola J. #47

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Julie #39!  I am speechless with this elegant card and gift box design that Julie submitted last week for our embossing challenge.  The white on white color palette was so stunning.  The rows of handmade roses were gorgeous.  The embossed score lines added just the right element to this elegant design ... just beautiful work!  We're so lucky that you shared your lovely project with us all in the Tea Room last week, Julie!!

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 #65 - 'Technique Week'

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

... and asks that we create a card or project with EMBOSSING -- wet or dry!  (You need NOT use the colors from the inspiration photo unless you are 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, Geri Freeman - Paper Wishes!  Geri earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #55 - 'Flower Palette'!

And our June Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer is Viola Mahr - Sunshine - Just a Little Handmade Happiness!

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

Fruity Strawberries

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!
Fruity Strawberries

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune

Fruity Strawberries

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

English Tea Cup

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Cake

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards
English Tea Cup

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

 The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome back our regular monthly Tea Room Sponsor - 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, June 12th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, June 13th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 13th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #64 - '2 - 4 - 6' WINNERS!

BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Another creative week here in the Tea Room for our '2 - 4 - 6' challenge -- 60 PRETTY cards and projects this week - WOW - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,373 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!

NEW FEATURE ... Top 10 Members {on our sidebar}!  Click to sign in and have each of your visits to the Tea Room registered ... you just may find yourself spotlighted as one of the Top 10 Featured Favorites in the Tea Room :)  It's so fun to see visiting numbers rising!

Please join me in thanking Sharon Gregory 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 May Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our regular bi-monthly sponsor last week, JustRite Stamps, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge and providing an awesome stamp set prize 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. Thank you 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 GORGEOUS this week! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Sweet Baby' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Robin Shakoor #8

2.   Lori Leng #36

3.   Diane H. #37

4.   Lindy G. #43

5.   Carol R. #44
 
6.   Tracey #45

7.   Maria #48

8.   Debbie Carriere #54

9.   Fran #58

10.  Tammy Roberts #59


THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.    Lea L. #4

2.    Andrea Ewen #13

3.    Keilly #35

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Lenet #57!  What a stunning, vintage inspired card ... such beautiful floral images, gorgeous lace trim, lovely pink buttons, creative machine sewing, beautiful inked chipboard frame and wonderful shabby seam binding and paper flower - WOW!  Thanks, Lenet, 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!

Week #64 - '2 - 4 - 6'

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

... and a recipe challenge this week!!  Charlene asks that we create a card or project with TWO PATTERNED PAPERS (manufactured or handmade), FOUR BUTTONS AND SIX LAYERS!  How fun is that??!!??  (You need not use the colors from the photo unless you are 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, Sharon Gregory - The Ramblings of a Fairy!  Tammy earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #54 - 'BINGO'!

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!!!

~ June Special Month-Long Guest Designer ... VIOLA MAHR!!! ~

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

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Simple Treasures

 Signs of Life

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!
Forever Friends

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune
You Are The Best

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Signs of Life

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Because I Care

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards
Hope Borders & Centers

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

 The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome back our regular bi-monthly Tea Room Sponsor - JustRite Stamps!

JustRite now has 3 distinct brands of products- JustRite Original Stamps, JustRite Cling Stamps and JustRite Custom dies manufactured by Spellbinders.  With the introduction of two new product lines JustRite is more versatile than ever.  JustRite cling stamps are designed to coordinate with Spellbinders Label templates.

 

And the awesome prize for one lucky winner this week ...

Link your creations below by Sunday, June 5th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, June 6th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 6th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #63 - 'Sweet Baby' WINNERS!

BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Another beautiful week here in the Tea Room for our 'Sweet Baby' challenge -- 60 SWEET cards and projects this week - WOW - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,355 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!

NEW FEATURE ... Top 10 Members {on our sidebar}!  Click to sign in and have each of your visits to the Tea Room registered ... you just may find yourself spotlighted as one of the Top 10 Featured Favorites in the Tea Room :)  It's so fun to see visiting numbers rising!

Please join me in thanking Heather Hunter 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 May Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsors last week, Lauretta's Digital Stamps and Coco Dingo Digital Stamps, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome gift certificate 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. Thank you 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 GORGEOUS this week! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Sweet Baby' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Eli #4

2.   Donna #11 - 14

3.    Sharon Johnson #15

4.   Pink Latte #22

5.   Andrea Ewen #31

6.   Fairy Di #36
 
7.   Tracey Brossart #37

8.   Linda, The Funkie Junkie #51


9.   Jen Adcock #54

10.   Martuska #55


THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.    Theresa Neubaum #46
 
2.    Lenet #50

3.   Tammy Roberts #59 

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Heidi D. #24!  All I can say is oh so PRETTY IN PINK!  What a beautiful infant image, lovely coloring, gorgeous paper flowers frame ... just stunning work!  Thank you, Heidi, for sharing your wonderful creation 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 #63 - 'Sweet Baby'

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

... and asks that we create a card or project with a BABY THEME!  (You need not use the colors in the inspiration photo unless you are 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, Heather Hunter - Shabby Shambles!  Tammy earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #53 - 'Party Time'!

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

 Rocking Horse

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!
Bird in Flight

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune
Duck

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart
Rocking Horse

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch
Letter B

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards
Goodnight

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

 I am pleased to welcome our dual sponsors this week - Lauretta's Digital Stamps and Coco Dingo!

Hi am Lauretta, I am also known under the nickname of Ladypou.  I am the founder of Craft Your Passion challenge blog. I love to draw,  and have started my own line of digital stamps in January 2010 called Lauretta's Digital Stamps.  You can find my images here:   http://laurettasdigitalstamps.blogspot.com/.  I am also on other Design teams like Meljen's Designs and Pattie's creations (both digital stamp artist)  and on Karmascrap ( a weekly sketch challenge ) and also a store DT here in Canada called (La cour a Scrap...booking).  I love each and every place were I have fun creating and expressing my artistic passions.  Please come and visit me on my personal blog:    http://www.passioncartesetplus.blogspot.com.

Hi my name is Corinne and my nickname is Frenchie on the forums  ( I am originally from France ).  Lauretta is one of my best friends, and we created the Craft Your Passion challenge blog, together.  My drawing artist name is Coco Dingo. My blog of digital stamps is Coco Dingo.  You can view/purchase my images at:
http://cocodingo.blogspot.com/.  I am also with the design team of karmascrap.  I’m a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator since last year. You can visit my personal blog at:  http://passionscorinne.blogspot.com/. Here,   you will find all of my passions on this blog: scrapbooking, cards, drawings and jewelry.

And the prize package to our lucky winner this week is four digital images of your choice from either shop!

Link your creations below by Sunday, May 29th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 30th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 30th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #62 - "Monochromatic' WINNERS!

BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Another beautiful week here in the Tea Room for our 'Monochromatic' challenge -- 141 LOVELY cards and projects this week - WOW - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,335 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!

NEW FEATURE ... Top 10 Members {on our sidebar}!  Click to sign in and have each of your visits to the Tea Room registered ... you just may find yourself spotlighted as one of the Top 10 Featured Favorites in the Tea Room :)  It's so fun to see visiting numbers rising!

Please join me in thanking Tammy Roberts 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 May Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, The Beary Scrap Paper Crafting Boutique, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome gift certificate 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 GORGEOUS this week! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Monochromatic' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Chris Olsen #23

2.   Evgenia Petzer #50

3.   Sazzlecraft #61

4.   Simply Shaz #62

5.   Dalia #65
 
6.   Linda L. #78

7.  Kirsten #98 

8.  Nancy Jensen #110

9.   Lynn Put #125

10.  Fran #139

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Andrea Ewen #5

2.   Sherry Wright #9
 
3.    Zvezdo4ka #52

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Kylie #112!  Oh my holly jolly goodness ... this holiday creation is simply gorgeous!  What a sweet Tilda image -- love that damask paper pieced dress and all the bling!  The coloring is magnaficent and just the right tough of shabbyness to add a time-worn look!  Thank you, Kylie, for sharing this sweet card with us all 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!