Week #70 - 'Flower Power'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Char is our wonderful host and she has chosen the theme of 'Flower Power' and asks that we create a card or project using this gorgeous photo for inspiration ...

... and use the COLORS from the photo (reds, pinks, greens, neutrals) AND FLOWERS!

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, Andrea Ewen - Ewen Style!  Andrea earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #60 - 'Sweet Dreams'! 

And our June Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer is Tammy Roberts - Paperie Sweetness!

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

Tea Time

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Love Blooms Paper Pack

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Love Blooms paper, Summer Party Hat Silhouette, BFF Roundies Word Art

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch
Summer Party and Tea Time

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Floral Frame 8 and BFF Roundies Word Art

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune
Love Blooms Paper Pack

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 our sponsor - Stitchy Bear Stamps!  

"Hi my name is Stitchy and I am Co-Owner of Stitchy Bear Stamps...we started this store April 1st, No Fooling haha..I live in upstate New York with my husband and two TEENAGE adults haha, I do say that loosely as they think they run the show here, NOT...!

I've been creating stamps for a little less than a year now and I am totally addicted to the craft..I started about 4 years ago making digital scraps and I knew there was much more out there, so a friend of mine introduced me to digital stamps...and the rest they say is history...I look forward to seeing all the beautiful creations come through...good luck everyone..stitchy xoxox"

The lucky winner in this week's Tea Room Challenge will win a $10 gift certificate to Stitchy Bear Stamps!

Link your creations below by Sunday, July 17th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, July 18th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 18th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #69 - 'Happy 4th of July' 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 'Happy 4th of July' challenge --  56 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 1,451 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 Robin Shakoor for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Tammy Roberts for joining us as our July Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our regular monthly sponsor last week, Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing a 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 'Classic Patterns' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Kim Duran #4

2.  Andrea Ewen #11

3.  Chris/CS Designs #17

4.  Lea L. #22

5.  Chupa #35
 
6.  Charlotte #36

7.  Mieke Wierega #38

8.  Sarah Nelson #39

9.  Maria P. #41

10.  Fran #47

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Sazzlecraft #26

2.  Keilly #30

3.  Yulis #32

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Jo #54!  WOW - what an absolutely gorgeous card!  I adore how Jo managed to put a shabby little sewing theme spin on her patriotic colored design this week.  The button card is precious and I love all the pretty doilies, lace and sewing embellishments!  Simply beautiful!  Thanks, Jo, 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!

Week #69 - 'Happy 4th of July'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Melissa is our fabby host and she has chosen the theme of 'Happy 4th of July' and asks that we create a card or project using this photo for inspiration ...

... and use RED, WHITE AND BLUE!  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, Robin Shakoor - Designs By Robin!  Robin earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #59 - 'Butterfly Wishes'! 

And our June Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer is Tammy Roberts - Paperie Sweetness!

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

Basket of Apples

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Ornate Frame

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune

I Luv Watermelon

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Fruity Strawberries

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Fruity Strawberries

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Seashells For Sale

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 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, July 10th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, July 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 #68 - 'My Favorite Things' 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 'My Favorite Things' challenge -- a near 'record breaking week of submissions' (current record for one week is 200 submissions!)  -- 197 WONDERFUL 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 1,438 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 Viola Mahr for joining us as our June Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Digi Doodle Shop, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing a $10 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 'Classic Patterns' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Angie #11

2.  Joanna M. #24

3.  Geri #52

4.  Sherry Wright #58

5.  Lenet #69
 
6.  Tab #80

7.  Maria P. #98

8.  Cathy #114

9.  Elizabeth Price #122

10.  Lauren #193

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Debbie Dolphin #15

2.  Cheryl Walker #43

3.  Sarah Bargo #175

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Julia #102 AND #103!  WOWOWOW!  What an amazing wedding gift set Julia created for our challenge last week!  The attention to detail on all the creations Julia made was outstanding!  I adore the 3-D cake and coordinating gift box/card.  AND ... Julia created the most whimsical and adorable Wizard of Oz step card ... I am smitten with anything Wizard of Oz -- my all-time favorite childhood movie!  The coloring and design work was just breathtaking!! Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room last week, Julia :)

 

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 #68 - 'My Favorite Things'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Sheri is our fabby host and she has chosen the theme of 'My Favorite Things' and asks that we create a card or project using your FAVORITE PAPERS AND EMBELLISHMENTS!

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, Tammy Roberts - Paperie Sweetness!  Tammy earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #58 - 'How Egg-celent'! 

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

Fancy Hat #2

Card

 Art Quilt Block #7

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Tickets

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

You've Got Mail

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Karaoke Singer

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Fairy & Daisy

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune

(Off this week)

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 this week's Tea Room Sponsor - Digi Doodle Shop!

Digi Doodle Shop is the result of a mother and daughter’s love for the arts and crafts.  It was started just a couple of months ago with a little more than 100 stamps, and has since then grown to over 250 stamps - now available. 

Joy (the mother of this team) designs realistic images, while I (Judy aka/daughter) love the “fun side of life”, and create images with cartoon flair.  Having these two complimenting styles have enabled Digi Doodle Shop to offer just about any type of stamp.  Plus, we also offer “custom made stamps”, and blog designs.  Our best work comes from request, so if you don’t see what you’re looking for, just send us an email and before long you’ll see it in the shop.  

It is a real honor and pleasure to sponsor this challenge, and we look forward to seeing all the amazing creations.  We thank the design team for their incredible creations, and wish all the participants the very best of luck in this challenge.

This week's winner will receive a $10 gift certificate from The Digi Doodle Shop!

Thank you so much for having us, and again the very best of luck to all of you.

Sincerely,
Judy and Joy

Link your creations below by Sunday, July 3rd to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, July 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 #67 - 'Classic Elegance' 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 'Classic Patterns' challenge -- 85 STUNNING 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 1,413 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 Jean Martin 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 sponsor last week, Joan's Gardens, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing a generous stamp and die 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 'Classic Patterns' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Tracy #1

2.  Andrea Ewen #7

3.  Joanna M. #13

4.  Maddy Hill #19

5.  Sara #20
 
6.  Lea L. #21

7.  Michelle Bala #36

8.  Lenet #38

9.  Heidi D. #55

10.  Svetlana V. #84

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Cathy #67

2.  Fran #83

3.  Raechelle Bellus #85

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Kylie #69!  WOWOWOW!  The layout Kylie created is just about one of the most stunning creations I think I've ever seen!  I do not consider myself an expert in making scrap book pages, so this one was SO inspirational to me!  So many beautiful details, such pretty placement, such amazing flow, color, embellishments and gorgeous design!  Simply stunning!  Thank you for sharing your work with us all in the Tea Room this week, Kylie!

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 #67 - 'Classic Patterns'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Danielle is our FUN host and she has chosen the theme of 'Classic Patterns' along with this beautiful photo as inspiration ...

... and asks that we create a card or project with USING THE COLORS IN THE INSPIRATION PHOTO AND POLKA DOTS AND/OR GINGHAM!

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, Jean Martin - Stampin' Scrapper!  Jean earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #57 - 'Doilies and Lace'!  Jean treated us to TWO cards this week for our fun little challenge!!

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

Tea With Bella Precut Set

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

{TWO cards this week!!}

Bella Rose Precut Set - House/Butterfly

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune

Bella Rose - Trellis

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Bella Rose - Vase

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Classic Bella Rose

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Bella Rose Vintage Background

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 this week's Tea Room Sponsor - Joan's Gardens!

Joan's Gardens carries a full line of stamp and scrapbook products such as: Heartfelt Creations and JustRite Stamps; Marianne, Cheery Lynn and Spellbinders dies; punches for creating your own flower embellishments, the newest design papers, and etc.  You can see our full line of products by going to www.atjoansgardens.com .  All products are listed under Items In My Store on the right hand side of the website.

About a year ago, I asked Selma Stevenson to be our designer and since then we have loved planning challenges, inviting guest designers to help with blog hops,  organizing workshops, and finding the newest items out there for our customers. Selma does a lot of gorgeous design work and tutorials with the products you can purchase from Joan's Gardens.

HeartFelt Creations has donated the prize package for our lucky winner with a  retail value of $134.99 and includes all of the Bella Rose stamps and the Bella Rose dies!
 
Besides the Heartfelt Creations prize package for the winner, we would like to offer you a $5.00 discount on any orders over $25.00.  Be sure to mention Shabby Tea Room Discount when placing your order.

Link your creations below by Sunday, June 26th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, June 27th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 27th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!