Week #75 - 'Polka Dots' WINNERS!

A BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an fun week here in the Tea Room for our 'Polka Dots' challenge --  162 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 1,534 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 Julie Malcolm for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Andrea Ewen for joining us as our August Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Creations by AR, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing a template 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 continuously amazes us all!!!  And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Polka Dots' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Joanna M. #15 

2.  Teresa Kline #51

3.  Lea L. #62 
     Lea L. #89

4.  Wanda G. (stampcat) #65

5.  Denise January #93

6.  Rebekah F. #98

7.  Joan Ervin #104

8.  Crystal B. #135

9.  Lynn Put #153

10.  ToryJes #158

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.   Colleen Dietrich #37

2.  Monia #45

3.  Lizzi #54

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Magda(i)Lena #90!  WOW ... what a shabby and vintage stunner!  So many beautiful elements added to this amazing design ... I adore the felt wings, sweet sheet music paper and stitching, adorable blossoms, seam binding bow, punched border, notebook paper and postal elements!!  Thanks for sharing your amazing talents with us all in the Tea Room, Magda(i)Lena!

 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 #75 - 'Polka Dots'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Melissa is our host, and she has chosen the FUN theme of 'Polka Dots'!  Melissa asks that we use this cute picture as inspiration ...

... and use POLKA DOTS!  Easy Peesy!!!  (You need NOT use the colors from the inspiration picture 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, Julie Malcolm - Julie's Inkspot!  Julie earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #65 - 'Technique Week'! 

And our August Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ... please welcome Andrea Ewen - Ewen Style!

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

Mini Bakery

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Carry All

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune
  Baby Onesie

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Tea Cottage

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Elegant Sole

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

  Ribbon Keeper

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 this week - Adela Rossol - Creations by AR!

  I'm Adela and I live in sunny Southern California with my husband and our two teenage girls! Crafting has been a passion of mine since I was a little girl. I love to sew, crochet, knit, draw, paper craft, stamp... I love anything related to crafting! With encouragement from many people, my love of paper crafting in 3D has led me to open an online shop which allows me to share some of my template designs. I feel so blessed and I truly believe that God has given everyone their own special talents and it is our privilege to share it with others.

Our lucky Tea Room winner this week will win two templates of their choice from Creations by AR!

Link your creations below by Sunday, August 21st to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, August 22nd. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 22nd as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #74 - 'Tea For Two' WINNERS!

A BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an beautiful week here in the Tea Room for our 'Tea For Two' challenge --  43 GORGEOUS tea-themed 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 1,517 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 Lenet Mos for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Andrea Ewen for joining us as our August 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 by providing a digital 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 continuously amazes us all!!!  And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Tea For Two' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Michelle Bala #5

2.  nnalorac #10

3.  Pati Olson #12

4.  Heidi D. #27

5.  Mandee #32

6.   Chupa #35

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.   Bird #21 & #30

2.  Magda (i) Lena #33

3.  Beth #42

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Simply Shaz #16!  A-dorable!! Soft, shabby, pretty in baby blue ... what a sweet little girlie having her tea party!  I adore the neutral touches added to this card - especially the handmade crochet flower.  Just beautiful!  Thanks for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room this week, Shaz :)

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 #74 - 'Tea For Two'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Sheri is our host, and she has chosen the FUN theme of 'Tea For Two'!   Sheri asks that we create a card or project using this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and use a TEA THEME with BLUE & GREEN!

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, Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question!  Lenet earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #64 - '2 - 4 - 6'! 

And our August Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ... please welcome Andrea Ewen - Ewen Style!

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

Teapot

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Ornate Frame

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune
  Two For Tea

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Rose

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Two For Tea

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

  Two For Tea

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, August 14th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, August 15th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 15th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #73 - 'Mix and Match' WINNERS!

A BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an beautiful week here in the Tea Room for our 'Mix & Match' challenge --  101 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 1,506 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 Heidi Didriksen for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Andrea Ewen for joining us as our August Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Chi Chi Memories, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing a digital 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 continuously amazes us all!!!  And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Mix & Match' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Lizzie #8 and #77

2.  Joanna M. #15

3.  Agnieszka #17

4.  Fran #29

5.   Stacey G. #47

6.   Pati Olson #64

7.   Sandy G. #69

8.  Magda Matraszek #81

9.  Stephinka #91

10.   Magda (i) Lena #98

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Laurel S. #5

2.  Joy L. #55

3.  Rebekah F. #71

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Inger #48!   What an absolutely sweet and precious birdhouse and so many lovely patterned papers!  I love birdhouses and polka dots and this sweet handmade treasure has lots of both of them!  Just beautiful ... thanks for sharing your talents with us all this week in the Tea Room, Inger!

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 #73 - 'Mix and Match'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Danielle is our host, and she has chosen the FUN theme of 'Mix and Match'!   Danielle asks that we create a card or project using this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and use {at least} THREE DIFFERENT PATTERNED PAPERS in your design - manufactured or make your own!  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, Heidi Didriksen - Papir Dama!  Heidi earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #63 - 'Sweet Baby'! 

And a brand new month brings a brand new Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ... I am pleased to welcome Andrea Ewen - Ewen Style!

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

Splash of Fun

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Summer Fun Kite

Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune
Summer Fun Kite

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Summer Fun Kite

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

 Splash of Fun and Diving Candace

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

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 - Chi Chi Memories!  

Chi Chi Memories is the labor of love of talented artist and illustrator Natalie Tong.  Natalie's background in graphic design has helped her create the very happy world of Chi Chi Memories.  Her line of digi images centers around kids Jordy and Candace and their world of animal friends such as Freddie the elephant and Teddy the bear, among others.  Natalie's designs are meant to spread happiness and cheer around blogland.  You can visit Chi Chi Memories at http://chichimemories.com where you will find the shop (where you can find FREEBIES), the blog and challenges.  There is also a Papercraft Planet group for you come share your work with Chi Chi Memories images and chat.  We are so thrilled to be sponsoring!

This week's winner will receive a prize package to include three digital images!

Link your creations below by Sunday, August 7th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, August 8th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 8th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #72 - 'Relax and Enjoy' WINNERS!

A BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an inspiring week here in the Tea Room for our 'Relax and Enjoy' challenge --  82 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 1,487 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 Kylie Kueter 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 sponsor last week, Stitchy Bear Stamps, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing a 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 continuously amazes us all!!!  And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Relax & Enjoy' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Andrea Ewen #3

2.  Sherry Wright #5

3.  Scrap It Girl #7

4.  Tamara M. #10

5.   Brises #21

6.   Michelle Bala #25

7.   Paul B. #39

8.  Hilda #58

9.  Chupa #66

10.   Charis #67

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Magda Matraszek #63

2.  Fran #71

3.  Magda Lena #72

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Wanda G. #30!   Oh my shabby goodness ... I am smitten with Wanda's card this week!  What beautiful floral papers, whimsical gingham papers, lovely criss cross card design and adorable embellishments - love that pretty paper doilie and pink bloom!!!  This card captured my {heart} the minute I laid eyes on it!  Just perfect for the Tea Room's Relax & Enjoy color inspiration challenge!  Thank you, Wanda, for sharing your talents 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!