Week #91 - 'The Magic of Christmas' WINNERS!

A big, shabby THANK YOU to all of our friends for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an fun week here in the Tea Room for our 'The Magic of Christmas' challenge -- we received 49 BEYOND GORGEOUS 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 1,725 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 Tammy Roberts for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Lea Lawson for joining us as our December 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!
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 and inspires us all!!! Your talent and creativity makes it nearly impossible to pick winners each week! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Magic of Christmas' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Joanna M. #7

2.  Maria P. #10

3.  Ruby #19

4.  Marlene #20

5.  Darise Bruno #25

6.  Sandee #30

7.  Susie Bentz #32

8.  Chris Olsen #37

9.  Sharon Wheet #42

10.  Bligu #45



THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:


 1.  Andrea Ewen #3

2.  Kristi S. #34

3.  Cathy #41


THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Amelia #39!  Wow!  Pink, check!  Gold, check!  Neutrals, check!  Flowers, check!  Snowflakes, check!  Amelia incorporated each element from last week's challenge into her card this week to create this stunning design!!  I simply adore how she formed the tree shape with flowers and then potted the tree in a planter!  Thank you very much, Amelia, for sharing your 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 #91 - 'The Magic of Christmas'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Fran is our wonderful host and she has chosen the theme of 'The Magic of Christmas' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and Fran asks that you create a card or project inspired by the above photo and USE PINK, GOLD, NEUTRALS, FLOWERS and SNOWFLAKES!

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 in the Tea Room during the Week #80 challenge - 'Vintage White'.

And some more beautiful inspiration from our December Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...  I'm tickled pink and please to introduce you all to Lea Lawson - Cupcakes and Sunshine!  

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

Christmas Twee

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Christmas Twee

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

Beautiful Bow

Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog

I Heart You

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Christmas Presents

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

My Mittens

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 - 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 of their choice.

Please link your creations below by Sunday, December 11th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, December 12th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 12th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #90 - 'Winter Picnic' WINNERS!

A big, shabby THANK YOU to all of our friends for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an fun week here in the Tea Room for our 'Winter Picnic' challenge -- we received 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 1,707 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 Lori Ulrich for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Audrey Pettit for joining us as our November 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!

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 and inspires us all!!!  Your talent and creativity makes it nearly impossible to pick winners each week!   And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Winter Picnic' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Sherry Wright #3

2.   Colleen Dietrich #9

3.  Roseanne #11

4.   Birgit #14

5.   Rosemary D. #19

6.   Andrea Ewen #24

7.  Milagros C. Rivera #30

8.  Lizzi #42

9.  Sharon Wheet #62

10.   Darsie Bruno #78

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS: 
 
1.  Chupa #17

2.  Mia #36

3.  Michelle Bala #39

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER: 

Heather Hudson #51!   WOW ... what a stunning and precious 3-D skate home decor project - perfect for this week's challenge!  Such wonderful bits and bobs of vintage charm -- thanks for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room, Heather!

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 #90 - 'Winter Picnic'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Cindy is our wonderful host and she has chosen the theme of 'Winter Picnic' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and Cindy asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo and USE WHITE OR CREAM, NEUTRALS, SILVER AND GLITTER!

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, Lori Ulrich - Papercrafts by Saintsrule!  Lori earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #78 challenge - 'Pink Wedded Bliss'. 

And some more beautiful inspiration from our November Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    

Audrey Pettit!  

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
O Christmas Tree and Winter Words

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

Deck the Halls

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

Merry & Bright and Lace Borders

Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog

Lace Borders and Charming Christmas

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Musical Notes Labels Twenty and O Christmas Tree

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Fleur De Lis Twenty and O Christmas Tree

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 sponsor - JustRite Stamps!

JustRite expands their rubber stamp assortment to include 4 ½” x 5 ¾” Cling background stamps.  Design your own background paper with JustRite Background Stamps.

And this weeks oh so generous prize package that will go to our lucky winner is a JustRite Prize Package – $84.80 Value!!

JustRite Custom Dies – Charm Dies

Charming Christmas Cling Stamps

Elegant Charms Cling Stamps

Be Charmed Cling Stamps

Check out the JustRite Friday Inspiration post too!  

So, come on folks ... put your thinking caps on and show us your BEST 'Winter Picnic' creations this week!

Please link your creations below by Sunday, December 4th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, December 5th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 5th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #89 - ' Colors of Nature' WINNERS!

A big, shabby THANK YOU to all of our friends for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an fun week here in the Tea Room for our 'Colors of Nature' challenge -- we received 52 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 1,701 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 Sarah Bargo for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Audrey Pettit for joining us as our November Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Whoopsi Daisy, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge!

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 and inspires us all!!!  Your talent and creativity makes it nearly impossible to pick winners each week!   And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Colors of Nature' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Michelle Bala #10

2.  Maria & Simeon #16

3.  Steph C. #17

4.  Donna #21

5.  Susan #23

6.  Ellen Parker #24

7. Rosemary D. #33

8.  Brigit #44

9.  Lori U. #45

10.  Babette #52

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.   Lenet #7

2.  Jenn #29

3.  Wendy Bickford #36

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Teresa Kline #31!  WOW ... what a shabby stunner!  The layering on this card is simple beautiful -- each layer more pretty than the last!   I love the tea stained paper doilie, pretty seam binding, newsprint patterned paper, polka dots, tag, lace trim ... oh my!!  Thank you, Teresa, 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 #89 - 'Colors of Nature'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Sheri is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Colors of Nature' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and Sheri asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS in the photo provided!

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, Sarah Bargo - Thankful Tidings!  Sarah earned this Guest Designer spot for her top three runner up placement in the Tea Room's recent Design Team Call!!

And some more beautiful inspiration from our November Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    

Audrey Pettit!  

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
#306

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!

#306

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

#199

Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog

#199

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

#199

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

#180

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 - Whoopsi Daisy!

Whoopsi Daisy has been trading since 2009... I began the company when I retired from working for a major Multinational Company as a Planner....I have sketched little girls since I was a child and I now have the time to make it my Job...the future is looking very bright for Whoopsi Daisy as I am working on a brand new outlet for the little cuties.

Whoopsi Daisy is pleased to offer this week's Tea Room Winner 5 sheets of digital images (20 images total)!

Please link your creations below by Sunday, November 27th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, November 28th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 28th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #88 - 'Shabby Pastel Christmas' WINNERS!

A HUGE, shabby THANK YOU to all of our friends for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an fun week here in the Tea Room for our 'Shabby Pastel Christmas' challenge -- we received 84 ABSOLUTELY 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 1,691 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 Lenet Mos for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Audrey Pettit for joining us as our November Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Creations by AR, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge!

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 and inspires us all!!!  Your talent and creativity makes it nearly impossible to pick winners each week -- and this week was no exception!  I can tell you that I agonized over the decision on which cards and projects to pick this week -- there were SO MANY gorgeous creations that followed the challenge guidelines to a 'T'!   I tried to narrow my finalist choices down to the projects that incorporated all of the colors from the inspiration photo and created something in a Christmas theme also.  So, we have 13 beautiful Honorable Mention Cups of Tea this week -- I simply couldn't narrow it down any further!  And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Shabby Pastel Christmas' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Meretekj #4

2.  Andrea Ewen #5

3.  Judy #7

4.  Joy #16

5.  Katie Tate #28

6.  Karien #37

7.  Vicky #45

8.  Colleen Dietrich #47

9.  Sandra P. #48

10.  Magda(i)Lena #60

11.  Lizzi #70

12.  Amelia #78

13.  Koloro Wyptak #83

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Suzanne Dean #30

2.  Lana #41

3.  Svetlana V. #68

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Milagros C. Rivera #55!   {Love} does not even begin to express how much I simply adore this oh-so-pretty in pink handmade nutcracker!  I want one for my personal collection ... it is absolutely stunning, creative and beyond inspirational!  I am a huge fan of anything pink, so this sweet little fella really pulled on my heart strings this week ... thank you Milagros, for sharing your beautiful Christmas Nutcracker 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!