Please Welcome The NEW Shabby Girls!

Please scroll down for this week's 'Creative Candy' challenge!

Hello shabby friends!  Please take a moment to join me in thanking Fran Westmoreland and Tammy Roberts for the amazing inspiration they have shared with us over the past months!  We are going to miss their talents very much here weekly in the Tea Room, and can only hope they they'll find time in their busy schedules to join us once again to play along for fun!  On a personal note, I thank each of these lovely women for their tireless dedication, professionalism, time and talents -- it was a sincere pleasure to design along side these ladies and I will miss working with them very much!

So ... onto happy news!  Thank you to everyone who submitted wonderful creations for our recent Design Team Call!  The Shabby Girls thank each and every one of you for taking the time to submit your work to try out for our team.  It was a very difficult decision, but in the end, the Shabby Girls felt that these two designers best captured the essence of the photo inspiration for the call... along with their weekly participation in our challenges, their bright and energetic spirits, their creative and shabby take on our challenges and team-player attitudes!

The two new Shabby Girls are will be familiar to many of you ... they have won numerous Tea Time Top Three, Honorable Mentions and Winner's honors here in the Tea Room over the past year.

Without further ado, please join me in welcoming the two newest Shabby Girls:

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose

Smitten, right??!!  From the white picket fences to the lovely flowers, butterflies and beautiful seam binding bows ... these gorgeous, colorful and amazing projects captured our hearts!

Welcome to the team, ladies!!!

Tracey and Rebecca will be officially joining us for next week's #132 challenge!

Until then, happy stamping my friends!

Week #131 - 'Creative Candy'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Fran is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Creative Candy' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Fran asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS IN THE PHOTO PLUS INCLUDE LACE, FABRIC AND A BUTTON!

FOR YOUR SUBMISSION TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE WEEKLY PRIZE AND HONORS: 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 and top honors. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz!  Tracey earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #119 challenge - 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend'. 

And some more beautiful inspiration from our September Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    Tammy Hobbs!  

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
Crafty Secrets - Creating With Vintage Typography CD #3
Paper Sweeties - Alphas-Upper, Alphas-Lower and So Sweet of You stamp sets

Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog
 Creating with Vintage Typography & Creating with Vintage Patterns CD's

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
 Creating with Vintage Illustrations CD #2

Creating with Vintage Illustrations CD #2

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
 Creating with Vintage Illustrations CD #2

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
 Creating With Vintage Patterns CD

Tammy Roberts - Paperie Sweetness
 Love Mail, Baby Girl Stamp Set

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 two sponsors this week!!

#1 Crafty Secrets 

 We retail and wholesale our vintage and retro inspired images paired with both meaningful or fun words and sentiments in our Heartwarming Vintage Collection of paper craft products and Clear Art Stamps. We ship orders from our USA warehouse in Blaine, WA or our head office in Surrey, BC.

Visit our BLOG to get our latest news and see artistic and inspiring samples from our Design Team.  Don't forget to sign up to get notified on new blog posts.

We are committed to high quality, great service and sharing inspiring ideas! Check out our large variety of themes from Babies, Birds, Cooking, Family, Fairies, Garden, Girlfriends to Holiday and Seasonal designs for card making, paper arts, scrapbooking and keepsakes.

Sandy, owner of Crafty Secrets, has generously donated a $50 gift certificate for our winner #1!


#2 - Paper Sweeties

 Paper Sweeties is owned and illustrated by Debbie Marcinkiewicz and offers acrylic stamps that allow paper crafters to create adorable dolls with interchangable outfits and accessories! We also have a variety of all-occasion sentiment sets - perfect for every paper crafted project!  The Sweeties dolls, accessories and sentiments are perfect for card making, scrap booking, party favors and so much more!  You can also find hand tea-stained seam binding in the shoppe!

Winner #2 will receive one free stamp set from the Paper Sweeties Shoppe!

 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, September 16th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, September 17th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 17th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!
 

Week #130 - 'Labor of Love' 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 'Labor of Love' challenge -- we received 18 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 2,251 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 Dayle Lindow for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Tammy Hobbs for joining us as our September Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsors last week, Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and Paper Sweeties, 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 'Labor of Love' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Barbara #1

2.   Kathy M. #6

3.  Cathy Mc #9

4.  Loskutok #10

5.  Monika/buzsy #11

6.  Lisette #13

7.  Lucy Patrick #14

8.  Dani A. #16

9.   Teresa Kline #17

10.   Jennifer Dillon #18

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Rebecca Deeprose #2

2.  Jinny Newlin #3

3.  Maria P. #8

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Winner #1 - Michelle Bala #7 - winner of one stamp set from Paper Sweeties!

Winner #2 - Kristy Schalk #15 - winner of stamp image package from Robyn's Fetish!

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 #130 - 'Labor of Love'

HAPPY LABOR DAY!!

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week I am our creative host and I have chosen the theme of 'Labor of Love' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and I ask that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS IN THE PHOTO and INCLUDE A BANNER!

FOR YOUR SUBMISSION TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE WEEKLY PRIZE AND HONORS: 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 and top honors. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Dayle Lindow - Creatively Chloe!  Dayle earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #117 challenge - 'Sweet Summertime'. 

And some more beautiful inspiration from our September Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    I'm pleased to introduce you all to the talented Tammy Hobbs - Creating Somewhere Under the Sun!  

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
Ornate Frame - Robyn's Fetish / Jake, You're My Hero, Pennant Party - Paper Sweeties

Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog
Snowmen Melt My Heart Wordart - Robyn's Fetish

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Mittens - Robyn's Fetish

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Cake - Robyn's Fetish

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Tea For Two - Robyn's Fetish

Tammy Roberts - Paperie Sweetness
I Heart U

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 two sponsors this week:

#1 -  Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More

 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.


 #2 -  Paper Sweeties

 

 Paper Sweeties was created by Debbie Marcinkiewicz and offers acrylic stamps that allow paper crafters to create adorable dolls with interchangeable outfits and accessories! We also have a variety of all-occasion sentiment sets - perfect for every paper crafted project!  The Sweeties dolls, accessories and sentiments are perfect for card making, scrap booking, party favors and so much more!  You can also find hand tea-stained seam binding in the shoppe!

Winner will receive one free stamp set from the Paper Sweeties Shoppe!


Please link your creations below by Sunday, September 9th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, September 10th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 10th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #129 - 'Summer Cottage' 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 'Summer Cottage' challenge -- we received 60 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 2,240 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 pink tea pot 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 Rebecca Deeprose for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Jean Martin for joining us as our August Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsors last week, My Artistic Adventures Etsy and Digital Papers by Janet Etsy, 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 wonderful designs and creativity make 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 'Summer Cottage' challenge by using the colors from the inspiration photo plus distressing/shabby elements and a title/sentiment:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. Anita #1

2. Tammy #2

3. Pastila #8

4. Anni/Handgathered #20 and #50

5. Loriete #22

6. Leanne Whitby #26

7.  Keilly #36

8. Silke Ledlow #39

9. Dani A. #41

10.  Valou #57

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Kathy M. #27 - $10 gift certificate winner/My Artistic Adventures Etsy & 3 collage sheets winner/Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

2.  Magda(i)lena #33 - $10 gift certificate winner/My Artistic Adventures Etsy & 2 collage sheets winner/Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

3.  Maria P. #49 - $10 gift certificate winner/My Artistic Adventures Etsy & 1 collage sheet winner/Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Minna #38 - $15 gift certificate winner/My Artistic Adventures Etsy!  Wow ... Minna's card this week is simply breathtaking ... filled with the challenges colors plus loads of distressed shabby charm!  The sentiment Minna chose to add to her card is beautiful as well.  Thank you, Minna, 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!

FREE SHIPPING TODAY at Paper Sweeties!!

 

 FREE SHIPPING Labor Day Special TODAY ONLY at the Paper Sweeties Shoppe!

Happy shopping!

September Release PEEKS begin at Paper Sweeties!

 

Hello sweeties!  The September Release PEEKS have begun over at the Paper Sweeties Design Team BLOG!  Hop on over to check out the fun inspiration the Sweeties Teamies are sharing today!  Bookmark the page so you can come back each day for lots of fun, fresh and super adorable inspiration to get your creative juices flowing!