Week #138 - 'Hey Pumpkin' 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 'Hey Pumpkin' challenge -- we received 36 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 2,304 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 Michelle Bala for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Kathy Montgomery for joining us as our October Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, 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 our eyes this week for capturing the essence of the 'Hey Pumpkin' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Meihsia Liu #1

2.   Tenia nelson #3

3.   Rea #4

4.   Karen Letchworth #11

5.  Monika/buzsy #12

6.  Lea L. #14

7.  Milagros C. Rivera #24

8.  Elizabeth #26

9. Yvonne Van Bruggen #31

10.  Teresa Kline #34

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

2.  Cathy Mc #20

3.  Bligu #30 

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Tammy #15!  So, so ca-ute!!  Tammy created a precious card using the Emma and You Are Special stamp sets from Paper Sweeties!!  I adore the witch hat Tammy made for Emma ... and all the fab embellishments!  Thank you, Tammy, for sharing this sweet creation with us 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!

A *NEW* Sketch Challenge on the block!!

Hi ya' sweeties -- I have some FUN news!!  We are unveiling a BRAND NEW Sketch Challenge over at Paper Sweeties today -- yippiee!  I love a good challenge and love to play along with sketch inspirations -- they are a wonderful spring board to begin your creative design process!

  Paper Sweeties Sketch Inspiration #1

 

Click on the link above to hop on over to the Paper Sweeties blog and check out the details on how you can enter for your chance to win two free stamp sets from the Shoppe!!

We are also offering a one-day coupon today only for 20% off your entire order to help get you started with some stampy supplies:  SKETCH #1    -- enter coupon code at check out to redeem your discount!

Have fun creating!!

Week #138 - 'Hey Pumpkin'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Rebecca is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Hey Pumpkin' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Rebecca asks that you create a card or project inspired by THE COLORS FROM THE PICTURE AND INCLUDE A FLOWER(s)!

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, Michelle Bala -My Passion for Crafting!  Michelle earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #130 challenge - 'A Labor of Love'. 

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

Kathy Montgomery!  

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
 Emma, Best Witches!, Banner Wishes, Sweeties Wagon, Happy Fall Ya'll, Stand Add-on #2, Stand Add-on #3

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
You Make Me Smile

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Emma, Too Cute To Spook

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
So Sweet of You

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Stand Add-on #3, Happy Fall Ya'll

Abigail, Emma, Best Witches!

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
You Are Fabulous

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration, additional pictures and instructions for these projects !

 The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsor - Paper Sweeties!




 Paper Sweeties is owned and illustrated by Debbie Marcinkiewicz, and offers clear acrylic stamps that allow paper crafters to create adorable dolls with interchangeable outfits and accessories! We also have a variety of wonderful all-occasion sentiment sets - perfect for every paper crafted project!  The Paper Sweeties Shoppe carries hand tea-stained seam binding too!  The Sweeties dolls, accessories and sentiments are so fun to play with – they will bring back fond childhood memories of special moments from the past!  You’ll enjoy using the Sweeties to create projects for card making, scrap booking, party favors, invitations and so much more! 

Winner will receive two free stamp sets from the Paper Sweeties Shoppe!

 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, November 4th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, November 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 #137 - 'Vintage Charm' 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 'Vintage Charm' challenge -- we received 39 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 2,297 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 Maria Patrick for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Kathy Montgomery for joining us as our October Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, 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 our eyes this week for capturing the essence of the 'Vintage Charm' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Meihsia Liu #4

2.  Karen Irvine #5

3.  Ira #10

4.   Lucy Patrick #16

5.  Monika/buzsy #17

6.  Birgit #21

7.  Loskutok #26

8.  Svetlana V. #35

9.  Laila aka Konoko #37

10.  Janine Smith #39

 

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Tracy Payne #14

2.  Karen Letchworth #15 

3.  Cathy Mc #32

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Michelle Bala #9!  WOW -- is all I have to say about the gorgeous home decor project Michelle created for our Vintage Charm challenge!!  I adore how she created a banner using the Banner Wishes stamp set from Paper Sweeties and love the soft, pastel and shabby patterned papers she chose for her project too!  The clear crystal gem for the 'charm' is soooo pretty!!  Thanks for sharing this beautiful project with us all, Michelle :)

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 #137 - 'Vintage Charm'

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

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, Maria Patrick - Maria's Merry Makings!  Maria earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #126 challenge - 'Shabby Neutrals'.

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

Kathy Montgomery!  

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
 You Are Amazing stamp set and Vintage Winter White seam binding

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
So Sweet of You

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
You Make Me Smile

 

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
 Banner Wishes

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
You Make Me Smile

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Little Wishes, Abigail and You Are Special

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration ,additional pictures and instructions for these projects !

 The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsor - Paper Sweeties!

 

Paper Sweeties is owned and illustrated by Debbie Marcinkiewicz, and offers clear acrylic stamps that allow paper crafters to create adorable dolls with interchangeable outfits and accessories! We also have a variety of wonderful all-occasion sentiment sets - perfect for every paper crafted project!  The Paper Sweeties Shoppe carries hand tea-stained seam binding too!  The Sweeties dolls, accessories and sentiments are so fun to play with – they will bring back fond childhood memories of special moments from the past!  You’ll enjoy using the Sweeties to create projects for card making, scrap booking, party favors, invitations and so much more! 

Winner will receive two free stamp sets from the Paper Sweeties Shoppe!

Please link your creations below by Sunday, October 28th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 29th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 29th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #136 - 'Rustic Elegance' 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 'Rustic Elegance' challenge -- we received 50 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 2,289 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 Cathy McGrath for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Kathy Montgomery for joining us as our October Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsors last week, Frost It Pink 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 talent and creativity makes it nearly impossible to pick winners each week!   And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught our eyes this week for capturing the essence of the 'Rustic Elegance' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Sherry Wright #4

2.  Dawn #5

3.  Rebecca Ednie #13

4.  Michelle Bala #18

5.  Monika/buzsy #21

6.  Jen Adcock #26

7.  Janine Smith #27

8.  Jeanne J. #34

9.  Lisette #40

10.  Bligu #49

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Inger #7 - WINNER of 3 collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

2.  Zlyuka #19 - WINNER of 2 collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

3.  Lori U. #22 - WINNER of 1 collage file from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Nancy Dynes #50!  Winner of $50 prize package from Frost It Pink!!

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!

Paper Sweeties October *NEW* stamp release!

We're excited to announce the Paper Sweeties October *NEW* stamp release!!  Please visit the Shoppe to check out the eleven new stamp sets released TODAY -- versatile and amazing sentiments, adorable accessory sets ... and, as always, sweet new outfits to fit all the Sweeties and their friends!!

Then hop on over to the BLOG to check out the amazing inspiration projects from the Sweeties Teamies!

While visiting the blog, be sure to check out all the fun incentives, contests and giveaways going on now to help celebrate our latest release!

Happy stamping my friends!