Week #140 - 'Sweet Shabby Christmas'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Lenet is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Sweet Shabby Christmas' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Lenet asks that you create a card or project inspired by THE COLORS FROM THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE SHIMMER and/or GLITTER!

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, Kathy Montgomery - In My Little Korner!  Kathy earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #128 challenge - 'Shabby Patterns'. 

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

Maria Patrick!  

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 Circles

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Christmas Circles

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Christmas Circles

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Christmas Circles

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
  Christmas Angels, Sweet Paper

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Christmas Circles

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 sponsors - Digital Papers by Janet Etsy and Frost It Pink!

#1 - Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

My name is Janet, I'm Polish, live in the south of Italy and the mother of two children!!  I am a printing technician by profession, but an artist by passion.
I really like to draw and photograph everything with my camera. I am in love with old graphics and illustrations, and I always have my colored markers and pencils around me to sketch with.  I'm so happy to be sponsoring this week's Tea Room challenge!

Janet

Tea Time Top Three
#1 - 3 collage files
#2 = 2 collage files
#3 = 1 collage file

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#2 - Frost It Pink

 We are delighted to share our passion of scrapbooking with all of you wonderful scrappers! Our goal is to help you make beautiful treasures for a lifetime. Memories cherished forever. So whether you are new on this journey or traveled the road of scrapbooking for some time, we hope that you will find something on this site to help you Cherish your Memories for Years.


Winner = $50 prize package

Please link your creations below by Sunday, November 18th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, November 19th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 19th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #139 - 'Shabby Autumn' 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 'Shabby Autumn' challenge -- we received 21 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 2,310 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 Lauren Bergold for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Maria Patrick for joining us as our November Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsors last week, Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More 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 our eyes this week for capturing the essence of the 'Shabby Autumn' challenge by using the colors from the photo AND including a pumpkin in their design:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1. Meihsia Liu #4

2. Shari N. #5

3. Rea #8

4. Cathy Mc #14

5. Cora Hoekstra #17

6. Shea Marshall #19

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  LeeAnn Barrett #10

2.  Lisette #12

3.  Dani A. #20

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Winner #1 - Terri Moore #13!  Winner of one free stamp set from Paper Sweeties!

Winner #2 - Synnove #21!  Winner of digital stamp 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!

A *new* sketch challenge on the block!

Popping in to remind you about the *new* challenge on the block ... introducing Paper Sweeties Sketch Inspiration Challenges hosted at Paper Sweeties  -- yippiee!  

Create something inspired by the sketch using anything you have from the Paper Sweeties Shoppe and then link up your card in the gallery on the Paper Sweeties blog for your chance to win two free stamps sets!!  Our challenges are month-long, so you can enter as many times as you wish throughout the month!

Look for a coupon code for 20% off your entire order to our valued newsletter subscribers!  Not a subscriber yet, contact me to sign up!

Now go get your craft on ... we can't wait to see what you'll create :)

Week #139 - 'Shabby Autumn'

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 'Shabby Autumn' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and I ask that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS FROM THE PICTURE, INCLUDE A PUMPKIN and MAKE IT SHABBY!

'Shabby Chic Style Elements'

Layers of softness characterized by the use of ribbon and lace, a time-worn look achieved by inking, pearls, glitter and other such embellishments.

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, Lauren Bergold - All The Good Blog Names Were Taken!  Lauren earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #127 challenge - 'For The Love of Books'.

And, on a personal note, Lauren's card this week has got to be the 'most special' card we've ever spotlighted here in the Tea Room!  Among all of the talented people that grace our blog pages here daily, you may be wondering why I said that.  Well, Lauren lives in New Jersey, which, as most of you all know, was ground zero for the land falling Hurricane Sandy which came ashore last week and caused such total devastation along the Jersey Shore and the New England Seaboard.  Lauren's home was spared from any of the horrific damage that we've all been seeing on TV, but she has been without power for six+ days as of when this post goes live, so it's truly incredible that she was still able to make a card to participate as our guest this week!  Lauren shared with me the heroic efforts she went through to take her crafty supplies to her mom's house - about 30 minutes away - who still has power.  There she was able to complete her card, photograph it and blog about it.  Now ... if that is not a 'die hard' crafter, I don't know what is!  THANK YOU, Lauren, for sharing your passion and creativity with us all this week in the Tea Room!  I hope you all pop on over to Lauren's blog and leave her a little bit of love ... I am sure it will brighten her dark, and electric-less day :)  I'm praying that the powers to be can restore your electricity soon, Lauren, so you can begin to make strides to get things back to normal!!

And some more beautiful inspiration from our November Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    Maria Patrick - Maria's Merry Makings!  

Made using Paper Sweeties - Emma, You Are Special, You Make Me Smile

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
Paper Sweeties - Little Wishes, Sweeties Wagon, Stand Add-on #1 / Robyn's Fetish - Ornate Frame

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

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Paper  Sweeties - You Make Me Smile / Robyn's Fetish - Happy Fall 2

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
 Paper Sweeties - Banner Wishes / Robyn's Fetish - Ornate Frame

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
 Paper Sweeties - Sweeties Wagon / Robyn's Fetish - Apple Cider

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
 Paper Sweeties - You Are Amazing / Robyn's Fetish - Ornate Frame

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 sponsors - Paper Sweeties and Robyn's Fetish!

#1 - 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 one stamp set as prize!


#2 - 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, November 11th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, November 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 #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!