Week #142 - 'Just Neutrals'

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 'Just Neutrals' challenge -- we received 41 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 2,330 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 Kristy Schalk 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 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 'Just Neutrals' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Meihsia Liu #3

2.  Jen Adcock #16

3.  Monika/buzsy #17

4.  Milagros C. Rivera #19

5.  Micha #21

6.  Berthie J. #27

7.  Heather A. Hudson #30

8.  Leesa aka The Navy Wife #35

9. Asia King #36

10.  Marbella #39

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Tammy #6

2.  Donna #8

3. Katie K. #40

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Sherry Wright #7!   Wowzers ... Sherry's oh-so cute shabby little snowman card just stole my heart this week - how about you??  Look at those yummy velvet berries in cream - yum!  Thank you, Sherry, for sharing your amazing work with us 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!

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Week #142 - 'Just Neutrals'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Starr is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Just Neutrals' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration, and Starr asks that you create a card or project inspired by the NEUTRALS COLORS from the photo AND INCLUDE RIBBON/TWINE and a SENTIMENT!

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, Kristy Schalk - Stamp. Craft. Pin!  Kristy 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 November Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ... Maria Patrick!  

Designed using Happy Fall Ya'll from Paper Sweeties™ LLC!

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
Occasions

 

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

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
You Make Me Smile

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
 So Sweet of You

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Happy Fall Ya'll

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Little Wishes

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™ LLC!

 Paper Sweeties™ LLC 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!

This week's winner will receive TWO FREE STAMP SETS from the Paper Sweeties Shoppe!
 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, December 2nd to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, December 3rd. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 3rd as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #141 - 'Tic Tac Toe' 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 'Tic Tac Toe' challenge -- we received 32 PRETTY 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 2,324 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 Magdalena Klementowicz 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, Bugaboo Stamps and Paper Sweeties™ LLC, 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 'Tic Tac Toe' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Teresa Kline #4

2.   Bligu #7

3.   Rea #9

4.   Vickie O'Dell #11

5.   Liana Elbekova #18

6.   Leesa aka The Navy Wife #26

7.   Iwa #28

8.  Stu #30

9.   Lizbeth #31

10.  Kristy Schalk #32

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

2.   Michele Bala #22

3.  Heather A. Hudson #23

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Cathy Mc #21 - winner of the Bugaboo Stamps digital package!

Lori U. #5 - winner of stamp set from Paper Sweeties™ LLC!

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 #141 - 'Tic Tac Toe'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Rebekah is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Tic Tac Toe' along with these beautiful photos for DOUBLE inspiration and Rebekah asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS from the inspiration photo AND USING THE TIC TAC TOE TABLE CHOOSING ANY THREE IN A ROW!  *Be sure to let us know in your blog post which three choices you used in your design from the tic tac toe table!

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, Magdalena Klementowicz!  Magdalena 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 using Little Wishes from Paper Sweeties! 

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
 Bugaboo Stamps - Fancy SB Winter  / Paper Sweeties - Believe!, Sending Holiday Cheer

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Paper Sweeties - Occasions

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Bugaboo - Warm Winter Wishes

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
 Bugaboo - Candy Cane  /  Paper Sweeties - You're a Superstar

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Paper Sweeties - You Are Fabulous

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
 Bugaboo - For You Butterfly Tag  /  Paper Sweeties - Little Wishes, 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 TWO sponsors - Bugaboo Stamps and Paper Sweeties!

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#1 - Bugaboo Stamps

As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing!  From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!

If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps stamps at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT   for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug.

Catch the bug Challenge blog:  http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/

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#2 - 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 free stamp set of choice from the Paper Sweeties Shoppe!


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Please link your creations below by Sunday, November 25th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, November 26th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 26th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #140 - 'Sweet Shabby 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 'Sweet Shabby Christmas' challenge -- we received 50 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 2,320 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 Kathy Montgomery 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, Digital Paper by Janet Etsy and Frost It Pink, 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 'Sweet Shabby Christmas' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Krystymas #5

2.  Karien #17

3.  Karli #18

4.  Cathy Mc #28

5.  Sharon Wheet #29

6.  Lori U. #32

7.  Jill Norwood #34

8.  Iwa #39

9.  Daniele #40

10.  Irina Dolgih #46

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Diane H. #38 - winner of three collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

2.  Synnove #25 - winner of two collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

3.  Teresa Kline #10 - winner of one collage file from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Lea L. #15!  Oh my shabby goodness ... this card just stole my heart!  Lea managed to create a gorgeous card, layered with lots of shabby goodness, designed to perfection using the inspiration colors ... with just the right amount of sparkle!  LOVE!  Thank you, Lea, for sharing your lovely project with us in the Tea Room!  Lea is the winner of the $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!

Today's the day ...

Click HERE or scroll down for this week's 'Sweet Shabby Christmas' challenge!

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We have a couple specials going on to help celebrate the launch of Paper Sweeties' newest stamps:

FREE SHIPPING on ALL ORDERS today through 11/19!  Use coupon code at checkout to redeem your discount!

Visit our Facebook November Release Event to check out three more opportunities to enter contests and giveaways for FREE stamps going on through 11/19!

*NEW* this month to help celebrate the upcoming holidays -- Sweeties Special Bundle Packages ... purchase select bundles of *new* stamps and $AVE 20% on your orders!  Click on the 'categories' box on the Paper Sweeties home page and then select 'Sweeties Bundles' to view the current bundle.

Sweeties Sketch Inspiration Challenge #1 runs through 11/30 -- enter for your chance to win a FREE stamp set!