Week #144 - 'Shabby Chic' 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 Chic' challenge -- we received 39 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 2,338 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 Nancy Dynes for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Silke Ledlow for joining us as our December Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, My Time Made Easy, 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 Chic' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Andrea Ewen #2

2.  Creative Journey #6

3.  Dawn #7

4.  Tammy #9

5.  Kbrandy4 #10

6.  Karien #15

7.  Karen Letchworth #20

8.  Trish W. #22

9.  Carolyn #28

10.   Alyson M. #34

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.   Cathy Mc #32

2.   Lori Ulrich #38

3.   Rebecca Ednie #39

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

E.T. #24!  Absolutely stunning ... that gorgeous glittered heart stole my heart!  I adore the pink organza bow, beautiful lace trim and lovely patterned papers!  Thank you for sharing your work with us this week, ET!

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 #144 - 'Shabby Chic'

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 'Shabby Chic' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Tracey asks that you create a card or project inspired by the colors of PINK, AQUA & SILVER and INCLUDE 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, Nancy Dynes - My Tattered Treasures!  Nancy earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #132 challenge - 'Pretty Party'. 

And some more beautiful inspiration from our December Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    Silke Ledlow!  

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
My Time Made Easy - Boo Bag template, 12 Days of Snowflakes paper, The Gingersnap's stamp set, Sugar & Spice Stamp set, Holly Days Accents cut file, Ga Ga For Gingham paper

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
My Time Made Easy - Sleigh Ride / Paper Sweeties - Little Wishes

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
My Time Made Easy - Sleigh Ride

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
My Time Made Easy - Merriest Monograms

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
 My Time Made Easy - Sleigh Ride

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
My Time Made Easy - Sleigh Ride

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 - My Time Made Easy!

 

 My Time Made Easy provides you with the basics for creating your own coordinating handmade cards, tags, and gift packaging in no time. It is fun, affordable, and we made it easier than ever! I have always said that it really is all about the TOTAL package. Now you can afford to create and dress up the simplest of gifts on your own, and make them appear to be that much more special. Nothing says love like something handmade!


My Time Made Easy has generously donated the Sleigh Ride template, Christmas Patina paper and Merriest Monograms Digital stamp set to this week's lucky winner!!


Please link your creations below by Sunday, December 16th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, December 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 #143 - 'Pretty Baubles' 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 'Pretty Baubles' challenge -- we received 27 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 2,332 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 Kitika Tsyganova for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Silke Ledlow for joining us as our December Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsors last week, Paper Sweeties and Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More, 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 'Pretty Baubles' challenge for using the colors from the photo AND including a BIRD:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Karien #8

2.  Angie Crockett #10

3.  Katarina #12

4.  Miss C #13

5.  Monika/buszy #15

6.  Katie Tate #16

7.  Sarah Stone #24

8.  Soika #25

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Meihsia Liu #3

2.  Sherry Wright #4

3.  Cathy Mc #20

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Winner #1 - Paper Sweeties:  Teresa Kline #23!

Winner #2 - Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More:  Shea Marshall #14!

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 + Creating From The Heart = $100 shopping spree giveaway!

Click HERE for this week's 'Pretty Baubles' challenge!

Hey stampy friends ... you'll want to visit my sweet, stampy friend, Melissa Bove's blog TODAY - Creating From the Heart ... for your chance to WIN BIG!!!  

Paper Sweeties has partnered with Miss Melissa to offer one lucky person a $100 shopping spree in the Paper Sweeties Shoppe!  All you have to do is:

#1 - visit Melissa's blog and link up to her giveaway post
#2 - visit the Paper Sweeties Blog and leave us a comment on any December post

Good luck to everyone who plays along!  Winner announced January 1, 2013!

Paper Sweeties is also offering these ADDITIONAL giveaways during the month of December for more chances to win BIG ... our thank you to our wonderful followers and fans:

Paper Sweeties Facebook Fan Page contest - runs 12/1 - 12/31 = $50 prize for one lucky fan!

Paper Sweeties Blog Contest - runs 12/1 - 12/31 = $50 prize for one lucky blog commenter!  

 

Visions of Sugarplums Designer's Blog Hop!

Visit my blog to find the Designer's Blog Hop link list for the 2012 Visions of Sugarplums Event!  I will be posting projects on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.  Loads of holiday crafty inspiration from some creative and talented designers ... plus daily prizes and giveaways!  Comment on each blog daily for your chance to win!

Week #143 - 'Pretty Baubles'

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 'Pretty Baubles' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Rebecca asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS in the photo and INCLUDE A BIRD!

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, Kitika Tsyganova!  Kitika earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #131 challenge - 'Creative Candy'. 

And some more beautiful inspiration from our December Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...  please help me welcome the talented Silke Ledlow!  

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 & Believe!

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Paper Sweeties - Little Wishes / Robyn's - Corner Holly

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Robyn's - Beautiful Bow

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Paper Sweeties - Banner Wishes / Robyn's - Corner Holly

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Paper Sweeties - You Make Me Smile / Robyn's - Birdies Nest

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Paper Sweeties - Banner Wishes & You Are Amazing / Robyn's - I {heart} U

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 LLC and Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More!

#1 - 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! 

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


#2 - 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.

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Please link your creations below by Sunday, December 9th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, December 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 #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!