Week #149 - 'Antique Roses' 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 'Antique Roses' challenge -- we received 32 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 2,359 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 Cathy McGrath for joining us as our February Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, 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 'Antique Roses' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Sarah Stone #4

2.  Karien #7

3.  Anna Zaprezelska #8

4.  Irina Gerschuk #14

5.  Kristi S. #18

6.  Chelsea Le #19

7.  Carolyn #23

8.  Dorthe/Pips #25

9.  Mickey DeValle #26

10.  Julie P. #31

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Joann #24 - winner of three collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

2.   Andrea Ewen #2 - winner of two collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

3.  Meihsia Liu #3 - winner of one collage file from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

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 #149 - 'Antique Roses'

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 'Antique Roses' 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 ROSES PLUS FABRIC/RIBBON!

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!  Michelle earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #137 challenge - 'Vintage Charm'. 

Paper Sweeties - Little Wishes and You Are Amazing

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

Cathy McGrath!  

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
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Antique Papers / Paper Sweeties - You Are Simply The Best

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Vintage tickets / Paper Sweeties - You are Fabulous

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Antique Papers

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Vintage Tickets

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Shabby Chic

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Vintage tickets and Victorian French / Paper Sweeties - 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 - 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 Terrific Top Three #1 = 3 collage files
Tea Time Terrific Top Three #2 = 2 collage files

Tea Time Terrific Top Three #3 = 1 collage file

 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, January 20th to play along.  Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, January 21st. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 21st as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #148 - '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 'Elegance' challenge -- we received 43 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 2,356 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 Kristi Schurr for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Cathy McGrath for joining us as our January 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 'Elegance' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Elizabeth Price #4

2.  Sarah Stone #7

3.  Shea Marshall #17

4.  Wanda Cullen #22

5.  Lizbeth #24

6.  Karen Letchworth #25

7.  Gitte #26

8.  Jill Norwood #27

9.  Marbella #36

10.  Dani A. #41

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

2.  Nerrida Mitchell #13

3.  Maria P. #35

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Marlene Gomez #37!  What an absolutely precious 3-D snowman Marlene created .. full of whimsey and fun from his embossed layers and blue buttons to his magic hat and snowflake flower embellishment!  Thank you for sharing your talents with us this week in the Tea Room, Marlene.

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!

PSSI #3 now live!

Paper Sweeties Sketch Inspiration #3 challenge is now live on the blog!  Hop on over and enter for a chance to win some goodness from the Paper Sweeties Shoppe!

Week #148 - 'Elegance'

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 'Elegance' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Starr asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS IN THE PHOTO and INCLUDE RIBBON/BOW and a FLOWER!

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, Kristi Schurr!  Kristi earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #134 challenge - 'Sketch This'.

Paper Sweeties - So Sweet of You

And some more beautiful inspiration from our January Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    Cathy McGrath!  

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 - Occasions

 

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

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Paper Sweeties - You Make Me Smile

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Paper Sweeties - Banner Wishes and So Sweet of You

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Paper Sweeties - You're Invited

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Paper Sweeties - 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™ 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, January 13th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, January 14th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 14th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #147 'Monogram Madness' 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 'Monogram Madness' challenge -- we received 36 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 2,347 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 Lea Lawson 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 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 'Monogram Madness' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Monika/buzsy #1

2.  Michelle Bala #3

3.  Rema Timm #4

4.  Kristi Schurr #8

5.  Rea #9

6.  Teresa Kline #25

7.  Synnove #30

8.  Lynn D.

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

2.  Cathy Mc #28 - winner of 2 collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

3.  Maria Patrick #21 - winner of 1 collage file from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Carolyn #13!  Winner of one complimentary stamp set from Paper Sweeties!

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!