Week #152 - 'Happy Birthday in Pink & Blue' 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 'Happy Birthday in Pink & Blue' challenge -- we received 37 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 2,389 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 Teresa Kline for joining us as our February 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 'Happy Birthday in Pink & Blue' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Cindy #2

2.  R Meyers #6

3.  Karen L. 7 & 31

4.  Michelle Bala #12

5.  Lynsey #15

6.  Stacey Schafer #19

7.  Lalky Girl #23

8.  Maria P. #30

9.  Jean Martin #32

10.  Sylwia-er #35

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Karen L. #8

2.  Cathy Mc #27

3.  Natali #28

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Kathy M. #25!  Wowzers ... this is one of the prettiest cards I've ever seen -- stunning!  I adore all the lovely layers and embellishments.  I think this card is suitable for framing and keeping as a keepsake treasure!  Thank you, Kathy, for sharing your wonderful talents with us all 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!

Week #152 - 'Happy Birthday in Pink & Blue'

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 'Happy Birthday in Pink and Blue' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Lenet asks that you create a BIRTHDAY card or project using the COLORS FROM THE PICTURE !

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, Lea Lawson!  Lea earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #140 challenge - 'Sweet Shabby Christmas'. 

And some more beautiful inspiration from our February Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...   please help us welcome Teresa Kline!  

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 - So Sweet of You

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

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

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Paper Sweeties - Pennant Party

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Paper Sweeties - You Make Me Smile

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Paper Sweeties -  You Are Amazing

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 hand drawn, high quality photopolymer acrylic stamps.  Our heartwarming images allow paper crafters to create adorable dolls with interchangeable outfits and accessories! We also have a wide variety of wonderful all-occasion sentiment and all-occasion 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 and are sure to spark your creativity!  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, February 10th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, February 11th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 11th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #152 - 'Cute as a Button' 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 'Cute as a Button' challenge -- we received 31 ADORABLE 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 2,380 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 Tammy Hobbs 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, Bugaboo Stamps, 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 'Cute as a Button' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Gele #9

2.  Vic #11

3.  Adrienne #14

4.  Karien #19

5.  Teresa Kline #20

6.  Meihsia Liu #23

7.  Carolyn #26

8.  Heather A. Hudson #27

9.  Synnove #30

10.  Nance Salkeld #31

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Synnove #12

2.  Michelle Bala #13

3.  Charlotte Zweigoron #29

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Kristi Schurr #18!  What an absolutely precious little mitten Kristi created using the colors from our inspiration picture, the shape of the mitten and a cute red button!  Thank you, Kristi, for sharing your creativity with us all!

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 Sketch Inspiration #4 challenge!

The Paper Sweeties Sketch Inspiration #4 challenge is now live!  Please visit the Paper Sweeties BLOG to check out the complete details on how you can play along for a chance to win TWO FREE STAMP SETS from the shop!

Week #151 - 'Cute as a Button'

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 'Cute as a Button' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and I ask that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS IN THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE BUTTONS!

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, Tammy Hobbs!  Tammy earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #138 challenge - 'Hey Pumpkin'. 

Created using the Warm Winter Wishes stamp set from Paper Sweeties!

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
Bugaboo - Winter Circle Sentiments - Warm Wishes
Paper Sweeties - Banner Wishes, Stand Add-on 4 

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
 Bugaboo - Winter Circle Sentiments - Warm Wishes

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Bugaboo - Heels Daisy

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Bugaboo - Winter Circle Sentiments - Warm Wishes

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Bugaboo - Winter Circle Sentiments - Warm Wishes
Paper Sweeties - Snow Friends

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Bugaboo - Valentine Jar
Paper Sweeties - So Sweet of You

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 - 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 paper crafting 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.

 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, February 3rd to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, February 4th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 4th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #150 - 'Just Pretty' 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 'Just Pretty' challenge -- we received 56 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 2,370 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 Cathy McGrath for joining us as our January 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 'Just Pretty' challenge by including the colors, stripes and a flower in their design:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Lea L. #6

2.  Teresa Kline #12

3.   Carmen Alice #18

4.  Shea Marshall #23

5.  Janine Smith #25

6.  Karien #33

7.  Synnove #35

8.  Tammy #43

9.   Maria P. #47

10.   Susie Wittwer #48

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Michelle Bala #19

2.  Inger #40

3.  Patty O'Malley #54

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Kristi Schurr #36!  Oh my shabby goodness ... what a lovely creation Kristi shared with us this week!  Gorgeous use of the inspiration colors, pretty striped pattern paper and oh-so pretty blooms!  Love!  Thanks for sharing your talents with us this week, Kristi!

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 #150 - 'Just Pretty'

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 'Just Pretty' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Tracey asks that you create a card or project inspired by COLORS IN THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE STRIPES 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, Nancy Dynes!  Nancy earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #136 challenge - 'Rustic Elegance'.

And some more beautiful inspiration from our February 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
Rolled Bloom Scalloped, BFF Valentine Paper - My Time Made Easy
Little Wishes - Paper Sweeties 

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Rolled Bloom Scalloped - My Time Made Easy
Rah-Rah! - Paper Sweeties 

 

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Rolled Bloom Scalloped - My Time Made Easy

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
BFF Valentine Paper, BFF Valentine Tags - My Time Made Easy

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
 That's A Wrap - My Time Made Easy

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Rolled Bloom Scalloped, BFF Valentine Paper - My Time Made Easy
Banner Wishes - Paper Sweeties

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™ LLC 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.

This week's lucky winner will receive a prize package containing the following from the My Time Made Easy Shop:

BFF Valentine Paper
BFF Valentine Tags Images
Rolled Bloom Scallped Cut File
BFF's Valentine Tags Cut File   
 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, January 27th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, January 28th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 28th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!