Week #161 - 'Shabby Spring' 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 Spring' challenge -- we received 38 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 2,461 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 Lea Lawson for joining us as our April 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 'Shabby Spring' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Jeanne #2

2.  Donna's Designs #6

3.  Cindy #17

4.  Diane #22

5.  Karen L. #25

6.  Stacy Chic #26

7.  Sylwia-eR #33

8.  Lin Monika #35

9.  ellapu #36

10.  Jay #37

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Nikki #10 - winner of three collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

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

3.  Karien #19 - 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!

Week #161 - 'Shabby Spring'

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 'Shabby Spring' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Rebecca asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS and THEME of the photo and make it SHABBY!

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 #150 challenge - 'Just Pretty'.

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

Lea Lawson!  

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 Paper By Janet Etsy - Birdhouse & Vintage Tape Strips
Paper Sweeties - Jelly Bean Time 

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
 Digital Paper By Janet Etsy - Birdhouse

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Spring Garden

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Birdhouse

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Birdhouse
Paper Sweeties - You Are Amazing

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Birdhouse
Paper Sweeties - Banner 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 - 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 Winners will receive:
First place = 3 collage files
Second place = 2 collage files
Third place = 1 collage file

 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, April  14th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, April 15th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 15th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #160 - 'Beautiful Blues' 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 'Beautiful Blues' challenge -- we received 48 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 2,452 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 Carolyn for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Lea Lawson for joining us as our April 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 'Beautiful Blues' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Karen Wallace #2

2.   LeAnne #9

3.   Pat K. #10

4.  Sunehra #13

5.  Maria Patrick #30

6.  Ragnhilda #34

7.  Danielle #37

8.  Teresa Kline #40

9.  Helen #46

10.  Studio-Sara #48

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Cathy Mc. #15

2.  Monika/buzsy #19

3.  Michelle Bala #23

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Kristi Schurr #25!  Wowzers -- what a stunning card Kristi created for this week's Beautiful Blues challenge!  Thank you, Kristi, for sharing your talents 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!

Week #160 - 'Beautiful Blues'

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 'Beautiful Blues' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Starr asks that you create a card or project inspired by photo using Blue, White (or cream) Kraft and include 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, Carolyn!  Carolyn earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #147 challenge - 'Monogram Madness'. 

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

Lea Lawson!  

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 - You Are Simply The Best, Happy Fall Ya'll

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Paper Sweeties - You Are Simply The Best

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Paper Sweeties - Fancy Monograms

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

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Paper Sweeties - I'm Having a Tea Party, You Are Amazing, Pennant Party

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Paper Sweeties - 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 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 sentiments, labels and accessory 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 much fun to play with and are sure to bring back fond childhood memories!  You’ll enjoy using the Sweeties to create projects for card making, scrap booking, party invitations and favors, home decor, gifts and so much more!

This week's lucky winner will receive a $20 gift certificate to the Paper Sweeties shoppe!


Please link your creations below by Sunday, April 7th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, April 8th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 8th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #159 - 'Lovely Layers' 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 'Lovely Layers' challenge -- we received 19 Beautifully Layered 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 2,450 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 Milagros C. Rivers 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 March 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 'Lovely Layers' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Jen L. #1

2.  Lisa Blastick #2

3.  Angelwing #6 

4.  Teresa Kline #9

5.  Ragnhilda #11

6.  Gia #16

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Karien #13

2.   Cathy Mc #15

3.   Pattie Goldman #17

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Kristi Schurr #10!

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!

Little Prince Designer's Hop ...

Hi friends and Happy Easter to you all!  I hope you're having a wonderful day shared with family and friends!  I have a special couple of projects to share today that I recently created for a Designer's Blog Hop coordinated by my bloggity friend, Jessica from Homespun Elegance!  Here is a little peek ...

... please hop on over to the Paper Sweeties blog to check out more detailed pictures of all the projects I made for today's hop ... and to see the line-up of designers participating in the hop today!

'Like' the Paper Sweeties Fan Page and leave a comment on the Paper Sweeties Little Prince Designer's Blog Hop post to be eligible to win two free stamp sets from the shop!

This card from today’s celebration set also was based on the current Paper Sweetie’s Sketch Inspiration Challenge #5 – which ends today!  Play along for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to the Paper Sweeties shoppe!!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Now, hippity hop on over to the Paper Sweeties blog for more eye candy and to play along to win!!

Hugs!
xoxoxo

Dream, Wish, Believe - Pinspired!

Hi ya' sweeties!  I have some very exciting news to share with you all today -- Paper Sweeties is sponsoring the current challenge at Pinspired -- whoot, whoot!!! I

  I used the You Make Me Smile stamp set from Paper Sweeties on my card for today's challenge!

Hippity hop on over to check out the amazing inspiration provided by the Pinspired Design Teamies this week ... and then I hope you'll give this fun challenge a try for your chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Paper Sweeties shoppe!

And, if you need a little mojo, try giving the current Paper Sweeties Sketch Inspiration #5 a try -- a great starting point for your crafty projects ... and another chance to win some goodness from the shop to one lucky winner - sketch challenge runs through 3/31/13!