Week #174 - 'Cherry Pie' 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 'Cherry Pie' challenge -- we received 35 SWEET 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 2,499 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 Christy Sugiarto for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Kristi Schurr for joining us as our July 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 'Cherry Pie' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Michelle Bala #6

2.  Jill Norwood #7

3.  Karen Letchworth #9

4.  Manunya #16

5.  Shea Marshall #19

6.  Maria Patrick #23

7.  Kim Ogden #24

8.  Teresa Kline #28

9.  Jinny Newlin #29

10.  Padoriaa #33

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Mynette #5 - winner of 3 collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

2.  Tina Milbourn #14 & #26 - winner of 2 collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

3.  Stacey Schafer #22 - winner of 1 collage file from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy

Congratulations to ALL! Tea Time Terrific Top Three Winners, please grab your badges from our sidebar that you can proudly display on your blogs and contact me via e-mail to claim your prizes!

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 #174 - 'Cherry Pie'

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 'Cherry Pie' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Tracey asks that you create a card or project inspired by photo using RED, WHITE (or CREAM), AQUA AND TWINE and/or BURLAP!

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, Christy Sugiarto!  Christy earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #172 challenge - 'Summer Breeze'.

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

Kristi Schurr created using the Beautiful stamp set 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 -  Paper Sweeties
#1 - Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Cooking Cards
Paper Sweeties - You Are Fabulous & You Make Me Smile

#2 - Paper Sweeties - Little Wishes

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or Not to Scrap, That's the Question
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Cooking Cards
Paper Sweeties - You Make Me Smile

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Cooking Cards
Paper Sweeties - You Are Fabulous

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Cooking Cards
Paper Sweeties - So Sweet of You

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Cooking Cards
Paper Sweeties - Live Love Grow

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy - Cooking Cards
Paper Sweeties - You Are Fabulous & Beautiful

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:

1st place = 3 collage files
2nd place = 2 collage files
3rd place = 1 collage file

 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, July 14th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, July 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 #173 - 'Glorious Flowers' 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 'Glorious Flowers' challenge -- we received 31 LOVELY 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 2,497 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 Kristi Schurr for joining us as our July 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 'Glorious Flowers' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:
*Honorable Mentions, Tea Time Terrific Top Three and Winner this week are those projects that used the COLORS from the inspiration photo, FLOWERS, RIBBON and NEWSPRINT in their creations*

1.  Carla #8

2.  Linda Langes #11

3.  Birgit #15

4.  Mummylade #16

5.  Agnieszka/Onaija #21

6.  Judy Talley #22

7.  Adziamar #26

8.  Kim Ogden #31

9.  Glenda Boyd #24

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Mary Anne #4

2.  Jill Norwood #23

3.  Raluca Vezeteu #28

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Monika/buzsy #9!  Wowzers ... colors - check!  Flowers - check!  Ribbon - check!  Newsprint - check!  Monika's card has it all this week -- what a stunner!  Thanks for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room, Monika!

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!

Happy 4th of July!

Hello Sweeties!!  Happy 4th of July!!  I hope all my US friends have wonderful plans today that involve great food, great friends and great fun!

To help celebrate Independence Day here in the US, Paper Sweeties is offering everyone 10% off your entire order from Thursday, July 4th through Sunday, July 7th (ends at midnight EST)!  Use coupon code Sparkler at checkout.

Happy shopping spree!

Week #173 - 'Glorious Flowers'

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 'Glorious Flowers' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Rebecca asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS FROM THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE FLOWERS, RIBBON AND NEWSPRINT!

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 #168 challenge - 'Shabby Sunshine'.   Tammy used the So Sweet of You stamp set from Paper Sweeties on her card today!

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

Kristi Schurr!  

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 -  Paper Sweeties
Paper Sweeties - Little Wishes stamp set
Lilac Lace & Primrose Cookie Dough seam binding

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

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Paper Sweeties - Best Wishes

Rebekah Faries - Midnite Lullabies Studio
Paper Sweeties - You Are Simply The Best

Starr Timmons - The Paper Chase
Paper Sweeties - Make Today Beautiful, Rainbows & Roses

Tracey Kelly - Trace Elementz
Paper Sweeties - Live Laugh Love

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 high quality, on-trend, 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, frames and accessory sets - perfect for every paper crafted project!  The Paper Sweeties shop 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 winner will receive a $20 shopping spree in the Paper Sweeties shop!

Please link your creations below by Sunday, July 7th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, July 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 #172 - 'Summer Breeze' 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 'Summer Breeze' 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 2,495 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 Sharon Wheet for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Jeanne Jachna for joining us as our June Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, The Cutting Cafe, 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 'Summer Breeze' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Jill Norwood #7

2.  Padorioa #9

3.  Janine #14

4.  Monika/buzsy #16

5.  Agnieszka Ona i ja #28

6.  Stacy Koo #29

7.  Valou 250809 #32

8.  Raluca Vezeteu #34

9.  Maria Patrick #36

10.  Rudlis #37

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Extravaganza #25

2.  Mihaela #26

3.  Ira #31

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Christy Sugiarto #3!   Wow, what an absolutely gorgeous card ... perfect color choices to fit our challenge along with the requisite fabric element included with the cheesecloth embellishment!  Thank you, Christy, for sharing your lovely work 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!