Week #223 - 'Pretty Gifts and Packaging'

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 Gifts & Packaging' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration!   Rebecca asks that you create a gift or gift packaging inspired by the photo!  (bag, box, gift wrap, unique packaging, etc.)

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, Rebecca Ednie!  Rebecca earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #212 challenge - 'Pretty in Pink'.

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

Macarena! 

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 (please click on each designer's blog link to view additional photos of their projects) ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Paper Sweeties
Creations by AR:  Simply Scrumptious Shop

Paper Sweeties: Fresh Baked, Showering You With Love, Splish Splash, Showering You With Love Sweet Cuts

Diane Hover - Nellie's Nest
Creations by AR:  Mini Bakery

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or not to Scrap, that is the Question
Creations by AR:  My Picnic Basket

Linda Dudziak - Made by Groszek
Creations by AR: Baby Onesies Box

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose

Creations by AR: Crafter's Apron
Paper Sweeties: You Are Amazing

Tina Milbourn - Confessions of a DeNami Addict

 Creations by AR: Dress Up Baby Bag

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 Creations by AR!

Creations by AR is all about paper crafting specializing in 3D templates, cutting files and digital images. Visit www.creationsbyar.com for inspiration!

I am pleased to offer The Shabby Tea Room participants a challenge discount of 10% off entire purchase during the week of my sponsorship.  The discount code is challenge10.

 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, June 22nd to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, June 23rd. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 23rd as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

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Week #222 - 'Lavendar & Lace' 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 'Lavendar & Lace' challenge -- we received 18 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 2,685 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 Char Crawford for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Macarena 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 'Lavendar & Lace' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Zielonaliska #3

2.  Handcrafted by Achawg #4

3.  Bligu #16

 

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE'S:
 
1.  Lynne #7

2.  Charlotte Zweigoron #8

3.  Paper Talk With Samra #18

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Narelle Farrugia #14!  What an absolute shabby chic beauty Narelle created for this week's Lavendar & Lace challenge!  Thanks for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room, Narelle!

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 #222 - 'Lavendar & Lace'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Diane is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Lavender & Lace' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration!   Diane asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo using lavender + cream/white and include lace/doilie and distressing.

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, Char Crawford!  Char earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #211 challenge - 'Bits & Bobbles'.

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

Macarena!  

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 (please click on each designer's blog link to view additional photos of their projects) ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Paper Sweeties
The Cutting Cafe:  Tulip Card Set
Paper Sweeties:  Wagon Add-on: bloom & grow, Banner Wishes, Grape Seam Binding

Diane Hover - Nellie's Nest
The Cutting Cafe:  Window Sill Shaped Card Set

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or not to Scrap, that is the Question
The Cutting Cafe:Tulip Card Set

Linda Dudziak - Made by Groszek

The Cutting Cafe: Tulip Card Set

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
The Cutting Cafe: Window Sill Shaped Card
Paper Sweeties: You Make Me Smile

 



Tina Milbourn - Confessions of a DeNami Addict

The Cutting Cafe: Tulip Card Set

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 - The Cutting Cafe!

The Cutting Cafe is your one stop for affordable cutting files and printable stamps. We offer a huge selections on just about any occasion.

This week's lucky winner will receive three cutting files from The Cutting Cafe!
 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, June 15th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, June 16th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 16th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

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Week #221 - 'Vintage Love' 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 'Vintage Love' challenge -- we received 28 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 2,684 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 Karien Van der Westhuizen for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Macarena for joining us as our June 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 'Vintage Love' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Christy Sugarito #11

2.  Achawg #16

3.  Synnove #21

 

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE'S:
 
1.  Karasiowa #3

2.  Crafting in Croatia #18

3.  Amelia #26

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Bligu #25!  Oh my shabby goodness - pure VINTAGE LOVE!  What a gorgeous card Bligu created to share with us all in the Tea Room this week!  Thanks for sharing your talents with us this week, Bligu!

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 #221 - 'Vintage Love'

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 'Vintage Love' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration!   Lenet asks that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS IN THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE LACE/RIBBON, ROSES + BLING/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, Karien Van der Westhuizen!  Karien earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #211 challenge - 'Bits & Bobbles'.

And some more beautiful inspiration from our June Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer - please help me welcome Macarena!  

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 (please click on each designer's blog link to view additional photos of their projects) ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Paper Sweeties
Paper Sweeties:  So Sweet of You, Sweeties Wagon Sweet Cuts, Bubblegum Sequins
Bubblegum Seam Binding, Oatmeal Seam Binding

Diane Hover - Nellie's Nest
Paper Sweeties:  Live Love Grow

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or not to Scrap, that is the Question
Paper Sweeties:  Congratulations ,  Sequins Tutti-Fruti

Linda Dudziak - Made by Groszek

Paper Sweeties: Seam binding - Cotton Candy

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
Paper Sweeties: Best Wishes

Tina Milbourn - Confessions of a DeNami Addict

Paper Sweeties: Happy 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 - Paper Sweeties!

Paper Sweeties is owned and illustrated by Debbie Marcinkiewicz, and offers  high-quality, on trend acrylic stamps, metal dies and embellishments.  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 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 stamps and dies to create projects for card making, scrap booking, party invitations and favors, home decor, gifts and so much more!

Winner will receive a $20 gift certificate from the Paper Sweeties boutique!

 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, June 8th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, June 9th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 9th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

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Week #220 - 'Let's Go For a Ride' 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 'Let's Go For a Ride' challenge -- we received 13 FUN 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 2,681 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 Macarena for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Alyson MacDonald for joining us as our May 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 'Let's Go For a Ride' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Something Crafty by Dottie #1

2.  Char Crawford #10

3.  Vikki W. #11

 

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1st place winner of three collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy:  Zuzana #8
 

2nd place winner of two collage files from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy:   Mary V. #3

3rd place winner of one collage file from Digital Papers by Janet Etsy:  Sylwia-eR #12

Congratulations to ALL! Tea Time Terrific Top Three Winners, please grab your badges from our sidebar that you can proudly display on your blogs! Winners, please 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! 

Week #220 - 'Let's Go For a Ride'

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 'Let's Go For a Ride' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration!   Rebecca asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo and INCLUDE SOMETHING WITH WHEELS, PINK, FLOWERS and BACKGROUND TEXTURE!

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, Macarena!  Macarena earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #211 challenge - 'Bits and Bobbles'.

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

Alyson MacDonald!  

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 (please click on each designer's blog link to view additional photos of their projects) ...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Paper Sweeties
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Shabby Chic Banners 3
Paper Sweeties:  Life is a Special Occasion, Frosting Sequins, Frosting Seam Binding

Diane Hover - Nellie's Nest
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy:  Shabby Chic Banners 3

Lenet Mos - To Scrap or not to Scrap, that is the Question
Digital Papers by Janet Etsy:matilda and pink scooter

Linda Dudziak - Made by Groszek

Digital Papers by Janet Etsy:  matilda and pink scooter

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose
 Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Big Paper Roses 2

Tina Milbourn - Confessions of a DeNami Addict

Digital Papers by Janet Etsy: Shabby Chic Banners 3, Romantic Paper Roses

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 Top Three first place winner will receive three collage files
Tea Time Top Three second place winner will receive two collage files

Tea Time Top Three third place winner will receive one collage file 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, June 1st to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, June 2nd. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 2nd as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

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