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Monday, January 30, 2012

Week #99 - 'Love is in the Air'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Char is our wonderful host and she has chosen the theme of 'Love is in the Air' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...



... and Char asks that you create a VALENTINE'S DAY card or project inspired by the COLORS IN THE INSPIRATION PHOTO and WITH A MAIL OR POSTAGE ELEMENT!

Note: 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. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Rema Timm - RT Impressions!  Rema earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #87 challenge - 'A Shabby Thanksgiving'. 




And some more beautiful inspiration from our January Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    
Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch!




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
Shabby Music Background, Always & Forever Medallion Labels, Your Special Day Medallion Labels, Greetings from Paris

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Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!
Your Special Day Medallion Labels




Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie
Your Special Day Medallion Labels and Always & Forever Medallion Labels


Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog
Your Special Day Medallion Labels, Always & Forever Medallion Labels, Greetings from Paris


Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart
Always & Forever Medallion Labels, Your Special Day Medallion Labels, Greetings from Paris


Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards
Harlequin Script Background, Always & Forever Medallion Cling, Your Special Day Medallion Cling, Nested Medallion & Nested Oval Medallion Dies

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

 The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome back our regular bi-monthly sponsor - JustRite Stamps!


Card makers love the memories they are creating with our unique stamps and the constant flow of new ideas and fresh images. With our collection creative possibilities are endless because borders, centers, alphabet, words and phrases are interchangeable. Our rubber stamps range from big bold and colorable to simple and delicate. We're not just great art we're the best value in stamping. 
This week's lucky winner will earn: 
Two new medallion dies and the "Just Keep Calm" clear set from the new releases! 

Please link your creations below by Sunday, February 5th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, February 6th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 6th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!


Week #98 - 'Sparkly & Bright' - 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 'Sparkly & Bright' challenge -- we received 65 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 1,823 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 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 Pattie Goldman for joining us as our January Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Digi Doodle Shop, 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 my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Sparkly & Bright' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Andrea Ewen #2

2.  June Lanum #3

3.  Michelle Bala #8

4.  Jinny Newlin #12

5.  Ragnhild O #14

6.  Mickey DelValle #15

7. Maria P. #33

10.   Lenet #63

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Sharon Wheet #20

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Creative Journey - Christine #38!  Wow ... what an amazing set!  I just adore each and every sweet detail that Christine added to her lovely projects this week ... so soft, so pretty, so beautiful and wonderful!  Thanks, Christine, for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room this week :)



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! 

Monday, January 23, 2012

Week #98 - 'Sparkly & Bright'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week I am our host and I have chosen the theme of 'Sparkly & Bright' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...



... and I ask that you create a card or project inspired by the above photo and USE WHITE and/or CREAM, SILVER and a SPLASH OF PINK!

Note: 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. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Kristi Schurr - Kristi's Paper Creations!  Kristi earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #86 challenge - 'Homespun Fall'. 



And some more beautiful inspiration from our January Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    
Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch!  



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
Antique Stove




Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!
Jr. Bride & Groom




Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie
Antique Bowl & Pitcher




Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog
Heartfelt Roses




Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart
Pumpkin Carriage




Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards
Wedding Cake



Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

 The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsor - Digi Doodle Shop!


Digi Doodle Shop is the results of a mother and daughter’s love for the arts and crafts.  It was started a little over 3 years ago with a little more than 100 stamps, and has since then grown to almost 500 stamps.  Joy (the mother of this team) designs realistic images, while Judy (aka/daughter) loves the “fun side of life”, and create images with a cartoon flair.  Having these two complimenting styles have enabled
Digi Doodle Shop to offer a wide variety of stamps.

It is a real honor and pleasure to sponsor this challenge, and we look forward to seeing all the amazing creations.  We thank the design team for their incredible creations, and wish all the participants the very best of luck in this challenge.

Thank you so much for having us, and again the very best of luck to all of you.
Sincerely,
Judy and Joy


Please link your creations below by Sunday, January 29th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, January 30th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 30th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!


Week #97 - 'Gorgeous Gateaux' 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 'Gorgeous Gateaux' 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 1,810 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 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 Geri Freeman for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Pattie Goldman for joining us as our January Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Tiffany Doodles, 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 my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Gorgeous Gateaux' challenge (use gray or silver, lilac, peach, pink plus lace & a metal embellishment):

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Kristi Schurr #6

2.  Marie O. #10

3.  Bonya #11

4.  Gitte #12

5.  Various Artist #17

6.  Karien #22

7. Agnieszka Be #25


THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  June Lanum #15

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

#1 Andrea EwenOh my shabby goodness ... pure love!  Such sweet, delicate and creative beauty in this gorgeous card!!  Thank you, Andrea, for sharing your creativity and inspiration 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! 

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

We're having a Birthday Celebration ...

{If you're looking for this week's 'Gorgeous Gateaux' Tea Room Challenge, please click here!}

Happy Birthday to you ... Happy Birthday to you ... Happy Birthday dear Melissa and Fran!  Happy Birthday to you BOTH!!!
Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Simple Treasures 


Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Melissa is celebrating her birthday today and Fran will be celebrating her birthday on Friday!

If you want to join in on the fun and send these Shabby Girls some cyber birthday wishes, please create a birthday theme card or project and link it here, just for FUN!


Monday, January 16, 2012

Week #97 - 'Gorgeous Gateaux'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Fran is our wonderful host and she has chosen the theme of 'Gorgeous Gateaux' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...


... and Fran asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo and USE GRAY (or silver), LILAC, PEACH & PINK PLUS LACE (paper or fabric) AND A METAL EMBELLISHMENT!

Note: 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. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Geri Freeman - Geri's Paper Wishes!  Geri earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #85 challenge - 'Happy Halloween'. 



And some more beautiful inspiration from our January Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    
Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch!  



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
Wedding Presents & Wedding Rose Bouquet



Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!
Wedding Rose Bouquet




Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie
Fancy Umbrellas




Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog
Simple Flower Bunch




Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart
Wedding Presents




Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards
Make it Snappy - Congrats




Bugaboo Designer - Rae Ann


Bugaboo Designer



Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

 The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsor - Bugaboo Stamps!

Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About 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 papercrafting 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   at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT   for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug


Please link your creations below by Sunday, January 22nd to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, January 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!

Week #96 - 'Vintage Boudoir' 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  Boudoir' challenge -- we received 85 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 1,802 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS -- {WOW} 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 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 Joanna Munster for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Pattie Goldman for joining us as our January Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Tiffany Doodles, 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 my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Vintage Boudoir' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Meihsia Liu #4

2.  Sandie #6

3.  Valarie #19

4.  Berit Synnove #25

5.  Archana #37

6.  Kaia #43

7. Rema T. #49

10.   Maria P. #85

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Kylie #1 - 1ST PLACE WINNER = 6 IMAGES FROM TIFFANY DOODLES!

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Joy #15 & #51 - GRAND PRIZE WINNER = 10 IMAGES FROM TIFFANY DOODLESWow, what a fabulous, vintage and shabby set ... so many pretty details, embellishments and sewing elements on this lovely treasure box and heart -- LOVE!  Thank you, Joy, for sharing your talents with us this week 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! 

Monday, January 9, 2012

Week #96 - 'Vintage Boudoir'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Cindy is our wonderful host and she has chosen the theme of 'Vintage Boudoir' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...


... and Cindy asks that you create a card or project inspired by THE COLORS IN THE PHOTO AND USE A SEWING THEMED EMBELLISHMENT!  {Sewing embellishment could be something such as:  lace, ribbon, pins, stamped image, seam binding, machine sewing, faux sewing, buttons, zipper, bobbin, spool, needle, etc.)

Note: 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. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Joanna Munster - Inspired by Stamping!  Joanna earned this Guest Designer spot for her win in the Tea Room during the Week #84 challenge - 'Pumpkin Garden'.   Did you also know that Joanna is an amazing artist and launched her very own stamp business this past fall?  You can check out all the amazing acrylic stamp sets in her wonderful shop here



And some more beautiful inspiration from our January Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ...    
Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch!  



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
Christmas Postcard


Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!
Label 3



Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie
Couch




Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog
Shutters




Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart
Dancing Dress



Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards
Dancing Dress



Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

 The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsor - Tiffany Doodles Digital Stamps!




Original Digital Stamps



Hi! I'm Tiffany, owner of TiffanyDoodles. My background is web design, graphic design & photography. I have been self employed for nine years and have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of my work! Since childhood, I've always been creative and taken great pleasure in drawing and painting. In 2009, I discovered the stamping and paper crafting world and just fell in love!! In a very short order, I began transforming some of my drawings and doodles into "digis". It has truly been a joy to share them with folks. I get so thrilled every time I see something new that someone has created with one of my stamps!! Each design is like a child of mine and it's really neat to see it all grown up and out in the world being all it can be... LOL!

All of my digital stamps are originally created by me and of the multiple styles I offer, most are hand-drawn images. Some are brushed up in Photoshop using the pen tool to produce very clean lines and others are left with a sketchy, rustic, hand-drawn look. An additional digi-style is one that I've dubbed as PhotoSketches and these are images from my photographs which I transformed into sketches with a little help from Photoshop. These beauties make splendid realistic images for stamping!

One of the ways that I wish to say "thank you" to all of the folks that follow Tiffany Doodles is by offering a brand new Freebie every Thursday. I've received a hefty response from this, which has encouraged me to continue creating even more!! I hope you find something you like here!

Tiffany is so generous ... we will have FOUR winners this week:
Grand Prize = 10 digital images
1st Place = 6 digital images
2nd Place = 4 digital images
3rd Place = 2 digital images
WOW!!!

Please link your creations below by Sunday, Janaury 15th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, January 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!



Week #95 - 'Time Flies' 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 'Time Flies' challenge -- we received 85 WONDERFUL cards and projects this week - WOWZERS - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!!  We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,785 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 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 Magda Klementowicz for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Pattie Goldman for joining us as our January Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Robyn's Fetish Digital 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 my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Time Flies' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Pejtoon #3

2.  Andrea Ewen #4

3.  Michelle Bala #17

4.  Lou #18

5.  Krisiti S. #19

6.  Lenet #23

7. Rosemary D. #39


THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:
 
1.  Karien #2

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Claralesfleurs #78!  WOW ... talk about a STUNNING project!  My jaw dropped when I saw this a-maz-ing set!  The attention to detail and sheer amount of embellishment Claralesfleurs included in the design of this card and lamp set is breathtaking!  Please visit her blog to see more pictures of this outstanding project!  Thank you Claralesfleurs for sharing your talents with us all this week 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!