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Monday, April 25, 2011

Week #59 - 'Butterfly Wishes'

Welcome shabby friends - so happy you're here!  Today brings Pattie as our host here in the Tea Room, and she chose this pretty little inspiration photo for us all ...



... and asks that we create a card or project based on the inspiration photo and use BUTTERFLIES!  You need not use the colors from the inspiration photo unless you want to :)

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!


For our APRIL SPECIAL GUEST DESIGNER SPOTS --  this week we will be treated to a handmade card made by ANABELLE O'MALLEY!  Last week we were inspired by BEATRIZ JENNINGS!  And the week previous to last week we had the treat of a handmade treasure from MELISSA PHILLIPS!!!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, M@rjan Kuppers, M@rjan's Blog!  M@rjan earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #49 - Keeping Warm :)




And our Special Guest Designer, Anabelle O'Malley, Bits and Pieces ... 



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
Nelly & Leo #6




Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!
Nelly and Leo #6





Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune
Nelly and Leo #6




Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards 
Lenny Flowers


Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart




Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch



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

I'm super happy to welcome this week's sponsor, The Stamp Fairy!
Stamp Fairy officially launched on November 5th 2010. Gerda Burghardt artist and owner creates cute and whimsical digital images for the young and old, inspired by her life, love and 4 cute cats. You will find adorable teddies bears, young boys and girls to fuzzy little bunnies and whimsical critters.

Stamp Fairy has new releases along with a free image every Friday, a weekly challenge on Mondays and Guest Designers each month on their challenge blog.  Please visit the store and browse StampFairy’s wonderful images. We hope Stamp Fairy’s images inspire YOUR creativity.

The Stamp Fairy will be providing our lucky winner this week with a $15 store voucher!

Link your creations below by Sunday, May 1st to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, May 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!


Week #58 - 'How 'Egg'cellent - WINNERS!

A BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, shabby little challenge blog!!! Another beautiful week here in the Tea Room for our 'How Egg-cellent' challenge -- 78 BEAUTIFUL cards and projects this week - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,269 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 Beatriz Jennings for joining us as our Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, The Ribbon Reel, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome trim, ribbon and lace package to our winner!  Mark your calendars ... the ALL NEW bi-weekly challenges will begin at The Ribbon Reel on May 2nd -- you won't want to miss any of the fun :)

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filled with such inspiration, but with the increasing popularity of the Tea Room challenges, it is becoming more time consuming to get around to each and every applicant's submission in order to leave comments. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON. Word Verification will NOT protect you from spam comments, and if you have Word Verification turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog.




The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration was so WONDERFUL this week! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'How Egg-cellent' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Michelle #8

2.  Amelia #20

3.  Linda, The Funkie Junkie #27

4.  Keilly #29

5.  Simply Shaz #30
 
6.  Carol R. #39

7.  Kianel #44

8.  Mariyea #58

9.  Fran #62

10.  Kerry #71

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.   Phillipa #48

2.  Andrea Ewen #49
 
3.  Robin Shakoor #74

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Tammy Roberts #75!  WOW ... Tammy has done it again!  This ultra vintage and shabby creation is one of the most beautiful card creations I've ever seen!  The attention to detail is fabulous ... so soft, so shabby, so vintage ... so wonderful!  Thank you, Tammy, for sharing your amazing talents with us all weekly 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, April 18, 2011

Week #58 - 'How Egg-cellent'

Welcome shabby friends - so happy you're here!  Today brings Charlene's very first time as our hostess with the mostest here in the Tea Room, and she chose this adorable inspiration photo for us all ...



... and asks that we create a card or project based on the inspiration photo and use PASTELS and STRIPES

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!


For our APRIL SPECIAL GUEST DESIGNER SPOTS --  this week we will be treated to a handmade card made by BEATRIZ JENNINGS!  Next week we'll be inspired by ANABELLE O'MALLEY!  And last week we had the treat of a handmade treasure from MELISSA PHILLIPS!!!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Geri Freeman, Geri's Paper Wishes!  Geri's shabby and vintage designs are so beautiful and Geri is a 'regular' in the Tea Room!!  Geri has prepared not only one, but TWO gorgeous creations to inspire us all with this week ...





And our Special Guest Designer, Beatriz Jennings - Iralamiga ...



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




Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!




Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune




Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart




Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch



Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards




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

I'm super happy to welcome this week's sponsor, The Ribbon Reel!

The Ribbon Reel is based in the UK and owned by Keilly Mulvihill.  The Ribbon Reel on-line boutique is your one-stop source for all things ribbon, lace, trims, seam binding, velvets, baker's twine, buttons and more!  Keilly will be launching her brand new bi-weekly challenge BLOG on May 2, 2011, so be sure to bookmark the site, mark your calender and play along!  In the meantime, please visit the shop and let Keilly know you found her from here in the Tea Room :)

Keilly provided each of the Shabby Girls with very generous packets of lovely herringbone twill tape, baker's twine, buttons, velvet trim and lots of lovely seam binding trims to design with this week!  Thank you, Keilly!

And here is this week's fabby prize package from The Ribbon Reel ...



... DELICIOUS, huh!!

Link your creations below by Sunday, April 24th  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, April 25th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 25th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

Week #57 - 'Doilies & Lace' WINNERS!

A BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, shabby little challenge blog!!!   Another beautiful week here in the Tea Room for our 'Doilies and Lace' challenge --  119 STUNNING cards and projects this week - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,259 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 Robin Shakoor for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Melissa Phillips for joining us as our Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Cupcake Card Craft, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome digital paper set to our winner!

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filled with such inspiration, but with the increasing popularity of the Tea Room challenges, it is becoming more time consuming to get around to each and every applicant's submission in order to leave comments. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON.  Comment Moderation will NOT protect you from spam comments, and if you have Comment Moderation turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog.




The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration was so WONDERFUL this week!   And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Doilies and Lace' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.  Karien #1

2.  Sherry Wright #6

3.  Kylie #10 and #97

4.  Cathy #12

5.   Lea L. #21

6.  Rosemary D. #29

7.  Rebekah R. #42

8.   Phillipa #89

9.  Heather Hudson #110

10.  Maria P. #115

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.  Tab #48

2.  Geri #82

3.  Tammy Roberts #111

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Jean Martin #75!  Jean's design this week just absolutely took my breath away ... the soft colors, the attention to detail, the mix of paper lace and stamped lace, the pretty color palette, seam binding and gorgeous bloom ... oh my shabby goodness - pure love!  Thank you, Jean, for sharing your amazing 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, April 11, 2011

Week #57 - 'Doilies & Lace'

Welcome shabby friends - so happy you're here!  Today brings Melissa as our shabby host here in the Tea Room, and she chose this pretty inspiration photo for us all ...



... and asks that we create a card or project based on the inspiration photo and use DOILIES and/or LACE!  You are welcome to use stamps, die cuts, paper, lace, doilies, or fabric in any way you are inspired to create with ... but be sure to show us some doilies and lace!  What a YUMMY challenge :)

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!

Before we get started, we have a bit of news to announce.  Kristin Wilson had to unexpectedly step down from her Design Team position for personal reasons.  So, with an open spot on our Tea Room Design Team, we asked our month-long Guest Designer, Sheri Holt, if she would be interested in stepping up into a permanent Design Team position, and she graciously agreed!  Please join me in welcoming Sheri to our shabby little family!

This left an open position in our month-long Guest Designer spot for April since Sheri was April's GDT, so we invited a couple of our Shabby Girlfriends to join us each of the next three weeks, and I'm happy to report that all three of the talented gals who were invited said YES!  This week we will be treated to a handmade card made by MELISSA PHILLIPS!  Next week we'll be inspired by BEATRIZ JENNINGS!  And the last week of April we'll have the treat of a handmade treasure from ANABELLE O'MALLEY!!!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Robin Shakoor, Designs by Robin!  Robin's elegant and beautiful designs are so pretty and inspirational!!



And our Special Guest Designer, Melissa Phillips - Lilly Bean's Paperie! 



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




Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!




Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune




Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart




Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch



Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards




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

I'm so happy to welcome this week's sponsor, Cupcake Card Craft!


Our little shop Cupcake Cards & Crafts is full of beautiful and trendy papers for card making and paper crafting.  Website address is www.cupcakecardcraft.co.uk.
Instant and affordable down loadable papers and lots more.

Cupcake Card Craft will be offering this beautiful digital paper pack to this week's lucky winner ...



Link your creations below by Sunday, April 17th  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, April 18th. 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 #56 - 'Spring Color Challenge' WINNERS!

A BIG shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, shabby little challenge blog!!!   Another fabby week here in the Tea Room for our Flower Palette challenge --  138 BEAUTIFUL cards and projects this week - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,242 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 Lizzi Droege for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Sheri Holt for joining us as our Month-Long Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our regular monthly sponsor, Robyn's Fetish, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome digital set to our winner!

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filed with such inspiration, but with the increasing popularity of the Tea Room challenges, it is becoming more time consuming to get around to each and every applicant's submission in order to leave comments. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON.  If you have Comment Moderation turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog.



The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration was so WONDERFUL this week!   And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Spring Color' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Kathleen #19

2.   Elizabeth H. #28

3.     Loriete #59

4.   Deb Saaranen #64

5.   Gro Tjelveit #81

6.    Fran #87

7.    Sarah B. #90

8.    Suevan911 #102

9.    Tammy Roberts #127

10.  Carol R. #131

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.    Mandy #36

2.    Emily Keaton #54

3.   Tracey #94

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Cindy Holshouser #96!  WOW ... the basket filled with beautifully colored Easter eggs looks just like the inspiration picture!  How absolutely sweet and adorable ... the eggs are so delicately colored and glittered that they look good enough to eat!  Thank you, Cindy, 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!

Monday, April 4, 2011

Week #56 - 'Spring Color Challenge'

Welcome shabby friends - so happy you're here!  Today is Kristin's very first time to host a challenge here in the Tea Room, and she has chosen this pretty inspiration photo for us all ...



... and asks that we create a card or project based on the colors from the inspiration picture {yellow, pink, green, peach & lavender} and a neutral (white, cream, kraft)!

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 -the talented Miss Lizzi Droege - Buttercreme n' Roses!  All the Shabby Girls are such {fans} of Miss Lizzi's vintage and shabby chic designs ... pure eye candy!





And our April Month-Long Guest Designer is Miss Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards!



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
Lilly and Easter Egg




Charlene Cundy - Expresstions of Me!
Kid Bunny





Danielle Greenwood - Au Clair de La Lune
Lamb




Kristin Wilson - Lilsweetpea's Place
Babette Bunny




Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart
Babette Bunny




Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch
Easter Egg


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

I'm so happy to welcome our regular monthly Tea Room sponsor this week - Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps!

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.

Robyn's Fetish  Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is
owned by Robyn Weinrib.  Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers,        designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5
digital stamps or  4 digital stamps and 1 paper set of their choice.

Link your creations below by Sunday, April 10th  to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, April 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 #55 - 'Flower Palette' WINNERS!

A HUGE shabby thank you to everyone for being so supportive of this wonderful, shabby little challenge blog!!!   Another fabby week here in the Tea Room for our Flower Palette challenge --  139 BEAUTIFUL cards and projects this week - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,208 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 to be added to the Shabby Girlfriends page!

Please join me in thanking Linda Langes for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our regular bi-monthly sponsor, Just Rite Stamps for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge last week by providing an awesome cling stamp set and coordinating die kit for our lucky winner!

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filed with such inspiration, but with the increasing popularity of the Tea Room challenges, it is becoming more time consuming to get around to each and every applicant's submission in order to leave comments.  Here in the Tea Room, we work on an odd/even commenting rotation, so if you are an odd number, you'll find comments from three of the Shabby Girls and the even numbers will find comments from the other three Shabby Girls.  Those who still have WORD VERIFICATION turned on are making our jobs more difficult and sometimes causing computer problems.  Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON.   By turning Word Verification off, those that wish to leave comments on your projects will not have to go through the added steps of typing in the caption of random letters before the comment will be posted.  By leaving Comment Moderation on, YOU choose which comments you wish to add to your blog -- so no worries of any spam getting through since you have complete control over which comments you allow and which you delete.  Moving forward, due to the increasing numbers of participants weekly, if you have Word Verification turned on, the Shabby Girls may not be able to leave you sweet comments.  Thanks for your cooperation!




The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration was so WONDERFUL this week!   And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Flower Palette' challenge:

HONORABLE MENTION CUPS OF TEA:

1.   Mango #40

2.   Evelina #47

3.    Liz Droege #52 

4.   Fran #54

5.   Kristy Vittetoe #75

6.    Sylvia/LT #80

7.    Tracy C. #102

8.    Betik #107

9.    Catz #110

10.  Ivy #129

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TEA TIME TERRIFIC TOP THREE WINNERS:

1.    Sheri H. #7

2.    Jean Martin #117

3.   Tammy Roberts #138

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM WINNER:

Geri #108!  WOWOWOWOW!!!  This week Geri not only provided us a card directly inspired by our lovely photo to feast our eyes on, she also provided a great tutorial on how she made her very own mulberry paper 3-D flower!  All I can say is just STUNNING, Geri, simply breathtaking!  Thanks so much for sharing your amazing talents with us in the Tea Room weekly!


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!

Friday, April 1, 2011

Some 'JustRite' Shabby {Love}!

Hello friends ... just a quick little post here to direct you over to the JustRite Inspiration Blog where you'll see a couple of the Shabby Girls creations showcased for participating in the most recent 'Kindness' challenge!

The Shabby Girls {heart} Sharon, Kellie and JustRite Stamps :)  

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo