Challenge #21

You know what day it is!! Yay for Fridays! :D
Thank you all so very much for the wonderful entries in last week's challenge. Your take on the sketches were amazing! It's always so hard to pick a top 3 as all of your cards truly reflect on your personalities and styles. From time to time I ask friends to make 'ghost' judge appearances (also card makers and crafters) to help pick their favorites. This way I get a nice mix of styles and preferences to showcase. ;)
Without further ado, this week a huge congratulations to the following ladies:

Thannh Vo of Yummy Creations

Julie of Paper and Such

Marcia of White With One

Thank you ladies! If your name is listed, please contact me for next week's Bar-Tender's concoction.
And now for a big announcement - after Suzi stepped down to take on wonderful design teams, we welcomed Erika Taylor to our Design Team!! Erika has an amazing blog HERE, and started this week as a designer. You can see her first card, with this week's challenge:

Celebrate Summer!

Ah yes, the wonderful lazy days of summer is upon us, so interpret this theme any way that you'd like! Here are some adorable samples by the Designers, starting with our Guest Bar-Tenders:

Georgia

Tara

Jessica

Hazel

Thank you ladies! And from the Design Team:

Welcome Erika!

Audrey

Darlene

Sparkle

Anita

Joni

See how fun the interpretation can be of this theme? Come on over and join us! Just click on the happy blue frog below, and then sit back and enjoy your week. ;) Have a beautiful day everyone, thank you for coming by!

Challenge #20

Happy Friday everyone! Yes, you know this is my favorite blog to post because it's the start of a weekend as well as a new challenge! We loved visiting your blogs and seeing all the awesome cards and handbags last week. Here are the 3 Guest Bar-Tenders for next week's challenge:

Jessica T

Hazel

Georgia

Congratulations ladies! Please email me so I can send you the details. :D
And now on to this week's challenge - are you ready?

It's a SKETCH!! Yes! You never know what to expect at the Bar. ;)
We have a wonderful lineup of cards so sit back and enjoy!
From our Guest Bar-Tenders:

12year old Hollyanne

Peri

Davi

Thank you so much ladies!
And from our Bar-Tenders:

Sparkle

Anita

Darlene

Joni

Thank you so much to the DT for all of the wonderful inspiration!
Now I know the weather is gorgeous out, and many of us are spending more time outdoors than our craft tables. But I do hope you come and join us this week. :D Please click on the happy blue frog below to enter your card, you may be our next Guest Bar-tender! Have a wonderful weekend everyone, enjoy this beautiful day.

Challenge #19

Happy Friday everyone!
It was so nice to see all the wonderful yellow, gray and white combos last week, thank you all so much for playing along with us every week. We LOVE your company here!
Without further ado here are the three that were selected, as well as a special extra designer. ;)

Tara

Davi

Peri

and 12 year old Hollyanne

Congratulations ladies (and little lady!). Please contact me for next week's assignment and your Guest Bar-Tender badge. :D

And now on to this week's challenge:

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BAG!

Create a card inspired by your favorite bag: handbag, gift bag, shopping bag, one that you saw on the internet - your choice! As always our DT has some wonderful samples to get you inspired:

Rachel Hope's summery bag

(Guest Bar-Tender)

and her beautiful card:

Sparkle's beautiful bag:

and adorable Anya interpretation:

Audrey's sweet handmade bag

(she made it herself!):

and sweet Earth Love card inspired by it:

Darlene's fun Kohl's purse:

Dar took a picture of the bag, 

then used it as her DP!! Brilliant:

And here's my summer tote:

And my card:

Now it's your turn to play along! Click on the blue frog below and add your card, we will be by to pay you a visit. Until then, have a wonderful day and an even happier week everyone!

Challenge #18

Happy Friday friends! Some important announcements to make before we continue on to our weekly posting. First off, we are saying aloha to Suzi, one of our wonderful design team members who started with us when Raise The Bar debuted! Suzi is an amazing crafter, so much that she has been asked to be on different design teams and has stepped down from Raise The Bar. We love you Suzi!! Thank you so much for being a part of this venture with us!!

My second announcement is a huge GOOF. Last week's Guest Bar-Tender's card didn't make it to the post and I truly apologize to Debbie of Passion For Crafts!! So I wanted to feature it here in a bit of spotlight before we get to the top 3 winners of  Mom's Day challenge. Here is Debbie's incredible card:

Thank you so much Debbie! This creation is beautiful and surpasses just a mom's day card!!
And now to our top 3 of our Mom's Day week:

paperfan

Rachel

Laurel

Congratulations ladies!! Please email me so I can give you next week's challenge in advance.
This week we have a COLOR COMBO:

YELLOW, GRAY and WHITE

Feel free to use these colors in any hue!
Here are some amazing samples by the Design Team:

Guest Bar-Tender Lynn:

Guest Bar-Tender Lisa

Anita

Audrey

Darlene

Joni

Let's see your color combo card! Click on the happy blue frog that we just love and we'll stop by to visit you. Thank you so much everyone for joining in our weekly challenges!