Challenge #56

Happy Friday everyone!
Thank you so much for your wonderful Mug Shots card last week - who knew there were so many adorable stamps with mugs on them?!?! Don't forget that if you want to be considered for the Design Team, please indicate so by putting {DT} next to your entries.
And without further ado, congratulations on the following cards, it was so hard to choose!

Simply Shaz's adorable paper pieced card:

Paulines' floral beauty:

Christi Bryant's adorable large ventis:

Wanda's sweet latte:

Congratulations ladies! Please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com for next week's assignment.

And now on to this week's challenge:

I'm just sayin'...

Create a card made with JUST a sentiment - no other images allowed! I have seen these cards everywhere in blog land and have fallen in love with it. And just to show you what I mean, we welcome back our Guest Bar-Tenders:

Renee's classy birthday wishes

Juelmarie's recipe for friendship:

Marilyn's quilted creation:

Stunning, just stunning! Beautiful job ladies, thank you so much for joining in this week!

And now on to our designers:

Anita's stunning fold

Thanh's orange dreamsicle:

Julie's beautiful blue affirmation:

Beautiful sentiments ladies!

Now it's your turn to enter in on the fun. Remember, no big image to take center stage,

keep the sentiment as the focal point. Click on the happy blue guy below to link up your work.

Challenge #55

Hello Friday!
Thank you all so much for joining in on our cartoon character challenge, we loves seeing our favorite icons - from Strawberry Shortcake to the Simpsons, you all are so creative!
Before I introduce our new theme, we here at Raise The Bar are looking for a few more employees. heehee! That's right - we'd like to add to our Design Team and want you to apply! All you have to do for the next couple of challenges is add {DT} to your name. We'll pay you a visit, and will announce the new members on the 11th of March.
And now on to the following entries who make up our winners round for the week:

Marilyn

Renee

Juelmarie

Congratulations ladies!
Please contact me at jonjinko@hotmail.com for next week's assignment.

And now for this week's theme:
As we say goodbye to cold weather, we want to see your

MUG SHOTS!

No no, not as in criminal lineups! heehee! Let's pull out any image we have of hot drinks - lattes, cocoa, and coffees. To start you off with some awesome inspiration, here are this week's Guest Bar-Tenders, uh I mean Bar-istas:

Nela

Cec

Sheila

Hanna

Oooh! I love love love their gallery today! I think I'll celebrate and use my Keurig as they've got me in the mug mood right now. Thank you ladies for serving up some hot inspiration!
And now to our full time always so talented Bar-istas:

Thanh

Anita

Julie

Joni

Come on and join in on the fun! Click the happy blue frog below to participate and don't forget to add {DT} next to your name if you'd like to apply to be a Bar-Tender.

Challenge #54

It's another beautiful Friday and a new challenge here at Raise The Bar!
I hope this post finds everyone doing well and ready to enjoy the weekend? Thank you all for your beautiful Valentine creations without the reds and pinks, I know you all raised your own bar as the entries were just breathtaking in every other color! As always, it is such a difficult decision to narrow down a top 3:

CEC

Nina

Sheila Ho

Congratulations ladies! Please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com for next week's assignment as Guest Bar-Tenders. And speaking of, since I was so tardy in announcing last week's winners with our overwhelming Hearts entries, they will be joining in on the fun next week as we say 'goodbye' to winter. (hint hint) I hope this has your wheels turning! heehee!
This week we are paying tribute to something that we love no matter what our age is:

Children's Cartoon Characters

Yes! Let's celebrate our youth by creating a card inspired by a much loved character. It can be from a book, a movie, a tv show, let your imagination soar!
Here are some adorable designs by our Bar-Tenders:

Anita's inspiration:

and her adorable card:

Thanh's sweet tribute:

(my daughter will go crazy for this picture!)

and rainbow-licious card:

Julie's little blue muse:

and card that would make Gargamel swoon:

And here's my rootin'est tootin'est hero:

and the card that Woody inspired:

So come on and join in on the fun! We would love to see a little picture of your cartoon character inspired card. Link up below by clicking on the happy blue froggy and we will fly, flutter, ride our horses, and magically appear at your blog.

Challenge winners!

Wow! You all are making our jobs SO hard to decide!
Thank you to all who entered our hearts challenge, my apologies that this post is up so late. Congratulations to the following crafters with their sweet designs:

Alice R

Gale

Hannapanna

Nela

Ladies please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com for your upcoming assignment. Thank you all so much for being patient with me, I just love it when the Bar gets so busy! :)
Have a beautiful Tuesday everyone!

Challenge #53

Happyyyyyy Friday everyone! Are you ready for a beautiful weekend?
If you are stopping in to check out the winners' round, please check back for an edited post - with 170+ entries we want to be sure that everyone was visited with their adorable hearts entries. Thank you all for your participation and support!
Today's challenge will give you something to ponder over as it is a bit unconventional. heehee! So get ready to put on your thinking caps for:

A Valentine's Day card 

with NO pink or red

We have a fun lineup this week with adorable samples, first up from the Guest Bar-Tenders:

Katlyn

Peggy

Cassie

Eeek! I love it! Puppies, little girl with flowers, and monsters - what fun images! Thank you ladies!
And now for the full timers and their concoctions:

Julie's
elegant love card

Thanh's
blue and brown beauty

Anita's
purple yummy creation

Joni's
old school love
{inside says "to my sweetie pie"}

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Come along and join in on the fun, just click on the happy blue frog below.

Challenge #52

It's a wonderful Friday!
Happy beautiful day everyone, the weekend is finally here. :)
Oh those beautiful entries from last week's challenges were so wonderful! Thank you for the purple/blue/yellow combos, all the original ideas were so creative.
Here are the picks of the week:

Cassie

Lisette

K Joy

Congratulations ladies! Please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com for next week's fun challenge.

And now on to this week's theme:

HEARTS

 To celebrate all the love in this month, we want to see cards - BUT it must have a heart image somewhere on it. As you can see, we have a fun little lineup below to get you inspired:

From our Guest Bar-Tenders:

Irene

Wanda

And joining in on the fun with a sweet little cupid from Inktegrity:

 Jacki

Tammy

 Jacquie

Sheri

And from our Bar-Tenders:

Anita

Julie

Thanh

Joni