Challenge #58

Happy beautiful Friday everyone!
I am so excited to post today's announcement, we have 2 new Bar-Tenders who will be joining in on our weekly fun! Congratulations to the following ladies who have just been hired:

Jan Marshall and Wanda Cullen

They will join in on the fun as full time employees next week. Yay!
And now, a huge THANK YOU for all the amazing entries in our G.R.E.E.N. acrostic challenge last week. Wow - you all were so creative with your acronyms, they all had me smiling at your clever concoctions! Without further ado, congratulations to the following entries:
(Please click their names to discover what their acrostic stood for.)

Amy Duff of Paper Trails Leaver

Cassie Trask of A Day in the life of a Homeschooling Mom

Maxine of Scrappy Max

Maya of Maya's hobby blogg

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

Now are you ready for a picture perfect Spring day? Me too! Especially with this week's photo inspiration:

 

Isn't she just adorable? Now here's where you have full creative license - you can take this picture literally, you can use the colors from this image, you can create a card inspired by this cutie, just be sure to let us know your interpretation of it!

And starting us off this week is our bar-tender Susan who used this picture as a sketch and image inspiration (brilliant!!):

Susan Margarson

Thanh's beautiful homage with such a gorgeous image!

Julie's wonderful outdoorsy color scheme:

My color combo inspired card:

Come and show us how that spring picture inspired you! Click on the happy blue frog below to link up your work. Have a wonderful week ahead everyone!

Challenge #57

It's a great day!
Happy Friday everyone, and thank you so much for coming by. We truly love and appreciate your support here on Raise The Bar!
Thank you for your entries in the "I'm just sayin'" challenge last week - just BEAUTIFUL! If you have time to scroll through all the entries, you will see all the beautiful cards made with just sentiments. Amazing, and truly breathtaking!
It was no easy task to decide since everyone's creations were fit to be published in all the popular magazines. ;) Congratulations to the following friends:

Cassie

Angella

Susan

Henrikke

(I have been inspired to create more sentiment cards with everyone's entries this week!) Ladies, please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com for next week's assignment.
And now on to our fun challenge for this week:

Create your own 
G.R.E.E.N. acrostic!

Yes, you have full creative license to create a card or project with this acronym. To jump start your creativity, here are some amazing cards by two of our Guest Bar-Tenders, followed by our full time Bar-Tenders:

Shaz

Girl image/Ribbon/Embellishment (button)/Embellishment (ribbon slider)/Nestie

Christi

Garden/Rhinestones/Embossing/Embellishment/Nestabilities

Anita

Green/Raffia/Embellishment (washer)/Embellishment (bling) /New Image

Julie

Thanh

Guy image/Ribbon/Embellishment: vintage brads/Embellishment: linen thread/Navy cardstock

Joni

Green cardstock/Ribbon/Easel card/Embellishment (pearls)/New Image

See? Don't be intimidated to go G.R.E.E.N.! Click on the happy blue frog below, we will announce the Guest Bar-Tenders on next week's post, as well as introduce you to the new DT members joining us here at Raise The Bar.

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!