Challenge #71

Happy wonderful Friday everyone!
I hope your week went well and that you are looking forward to a great weekend! Thank you all so much for your adorable Dog Days Of Summer cards! Omword, I have to go shopping online for all the great pup images that showed up on the entries. Congratulations to the following crafters:

Kristy

Gro Tjeltveit

Moshie

Ladies please contact me on being a Guest Bar-Tender next week!
And now for our NEW challenge - still celebrating this heat wave:

Beat The Heat!

Let's see a card or project made with a cool treat - ice cream, popsicles, etc. Just make sure it beats the heat!
Here are some wonderful inspiration to get you started, courtesy of the awesome Bar-Tenders:

Wanda

Jan

Anita

Thanh

Joni

Thank you for beating the heat with us! Please click on the happy blue frog below to link up your work.

Challenge #70

Happy wonderful Friday everyone!
HOLY MOLY! Did you see the amount of entries in last week's Everything Goes challenge? WOWZA - and a huge thank you to everyone who played along!
Congratulations to the following entries, selected by random.org since there was no way we could have limited ourselves to just 3 this week!!

Corry

Wendy

Betty Wright

Ladies please contact me for your opportunity to be a Guest Bar-Tender!

It's a new week and your chance to join in on our new challenge of:

DOG DAYS OF SUMMER

This is in honor of everyone who has had quite a hot summer this year: water restrictions, heat waves, lakes drying up - yikes! But let's go to the happier side of that saying and see a card made with DOGS on it. Any kind of pooch will be fine, as you can see by the wonderful Bar-Tenders who are always so great at inspiration:

Thanh

Jan

Wanda

Joni

Leash up your pooch and play along in our challenge! You have until next Thursday to show us your cutest pup creation. Click on the happy blue frog below to enter.

Challenge #69

Happy beautiful FRIDAY everyone and welcome back to Raise The Bar!
Yes, we are back in full swing with all the Bar-Tenders ready to take on new challenges with you. I hope everyone has had a wonderful summer thus far? I cannot believe that August is here, but we are ready for a fun new theme that we're sure you'll love:

ANYTHING GOES!

We want to see what you've been up to! Now since this is an open theme, we do have specifications and a few favors to ask:

1. Please link to NEW projects only, no backlinks to something beautiful that was created in July.

2. ONE entry per person please, as this is such an open theme.

3. Item must be craft related, whether it be a card, scrapbook page, altered item, etc. 

Are you ready for the fun samples? 

First up, our Guest Bar-Tender from our last challenge:

Erin Reed's gorgeous layout

And from our Bar-Tenders:

Anita's sweet back to school card

Jan's sweet anniversary card

Wanda's sunflowery sweetness

Thanh's summery homage

My altered vegetable cans

Now we know you want to join in on the fun! We can't wait to see your creations, simply click on the happy blue frog below to add your link.

Challenge #68

HAPPY BEAUTIFUL FRIDAY EVERYONE!
First off, thank you for your beautiful Memorial Day tribute cards, they were all so beautiful! This post is a little different than the other Fridays as we have a couple of announcements. First off, the winners of this past challenge as well as this current challenge will be notified individually. The reason being:

Haha! Yes, the reason is because Raise The Bar will be on a summer hiatus! The Bar-Tenders are going to take a breather, start off our summers, plant our gardens, and return on AUGUST 5th with new challenges and fun surprises! This is just a little vaca, so please don't unsubscribe or forget about us. Since we have one more challenge for this week, we will feature the past two groups of winners will help us celebrate our return in a couple of months. This also gives you plenty of time to join in on this challenge as it will be extended to two weeks instead of one!
Without further ado, this week's theme is:

TEACHER'S PET

Since this is the last few weeks of school, let's show off our thank you cards to teachers, mentors, tutors, and those who help mold the future. We have a beautiful lineup this week as always! 

Thanh's Whimsie thank you note

Julie's wise owl

Anita's head of the fairy class

Jan's sweet school girl

Wanda's little reader

Joni's bookworm

Challenge #67

Happy beautiful Friday everyone!
First off, today is quite the post with last week's winners as well as this week's top picks! Wow - there were so many beautiful entries for both challenges! Without further ado, here are the winners for our  FLOWER POWER challenge:

Sue

Davi

 Tracey

Oh my stars, just beautiful blossoms everywhere! And below are the winners from our Apples and Oranges challenge using green and orange in your creation:

Bettina

Erin

Donna

Ladies please contact me at jonjinko@hotmail.com for next week's challenge before we go on a summer hiatus.
This week as we honor our military for Memorial Day weekend, I thought it was appropriate to create sympathy cards. There are so many beautiful and thoughtful creations done by the wonderful Design Team:

Wanda

Thanh

Jan

Julie

Thank you ladies! I know they've inspired you to create a thoughtful, heartfelt card. Link up your card by next Thursday, so we can come by to visit you!

Challenge #66

Happy beautiful challenge day everyone! Phew, are we glad that blogger is back up and running again! Since it put a bit of a delay on commenting, we will be back here tomorrow with an updated post of the winners for last week's "Flower Power" challenge.
We're still debuting our NEW challenge today and it is a special one indeed, a color combo called:

{Green} APPLES and ORANGES

This is a special one because it happens to be my daughter's favorite color combo and May 14th is her 10th birthday! I also think it's so summery and fun so I couldn't resist. ;)
Here are some YUMMY samples by the amazing designers, starting with our Guest Bar-Tenders:

Svitlana

Nikki

Awww! Thank you for the sweet cards Svitlana and Nikki! My daughter will just squeal when she sees this post. :)

And now on to our awesome Bar-Tenders:

Jan

Wanda

Joni

Now it's your turn! You can use other colors, of course, but please be sure to have lots of happy greens and oranges (any hues) in your creation. {It need not be a happy birthday card either, the girls were just so sweet to do this!}
Please note that when you link up your card, this week will just be a text link. Our regular inlinkz thumbnail widget will be adjusted soon. :)

Challenge #65

Happy May everyone! Thank you for your beautiful beachy creations last week, I felt like it was summer in blogland. :) Congratulations to the following crafters:

Angela of Angelwood's Crafting Corner:

Nikki of NM Creations

Svit of SVIT Dreams:

Congratulations ladies! Please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com for next week's assignment as Guest Bar-Tender.
And now on to this week's challenge:

FLOWER POWER!

Create a card using 3 patterned papers and flowers! The Guest Bar-Tenders did a beautiful job with their creation debut today:

Hannelie

Joan

Thank you ladies! 

And now from our Bar-Tenders:

Thanh

Julie

Anita

Wanda

Jan

Joni

Now it's your turn to show us some flower power! Just click on the happy blue frog below to link up your work, and we'll come by to pay you a visit.