Challenge #75

Happy beautiful Friday everyone!
Sorry for the delay but we are ready to go for this week's challenge! Thank you for your White After Labor Day entries, the simplicity of white as a background is just wonderful on all your creations!
Congratulations to the following crafters:

Janice

Gale

Jessica

Ladies, please contact me for your opportunity to be a Guest Bar-Tender next week!
And now on to this week's challenge:

"Leave" Summer

Corny, I know, but we want to see your beautiful FALL LEAVES on your card as we transition out of summer! For inspiration, here are some wonderful samples:

Danni Bindel

Jan

Wanda

Thanh

Anita

Joni

Click on the happy blue frog below so we can see your "Leave" Summer creations so the design team can come by to visit!

Challenge #74

Happy wonderful Friday everyone! I hope all our friends going through inclement weather and power outages are doing okay. Sending hugs your way for safety and quick resolution!
Thank you all again for your continued support with our challenges. It was SO exciting to have our first sponsor! First up, our top 3 crafters who move on to be Guest Bar-Tenders next week:

Denise

Danni

Sharette

And the random winner of our first sponsored challenge and Whimsie Doodles $10 shopping spree:

CHRISTI B.

Congratulations ladies! Please contact me for more information on prize and designing details. Thank you all for your adorable paper pieced creations!
And now on to this week's challenge:

White after Labor Day

heehee! Yes, we're breaking the fashion rules and using ALL white backgrounds for our cards. Of course you can sponge it, add texture to it, and design anything with it, but it has to have white dp or papers to showcase. For some fabulous inspiration, the designers have created some amazing cards as always!
First up, our Guest Bar-Tender Margie Cortina:

Margie

Thanh

Wanda

Jan

Anita

Joni

Thank you so much to the designers for the wonderful samples!
To link up your work, click on the blue frog below.

Challenge #73

Happy wonderful Friday everyone! I have exciting news to share with you, but first, thank you so much for joining in on our Primary Colors challenge last week. Everyone did such a wonderful job with the cutest images. I love the back to school theme, especially because our kiddos start up on Tuesday. ;)
Congratulations to the following crafters:

Deonna B

Tiggertastic

Margie C

Congratulations ladies! Please contact me for your opportunity to be a Guest Bar-Tender and debut next week's challenge with us. 

And for this week's challenge, Margie's card actually gave us a little sneak peek (unknowingly, of course). 

This week we challenge you to:

PAPER PIECE

and guess what?!? We have a sponsor for the first time ever in RTB history: WHIMSIE DOODLES is proudly giving away a gc to one lucky top pick. {Thank you Melyssa!}
Yes, this will be a first of the month special from now on with different companies - how exciting for us all!

I am so happy to have our Guest Bar-Tenders join in with the DT to debut their paper piecing creations:

(GD) Katie Tate using Circus Clock

(GD) Kim using Diving Leah

Wanda using Sea Shell Leah

Anita using Christmas Undies

Jan using Sea Shell Leah

Joni using Whimsie Ark

Did we get your wheels turning? Whimsie Doodles is giving away a $10 gc to the store for this week's top winner so be sure to join us, simply click on the blue happy frog below to enter in.

Challenge #72

Happy wonderful Friday everyone! Thank you for beating the heat last week with all those yummy creations. I got to drool over every one of them - and not worry about all the calories! ;)
Congratulations to the following entries:

Katie Tate

Kim T

Gro Tjeltveit

 

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

Now this week pays homage to all the kids going back to school.We want to see you use:

PRIMARY COLORS

{Red, Blue, Green}

It doesn't even have to be a school related image, just show us this color palette on your work! Here to inspire you are some wonderful cards by the Design Team:



Jan

Anita

Wanda

 

Joni

Thanh

See how much fun this can be? Come on over and play along with us, simply click on the happy frog below to enter your card. You have until next Thursday at noon EST to link up your work.

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.