Challenge #104

Happy beautiful Friday everyone! Are you all ready for the weekend? I know that with all the end of the year testing going on at school, my kiddos are so ready for some relaxation. And speaking of tests, thank you all for your wonderful Report Card inspired creations this week! You all passed with flying colors! ;) Congratulations to the following entries that included text on their designs:

Gro of Gro Tjeltveit

Hilde of Happy Glitzy Girl

Shanna from The Stamping Banana

Wonderful job everyone! Ladies, please contact me at jonjinko@hotmail.com with the subject line of GUEST BAR-TENDER so I can avoid it going to the junk file. Thank you all so much for your continued support here at Raise The Bar!

And now on to this week's challenge which celebrates the hardest job that ever exists:

MOTHER'S DAY CARDS

Let's see your beautiful creations honoring the matriarchs in our lives!
Here with some fabulous inspiration are our Guest Bar-Tenders:

Mary

Danni

Glenda

And from our Bar-Tenders: 

Julie

Wanda

Peggy

Thanh

Joni

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Challenge #103

Happy beautiful Friday everyone! And for all you Stars Wars fan, May the 4th be with you! (<----sorry, saw that on Facebook and thought it was hilarious, haha!)
Thank you all so much for your beautiful tropical entries last week. Along with the always adorable images we see every week, we also had a wonderful bunch of Bombshell images which was fun to see!
Before announcing this week's challenge, we would like to send our congratulations to the following projects:

Emily Ann's amazing altered shoes (gasp!)

Glenda's sweet tweets:

Mary's Cheeky cutie

Congratulations ladies! Please contact me at jonjinko@hotmail.com with the subject line of GUEST BAR-TENDER. I look forward to hearing form you!
And now for this week's challenge. With school quickly coming to an end, we want to see those

REPORT CARDS

(let's see LETTERS, TEXT on your card)

From our wonderful Bar-Tenders:

Julie

Wanda

Thanh

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Challenge #102

Happy beautiful day everyone! It's time to, once again, thank you all for your awesome participation in our Cloudy Skies challenge. Every week we are so excited to see our usual customers at the Bar as well as some new friends joining in on the fun!
Congratulations to the top picks of the week (you all make it so hard to do!!):

Peggy

Annette

Danni

SVIT

Ladies please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com with the subject line of GUEST BAR-TENDER. Thank you so much! :)
Here is our newest challenge that celebrates this beautiful Aloha Friday.
In Hawaii, May 1st is also called...

 "Lei" Day 

 (lei noun: a wreath of flowers for the neck or head)

So to honor this sweet smelling tradition, we want to see flowers, tropical images, and anything that makes you dream about paradise!

For our lineup today, we begin with our wonderful guest bar-tender CG:

CG

and from our designers:

Julie

Peggy

Wanda

Thanh

Joni

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Challenge #101

Happy Friday everyone...and well, we did it! We made it to the next 'century' of challenges. haha! Thank you so much for playing along with our 100th challenge last week. Wasn't that a fun sketch? All the adorable entries were so fun to look at, we just loved the different interpretations.
Without further ado, congratulations to the following entries for making our top 3:

Evie

CG of CG Says something Loudly

Paula

Ladies please contact me at jonjinko@hotmail.com with the subject line GUEST BAR-TENDER so that I can sift through it if it ends up in my junk mail. :)

And our winner of The Greeting Farm's sponsored prize is:

#12 Marsha D. of Gramma's room

Marsha, please contact me at jonjinko@hotmail.com for TGF details!

Now on to our new challenge, and when I first proposed this, I meant it as a literal weather inspired card. However, I have had some friends go through some rough spots these past few weeks and hope that their cloudy skies will soon clear up for sunshine and rainbows soon!
This week's challenge is called:

CLOUDY SKIES

We want to see those clouds in your cards, whether as an embellishment, on your patterned papers, or if you've drawn them yourself. Cloudy skies means happy flowers next month! :)

Here is a lineup from our fabulous DT, including Zulma, our recent Guest Bar-Tender:

Zulma

Julie

Wanda

Peggy

Thanh

Joni

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Challenge #100

Can you believe that number? Yes indeed friends, we have hit a hundred challenges! :)
Happy Friday everyone! I hope this week went well for you and that you're ready for Saturday and Sunday?
We have a fun little theme this week, but before we reveal it, a big Thank You to all who entered in on our fun Hoppy Easter challenge. Congratulations to the following entries:

Paula

An

Zulma

Bella

Please click on the links to their blogs for more details on their projects. :)

Bella created a whole table full of yellow happiness!

Congratulations ladies!
Please contact me at jonjinko@hotmail.com with GUEST BAR-TENDER in the subject line.

And now on to this week's challenge, which is SPONSORED by the one and only:

Eek! Yes indeed! Thank you Marie and Jess!

One lucky winner will receive a single of their choice in stock. Woohoo!
They have also invited you to tune into Splitcoast Stampers tonight at 7pm CST
for The Greeting Farm's Customer Challenge & Chit Chat Night.
You can read about it here on the TGF Blog.
We'll see you there!

For our 100th challenge, our sweet Wanda Cullen created this sketch,
which happens to look like the #100:

Brilliant, right?
Here is our Guest Bar-Tender joining in on the fun, with a literal and adorable card:

Julia Aston

And now from our Bar-Tenders:

Peggy (using Laundry - rubber)

Julie (using Country Anya digi)

Wanda (using Kissy Kissy digi)

Thanh (using Sitting Cute - rubber)

(and Sitting Casual - rubber)

Joni (using Boho Anya - rubber)

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Challenge #99

Good Friday Morning everyone!
I hope your week went well? I know some of us are on spring break, as we head into this beautiful Easter weekend. Thank you all for your beautiful religious cards last week! Before we announce the top picks, I just had a couple of things to share. First off, our first Friday of the month challenge is normally sponsored. However, we will be holding off on the sponsorship until next week for our fun 100th challenge! Woohoo! I cannot believe we've been doing this so long, thank you all so much for your continued support week after week. :)
So there will be some fun prizes up for grab next week, be sure to check back in!
And now for our top picks:

Hazel

Evie

Julia

Congratulations ladies! Please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com with GUEST BAR-TENDER in the subject line so I can keep it out of the junk file. ;)
And now on to our theme of the week:

Cutesy Easter/Spring Cards
(bunnies, fairies, chicks)

Here is the fabulous design team with their adorable samples:

Peggy

Thanh

Julie

Wanda

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