A special lineup from Rick St. Dennis' DT!

Happy Monday everyone!
Today I am so excited to bring you a gallery of Rick St. Dennis' amazing images,
courtesy of his wonderful Design Team. Thank you ladies!

They were so gracious to provide samples of his amazing images that can be found at his Etsy store here, using our current sketch:

Alison

Hellen Cullum

Monique

Miranda

 

Lady Brayton

Aren't these just so pretty? Rick St. Dennis has such a range of images, it was so much fun to shop his site. To enter in our challenge using our current image, click here to link up.
Thank you so much for coming by today!

RTB #125

Happy beautiful Friday everyone!
I hope your New Year is off to a wonderful start?
Thank you all so much for your amazing participation in our last challenge.
We loved all the snow cards!
A couple of announcements before we post the top picks of December:

First off, Wanda has decided to step down from our DT. We loved working with Wanda and are truly going to miss her! Because of this, we are looking for a few more people to design for Raise The Bar. If you are interested, please post DT CALL right next to your name. We will keep this open until the middle of January so if you can't play along this week, you will have next week to put your name in.
And, like last year, we are excited to have sponsors back for our first Friday challenge of each month. While we love  having challenges to feature our Guest Bar-Tenders, we also love being able to give away prizes from these fabulous companies!

Without further ado, here are our top picks of the LET IT SNOW challenge:

Deanne

Rhonda

Claire

Lalkygirl

Sidan

Congratulations ladies! Please contact me at jonjinko@hotmail.com with the subject line as GUEST BAR-TENDER to help us debut a future challenge!

And now on to this week's challenge, the first Friday of January, sponsored by an amazing designer:

I couldn't stop smiling when I was contacted by their coordinator in December. Rick St. Dennis is an amazing illustrator, author, and designer, and his images are just so much fun!

You can find his store here on Etsy.

This week we are having a sketch challenge to celebrate his fun designs:

Helping us with this week's theme are 2 of our Guest Bar-Tenders, Karen and Kimberly:

 

Karen Letchworth

Kimberly Clark

Thank you ladies!
And now from our Bar-Tenders:

Thanh using Cupcake

Peggy using Star Pixie Trio

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RTB #124 Challenge reminder

Happy New Year's Day everyone!
I just wanted to pop in and thank you so much for such a fun year of 2012 challenges.
We look forward to many more in 2013!

Don't forget - you have until Thursday at noon EST to join in on our current theme of

LET IT SNOW!

Here are a couple more samples for this theme:

Margaret of Sparkling Stampers

Joni {that's me!}

Click HERE to join in on the fun!
HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!

Challenge #124

Happy beautiful Friday everyone!
A quick note before I continue on with today's post:
This fun challenge will be the last of 2012 -
the Bar-Tenders and I have some shopping and cleaning to do,
so we will be taking a bit of a hiatus until January 4th.
This means you have plenty of time to join in on the fun,
and with a NEW sponsor joining us in January, it will be worth the wait!
Before I announce our new theme, congratulations to the following random winner
of a $5 gift certificate to By LORi Designs store:

 YOGI of Art With Yogi 

Yay Yogi! Please contact me for your prize!
And for our top 3 picks of our blue and white challenge:

Kertu

Diane

Kathy B.

Yay! Congratulations ladies! Please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com with the subject line
GUEST BAR-TENDER for your assignment.

And now for our NEW challenge which will run from today until January 3, 2013:

LET IT SNOW

Chances are, we won't be getting any here in Virginia, but wishful thinking never hurts.

Let's see snow on your cards - snowflakes, snow fall, snow snow snow!

Here are the amazing Bar-Tenders with their samples:

Peggy's sweet Frosty guy

 Wanda's Winter Cutie

Thanh's Fabulous Flurry Wreath

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Challenge #123

Happy Friday everyone!
Thank you so much for joining us on this chilly morning.

Here in the NEast, the weather cannot decide what it would like to do - 

earlier in the week we hit a 70* high, and yet the other morning it was *26

as the kids headed out to school. Yikes!

It definitely makes waking up hard to do. ;)
And speaking of chilly weather...
Congratulations to the following entries for last week's BUNDLED UP challenge:

Sue

Kim

 Laila aka Koneko

Yay! Ladies please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com with the subject line as
GUEST BAR-TENDER whenever you are ready to help debute the newest challenge!

And now for this week's theme sponsored by the adorable and talented LORi Boyd:

If you haven't been to LORi's shop, you need to stop in! Her designs are so adorable,
and her selection is too hard to choose from (just thought I'd warn you). ;)

With the wintry weather upon us, we'd like to see your cards created in:

BLUES AND WHITES

 Here with some fabulous samples are two of our Guest Bar-Tenders:

Archana

Billie Anderson

Thank you ladies! I love the Spring theme for Archana's card, and Mr. Snowman is adorable on Billie's Washi tape card!

And from our Bar-Tenders:

Wanda (using Candy Cane Jane)

Thanh

Peggy

Joni (using Simon Stockingheimer)

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Challenge #122

Happy beautiful Friday everyone!
I cannot believe it is the last day of November.  Wowza, where has the time gone?
Nevertheless, we are here for you every Friday in December up until the 14th, then we'll be taking a break until January 4th. By that time I'll be running around for last minute holiday shopping. ;)

Thank you all for taking the time to participate in our challenge last week!
We loved visiting your blogs to see all of your Thankful cards.

Without further ado, congratulations to the following entries:

Archana

Billie

Karen

Congratulations ladies! Please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com with the subject as 

GUEST BAR-TENDER for your chance to debut a challenge with us!

And now on to this week's theme as we approach winter:

BUNDLE UP!

Let's see those cards made with realllly bundled up images! Not just jeans and a long tee, we're talking serious winter gear here. ;)

To play along please respect the following criteria:

*Only ONE entry per person please!

*All entries must adhere to the challenge of really bundled up images.

*Feel free to combine our challenge with other sites.

With some fabulous inspiration, here are our Guest Bar-Tenders:

Leslie

Bettina

Thank you so much ladies! Your Mo Manning cards are beautiful!!

And from our Bar-Tenders:

Thanh

Wanda

Peggy

Joni

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Challenge #121

Happy Friday everyone!
Here in the US we celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday. I do believe all the yummy foods caused me to sleep in, thus the late post. ;) 

I hope you all are off to a great start to your weekend? I know that the holiday buzz is in the air, there are so many people out shopping already! I will spend today in my pajamas and fuzzy socks, online shopping is calling my name. heehee!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Teddy Bear challenge last week! Oh my cuteness, the entries that poured in were so adorable. I had no idea there were so many cute Teddy images out there in the crafting world!

As always it is so hard to whittle down to top picks, congratulations to the following entries:

Leslie

Pinky

Pauline

Bettina

Please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com with the subject line as Guest Bar-Tender to become a future guest designer!
And now on to this week's challenge.
Even though yesterday was Thanksgiving, it's always a great time to be thankful throughout the year. This week we want to see your:

 THANK YOU, THANKFUL or GRATITUDE cards

{Please note that we ask you only enter ONCE in our challenges, thank you!}

Here with some wonderful samples are the Bar-Tenders and our Guest Designer for the week:

Julie (Guest Bar-Tender)

Thanh

Peggy

Wanda

Joni

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