Here at RTB we are so excited to kick off a new year of crafting!
We encourage you to challenge yourself, raise your own level of crafting, and keep your resolution to use those new stamping items. And yes, we will even use those supplies that you just had to have in your collection. ;)

Friday, October 28, 2011

Challenge #81

It's Friday! Yay! I hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend? It's going to be chilly here in VA so we are ready for some baking and crock-potting. Uh. That didn't sound right. At any rate, THANK YOU for your awesome orange & black creations last week! I loved how it ranged from Halloween to everyday cards. Beautiful work everyone!
Without further ado, congratulations to the following crafters:

Dragon Lady

Lea

Jennifer Scull

If your card or project was featured above, please contact me for your opportunity to debut a new challenge with us as a Guest Bar-Tender!
And now on to this week's fun challenge:
SEW WHAT?
We would like to see stitching on your cards! Whether it be faux or real, let's see your lovely handiwork. With us today are some fab-o guest designers who wow'ed me with their creations!

Jo

Mary

Jackie

Eeek! I just love it all! Thank you Guest Bar-Tenders!
And now for our full time employees:
Thanh

Wanda


Jan

Joni
Please click on the happy blue frog below to link up your work. You have until noon EST on Thursday to join in on the fun!
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Challenge #80

Happy beautiful Friday everyone! I hope your week went well and that you're looking forward to this weekend? It is ch-ch-chilly up here in VA, but I love the Fall weather...minus all those leaves on our ground. ;) THANK YOU for your inspirational Pink is IN cards last week, if you have time, browsing through that gallery is so wonderful. I loved all the ideas on there for October and beyond!
Congratulations to the following friends:
Mary

Lea

Susan

Such beautiful pink creations everywhere! Ladies please contact me at jonjinko@hotmail.com to debut next week's theme as a Guest Bar-Tender!
And not on to this week's challenge:

ORANGE and BLACK
Now there is NO requirement as to what holiday or non holiday this pertains to, we just thought it would be fun to celebrate this month! Here to inspire are our Guest Bar-Tenders:
Hazel

Mary
Shanna

And our amazing DT with more eye candy:
Julie


Thanh


Wanda


Jan

Joni
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Challenge #79

Hello everyone and happy beautiful Friday! First off, I truly apologize if I haven't been able to reply to emails sent to me this past week. While tinkering with some of my other email addresses, I compiled them to the wrong one, which meant that I wasn't getting it in my main box! Grrrr...It's fixed now, so please know that when selected to be a Guest Bar-Tender, it is without expiration! I will contact those who emailed me asap, now that I seem to have all my technological marbles in order. ;)
WOWZA with all the Furry Friends entries last week! Everyone must be ready for hibernation with winter quickly approaching, there were so many bears, mice, kitty cats and pups in the links! Thank you to everyone who continue to play along with our challenges. We love having you here.

Without further ado, congratulations to Carla Gro, you are the lucky winner of 5 free digis from Di's Digi Downloads! Please email me at jonjinko@hotmail.com so I can forward your information to Di's DT Coordinator.
And another round of applause to the following entries for our Furry Friends theme:




Ladies please contact me for your chance to be a Guest Bar-Tender and help us debut our next challenge!
Now on to this week, of course we couldn't let October go by without celebrating the strength and courage of Breast Cancer Awareness month. The DT would like you to show us that:

PINK IS IN!

While this could be our biggest amount of participants yet, please note that while we love all entries, we would LOVE to see your cards geared towards the strength of PINK and what it represents this month. Here is our awesome DT to show their work:

Julie

Jan

Wanda

Thanh






Joni
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Friday, October 7, 2011

Challenge #78

Happy beautiful Friday everyone!
Do you all have amazing plans for the long weekend? I hope it includes lots of YOU time! :)
First off, thank you for all the wonderful entries in last week's HATS OFF challenge. BEAUTIFUL WORK everyone! Below is a wonderful lineup of the Hats Off winners as well as the Things With Wings challenge from the week before. Ladies if your name and cards are below, please contact me to be a Guest Bar-Tender! :)

From the Hats Off week:
Tamara

Gerda

 Jo

Nanda

and Things With Wings week:
Debbie

Sarah

Karen

Congratulations ladies!! Please contact me when you're free to be a Guest Bar-Tender! :)
And now for the exciting news about this week's challenge, since it's the first of the month we have a wonderful sponsor! Thank you to Di's Digi Downloads for sponsoring our new challenge:

FURRY FRIENDS

We want to see those sweet animals on your cards before they go into hibernation! :)
One lucky winner will receive 5 free digis from Di, and wow - what a hard decision that will be to make as they are all so cute!
Our designers have used her images straight from her store. Aren't these the cutest faces on animals?
Wanda

Jan
Julie

Thanh

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