Stitched Up (Real or Faux) Challenge!

 7/2/13 WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!

Winners for the June 17th Stitched Up (Real or Faux) challenge are:

First Class card is #15 LindCrea

Cards  In The Mail Box are:  #1 Kristie M,  #5 Laura, #6 Mynnette #9 Darlene Pavlick

Congratulations!  Please send an email to cardenvydt@gmail.com with First Class Winner or In the Mail Box Winner as your subject line and I will send you your winner's badge to display on your own blog! Thank you to everyone who joined in on the fun for this challenge!

~Sandy and the Cards in Envy Designers 

Hello and welcome to our  June 17th Themed Challenge!  We're going to be sewing or rather stitching (real or faux) on our cards for this two week challenge!  There are so many creative ways to add "stitches" to your cards by stitching on the paper (zig-zags or straight), stitching designs or other creative ways.  We can't wait to see what you have STITCHED UP for us!   Please create and share  A2 (4.25" x 5.5") cards that fit  in an envelope with no lumpy bumpy flowers, buttons or embellishments. 

The challenge starts today, Monday, June 17th  and runs until June 30th.  The Designers will pick one card  as the "First Class" Winner for best all around card and three or more cards will be chosen as "In the Mailbox" for runners up.  All "winners' will be awarded one of our new Cards in Envy badges to proudly display on their own blog.

And now some inspiring cards by our Designers featuring cards that have been STITCHED UP!  Feel free to click on each designer's blog link for more details about their card creation.  We also have three guest designers who will be creating cards with us for June and July and will then design full time for Cards in Envy starting in August.  We are pretty excited to have them here and hope you will give them a very warm welcome to Cards in Envy!

 Andrea (Permission to Create) 

Cissy (Cissy Murphy.com)

 Danie (D-Dazzled Scraps)

Debbie, Guest Designer (Scrap Enabler)

Denise (Scrappy D's House of Cards)

Karen (Calm Creations)

 Katie (Crafty Khandy)

 Lisa M, Guest Designer (Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway)

Lisa  {Lisa's Creative Niche}

 Marilyn (Marilyn's Cricut Cards)

Sandy, Challenge Host (Sandy's Crafty Creations)

Tanya (Generation Promise)

Wendi, Guest Designer (Scrappy Day in Paradise)

Come find us on Facebook and like our page!  We have challenge sneak peeks, weekly card quotes/sentiments and tips/discussions. Plus you can share your photos of cards you create that fit in an "Envy!"  We'd love to have you join us!

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And now it's your turn to create a card...

We've had several entries that have had to be deleted as they did not fit our challenge requirements.  Please review our Challenge Guidelines before linking your card. We do not accept square cards or cards with thick embellishments especially hard thick flowers.  All cards must clearly be able to fit in an A2 envelope for mailing at the first class postage rate.  Thank you for your understanding.

Sketch #5 Challenge

WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!

Winners for the June 3rd Sketch #5 challenge are:

First Class card is #3 Kristie M.

Cards  In The Mail Box are:   #4 teresa kline, #10 Ellen Parker, #11 Just Yolie, #12 jaydee

Congratulations!  Please send an email to cardenvydt@gmail.com with First Class Winner or In the Mail Box Winner as your subject line and I will send you your winner's badge to display on your own blog! Thank you to everyone who joined in on the fun for this challenge!

~Sandy and the Cards in Envy Designers 


Hello and welcome to another challenge at Cards in Envy!  This time we challenge you to use this sketch by one of our Designers, Denise Gray. Please create an A2 (4.25" x 5.5") card that fits in an envelope with no lumpy bumpy flowers, buttons or embellishments.  For more details about the cards we want for our challenges, please check out our Challenge Guidelines.

Our Designers have created some fabulous cards with this sketch to inspire you!

Andrea (Permission to Create) 

Cissy (Cissy Murphy.com)

Danie (D-Dazzled Scraps)

Denise (Scrappy D's House of Cards)

Karen (Calm Creations)

Katie (Crafty Khandy)

Lisa  {Lisa's Creative Niche}

Marilyn (Marilyn's Cricut Cards)

Sandy, Challenge Host (Sandy's Crafty Creations)

Tanya (Generation Promise)

Now it's your turn to inspire us!  We are so happy when you share your fabulous card creations with us at Cards in Envy!  We wish EVERYONE could be a winner but part of the fun in a challenge is the competition AND the recognition!  Our challenge focuses on the recognition rather than prizes and that is why you see no sponsors or prizes for our challenges.  We now have two new challenge recognition badges for the winners of our challenges!  

• FIRST CLASS!  There will be only ONE person bestowed this honor which represents the Designer's Top Pick for Best Over All Card.
• IN THE MAILBOX!  There will be THREE or more  awarded this badge as the Designer's Favorites or Runners Up to the First Class Winner.

So....will you be First Class?  Or In The Mailbox?  We can't wait to find out!

One last thing, you may have noticed it looks a little bit different here at Cards in Envy--new header, new background, new challenge badge, new winner badges.  That's because Denise, one of our Co-Hosts, has had to step down as a challenge host (don't worry, she's still designing for us) and has handed the reins over to me.  I decided that along with the change over to a single host that I would also change the look of the blog.  I hope you like it and I look forward to leading you and my fabulous designers in some fun challenges.  Thank you for joining us here at Cards in Envy!

~Sandy

P.S. We're on Facebook! Come find us  at "Cards in Envy" and like our page!  We have challenge sneak peeks, weekly card quotes/sentiments and tips/discussions. Plus you can share your photos of cards you create that fit in and "Envy!"  We'd love to have you join us!