Trick or Treat Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for the Creepy Crawlies Badge Winners for our last challenge!

Halloween will be here in about two weeks!  Have you made a Halloween card yet?  No?  How about making at least one for our TRICK OR TREAT challenge?  Yes, that is our challenge theme starting today.  Halloween cards that make us think of "Trick or Treating."  All cards linked for this challenge MUST BE flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing, A2 size (4.25" x 5.5").  If you create a shaped card, you MUST share the measurements of your card and NO SQUARE CARDS.  If your card does not fit our challenge requirements, it will be deleted with no comment.  Almost every challenge, we have to delete 2 or 3 entries for not following our stated requirements, so please read carefully and make sure your card is a CARD IN ENVY card.

And now for some Trick or Treat card inspiration from our Cards in Envy Designers!  Please click on the blog link by each designer's name to go to their blog for more details about their creation and leave them some comment love!

Annie, Pawsitive Thoughts by Annie

Donna, Crafty Colonel

 Kathy, The Crafty Nurse

Lisa, Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway 

Marilyn,  Marilyn's Cricut Cards

  Patricia, Thinking of Inking  

Sandy (Challenge Host), Sandy's Crafty Creations 

Sherry, Bits of Cheer

  Sybrina,   Chapter Three, Taking Life One Page at a Time

 Wendi, Scrappy Day in Paradise

Now it's time for you to create a TRICK OR TREAT card and share it with us in the linky below. Make sure it is an A2 card (4.25" x 5.5")  flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing.  

Here are a few reminders about our challenge requirements:

• No square or shaped cards(shaped cards allowed IF you list the size of your card--height and width). All cards entered must be A2 size (4.25" x 5.5")
• No lumpy, bumpy cards.  Elements on your card need to be relatively flat (no thicker than 1/4")
• Limit entries to 3 per challenge.
• No Back Linking.  Cards must be posted to your blog or online album during the challenge dates.  If it was posted online BEFORE the beginning of our challenge, it cannot be linked.
• Entry must be for the current theme: TRICK OR TREAT

Additional rules can be found under the Challenge Guidelines tab at the top under our blog header.

Our Designers will be voting on their favorite cards which will be announced on our blog  the Tuesday or Wednesday following the close of the challenge.. We will have one FIRST CLASS which is the card that receives the most votes from the Designers and each Designer will pick one card as their favorite for  IN THE MAILBOX. That means we may have up to 10 In the Mailbox cards for a challenge.  We decided to go with this fun method as each Designer has their own unique style and preference.  Each chosen may grab one of our fun badges for their blog! The badges for the challenge will be in the winners post following the close of the challenge after all the Designer votes are in.  The winners will also be announced on our Facebook Page, so come Like us so you'll know quickly if you were a winner. 

THIS IS A CARDS ONLY CHALLENGE.  Entries not following our rules and guidelines will be deleted without notice or comment. REMEMBER!  NO SQUARE or SHAPED CARDS unless you provide the measurements of your shaped card.   Challenge ends Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. Central Time.

An InLinkz Link-up

Creepy Crawlies Badge Winners!

Well, it looks like the Creepy Crawlies may have scared some of you away, but that's okay.  We still had some fabulous entries for the challenge even if it was a lot less than usual.  All of the cards linked were wonderful and nicely "Creepy Crawly" with things that crawled like spiders and bugs but we can only have one winner of the First Class Badge.

Congratulations to:

#8 Billie A! our FIRST CLASS CARD!

The designers loved your cute card and the adorable  pumpkin wearing a witch hat that had creepy spiders on it and  one peeking out from behind the pumpkins plus the ones in the webs!

Billie, please grab the First Class Badge below to proudly display on your own blog!

After choosing the First Class card, The CIE Designers each  picked one card as their personal favorite to be In The Mailbox.  Here they are in no particular order--

#9 Debi B, In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite

#7 Jennifer-g, In the Mailbox as Sherry's Personal Favorite

#8 Billie A, In the Mailbox as Sybrina's Personal Favorite

#5 Valerie, In the Mailbox as Donna and Kathy's Personal Favorite

#3 Kathy S, In the Mailbox as Annie's Personal Favorite

#2 Stephanie, In the Mailbox as Patricia, Wendi, and Marilyn's Personal Favorite

Congratulations! In the Mailbox badge winners, you may grab the badge below to display on your own blog!

Thank you to each one of you for playing along with this challenge! We hope you will join us again soon.  We have a new challenge that just started "Trick or Treat" and we'd love to see your Halloween cards for this challenge!

~Sandy and the CIE Designers

Creepy Crawlies Challenge!

Click >HERE< for the badge winners of our last challenge--the Colors of Fall!

It's October! A time when those who love Autumn and Halloween, start to think of things that are CREEPY and CRAWL(IES)!  And that is our card challenge this time around--CREEPY CRAWLIES!  Yep, we are looking for  cards featuring things that are creepy & crawly--spiders, bugs, snakes etc. Now, keep in mind that your card does NOT have to be a Halloween card though you are welcome to make and share one, but your card could also be happy and cheery featuring insects and bugs like a couple of our CIE Designers have made. BUT your card MUST be an A2 size only (that's a rectangle 4.25" x 5.5" card, nothing square) AND flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing.

To help you get started and to inspire you, our CIE Designers have come up with these fabulous cards! Please click on their blog link by their names and visit their blogs for more details about their card creation and leave them some comment love!

Annie, Pawsitive Thoughts by Annie

Donna, Crafty Colonel

 Kathy, The Crafty Nurse

Lisa, Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway 

Marilyn,  Marilyn's Cricut Cards

  Patricia, Thinking of Inking  

Sandy (Challenge Host), Sandy's Crafty Creations 

Sherry, Bits of Cheer

  Sybrina,   Chapter Three, Taking Life One Page at a Time

 Wendi, Scrappy Day in Paradise

Now it's time for you to create a CREEPY CRAWLIES card and share it with us in the linky below. Make sure it is an A2 card (4.25" x 5.5")  flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing.  

Here are a few reminders about our challenge requirements:

• No square or shaped cards(shaped cards allowed IF you list the size of your card--height and width). All cards entered must be A2 size (4.25" x 5.5")
• No lumpy, bumpy cards.  Elements on your card need to be relatively flat (no thicker than 1/4")
• Limit entries to 3 per challenge.
• No Back Linking.  Cards must be posted to your blog or online album during the challenge dates.  If it was posted online BEFORE the beginning of our challenge, it cannot be linked.
• Entry must be for the current theme:  CREEPY CRAWLIES

Additional rules can be found under the Challenge Guidelines tab at the top under our blog header.

Our Designers will be voting on their favorite cards which will be announced on our blog  the Tuesday or Wednesday following the close of the challenge.. We will have one FIRST CLASS which is the card that receives the most votes from the Designers and each Designer will pick one card as their favorite for  IN THE MAILBOX. That means we may have up to 10 In the Mailbox cards for a challenge.  We decided to go with this fun method as each Designer has their own unique style and preference.  Each chosen may grab one of our fun badges for their blog! The badges for the challenge will be in the winners post following the close of the challenge after all the Designer votes are in.  The winners will also be announced on our Facebook Page, so come Like us so you'll know quickly if you were a winner. 

THIS IS A CARDS ONLY CHALLENGE.  Entries not following our rules and guidelines will be deleted without notice or comment. REMEMBER!  NO SQUARE or SHAPED CARDS unless you provide the measurements of your shaped card.   Challenge ends Sunday, October 18, 2015   at 6 p.m. Central Daylight Time. 

An InLinkz Link-up

Colors of Fall Badge Winners

Wow! So many wonderful cards linked to our Colors of Fall challenge! Each one was beautiful. Thank you to all of you that linked one or more cards to this challenge.  We appreciate it so much! And as always, it was really hard to pick one winner for our First Class badge, but after all the votes were counted, we had a winner by a very narrow margin!

Congratulations to

#35 Lyn T, First Class Badge Winner

We loved the adorable kitten asleep in the beautiful orange pumpkins with the red plaid paper--wonderful colors of fall!   Lyn, please grab the First Class badge below to proudly display on your own blog!

After voting for the First Class card, the CIE Designers then picked one card from all the entries as their personal favorite.  Here they are in no particular order, our Colors of Fall In the Mailbox badge winners!

#49 Mandy LaCroix, In the Mailbox as Kathy's Personal Favorite

#17, KT Fit Kitty, In the Mailbox as Sybrina and Lisa's Personal Favorite

#39 Monika K, In the Mailbox as Sherry's Personal Favorite

#45 Cathy P, In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite

#10, Kristi M, In the Mailbox as Patricia's Personal Favorite

#35 Lyn T, In the Mailbox as Marilyn's Personal Favorite

#22, Bobbi, In the Mailbox as  Annie's Personal Favorite

#20, KT Fit Kitty, In the Mailbox as Wendi's Personal Favorite

Congratulations everyone! Please grab the In the Mailbox badge below to proudly display on your own blog!

Again, thank you to all of you who shared your fabulous Colors of Fall cards! We hope you will join us again in the future for a challenge and for our current challenge--Creepy Crawlies!

~Sandy and the CIE Designers