Monday, October 17, 2016

Purple & Green Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for our Frame It! Badge Winners


Hello, hello! Welcome back to another fun Cards in Envy Card Challenge!  Since it's October, there are those who think about things that go bump in the night and Halloween but we also realize there are those who do not celebrate that holiday.  So, to make it fair for all, our card challenge this time around is a color challenge--PURPLE & GREEN! That's right, we want to see your cards that feature lots of purple & lots of green together.  You can add in other colors, but please make sure that we can really see the purple & green.  Of course, those colors do lend well to Halloween cards so if that's what you want to create, go for it and if you don't--go with some other occasion!  Just remember, your card must be flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing. It can be any size and any shape as long as it does not have lumpy bumpy embellishments.

Our Cards in Envy Designers have created some awesome purple & green cards for you to get you going with this challenge. Please visit their blogs by clicking on the blog name by their name for more details about their cards and leave them some comment love so they'll know you stopped by!








 Kathy, The Crafty Nurse












Sandy (Challenge Host), Sandy's Crafty Creations 



Sherry, Bits of Cheer








We'd love to see your  Purple & Green cards. Please read over our challenge requirements and then share your card in the linky at the end of this post. 

Here are a few reminders about our challenge requirements:
  • No lumpy, bumpy cards.  Elements on your card need to be relatively flat (no thicker than 1/4") so your card would fit in an envy (envelope) for mailing
  • Limit entries to 3 per challenge.
  • No Back Linking--cards must be posted to your blog or an 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.
  • Cards Only--NO TAGS

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

Our Designers will be voting on the cards after the challenge ends and the winners will be announced by Wednesday morning  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 considered the best overall card for the theme.  The Designers will also pick one card as their personal favorite for an IN THE MAILBOX badge. 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 are a winner. 

THIS IS A CARDS ONLY CHALLENGE--NO TAGS.  Entries not following our rules and not for the current challenge theme will be deleted without notice or comment. We accept any size/shape of card BUT all cards must be flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing (no thicker than 1/4") which means no lumpy, bumpy embellishments. Challenge ends Sunday, November 6,  2016 at 6:00 p.m. Central  Time. 


Frame It! Badge Winners

Oh goodness! Such wonderful and fabulously framed cards for our Frame It! card challenge! Just wow! I will say this that we had a four way tie for second place and our first place card won by ONE vote! Yes, that's right. It was SO close!! But anyway we did have a winner for our #1 First Class card.

Congratulations to
#27 Toni at FHC
FIRST CLASS Card
We loved Toni's  adorable card image of those cute kids and fabulous framing of the image

Toni, please grab the First Class Badge below to proudly showcase on your on blog and again, congratulations!

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Each CIE Designer then picked their ONE personal favorite card from all the entries.  Here they are in no particular order...

#10 Leslie M, In The Mailbox as Annie's Personal Favorite




#30 Trina P, In The Mailbox as Wendi's Personal Favorite




#18 MaiKreations, In The Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite




# 24 Kuni, In the Mailbox as Sherry & Kristie's Personal Favorite




#14 Hussena, In the Mailbox as Kathy & Marilyn's Personal Favorite




#1 Kuni, In the Mailbox as Sybrina's Personal Favorite




#25 Julye B, In the Mailbox as Donna's Personal Favorite




#7 Hussena, In the Mailbox as Lisa's Personal Favorite




Congratulations to each of our In The Mailbox Badge winners! Please grab the In The Mailbox badge below to proudly showcase on your own blog.

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Thank you to all of you for playing along with our Frame It! Card Challenge. Each card was wonderful. We hope you'll join us again for another card challenge. Our current one is under way with a theme of PURPLE & GREEN.

~ Sandy & the CIE Designerse

Monday, October 3, 2016

Frame It! Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for our badges winners from the Hello Summer, Goodbye Fall Card Challenge


Hello everyone! Wow! We must all love this time of the year. Our Fall/Autumn challenge entry numbers jumped off the charts for us! We are so excited and thrilled to have had so many join us for that challenge but now it's time for a new challenge and this time the theme is "Frame It!" Which means we want you to create a card that has a FRAME.  It can be a square frame, rectangle frame, oval frame, etc. as long as something is "framed" on the card. Your card can be any shape, any size as long as it is flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing.  To inspire you and to give you an idea of what we want to see, the Cards in Envy Designers have created these fabulous cards.  Please click on the blog name by each designers' name to visit their blog and for more details about their card and while there be sure to leave them some comment love so they know you stopped by.









 Kathy, The Crafty Nurse














Sandy (Challenge Host), Sandy's Crafty Creations 




Sherry, Bits of Cheer











We'd love to see your  Frame It! cards. Please read over our challenge requirements and then share your card in the linky at the end of this post. 

Here are a few reminders about our challenge requirements:
  • No lumpy, bumpy cards.  Elements on your card need to be relatively flat (no thicker than 1/4") so your card would fit in an envy (envelope) for mailing
  • Limit entries to 3 per challenge.
  • No Back Linking--cards must be posted to your blog or an 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.
  • Cards Only--NO TAGS

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

Our Designers will be voting on the cards after the challenge ends and the winners will be announced by Wednesday morning  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 considered the best overall card for the theme.  The Designers will also pick one card as their personal favorite for an IN THE MAILBOX badge. 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 are a winner. 

THIS IS A CARDS ONLY CHALLENGE--NO TAGS.  Entries not following our rules and not for the current challenge theme will be deleted without notice or comment. We accept any size/shape of card BUT all cards must be flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing (no thicker than 1/4") which means no lumpy, bumpy embellishments. Challenge ends Sunday, October 16,  2016 at 6:00 p.m. Central Daylight Savings Time. 


Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall Badge Winners

Wow! What a turnout!! We had so many entries and all were fabulous Fall/Autumn cards or the colors of the season! It was really hard to choose but after tallying the votes from the CIE Designers, we came up with our First Class Badge winner!

Congratulations to #68 Linda Pleckan
FIRST CLASS CARD
We absolutely loved this stunning fall card with the burst of color behind the falling leaves!
 
Linda, grab the First Class Badge below to proudly 
showcase on your own blog and again, congratulations!!

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The CIE Designers then each picked their personal favorite card from all the entries to be In the Mailbox.  Here they are in no particular order:

#59 Jessica Lin, In the Mailbox as Kristie & Wendi's Personal Favorite


#54 Shel B, In the Mailbox as Marilyn's Personal Favorite


#68 Linda Pleckan, In the Mailbox as Sandy and Kathy's Personal Favorite


#11 Toni at FHC, In the Mailbox as Donna's personal Favorite



#53 Dianchik, In the Mailbox as Lisa & Sybrina's Personal Favorite


#34 Kathy Schweinfurth, In the Mailbox as Sherry's Personal Favorite


#77 Linda Pleckan, In the Mailbox as Annie's Personal Favorite

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




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We want to thank ALL of you for joining us for this fun seasonal card challenge and hope you will join us again and even for our current challenge--FRAME IT!

~Sandy & the CIE Designers