Snowbirds Badge Winners

We had so many wonderful, snowy, snowbird cards for our last challenge and we came away with lots of winners!

Congratulations to our First Class Card Badge Winner....

#7 Theresa P!

First Class Badge

Snowbirds Card Challenge

We loved Theresa's adorable snowman and that cute little bird on the branch above his head!  

We loved the colors too!

 

Theresa, you may grab the First Class Badge below to proudly showcase on your own blog and again, Congratulations!

Next, the Cards in Envy Designers each picked out their one personal favorite card from the challenge.  Here they are in no particular order....

#10 Carol L

In the Mailbox as Sybrina's Personal Favorite

#8 Leanne H

In the Mailbox as Sherry's Personal Favorite

#2 Kuni

In the Mailbox as Lisa's Personal Favorite

#3 Cimbacreat

In the Mailbox as Annie's Personal Favorite

#11 Valerie Light

In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite

#15 Donna M

In the Mailbox as Kathy's Personal Favorite

#1 Kathy Jo W

In the Mailbox as Donna's Personal Favorite

#5 Tracy L

In the Mailbox as Kristie's Personal Favorite

#9 Toni

In the Mailbox as Wendi & Marilyn's Personal Favorite

In the Mailbox Badge Winners, you may grab your badge below to proudly display on your own blog. Congratulations to each of you!

Thank you so much to all of you for playing with our first card challenge for 2017! We have a new challenge underway on the blog and it's a color challenge--Pink & Gray!  We hope you'll join us again!

~Sandy and the CIE Designers

Snow Birds Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for our Celebrate the Season Badge Winners!

Hello and welcome to our first card challenge for the new year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday and are ready to take on 2017!  Our card challenge this time is a wintery one--we want to see SNOW BIRDS.  That means we'd like to see cards that feature snow in some form--snow scenes, snowmen, snow flakes, snow flurries etc. BUT somewhere there must be at least ONE bird.  Your card can be any size, any shape as long as it is flat enough to fit in an envelope (envy) for mailing.

To inspire you, our designers are sharing their wintry snowy snowbirds cards. Please click on each designers' blog name for more details about their card creation and while there we'd love for you to leave some comment love.

Annie, Pawsitive Thoughts by Annie

Donna, Crafty Colonel

 Kathy, The Crafty Nurse

Kristie, The Best Things in Life are Pink

Lisa, Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway 

Marilyn,  Marilyn's Cricut Cards

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

We'd love to see your  SNOW BIRDS 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, January 15, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. Central  Time. 

Leave a comment and link your "SNOWBIRDS" card in the linky below. Thank you for sharing your card that is flat enough to mail in an envelope with us at Cards in Envy!  

Please use your FIRST name and LAST INITIAL for your inlinkz entry name.

An InLinkz Link-up

Celebrate the Season Badge Winners

Wow! What a way to end 2016!! So many wonderful cards celebrating the season! It was hard but we did pick our First Class winner!

Congratulations to # 40 Mary Mask

FIRST CLASS BADGE WINNER

We loved that beautiful winter scene behind the window on her card and the snowflakes!

Mary, please grab the First Class badge below to proudly display on your 

own blog and again, congratulations!

The CIE designers then picked their one personal favorite card from all the entries.  One card stood out and would have been second place as it was a favorite of several of our designers.  Here are all of our In the Mailbox cards.  Congratulations to each of you!

#59 Trina P, In the Mailbox as Sybrina, Sherry, Annie and Marilyn's Personal Favorite

#21 Larissa, In the Mailbox as Kathy's Personal Favorite

#43 Kathy S, In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite

#47 Kathy S, In the Mailbox as Lisa's Personal Favorite

#5 Toni M, In the Mailbox as Kristie's Personal Favorite

#9 Mai Kreations, In the Mailbox as Wendi's Personal Favorite

Congratulations to each of our In the Mailbox Badge Winners!  You may grab the badge below

to proudly display on your own blog.

Thank you to each and every one of you for playing along with this challenge and for sharing your cards throughout the year.  We look forward to seeing you in 2017 and our first challenge has started for cards featuring "Snow Birds"

Happy New Year!

~Sandy & the CIE Designers

Celebrate the Season Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for the "Wouldn't That Be Sweet" Badge Winners!

Well it's almost here whether you are ready....or not! The holiday season...Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve.  If you make cards, it's a good bet you've made one or more for this holiday season and we want to see what you've created to CELEBRATE THE SEASON.  Your card can be any size, any shape BUT it must be flat enough to fit in an envelope (envy) for mailing.

To inspire you, our designers have created some wonderful cards for how they celebrate the season!  Please click on each designers' blog name for more details about their card creation and while there we'd love for you to leave some comment love.

Annie, Pawsitive Thoughts by Annie

Donna, Crafty Colonel

 Kathy, The Crafty Nurse

Kristie, The Best Things in Life are Pink

Lisa, Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway 

Marilyn,  Marilyn's Cricut Cards

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

We'd love to see your  CELEBRATE THE SEASON 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, January 1, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. Central  Time. 

Leave a comment and link your "CELEBRATE THE SEASON" card in the linky below. Thank you for sharing your card that is flat enough to mail in an envelope with us at Cards in Envy!  

Please use your FIRST name and LAST INITIAL for your inlinkz entry name.

An InLinkz Link-up

Wouldn't That be SWEET Badge Winners

Wow! That was a wonderfully yummy and sweet challenge! We loved all the SWEET cards that were linked to this challenge but after tallying the votes, we ended up with one FIRST CLASS CARD!

Congratulations to #7 Trina P!

Our First Class Card Badge Winner!!

We loved this sweet and adorable gingerbread boy with his SWEET candy cane!

Congratulations Trina!  Please grab the First Class Badge below to proudly

showcase on your own blog!

The Cards in Envy Designers then picked their one personal favorite card from all the entries. Here they are in no particular order:

#18 Carole J, In the Mailbox as Sherry's Personal Favorite

#6 Sunday, In the Mailbox as Annie & Donna's Personal Favorite

#1 Art J, In the Mailbox as Kathy's Personal Favorite

#4 Cecilla G, In the Mailbox as Kristie & Marilyn's Personal Favorite

#22 Mary N, In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite

#12 Theresa, In the Mailbox as Wendi's Personal Favorite

#11 Helene H, In the Mailbox as Lisa's Personal Favorite

#21 Gerda, In the Mailbox as Sybrina's Personal Favorite

Congratulations to all our In the Mailbox Badge Winners! You may grab the In the Mailbox badge below to proudly display on your own blog!

Thank you to everyone that played along in this challenge for this busy time of the year!  We hope you'll join us again and we do have a new challenge (the last one for 2016) on the blog today--Celebrate the Season.

~Sandy and the CIE Designers