One Layer Card Challenge!

Click >HERE< for the badge winners for the It's Birthday Party Card Challenge

Hello! It's the first Monday of the month of May and that means it's time for a new Cards in Envy card challenge!  This time we are looking for ONE LAYER cards.  Pretty simple.  Use only one layer of paper for your card (the base is not considered a layer unless you want it to be).  Remember your card must be flat enough to fit in an envelope for mailing.  It can be any size and any shape but no thick flowers, buttons or other embellishments.

To help you get ideas,  check out our Cards in Envy Designer One Layer cards!  More details on each card can be found on their own blogs by clicking on the link by each designer's name.

Annie, Pawsitive Thoughts by Annie

Donna, Crafty Colonel

Kristie, The Best Things in Life are Pink

Lisa, Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway 

Lisa added some stamping to a kraft cardstock base.
She cut a frame using red paper and placed it on top which gives the illusion of more than one layer but it is just one layer with the frame and the base.

Nancy, Nancy Grace Creations

Sandy (Challenge Host), Sandy Trefger Creative Designs

Sherri, Sherri's Flip-Floppin' Blog

Sherry, Bits of Cheer

Toni, Frankie Helps Craft

 Wendi, Scrappy Day in Paradise

Wendi got a new job and to settle in, she needed to take a break from this challenge.  She'll be back next time.

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We'd love to see your ONE LAYER cards!

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.  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 May 20th  at 6:00 p.m. Central Daylight Savings Time. 

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. 

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.  

It's Birthday Party Time Badge Winners!

Oh my! So many wonderful birthday cards for our last card challenge!!  Goodness, how do we pick a winner?!!!  It was so hard, but we did end up with one card to be First Class!

Congratulations to # 59 Kathy S!

First Class Badge Winner

We loved this adorable magical unicorn princess birthday wishes card!

Kathy, you may grab the First Class badge below to proudly display on your own blog.  Again, congratulations!

Our CIE Designers then each picked their own personal favorite card from all the entries, here they are in no particular order:

#31 Wei-Lin H, In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite

#58 Cheryl S, In the Mailbox as Kristie's Personal Favorite

#55 Karen B, In the Mailbox as Annie's Personal Favorite

#18 Red O. In the Mailbox as Sherri's Personal Favorite

#15 Wei-Lin H, In the Mailbox as Toni & Sherry's Personal Favorite

#7 Cyndi A, In the Mailbox as Donna's Personal Favorite

#21 Monika R, In the Mailbox as Nancy's Personal Favorite

#27 Carol M, In the Mailbox as Lisa's Personal Favorite

#23 Natalie S, In the Mailbox as Wendi's Personal Favorite

Congratulations to all of our In the Mailbox badge winners! You may grab the badge below to proudly showcase on your own blog!

Thank you so much to all of you for playing along with this challenge. It has been lots of fun seeing all the different and wonderful birthday cards! We hope you'll join us for our new challenge--One Layer cards!

~Sandy & the CIE Designers

It's Birthday Party Time! Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for the Get Negative Badge Winners!

We have a new card challenge on the first and third Monday of each month.  And for this month's third Monday, we're celebrating It's Birthday Party Time! (Not necessarily our birthday but we know it's someone's somewhere!) Therefore, we want you to create a birthday card and link your blog post featuring that card in the inlinkz at the bottom of this post!  Please use your first name and last initial for your name/description.  All cards must be flat enough to fit in an envelope for mailing but may be any size or shape.  We hope you'll join us for this challenge!

For inspiration,  check out these birthday cards by our Cards in Envy Designers!  More details on each card can be found on their own blogs by clicking on the link by each designer's name.

Annie, Pawsitive Thoughts by Annie

Donna, Crafty Colonel

Kristie, The Best Things in Life are Pink

.

Lisa, Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway 

Nancy, Nancy Grace Creations

Sandy (Challenge Host), Sandy Trefger Creative Designs

Sherri, Sherri's Flip-Floppin' Blog

Sherry, Bits of Cheer

Toni, Frankie Helps Craft

 Wendi, Scrappy Day in Paradise

We'd love to see your IT'S BIRTHDAY PARTY TIME cards!

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.  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 May 6th  at 6:00 p.m. Central Daylight Savings Time. 

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. 

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.  

Get Negative Badge Winners

We hope the Get Negative card challenge wasn't too hard for you.  Those that entered did a fabulous job and we loved each of them so much but after all the CIE designers voted, we had our #1 card to be First Class!

Congratulations to:

#13  Bev

First Class Badge Winner

We fell in love with these adorable giraffes created out of the negative from a die. Super cute!

Bev, you may grab the First Class Badge below to proudly showcase on your own blog.

Again, Congratulations!

The CIE Designers then each selected one card as their own personal favorite from all the entries.  These cards are all In the Mailbox and here they are in no particular order:

#2 Cimba, In the Mailbox as Toni, Annie, Wendi & Kristie's Personal Favorite

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

#18 Grace T, In the Mailbox as Sherry's Personal Favorite

  

#21 Diana H, In the Mailbox as Nancy & Sherri's Personal Favorite

#15 Riette, In the Mailbox as Lisa's Personal Favorite

#6 Cheryl S, In the Mailbox as Donna's Personal Favorite

Congratulations to each of you! You may grab the In the Mailbox badge below to 

proudly display on your own blog.

Thank you to each of you that created a Get Negative card and shared it with us on Cards in Envy! We hope you'll join us again, we have a new challenge that's already started...It's Birthday Party Time! (Birthday Cards).

~Sandy & the CIE Designers

Get Negative! Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for our No Patterned Paper Badge Winners!

Create a card with the NEGATIVE space of a die or punch and link your blog post featuring that card in the inlinkz at the bottom of this post!  Please use your first name and last initial for your name/description.  All cards must be flat enough to fit in an envelope for mailing but may be any size or shape.  We hope you'll join us for this challenge!

To give you some great ideas, check out these cards by our Cards in Envy Designers!  More details on each card can be found on their own blogs by clicking on the link by each designer's name.

Annie, Pawsitive Thoughts by Annie

Donna, Crafty Colonel

Donna's taking a break on this challenge to take care of some personal family business.  

She'll be back for our next challenge.

Kristie, The Best Things in Life are Pink

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Lisa, Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway 

Nancy, Nancy Grace Creations

Sandy (Challenge Host), Sandy Trefger Creative Designs

Sherri, Sherri's Flip-Floppin' Blog

Sherry, Bits of Cheer

Toni, Frankie Helps Craft

 Wendi, Scrappy Day in Paradise

We'd love to see your GET NEGATIVE! cards!

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.  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 April 15th  at 6:00 p.m. Central Daylight Savings Time. 

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. 

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.