Monday, July 1, 2013

Sketch #6 Challenge!

7/16/13  WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!

Winners for the July 1st  Sketch #6  challenge are:

First Class card is #5 Mynnette
 In The Mail Box cards are:  #4 Kristie M,  #9 Ellen Parker, #11 Patricia Hays

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 a new challenge here on Cards in Envy!  This time we have another Sketch challenge for you.  The sketches for our challenges have all been created by one of our Designers, Denise, but she's had to cut back on some of her duties due to her job and other challenges so this will be our last sketch challenge.  Starting in August all of our challenges will be themed but if you love sketches, I will be posting sketches on our Cards in Envy Facebook page now and then so be sure to go like us so you'll see the sketches and other fun stuff on your newsfeed.

I also want to share some Cards in Envy Designer changes.  First, Andrea had to leave us early because of her health and needing to spend more time with family and to take better care of herself.  We will miss her!  Also, July is the last month for Cissy, Lisa B. and Katie.  Their 6 month term is finished the end of July and they have each decided they need to focus on other things for now.  We will miss them too! But that brings us to three new Designers who have joined us and while officially they were to start in August, I just couldn't wait and went ahead and brought them on board now.  You've already seen their work in challenges and as June Guest Designers.  Please welcome Wendi, Debbie and Lisa M. to Cards in Envy!  I encourage you to visit each of our Designers' blogs and leave them some comment love.  And now on with their fabulous card creations following Sketch #6.  All of the cards are A2 size (4.25" x 5.5") and will fit in an envelope with regular first class postage!











  Katie (Crafty Khandy)









 Sandy, Challenge Host (Sandy's Crafty Creations)








And now it is your turn to create a card following Denise's Sketch #6.



The challenge starts today, Monday, July 1st  at 12:00 a.m. Central Time and ends July 14th at 11:55 p.m. Central Time.  After the challenge ends,  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.

Please create and share  A2 (4.25" x 5.5") cards that fit  in an envelope with no lumpy bumpy flowers, buttons or embellishments. 


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Monday, June 17, 2013

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!




























Lisa  {Lisa's Creative Niche}













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!


Cards in Envy on Facebook
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.
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Monday, June 3, 2013

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) 


































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!





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Monday, May 20, 2013

May 20th Themed Challenge

June 4, 2013 Winners Announced 

 Winners for the May 20th Make Your Own Background Challenge are:

 First Class card is #29 Susan Kennedy

 Cards that are In The Mail Box are:  #5 Andrea W, #11 Barbara Daines, #12 Shar B, #30 Darlene Pavlick and #31 Beth F.

 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 Deisgners 



 Hello and welcome to our  May 20th  Themed Challenge!  This time we'd like to see cards that you used a technique to Make Your Own Background!  What this means is....share cards in which you have taken a white or neutral color card base or paper and actually created your background by stamping, embossing, inking, paper piecing or  some other fun technique to make your own background.  Confused? I hope not, if you have ANY questions you can send me an email at strefger{at}gmail{dot}com. And please share what technique you used to make your background as we'd all love to know!

Remember,  Cards in Envy is for cards that fit into a regular first class postage envelope.  The most common size being the A2 (5.5 inch x 4.25 inch) OR a square card ( 5 inch x 5 inch or SMALLER).  And please, no lumpy bumpy embellishments.  A good rule of thumb is--only one layer of foam tape, no buttons on foam tape, flatter flowers (paper flowers are good), no rosettes, no super thick buttons or brads, etc.  If all layers and embellishments together on your card are thicker than 1/4 inch then it's not a card for Cards in Envy.   

The challenge starts today, Monday, May 20th and runs until June 2nd.  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 Design Team featuring some fun techniques to Make Your Own Background.

 All design team cards are A2 size unless noted otherwise.
Andrea (Permission to Create)
Background Technique:  Swiped different colors of distress ink on to a  craft mat, 
 then pulled the cardstock through it and sprayed it with liquid perfect pearls.


Cissy (Cissy Murphy.com)
Background Technique:  Sponged Versamagic chalk ink in cloud white onto
Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake cardstock using The Crafter's
Workshop 6x6 Mini Bricks Template.


Danie (D-Dazzled Scraps)
Background Technique: Gelli print created with acrylic paint
and Damask Stencil by Donna Downey



Denise (Scrappy D's House of Cards)
Background Technique: Ink pad, foam pad or dauber and stiff piece of plastic.
Inked to create this amazing patterned background.



Karen, 5.5" long card made from two tags (Calm Creations)
Background Technique:  Inking and stamping with alcohol inks,
Tim Holtz  "On the Railroad" Stamps and black archival ink stamp pad
Card with ribbon folded easily fits in A2 envelope for one first class postage stamp!



Katie, 5x5 card (Crafty Khandy)
Background Technique:  Background Map stamped with a Stampin' Up! World Map stamp
and Stampin' Up! Open Seas Collection stamp set used  for the other background elements.   



Lisa (Lisa's Creative Niche)
Background Technique:  Repeatedly stamped the design for the
background and added color with water color pencils.



Marilyn (Marilyn's Cricut Cards)
Background Technique:  Used scraps of paper to piece together the sunburst background.
Instructions for this technique will be on Marilyn's blog.



Background Technique:  Used small bubble wrap and an ink pad to stamp
the background with the bubble wrap to get the dotted/bubble look.



Tanya (Generation Promise)
Background Technique:  Used red ink to stamp a Stampin' Up background stamp

Share with  us your card and tell us your fabulous technique that you used to Make Your Own Background!   

Remember all cards linked must be flat to fit in an envelope. No lumpy, bumpy embellishments and   6x6 cards are NOT eligible. Square cards must be 5x5 or smaller, regular cards should be A2 or 4.25 x 5.5  

 Entries for cards that clearly will not fit in an envy for first class postage will be deleted.  Limit 3 entries per challenge and all entries must be current blog posts, no backlinking.  Thank you!

Please visit the Design Teams blogs by clicking on their names above their card creations and let them know you were there.  Thank you and have fun creating! ~Sandy
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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Cards in Envy Sketch #4 Challenge


The First Class Winner as the Designers' Favorite Card is:
  

Congratulations, Tracy! Please email cardenvydt@gmail.com with First Class Winner in your subject line to claim your badge!


We had three runners up that are awarded the In the Mailbox Badge!



#10 Tip Top

Congratulations! Please email cardenvydt@gmail.com with "In the Mailbox Winner" as your subject to claim your badge!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this challenge.  We look forward to seeing you all in our new themed challenge--"make your own background!"



Welcome to our Cards in Envy Sketch #4 Challenge!  You are welcome to use any images, products or embellishments as long as you follow this sketch AND your card is no thicker than 1/4 inches.  Please feel free to interpret the sketch as you wish, just be sure the sketch can be seen.

Remember,  Cards in Envy is for cards that fit into a regular first class postage envelope.  The most common size being the A2 (5.5 inch x 4.25 inch) OR a square card (5 inch x 5 inches or SMALLER).  And please remember no lumpy bumpy embellishments.  A good rule of thumb is--only one layer on foam tape, no buttons on foam tape, flat flowers (paper flowers are good), no rosettes, no super thick buttons or brads, etc.  If all layers and embellishments together are thicker than 1/4 inch then it's not a card for Cards in Envy.  Any cards that look too lumpy or bumpy or appear too thick will not qualify for the winners circle and may be removed from the challenge.

The challenge starts today, Monday, May 6th and runs until Sunday, May 19th.  The Design Team will pick One Winner and a Top Three.  Each will earn a Cards in Envy Badge for their blog.

And now some inspiration from our design team:

Andrea


 Cissy


Danie


Karen


Katie

Lisa


Marilyn


Tanya

Sandy, Co-Host


Denise, Co-Host


Now, let’s see your fabulous creations!

Remember all cards linked must be flat to fit in an envelope. No lumpy, bumpy embellishments and 6x6 cards are NOT eligible. Square cards must be 5x5 or smaller, regular cards should be A2 or 4.25 x 5.5.  Entries for cards that clearly will not fit in an envy for first class postage will be disqualified.  Limit 3 entries per challenge and all entries must be current blog posts, no back-linking please.  Thank you!

Please visit the Design Team’s blogs by clicking on their names above their card creations and leave them some love.  Thank you!

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