Rev it Up! Challenge

WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!  The designers have voted and their favorite card for the Rev It Up! Challenge is #4 Sherry Hickey! Sherry will receive our FIRST IN CLASS badge! Congratulations Sherry!  The other 3 entries for this challenge will all receive the IN THE MAILBOX BADGE! Thanks so much for joining in on this challenge with us.  Due to a mix-up during moving to a new blog from Feline Playful to Paper Playful, our challenge was not listed so we ended up fewer entries for this challenge but that's okay.  We are back on the Paper Playful Lists and we loved the cards that did enter this challenge! Again, Thank you to each of you!
~Sandy

Let's REV IT UP!  For this challenge we'd like to see your A2 (4.25" x5.5") card creations that feature things with motors that one can "rev up." Think motorcycles, cars, airplanes, helicopters etc.  Any transportation type vehicle that has a motor that revs up.  We can't wait to see what you create and share!

Remember, your card needs to be relatively flat (no lumpy, bumpy embellishments, flowers, buttons etc.) The total thickness of your  card and the envelope should be no more than 1/4" so it will fit through the USA post office guide, if it's thicker than that, it will cost extra postage and will not be a card for our Cards in Envy challenge.

With our first challenge in August, comes the end of our first 6 months as a challenge blog! I want to thank everyone who visits our blog, follows, likes us on Facebook and/or participates in our challenges! We are so happy to have you join us.  It is also the end of our first term for our Designers and a few will be leaving us to design for other challenges or to take a break to spend time with family or focus on their personal life. With this post, we are saying goodbye to Cissy, Katie,  Lisa B and Tanya.  We will miss them but are happy to have new Designers in our family--Debbie , Lisa M. and Wendi joined us in July and with this challenge we welcome Kristie!  Please visit their blogs and let them know you were there.

And now, let's see what our designers have found that will REV IT UP!


Beep, beep! How about a shopping trip in a pickup truck?  Danie created this fabulous birthday card with bright colors and an adorable city scene!

D-Dazzled Scraps

Ptttttt, ptttttt! Debbie wishes a Happy Birthday with this cute helicopter that's flying by!

Scrap Enabler

Toot, toot!  Denise created a simple CAS card with lots of impact and a vintage blue pickup. Any man would be thrilled with this card!

Scrappy D's House of Cards

Jingle, jingle! It's the chime and melody of an ice cream truck!  Karen created this super fun and yummy card wishing a Happy Birthday!

Calm Creations

Honk, honk! Kristie's bright and fun card lets someone know that they "make the road of life more Fun!"

The Best Things in Life are Pink

Vroom, vroom!  Lisa's super cute race car card is zipping by to wish a Happy Birthday 2 U!

Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway

Whirrrr, Whirrrr!  While not reving it up as fast as the others, it certainly can when it needs too!  Marilyn's adorable yellow submarine sends a greeting of "Best Fishes!"

Marilyn's Cricut Cards

Zoom, zoom!  Sandy's red hot race car revs by with a special "you make my heart race" sentiment for a loved one!

Sandy's Crafty Creations  (Challenge Host)

Swoosh, Swoosh!   Wendi's Happy Birthday card covers the sky with a cute helicopter and fast moving jets!

Scrappy Day in Paradise

Now it's your turn!  Please use the linky below to share your card creations AND please read our challenge guidelines.  At the end of the challenge, our Designers will choose one FIRST CLASS card and three or more IN THE MAILBOX cards that will be awarded one of our fun badges for their blog!  Challenge runs from August 5th thru August 18th, 11:55 p.m. (Central Time)

Layers Challenge!

8/7/13 Winners Announcement!

Winners for the July 15th Layers Challenge are:

FIRST CLASS:  #17 Julie

IN THE MAIL BOX:  #23 Patricia Hays, #10 Jackie W, #12 Kris B and #1 Kelly O

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 

Layers, layers, layers.  We're looking for layers!

Hello, it's time for a new challenge!  For this one we'd like to see your A2 (4.25"x5.5") card creations that have paper LAYERS!  Remember, that your card needs to be relatively flat (no lumpy, bumpy embellishments, flowers, buttons etc.)  so be careful with using too many layers, but you can use as many layers as you'd like as long it still fits in an envy!   Total thickness of the card and envelope should be no more than 1/4" so it will fit through the post office guide, if it's thicker than that,  it will cost extra postage and will not be a card for our Cards in Envy challenge.

For this challenge we have a Guest Designer!  Kristie Marcotte of The Best Things in Life are Pink!   Kristie will officially be joining as a full time designer in August so watch for her photo and bio here on the blog after the first.  Here's Kristie's card featuring LAYERS to inspire you in this challenge. Kristie, we're thrilled to have you joining us!  Your card is adorable and perfect  for Cards in Envy!

Kristie, Guest Designer (The Best Things in Life are Pink!)

And now, more inspiring  cards with paper LAYERS by our Cards in Envy Designers!

Cissy (Cissy Murphy.com) 

  Danie (D-Dazzled Scraps)

 Debbie, (Scrap Enabler)

 Denise (Scrappy D's House of Cards) 

Please note: Denise's card is a square and was made before the challenge rule of no square cards was added to our rules. Her card does fit in a regular size envelope for mailing in the USA. In the future, all designer cards for Cards in Envy will be the A2 size to avoid confusion with our challengers.

 Karen (Calm Creations) 

   Katie (Crafty Khandy)

 Lisa M, (Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway) 

 Marilyn (Marilyn's Cricut Cards)

  Sandy, Challenge Host (Sandy's Crafty Creations)

Tanya (Generation Promise) 

  Wendi, (Scrappy Day in Paradise)

Fabulous cards! Be sure to visit our Designers and let them know you love their cards!

And now, a bit of info about our challenge:  The challenge starts today, Monday, July 15th  at 12:00 a.m. Central Time and ends August 4th  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 ourcute Cards in Envy badges to proudly display on their own blog.  Please limit your entries to 3 per challenge.

We have deleted a few entries that did not follow our guidelines. Please note we do not accept square cards for our challenges and no lumpy bumpy flowers or buttons etc.  Thank you!

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!

Cissy (Cissy Murphy.com) 

 Danie (D-Dazzled Scraps)

Debbie, (Scrap Enabler) 

Denise (Scrappy D's House of Cards) 

Karen (Calm Creations) 

  Katie (Crafty Khandy)

Lisa  B. {Lisa's Creative Niche} 

 Lisa M, (Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway) 

 Marilyn (Marilyn's Cricut Cards)

 Sandy, Challenge Host (Sandy's Crafty Creations)

Tanya (Generation Promise) 

 Wendi, (Scrappy Day in Paradise)

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. 

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!

 Andrea (Permission to Create) 

Cissy (Cissy Murphy.com)

 Danie (D-Dazzled Scraps)

Debbie, Guest Designer (Scrap Enabler)

Denise (Scrappy D's House of Cards)

Karen (Calm Creations)

 Katie (Crafty Khandy)

 Lisa M, Guest Designer (Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway)

Lisa  {Lisa's Creative Niche}

 Marilyn (Marilyn's Cricut Cards)

Sandy, Challenge Host (Sandy's Crafty Creations)

Tanya (Generation Promise)

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.

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) 

Cissy (Cissy Murphy.com)

Danie (D-Dazzled Scraps)

Denise (Scrappy D's House of Cards)

Karen (Calm Creations)

Katie (Crafty Khandy)

Lisa  {Lisa's Creative Niche}

Marilyn (Marilyn's Cricut Cards)

Sandy, Challenge Host (Sandy's Crafty Creations)

Tanya (Generation Promise)

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!