Cards in Envy

Monday, November 16, 2015

Gratitude Challenge Badge Winners!

So many beautiful and awesome Thanksgiving and Thank You cards for our Gratitude challenge! We appreciate so much everyone that created a card and linked it to our blog challenge post. Thank you!! After the votes were tallied, we had a winner for our First Class card.

Congratulations to

#6 Tammy A

First Class Card

We loved the colors of Tammy's card, the faux stitching, banner, leaves and adorable little Pilgrim mice! So cute! Thank you Tammy for joining in on our challenge and please grab the First Class badge below to proudly showcase on your own blog!

After selecting the First Class card, the CIE Designers then each picked their personal favorite card from the challenge entries. Here they are, listed in no particular order:

# 2 Claire, In the Mailbox as Lisa's Personal Favorite

# 5 Dena J, In the Mailbox as Kathy's Personal Favorite

#10 Vikki W, In the Mailbox as Wendi's Personal Favorite

#11 Bobbie, In the Mailbox as Sybrina's Personal Favorite

#6 Tammy A, In the Mailbox as Sherry and Patricia's Personal Favorite

#13 Jennifer-g, In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite

#19 A J, In the Mailbox as Donna's Personal Favorite

#24 Mynn, In the Mailbox Annie's Personal Favorite

In the Mailbox Badge winners, grab your badge below to proudly display on your own blog!

We'd like to extend a super BIG Thank You to all who have joined us for our challenges in the past and for this challenge. We have a new challenge going on right now with a surprise GIFT to two lucky random challenge participants so make sure you check it out!

Again, Thank You!

~Sandy and the CIE Designers

Monday, November 2, 2015

Gratitude Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for our badge winners for the Trick or Treat Challenge!

Hello card makers and November! Wow! This year is flying by. November is the month of Thanksgiving in the United States so we here at Cards in Envy would like to see your Gratitude, Thank You or Thanksgiving cards! Remember your card must be A2 size (4.25" x 5.5") PLEASE--NO SQUARE CARDS. And flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing.

Our Cards in Envy Designers have created a wonderful variety of Gratitude (Thank You or Thanksgiving) cards for your inspiration! Please click on each designers blog link by their name for more details on their card creation and leave them some comment love!

Annie, Pawsitive Thoughts by Annie

Donna, Crafty Colonel

Kathy, The Crafty Nurse

Lisa, Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway

Marilyn, Marilyn's Cricut Cards

Patricia, Thinking of Inking

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

Now it's time for you to create a GRATITUDE (Thank You or Thanksgiving) card and share it with us in the linky below. Make sure it is an A2 card (4.25" x 5.5") flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing.

Here are a few reminders about our challenge requirements:

No square or shaped cards(shaped cards allowed IF you list the size of your card--height and width). All cards entered must be A2 size (4.25" x 5.5")
No lumpy, bumpy cards. Elements on your card need to be relatively flat (no thicker than 1/4")
Limit entries to 3 per challenge.
No Back Linking. Cards must be posted to your blog or 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: GRATITUDE (Thank You or Thanksgiving)

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

Our Designers will be voting on their favorite cards which will be announced on our blog the Tuesday or Wednesday 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 each Designer will pick one card as their favorite for IN THE MAILBOX. 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 were a winner.

THIS IS A CARDS ONLY CHALLENGE. Entries not following our rules and guidelines will be deleted without notice or comment. REMEMBER! NO SQUARE or SHAPED CARDS unless you provide the measurements of your shaped card. Challenge ends Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. Central Time.

An InLinkz Link-up

Trick or Treat Badge Winners

Wow! So many awesome Halloween cards for us to choose from! And so much fun! Let me just say, it was VERY close like 1 vote among SEVERAL of the cards! But we did have a winner and we want to congratulation our FIRST CLASS badge winner:

#11 Theresa. First Class

We loved this simple card with the adorable ghosts holding their Jack-o-Lanterns!

Theresa, please grab the First Class badge below to proudly showcase on your own blog! And again, Congratulations!

The CIE Designers also chose their one personal favorite card from all the entries to be IN THE MAILBOX. Here they are in no particular order:

#12 KT Fit Kitty, In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite

#5 AJ, In the Mailbox as Kathy's Personal Favorite

#8 Billie A, In the Mailbox as Sherry's Personal Favorite

#9 Theresa, In the Mailbox as Annie and Sybrina's Personal Favorite

#10 Steffi H, In the Mailbox as Wendi's Personal Favorite

#11 Theresa, In the Mailbox as Marilyn's Personal Favorite

#17 Debi B, In the Mailbox as Lisa's Personal Favorite

#7 Emily D, In the Mailbox as Patricia's Personal Favorite

#16, Valerie L, In the Mailbox as Donna's Personal Favorite

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

Thank you to every one for sharing your frightfully fun Halloween cards with us for our Trick or Treat challenge! We hope that you will join us again for another challenge and check out our current challenge on the blog for Gratitude cards!

~Sandy & the CIE Designers

Monday, October 19, 2015

Trick or Treat Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for the Creepy Crawlies Badge Winners for our last challenge!

Halloween will be here in about two weeks! Have you made a Halloween card yet? No? How about making at least one for our TRICK OR TREAT challenge? Yes, that is our challenge theme starting today. Halloween cards that make us think of "Trick or Treating." All cards linked for this challenge MUST BE flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing, A2 size (4.25" x 5.5"). If you create a shaped card, you MUST share the measurements of your card and NO SQUARE CARDS. If your card does not fit our challenge requirements, it will be deleted with no comment. Almost every challenge, we have to delete 2 or 3 entries for not following our stated requirements, so please read carefully and make sure your card is a CARD IN ENVY card.

And now for some Trick or Treat card inspiration from our Cards in Envy Designers! Please click on the blog link by each designer's name to go to their blog for more details about their creation and leave them some comment love!

Annie, Pawsitive Thoughts by Annie

Donna, Crafty Colonel

Kathy, The Crafty Nurse

Lisa, Lisa's Scrappy Hideaway

Marilyn, Marilyn's Cricut Cards

Patricia, Thinking of Inking

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

Now it's time for you to create a TRICK OR TREAT card and share it with us in the linky below. Make sure it is an A2 card (4.25" x 5.5") flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing.

Here are a few reminders about our challenge requirements:

No square or shaped cards(shaped cards allowed IF you list the size of your card--height and width). All cards entered must be A2 size (4.25" x 5.5")
No lumpy, bumpy cards. Elements on your card need to be relatively flat (no thicker than 1/4")
Limit entries to 3 per challenge.
No Back Linking. Cards must be posted to your blog or 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: TRICK OR TREAT

An InLinkz Link-up

Creepy Crawlies Badge Winners!

Well, it looks like the Creepy Crawlies may have scared some of you away, but that's okay. We still had some fabulous entries for the challenge even if it was a lot less than usual. All of the cards linked were wonderful and nicely "Creepy Crawly" with things that crawled like spiders and bugs but we can only have one winner of the First Class Badge.

Congratulations to:

#8 Billie A! our FIRST CLASS CARD!

The designers loved your cute card and the adorable pumpkin wearing a witch hat that had creepy spiders on it and one peeking out from behind the pumpkins plus the ones in the webs!

Billie, please grab the First Class Badge below to proudly display on your own blog!

After choosing the First Class card, The CIE Designers each picked one card as their personal favorite to be In The Mailbox. Here they are in no particular order--

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

#7 Jennifer-g, In the Mailbox as Sherry's Personal Favorite

#8 Billie A, In the Mailbox as Sybrina's Personal Favorite

#5 Valerie, In the Mailbox as Donna and Kathy's Personal Favorite

#3 Kathy S, In the Mailbox as Annie's Personal Favorite

#2 Stephanie, In the Mailbox as Patricia, Wendi, and Marilyn's Personal Favorite

Congratulations! In the Mailbox badge winners, you may grab the badge below to display on your own blog!

Thank you to each one of you for playing along with this challenge! We hope you will join us again soon. We have a new challenge that just started "Trick or Treat" and we'd love to see your Halloween cards for this challenge!