Tickled Pink Badge Winners!

So many beautiful cards featuring the color pink! Thank you to every one who created a card and shared it with us for our Tickled Pink challenge!  Our CIE Designers voted and after tallying the votes, we had our First Class Card winner.....

Congratulations to:

#15 Angela - First Class Card

We loved your adorable card with the super cute pink bird and the layers of pink!

Angela, grab the First Class badge below to proudly display on your own blog!

The CIE Designers also each picked their personal favorite card from the challenge to be In The Mailbox.  Here they are in no particular order:

#17 Rainy Day Creations, In The Mailbox as Annie's Personal Favorite

#19 Billie A, In The Mailbox as Marilyn's Personal Favorite

#15 Angela P, In The Mailbox as  Sybrina and Sandy's Personal Favorite

#2 Mary V, In The Mailbox as Kathy's Personal Favorite

#1 Carol L, In The Mailbox as Sherry's Personal Favorite

#11 Deborah D, In The Mailbox as Lisa's Personal Favorite

#12 Maike, In The Mailbox as Donna's Personal Favorite

#6 Diane H, In The Mailbox as Patricia's Personal Favorite

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

Again, thank you to all of you that created a card and shared it with us! We appreciate each of you and hope you will share our challenge with your card making friends!  We have a new challenge underway and hope you will join us!

~Sandy and the CIE Designers

Tickled Pink Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for our From the Heart Badge Winners!


It's time for another card challenge here on CARDS IN ENVY!  This time we want to be "TICKLED PINK!"  Of course, that means we want to see cards that are mostly pink or have a pink focal point. In our last challenge to honor our co-founder, Denise Gray, we lifted the size limitation for cards and have now decided to continue with the any size or any shape card for our challenges. BUT we still require that all cards entered into our challenge be FLAT (no thicker than 1/4") so they would easily fit into an envy (envelope) for mailing!  That's where we get our blog and challenge name:  "Cards in Envy!"  If you are perfectly happy making A2 (4.25" x 5.5") cards for our challenge you may continue to do so, in fact they are our favorite size for cards! But if now and then you need or want to make a bigger card or a shaped card, you can share it here as long as it is flat.  If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment and we'll get back to you with an answer as soon as we can.

And now, some inspiration from our Cards in Envy Designers!  If you like what you see and want more details about each card, please click on the blog name by each designer's name to visit their personal blog and leave some comment love to let them know you stopped by.

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

We'd love to see your "Tickled Pink" card (must be mostly pink or have a pink focal point).  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.

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.  Entries not following our rules and guidelines will be deleted without notice or comment. We now 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, March 6,  2016 at 6:00 p.m. Central Time. 

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From the Heart Badge Winners

Oh my! We are so thrilled to have so many of you share your beautiful love and Valentine cards with us for our From the Heart card challenge! Just amazing! Which, of course, made it VERY hard for us to pick a winner!  It was really, really close but after counting and re-counting the votes, we had our First Class card!

Congratulations to:

#47 Mandy La Croix!

Mandy, we loved your adorable card with the eye glasses filled with hearts!  

And the sentiment is so cute and unique!

Mandy, grab the First Class Card badge below to proudly display on your own blog. 

And again, Congratulations!

And after we'd decided on our First Class Card, we had to really work hard at picking our one personal favorite!  Here they are in no particular order:

#36 Karen McAlpine, Donna's Personal Favorite

#20 Cathy P, Sandy's Personal Favorite

#34 Mary Marsh, Marilyn's Personal Favorite

#47 Mandy LaCroix, Lisa & Kathy's Personal Favorite

#23 Cathy P, Sherry and Annie's Personal Favorite

#4 MaiKreations, Sybrina's Personal Favorite

#3 Maria D, Patricia's Personal Favorite

Congratulations everyone! Please grab the In the Mailbox badge below

 to proudly display on your own blog!

Again, Thank you so much to all of you for creating a card and sharing it with us!  We have a new challenge "Tickled Pink" and would love to see a bunch of lovely pink cards (any occasion).  Also starting with this challenge we now accept any size and any shape card but it must still be flat enough to mail in an envelope for Cards in Envy!

~Sandy and the CIE Designers

From the Heart Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for the White on White Card Challenge Badge Winners


Today, February 1st,  is a sad day in our card crafting online community.  Early this morning after this post was scheduled to go live, our dear honorary Cards in Envy Designer, Denise Gray, passed away after an almost 2 year battle with cancer.  She impacted many with her love of creating beautiful cards and was the co-host for this card challenge blog.  Cards in Envy was her idea.  She is loved by many and will be missed so much.  Your thoughts and prayers for her husband, son and daughter and other family members and friends will be greatly appreciated.  Good-bye Denise, we love you and know you are making beautiful cards in heaven with no more pain.

And of course, Denise would want us to continue to make cards for this blog challenge.  Our theme is "From the Heart" which is so appropriate for today.  Join us in making "From the Heart" cards in honor of Denise...

Please note:  Our challenge for the next two weeks is still "From the Heart" however, if you'd like to make a card in honor of Denise and would like to send it to her family--a sympathy card, thinking of you, all our love etc. with a heart on the card would be appropriate and accepted for this challenge.  Also, this one time only because Denise had card friends all over the world, we will waive our "No Square Cards" rule and A2 card size requirement.  We hope you will join us in honoring this beautiful and creative lady.  If you need her family's mailing address, please contact me via email at: strefger at gmail dot com with " Denise Address Please" as your subject.

Hello everyone! It's February!  That means our favorite "love" day will be here soon and of course that means it's time for a  "love" card challenge.  Our theme is FROM THE HEART (love cards and/or Valentines).  As always cards for this challenge must be A2 size (4.25" x 5.5") and flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing. We can't wait to see what you all share with us!

To inspire you, our Cards in Envy Designers came up with some wonderful love and/or Valentine cards!  Please click on the link by their name to go to their own blogs for more details about their card and leave them some comment love so they'll know you stopped by.

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 From the Heart (love or Valentine) 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.

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, February 14,  2016 at 6:00 p.m. Central Time.

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White on White Badge Winners!

We had a smaller turn out for our White on White challenge.  These type of cards are not the norm for everyone, so it really was a challenge. But of the ones entered, we want to let you all know that they were all just beautiful!  Thank you so much for creating a white on white card and sharing it with us.  All the CIE designers voted and after tallying the votes, we had our First Class card!

Congratulations to

#6 Kathy S

We loved your beautiful Silent Soft Slow Snow  white on white card!

Congratulations Kathy! Please grab the First Class badge below to showcase on your own blog.



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Each Designer then picked their one personal favorite card from the entries to be In the Mailbox. Here they are in no particular order:

#9 Sharon, In the Mailbox as Patricia's Personal Favorite

#4 Michelle, In the Mailbox as Kathy and Donna's Personal Favorite

#6 Kathy S, In the Mailbox as Lisa, Sybrina and Wendi's Personal Favorite




#3 Carol L, In the Mailbox as Annie, Marilyn, and Sherry's Personal Favorite




#7 Dana, In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite


Congratulations! Please grab the In the Mailbox Badge below to proudly
display on your own blog!

We so appreciate all of you that create cards for our challenges!  We hope you will join us again!  We have a new challenge with a theme of "From the Heart."  This has become a special challenge in honor of Denise Gray our former Co-Host and the creator of this challenge.  She passed away after a 2 year battle with cancer.  She loved creating cards and we hope you and others will create a "From the Heart" card in her honor.  Please share with other card makers.

Thank you,

Sandy and the CIE Designers