Just Purple Badge Winners!

Purple is such a lovely color and we loved all the gorgeous cards featuring that royal color in our Just Purple card challenge!  All of the CIE Designers voted and the card with the most votes and earning our FIRST CLASS CARD honor is....

Congratulations!

#16 Carol S, First Class 

We loved these beautiful purple daisies with the green and that wonderful purple background too!

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

The CIE Designers then each picked their one personal favorite card from all the entries.  Here they are in no particular order...

#12 Diane H, In the Mailbox as Marilyn, Sherry & Donna's Personal Favorite

#4 Monika R, In the Mailbox as Lisa's Personal Favorite

#16, Carol S, In the Mailbox as Sybrina & Annie's Personal Favorite

#6 Colour & Sparkle, In the Mailbox as Kathy & Patricia's Personal Favorite

#5 Marianne V, In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite

#14 Kristie M, In the Mailbox as Wendi's Personal Favorite

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

Thank you to all of you for your wonderful purple cards!  We have a new challenge that's started--Flowers or Fantasy and hope you will all join us again!

~Sandy & the CIE Designers

Just Purple! Card Challenge

Click >HERE< for the Beautiful Butterflies Card Challenge Winners!

It's time for another card challenge on Cards in Envy!  There are many colors that makes one think of Spring but this time we are focusing on just one--PURPLE!  We challenge you to create a card that mostly showcases that beautiful color.  Your card may be any size or shape BUT it must be flat enough to fit in an envelope for mailing.

Our Cards in Envy Designers have gone out of their way to create beautiful PURPLE cards to inspire you! Please click on the blog link by each designers' name 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

We'd love to see your Just Purple card.  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 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 3,  2016 at 6:00 p.m. Central Daylight Savings Time.  

An InLinkz Link-up

Beautiful Butterflies Badge Winners!

Wow! The butterflies and the cards they were on are fabulous! So many pretty ones and creative cards! The votes have been tallied and we have our First Class card (the one with the most votes) and then we have our personal favorite picked by each designer.  First up is our First Class card....

Congratulations to # 2 Toni FHC!

First Class Card

Beautiful Butterflies Challenge

We love the unique butterfly balloons in these gorgeous colors!

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

The CIE designers then each picked their own personal favorite card from the challenge.  Here they are in no particular order.

#21 Rosina, In the Mailbox as Sherry & Marilyn's Personal Favorite

#15 Tammy A, In the Mailbox as Lisa & Wendi's Personal Favorite

#10 Dot L, In the Mailbox as Kathy, Donna, Sybrina & Annie's Personal Favorite

#4 Tony FHC, In the Mailbox as Patricia's Personal Favorite

#3 Carol S, In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite

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

We loved all the cards! And wish each could be a winner! We've started a new challenge on the blog for our "Just Purple" challenge.  We hope you'll join us again!

Thanks

~Sandy & the CIE Designers

Beautiful Butterflies Challenge

Click >HERE< for the badge winners of our Tickled Pink card challenge!

Hello and welcome to another Cards in Envy Card Challenge!  Everyone loves butterflies and they are so beautiful on cards. So beautiful that this time we challenge you to create a card showcasing BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLIES!

And to inspire you, our Cards in Envy designers have created a wonderful assortment of Beautiful Butterfly cards!  Please click on the blog link by each designers' name 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

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 Beautiful Butterflies card.  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 20,  2016 at 6:00 p.m. Central Time.  

An InLinkz Link-up

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