December Inspired by... Challenge with Evelyn Wolff

Hey Mei Li Paperie fans,

I hope you guys had a wonderful Christmas. Today I am here with my page for the Inspired by… Challenge.

I was really inspired by the white snowy background and all the colors of the Christmas ornaments.

And of course I love the gold! I combined some papers with a pocket made of the beautiful gold vellum.

So lets get started on those wonderful Christmas photos and show us how Evelyns fabulous inspiration inspires you! We will run this challenge into January this time due to the hecticness of the season.  Show us your inspired piece and you could win a Gossamer Blue prize pack! 

Here is how to play along:
- You can submit ANY kind of project that you were inspired to create such as layouts, cards, project life fillers
- The winner of the prize will be randomly drawn and our 3 favourite layouts be featured on the blog.
- Our challenge will run until January 16th at 11:55pm Hong Kong time.
- Link your creation below by entering a link to your blog post or online gallery sharing your work.  Our InLinkz now has the ability to link your project from Instagram! so you can just snap a photo of your project and link while you share it on instagram.. so cool!
- Please no back-linking.  This is for newly created projects only.  Any back-links will be be disqualified. 

- If you don't have a blog or online gallery, alternatively you can post a photo of your work on our facebook page. Please make sure you include " Mei Li Inspired by...challenge" somewhere in the post.

Evelyn used:

Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Open Book Gold Foil Vellum Stripes

Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Open Book Paper Portrait

BasicGrey Aurora Paper Cancer

BasicGrey Aurora Paper Leo Minor

BasicGrey Aurora Title Stickers

BasicGrey Aurora Alpha Stickers

BasicGrey Aurora Printed Chipboard Alpha

Echo Park Creative Agenda Flair Buttons

DIY easy shaker cards with Evelyn Wolff

Hi everyone, Evelyn here and today I am going to share with you how to make some easy-peasy shaker cards.

For my cards I used the My Mind’s Eye Just Sayin’ transparent sheets and some of the beautiful papers from this collection.

For the shaker element  you need foam tape or pads. And of course you need some sequins or glitter or whatever you would like to use.

The transparent sheets are perfect because the phrases are so nice to use on cards.

I’ve cut out a frame with one of my dies. You could use every shape you’d like or you have at hand.

You need to glue down the transparent sheet on the backside of the frame. I always use double sided tape for this.

And then you need to put the foam tape on it and you have to be careful because you need to make sure that there are no gaps.

One more piece of paper for the backside and of course don’t forget to fill the shaker box.

Your shaker box is now ready to create a card with it.

I hope you enjoyed my small tutorial and I can’t wait to see what you’ll create! Have fun!

Materials used available at Mei Li Paperie:

My Mind's Eye Just Sayin' Transparency Frames

My Mind's Eye Just Sayin' 6x6 Paper Pad

My Mind's Eye Just Sayin' Paper Posies

My Mind's Eye Just Sayin' Paper Beauty

My Mind's Eye Just Sayin' Paper Garden Party

December Colour Challenge

Hi Mei Li Paperie Fans,

This is Evelyn here today with the December color challenge. I had a lot of fun to create this layout with the beautiful color palette and the goodies from the Mei Li Paperie shop.

When I first saw the color palette I knew that I need to use the papers from Maggie Holmes Open Book collection together with these photos.

They are from our pre wedding photo shoot and I love them because we had so much fun together. And they fit the color scheme perfectly.

I’ve decided to go with blue and orange as my main colors on the layout. I love the result with this contrast.

It was so fun working with the color palette and I can’t wait to see what you choose for the Inspired by Challenge!

We can't wait to see what you create either! Show us how you are inspired by this image and share it here. You could win a My Mind's Eye prize pack full of Just Sayin collection goodies!

Here is how to play along:
- You can submit ANY kind of project that you were inspired to create such as layouts, cards, project life fillers
- The winner of the prize will be randomly drawn and our 3 favourite layouts be featured on the blog.
- Our challenge will run until December 18th at 11:55pm Hong Kong time.
- Link your creation below by entering a link to your blog post or online gallery sharing your work.  Our InLinkz now has the ability to link your project from Instagram! so you can just snap a photo of your project and link while you share it on instagram.. so cool!
- Please no back-linking.  This is for newly created projects only.  Any back-links will be be disqualified. 

- If you don't have a blog or online gallery, alternatively you can post a photo of your work on our facebook page. Please make sure you include " Mei Li Colour Challenge" somewhere in the post.

What Evelyn used: 

Textured 12x12 Cardstock White

Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Open Book Paper Full Heart

Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Open Book Paper Pages

Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Open Book Paper Memento

Echo Park Creative Agenda Flair Buttons

Introducing our December guest Evelyn Wolff!

Do you all have your advent calendars ready? Its December 1st today! How fast did the end of the year sneak up? We have our new guest designer to introduce today but first I wanted to quickly mention our quiet blog over the month of November.
We want to thank all those who sent lovely messages wondering where we went and why we weren't posting. November proved pretty hectic for as we were side tracked with health issues and an international move between the two of us. We made sure that our limited time last month was allocated to getting your orders out and responding to your emails quick. We are now back in the blogging seat again and will resume our usual challenge and blogging schedule from here forward. We want to thank you all for your patience and understanding all last month.

With that said lets get on to all the excitement December holds starting with our wonderful fabulous guest designer Evelyn Wolff aka evelynlafleur! Here she is! We can't wait to see what she will create with us.

Hi everyone,

My name is Evelyn (evelynlafleur is used in galleries) and I live in Germany with my amazing husband and our furbaby.

I’ve started scrapbooking in 2012 because I love the idea of documenting all the special and even the everyday moments in our life.

When I’m not scrapbooking you could find me watching one of my favorite tv series with a big cup of hot white chocolate and my cat on the lap.

My non creative self is working as an accountant for an international trading company.

I’m beyond excited to be guest designing here at wonderful MeiLi Paperie.

My blog called Zauberhafte Welt: http://evelynlafleur.blogspot.de

Instagram: http://instagram.com/evelynlafleur

October Colour challenge winners

We challenged you with a bit of a tricky colour challenge and you all responded with wonderful layouts! They were so fun to look through. Congrats to KarenB  you are our winner this month!

Congrats to our runner ups! 

giorgia rossini 

 laury55  

JayTeeZeHang

                            

Want to join us in one of our challenges? There is still lots of time to get created for our October Inspired by... challenge. Check it out here. 

October Inspired by... Challenge

It's time for another Inspired by...challenge and I know I say that I am excited about this months inspiration every month... I think this one is truly my favourite so far! I can't wait to see how you all are inspired by it!

Here is how our guest designer Caylee Grey was inspired... I love that she was inspired to do a page in her art journal!

Show us how you are inspired by this image and share it here. You could win a Heidi Swapp prize pack full of some of her latest project life goodies. 

Here is how to play along: 

- You can submit ANY kind of project that you were inspired to create such as layouts, cards, project life fillers

- The winner of the prize will be randomly drawn and our 3 favourite layouts be featured on the blog. 

- Our challenge will run until November 4th at 11:55pm Hong Kong time. 

- Link your creation below by entering a link to your blog post or online gallery sharing your work.  Our InLinkz now has the ability to link your project from Instagram! so you can just snap a photo of your project and link while you share it on instagram.. so cool! 

- Please no back-linking.  This is for newly created projects only.  Any back-links will be be disqualified. 

- If you don't have a blog or online gallery, alternatively you can post a photo of your work on our facebook page. Please make sure you include " Mei Li Inspired by... Challenge" somewhere in the post. 

Webster's Pages Color Crush Planners - Pre Order + FREE Worldwide Shipping!

Its that time of year again! Time to start planning how you will keep organized in the new year. Its really fun that the scrapbooking industry has begun to reached into this aspect of life because some really cool planners and organizational kits are starting to emerge, inspiring even the most unorganized of us. Webster's Pages has done just that, releasing Color Crush Personal Planners, a fab collection of planners and kits ready to make your day beautiful. You can buy the planners as beautiful colour coordinated kits or mix it up and buy them separate to make it more personal. They have thought of everything and also have matching craftmate folios to help keep your goodies organized as well! 

We are excited to be stocking this collection at Mei Li and now for a limited time we are offering the option to pre order. Better yet, we are giving you FREE shipping worldwide on all pre orders! How awesome is that?