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

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. 

September Inspired by... winners

What amazing inspiration you all found from our September Inspired by...challenge! Apologies in the delay of this post as our blogging platform has been having issues with uploading images but its seems to have gotten its problems sorted now. So finally we are here to say congrats to Josie Teh, you are the winner of Septembers Inspired by...challenge!

Josie Teh

And here are our wonderful runner ups....

elisabetta  

JayTeeZeHang  

KarenB  

Thanks you everyone for playing along and don't forget to join in our October colour challenge due by October 19th.  

September inspired by..... Challenge

How fun is this months Inspired by... image! Kim Jeffress asked if she could choose the inspiration piece and she chose well! This piece is so fun, from the graphics, to the colour palette, to the travel inspiration.. there are so many directions you can go can with this and we can't wait to see which way you choose! 

Here is how Kim was inspired.. 

So show us how Kims inspiration piece inspires you! Link your layout here by October 2nd and you could win an American Crafts Shimelle prize pack.. how perfect is this inspiration piece for that collection! 

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 October 2nd 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 September Inspired by... Challenge" somewhere in the post. 

Kim used: 

BasicGrey Kelly Purkey Second City Printed Alphas

BasicGrey Kelly Purkey Second City Title Stickers

BasicGrey Kelly Purkey Second City Frames

BasicGrey Kelly Purkey Second City Paper Kedzie

Chic Tags Cloud 9 Label Stickers

Chic Tags Cloud 9 Clips

Winner ~ August Inspired by...

We have a winner! This wasn't an easy challenge but you guys really created amazing things! It is so neat how Robin Williams inspired different things in you. Congrats to Elisabetta! She is our winner for this months Inspired by... challenge. Love the monochromatic and the feeling her layout gives.

elisabetta 

And here are our runner ups... so much amazingness brought to our challenge! 

KarenB  

jò in wonderland 

padni  

Make sure you check out Septembers colour challenge! Elisabetta please send us an email to info@meilipaperie.com and let us know where we can send your address. 

August Inspired by... Challenge

Our Inspired by... challenge is really about finding inspiration from so many different things, and in choosing what we will post as the next challenges inspiration I always consider all different sources. In light of last weeks sad news of Robin Williams passing I knew finding inspiration from him and all that he was and did was the perfect source. This past week has really shone light on how loved and inspiring he was to so many people. I chose a fun photo of him that has a lot of feeling and fun graphics. I also included one of his many inspiring quotes from him.  You can take inspiration from the elements of the photo itself or find inspiration in something he did or said. Our August guest designer Lucia Barbas was beautifully inspired... 

Hey everyone! Here's my page for the "Inspired by... challenge". I love EVERYTHING about it. The fact that we can remember Robin Williams even like this, the photo of him :), the quote, the black and white collage.

I got inspiration from the overall look of the collage - B&W photo and the quote written in big  capital letters. So I've decided to do the same for my page. I stamped one of my favourite quotes of his (I've used clear stamp set from Amy Buttler) on a piece of paper, cut every word out and glued them on my page. I then machine stitched the words and added a photo I took this past spring when we went for a walk in a forest with my brothers - and added some layering. Pretty simple, yet quite inspiring :)

 So shows us how Robin Williams inspired you! Link your layout here by August 31st and you could win an American Crafts Shimelle 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 August 31st 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 July Inspired by... Challenge" somewhere in the post. 

Winner ~ July Inspired by...

Let me just start by saying you ladies rocked the triangles! Thanks so much for joining us! Congrats to this months Inspired by... winner Katie Smith! Such a great card!

Thanks to everyone else for playing along! We loved seeing what you did with triangles! Here are this months featured projects. 

JayTeeZeHang 

Jade 

Phei Low 

Make sure you check out our August colour challenge and play along for a chance to win a great prize! Katie please email us at info@meilipaperie.com to let us know where we can send your prize. 

July Inspired by...Challenge

I can't wait to see how you guys take on this months Inspired by... challenge. This is another I have sitting in my scrapping inspiration pile and haven't had a chance to challenge myself to yet.. let's see you guys go first, inspire me! 

We had our guest designer Eunyoung Lee play along and here is what she had to say.. I love how she translates inspiration in her head to fun little stories! 

Hi, Mei Li Paperie fans... Eunyoung here with inspiration piece.  

When I saw this inspiration piece, I wanted to blow on these colorful triangles and I imaged the little triangles flying in all directions. 

These flying little triangles made me fun, happy & excited just like festive mood.

So shows us how this inspired you! Link your layout here by July 30th and you could win a prize pack from Basic Grey including their new Grand Bazaar collection!

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 July 30th 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 July Inspired by... Challenge" somewhere in the post. 

Supplies Eunyoung used:

My Mind's Eye Ashbury Heights Paper Wallpaper	Fancy Pants Coral Corrugate Paper	My Mind's Eye Nob Hill Decorative Buttons - Mei Li Paperie	Fancy Pants Burlap and Bouquets Small Decorative Tags - Mei Li Paperie
Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mustard	Textured 12x12 Cardstock White	Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mint Green

InLinkz.com

Winner~ June Inspired by...

Surprise! Welcome to our new blog! We have been working on quite a few changes around the site.. some you may have noticed already.

I want to apologize for the confusion that switching blog platforms has caused. I am tediously working to repost all the older posts.. unfortunately there is no easy way to do this and requires a few hours of copy and paste ha ha! So in the meantime some older posts may be missing if you are looking for them.. but will be posted soon.

With all the nerd work I have been doing lately I totally missed posting the winners for the June Inspired by... challenge.. sigh sorry. So without further ado here are the fantabulous winner and runner ups!!

Congrats to Evelyn La Fleur she entered this beautiful layout and was selected as the winner.

We totally loved all the entires. They were all so amazing! Thanks for playing with us! 

Jo in Wonderland

Damaris V.

Jo in Wonderland

Make sure you check out our July Colour Challenge and play along for a chance to win a great prize.  Evelyn please email us at info@meilipaperie.com to let us know where we can send your prize. 

June Inspired by... challenge

It's time for our second inspired by... challenge! We love all the entries that came in for our first one, it was so fun to see all the different ways you were inspired. In case you missed it before,  this challenge we will post things that can inspire you in many ways, could be an image, a song, a video clip... whatever we think might be inspirational.  You can take what you want from it and get creative! 

Here is the inspiration piece... I have had this one pinned for a while keeping it as inspiration for myself but have yet to use it.. so lets see how you use it. 

Our guest designer Sharmaine found inspiration in the different patterns and scribbles around the photo. She created this fun layout. 

So shows us how this inspired you! Link your layout here by June 30th and you could win a Fancy Pants Burlap & Bouquet prize pack including this awesome gold heart brag book!

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 June 30th at 11:55pm Hong Kong time. 

- Link your creation below by entering a link to your blog post or online gallery sharing your work. PPS 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 June Inspired by Challenge" somewhere in the post. 

May inspired by...

Earlier this month we mentioned that we will be holding 2 challenges every month and I know many of you were curious as to what our second challenge might be. Well here it is... we wanted our second challenge to be a bit different from the many other challenges that you can find around. We have called it the " Inspired by..." challenge. For this challenge we will post things that can inspire you in many ways, could be an image, a song, a video clip... whatever we think might be inspirational.  You can take what you want from it and get creative! Here is your inspiration for May.... 

Image Source

Our guest designer Josie Teh was inspired by it in many ways. Here is what she created with her inspiration....

Josie:  "I did a layout using pictures from my travel adventures around the world. I was inspired by the colours in the image so I used grey & bright colours like red, yellow & blue in both my photos & embellishments. I used multiple photos on my layout as it reminds me of the hanging gondolas on the ferris wheel. Heidi Swapp Magic Chipboard alphas were the perfect addition to represent the lights on the ferris wheel and I inked these with gold ink. I also love the chipboard stickers from Pink Paislee Hello Sunshine Collection."  

I love all the different ways Josie reflected the inspiration piece in her layout! Her photos of her travels are truly amazing and fit so perfectly with the quote.

After some feedback from our fans regarding our last challenge we decided to run this challenge a bit differently...  the winner of the prize will be randomly drawn but we will also vote on our top 3 favourite projects to be featured on the blog as well. So show us how you were inspired by....

Link your layout here by May 30th and you could win a Heidi Swapp 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 May 30th at 11:55pm Hong Kong time. 

- Link your creation below by entering a link to your blog post or online gallery sharing your work.

- 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 May colour Challenge" somewhere in the post. 

Materials Josie used for her layout available in our shop: 

Heidi Swapp Color Magic Chipboard Alphas

Pink Paislee Pen Pals Chipboard Alphabet

Pink Paislee Hello Sunshine Chipboard Sticker Set

Dear Lizzy Daydreamer Wood Epoxy Buttons

LilyBee Design Destination 12x12 Letter Stickers

BasicGrey Micro Mono Alpha Stickers Grey

BasicGrey Micro Mono Alpha Stickers Black

Studio Calico Essentials Wood Veneer Stars