Sunday, February 15, 2015

Inspiration Elevator

I was asked to return to celebrate Inspiration Elevator retiring. Of course I said yes! It was an honour to be a small part of such a creative group of ladies and I am happy to share one last time with them.

After some thought and consideration, the time has come to retire Inspiration Elevator. But before we go, we need to hold a big retirement party, so we've invited everyone who's been involved with Inspiration Elevator back for one last reveal, and to our delight most were able to accept! We are so delighted to have so many IE alumni along this month! Thank you to each of you for helping us end our elevator ride with so much fun and creative energy!
 
This month's challenge is posed by one of IE's co-creators and team admin, Ann.
This month's challenge is simple, but I hope, challenging as well. 
Here's the challenge: Inspiration Elevator launched on May 15, 2012 and at that time, we explained our purpose as, "Welcome to Inspiration Elevator! What a thrilling day! Today is the launch of Inspiration Elevator (IE), a challenge blog created by my dear friend Christa Uttley and me. We chose the name Inspiration Elevator because it is our intent to raise our creativity to heights through challenges issued every month. We want to raise our designs from the ordinary to the extraordinary. We hope you'll join us on our journey!



IE is a group of like minded scrappy friends who want to raise the bar in their own creative process through unique challenges that we issue to each other once a month. These won't be run of the mill challenges and we hope you'll join us each month and be inspired by the creative designs we've created." 
That vision has remained unchanged over the last (almost) 3 years. The challenge this month is to just create - no holds barred. Take some time, or challenge yourself to do it in 1/2 hour if time is tight, but think about what you'd like to create if there were no agenda, no design team requirement. In other words, create for you, and enjoy the process!

When given this challenge I thought there was no better way to say good bye to IE than to scrapbook a layout of a weekend spent crafting with friends. I love the "Hello Today" collection from Kaisercraft as it is ideal for everyday moments.

 
 I decided to use a couple of my favourite things on my layout:
wood veneer, a neutral colour palette, and my Dymo labeller.

This little speech bubble that says
"be in love with your life, every minute of it"
 pretty much sums up why I scrapbook.
 I want to remember the moments, big and small, of my life. 
 
We hope you'll take the time to hop through and visit each of our participant's blogs, beginning with our guests, then our current team, and finishing off with our co-founders. Feel free to leave comments and lavish each one with appreciation for all that they each brought to the Inspiration Elevator challenge over the last 3 years!
 
Thank you for stopping by and enjoy our hop!


Sunday, January 4, 2015

Stick it Down 2015

Looking for some inspiration to get 2015 off to a scrappy start? 
Check us out over on the SID blog
http://stickitdown.blogspot.ca/2015/01/january-sketch-challenge.html?m=1

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Stick it Down Design Team Call

Tuesday Sketch Challenge and a DT Call!

We are looking to add some talented ladies to our teams for our next term running July - Dec 2014.
We are also looking for sketch designers for our single page and card teams.

How do you apply?

You apply by playing along with the challenge below.  All you do is pick your favourite sketch and link up with us by May 26, 2014 at 8PM EST.

You will need to have the following:
1. an active blog
2. a facebook account (this is where the DT chats)
3. the time to comment on all submissions for your reveal

Anyone is welcome to apply! Please mention the DT call in your post and make sure you link back to us!
Good luck!

Now onto our challenge!


This is the first time there has been a fifth Tuesday since the beginning of our challenge blog. As such, we have a really fun challenge for you this week!

We are asking you to go back and pick the sketch that you wanted to play along with and ran out of time or life just got in the way of your scrappy time!

Find all you need HERE