Melissa Frances

Two layouts from Jill Cornell

We have shared beautiful projects from Jill Cornell in the past, and have two new layouts to share with you today. What I love about Jill's projects is how they use our shabby chic products in a clean and simple way. It really shows the versitility of our collections. This first, "Cake" Layout features our Kitshy Kitchen embellishments. There are just a few items from this collection left, so get them while we still have them in stock!



This second layout combines our Ledger Dot paper (PA394) with embellishments from 5th avenue along with our Green Glitter Alphabet. We love how fresh this layout feels. Beautiful job Jill!

It's that time again

Happy Birthday Card

Stella Schenkel who lives in the Netherlands sent us this adorable Birthday Card featuring our 5th Avenue Collection. The ballerina sticker, from the 5th Avenue Ephemera Sticker Sheet is a favorite around the office and so it's always nice to see it on a project! Thanks Stella!

If you have a project featuring Melissa Frances that you would like to share with us, we invite you to email it to us at blog@heartandhome.com

Crepe paper Flowers

We always love to receive emails with projects from papercrafters around the world who use our Melissa Frances product line. We are constantly amazed by the beautiful things they make from the products we design.

Today's inspirational cards stopped me in my tracks when I opened the email from their designer Irina Gerschuk, who lives in Russia. While we have always loved our Crepe Paper, but projects like these make us fall in love all over again!  Can you believe that the flowers on all these cards were made with our crepe paper along with something to anchor the center such as brads or buttons?! Gorgeous!! (Irina also added some floral sprigs on each flower too. You could get a similar look by using our Cream Sprigs.)

Irina says: Not long ago I made some projects using your gorgeous crepe parer. The texture and colours are just fantastic!

Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us Irina. Your flowers make me want to open a package of Crepe paper and start playing!



In addition to the crepe paper flowers, each of Irina's cards also uses discontinued Melissa Frances patterned papers.

Hello Beautiful card

We spotted this gorgeous card on the blog of Tammy Roberts and wanted to share it here as she does such an outstanding job with this feminine card featuring our Attic Treasures Vol. 3. and a slice of C'est la Vie paper on the bottom.

For the background, Tammy combined papers from the 6x6 Attic Treasures Vol. 3 paper pad and a pink paper from our C'est la Vie 6x6 pad.

Thanks for sharing your card with us Tammy.

I love this Memory

(Supply list: Patterned papers - Wreaths of Glory (PA396), First Class Mail (PA395), Hope Chest (PA391), Ledger Dot (PA394) • Attic Treasures Sticker Book (GN452) • Attic Treasures Sticker Banners (GN561) • Resin flowers - Architectual Molding Applique (CX822) • Other, non Melissa Frances supplies: white cardstock, ink, dies, stamps)

Today's project comes to us from design team member Steph Devlin. Here are her comments on this beautiful layout:

This photo of Madison was taken in a gorgeous little outfit of creams and feathers, lace and vintage materials.  I needed a color scheme that lent softness and femininity, while still retaining some bold hues to frame the photo.  Attic Treasures was a perfect fit !!!  The old worldly text and flower motifs were perfect for a vintage feel, and I loved the little pops of blue in the butterflies.  I also used Melissa's gorgeous white resin flower cluster to add interest and texture to the page, the pure white is such a gorgeous metaphor for Madison's age and innocence.

Love layout

As promised yesterday, today we have a second layout from Susan Lui to share with you.

Here is a little note about this project from Susan:

I went for a monochromatic look, layering white on cream on beige. The look is heavily layered with layers of circular patterned paper, doilies, lace, trims, muslin, crinkled seam binding, flowers, pearl flourishes and of course the lovely resin MF frame and butterflies. I layered the inside of the frame with differently textured lace and hung a LOVE key off of it.

Thanks for sharing your creativity with us and our readers Susan.

We love seeing what you're creating with our products! If you have a project you would like to share with our readers, please email us at blog@heartandhome.com and you could be featured on our blog!

Memories layout

Over the next two days we will have two layouts from Susan Lui to share with you. Like so many of scrapbookers in Singapore, Susan is brilliant in layering her page elements to build up detail and dimension.

Today's layout is called 'Memories' and here is Susan's feedback regarding it:

This layout uses the Attic Treasures collection in a cleaner style, although still lavishly layered. I scrapped a photo of myself from wayyyyy back when and chose the patterned papers with images of storybook drawings and layered these with doilies, punched borders, lace trims, pearls and an MF resin butterfly.

Here are a few more detail shots:



Be sure to check back tomorrow for the second layout from Susan.

Package Dress-up with Tissue Paper Garland and Glitter!

(Supply List: Patterned Paper -  C'est La Vie Blessings PA382, Green Argyle PA387, Attic Treasures Hope Chest PA391, Madonna Collage PA393, First Class Mail PA395 • Cardstock Stickers:  C'est La Vie Vintage Stickers GN544, C'est La Vie Sticker Book GN543, Attic Treasures Sticker Banners GN561 • Die-Cuts:  C'est La Vie Cardstock Die-Cuts GN547 • Pink & White Tissue Paper Garland GN465 • Her Majesty Resin Embellishment CX820, Stately Resin Embellishment CX812)

Today we have a wonderful tutorial for you from long time design team member Melissa Phillips. She says:

Currently my most favorite Melissa Frances product is the Tissue Paper Garland.  It has a way of making everything pretty and is so handy to have on hand.  I love to use it in home decor projects and also on gift packaging.  Today I'm sharing just a couple of ways I enjoy using it to dress up my packages. 





1.  Dress up a glassine bag by adhering a strip of Tissue Paper Garland across the top of the bag.  Embellish it even more with patterned paper, die cuts, cardstock stickers, resin embellishments, and buttons.







2.  Use a circular die cut and adhere the Tissue Paper Garland to the backside of the die and follow the curve.  This allows the garland to peek out from underneath the die and creates instant and easy frills to dress up your package. 

Another fun way to embellish your packaging is to add a touch of glitter.  For this project I outlined the cardstock stickers with Stickles Silver glitter glue.  It adds just a touch of shine and brings in a vintage feel to the already beautiful Melissa Frances products.





Let us know if you decide to try one of Melissa's ideas in the comments!

Wishes

This lovely card by Kristin Wilson looks like it belongs to the Attic Treasures family of products, but it was actually made using our 5th Avenue Collection of products. Kristen combined papers and tags from our product line with vintage and found embellishments and stamps.

Thanks for sharing with us Kristin!