Melissa Frances

Pretty Amazing

(Supply List: Patterned paper - Kraft Damask (PA392), Newsprint (PA379), Green Honeycomb (PA389) • Attic Treasures Sticker Banners (GN561) • Crepe Paper (GN303) • Resin Accents: With All my Heart (CX835) • White pom pom trim (GN532) • Other, non Melissa Frances supplies: From My favorite things stamps - Vertical Greetings II Die-namics and Stamp Set, Large Royal Rose Die-namics, Royal Rose Die-namics, 3/8" Rosette Die-namics, Mini Monarch Border Die-namics • White cardstock, ink)

Today's pretty layout is courtesy of design team member Sherrie Siemens. Here are her comments on it:

It has been a while since I have done a layout. One of the many perks of my photography hobby is that I now have more photos to choose from for doing a little scrapbooking! This is my daughter, Marie, sitting with a fresh coffee that I made her and letting me snap a photo of her looking out the window.

I combined one of the new and upcoming releases from My Favorite Things "Vertical Greetings II" set with some other previously released Die-namics and Melissa Frances C'est la Vie and Attic Treasures Volume 3 products.

All the flowers were made using Melissa Frances patterned paper and crepe paper and Die-namics rolled dies. The pleated paper border along the bottom was also made with a "Rosette Die-namics" that I didn't roll into a rosette.

Bless your nest

(Supply list: patterned paper: First Class mail (PA395) • Cream/White Tissue paper garland (GN466) • Cream Sprig (GN507) • Crepe paper (GN303) • Other, non Melissa Frances supplies: Stamps by My Favorite things: Inspired by Birds • Dies by My Favorite things: Mini rolled roses, First place ribbon • Ink: Vintage photo distress ink • Copic markers - read below for the colors)

This beautiful card comes to us from design team member Sherrie Siemens. She made this card for a My Favorite Things sketch challenge and we love how the products from My Favorite Things look great with our papers and embellishments.

The vintage look of the stamp set looks great with our Attic Treasures Vol. 3 products :) Sherrie added some of the paper fringe to the bottom of the card and swiped it with her vintage photo distress ink pad to give it a bit of age.

She colored up the sweet birds on the card with her Copic markers. BG70's and E51,35 for the birds and the E80's family for the nest.

Thanks Sherrie!

Melissa Frances in Orlando

We invite you to meet the Melissa Frances team at the Orlando SCRAPBOOK EXPO...May 18 & 19. As usual, we will be offering several awesome classes being taught during the event, so be sure to register! Visit the event website  for more details!

Mother's Day card

(Supply List: Patterned paper - Esther (PA198), Simone (PA329) • Attic Treasures Die Cuts (GN563) •Lace: Beige Ribbon Collection (GN302) • White Mini Roses (GN510) • Black Ice Brooch (BR008) • Elegance Frame (CX814) • non Melissa Frances supplies: ink, silhouette rub on)

As Mother's Day draws close, we have a beautiful card from design team member Rachel McAffee to share with you. Rachel used the Black Ice Brooch as an accent to her bow, but the cool thing is how the recipient can remove it from the greeting card and wear it after receiving the card. Don't ya love when your card contains a bonus gift!

A reminder...

Today marks the fitst day of the Great Lakes Mega Meet where Melissa will be teaching workshops and our team will be manning a retail booth. Please read this post for more details.

Set of Four Greeting Cards

Today we have some delightful cards to share with you from Tanya Privalova. Some of these cards use our older collections which many might still have in their stash.

Thank you for sharing your creativity with us and our readers Tanya! 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

Come see us in Michigan

We invite you to join us in Michigan for the Great Lakes Mega Meet. Our team will have a retail booth set up and Melissa Frances will be teaching some great workshops, like this one, this one, or this one, and this one. And that's just Thursday's schedule. The same workshops run all weekend.

If you've never been to a scrapbook convention, the Mega Meet is one of the largest in the USA, so it is a great one to attend. As an added bonus, the booths are all juried, meaning that the organizer has reviewed the booth contents of each seller so that each manufacturer is represented only once in order to ensure that there is a great variety of products being offered to event attendees.

We hope to see many of our blog readers there!

Messy Hairdo - 5 lines combined!

We received this project from Filipino designer Wendy Kwok and were in love with the way she combined 5 of our Melissa Frances collections to make this beautiful layout.

When we design our paper collections we keep in mind that we want them to mix and match thereby giving more design options, but this layout truly puts our goal to the test! Here, Wendy combines papers from the Attic Treasures Vol.3, Vintage Posey, C'est la Vie, 5th Avenue, and original Attic Treasures Collections.

Wendy shared: My fave part of this layout is the layering of papers which shows how well the range of papers goes together

Thanks for sharing your creativity, and how the Melissa Frances papers can be mixed, with us today Wendy!

Do yourself (and your loved ones) a favor

Count your Blessings

(Supply List: Patterned paper - Hydrangeas (PA386) • C'est la Vie Sticker Book (GN543) • Resin Frame: Chiswick Frame - Medium (CX694) • Tissue Paper Garland in Cream and White (GN466) • C'est la Vie Vintage Stickers (GN544) • Light Pink Sprig (GN506) • Green satin flower with rhinestone detail - sold out, however, it is still available in pink, blue, and white • Stately Applique Set (CX812) • White Mica (GN285))

Veteran design team member Melissa Phillips has this pretty heart project to share with us today. She always makes such pretty shabby chic things with our product line and this sweet heart is just beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration Melissa!