Melissa Frances: CHA Winter - Collection #2: Glamour & Grunge

As our team makes the trek down to Anaheim for the Craft & Hobby Association trade show, we are thrilled to share our second new collection debuting in 2014 with you.

Meet Melissa's second signature designer Sarolt Borbély. Sarolt is a talented designer from Hungary, and we are thrilled to be producing her first physical paper collection.

"The collection Glamour & Grunge is about a bouquet of yellow roses, freshly ironed linen, ivory brocades and laces on burlap table runners, cappuccino with cinnamon and warm whipped milk, with golden stains of coffee on some parchment papers, it's about faded rose blossoms and textured papers, ink bottles and pearls turned yellow, treasury boxes with kitschy gems and cut-outs from old newspapers with news long forgotten. Objects with souls whisper and are witnesses of times gone by. When crafting with Glamour & Grunge, these designs share your passion and have moments of joy -- so love, and tell it with your most wonderful crafts!"

This collection comes with matching tags, treat bags, washi stickers and mini album.

Here is the collection in action:

Layout by: Carolyn Peeler

Finally, as Sarolt is new to the paper crafting community, we thought you'd like to learn more about this talented designer.

Here is an introduction directly from Sarolt:

I grew up in a big family in a small town in Hungary, which is in the heart of Europe. I had a great childhood and as far as I can remember, always loved to design – being creative must be in my genes, as one of my ancestors was a famous Hungarian painter and in my family we all have some artistic touches in one way or other.

When I was 12, our whole family moved to Germany for 5 years and at the age of 17, I went as an exchange student for a big adventure to Tucson, Arizona. A couple of years later I also spent half a year in Denmark with the Erasmus scholarship for university students.

Thanks to those years abroad, I’m a very open-minded personality and I had a hard time to decide a profession. I have degrees in both landscape architechture and law and currently work in the government, in the department for spatial planning.

I have been married to my husband since 2006. And we are very blessed to have 3 little imps to take care of, 2 boys and finally a little girl, born in 2009, 2010 and 2012. They are still very little and my hands are full.

In order to balance my more acedemic work with my creativity, I opened my etsy shop “Bitmap” where I offer scrapbooking supplies with a vintage flair. I just love to design, which I do mostly at nights. I'm very happy now that I have the opportunity to reach so many of you crafty folks through my collection Glamour & Grunge, and I'm very grateful to Melissa Frances, who made my dreams come true!

Sarolt, we are happy to have you as a part of the Melissa Frances family!

If you will be at CHA, come by to see the collection in person at booth #1220. And, if you like the collection, please be sure to let your local store know that you'd like them to bring it in.