Melissa Frances

Memorial Day Thanks Card by Debbie

Hello Melissa Frances friends!  Debbie with you today sharing a thank you card featuring Melissa Frances Chipboard and Resin Super Stars. These embellishments are a perfect way to create a patriotic card and to say Thanks.  

Altering the chipboard frame is super simple. 

I started out by coloring it with a dauber and distress ink.  Apply as many coats as you like until you get your desired color.  When your finished adding color apply a thin coat of Art Anthology Sorbet in Linen.

Add adhesive and adhere to you patterned paper.

Adhere your background paper to your card base.

Adhere your chipboard to your card.

Add all your embellishments and your finished!

Thanks for stopping by Melissa's blog today!  Be sure to stop by the Melissa Frances Store, you'll find so many treasures there for decorating your home or your scrapbook pages!

Debbie

Faith Card by Emeline

Hi everyone.

Emeline here today to share with you a card showcasing Melissa Frances pattern papers, white resins and wooden chipboard.

Wooden embellishment was painted with a layer of gesso followed by acrylic white paint. Upon drying, I smeared a layer of glittery stickle. Quick way to glam up the wooden chipboard.

I distressed the edges with the help of distress ink and it looked perfect in the beautiful background of pattern papers and white resin.

"Make a wish" by Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It's Anna here with my newest project with Melissa Frances goodies. Today I want to show You round canvas created with this fun numbers strip. Since I got my parcel I knew what I will do with this wood veneer. It was perfect for highlighting some "number" occasion like birthday.

I am not a big fan of vintage look. I am rather a "bright colors girl". So I painted my strip with gesso and after that I applied acrylic paints to create a colorful, pastel background.

It was a perfect base for my composition of three photos. I added few cute embellishments here and there to create a party mood. I also added baloons.

I also used this wooden crown and placed it on the head of the real queen :) I also painted it with pink acrylic paint.

As You can see, wood veneers look percect not only in vintage / shabby projects. You can alter them with so many products like paints, mists, embossing powders.

I hope You like my canvas. Thank You for stopping by and see You in june.

Anna

Serendipity Layout By Debbie

Hello Melissa Frances friends! Debbie with you today sharing a layout using some Melissa Frances Chipboard and wooden embellishments.      The title of my layout is Serendipity,it means to find something good without looking for it.  

I started this layout by adding modeling paste to a stencil to create my background.

Allow the paste to dry and give the stenciling a quick spritz with a mist of your choice.

 Adhere your photo matting to the background. I distressed and inked mine, but this is optional.

Adhere your photos to the matting.  Add your title.

To give the wooden pieces and chipboard frame some color , simply use your favorite inks and a dauber to color them.

I cut the frame into 4 pieces so that I could tuck them under the matting.

Adhere all your pieces to your layout as shown.  Add a few splatters with a contrasting color.

Your layout is finished!

I hope you will some of these techniques a try and be sure to stop by Melissa Frances Store, she has so many beautiful products to offer for scrap booking, card making, decorating the home, wedding decor, and so much more!  Thanks for stopping by the Melissa Frances blog today! 

Debbie

Shabby Chic Hangar

Hi all, 

This is Emeline

Melissa Frances just about manufactures the most beautiful shabby chic elements. Just take a look at the gorgeous white resins and its beautifully designed pattern papers. 

On my project, I used pastel pink and turquoise pattern paper as my backing and created a mini shadow box with the help of a small canvas. Simply flip the small canvas (measuring 2.5"x2.5") and attach the resins. The layered resins acts as a "stopper" so that you can place little notes and mini letters (all rolled up in good old vintage way).

The vintage inspired hangar is a fantastic final touch to this decorative piece.
Hope you'll manage to find some time being crafty this week!

Secret Garden Shadowbox by Kathy

Hi crafty friends! Kathy here to share my little garden shadowbox.  With summer right around the corner, I wanted to create a project with beautiful southern gardens in mind.  I love the patinas that I see in the southern gardens in Charleston, SC and I think I captured that charm by pairing Melissa Frances Metal Flea Market Find Appliques and wood embellishments with Art Anthology mediums.

Secret Garden

Supplies

8" x 8" Wood Panel

Flea Market Finds Imperial Metal Applique

Wood Veneer Embellishments

Pink Delicate Blooms

Art Anthology Stone Effects in Sandstone, Bone and Brick

Art Anthology Cotton Velvet

Art Anthology Colorations Sprays in:

Sandcastle

French Toast

Silk Tie

Raider

Waimea Bay

Grass

Salmon

Barbie

Wild Orchid

Distress Picket Fence Crackle Paint

Brick Stencil

Moss and Flowers

Tutorial

I started with the back of an 8" x 8" wood panel to create the shadowbox effect. For the brick, mix Art Anthology Stone Effects in Bone and Sandstone with a touch of Brick and apply through the brick stencil inside the wood frame.  Set aside to dry.

Add a coat of Art Anthology Cotton Velvet to the wood fence and birdhouse embellishments

 and let dry.

Add Distress Picket Fence Crackle Paint to both and let dry.  Apply thick coat for larger cracks or thin coat for smaller cracks.

For the Imperial Metal Appliques, add a coat of gesso and let dry.  Apply the Crackle Paint randomly on the Appliques and let dry.

To bring out the cracks, spray Art Anthology Sandcastle Colorations Spray onto the fence.  Let the Spray sit for a few minutes on the surface so that it seeps into the cracks.  Wipe off the excess spray.

For the Appliques, spray liberally with French Toast Colorations Spray, which is a bit darker than Sandcastle.  I let the spray sit on the surface overnight because I wanted a heavily distressed look.

The bird embellishment will make several appearances before I finally settle on what I want him to look like. One advantage to using wood embellishments over chipboard is that they don't get soggy when repeatedly applying layers of wet media.

I added Raider Colorations Spray to the Appliques because they needed more contrast against the frame.  Everything was looking too similar in color. 

I love how they ended up looking like weathered iron, which is exacting what I wanted.  I sanded some of the raised areas lightly to reveal a bit of the silver underneath.

Using a small paint brush, apply Silk Tie Colorations Spray and Marlin to the birdhouse embellishment.  Wipe the excess spray away with a baby wipe.  

Apply Grass Colorations Spray to the flourishes.  This ends up being very subtle.  

For the large bird, I finally decided to use Art Anthology Cotton Velvet, which has a matte finish. I only had a small amount left and it was very gooey, which made the perfect texture.

I added a bit of Waimea Bay and Sandcastle Colorations Spray to the bird and let it dry.  A little black dot for the eye and he was done.  

Back to the wood panel; To create a whitewashed look, I painted the frame and sides with a mixture of gesso and water and wiped it away.  I did this several times until I got the right shade.

I decided to add brick to three sides of the frame. So I mixed up the Stone Effects again applied it through the brick stencil and let everything dry. Speed up this process by using a heat tool. 

Time to assemble everything.  The appliques have holes so I used tacks to adhere them as shown.

I glued the birdhouse to the center of the panel.

I gathered flowers and sprayed them with Salmon, Wild Orchid and Barbie Colorations Spray and used a heat tool to dry them.  A bit of Stickles and some gold paint on the edges finishes them off. 

 Moss seemed like the perfect backdrop for the flowers. I glued it all down and nailed the fence to the front. An orange flower was the perfect embellishment for the top of the frame.

My Secret Garden is ready for summer! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thank you for visiting the blog today! 

Kathy Adams

Visit Kathy's blog at: http://kathyadamsmixedupart.blogspot.com/

See Kathy's art work on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/katluvsdogs/my-art/

Secret Garden Shadowbox by Kathy

Hi crafty friends! Kathy here to share my little garden shadowbox.  With summer right around the corner, I wanted to create a project with beautiful southern gardens in mind. Using Melissa Frances Metal Flea Market Find Appliques and wood embellishments made it easy.

Supplies

Tutorial

I started with the back of an 8" x 8" wood panel to create the shadowbox effect.  To create the brick, mix Art Anthology Stone Effects in Bone and Sandstone and a touch of Brick. 

Happy By Phyllis Fernandez

Hey Crafty peeps Phyllis here sharing a 12x12 Scrapbook layout page for my Design Team project using Melissa Frances resin,  wood and chipboard pieces.  

I love lots of texture,   Melissa Frances embellishments are perfect for any crafting project adding texture and dimension.  

I heat set some embossing powder to the film strip wood piece and then added Art Anthology dimensional paint for texture and color.

I painted Melissa Frances chipboard frame and word(Happy) with Art Anthology Gemstone Rhodolite dimensional paint and Velvet Wineberry dimensional paint.  

I used 4 of the Blossom Assortment Resin pieces for more texture!  I sprinkled them with Boysenberry spray.

So many possibilities using the wood and chipboard pieces!

I love how this layout turned out!  

Thank you for stopping by and I hope I've inspired you to create something beautiful today!

~Phyllis

Wedding Anniversary by Marta

Hello, today I would like to show you my 25th wedding anniversary card with box, which I made for a couple of a family friends.

For creating this set, I used romantic papers and all this beautiful embellishments from Melissa Frances. 

On the top of the box, I put a little wooden heart and champagne glasses. 

The composition is completed by GN595 - Pink Delicate Blossom Flowers and the stamens from GN596 - White Delicate Blossom Flowers. They fits perfect to flowers on the paper. Between that I put the one of CX868 - Blossom Assortment. 

The Card is made of the same little, cute and beautiful pink flowers, white stamens and heart wooden embellishment. All wooden pieces are painted of silver pearl paint. In the center, I add the word "Silver Anniversary and names of the couple. All in Polish. 

 The composition is made of  many layers. I add 3D foam between almost each embellishment. 

That's all what I prepared for today. 

Thank you for stopping by, and see you next time. 

Marta De. 

Flower Jars by Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It's Anna here. I have a question - how do You store flowers in Your craft space? I used to keep them in original packages but now I am just floaded with half empty foils. 

I decided that it's time to organize my flowers in some other way. I didn't want to spend money so I used some old jars from my kitchen. But let's be honest - they didn't look nice in my brand new scraproom.

I decided to uplift them a little using gorgeus Melissa Frances products. I am going to make separate jars for each color of flowers and today I want to show You first two jars - white and pink.

I will create another ones but first I have to eat my pickled cucumbers :)

 

 

 

I wanted to see through my jars so O only embellished the upper part of the jar.

The white jars is delicate and soft. I used wooden keys painted with white gesso. I also added a resin oval frame and beautiful, little flowers.

 

 

 

For my pink jar I added a little mixed media touch. It looks more messy than the white one. I also used wood veneers, like butterflies and a gorgeus inscription with tree "Inspire". I coloured all with pink paints and mists. My composition was filled with tiny flowers.

 

 

 

 

I am going to create few more jars. They look so pretty filled with matching flowers.

Thank You for stopping by.