Melissa Frances

A gorgeous wedding album

We always love seeing the projects our Melissa Frances customers around the world are making with our paper collections. Today, we are pleased to share with you an amazing wedding album from Russian scrapbooker Veda Bakalova.

She said:

I have been loving scrapbooking for four years now and all four years the paper of Melissa Frances has been my favorite. Each year, you surprise me and each new collection your launch inspires me more than the last! Thank you for the inspiration. I hope you will be interested in seeing the big wedding album I made ​​from your products. The finished album size  is 25 x 30 cm.

What we at Melissa Frances especially love about this project is how Veda combined papers from our "The Sweet Life", "Classic Elegance", "C'est la Vie", and "Attic Treasures" collections in her creation of this album. This is an example of how so many of our collections mix and match across their specific product lines!

Thank you Veda for sharing your creativity with us. Your album is absolutely BEAUTIFUL and we're sure it will look stunning with your photos added into it!

50th Birthday Card

We always love seeing how the Melissa Frances products are being used. Today's project share comes to us from Patty O'Malley who used the oldie but goodie "C'est la Vie" paper collection to craft this 50th birthday card. For her patterned paper Patty used "Hydrangeas" (PA386). With its beautiful taupe background with faint text with an overlay of purple/violet hydrangeas, it is a truly classic design.

Thank you for sharing with us and the Melissa Frances blog readers Patty!

Thank you - a little card inspiration

We love the awesome coloring techniques design team member Sherrie Siemens does with our resin products and today she's used her Copic markers to color some detail on "The Bird Collection" resin (CX831).

Sherrie says:

You can never have too many thank you cards on hand. This card was made with the C'est La Vie collection. The resin bird cage was colored with BG11 and RV95 &RV99 copic markers. I also created the little bouquet of flowers using Melissa Frances embellishments.

A birthday Layout

Over the years Jill Cornell has shared many beautiful scrapbook pages with us featuring our shabby-chic products and her adorable twin daughters. This is no exception! Jill says:

We had a tea party themed birthday for the girls 3rd birthday and this collection was perfect! And I couldn't resist the tea pot resin piece...so pretty!

Let's take a closer look at those tea pot resin pieces she mentions. I think they add a dash of whimsy to the layout. They come in a package with 4 pieces, 2 tea pots and 2 cupcakes. Pieces measure 1” x .9”, Set of 4

Jill uses our versatile Ledger Dot paper (PA394) as the base for her page and add stickers and die cuts from our C'est la Vie collection to bring color into the page.



Thanks Jill for sharing your creativity with us!

Thankful for being Together

As many of our customers from the USA get ready for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, we thought this would be great time to share this "Together" layout from design team member Emeline Seet.  She used our C'est la Vie Collection to create a beautiful layout to commemorate the relationship between her daughter and son.

We especially liked how Emeline used one of the hearts from the "with all my heart (CX835)" resin set as an accent at the left side of her garland. While these resin pieces can be colored (as seen in this video tutorial), they are also stunning when left in their natural, shabby-white finish.

Two additional projects from Russia

As we promised on Tuesday, here are two additional projects from the talented Russian paper crafter Alena Kobzar. Both of the projects she shared with us use paper from our retired C'est la Vie Collection. 

If you have a project that you'd like to share with our readers, we invite you to email it to us at: [email protected]

A few project shares from Russia

We love seeing what our customers make with our Melissa Frances product line, it truly makes our hearts happy. Several weeks ago, we received some beautiful project submissions from paper crafter Alena Kobzar from Russia. The projects we're sharing today feature papers from our 5th Avenue and C'est la Vie Collections.



Check back on Thursday for two more awesome projects from Alena!

Today Layout

Today's blog share comes to us from design team member Emeline Seet. Here's what she has to say about this gorgeous layout, which features our Attic Treasures and C'est la Vie patterned papers.

My layout "Today" was inspired by Melissa France's pattern papers (First Class Mail (PA395) & Hope Chest (PA391)) and Floppy Blossom Ribbon (GN 575). The ephemera collage on these pattern papers were truly gorgeous and I wanted to showcase and mix the motifs in a seamless manner. I used tissue tape to piece two segments from the individual pattern papers together.

I liked the idea of making my own bloom from Floppy Blossom Ribbon and made use of 8" of the ruffles to create one. Simply twirl it in a clockwise manner and affix the ends with liquid glue. Embellish with Melissa France's Pearls (GN297) and a piece of organza for texture. Typically, when I create with Melissa France's pattern papers, I use white and beige color as my "anchor" to enhance my layout. For me, this usually takes the form of white paper doilies or card stock.

I appreciate you card

(Supply List: Tissue Paper Garland GN465, Blessings Paper PA382, Kraft Damask Paper PA392, Attic Treasures Die Cut Sheet  GN563, Attic Treasures Sticker Book  GN452, C'est La Vie Sticker Book  GN543, Vintage Ephemera Kit GN337)

Today's blog share comes to us from the talented Danielle Hayes. Danielle met Melissa Frances years ago at one of the consumer shows and has been a big supporter of our line ever since!

Danielle used our C'est la Vie Collection as the backdrop for this card, and the pink and white tissue paper garland makes a really fun dimensional accent. While the pink is sold out, you can still find the blue/white and cream/white combinations available here in our shop.

If you have a project that you'd like to share with our readers, we invite you to email it to us at: [email protected] (Please note, this is a new email address as we'd been having problems with our previous server. Thank you.)

Hello Beautiful Tag

Our blog project today comes to us from design team member Rachel McAffee. She combined the new "Classic Elegance" tag and sticker, with items from our existing product line. The kraft paper background is actually one of our Printed Envelopes so this could easily serve as a great way to present gift cards or meaningful letters.

What have you been making lately?