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Do you have any fun creating plans for this weekend? If you're in PA, we hope you'll consider coming to the Scrapbook Expo show in Oaks and see us!

If you're going to be crafting at home, here is a beautiful wall decor piece by design team member Karin Aguirre to give you some inspiration. She took our House Backdrop piece and covered it with patterned paper from our "Classic Elegance" collection. Finally, a brooch, some trim and a saying are all she needed to pretty it up and finish it off!

Enjoy your weekend!

A Winter White Star

This beautiful Winter Star comes to us from design team member Anne Kristine.

Products from Melissa Frances: PA403 - Bits of Paper, GN604 - Christmas Character Die Cuts, WB001 - Old Fashioned Rope Tinsel, GN580 - Organza Pouf Ribbon – cream, CX864 Resin - Angels Among Us

Other: Feather, Seam binding ribbon, Sizzix Bigz L Die - Star Bright, 3-D

Here's a walk through the construction process for this project.

Picture 1 (Top left): Die cut the star in Patterned paper. Bend and distress the edges with Ranger Distress ink Pad in Walnut Stain.

Picture 2 (Top Right): Glue the star together and add ribbon and a bow on the top of the star

Picture 3 (Bottom Left): Glue a bit of tinsel under the bow.

Picture 4 (Bottom Right): Decorate the star with a feather, Organza ribbon and one of the angels from the set of 4. Put the 'belive' die cut from the Character Die Cut sheet onto the star.

And there you have it, and easy, beautiful Winter White Star!

Peace, Love and Joy layout

As we continue to get closer and closer to Christmas, we are delighted to continue our Christmas inspiration from our talented design team. Today's stricking layout is from Emeline Seet.

Here's a brief walk through the steps from Emeline:

 

1. Using the black and white newsprint side of PA404 - At First Blush, as background pattern paper, overlay with a smaller white cardstock.

2. Attach PA403 - Bits of Paper onto white cardstock and adhere photo.

3. Adhere a kraft envelope. I created dimension by propping a 3" Wreath Applique Resin (CX854) above a huge metal bottle cap and further embellish with a stamped sentiment, pearls and silver tinsel.

A Winter White House

Design team member Rachel McAffee decorated the Large Queen Ann House from our Do it Yourself house kit (WB033) using our Black and cream papers, which are the 'B' sides of the 12x12 papers in our "Classic Elegance" collection.

If you've never seen our Do it Yourself houses in action, here is a 3 part video from Melissa France's show "Timeless Creations with Melissa Frances", which airs on www.mycraftchannel.com:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

A Classic Elegance Tag

Earlier this year the Melissa Frances "Classic Elegance" 6x6 pad and Die Cuts were included with a purchase of one of the UK's paper craft publications, and Patty O'Malley wrote to share the tag she made using these products.

In addition to the Melissa Frances products, she also used some pearls and trims.

Did you know that you can purchase Melissa Frances products directly from the Melissa Frances website? There is both a retail and wholesale division to the website, so whether you are a store owner, or an end user, we can process your order directly on www.melissafrances.com!

No-Sew Shabby Pumpkins

(Supply List: All Melissa Frances supplies - Adopted Ancestors pattern paper, Filigree brooch, Floppy Blossom ribbon, Provincial applique, Jewel Buttons, 2 Layer Silk Ribbon, Tinsel • Non Melissa Frances supplies - Fabric, polyfill)

Today we have a sweet Fall project to share with you from our lovely design team member Rachel McAffee.

She has created an awesome tutorial that we are so happy to share with you! Here it is:

1. Cut out three 10"x 10" pieces of fabric in different colors and patterns.
   
2. Place a handful of polyfill in the center of each square.
3. Pull up the four ends of the square of fabric (pull them tight) and tie a ribbon around the top to secure it.
4. Embellish the pumpkins with floppy blossom ribbon, lace and trims.
5. Print out Halloween sentiments onto pattern paper and cut out into a tag shape. Ink around the edges for a distressed look.
6. Adorn pumpkins by attaching a brooch, jewel buttons and mini resin frames to each one.
7. Cut out photos of the Adopted Ancestor pattern paper sheet and glue to sticks. Cut out a small witch hat to add to the photo.

2 "Classic Elegance" project shares from Russia

Today we have two beautiful projects to share with you from Russian scrapbooker Tatiana. She shared the following lovely note with us:

I want to share with you my love to new collection "Classic Elegance". I have made a LO and a card using papers "At first blush", "Bits of paper", "Strictly business” and "Lost in a garden". Also I used some embellishments by Melissa Frances (adorable angels and fascinating crowns). I had a lot of fun using this new collection!

Thank you so much Tatiana. We always love to hear from paper crafters from all around the world who love and use our products!

If you have a project that you'd like to share with our readers, we invite you to email it to us at: blog@melissafrances.com

Melissa Frances workshop in San Diego this weekend

We are pleased to share that design team member Karin Aguirre will be teaching a workshop in San Diego this weekend!

Venue: Paper Tales ( 3960 W. Point Lama Boulevard Suite N. San Diego CA 92110).

Date: September 21, Saturday

Time: 4-7 pm

Cost: US$45

Email: papertales@cox.net

Contact: +1 619-222-2510

Description: Join Karin in this fun Melissa Frances mini-book class that was created for the Winter 2013 CHA Melissa Frances booth. Now that all the papers have arrived, she is ready to teach you how to make it! We will be using the new Melissa Frances paper line “Classic Elegance” as well as lots of embellishments, resin, tags and trims. We will even break out the paint to add some extra dimension to our project. Everything will be provided to make your own personal mini-book.

You bring: basic craft kit: scissor, adhesive (Beacon 3-in-1 is recommended and available for purchase at the store) and a pencil.

A chipboard "Classic Elegance" Mini Album

We hope you enjoyed your Labour Day weekend. We can hardly believe that it's already September...it seems like summer went by in a flash! As the kids start heading back to school, families get back into their 'normal' schedules and the weather turns cooler, it's the time of year when many paper crafters are able to devote more time to creating. We look forward to sharing the projects that our design team has been working on with you over the coming months. Be sure to join us for fun tutorials and amazing inspiration.

Today's featured project is a share from Claire @ Lemon Paper Designs. She uses our "Classic Elegance" collection to create this beautiful chipboard album. Be sure to click on the link to her blog to see more of her project on her personal blog.

If you have a project that you'd like to share with our readers, we invite you to email it to us at: blog@melissafrances.com.

Thank you card

We hope you had a great weekend. Our team was busy at the Tulsa, OK convention. It was nice to see all those who came by our booth.

We have a great card mad by design team member Evgenia Petzer to share with you today. She used our "Classic Elegance" Collection on this striking thank you card. Evgenia used one of the images from our Adopted Ancestors paper (PA408) as the focal point on her card. This is something that we've seen many of our design team members do, and is a great way to get a lot of mileage out of one sheet of paper: