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A set of wee gift bags

Today we have a set of adorable gift bags from design team member Rachel McAffee to share with you. We'll let her take it away:

Today I'd like to show you a couple vintage inspired gift bags I made with the Melissa Frances Glamour and Grunge papers.

Using a gift bag template from bellesprintables.com, I placed the template on the paper, traced and cut it out. I then used my Xyron Mega Runner to adhere the bag together.



 I adhered pink crochet lace around each bag and embellished with glass buttons and mini resin frames.

I tucked a bit of floppy blossom ribbon inside the bag instead of the usual tissue paper. I thought this would be a unique way to present a gift. I cut out vintage images from the adopted ancestors paper and attached them to the front of the bags.


Thanks so much for stopping by and have a creative day!

Supplies used:
Glamour and Grunge pattern paper, floppy blossom ribbon, glass buttons, mini resin frames, adopted ancestors pattern paper- Melissa Frances

Xyron Mega Runner
Gift bag template- bellesprintables.com

Who wants a treat?! Part 2

We're back with part 2 of the beautiful treat bags designed by the fabulous Anne Kristen Holt. This time, she is using the bags from the "Glamour & Grunge" collection. (GNSA005)

On these bags, Anne says:

I have colored the cheesecloth and seam binding ribbon with a Distress ink Pad in Tattered rose and Spun Sugar. I also used stamps from Unity Stamps and Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz collection because they had a similar feel to the "Glamour & Grunge" collection.

She also decorated the front of her bag with one of the tags from the "Glamour and Grunge" collection (GNSA001), our Floppy Blossom Trim (GN575), and the "With All my Heart" resin (CX835).

A Glamour & Grunge gift bag

(Gift bag designed by Rachel McAffee)

We have been talking a lot about our new "The Sweet Life" collection here on the Melissa Frances blog, but we want to let you know about our second brand new collection that has been shipping to stores in the past few weeks. Here is our new "Glamour & Grunge" collection.

This collection, by Sarolt Borbely, is a lot more grungy than anything we have released in the past few years, and we have been hearing how our customers are loving playing with it! Along with the 3 double sided papers, there are coordinating tags, treat bags (as viewed in the project sample by Rachel McAffee at the top of this post), a mini album, and 2 different sets of washi stickers.

If your local store doesn't carry the line, you can purchase it directly from our website. Click here to see the collection.

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.