Melissa Frances

In the kitchen with Veda

Today we have a lovely home decor/paper crafting project from Russian Scrapbooker Veda. She lives in St. Petersburg, Russia and has been paper crafting for three years. She said that she felt like she was given a gift when she discovered the Shabby paper crafting style. And her love of shabby chic began, she told us, with the paper of Melissa Frances. She looks forward to each new collection we release and she shares that "It is always so much better than my expectations and more interesting and gives a lot of inspiration."

Thank you for your kind words Veda. Your altered recipe holder and recipe cards are so beautiful and we know that many of our readers will find them inspirational!

Video of a Journal project

Today we have a cute video from Israeli paper crafter Riki Arberman.
She uses our Kitschy Kitchen Collection to make the journal cover as seen below. While the 6x6 KK paper pad that Riki uses in this video is sold out on the Melissa Frances site, if you do an internet search for it, you may still be able to find it for sale online.

Thanks Riki, what a fun video.

A little of this and a little of that!

Today we have two more cards from Victoria Freze to share with you. These beautiful cards feature our Kitschy Kitchen collection. While the collection has been retired, there are still a few items available for purchase.

Thank you Victoria for these inspirational cards!

I spy...

We hear that Mona Pendleton recently had two cards featuring our Melissa Frances Kitschy Kitchen Collection published in Simply Cards & Papercraft a magazine from the UK. For those of us in North America, here's a peek at her projects:

Congrats on the publication Mona!

Two different Collections, One great project!

(Supply List: Patterned paper - 5th Avenue: Pearl (PA371) ,  Kitschy Kitchen: Aunt Bea (PA354), Embelishments: White Pearls (GN278), Flowers: Light Pink Sprig (GN506), resin accent: Nottinghill (CX648W) • Other, non-Melissa Frances products:  Flowers Prima Trellis, Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Old Paper and Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Maya Road Crowns Mini Chipboard Set )

One of the things we consciously set out to do when designing our paper lines is to try, as much as possible, to coordinate our colors so that our paper lines will mix and match. Annar a very talented designer from Poland, has shared this shadow box project which features our Pearl paper - From the 5th Ave. Collection, and our Aunt Bea paper, which comes from our Kitschy Kitchen Collection.


This is such a gorgeous project, Annar. Thanks so much for sharing your creativity with our readers.

We love seeing what you're creating with our products! If you have a project you would like to share with our readers, please email us at [email protected] and you could be featured on our blog!

Amazing Mini Album

(Supply List: Rectangle Backdrop (GN322) cut in half, painted and covered to make mini album covers • Patterned papers: 6x6 Kitschy Kitchen paper pad (GN342) • Retro Cardstock stickers (GN348) • Kitschy Kitchen tags (GN382) • Homemade Chipboard (GN349 • Retro Chipboard (GN349A) • Edwardian Resin Frame embellishments (CX708) • Kitschy Kitchen Sticker Book (GN500) • Fruits & Veggies Rub-ons (FW060) • Homemade Recipe cards (GN346A) • Paper Bags & Tags (GN341) • Mini Envelopes and Tags (GN428) • Pop out white glitter hearts (discontinued) • Other, non-Melissa Frances supplies: white acrylic paint, sewing machine and thread, ink)

Today we have this GORGEOUS Kitschy Kitchen mini album to share with you from Melissa Frances design team member Karola. This project makes me want to scraplift it immediately! Enjoy! Here's some details from Karola:

Today I would like to show you my mini album that I created using Kitschy Kitchen collection. In June I did a little photo sesion of my daughter Rose with cherries. Immediately I knew I must create a mini album from this session and that the only collection appropriate to decorate these photos was Kitschy Kitchen. Beautiful fruit and kitchen designs fit perfectly here. I created the album base itself using different  Melissa Frances elements. The cover was made from one of the backdrops. I simply cut it in half, painted with white acrylic paint and added 6 x 6 paper. I love decorative edges on mini album covers and this Melissa Frances backdrop was perfectly suited to this! Inside are pages that were created from other Melissa Frances supplies such as - Kitschy Kitchen recipe cards and Tags and Envelopes album. Thanks to this I created a pages in different sizes and shapes.

I hope you liked my mini-album, I encourage you to create your own Kitchy Kitchen mini - I had a lot of fun when it created this one!


 


 

 

 

 

With all my Heart

 (Supply List: 6x6 Kitschy Kitchen paper pad (GN342) • Heart resin accent - With all my Heart (CX835), wreath resin accent (CX854) • Other, non-Melissa Frances supplies: flower, doily, with all my heart stamp)

Continuing our Kitschy Kitchen week, we have a card to share with you from Sabrina Sulaiman. She used papers from our Kitschy Kitchen 6x6 paper pad  to make this card. We love how this card could be used for just about any theme - it doesn't have to be food related!

Thanks for sharing with us Sabrina.

Thanks

 
(Supply List: Kitschy Kitchen 6x6 paper pad (GN343) • Thank you Rub-ons (FW044) • Other, non-Melissa Frances supplies: dies, clear buttons, thread, ribbon, cardstock)

Paula Barin sent us this card which would work wonderfully as a thank you for a hostess after a dinner party. For this card, Paula used our 6x6 paper pad which contains reduced scale versions of our regular 12x12 paper designs.

Thanks Paula!

Queen of the Kitchen

 
(Supply List: Melissa Frances patterned papers: Rita (PA352), Aunt Bea (PA354), Lauren (PA353) • Kitschy Kitchen Homemade Chipboard (GN349) • Other, non-Melissa Frances supplies: yellow seam binding, flowers, lace, die cut, button, mini rolling pin, sewing machine and white thread)

This week we would like to highlight projects which feature our Kitschy Kitchen product line. We begin with this greeting card from Cathy Santie. I don't know where she found that miniature rolling pin, but don't you agree that it adds the perfect finishing touch? 

Thanks for sharing your project with us Cathy! 

Happy Birthday Melissa!!

Today is Melissa's Birthday and as a design team we wanted to send her greetings and wishes for a wonderful day.

There will be a birthday giveaway at the end of this post, so be sure to read through to the end ☺

Carolyn decided to make Melissa a necklace featuring our Melissa Frances Crown Jewel (BR002) as the focal point. She packaged it in a handmade fabric pouch which she tucked inside a vintage cigar tin.
 
 Evgenia's card features our 5th Avenue Collection along with the Birthday flash card.
 Emeline made a bright and cheerful card featuring our Kitchsy Kitchen papers along with our beautiful White Pick (GN517).
Our 5th Avenue Collection and cardstock combine for a simple, yet sophisticated card from Johanna. 
 Taleneted Francophone Fabienne used our "happy Aniversary" rub-on as Anniversaire is the word for Birthday in French! This card combines our Kitschy Kitchen collection with our blue/white (GN464) and Cream/white (GN466) crepe paper garlands, and our cream (GN530) and pink (GN529) pom-pom trim.
 From Sherrie here is a 5th avenue Shabby-Chic styled card.
New mom Rachel, fashioned an adorable banner on the bottom of her 5th Avenue card for Melissa.
 Melissa Phillips made Melissa an over the top vintage-shabby card combining our 5th Avenue Collection with buttons, stamps and trims. 

Now, for the giveaway! Please leave your birthday wishes below for Melissa by Sept. 2  at 11:59 PM-PST, and we'll randomly select a winner to receive a packet of some of our great products (Value, approximately $30). We will announce the winner on or before September 5th.