Melissa Frances

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.

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.

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: [email protected]

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.

Layout Bonanza

(This layout features papers from our Fresh Twist and Thankful collections, along with our Attic Treasures die cuts.)

Today we have a real treat for you. The very talented Mariya from Russia shared some of her creations featuring the Melissa Frances product line with us, and we wanted to in turn, share them with you! Mariya says:

I live in St. Petersburg. My joy is my daughter, who makes me happy all day. And when she goes to bed, I do scrapbooking. And I embroider a little - a little, because I have no time :-)

As you can see with the layouts here, Mariya has a beautiful style and loves to layer her  embellishments and page accents.

(This layout features our Pearl paper from the 5th Avenue Collection)

(This layout features papers from our C'est la Vie and Vintage Posey Collections)

(And this layout features paper from our Thankful collection.)

Be sure to come back on Friday to see some of Mariya's beautiful cards.

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.)

Annette's Diner Layout

As we anxiously await for the "Classic Elegance" product line to get to the warehouse, here is another inspiring share from our design team to get you excited about using the line.

Today's layout comes from French design team member Fabienne Pernot. It celebrates her families visit to Disneyland Paris and their hankering to see America in person someday.

Fabienne says: These photos are taken at Annette's Diner at Disneyland Paris. For my children and for me, this restaurant was like an alternate reality. It reminded us of the movie Grease and 50s. In addition, it was a very good restaurant, what kid doesn't like eating a hamburger, hot-dog or milkshake! The cardboard car, provided with the children's menu is so fun! My son, Rémi, would love to see one for real! My husband to ;-)  Annette's is a bit of the American dream, without having to travel thousands of miles! But one day, I promise, we will cross the Atlantic Ocean, and see the United States for real!

If you enjoyed this look at our "Classic Elegance" Collection, we encourage you to ask your preferred scrapbook retailer to bring it into their store. Thanks!

My favorite Person

Today's inspiring layout comes to us from Design team member Emeline Seet. She uses papers from our C'est la Vie Collection to design this page. Emeline loves to add dimensional embellishments to her layouts, and this one is no exception. She uses our tissue paper garland, resin embellishment and satin flower to do this.

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.)

More samples from CHA

Those who came to our booth at CHA will have seen this adorable little pull toy decorated by Rachel McAffee with paper from the "Classic Elegance" collection, along with tons of great embellishments. In fact, with the exception of the clothes pegs and the pull toy base, everything else is Melissa Frances.

This layout by Emeline Seet was also a showstopper in our booth. People loved how she colored the resin embellishments to match her layout.

Finally, this layout by Carolyn Peeler shows 5 of the new "Classic Elegance" papers being used in combination with cardstock to create an eye catching page.

More Classic Elegance samples

We had received some emails from customers inquiring about the release date for the "Classic Elegance" collection. It will be shipping to stores late March or early April. We will be sure to let you know when it's on the shelves so that you can look for it. In the meantime, if you like the collection, be sure to ask your local scrapbook store to bring it in!

So, do you want to see more samples from our talented team's samples showing you the new Classic Elegance Line? Here you go!

From Melissa Phillips, we have this awesome table topper:



This pretty card is by Evgenia Petzer:



This layout, by Carolyn Peeler shows Classic Elegance combined with papers from C'est la Vie and Attic Treasures!!

Classic Elegance - Chipboard Buttons and more samples

As our team heads into the last day of the CHA trade show, we have another peek from the "Classic Elegance" collection to show you.

We have two new sets of chipboard buttons that match the collection. Each button set comes with 14 buttons and some twine.

(GN615 - Adopted Ancestors Chipboard Buttons)

(GN614 - Classic Elegance Chipboard Buttons)

This is another product which our design team did not receive to 'play' with, so we don't have any examples of them in use. However we do have some other great samples featuring "Classic Elegance" which we are delighted to share:

This "Prince" layout was made by Anne Kristine and shows the papers, tags, and die cuts used on a masculine layout.

This heart bouquet is made by the lovely Rachel McAffee and would look darling as a Valentine's Day decoration.

This layout from Emeline Seet shows "Classic Elegance" used in combination with Attic Treasures. We almost always design our new collections to coordinate with some papers from previous releases, and this layout shows that coordination in action!

Finally, from Sherrie Siemens, we have another card which shows "Classic Elegance" papers and tags, used in combination with our Pearl stamps.