New Melissa Frances...

Happy Monday! First off, thank you to those of you who played along in my sketch this week! I randomly chose a winner to receive the RAK and the winner........is..........

Rebeccak

Please e-mail me with your mailing address, Rebecca!

Over the weekend, I created a couple of things with my new Melissa Frances goodies. They didn't come out with a new paper line this time around at CHA, but DO have some awesome embellishments coming out this time! Some of the papers were just released not too long ago, and I just received them in the mail. This is a card that I created with a card base that my good friend Shonna from back home sent me for my birthday! It's a Sweet Chips chipboard card by Crafty Secrets. I traced it onto my own chipboard, so I could save the original to make more cards with! It's so nice having a crafty friend...she knows just what I like. :)
I used Serenity paper (blue polkadot), Courage paper (green), stars from the Walk for the Cure Die Cuts and Boy Transfers (rub ons) by Melissa Frances. Buttons are from a very old Junkitz set that I had in my stash. Lastly, I added some chalk around the edges (because we all know boys love to get dirty!) and some machine stitching with brown thread.

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Let me tell you a little bit about the next project, a tin of Paper Dolls:

My daughter had received a little tin of magnetic faces to keep her busy while in the hospital having surgery last year. Just this weekend I decided to repurpose it (with her permission, of course!) and turn it into a tin full of paper dolls! I went with a birthday theme for the background, as it would be a cute birthday gift for a little girl. But I also thought it would be fun to create lots of different backgrounds to switch them out. Wouldn't it be fun to do a snowy, wintery scene with the Melissa Frances chipboard as well? Or a Halloween theme with the Halloween chipboard? The possibilities are truly endless! Just by adding magnets on the backs of the pieces, they stick to the tin. They would also travel well in a car.

Melissa Frances has these adorable little 3D stickers of 2 little paper doll girls and some clothes/hats (Girly Girl 3D stickers #GN164). I popped them out of the sticker sheet leaving the backing on so they weren't sticky any longer. Then I went on-line and found more paper dolls for free from the Betsy McCall website.After printing out some of the dolls and their outfits on-line, I dressed up their outfits with more Melissa Frances supplies. On one of the dresses, I folded paper and stitched the top to create a ruffly bottom for her dress and added a button. The other girl's dress received some Melissa Frances pearls. Love the dimension and fun it added!
As a mom with 2 girls, I'm always trying to come up with a variety of things to do with them. It would be fun to let them print, cut out the dresses and add their own special touches!

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Here are some of the new products that Melissa Frances came out with this time:

New Crepe Paper sheets, they are huge! I just cut little strips of them on my project above.
Chipboard Bingo cards, very sturdy and thick! And you get a whole book of them:
New chipboard letters:
Bottle brush trees in pink and ivory:
Tinsel:
Girl and boy chipboard flash cards (these are the boy ones), love these:
Envelopes and tag book:
Click here to see all of what's new at Melissa Frances, and be sure to stop over to the blog every now and then, such beautiful creations being posted there by the team.

H*2*Woah!

The sun is finally settling into our area, it's been a long rainy summer. I keep saying I think the seasons are shifting! Seems like spring didn't arrive until June or so and now it finally feels like summer here. Good thing the kids don't go back to school until Sept. 10th, so we still have time to enjoy it!

I was asked to be the guest designer for August for a Japanese sketch blog called Scrap in Japan. So this is what I came up with! Photos are of my little Kati 2 years ago when we went to the ocean. I love her expressions, they still crack me up! Photos like this really grab me... and I love to scrap them because they remind me of the moment, the sites, sounds and feelings of being at the ocean.
I drew the water splashes lightly with a pencil and then stitched over them with embroidery floss. I wanted to carry the theme throughout the page, so in Photoshop I created a new document, made it pink and then added the white stars and "woah!"s in the background with the text tool. Then when I printed it out and placed it on my page, I cropped it to the size I needed.
I created the brown strip the same way. After I figured out the dimensions I needed for my journaling, I created a new document, colored it brown in Photoshop and added white text.
This page is made with the new Cupid line of papers and brads by Pink Paislee!

Here is the sketch. Would you like to play along? If so, create a page based on this sketch and link me up in the comments here on my blog. I will choose one random winner for some scrapbooking goodies on Sunday the 9th! Be sure to also leave a link to your creation at the Scrap for Japan site as well!
Can't wait to see your version!

Stamping Sunday

Hello! Hope you are enjoying your weekend! I have a stamping project to share with you today. This is a mini album created with the gorgeous new Amber Road line by Pink Paislee! I used the Paislee Postcards, Punch Outs die cuts, Bella Brads, Amber Road papers and the Amber Road Impressions stamp set that comes with this line!First, I cut the Postcards apart and stacked them together, then punched 2 holes and tied them together with a piece of fabric. (So with one piece of paper, you have your mini album base!) I stamped the border stamp on the ends of the fabric ribbon. StazOn ink works well for this.

On the front cover, I stamped the white flourish image and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The harvest stamp is a fabric covered button and I'd like to show you how I made this...Please visit the Pink Paislee blog to see how to create these fabric covered buttons, the rest of the inside pages, and more stamping ideas inside the mini album. Click HERE!