She is our Guest star Stamper this month for her use of Beautiful Blooms. You can see Melanie’s fabulous card HERE, and I know once you see it you’ll just have to replicate it! I just had to give her a special little shout our here amongst the Honorable Mentions. She submitted over FIFTY projects to this month’s contest. Yes, you read that right, 50! And they were all of the highest caliber. I decided to share some here with you that were some of my favorites! This girl is definitely going places!
Here is one she created with a mixture of bright colors, a variety of blooms all on a clean white backdrop. Gotta love the simplicity of one layer cards!
For this entry she created butterflies from the leaves contained in our Beautiful Blooms set. If you were just to look at Melanie’s creation you would think that the leaf images were SUPPOSED to be butterfly wings!
Here she used the Avery label stamp from Spooky Sweets to create a Band-aid! What an adorable get well card!
And here she turned the same stamp into birthday candles, and used the leaf images from Beautiful Blooms for the flames! Genius!
The same Avery label stamp once again, only paired with the flourish image (also from Spooky Sweets) to make a beautiful Christmas gift. Seriously! What an impressive idea!
And last but not least (and I think this may be one of my favorites) is her card titled "Pumpkin Bloom". She used the pumpkin from Spooky Sweets, upside down to create a flower. This is a perfect example of thinking outside the box! Thanks for all your fantastic entries, Melanie. (All 50 of them!)
Kerry says
Melanie’s cards are awesome! I admire people who can think outside the box like that. Good job!
Bethany Paull says
What creativity! Thanks for sharing some more of Melanie’s cards with us.
Melanie Muenchinger says
Thank you so much, Nichole! Your praise means more than you know. I filled an entire shoebox with cards made with your stamps this month, talk about feeling inspired! Your products are amazing, I’m so glad I found Papertrey. (can’t wait to get my new stamps, I have some IDEAS!)
Rose Ann says
I’ve been a fan of melmel at SCS ever since I became a member. She is amazingly talented, and I’m so happy to see more of Melanie’s awesome work. You go girl…and congratulations!! Woo hoo!
Donna Baker says
yes, Melanie has always thought out of the box and is quite a creative stamper! She is SCS Dirty Dozen Alumni
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=3783
she was TOO Cute-when I saw she was the Guest Designer on Friday night (she didn’t know yet) I emailed her congratulations and this is what she said (hope she doesn’t mind I’m pasting her response to me)
‘oh my god, I won???? I can’t view it getting an error message!!!!! which card was it??
I’ll write again in a minute, I have a lot to tell you about my msission to win!
OMG, gonna go cry!!’
she is just a gem to know too!
Heather J says
Wow, each entry is amazing! What creativity.
Natasha Trupp says
Oh my goodness! These are all phenomenal!!! Wow! Way to go Melanie!!!
Nancy van Praag says
Melanie is my neighbor, I know nothing about stamping, but her cards overwhelm me, she is so extremely talented. There is no end, it seems, to her imagination and the versatility in her designs is astonishing. I want her design everything for me….Christmas cards, treats, I wish I could afford to be her sole benefactress! I hope to get to see more of her work featured online!!!
Dana Vitek (*danavee* on SCS) says
Oh.My.Word. I’m in LOVE with that band-aid card! What a sweet idea! Congrats on the honors Melanie, you SO deserve it!
lexi says
wow! what wonderful designs! congrats, melanie and thanks for the great ideas!
Kathyc on SCS says
Oh my goodness! These are amazing! I don’t know which idea I want to try first, the bandaid, the candles….nope, gotta try that Pumpkin Blossom; it’s out of this world! Thanks for sharing all of these Nichole!
Lauren (mytime) says
OMG! over 50! Who can ever make that many cards in a month! Way to GO!
CatherineH (Kiko) says
What gorgeous designs!!! I love all of them, and the first curvy one is divine, not to mention so creatively clever! Congratulations to Melanie and everyone else whose work is displayed in this post. Absolutely fabulous!
Keva (brownee) says
WOW!! Those are amazing cards. Great job, Melanie!!!
Julie Brooks says
WOW! Melanie!!! You are so clever!!!! I mean seriously how in the world did you think so out of the box???? AMAZING cards!!!
Lisa Johnson says
Way to go Mel Mel! you’ve always inspired me!
Jana says
WOW!!! These are some amazing creations. I can understand it being difficult to choose which was the best of them all!!
Charlene Austin (SCS - Willow01) says
WOWZERS… She is AMAZING!!! I would love to have seen all 50. Melanie, if you are reading this….you need to start a blog so we can enjoy hearing about your creations.
Doreen says
Love these projects! How about a post every day with the goodies you received Nicole?
I was working on a gift bag for Halloween and my Boo came out weak in color so I reinked and then stamped again but was off by just a tad …Wow it gave a shadow effect that was so cool! It’s such fun to discover a new cool effect…Love D
StamperSharon says
LOVE MelMel’s work and am so happy to see some of it again . . . way to go, Melanie!
Travelingmama says
These are all so great! TFS!
Juanita says
WOW, Melanie is sooooooooooooo talented!!!
I love her cards. She not only thinks outside of the box, she’s not even in it!!!
AWESOME work, Melanie! TFS it Nichole.
I love your fall banner!
bluemoon says
Fabulous cards!! Thanks for sharing these! Wow! Happy Day 🙂
paula says
These cards are awesome! The pumpkin flower is SO creative. Here I sit waiting for my stamp sets to arrive at my door, I can’t wait!! Thanks girls!!
Beth M says
She does create beautiful cards! They’re all so creative and wonderful! Great choice!