Melissa Renfro Archives

Scrap Girls Club Exclusive: Warmth

Designer Melissa Renfro has a knack for designing clubs that go the distance: “I always try to design my clubs to be versatile for families and friends and the important people in your life. The themes that I always tend to come back to are the everyday wonderful moments of being together with the people […]

Scrap Girls ScrapSimple Club Exclusive: Simply Handmade

Be inspired by creative layouts and cards using products included in the ScrapSimple templates club for October – Simply Handmade.

5 Tips to Speed Up Your Scrapping

Whether you’re new to digital scrapbooking or you’re an old pro, we all share one common challenge: TIME! We never have enough time to do all the scrapping we’d like to do, want to do, or need to do. I can’t give you more hours in the day, but I can offer some tips to […]

Realistic Paper Clips

Melissa Renfro’s Farmhouse Style Collection includes some darling wire paper clips. They are the cutest thing ever! I love the little shapes on top and the “perfectly imperfect” bent-wire look. The only problem with these paper clips is that sometimes it’s difficult to make them look like they are actually holding two pieces of paper together. Realistic […]

Scrap Girls Club Exclusive: Farmhouse

Updating your home décor is all the rage now, and Melissa Renfro did a little reno of her own in her kitchen while working on January’s Scrap Girls Club: Farmhouse. As she immersed herself in the elements of the farmhouse style, she realized that this collection would work great for before-and-after layouts for your renovation […]

Scrap Girls SS Club Exclusive: Warm and Cozy

Is cozying up with a flannel-plaid blanket and a favorite old book your idea of a delightful evening? Then we know you will love the plaid delights included in this month’s ScrapSimple Club: Warm & Cozy from Melissa Renfro. Her “warm and cozy” theme will inspire your fall layouts with plaids or gentle florals, while her fun word art will […]

Warm & Cozy Word Tags for Fall

Melissa Renfro’s Embellishment Templates: Warm and Cozy Tags is packed full of fun scrapping supplies.Her word choices make the tags so versatile, and I love that she includes both the words as well as the cut-out tags of the words. Let me show you three fun ways I have been using Melissa’s tags this month: 1. Add […]

Faux Golden Light Effect in PSE

There’s something special about the light in the autumn season. It’s a little more golden and rich, flattering and warm than the rest of the year. The Autumn Symphony Collection by Laura Louie is perfect for these fall photos. Full of gorgeous oranges, browns, and yellows. It is so beautiful! But what if your pictures don’t […]

Shape Repetition for More Engaging Layouts

Shape repetition – duplicating elements, textures, themes, or colors in a digital scrap layout – is an easy way to give your layout a compelling flow. A shape constitutes anything from the simplest form, such as a circle, to more complex ideas found in curving lines.

Customizing Layout Templates

Templates. Some people love them and some people hate them. The reason for the latter, I believe, is that some scrapbookers find templates rigid – rigid in that they don’t meet the scrapbooker’s needs and rigid in that they stifle creativity. People who love templates have discovered what I’m going to share with you today. […]