Featured Guest Designer: Sharon White-Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends "Love Potion"

Featured Guest Designer:
Sharon White
Copycat Cards & Creations

Featuring Doodles Paper Playground:
Sparkle Blends "Love Potion"



I am in love with LOVE POTION!  

I have to say up front that I'm fairly new to using sequins on my cards, and have never made a shaker card before!  I didn't know how varied and beautiful the mixes can be!!  Wow!!!  I'm hooked!  My eyes were caught by the lovely blend of reds/pinks/purples and all the shimmery luscious bits in "Love Potion"!  There are large heart sequins, smaller gold hearts with an open center and of course, lots of little hearts in addition to the iridescent sequins and seed beads.  My favorite are the iridescent-pink petal shaped sequins which are like little cups!  I went a little crazy creating my card with this delectable mix!

For this pretty, feminine embellished heart shaker card, I used Simon Says Stamp sentiment paired with Spellbinders Vines of Passion dies and several different colors of Distress Ink.

On a piece of watercolor paper, I smudged distress inks & spritz them with water to move the color around. I let it dry and then smudged the edges with Picked Raspberry. I tapped some Seedless Preserves ink onto my craft mat and spritzed it again with a tiny bit of water and tapped my Love stamp in the watered ink before pressing onto my background. I then used a Gina Marie Designs Stitched Rectangle die to cut my panel.

I used the Vines of Passion dies from Spellbinders to cut out a fun foam heart, a matching acetate heart and the pretty flourish heart from vellum. I adhered the acetate heart to the foam heart, then top with the vellum heart. To embellish the edges of the heart, I applied about an inch of Glossy Accents to the vellum edges and adhered an assortment of "Love Potion" Sparkle Blends sequins and embellishments. I continued in sections until the outer edge of vellum heart was filled with sparkly fun & then set it aside to dry.

  

While I waited for my glossy accents to set, I adhered the completed  watercolored background to the center of an A2 size card base made from Neenah Exact Inex cardstock, leaving a wide white border.

I placed a generous amount of "Love Potion" Sparkle Blends embellishment mix into the center of my completed background piece. Once the glossy accents had set enough, I adhered the layered hearts on top, being sure to seal the sides so none of the Sparkle Blends could escape. For my final touch, I stamped a Simon Says Stamp sentiment from my stash using Seedless Preserves ink to the center of my panel, below the shaker heart.

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Product Links available at White Rose Crafts:

Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends "Love Potion"

Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Picked Raspberry Distress Inks

Seedless Preserves Distress Inks

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Help us give Sharon White a HUGE Thank You for agreeing to be a Guest Designer and creating such a beautiful project for White Rose Crafts and doing a promotional feature blog post for Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends! Please follow her on Facebook, Flickr, Pinterest & Instagram

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Thanks for stopping by! Until next Time

Featured Design Team Series: EK Gorman-Beary Big Heart

Our new Design Team Feature blog series is starting off with a bang, because we are absolutely loving this beary cute Valentine created by  
EK Gorman using the Beary Big Heart 
stamp set from Heffy Doodle. 

We love her color choices and simple Nuvo Drop embellishment on this clean and simple design!

The Beary Big Heart stamp set and coordinating dies are in stock now, as well as a huge selection of Nuvo Drops!

EK produced a fun video showcasing her creative process for this card. Check it out below, 
or click here to watch on YouTube!

For more information, 
please check out EK's blog post featuring this fabulous card!

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Thanks for stopping by! Until next time!!

New Product Highlights #2

We have SO many new products available in the store, I thought it would be helpful for our new and returning customers and loyal followers to create a short blog post series featuring some of our  
New Product Highlights! 

This is the second post in this series, 
the original post can be found, Here!

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If you aren't familiar with these Gorjuss Girls, illustrated by the talented Santoro, you are really missing a unique and special collection of stamps. We are thrilled to have the newest set of the collectible Mini Stamps coming to the store when they are released in mid February. 

The full collection of all 20 new stamps 
is available for preorder Now!

Ultimate Crafts is a newcomer to WRC, but their stunning collections of products are to die for! If your crafting style has more of a vintage flare, then Rambling Rose might just be for you! This gorgeous collection of perfectly coordinated papers, stamps, dies, ephemera and embellishments will add a soft, feminine touch to any project!  We think this collection would make a beautiful Mini Album or themed scrapbook. Shop the full Rambling Rose collection in the shop, Now!

We love these vibrant Scrapberry's ink cubes so much! They come in Dye, Pigment and Shimmer formulas in a variety of stunning colors! At just $1.99 each, they're an affordable way to add some color to your collection. 
You can find the range of colors we have in stock, Here!

Stenciled techniques are all the rage right now, and we've joined the party by adding this pretty line of Clear Scraps stencils to our collection of affordable, must have products! Available in a variety of designs, they are just what you need to add that finishing touch to all of your projects. Find our selection, Here!

For those of you who don't know, WRC is one of only 8 official retail partners for Heffy Doodle in the USA*! If you haven't already added this playful and whimsical collection of products to your collection, you definitely need to remedy that situation! 
I know these have been out since the November release, but the Beary Big Hearts and Winter Hugs stamps and dies are absolutely perfect for all of your Valentine's Day projects, but are also versatile enough to be used year round for all occasions! 
We can't wait to add the 
New Release to the store on February 1st! 
Designs to be announced at Creativation!
*as of the publication date of this post

We also have the Elfish Antics stamps and dies, as well as the coordinating sentiment stamp set, Elfing Christmas Words in stock, and you can save 20% off of both, plus every item in the Christmas Shop section of the store with 
Coupon Code: CHRISTMAS SALE
Expires January 31, 2018

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We hope you've enjoyed this showcase of a few of our favorite new products! Stay tuned for our next installment of the Product Highlights Series!

In the mean time, you better get shopping! Check out all of the fantastic products in stock, over at 
www.WhiteRoseCraftsLLC.com


Thank's for stopping by! Until Next Time

White Rose Crafts Announcements

We have a few announcements to share with our loyal WRC followers!

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It is such an exciting time for White Rose Crafts! We are focusing on Growth this year, and to that end we have lined up a really talented Design Team consisting of 6 ladies who have already begun creating inspiration projects using WRC products--so keep an eye on the Facebook page, Instagram & here on the Blog for new posts coming soon!

In the interest of continuing our pattern of growth, we have started a White Rose Crafts Gallery closed Facebook group intended to encourage our customers and Design Team members to share projects using products sold in the store, share crafty tips & tricks, ask questions & support each other as a community.

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We are thrilled to have been invited to be a sponsor for the Mod Squad Challenge Blog, beginning January 17, 2018! 
Our featured designer for this month is Susan Seracki. You can visit her blog here.

Join in the challenges and have a chance 

to win a gift certificate to the store!

Thank you for stopping by! Until next time!

Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends Flash Giveaway!

We are having a FLASH GIVEAWAY 
to promote our brand new, exclusive line of 

Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends

embellishment mixes! 

One lucky entrant will win 

2 randomly selected packages of Sparkle Blends,

shipped directly from Doodles Paper Playground!
Just follow the prompts in the 
Rafflecopter Widget below!

Giveaway Ends at Midnight EST 1/8/18

Due to shipping costs, giveaway is open to US entrants only.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Introducing our final Guest Design Team Member, Dawn Bennett!

Please join me in welcoming our final Guest Design Team Member and the last of our First Term DT, Dawn Bennett! 

Dawn was born in Maryland, but now calls York, Pennsylvania home. She is the doting wife of 24 years to a retired Navy Chief and mother to 3 grown children. 

Dawn's crafty journey began with scrapbooking, but she isnow totally addicted to cardmaking. She is proud to be Copic Marker Certified, and we look forward to seeing how she colors up the many stamp images available at WRC. She is also teaching herself to color using colored pencils and looks forward to honing that craft in her time as a Guest DT!

Dawn loves all things paper & ink, and while we would call her example pieces shabby chic, she loves all styles and to try new techniques. She loves to challenge herself as she spends as many hours as she can in her craft room creating her beautiful artwork.

Please join us in following Dawn on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and her personal Blog.

Welcome to the team, Dawn!

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time!

Introducing New Guest Design Team Member, LeeAnn McKinney!

Please join us in welcoming our very first Guest Design Team Member, LeeAnn McKinney! LeeAnn is a wife, mother and grandmother living in Lakeland Florida, a scant hour from the most magical place on earth, Disney World. Its no wonder that some of that magic has spilled over to her personal life in the form of a yearning for creativity. LeeAnn is blessed to have a husband who not only supports her crafty endeavors, but is her most avid fan, excited to see her new projects as soon as they are completed. Her daughters and their families are often the inspiration for her layouts and card designs. 

LeeAnn, a late night crafter--thriving after the distractions of the world have gone to bed for the night--considers her style to be on the Clean and Simple side of things, but enjoys learning new techniques and challenging herself to branch out and expand her repertoire at every opportunity. She also loves using glitter and texture pastes with stencils in her artwork. She also writes a well established and detailed Blog that we look forward to linking to when she writes about her White Rose Crafts projects. 

When she isn't at her desk papercrafting, LeeAnn enjoys the great outdoors. She can often be found camping, "mudding" and fishing. 

She is also a self proclaimed NASCAR nut--a die hard Jimmie Johnson fan since 2001. She shares a memory, "In 2006 sitting at the Wide World of Sports comples watching the Daytona 50 start up at Disney World, as we did every year...the group of us put our votes in on the opening lap as to who would win the race and who would win the title that year. Well, I said Jimmie while everyone else said someone else and not only did he win his first Daytona 500, but also his first of 5 in a row championships. I was at the races when he won his 4th championship in 2009, and even was able to lean on his car before the race for a photo in the garage." She's a total fangirl! 😉

Please help us support LeeAnn by following her on Facebook, Blog, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Welcome to the team, LeeAnn!

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time!

Introducing New Design Team Member, EK Gorman!

Please help us welcome the final addition to our first term Full Time Design Team, EK Gorman. Ek is a doting mother to 3 children, living with her loving husband and family dog outside of Washington D.C. in a small Virgina town called Vienna. 

EK began her paper crafting journey nearly 2 years ago as a self taught Mixed Media artist. 

In her search to find something to keep her creative mind and idle hands busy while waiting for her canvases to dry, she discovered the realm of cardmaking firmly established in the YouTube-verse. From moment one, she found herself enthralled by the concept of creating a tiny piece of art, framed within the confines of a greeting card, and has been hooked ever since. 

She believes her background in Mixed media provides her a unique perspective when creating her scenes. Her style is that of a colorist. She uses a variety of color mediums, including Copic markers, colored pencils, watercolors and other water reactive mediums, to create detailed stamped, sketched and colored scenes--treating every card as a miniature work of art. 

EK has a firmly established YouTube channel, and we look forward to seeing what sort of video content she will have in store for us when combining her natural eye for card composition and her growing collection of supplies from the White Rose Crafts store.  

Please follow and support EK on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube.

Welcome to the team, EK!

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time!

Introducing New Design Team Member: Kim Cornwell

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the first of our new Design Team Members, Kim Cornwell! Kim resides in Northern New York State. She has been married to her husband for nearly 27 years & is a mother of 3, and a grandmother to 3 little girls. When she's not creating, she works full time as a donut fryer.








Kim began her crafty journey over 15 years ago, working with silk flowers. Over the years, she dabbled in a variety of different crafts, including needlepoint, crochet, quilting, and jewelry making before finding her way to Scrapbooking and eventually Altered Arts and 3D Papercrafts. 






Kim says "Boxes are my thing. I love making a box to hold items that I have created."

We're very glad she has found her niche, because look at these gorgeous boxes! We adore her Shabby Chic style and dimensional yumminess! 

Kim has been papercrafting steadily for about 4 years and when she gets some serious crafting time, she can finish about 6 projects in a day! That is super  impressive if you ask us! Check out this altered serving tray with a twist! That would take me weeks! 😉

We are super excited to have a member on the team who makes videos & look forward to watching Kim on her YouTube Channel, even if she won't watch her own videos because she doesn't like listening to her own voice. Its okay Kim, I don't like to hear my recorded voice either! 

Please follow Kim on Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest & her personal Blog!

Welcome to the team, Kim!

Thank's for stopping by!

Until next time!

Exclusive New Product Launch-Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends AND a Giveaway!

Ends January 15 2018

We have exiting news! For the past couple of months, we have been in collaboration with

White Rose Crafts Design Team Member, Amber MacMurtry, Owner of Doodles Paper Playground, to create a Brand New  product!  Sparkle Blends are an Embellishment Mix that differs from other mixes already on the market in that it includes specialty mix-in elements like Fimo Shape Slices, Acrylic 3D Crystals, Seed Beads, Caviar Beads, Shaped Confetti and more--in addition to a variety of shapes, sizes, shades and finishes of the classic sequins you know and love.

At this time, all Sparkle Blends are Limited Edition, and hand mixed in small batches by Amber, herself, meaning that when we run out, they probably won't be restocked--So make sure you grab your favorite blends early, so you don't miss out. Or better yet, collect them all!

The first release of Doodles Paper Playground Sparkle Blends includes 17 mixes that will be sold exclusively in the White Rose Crafts Store! How exciting is that? Amber has come up with 8 single color blends in every color of the rainbow, including “Pretty In Pink”, “Well, Yellow There”, “Orange You Glad” & "Blue Over You" as well as a variety of beautiful multi-hue blends in an exciting array of themes and color palates--"Love Potion", "Snow Cool", Mermaid Scales" & "Cotton Candy", to name a few. 

To celebrate this awesome new product, 

available January 1st, 2018 and

sold exclusively at www.WhiteRoseCraftsLLC.com, 

we are having a GIVEAWAY!

We will be choosing ONE Lucky Winner, at random, from all of the entries, to receive a full set of all 17 of the first release of Doodles Paper Playground Sparkle Blends!

GIVEAWAY DETAILS:

-          To enter, you must be 18 years of age or older, follow our Facebook page and tag at least one friend in the comments who might be interested in Winning too,  no later than 11:59PM EST on January 15, 2018.

-          For a second entry, find our Giveaway post over on Instagram and tag at least one friend in the comments who might be interested in winning too, no later than 11:59PM EST on January 15, 2018.

-          The Giveaway closes at 11:59PM EST on January 15, 2018. Winners will be chosen at random, using random.org and announced during the first week of February 2018.

-         One winner will be chosen at random from all of the entries. Winners will be tagged and contacted Private Message or email on whichever social media platform you win on (either Instagram or Facebook). You will have 48 hours to claim your prize by emailing whiterosecraftsllc@gmail.com

WINNER WILL RECEIVE:

-     1 pack of each of the following 17 Sparkle Blends containing approximately 1.5tsp of product each: 

“Pretty In Pink”, “Roses Are Red”, “Orange You Glad”, “Well, Yellow There”, “Green With Envy”, “Blue Over You”, “Purple Passion”, “Silver Lining”, “All That Glitters”, “Snow Cool”, “Love Potion”, “Mermaid Scales”, “But First, Coffee”, “Cotton Candy”, “Unicorn”, “Citrus Twist” & “Shooting Star”

DISCLAIMER:

Must be 18 to win. This giveaway is open internationally, and the prizes include the cost of shipping. No purchase necessary. This giveaway is not affiliated or sponsored by Facebook or Instagram in any way. All prizes provided by White Rose Crafts LLC & sponsored by Doodles Paper Playground. Winners will have 48 hours to claim their prizes by sending their name and address by email to whiterosecraftsllc@gmail.com. If prizes are not claimed within 48 hours, new winners will be chosen. Employees and Design Team Members of White Rose Crafts LLC not eligible to win. 

Want Another Chance To Win?

Doodles Paper Playground owner, Amber, is giving away a second Full Set of all 17 Sparkle Blends over on her Facebook page, so be sure to head over there and follow the directions in her post for another chance to win!

New Product Highlights: Available In The Store January 1st 2018

We have A TON of New Products and 4 New Brands in the White Rose Crafts online Store this month and I wanted to share a few of my favorite highights!

We are expanding our selection of international collections in a big way and adding some popular embellishment options! I'm telling you guys, its an exciting time for WRC!

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Its no secret that Tonic Nuvo Drops are a totally On Trend way to embellish all of your craft projects! They're super easy to use, and available in a huge range of colors and finishes, including Glitter, Glossy & even translucent Jewel Drops! We have tons of colors to choose from available in the shop now! 

Your Next Stamp is quickly becoming one of the top photopolymer stamp brands, and for good reason! Their images are so adorable and have tons of personality and a major uniqueness factor! You can find all of the options we have in stock, Here! Keep an eye out for new stamps and dies added in the future!

If you love beautiful patterned papers, you are going to swoon over the new LemonCraft paper and ephemera collections! Each one is vibrant and detailed! The best part is, they're super affordable! Check them out Here!

Our very own Design Team Member, Amber MacMurtry is the creative mind behind the brand new line of exclusive, Limited Edition Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends embellishment mixes. She has put a new spin on the traditional sequin mix by adding speacialty mix-ins like Fimo shape slices, acrylic crystals and caviar beads! See the entire debut release Here!

If you aren't familiar with this line of cute Basik & Co stamps from Scrapberry's, you are totally missing out. These super Cool Cats have tons of personality & will be perfect for all of your whimsical projects! See our selection, Here!

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We have many many other new products in the store. So many, I couldn't possibly share them all here, you'd be here all day; and let's face it, you've got shopping to do, right?

Check out all of the wonderful products we have in stock, at

www.WhiteRoseCraftsLLC.com

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time!