Creative Creations

Welcome to another round up on all the happenings here at White Rose Crafts.
We will start with this...

Did you see our huge announcement last Sunday?

We know a few of you saw it because we have already started getting applications in for our Fall/Winter Guest Designer positions.  We wanted to announce here first on the WRC blog before opening it up to the world wide web to see who is really a White Rose Crafts fan. 

We will open the call up to public forums later this week, so make sure you share in your application that you saw the post here on the blog.  For all the details on how to apply, check out the bottom of this blog post.

August Sketch Challenge

Have you joined in yet with the August Sketch Challenge over on our WRC Facebook Gallery.  There is a chance for one random participant to win $15 gift card just for playing along.  

All the details of the challenge can be found here if you are new to our monthly sketch.

Need a little inspiration, then scroll down and see what our designers have been doing.

Meghan

 Guest Designer Megan created this super cute crisp apple card using the Lawn Fawn Carmel Apple stamp set.

Annie

Annie is getting ready for back to school with her sketch card using the Doodlebug's Back to School paper pack.

EK

EK is playing around with the new 13Arts Alice in CandyLand paper pack and Ephemera page to create this card for our sketch challenge. 

We can't wait to see how you play along with our challenge!!!

***

FALL/WINTER Guest Designer Application Information

If you love to create cards, scrapbook pages, journals, altered items and mixed media projects- We are looking for you!

 We are looking for enthusiastic, dedicated candidates with a variety of strengths and styles, who must be able to take clear, bright, quality photographs of their work and be familiar and comfortable with posting on a variety of Social Media platforms. If this sounds like you, please see below for application requirements and details!

Guest Designer Requirements

• Must reside in the USA or Canada.
• Must Love Paper crafting and creating with a variety of products.
• Must love working with products from a variety of different companies (visit www.whiterosecraftsllc.com to see the brands and products we carry).
• Must be able to take clear, bright, quality photographs of your projects
• Must have an active Blog and Facebook account.  Pinterest, Instagram, and Youtube accounts are a bonus, but not a requirement.
• Guest Designers are required to share a minimum of 3 projects per month, for a two month stint, using products available at White Rose Crafts. Projects are to be featured on our Facebook page, Blog and our Instagram page. You will not be restricted to use only products sold at White Rose, but we do ask that they be the primary focus. Please do not use image stamps or patterned paper packs that are not available for purchase at whiterosecraftsllc.com.
• Must be willing to post projects on your personal social media pages and in any Facebook groups you are a member of that will allow it. We ask that you link back to whiterosecraftsllc.com wherever possible and always use your personalized Guest Designer Watermark that will be provided to you.
• Guest Designer terms are for two months (coordinated with WRC), with six project dates (three each month) coordinated between the designer and design team coordinator. 

Guest Designer Compensation:

• $30 store credit (plus free shipping) to purchase crafting products of your choice. 
• Additional exposure for your work, as we will be featuring it on our company social media pages and Blog.
• Links back to your personal blog, and tag backs on Instagram and Facebook for all posts featuring your work.
• Access to our incredibly supportive design team, dedicated to encouraging each other, building collective confidence, and sharing knowledge and expertise in our strength areas.  

To Apply for the Fall 2019 White Rose Crafts Guest Designer term, send an email to WhiteRoseCraftsLLCBlog@gmail.com with “WRC Guest Designer App” in the subject bar, and include the following information:

• Name, Location, and a brief description of who you are and your crafting style.
• All of your social media links (must include Facebook and a Blog, but Pinterest, Twitter or Instagram are a bonus) 
• 2-3 quality photo examples of your work
• Links to 1 of videos you have shared, if applicable.

This call closes on August 30th, 2019

We will do our best to respond to all applicants, but depending on the volume of applications we receive, that may not be possible. Thank you for understanding.

5 Dramatic Play Projects by Amber MacMurtry

Hello Rosies, Amber here taking over the blog today! 
Its been a blustery, cold few winter days here in Vermont, so its a perfect time to sit down and color! Since I'm a card maker and sending snail mail is kind-of my jam, I've been wanting to create some fun Dramatic Play props for the Post Office play area in my son, David's, Pre-K classroom. 

I decided to make a trio of fun postcards that the kids could pretend to send to each other, as well as a couple of traditional folded cards in heavy weight cardstock envelopes, for my White Rose Crafts design team project this week. I also put together some DIY art projects for the class to do, too, that I'll share at the end of the post.

I started with 5 panels of 110# white cardstock and a selection of stamp sets from White Rose Crafts. 

I picked Hot Cocoa Hugs from Your Next Stamp for the first of the folded cards, and did some simple Copic coloring. I don't know about you, but I often forget that my coloring doesn't have to be super intricate or take a long time to be beautiful. This time, I decided to just do simple shading on the hot cocoa itself, leaving the mice more simple. I drew a gingham table cloth beneath the image and added the "Hot cocoa hugs" sentiment with Nocturne ink by Versafine Clair. I grabbed a scrap of patterned cardstock from my scraps box and trimmed it to 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches, before adhering it to the center of a top folding, landscape, A2 white card base. I cut my colored panel down to 3 3/4 x 5 inches and popped it up on Woodware 1mm foam mounting tape, for a touch of dimension.

For the second folded card, I wanted some mail related imagery, so I knew I had to include Bella With Flowers From Wild Rose Studio. I again went with some simple Copic coloring, concentrating the shading on Bella herself and her oversized letter. Since this was a single stamp that doesn't come with a sentiment, I decided to mix and match a bit, grabbing this big, bold script sentiment by Dovecraft, called If Friends Were Flowers and stamped it first with Versafine Clair Charming Pink ink, then offset the stamp a bit before stamping again in Nocturne. I love that this technique gives the sentiment a pretty, colored shadow. 

For my first postcard, I chose all of the ice skating images from Good Glidings, Fleece Navidad, & Holiday Mice, from Your Next Stamp and stamped them on the lower third of one of my white panels using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I used a black pen to draw a basic pond shape and snowy hill in the back ground & stamped that cute, stacked "Warm Winter Wishes" sentiment from Fleece Navidad, using Versafine Clair Paradise ink. Since I wanted this to be a postcard, I knew I didn't want the color to bleed through to the back, so I decided to pull out my Prismacolor pencils (not sold at WRC) for this scene, as well as the other two Postcards. 

Next, I pulled out one of my new favorite stamp sets, Piles of Smiles by Little Acres Creations (a product line exclusive to White Rose Crafts), because its images of woodland critters working together to mail a letter are too perfect not to use for this set of projects! I really didn't want to do any difficult masking today, so I stamped the images far enough apart that I only needed to mask the letter itself. That was easy peasy because its just a rounded rectangle. I used my T square ruler to draw a horizon line. I performed some simple stamp surgery so I could stack "Sending you piles of smiles" and stamped that sentiment, as well as "Great friends lift you up" in Versafine Clair Nocturne ink before, again, coloring my scene with Prismacolor pencils. 

For the final postcard, I used an older Stampendous set called Snowman Flurry, which is now sold out, but you can get a similar look by using Winter Penguins, also colored with Prismacolor pencils. The cute and punny, 2 part sentiment is stamped in Distress Oxide Salty Ocean. 

I used an old, retired My Creative Time stamp set from my stash to build the back of all three of my postcards, adding that adorable little Mama Elephant Snowman Agenda image (not sold at WRC) as the postage stamp. I wrote a cute message on each one and addressed them to David's class, before putting them through my Xyron Laminator to protect them from little hands.

As a bonus, I also decided to pull out the Heffy Doodle Warm Hugs stamp set and stamp enough blank post cards for David's classmates to color, take home and mail out with their families, and die cut large, stitched postage stamp edged rectangles, using a die from my stash, out of the same 110# white cardstock for the kids to draw their own stamps as a classroom art project (not pictured).

Gotta get the next generation of cardmakers started early, 

am I right?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today. I hope you found some inspiration in my projects today. I really had fun creating these. It was nice to not stress about the coloring (which I definitely do, sometimes) and just have some fun!

Come Back Soon,

Happy Crafting!

Featured Design Team Series: 14 Christmas Cards, 3 Decoupage Sheets by Amber MacMurtry

Happy Holidays Rosies, Amber here, and I'm taking over the blog today to share 14 (yes, you read that right) cards with you! 

Although Christmas 2018 has officially passed, I'm still feeling in the holiday spirit--Plus, I still had 3 Holiday themed pop-out decoupage sheets by Craft Creations UK left from my last White Rose Crafts Design Team package. 

I decided to get a head start on my personal challenge to create one Christmas card per week during 2019 and create as many cards as possible using them. I had intentionally selected sheets with several small images, so I could get the most bang for my buck, and let me tell you--3 hours and 14 cute cards with tons of dimension later, I couldn't be happier! 

The Craft Creations decoupage sheets are literally idiot proof--everything that goes together is labeled together. Not to mention, if I'd wanted to, I could have even split up each of the elements of the doggies and kitties to create another 8 cards with less dimension, so the value of these sheets is really incredible! If you're looking to make some quick holiday cards, make sure you check out Christmas Doggie Mix, Christmas Kitty Mix, & Santa Selection!

Supplies: Craft Creations Christmas Doggie Mix decoupage sheet, Echo Park I Love Christmas & American Crafts Merry Christmas paper packs (both sold out) , White Blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops, Red Berry Nuvo Drops, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape.

Supplies: Craft Creations Christmas Doggie Mix decoupage sheet, American Crafts Merry Christmas paper (sold out)  pack, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape.

Supplies: Craft Creations Christmas Doggie Mix & Santa Selection decoupage sheets, Echo Park I Love Christmas & American Crafts Merry Christmas paper packs (both sold out) , White Blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape.

Supplies: Christmas Doggie Mix & Santa Selection decoupage sheets, Echo Park I Love Winter paper pack,  pack, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape.

Supplies: Craft Creations Christmas Kitty Mix decoupage Sheet, Echo Park I Love Winter paper pack, White Blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape

Supplies: Craft Creations Christmas Kitty Mix decoupage Sheet, American Crafts Merry Christmas paper pack (sold out), Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape

Supplies: Craft Creations Christmas Kitty Mix & Santa Selection decoupage sheets, Echo Park I Love Christmas paper pack (sold out), Red Berry Nuvo Drops, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape

Supplies: Craft Creations Christmas Kitty Mix & Christmas Doggie Mix decoupage sheets, American Crafts Merry Christmas paper pack (sold out), Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape

Supplies: Craft Creations Santa Selection decoupage sheet, American Crafts Merry Christmas paper pack (sold out), Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust Sparkle Cardstock, Ivory Seashell Nuvo Crystal Drops, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape

Supplies: Craft Creations Santa Selection decoupage sheet, Echo Park I Love Winter paper pack, Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust Sparkle Cardstock, Aquatic Mist Nuvo Glitter Drops, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape

Supplies: Craft Creations Santa Selection & Christmas Kitty Mix decoupage sheets, Echo Park I Love Winter paper pack, Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust Sparkle Cardstock, White Blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape

Supplies: Craft Creations Santa Selection decoupage sheet, Echo Park I Love Winter paper pack, Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust Sparkle Cardstock, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape

Supplies: Craft Creations Santa Selection & Christmas Doggie Mix decoupage sheets, American Crafts Merry Christmas paper pack (sold out), White Blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Jillibean Soup Selection D Baker's Twine, Hampton Art Selection A Baker's Twine, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape

Supplies: Craft Creations Christmas Kitty Mix & Santa Selection decoupage sheets, Echo Park I Love Christmas paper pack (sold out), Red Berry Nuvo Drops, White Blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops, Crystal Dovecraft Glitter Glue, Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape, & 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I hope you've found some inspiration in my projects today! I really enjoyed putting these together and LOVE that I was able to use up some of my Christmas Paper stash (to make room for some new selections, of course!) All 14 of these cards took about 3 hours to put together, assembly line style, and that was with a 3.5 year old buzzing around trying to get attention and my special needs 4 year old still getting over a cold--so probably less time if you could be completely focused on the task! I love that I already have 14 cards ready to go for next year, and 2019 hasn't even started yet!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Have an AMAZING New Year!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

December Festive Elegance

Have you purchased your December Festive Elegance Subscription Kit?  There are only a handful left, so make sure you do so now, or know that you missed out.

We are sneaking in to the blog today to make sure you saw all the gorgeous projects the design team has created using the kit these past couple of weeks.

Alison

LeeAnn

Esther

EK

EK also has a new video up sharing how she created not only this card, but four others. 

And Don't Forget that we we currently have a Blog Hop Going on Featuring this fun kit and the December Add Ons over in the shop.  What to get Hopping with us.... jump over here and join in!

Festive Elegance

Have you ordered you December Festive Elegance Subscription Yet?  If you haven't you are missing out on all the gorgeous non traditional themed projects that you can create using this fun filled crafting kit.

These are just a few of the amazing items inside

1 12 x 12 sheet of ScrapBerry "Elegantly Festive" toppers
12 6 x 6 sheets of ScrapBerry "Elegantly Festive" papers 
1 12 x 12 sheet of Kaisercraft "Christmas Jewel" stickers inc. images, borders and sentiments
1 x A4 sheet Craft Creations UK Mulberry Lace Paper in White
1 x A4 sheet Craft Creations UK Shimmer Paper in teal-blue
1 x 8.5" x 11" Lawn Fawn Sparkle Cardstock in Pixie Dust
Dovecraft "Magic & Sparkle" Clear Cling Stamp Set
Kaisercraft "Fading Dots" Clear Cling Stamp
1 x water-reactive ScrapBerry Stains Ink in purple
1 x Dovecraft Glitter Glue in Crystal
Doodles Paper Playground "Very Merry" Sparkle Blend, EXCLUSIVE to this kit!
Full pack of ScrapBerry "Happy Holidays" Adhesive Pearl Flourishes
Dress It Up Embellishments - Snowflake Button Selection
ScrapBerry Snowman Metal Charms
Kaisercraft wooden Christmas Embellishment Selection
Pack of Lace and Pearl Bows
Card blanks with matching envelopes

Missed the unboxing, then go check out all the fun things packed inside.

To help wet your whistle of gorgeous creations you can create we thought we also so you some of the amazing projects our design team has been coming up with these past few weeks.  Make sure to clink on the links to see even more gorgeous projects!

Laura

(Post include another bold project)

Alison

(Post includes an Unboxing Video and another project)

Alison

(Post includes another project too)

Esther

(Post includes a great tutorial on how to create that background.)

Esther

(Post includes 2 more projects)

Lee-Ann

(post include a Unboxing Video and 3 more projects)

EK

(post a Crafting Video and four more projects)

EK

(post include a Crafting Video and four more projects)

Want more?  Need More?  Then check out the December Festive Elegance Add On Page of WRC, and get 10% off your purchase!

Featured Design Team Series: Your Next Stamp Christmas Card Trio by Amber MacMurtry

Hello Rosies,

Amber here, taking over the blog to share a trio of fun cards I created with a bunch of Your Next Stamp products available in the White Rose Crafts store as part of Your Next Project with Your Next Stamp inspiration week!

I selected 3 great winter themed YNS stamp sets to create my cards today. I fell in love with Good Glidings, Fleece Navidad & Holiday Mice as soon as I saw them, and I also loved the cute little Skating Rink Scene die set, which was perfect to go with all the adorable ice skating critters in the stamp sets!

I started by stamping a few of the images from each stamp set onto Copic friendly cardstock, making sure I stamped all of the ice skating critters, plus a few extra that were too cute not to color, and colored them up with Copic markers, and then fussy cut them each out. 

Then I grabbed three 4.25x5.5 inch white card panels, the Nordic Snowflakes stencil by Clear Scraps (now sold out), and some Aileen's Glitter Snow paste. I taped the stencil over my card panel, and spread Glitter Snow over it in a thin layer, just like embossing paste, using a palette knife. For the first two panels, I just used the white paste on the white cardstock wanting texture rather than contrast, but for the third, I decided to try something different and pulled out some Distress Oxide ink in Salty Ocean. I blended it on the top half of the remaining panel, using a heavy hand, and then splattered some water on the ink using a distress sprayer, picking up some of the color with a towel. Then I added the same snowflakes using Glitter Snow and let all three panels air dry for about 30 mins. Just to be sure, I blasted them with my heat gun for a few seconds, which caused the snow to bubble and expand a bit. 

Using the tree and ice rink dies from the Skating Rink Scene die set, I cut the rink three times out of Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust Sparkle Cardstock and cut a bunch of each of the two sizes of pine trees out of Spearmint Petallics shimmer card stock, inking the edges with Bundled Sage Distress Oxide ink. I cut 2 hillside dies from my stash, 3 times each, out of white cardstock. 

To assemble my card fronts, I adhered two hillsides on top of each of the snowflake panels, then an ice rink toward the bottom of each one, and a generous scattering of little pine trees using Double Sided Sticky Tape and Aileen's Quick Dry Tacky Glue from the Try Me Size Tacky Pack. Finally, I added the adorable images I had colored, and a cute sentiment to each one, stamping them either directly on the card panel or an Oxide stamped banner of cardstock that I adhered using Woodware 1mm foam mounting tape. 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 I hope you've enjoyed my cards. There's still a few more hourse to save 10% on all Your Next Stamp products in stock in the store. Ends at Midnight tonight, 11/30/18!

Use Coupon Code: YNS 10 

Featured Design Team Series: Fairy Nice Tags by Kim Fuller

Good morning everyone, Kim here with my next DT project for White Rose Crafts. This time I have created some fun mixed media tags!

These tags are lots of fun to make and with all the great items from White Rose Crafts, these tags are a super quick and easy project!

I started off with the 6 x 6 Paintable paper from Prima and cut out my tag shapes.

Next, I used my Distress Oxide in Tumbled Glass and Distress Ink in a darker blue colour for contrast. I smooshed them onto my craft pad and spritzed them with water so the paintable paper would pick up on the inks and give a lovely water colour effect on the tag.

I heat set the colours and then used the Gathered Twigs Distress Ink around the edges of the tag to give them a vintage feel.

The next step was to tear up some paper, I used the Victorian Kitchen 2 paper as I loved the soft muted colours in it and decopaged the paper to the tags.  I also added some drywall tape as well, as I love it for mixed media and it adds some great texture.

Now its time to work on the ephemera. I am using some butterflies and Tim Holtz dolls from my stash and edging them in more of the gathered twigs Distress Ink.

I did some scribbles on the background for some extra fun.

I added some distressed twine around the tag for texture.

 Now its time to add my ephemera to the tag. I also used some Dovecraft glitter glue to the wings and the dolls to give them some sparkle!

I hope you like my project today and have found some inspiration here!

Thanks for stopping by.

White Rose Crafts Items Used

Prima Paintables Paper Pad

Victorian Kitchen 2 Paper

Distress Oxides Tumbled Glass

Distress Ink Gathered Twigs

Distress Ink 

Dovecraft Glitter Glue Crystal

Other Items Used

Twine

Tim Holtz Paper Dolls

Butterfly Ephemera

Tim Holtz Words

Drywall Tape