Welcome Spring!

Hello! Alison Heikkila here. Winter has officially come to an end and I am ready to celebrate! So today I am sharing a card that screams Spring with one of my favorite stamps that is available at White Rose Crafts. It's the Hellebore from Stampendous, and yup, I've used this big, beautiful bloom before. It is a true favorite.

A couple of weeks ago, I did a Facebook Live in the White Rose Crafts Gallery group that showed some different techniques with Distress Oxide Inks. One of them was Ink Smooshing, with an embossed image, and coloring on top. This card was mostly made during that video. If you watched the video, what you didn't see was how i finished off the coloring of the Hellebore, and how I added some additional ink to the edges and the embellishments.

I had used some Gold Sheer Shimmer Spritz to help move and oxidize the ink while I was making the background. You can see all of the gorgeous shimmer and the flower has from it. To add color to the petals, I used one Zig Clean Color marker and a water brush. I also used one color for the stamens.

I added a simple pre-made sentiment from Kaisercraft's Bombay Sunset 6" x 6" paper pad and a few sequins from the "Amethyst" Sparkle Blend from Doodles Paper Playground. Adding some Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide to the edges really tied the background into the flower and gave the card more depth.

The techniques I used on this card are fun and pretty easy to do. It's great to this type of coloring on images that you may be intimidated to color. I think it turned out beautiful, and I hope you'll give it a try. Be sure to watch the Facebook Live to see how the background was created. And then, head on over to White Rose Crafts LLC to check out some of the products I used today.

Featured Design Team Series: Embossed & Inked Vellum Flowers Layout by Donna Coughlin

Embossed & Inked Flowers Layout

Hawthorne Hill

By Donna Coughlin

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Hi there, Donna Coughlin here with another creation using White Rose Crafts LLC products.

Today my layout is all about inking, and I want to show you how I made the blue flowers using velum, embossing powder and ink, below.

I have two types of flowers on here. The white ones are Recollections which I inked with some Scrapberry Light Brown ink, as well used the brown ink on the edges on the scallop.I also used Tim Holtz Broken China Distress Oxide inks on the edges of the flourishes.

A close up of the upper right cluster. Interested in those flowers? Well keep scrolling down.

First grab a flower stamp and and stamp away on a sheet of velumn. I did about 16 flowers all together. Emboss with white embossing powder, but I think any matching color you want will work.

Next press the backside of the flower onto the ink pad.

I wanted to show you what the back looked like in the light - it doesn't have to perfect, as a matter of fact I prefer it that way.

Next I spritzed with a light mist of water and used a heat gun to dry. Then cut out the flower.

On this one I stacked and glued 3 flowers and squeezed the tops of the petals together. For the center I glue tiny pieces of velumn scraps to the center with glue.

There are so many possibilities and I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.

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Products used:

ScrapBerry Pigment Ink Pad Mini - Light Brown

Tim Holtz Distress Oxides Ink Pad - Broken China

LemonCraft Gossamer Blue Paper kit

LemonCraft Gossamer Blue Matching A4 Ephemera Sheet

Recollections Dimensional Paper Flowers - White, 12 pcs

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Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting

Inking Up, Inking Out!

When it comes to paper crafting trends, Ink techniques definitely have a firm foothold at the top of the pile! 

This week, our design team will be focusing on creating inspiration projects using their favorite techniques to get inky with the ink brands available at White Rose Crafts!

We're talking layered stamping, background stamping, spotlight inking, emboss resist, ink smooshing, ink blending, stenciling, distress inking, watercoloring with inks, etc!

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As an added bonus, we are offering you 

10% off all items in our 

Inks, Glitters, Embossing Pastes, Nuvo, Etc

category of the store through 6/22/18!

Use Code: INKY

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This section includes great inks like Versafine Clair, Distress & Distress Oxide Inks, Scrapberry Stains & Pigment Inks, lots of refills & more!

It also includes both 6x6 plastic and smaller metal stencils, Embossing Powders, Nuvo Drops, Texture Paste, Glitter Glue, Glossy Accents, ink blending tools & brayers! Everything you could need for your favorite Inky technique!

Design team member, EK, has started the week off with a quartet of cards using the Ranger Brayer & a variety of inks from the shop! Check her blog post out, over at EK Gorman Designs!

Go place an order and then, Get Inky With Us!!

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Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!