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

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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!

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Happy Crafting!

Featured Design Team Series: 4 Fast Cards, One Decoupage Sheet by Amber MacMurtry

Good Morning Rosies!

Amber here, taking over the White Rose Crafts blog to share 4 fast, easy and beautiful cards made with one Craft Creations die cut, Decoupage Sheet, WRC sourced Holiday Paper, and because this week is all about Embracing your Embellishmental Side, a few different Sparkle Blends and some Glitter Glue!

I am smitten with the adorable Busy Penguins from Craft Creations UK, and I love that straight out of the plastic, you have 4 totally cute, dimensional card toppers for just $1.70! Can you say bargain? If you want to stretch this sheet even farther, use the first penguin layers from each topper as flat images on 4 additional cards, or use all of them on one to create a cute, interactive scene with all 4 of these cuties! I, of course, didn't realize this was a possibility until I'd already completed all 4 of my cards, but I love that there is potential to get 8 cards out of this one sheet! WOW! That's some amazing value!

These sweet little guys went together so quick and easily--I think it took me 15 minutes to assemble all 4 toppers! I wanted to keep my cards lower profile, so I decided to use the Woodware UK 1mm Foam Mounting Tape to layer up all 4 of the toppers. I love that I still get dimension without adding a ton of extra postage when I mail these cuties out for Christmas. 

I selected 4 sheets of paper from my extensive Holiday paper collection, trying to match them to the scarves of each penguin. I chose the green holly pattern and aqua snowflakes  from Wild Rose Studio's Holly Lane and Frosted Lace paper packs, respectively. The red and green snowflakes are from the Echo Park I Love Christmas paper pack (sold out), and the ornaments and script on black background are from the Be Merry and Bright 6x6 pack by Couture Creations  (on clearance, now, for less than half price. It also comes in 12x12, and its a fantastic nontraditional color palette). 

I cut four 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch, 110#, white card bases and trimmed my background papers to 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. I mounted the backgrounds using 6mm Double Sided Sticky Tape. 

Next, I added the same Double Sided Tape to the back of the assembled toppers and adhered them on the backgrounds at an angle, for a bit of interest.

Using Stazon black ink, I stamped a different sentiment from the Heffy Doodle Elfing Christmas Words stamp set. I love how versatile this set is, because you can mix and match all the different parts to build just the sentiment you need for your card!

Since this week is all about embellishments, I decided to double up on the sparkle! I chose Dovecraft glitter glue in Crystal , using it to go over the framed outline of each of the topper squares and over the scarves on each of the penguins--which added an awesome shimmer.

As a final touch, I selected 3 different Sparkle Blends from the Doodles Paper Playground, October Release to embellish my cards. I used Frozen on the holly and aqua snowflakes versions, Candy Cane on the green and red snowflakes and Vixen on the final, non-traditionally colored card. I adhered them in clusters of three, in three areas that created an eye pleasing, visual triangle.

I hope you've enjoyed my collection of cards, today! These were so fast to put together--approximately half an hour from start to finish! That's not bad at all for 4 really cute cards--especially in the midst of the Holiday crafting flurry!

I hope you were inspired by my projects today, and by all of the other Extra Embellished designs our team has been sharing all week!

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Lovely Layers and Darling Dimensionals

Hey Friends!  It's EK from ekgorman designs sneaking in today to let you know it's Saturday!

And because it's Saturday, that means that it is time for a new challenge over at White Rose Crafts.  This week we are celebrating 'Lovely Layers and Darling Dimensionals'.

What does that mean?  It means we are playing with all those precut Decoupage sheets.  If you've never seen the precut Decoupage sheets, it is punch out die cuts that are meant to be layered upon each other to make three dimensional projects.  To share two different styles of these layered precut projects I made two different projects.

My first project features the Craft UK Pretty Kitty pre-cut elements sheet, that has three different cats on it.  I punched out one of the kitties and assembled it using Woodware Mounting Pads.

Then I pulled out the ScrapBerry's Elegy Paper pack.  I wanted this card to have an elegant look about it, despite the fact it took me less than five minutes to make it.

To add a sentiment, I stamped out a sentiment from the Kelly Creates Congratulations stamp pack.  I traced over the stamped image with a metallic pen and highlighted it with my white gel pen.

Like I said the whole card took less then five minutes to make, and yet the card has a beautiful grown up elegant look to it.

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My second project is from an all in one pack of paper, that has both the decoupage and holiday paper included.

The Dovecraft Polar Bears holiday paper pack, has everything you need to make a quick and yet fun card.

The polar bear and mouse was popped out and layered with the mounting pads.  Then I trimmed up the papers and layered the card.

This card took even less time to craft than the kitty card, and is perfect for any last minute cards you need to make.

The really cool thing about these decoupage sheets is that they are really budget friendly!  They allow you to create fun projects without the need of a die cutting machine and tons of different dies.  And all week (till Friday August 24th) you can get an additional 10% off your purchase from the Card Kits, Die Cuts, Decoupage, & Toppers section of the WRC store using the code: 10 dimensions!