October-December Design Team Call - Filling Vacant Spots.

This Design Team Call is Closed! Thank you to everyone who applied. Our new Design Team members will be announced soon!

Sadly, we have had to say goodbye to some fabulous Design Team Members in the last couple of months who had unexpected familial obligations pop up. We have loved having Kim Cornwell, Donna Coughlin & Debbie Sherman on our team and wish them all the best.

What does that mean for White Rose Crafts? 
It means we are holding a short Design Team Call to add one or two new, full time members to our little crafty family, and maybe a couple of guest designers, too! 

Ideal candidates will be enthusiastic, confident, and dedicated to paper crafting in a variety of styles, and love using a variety of products from many international companies, as well as some of your favorite US based brands. We expect you to be able to take clear, bright, quality photographs of your work and to be familiar and comfortable posting your projects on a variety of social media platforms, as well as sharing promotions, giveaways, announcements and news related to the store. If this sounds like you, see below for application requirements and details!

Note: This is a short DT Call, so be sure to get your application in no later than Mon, September 17, 2018 11:59pm EST.

We are looking to fill one or two spots on our growing design team. We would love to add a member who is strong in Mixed Media, Altered Arts and/or Shabby Chic style projects, a scrapbooker or someone who specializes in decrative planner spreads--but all design styles and papercrafting preferences will be considered. 

Term Design Team Requirements: 

Must reside in the USA or Canada.

Must Love Papercrafting and creating with a variety of products.

Must love working with products from a variety of different companies and countries (visit www.whiterosecraftsllc.com to see the wide selection of brands and products we carry).

Must be able to take clear, bright, quality photographs of your projects

Must have an active Instagram and Facebook account, as well as an active blog that includes frequent papercrafting related posts. You must be able to interact with the design team in our Secret Facebook group, as this is the fastest way for us to communicate with the team as a whole and is where the monthly sign up calendar will be posted.

Must be willing to help grow and increase exposure for the Store and be an active, up-beat, and supportive member of the team. We expect posts on behalf of White Rose Crafts to be professional in nature. We ask that you are encouraging and supportive both with the other team members as well as existing and potential customers. We want you to present your projects and feel comfortable sharing feedback, ideas, favorite products, tips and tricks.

Design team members are required to share a minimum of 4 projects per month using products available at White Rose Crafts, to be posted weekly, that will be featured on our Facebook page, Instagram and Blog. 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, detailed stand alone dies, embellishments or patterned paper packs that are not available for purchase at whiterosecraftsllc.com.

Must be willing to create at least one additional project using one or more featured themes or companies on certain promotional months. (You will receive additional product in your design team packages for these months.)

Must be willing to post design team 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 watermark that will be provided to you.

Must be willing to participate in and promote our new, monthly Gallery Group challenges.

Due to the nature of this call, this will be a short term (this term will begin October 1 and end December 31, 2018). You may be on other Design Teams for digital artists, stamp/die companies or product manufacturers, but we do ask that you are not on a permanent design team for another online retail craft store that carries multiple brands, as it is a conflict of interest (there may be exceptions to this rule-but permission must be obtained on a case by case basis  from Kay), however, you must be able to keep up with your White Rose Crafts design team requirements.

Term Design Team Compensation:

$20 per month in store credit (plus free shipping) to purchase a design team package of your choice or our Limited Edition, Bi-Montly Card Kit (a $29.50 retail value). Kits are issued to Design Team members, for promotional purposes, one month before they are released and will be available for preorder during that time. During certain months, you may be asked to include at least one product from a specific theme or brand in your choice package. You will receive additional store credit or a specific product selected by Kay on those months, and will be expected to create a 5th project using promotional products. (You will be expected to complete a 5th project during Kit months too. You will be exempt from participating in the October 2018 Kit promotion)

Mini sample packs of at least 3 Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends (available exclusively at White Rose Crafts LLC) from each Bi-Montly release, provided and shipped by DPP owner, Amber MacMurtry (approximately 1tsp of product). The next release is October 1st.

25% exclusive, unlimited White Rose Crafts store discount for the length of your design team term.

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 posts featuring your work.

A supportive team, dedicated to encouraging each other, building collective confidence, and sharing knowledge and expertise in our strength areas, while challenging each other to try new products, styles and techniques.

To Apply for the October-December 2018 White Rose Crafts Design Team term, send an email to WhiteRoseCraftsLLCBlog@gmail.com with “DT Application” in the subject bar, so we know it’s not spam, and include the following information: 

- Name, Location, and a brief description of who you are and your crafting journey.

- A Head Shot you won’t mind us using for our New Design Team Member Announcement blog post.

- All of your pertinent social media links (must include your Blog, Facebook and Instagram, but Pinterest, YouTube & Twitter, etc, are a bonus).

3-5 quality photo examples of your work

The deadline for Winter term applications is

September 17, 2018 at 11:59PM EST. 

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.

Applicants who are asked to join the team or are invited to be guest designers will be notified by email no later than September 20th. 

Please make sure you add WhiteRoseCraftsLLCBlog@gmail.com to your safe senders list.

You will be asked to read and agree to the full Design Team Requirements before officially starting your DT term. We will announce the new Winter term team members during the first week of October.

White Rose Crafts Monthly Card Challenge with Craft O'Clock - by Amber MacMurtry

Did you know that White Rose Crafts has a Monthly Sketch Challenge over on Facebook, now? 

Well, we totally do! I designed the sketch for this month, and I think its a really fun one! I decided to combine the sketch with this week's DT theme. This week we're highlighting a fantastic new brand from Poland that offers a wide variety of truly stunning paper collections, Craft O'Clock! I fell in love with the "My Cat Friend" collection and decided it would work perfectly for this month's sketch.

I dusted off the old hexagon stack, & a multi size circle background die from my stash and a Gina Marie Double Stitched rectangle die, and cut pieces from a variety of the patterns in the "My Cat Friend" collection, and assembled them, following the general guidelines of the sketch. Finally, I added a sentiment from Heffy Doodle's Whatcha Sayin' stamp set. I thought about adding some sparkles, but surprisingly, couldn't come up with an option I liked. 
(I know, that's just crazy!)

What would you have used to give this card some shine? Answer in the Comments!

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Happy Crafting!

What Time is It... Craft O'Clock

Hey Rosies!  It's EK and I'm sneaking to let you know it's Saturday!  And since it is Saturday, that means it is time for a new challenge over at White Rose Crafts.  This week's theme is asking...What time is It?...It's Craft O'clock.

Today, I am playing around with the new brand and paper products in the WRC shop, Craft O'clock.  I decided to show how I could use one pad of Craft O'clock 6x6 paper and 1 Ephemera sheet and show several different looks you can make.

My First project features two different pieced of paper from the Ladies and Gentlemen paper pack and the one of the Ladies and Gentlemen ephemera sheet punch outs.

To enhance the papers, I added some Fade Jeans Distress Oxides around the papers and punch out.  Then I added the sentiment from the Your Next Things What Not Sentiments  with a little creative stamping.  Finally, I added some Fairy Dust Sparkle Blend sequins from Doodles Paper Playground and a little sparkle from my spectrum noir sparkle pen.

My second project features two piece of paper from the Ladies and Gentlemen paper pack, a sentiment from a third piece of paper and one of the Ladies and Gentlemen ephemera sheet punch outs.

To enhance this project, I added a white dollie and some distressing from some Crushed Olive Distress Oxides.

My final project features just one of the pieces from the  Ladies and Gentlemen paper pack, but uses both sides of the two sided paper.  I also used one of the punch outs from the Ladies and Gentlemen ephemera sheet.

To enhance this project, I used some of a dollie and some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxides around the edges.  Also I stamped out a sentiment from Kelly Creates Quotes 1 and traced over it with my spectrum noir sparkle pen.

Thanks for peeking in today at my Craft O'clock projects.  Make sure you go over to WRC shop and check out the whole line of papers and ephemera they carry!

Featured Design Team Series: Sweet as Honey Layout by Donna Coughlin

Hi everyone, Todays layout is of my son's oldest and youngest child. He just loves his baby sister so much and it is so sweet to see how they interact together and how protective he is of her!

So since this week at White Rose Crafts we are "Getting creative with Critters". This two children are "Sweet as Honey" together and honey made me think of Bees!

When I saw these Martha Stewart Dimensional Bee stickers, I just had to have them and make a layout.

With bees I thought it would be great to do a honeycomb patterned layout and this is a great way to smaller paper packs. You get so many designs in one pack and many packs are double sided. The paper in Authentic Bundle (Faith) that I used had patterns on one side and the second side had different shades of whites and beige. So I used 7 different sheet and cut out 2 honeycombs from each. Around the page I put different elements from the  Martha Stewart Dimensional Bee stickers.

 

 Coincidently I found an old sticker I had that had Sweet as Honey on it to use as my title! I laid a Dovecraft Paper Doily partially behind the photo. and some other little elements around the title sticker. I also have tons of these little wood hearts and I thought it would make a cute a banner with some black and white twine.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit 

White Rose Crafts

Happy Crafting!

Featured Design Team Series: Hello Squeakheart by Amber MacMurtry

Good evening Rosies!

Amber here, taking over the WRC blog tonight to share some more inspiration for "Get Creative with Critters" week!

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I have been wanting to make this card since I purchased this absolutely adorable Hello Squeakheart stamp set by Heffy Doodle!

I love these simple images that are perfect to use in clean and simple cards or with Copic drawn background & have nice areas to cut out for cute shakers, like mine--plus, if you know me, you know I can't get enough of cute, punny sentiments!

For this card, I decided I wanted a single layer scene to go with my fussy cut shaker elements. I started by drawing the front of the cage--just 3 lines--lightly with a pencil. I used post-it notes to mask so I could stamp the little mice so they look like they're inside the cage. Then I stamped the cheese,  and exercise wheel in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, which is Copic friendly & colored the images. I used a kraft knife to cut out the bubbles in the cheese and center of the wheel for my shakers. Next I used a pencil and straight edge to sketch out the basic shape of the rest of the cage, then I traced those lines with a water based, fine tip, black pen, before coloring in the rest of the scene & stamping the "Hello Squeakheart" sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black ink.

To create my shaker boxes, I cut two 4x5.25 inch pieces of self adhesive Fun Foam, adhering the non-sticky sides together with double sided tape. I placed my card front over the fun foam and used a pencil to trace the openings for my shakers. Then I used a sharp kraft knife and non-stick scissors to cut openings, slightly larger than the traced openings. I backed the openings with a Judikins acetate sheet, before adhering my card panel to the shaker foam. I flipped the whole thing over and added some Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends to the shaker openings. I used Flaming Sunset for the cheese and Lilac Luster (out of stock) for the exercise wheel. I backed the cheese with a scrap of yellow cardstock, and the wheel with a scrap of purple, so no bits would escape & then adhered the whole panel to a top folding, A2 landscape card base. 

I love to bring the outside of my card to the inside, just a little bit, so I stamped the cheese in Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink, used a post it to mask off the opening and stamped a little mousie peeking out with Versafine Clair Morning Mist. Finally I stamped the punny "You are such a Gouda friend" sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Check out the huge selection of critter supplies over in the store!

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Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

Get Creative with Critters

Hey Rosies!!!  It's EK from ekgorman designs sneaking in today to share the new theme over at White Rose Crafts!

This week we are challenging you to Get Creative with Critters!  So pull out your rodents, puppies, bears and bunnies and get crafting!

Today, I pulled out these sweet little cocoa mice from Your Next Stamp Hot Cocoa Hugs stamp set. 

I watercolored up the image and and finished the card with some sequins from the Breakfast at Tiffany's Sparkle Blend Sequin Mix!

Make sure you share how you play with Critters over at WRC's Facebook Gallery Page.  The Design Team loves to see what you are up too!

Featured Design Team Series: Craft Creations Layered Layout by Donna Coughlin

Hello everyone!

This week at White Rose Crafts LLC we are doing "Lovely Layers and Darling Dimensionals" So I would like to present to you this layout I did using layers of Craft Creations, flowers and stickers.  I started with Craft Creations Baby Boy Wording. My next layer I took Craft Creations Blue Baby Plaid and free handed the wavy cut and inked the edges to make them stand out a little. I then took DMV thread and hand sewing a straight border. My next layer is a sheet from Craft Creations UK 8 x 6 Paper Pack: Baby Blue pack. That was hard choosing from so many sheets which sheet to use!

 

After I add the photo I started layering embellishments. Down below you can see I layered lots of different embellishments in clusters. I used flowers such as Recollections Dimensional Flowers , White Paper Calla Lilies, Recollections Baby Boy Dimensional Stickers, and Woodware Adhesive Shaped Ribbon-baby boy.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit 

White Rose Crafts LLC.

Happy Crafting

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!

Featured Design Team Series: Too Cute Shaker Layout by Donna Coughlin

Too Cute Shaker Layout

Hawthorne Hill

By Donna Coughlin

Hello everyone! Today I would like to share a layout of my sweet little grandson who just turned 6 months old that I did for the White Rose Craft LLC design team using fabulous Doodles Paper Playground Sparkle Blends. For this layout I used the Silver Lining pack.

What I did was cut the word TOO CUTE from black cardstock and using the Fuse tool created pockets with Sparkle blends inside, then attached them to the back of each letter. Then taking a different sheet of paper I covered the pockets with Craft Creation 8x6 paper pack - baby blue. The I took the Woodware Shaped Ribbon - Baby boy and draped it across the middle of the layout.

Next the fun part was to embellish the layout. You can see close up how the Sparkle Blends are a great addition to the layout. The little bear below was from Anita's Decoupage Foiled Sheet -Bear Buddies (So cute!) and the Recollections Dimensionsal white flowers I added a little blue into the center by mixing ink and water to dilute it. Adding lace that Amber at White Rose had sent me to the back of the flowers really enhances them. AA few more items like a ribbon, brad and metal sign that I had in my stash completed the layout.

Hope you enjoyed my layout and thanks for stopping by.

~ Donna

Featured Design Team Series: How Do You Doodle? by EK Gorman

It's Saturday so that means it is time for a new Theme Week to start over at White Rose Crafts.  This week we are asking How Do You Doodle?  We doodle by using brands, especially Heffy Doodle and their fun line of dies and stamps and Doodle Paper Playground and their line of Sparkle Blend Sequin Mixes.

For my project this week, I pulled out both Doodle Brands and created an interactive card.  I used the Heffy Doodle die set Congrats  and the Beary Big Heart stamp set.  I die cut the 'Congrats' Out of the card, putting pack in the missing pieces onto the acetate.
Then I stamped the sweet little bear and gave him a quick color with my copic markers.
I added some shading around the card with some Distress Oxides in Shaded Lilac.

I filled the shaker bits section of my shaker card with the newly released Bubblegum Ice Doodles Paper Playground Limited Edition Sparkle Blends Sequin Mix.  I added some extra sequins from the mix all around the card to give it just little more sparkle and shine.
Make sure you share how you doodle all this week over on White Rose Crafts Facebook Gallery.  And if you you are in the market for some new Heffy Doodle stamps or dies, you can get 25% off your Heffy Doodle purchase all week long (until Friday August 17th) using the code Heffy25!

Featured Design Team Series: Zoey & Ziggy Planner Spread by Laura Wolff

Zoey & Ziggy Planner Spread

Scrappin Sweetie's Escape

By Laura Wolff

This week at White Rose Crafts we have a new theme based on getting the most from your August kit. I had a lot of fun creating this planner spread today. I used a lot of Scrapberry's products from the Zoey and Ziggy's line. I also used the Doodles Paper Playground sparkles blend exclusive to the kit.

I started this spread by using broken china, salty ocean and blueprint sketch distress oxides to create my background. I used the Zoey and Ziggy's adventure embellishment sheets for the elements. I had to leave room for a lot of things going on this week, but I love how it turned out.

For some extra sparkle and fun for a special week, I used these planner pocket pages to make a dashboard of sorts for more fun! I am happy with how they turned out and I will do this again! 

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Happy Crafting

Featured Design Team Series: Best Teacher by Amber MacMurtry

Best Teacher

Doodles Paper Playground

By Amber MacMurtry

I'm sharing my project for our School's Cool promo week a bit late due to internet connectivity problems last week. I'm back online and wanted to share this project with you anyway.

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I got back to my roots this time, with a one layer card, featuring stamping, masking and Copic coloring.

Like most of the design team, I fell in love with this adorable School Tots stamp set from Woodware UK, but I decided to keep things a little simpler. I chose to do some reverse stamping with the cute crayon image and 3 of the Versafine Clair inks: Chianti, Summertime, and Warm Breeze. Flipping the stamp over to stamp the image in Versafine Onyx Black. Next, I did some very simple masking with a sticky note & stamped a double stack of books with that cute little boy standing on top in Memento Tuxedo Black & went to town with my Copic markers, trying some weird color combinations with my limited color selection to match the Clair ink colors as closely as possible. I added some small details with a white gel pen & stamped the simple "For the best Teacher" sentiment in Onyx Black.

To add a cute touch on the inside, I stamped a few of the accessory images from the stamp set in Tuxedo Black ink and colored them with Copics.

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I hope you enjoyed my project, I'm sorry it's too late to take advantage of the Back to School promo, but this stamp set is still available in limited quantities. We are also promoting the Ocean/Nautical themed August Subscription Kit Add-Ons this week--and offering 10% off the add-ons section of the store, through August 31st 2018.

Use Coupon Code:

THE SEA

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Happy Crafting!

Product Highlights #11

Hello again Rosies! Its time for another product Highlights post! We've got some cute seasonal items, and some great additions to existing product lines to share with you, this week!

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After adding the new Craft O'Clock brand to our inventory last month, it quickly became apparent that these beautiful, rustic paper collections were going to be popular. So, what's a crafty store to do, but order the rest of the line! We've added three stunning Christmas collections, a couple of new florals, and even an absolutely adorable cat themed collection, for our customers with feline proclivities!

Its no secret that we've been huge fans of the super versatile Jillibean Soup shaker cards, pouches and coordinating stamps--so we've decided to expand that line by adding a few of the coordinating die sets & a cute Christmas themed stamp set we think would be perfect for bauble & snow globe Christmas cards!

Bo Bunny has always been a great option for beautiful papers and adorable, affordable stamp sets! We've added several trendy and seasonal options to the shop that we just adore!

The Kelly Creates line is fantastic for anyone wanting to learn brush lettering (or wanting to fake it--lol). We've stocked a variety of traceable stamp sets and products form this line, but just had to add these gorgeous, vibrant Dream Pens to the collection. These pens feature two different sized brush nibs for both bold and delicate lettering.

With Halloween almost around the corner, we thought this whimsical Spooky Boo! paper collection from Pebbles by American Crafts was a perfect addition to our spooky options!

Wouldn't these adorable Trick or Treat chipboard elements from My Mind's Eye be perfect with the Spooky Boo! paper? Talk about quick, cute projects!

If you love florals, these large, Christine Adolf stamps are perfect for simple water color designs, or detailed or spotlight coloring with a simple sentiment.  

We love these bold, basics from Pink & Main! If your preferred color tastes range either cool or warm, they've got you covered! And really, how stunning are those plaids?

We've added two new seasonal colors to our range of Nuvo drops, with a deep rich purple, called Lilac Whisper & a shimmery golden color called Auburn Pearl.

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We hope you've found some inspiration or a new item you'd love to add to your collection--so go on! Get your shopping jammies on!

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Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!