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More “Go Green” Sizzix Projects

24 Mar

Hey there! It’s Inspiration Team Tuesday and you know what that means? The IT is back to share MORE “Go Green” Sizzix Projects to inspire you to create with us in the Art with Heart Challenge! Let’s have a look at what the girls have in store for you this week…

Oxana Moupasiridou has a Rustic Recycled Recipe Card Box project to share with you today. This little lovely is all decked out in Distress Paint, recycled cardboard, wood elements and Oxana’s touch of Mixed Media magic!

Stop by Oxana’s blog for more details on this Rustic Recycled Recipe Card Box!

Lisa Hoel is packing more than a “pinch” of green with this crazy creative Leprechaun House creation! I love how Lisa has stacked Loaf Pans from Vintage Kitchen to create her base…talk about “Go Green” inspiration!

Feeling Lucky? Stop by Lisa’s blog for more delightful details on this darling Leprechaun Dwelling.

Tracy Evans has a fun and festive Easter themed ATB project featuring Tim Holtz’s “Bird Crazy” stamps and Wendy Vecchi’s new embossing powders!

Bunny Hop on over to Tracy’s blog for more on this adorable Easter ATB!

Hope you will join in on the “Go Green” fun. There’s still time to enter your “Go Green” projects HERE.

See you soon!

Eileen

Featured Fan: Jean Bullock

20 Mar

I had the pleasure of meeting our Featured Fan, Jean Bullock, in person at CHA this year. Jean was gracious enough to do a Make and Take for a lady asking to see the new Big Shot Plus machine. It was so much fun to meet her because we had been chatting on line for so long, it was almost like I already knew her. I sent Jean my Sizzix Canister die to thank her for letting me video tape and share her demo and she made and shared this beautiful project!

I asked Jean if she would like to share another project or two with you and HOLY COW did she deliver! Wait until you see these delicate luminaries she created!

And now…. heeere’s Jean!

More Fun With Eileen Hull Designs Canister Die

I am having so much fun using Eileen Hull Designs amazing Canister Die. One of the things I love about Eileen’s dies is that they are so versatile. As I was working with the Canister Die, I started getting ideas for other projects. One of the projects I wanted to try making was a luminary.

The Kit N Clowder Facebook group was having a Fantasy Challenge, sponsored by the Flying Unicorn. The challenge was to create a Fantasy project and if we included a unicorn in our project, we could get an additional entry.

Here is what I came up with:

I used Kelly Papers 100 lb white cover stock for the paper. Because the cover stock was rather thick, knew I needed to create some openings for the light to shine through, so I used Sue Wilson’s Eternal Rings striplet to acheive that. The striplet die was narrow enough to use with the panel parts of Eileen’s cannister die. I got a wonderful public domain unicorn image from Wikipedia and fussy cut it and adhered it to the front of the luminary.

The flowers were created with a Martha Stewart Hydrangea punch. I used an embossing tool to give the flowers more dimension and added tiny self-adhesive half pearls to the centers and also to the pattern created by the Eternal Rings die and on the corners of the top and bottom of the luminary.

If you look closely at the photo above you can see the battery operated tea light I added. The tea light is from Walmart. Rather than open the luminary from the top, I created it to open from the bottom, so the tea light could be easily accessed.

For the top of the luminary, I used a beautiful filigree flower adornment from the Flying Unicorn and added a flower and pearl to the middle. The lid is glued to the top of the luminary, which is really the bottom turned upside down.

I love the effect of the lighted luminary.

I showed it to a colleague at work who asked me if I could make a night light for her new granddaughter. And so … I did! Unfortunately, I got the name wrong on the panel I added, so I will be making another one this weekend.

In a few days, I shall share photos showing how I created these.

In closing, I would like to share how I met Eileen Hull. We have been Facebook friends for several years. This year I was able to attend the CHA convention in Anaheim, and while I was there, I wanted to say hello to Eileen, so I went to one of her make and take demonstrations. After the demonstration, I went behind the counter to get my picture taken with Eileen. We were having a fun chat, and a very nice lady approached the counter, and being in a jolly mood, I asked her if she would like to do a make and take. Eileen let me show the lady how to do the project. I had so much fun. Eileen videotaped it with her phone and shared it on Facebook. Click HERE if you would like to see the video.

Please check back in a few days and visit Jean’s blog to see how she made the luminaries.

If you would like to try your hand at creating a Canister, you can buy the die here (and it’s even on sale!):

Sizzix Canister die

Cutting Pad – Extended, 1 Pair

Big Shot

InLinkz.com

Thanks Jean for sharing your art with us!

See you on Tuesday with another amazing selection of awesomeness from our super talented Inspiration Team!

And we have a Paper Trail update coming soon with details about the Paper Trail 4 Tour in April so check back! I would love for you to follow Scotty and I for an up-close and personal look at travel teaching in a vintage camper- follow me here on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter!

St. Patrick’s Day “Go Green” Sizzix Projects

17 Mar

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Today is your lucky day…the Inspiration Team is back once again to share some “Go Green” Sizzix Projects with you. Come along and follow the creative rainbow. I can assure you there is a pot of inspirational gold at the end.

Diana Hetherington has a fabulous upcycling project to “Go Green” with this St. Patty’s day. This Fenced Storage Box created from recycled StencilGirl packaging is environmentally friendly and too cute to boot!

Visit Diana’s Blog for a full tutorial on how to turn packaging into an adorable Fenced Storage Box.

Michelle Zerull has a sensational “Go Green” project that will have your creativity blossoming in no time! This darling Flower Arrangement created with recycled newsprint and nestled into my soon to be released Train Case Die is the perfect project to welcome spring.

Head to Michelle’s Blog for a fun tutorial featuring DecoArt Media and some of my new and old Sizzix dies!

The Bird’s the word when it comes to Nicole Wright’s “Go Green” ATB contribution! Her Bird Crazy Artist Trading Block is too cute for words! I love the look of the new Distress Color “Cracked Pistachio” coupled with Tim Holtz’s “Bird Crazy” stamp set from Stampers Anonymous don’t you?

Tweet all about this Bird Crazy ATB at Nicole’s Blog.

Pam Bray is also “Going Green” with an ATB. This Dance in the Rain ATB complete with Wendy Vecchi Crackle paste and paper pieced, stamped flowers is a real stunner indeed!

Dance in the creative rain with Pam as she shows you some neat ways to use Crackle Paste and Copic Colored stamping to add serious dimension to your “Go Green” projects.

Everyone sure brought out their best “Go Green” inspiration today. Are you ready to “Go Green” with us? Link up your “Go Green” projects HERE.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Eileen

Go Green with Sizzix

10 Mar

Hey everyone! It seems we are finally experiencing warmer days here in the North East and beginning to see some “greenery”…a sure sign of spring! The inspiration team is back again to share creative “greenery” with their “Go Green” projects! Today you’ll see “green” ideas to craft with your scraps, stash, and fun products from Sizzix, DecoArt, and Graphic 45.

Lisa Hoel has a fun ATC project to help you “Go Green” and use up fabric scraps! Lisa’s Quilted ATC’s are artful AND environmentally friendly. What a great way to get creative with fabric scraps!

Stop by Lisa’s blog and see how to stitch your way to green crafting!

Shelly Hickox has a fabulous Easel Card and Candy Drawer project that will have you longing for fresh produce from the farmer’s market! Coupled with Graphic 45 Home Sweet Home collection this project will leave you with the sweet taste of creative magic.

Visit Shelly’s blog to check out the equally fabulous tutorial she’s cooked up for you. You’ll want to eat your “greens” once you see this clever creation.

Anne Redfern goes green with a handcrafted coaster caddy all decked out with DecoArt Media! She’ll even show you how to double up on the Sizzix Caddy die fun!

Get “crackin'” over to Anne’s Blog for more DecoArt Media goodness using my Sizzix dies!

Pam Bray puts the green in creative green thumb with her gorgeous Garden Box creation featuring several of my Sizzix dies! I love how Pam has used dies new and old to create this stunning garden box complete with garden gnomes and DecoArt Media!

Go Green with Pam on her blog and learn creative Sizzix die techniques and more with DecoArt Media!

Tracy Evans is sharing a second gorgeous green project with us today. Tracy’s high-flying Artist Trading Block will take your go green inspiration to new heights!

Stop by Tracy’s blog for cool blue and green mixed media techniques and a closer look at this beautiful ATB sure to make your creativity fly!

Hope you have been inspired to “Go Green” with us here at Art with Heart today! We can’t wait to see how you interpret the “Go Green” theme…link your projects up HERE.

See you soon!

Eileen

Stop Hunger Now

8 Mar

Yesterday was busy!

I started the morning at a really cool event put on by Stop Hunger Now. It was held at my church and co-sponsored by the ADAMS Center, a mosque located around the corner from Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church. 175 people from our community gathered from 9:30-11:30 with the goal of packaging meals for 35,000 people! I have to say I was motivated not only by the desire to be part of this great mission, but also because I didn’t see how it was possible to do so much in such a small amount of time and wanted to see for myself. [Read more…]

Featured Fan: Bonnie McLain

6 Mar

Bonnie McLain consistently blows us away with her amazing projects and often enters our monthly Art With Heart Challenge here on the blog.

BTW- a new challenge just started- join us here and show us what you are working on- this month’s theme is “Go Green”!

So I got to chatting with Bonnie on line and asked her if she would agree to do a guest post over here on the blog. She graciously said yes. Take a look at what she has created and I’m sure you will agree- Bonnie is one amazing designer! [Read more…]

Art with Heart Challenge March “Go Green”

4 Mar

Hey everyone! It’s hard to believe that March is here and spring is right around the corner. This month our Art with Heart Challenge is “Go Green”. Whether you want to interpret that theme with a St. Patrick’s day project, an upcycled creation or simply add a little greenery to your makes is completely up to you. We can’t wait to see what you create for the Go Green challenge. As always there is a fun Sizzix die up for grabs from my From the Heart Collection…the mini shopping bag! Let’s Go Green and see what the Inspiration Team has in store for you this week…

Tracy Evans is bringing us a lil’ Luck O’ the Irish with this gorgeous green Good Luck Travel Journal. Stitching, inking and tons of creative techniques can be found on this fabulous creation using my soon to be released Travel Journal die from Vintage Travel!

Try your luck over at Tracy’s blog where you will learn lots of mixed-media tricks to “Go Green” with your projects.

Nicole Wright will be the wind beneath your creative wings with this clever cookie box Windmill creation! Every detail on this project will literally “blow” you away from the feathers down to the textured embossing!

Harness some creative wind power for your next project by visiting Nicole’s blog for more gorgeous details on her amazing Cookie Box Windmill.

Rina Gonzalez is sharing a lovely and quick greeting card project featuring Stampendous Stamps and my Ribbon Die! Rina created this project almost entirely from wayward craft room scraps, talk about going green!

Stop by Rina’s blog to learn how to create these Lovely and Quick Greeting Cards with YOUR craft room scraps.

How’s that for some Go Green Inspiration? You have until March 30th to link up your Go Green creations below! I’ll be back later this week with last months winner and top 3.

Eileen

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Stampendous ATB Block Hop Day 5

27 Feb

I can not believe the amazing creativity being showcased on my Sizzix Artist Trading Blocks in our block hop with Stampendous this week. Here we are on Day 5 of the Stampendous ATB Block Hop and the inspiration continues! Just when you think this hop couldn’t get any better, it does. Have a look at the latest ATBs created by my Inspiration Team and Stampendous…

Anne Redfern’s Blossoming Butterfly ATB creation will put some “Spring” in your step and warm your creative soul! I just love how Anne has added such dimension to the Stampendous butterflies and the delicate paper piecing of the Wild Roses stamps.

Visit Anne’s blog for more lovely details on this Blossoming Butterfly ATB!

Donna Budzynski’s project is like a warm spring breeze! You can almost smell the Hydrangeas featured on this gorgeous ATB. The Stampendous Hydrangea Cling Stamp and matching cutting set was used with Donna’s outstanding coloring. Black Matboard and Spoonful of Gold embossing powder give this project serious POP!

Take a walk through a garden of creativity at Donna’s blog and take a whiff of some amazing ATB techniques!

Diana Hetherington is taking us on a trip to the magical land of Oz with her ATB creation! She is a creative wizard indeed!

Follow the yellow brick road to Diana’s blog and see the wizard herself. You won’t want to miss a single detail on this delightful Wizard of Oz ATB.

If you loved the ATB projects from the Inspiration Team so far just wait until you see what the Stampendous team is creating! WOW! Much, much more Artist Trading Block inspiration awaits you over at the Stampendous Blog plus there are fabulous prizes! Check out all of the amazing ATBs created for day 5 of our Stampendous Block Hop and enter to win prizes from Sizzix and Stampendous HERE.

In case you missed any part of the Block Hop you can get caught up by following the links below:

Click Here for Monday’s Links

Click Here for Tuesday’s Links

Click Here for Wednesday’s Links

Click Here for Thursday’s Links

Click Here for Friday’s Links

You can find all of the Fabulous Stampendous products used in these gorgeous projects and connect with Stampendous by following the links below:

Shop Stampendous

Stampendous Blog

Follow Stampendous: Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest

Looking for Sizzix dies to use your Stampendous products with? You can find my complete catalog below:

Shop Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies

Follow Eileen Hull: Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest * Google +* Instagram

Want to learn more about Artist Trading Blocks? Check out our sister site and follow along with us on Social Media.

The Artists on the Block Blog

Follow The Artists on the Block: Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest

Stay tuned next week for more ATB projects and more from the Inspiration Team!

Eileen

Stampendous ATB Hop

26 Feb

So far this Stampendous ATB Block hop has been nothing short of spectacular! Every morning I get up and can’t wait to start clicking through the links to see what’s happening on the hop. The Inspiration Team and the Stampendous DT are back again with MORE knock your socks off Artist Trading Block creations for you to enjoy. Let’s see what’s happening on Day 4 of the Stampendous ATB Block Hop…

Tracy Evans is getting us started with an artfully inked up ATB creation stamped to perfection with Stampendous Vintage Press stamps! Not only is Tracy an expert at inking and stamping, her use and placement of embellishments is top-notch! Hello Vintage Telephone!

Head to Tracy’s blog for a delightfully vintage inking and stamping tutorial.

Lisa Hoel’s ATB will blow your mind! This magical Western Music Box ATB with its rusted golden gears is certainly something to marvel over.

Giddy up and gallop over to Lisa’s blog and let her tell you the tale of how she created this incredibly creative Western Steampunk ATB.

Nicole Wright combines Sizzix dies and Stampendous stamps beautifully with her lovely Eiffel Tower ATB! The delicately stamped background combined with luscious layers of Sizzix goodness is a true tour de force.

Take a trip to Nicole’s blog, a city of loveliness in itself, for more detail shots plus creative tips and tricks.

Amy Bowerman’s creation will make your creativity soar! Her fun and feathery Steampunk Bird ATB tower is flying high with Stampendous goodness.

Fly on over to Amy’s Blog for more details on this Emily Dickinson inspired Steampunk Bird ATB.

So that this blog post is not a mile long, I am posting my Treehouse ATB in a separate post which you can find here. The video gives you a peek at how I made it 🙂

You can catch more of the Stampendous ATB later this week along with more Artist Trading Block inspiration as we continue our Block Hop tomorrow.

In case you missed any of the amazing ATB’s created for the Stampendous ATB Block Hop you can find today’s projects and projects from throughout the week by following the links below. Don’t forget to comment to win prizes from Sizzix and Stampendous!

Click Here for Monday’s Links

Click Here for Tuesday’s Links

Click Here for Wednesday’s Links

Click Here for Thursday’s Links

You can find all of the Fabulous Stampendous products used in these gorgeous projects and connect with Stampendous by following the links below:

Shop Stampendous

Stampendous Blog

Follow Stampendous: Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest

Looking for Sizzix dies to use your Stampendous products with? You can find my complete catalog below:

Shop Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies

Follow Eileen Hull: Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest * Google +* Instagram

Want to learn more about Artist Trading Blocks? Check out our sister site and follow along with us on Social Media.

The Artists on the Block Blog

Follow The Artists on the Block: Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest

See you soon!

Eileen

Stampendous!/Artist Trading Block Hop- Treehouse

26 Feb

So far this Stampendous ATB Block hop has been nothing short of spectacular! Every morning I get up and can’t wait to start clicking through the links to see what’s happening on the hop.

Artist trading blocks provide a multi-dimensional canvas for your artistic expression. It’s never been easier to create, collect and share your style with Stampendous stamps and Essentials!

The creativity of a collaboration provides new ways of designing with the same styles you love from Stampendous and new product partners that complement so well together. Of course, we love playing with new toys so it’s a win-win for all of us.

There is a striking line up of designers posting today and we know that you’re going to love more inspiration so let’s get started “block” hopping through them. Did we mention there are prizes for you hoppers?

We have prizes!!! We’ll choose three winners at random from the comments on all blogs in the hop. Then from those three we’ll randomly pick a GRAND PRIZE winner! Two of the winners will receive Stampendous PenPattern Petal and PenPattern Flutter cling stamps, just like you’ll see on Kristine Reynolds amazing ATB sample. They’ll also receive enough pre-cut, premium matboard from Sizzix to make two boxes of your own, plus some extra pieces for fiddly bits! The Grand Prize winner will receive the stamps as above, a whole package of matboard, AND the Sizzix die to cut your own ATB boxes! Uh, WOW!

If that weren’t enough, eligibility for these amazing prize packages has expanded to include our international fans too!

We’ve extended the commenting time to accommodate designers posting projects that received their Stampendous products through slow mail. So we’ve extended the deadline a whole extra week to give us, you and the designers time to enjoy the collaboration projects from the “block party” hop. The comment deadline will be Sunday, March 8th. We will continue posting links as we receive them from the Inspiration Team, so be sure to keep checking back. You get one entry for every comment, so you don’t want to miss the chance to leave a thoughtful comment on each project. For those who tend to get lost, we’ll post a “cumulative” link list of links so far on Saturday, February 28th and Saturday, March 7th. Then you can check your progress.

Here are today’s participating designers –

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Lea Kimmel

Pam Hornschu

Eileen Hull

Amy Bowerman

Tracy Evans

Lisa Hoel

Nicole Wright

For some reason I could not settle on what I wanted to create- there were so many fun options! Then time got tight and I decided to just let it happen… so I went down to the studio and started playing around with what was on my desk.

Here’s what I came up with…

The stamps that I received from Stampendous! were a set of houses and sentiments about home. I love houses because when we were growing up, my dad would buy old houses and fix them up- sometimes for us to live in and some to rent out or sell. It was so exciting to go in them and explore- not so much fun as a teenager when your summer job was stripping 16 layers of wallpaper though…

I married a military man and houses took on a new significance which meant moving often and making new friends along the way.

You will find the supplies at the bottom of the post if you want to make one.

Die cut the block three times from matboard. In one use the Heart Mover and Shaper to die cut the shape out of the block. Leave one strip plan. Cut the third strip, as seen in the photo, for the roof. Use ColorBox Blends (by Eileen Hull!) to color a soft background on the two larger blocks.
Use this secret weapon to mute colors into a watercolor effect.

Stamp house images on blocks, taking care to factor in how the block will be oriented when finished. Color cut out heart with Stop ink- love this color!

For the roof, swipe Flagstone, Nutmeg and Ebony Blends across the strip sideways. Add Spoonful of Rust powder on top in random spots and hit from below with the heat gun. I found it did take a while for the heat to get through the matboard but when it did- WOW! I also added some Frantange embossing powders to mimic snow. The bonus was there were gold flecks mixed in so now it glitters when the light hits it.

Die cut 8 hearts from matboard (from another block die). With two of the hearts, notch and make 3D. Add fishing line to the top and bottom by adding a line of glue down the side seam. Place fishing line within the glue and let dry.
Cut a piece of clear packaging and trim to the size of the finished house and roof. Ink hearts with assorted colors and adhere to packaging, then slip inside house. Save one heart and add white/gold embossing power and adhere to the front of the house.

To assemble house, run a line of hot glue along both edges of block and set roof evenly on top.
I added corks to the bottom of the house to give a little more dimension. Kind of reminds me of a treehouse!

Stampendous! and Sizzix are a great combo, don’t you think? Thanks for stopping by … and enjoy the rest of the hop!

Eileen

Blocks/Cubes	Block/Cube/Bank	Big Shot	Little Sizzles Matboard Pack- Cream
Cutting Pad – Extended, 1 Pair	Spoonful of Rust Embossing Powder	Family Home	Blends-Leaf
Blends- Bay	Blends- Sunshine