Eileen Hull

Three dimensional art... with heart

Flower card

Working on piles of stuff! Lots of projects soon to be revealed but in the meantime, here’s a card I made for my friend Val. She is such fun and always up for a good time. This pinky-orangish color reminds me of her so I decided to make her a monochromatic birthday card with shades of coral. The flowers were created from one paint chip and the Sizzix 3D Flower by Beth Reames. Beth hit it out of the park with this die! Love it…
Head on over to FaveCrafts blog for an interesting glimpse of where designers see their inspiration coming from and why they create. Thanks Mom, for showing all of your girls how it’s done- creating in the midst of chaos! It has served us well 🙂 Also on FaveCrafts, a review of my book Matboard Magic! Click here to read. Leave a comment for a chance to win it!

Do I detect a nip in the air? Finally! We have a wedding this weekend at a plantation and I am trying to figure out what to wear… something with a jacket I’m thinking… I’ll take pictures. This is a very special wedding. My friend Paula Ann’s daughter is getting married. I plan to take lots of notes because in April, we’ll be having my daughter Jessica’s.

Have a great week everyone!

Terroriffic Tuesday #2 Projects

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Silvia Chenault turns a toy bat into an instant neckpiece (but will it bite your neck?)

Phyllis Dobbs shows us how to recycle a t-shirt into a really cool Halloween trick-or-treat bag!

Kate Pullen brews up adorable Paper Cone Witches!

Messy Missy makes a super spooky wreath with Duct tape!

Avalon Potter goes glam with her Halloween Masquerade Ball mask!

Patty Cappelluti goes bat crazy making this spooky bat door decoration!

Crafterella is a ghoul gone wild in her Ghoul Scout Costume. Download the custom patches she made for her costume!

Alexa Westerfield a.k.a. Swelldesigner upcycles a Starbucks bottle into a swell Halloween vase!

Cheryl Ball delights us with yummy candy corn cupcakes!

Pattiewack upcycles an apple tray into a festive cupcake carrier. So inexpensive and easy!

Ann Butler crafts up a boo-tiful holder for your ATCs complete with a black cat!

Glory whips up a super fun and healthy pumpkin-inspired muffin meal for her kids. Love it!

Crafty Chica makes the perfect mask to celebrate Dia de los Muertos.

Maya in the Moment has some face painting fun with her little cousin and of course, hilarity ensues!

Eileen Hull has a ghostly good time creating this cute diecut necklace!

That’s it for this week! If you are interested in playing in the fun Terrorific Tuesday roundup, e-mail Alexa at swelldesigner@.gmail.com and she’ll send you the details!

Terroriffic Tuesday #2

Time for another Halloween project! This fun necklace was made from a piece of black matboard cut from the Sizzix Scalloped Circle die. I added some silver Stickles to write the word “Boo” and filled the middles of the letters with orange paint. I used my Crop-a-dile to punch holes at the bottom of the pendant and glued on a scalloped book page at the bottom which was inked with orange. A tiny white ghost went on top of the triangle. I added an orange eyelet and a jump ring to attach the pendant to the chain. So spooky!

Click here to see all of the scary Terroriffic Tuesday projects.

Have you signed up for The Hive yet? It’s Facebook for crafters. Click here to join!

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Kate Pullen shares 3 cute digital stamps Free cute spider digital stamps.

Phyllis Dobbs makes an easy Halloween Decopauge Pumpkin Treat Basket.

Jenna Excell shares her super cute and spooky Bones Halloween Apron.

Korinne Zimmerman a.k.a. Crafterella makes a wonderful spray bleach shirt using an adorable Moon Owl Stencil.

Glory’s Mischief haunts her house with her Faux Cats in window.

Ann Butler makes this boo-tiful Reverse Collage Decopauge Jack-o-Lantern.

Eileen Hull tucks away Halloween cards in this fun SizzixScoreBoard notebook pocket.

Silvia Chenault and Patty Cappelluti share two super spooky projects on Silvia’s blog: Vampire Art and Creepy Mirrors!

Pattiewack shows you how to make this cute and Wicked Pillow.

Messy Missy brings the LOLs with her Mean Kitteh.

Alexa Westerfield a.k.a. Swelldesigner whips up a Cute Candy Corn CD Cupcake Stand .

Kathy Murillo a.k.a. Crafty Chica delights us with glittery Skull Bookmarks.

That’s it for this week! If you are interested in playing in Swelldesigner’s Terrorific Tuesday roundup, e-mail her at swelldesigner@gmail.com and she’ll send you the details!

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Farewell, flip-flops!

Until a few days ago, it was still quite warm here in Northern Virginia. This weekend was rainy, then cool. Tonight I put the blanket on the bed. Next item of business will be switching out summer clothes for winter. That means it’s officially fall and thoughts turn to Halloween. Last year I participated in Alexa Westerfield‘s Terroriffic Tuesday’s, where she gathers her creative buddies and posts a bunch of Halloween projects every Tuesday. I don’t want to say this too loud but Halloween is not my favorite holiday. I think all those years of getting 4 kids in costumes just wore me out. But nevertheless, here I am with a project!

This is a somewhat spooky card holder which I made using one of my Sizzix ScoreBoard dies, the Notebook Pocket, and cutting it from black matboard. The ghost and letters are other Sizzix dies, designed by my friend Brenda Pinnick. I love the expression on the ghost’s face 🙂 I found this swirly thin papery material in my stash and can’t remember where I got it but it was white. I sprayed it with Clearsnap’s Smooch Spritz in purple, green and gold, mixing them together. After towelling off the excess, I sprayed spray adhesive on the back and adhered it to my Notebook Pocket. After inking around the edges in black, I adhered “Eek” and bumped up the little ghost with pop dots. I finished it off with some rust ribbon as a handle and pompom trim. After I adhered the trim, I realized the orange was a little too bright (actually I smudged some black ink on by mistake first). Then I took my black Copic marker and kind of scribbled over the pompoms and I do like the more subtle look. Another happy accident!

The card was one of a batch I found while cleaning. I made them from some fun primitive (and somewhat creepy) paper I found a while ago. Then I printed simple Hallween saying on vellum and adhered them to the front. The card bases were all done in muted fall colors. Stop by next week for another project!

It’s been a while since I asked: Have you joined The Hive yet? It’s like Facebook for crafters. Lots of cool ideas, challenges and ways to get involved and interact with some cool peeps! Click here to join and don’t forget to check out the Sizzix group.

Stay warm!

Virtual Baby Shower

I blog weekly over at the Memory Keeping Collection. Earlier this month, our editor had a baby and we decided to throw her a shower. However, we are located all across the country. So we decided to post all of our projects on the site today and put the gifts we created for Karen in the mail. Problem solved. Some days you just have to love this whole internet thing 🙂

Here’s my project. For instructions and more photos, head over to my post. What fun this was! Many blessings to the Gaulke family on their new arrival…

Back from Vacation


Wow, that was nice! A week away… no internet, no phones, white beaches, and frozen drinks… It was the perfect way to celebrate our 30th anniversary. Anyway, we got back to find out that we had no hot water so today was spent getting a new hot water heater installed. Aside from that, it’s good to be home.

I admit I did bring my laptop in order to stay connected till the last possible minute, but after the first 24 hours, I was free! Which made me realize how important it is to disconnect on a regular basis. We met fun people, read books and laughed, went on some adventures and just lived in the moment. I worry that we get so dialed in to life on line that we forget how to interact with real people and don’t know how to experience life in person. Actually I worry about that more for my kids, since that is all they have known. Growing up, there was no such thing as a computer so we knew how to entertain ourselves for hours on end with no gadgets to help. Except crayons and some paper! And speaking of coloring…

I brought my Copic markers with me and did some doodling and coloring. I made a fun file folder with one of my scribblings. I took a Sakura permanent marker and outlined the letters first in black on a scrap piece of matboard. This works great because it’s a nice sturdy base to color on. Then I just took my Copic markers and colored the letters in.  Mindless, yes. Cool looking? I think so… I was on vacation and did not need the stress of making perfect letters 🙂 I double-stick taped it to the front of a file folder and added some flowers from my Scalloped Box ScoreBoard die which I also colored in Copics. Topped it all off with a pretty ribbon and some lace that I misted in green. Of course now it’s all 3D and not so useful as a real file folder but will save this for a special presentation.

Now we are gearing up for the big blog hop- stay tuned. This is going to be HUGE! 

Gearing up…

It is finally getting fall-ish around here and I am loving it. What can I say, I’m a New York girl at heart and love the seasons! But here’s one last look at summer taken on our trip to Florida in July.

This has been an unbelievably busy week- trying to get dies done for the next release, getting things together for the next blog hop (you are NOT going to believe how cool this is going to be!), planning for the Barn Sale, attempting to get my first official newsletter up and running (that’s not going so well) and keeping up with some difficult family situations. But you know what? I wouldn’t trade any of it… as they say, “Variety is the spice of life”.  Man, is it spicy around here…

I read a cool blog post on The Hive today about choosing optimism by Carolee Clark that really struck a chord with me. To see lots of great projects and connect with designers, click here to join this group. It’s like Facebook for crafters!

Have a fun weekend everyone…

My product is in Michael’s!

The day did not start well and was getting worse. Until I stopped in Michael’s and saw my ScoreBoard Scalloped Box die hanging in the Sizzix section! You could have knocked me over with a proverbial feather! The picture isn’t great- I only had my phone with me- but as you can see I was pretty excited. 🙂

This collection of dies has been in the works for quite a while ago so to finally see this in Michael’s was very cool. I am so thankful to work with a great manufacturer like Sizzix who turned my concept into a product!

Appearing on Cool2Craft Monday Noon EDT

Hope you can stop by for a sneak peek at a really fun new die released at Summer CHA- the ScoreBoard Treat Topper! I’l be demo-ing the Big Shot die cut machine and show how to make this pretty and useful bag topper from matboard and paper too. Click here between noon and 1:30 to enter the room and join the LIVE TV show on Monday.
Last Thursday, the bookmark in my last post was featured on One Pretty Thing. I love that site- have you checked it out? Fun stuff…
I spent the weekend (mostly) working. On Friday, we enjoyed a fun evening with our Shots and Dots friends (we play dominoes once a month and there might be a round of shots consumed from time to time). Today I attended a Crazy for Copics class at Angela’s Happy Stamper nearby in Reston, VA. Laura, our instructor, was fantastic and showed some really cool ways to use Copic markers. I have a bunch and have used them but now I feel like I have the official seal of approval to go to town! We made four fun cards and learned some cool blending techniques. Here’s a look…

Have a great week, my friends!