Eileen Hull

Three dimensional art... with heart

Baby Shower Flower Wishes

Here is a pic sent to me by Lorraine Fletcher, who took the Cutting Flower Garden class that Pam Keravuori and I taught in June at Angela’s Happy Stamper. What a fun group of ladies we had that night!

Lorraine said she “made this bucket of flowers for a friend’s baby shower (it was a girl), then attached leaves and had the ladies at the shower write Bible verses on to encourage the new mum.” Lorraine is Australian- I want her accent so bad!
 
Thanks for sharing what you create with my dies- it’s so much fun to see what you do with them! 

Duetica Baby Shower Layout

Last month we had a baby shower for my daughter Jess. She is due with her little guy at the end of June so we’ll be headed down to Miami. I can’t wait to meet him! And see my daughter and SIL of course 🙂

Here’s a layout I designed using the beautiful Mandolyn font by Duetica. I formatted the text in Illustrator and cut them out using my Sizzix eclips. Now, in addition to all of the fun  designs you can cut from eclips cartridges, there is a new feature called eCAL that allows you to cut files that you design yourself! Love it- and it’s really easy to do! Can you imagine cutting these delicate letters by hand? 

Supplies:
Duetica Mandolyn font (go sign up right now!)
computer
Sizzix eclips machine
Big Shot die cut machine
Borders & Hydrangeas Bigz die (shipping any day now!
white glossy 12″ x 12″ cardstock
photos and paper to mat them with
adhesive- glue pen and spray
scoring board
cardstock for words
scraps of paper for rick rack 

FYI- The background paper grid actually looks like bathroom tiles especially using the glossy paper…. My daughter looked at this and said, “Oh cool, I get it- baby SHOWER”. Yeah, I meant to do that. Really.

  1. Using Mandolyn font, lay out words on 12″ x 12″ paper, sizing them as large or small as you’d like. I love the graceful curves of this font and made my letters fairly large, about 2 3/4″ tall. The contrast of gray text on white is really crisp and not as harsh as black might have been.
  2. Assemble photos. Print and cut to desired size. Arrange on page. Mat with complimentary colors. I chose a light blue since blue tones were visible all through the photos. 
  3. Lay white paper on the scoring board and score every 1/2″ vertically on the wrong side of the paper, filling the page. Flip it over and rotate one quarter turn. Score every 1/2″ again.
  4. Add a border made from scraps trimmed from paper the words were cut from. Cut a few rick rack pieces from other colors in your layout and adhere them where there are gaps.
  5. Lay elements on page to arrange them and adhere in position. Use spray adhesive on the back of the “baby shower” pieces so they lay flat.
The theme we picked was “Welcome Sweet Pea” (realized this was not original as I shopped for plates and napkins) but I had a special reason for wanting it. My Grandpa Mamitsch was a florist and won numerous awards for his sweet peas at the International Flower Show held in NY in the 40’s.  I am lucky enough to have some of the certificates he received. I nestled the awards in pots of begonias, Gerber daisies and and some perennials. I considered buying cut flowers but decided this way we could plant them and enjoy all summer (or at least until I forget to water them). 

For favors, everyone took home a little peat pot and sweet pea seeds so they could grow their own.

 Crayon art masterpiece by Maryanne- isn’t it cool?

Something went wrong with our plan for the punch. It tasted good but the little marshmallow peep ducks weren’t swimming properly- kept flopping over…

Since rain was in the forecast, we put the tent up on the deck. It was decorated with big white and blue tissue paper flowers which we hung from the ceiling. 

 For sure…

My friend Lorine made some killer cupcakes…. and here’s the banner before it’s assembled. I made it using my Triangle Box ScoreBoard die and Serif Essential letters. 

We asked everyone to fill out one of these and sent them to the important people who could not be at the shower. I’ll make a book from them for the baby so he knows how much he is already loved. 

My three amazing girls (and baby)! So glad I have them…

Thanks for stopping by 🙂

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…

Birth Announcement

My friend Joayn became a grandmother at Thanksgiving. She had gotten some stationery before Jackson was born and I asked her for a notecard. Wasn’t sure what I would do with it but thought I might somehow create a unique birth announcement for her. Actually I did two and will give the other one to Tara, Joayn’s daughter. I like how this came out and it was so easy with the help of my trusty workhorse, the Logan mat cutter!

Make sure to check out the Sizzix site on Monday and click on BLOG! I will be posting new projects, tips and techniques for working with the new ScoreBoard dies along with other Sizzix designers.

I can’t wait to see these babies in person on Saturday! I will be traveling down to Raleigh, NC where the closest Archiver’s store is. They are offering a free Make and Take Sizzix ScoreBoards gift card box. If you have an Archiver’s store in your area, boy are you lucky! Stop by and make a one…

Royalties baby!

There was a great surprise waiting for me in the mailbox the other day- a royalty check from Logan! Right when I had kind of put the whole book writing experience out of my mind…

On Sunday, Trinity, Maryanne and I were on our way to Lowe’s to buy some flowers. I called Dawn and put Trinity on speaker. While they were talking, Chris beeped Dawn. Somehow she hooked up a 3 way call so that she, Chris and Trinity all got to talk together on their 6th anniversary between Iraq, Cape Cod and VA!

Forgot to put in a plug for this great fabric store I went to the other day. It’s called Web Fabrics located in Purcellville, VA. It’s quite large, is very well organized and carries all the latest stuff… very fun to see. It almost makes me want to sew more. Pretty funny because my machine is a 1951 Singer that only does a straight stitch. But it’s about my speed.

Tomorrow we are headed out to plant the flowers. Trinity can’t wait. My back can…