Eileen Hull

Three dimensional art... with heart

Handmade Holiday Blog Hop

Welcome to the 2nd Annual Handmade Holidays Blog Hop!!!
Calling all crafters! We’ve gathered designers from some of our favorite manufacturers to show you ways to create something from the heart this holiday season. This 3 day Hop includes over 60 stops with inspiration brimming from every corner. Explore all of the thoughtful and frugal handmade gifts you could create for the holidays, all in one place, during our second annual Handmade Holidays Blog Hop!

 To sweeten the Hop, we’re offering a gift for you! For every comment you leave on the blogs in the Hop, you’ll be entered to win a prize pack from one of the participating manufacturer sponsors! Use the Rafflecopter widget on the Clearsnap blog to gain extra entries each day: http://clearsnap.blogspot.com

 Here’s the prize pack you can be entered to win by leaving a comment below. Extra entries if you follow me on Facebook or my blog. 🙂 

You could win the Sizzix Candy Drawer die, the Sweet Treats for You Sizzlits set plus some extra goodies from Globecraft Memories who has generously added to the giveaway! 

Visit the list of blogs below and leave a comment on each by Nov 27, 2012 at 11:59 PM PST. Each day we will be sharing a brand new list of blogs with brand new projects for you to explore, be inspired by, and create from!
Fiskateers – www.fiskateers.com/blog
Donna Salazar Designs – http://donnasalazar.typepad.com/
Eileen Hull for Sizzix http://eileenhull.blogspot.com/
Globecraft Memories – http://globecraftmemories.blogspot.com
Kristin Wilson – Graphic 45 –  http://www.kristinwilsonhandmade.com/
Jennie Garcia – Tombow –  earthyscrap.blogspot.com
Gini Williams Cagle – Hampton Art – http://ginicagle.blogspot.com/
Sabrina Alery – Clearsnap – http://Sabrinaalery.blogspot.com
DeeDee Catron – Globecraft Memories – http://umwowstudio.blogspot.com/
Michelle Grant – Donna Salazar Designs –  http://michellejbg.blogspot.com
Emily Lanham – Authentique Paper –http://www.createserendipity.net
Emma Jeffery – Fiskateers – http://hellobeautifulblog.blogspot.com
Natalie Clause – The Twinery –  http://www.southernbellescharm.com/
Alberto L Juarez – Graphic 45 http://vintageodyssey.blogspot.com/
Vivian Keh – Hampton Art – http://contadinak.wordpress.com/tag/vivian-keh/
Jennifer Priest – Clearsnap – http://hydrangeahippo.blogspot.com
Heather Conklin – Authentique Paper – http://goldiecar.blogspot.com/
Cheers to creating gifts from the heart this holiday season!
Happy Hopping!

And now for the project! In case we haven’t met yet, my name is Eileen Hull and I design the ScoreBoard dies for Sizzix. ScoreBoard dies are designed to cut and score thick materials. My absolute favorite material to die cut is matboard (yes, the stuff you frame pictures with). It comes in a great variety of colors, is super sturdy, the surface takes inks, paint, mists and stamps beautifully and you are also able to emboss it with embossing folders! These dies are exclusive to Sizzix- no one else has this technology. Hope you will head on head over to the Sizzix site and and see all of the fun designs available. 


My project today features the Caddy die. If you want, you can cut two of the pocket sections and add one to the front of the divider and one to the back. 


This packaging does not look especially holiday-ish, does it? But when you cover the matboard with some pretty holiday papers, it sure does! The ScoreBoard dies provide a great base for you to style, color and embellish just the way you want.
  • Coat the back of a piece of 6″ x 13″ paper with spray adhesive and then press onto a piece of matboard the same size. Roll through the Big Shot die cut machine. 
  • Ink the inside of the pocket section in a color coordinating with the papers.
  • Add strong double sided adhesive to all of the tabs. Make sure to fold over each score line before assembling to break the fibers and make it easier to work with.
  • Die cut flower and leaf shapes also included on the die, from paper. Place on the front of the caddy and adhere when you like the arrangement- this is the part that takes me forever 🙂
  • Ink edges of box in brown. Add some twine and a tag. I wrote” joy” and colored it in with Copics, then inked the edges of the tag.

This caddy would be a great way to present homemade candy or small cookies, a pair of earrings, package of spiced tea or mixed nuts, a gift card, tiny notebook or mini album or post it notes. Tie a package of pencils or pens and a notepad, insert  a teacher gift to the box and give to your child’s teacher, soccer coach or music teacher.


Wouldn’t this also make a great place card at a dinner party or event? You could write the person’s name on the tag and slip a party favor in the pocket and the whole thing could be taken home as a fun souvenir. 

Thanks so much for stopping by. Don’t forget to leave a comment- good luck! 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to each of you…

Get Creative Holiday Hop

I was so happy to be invited to join in this hop by Jen Goode. She is an amazing designer, web and tech guru, penguin artist, and last but not least, a great friend. Jen is hosting a linky party on her blog featuring some cool crafts for this holiday season. Click on the logo in the sidebar for lots of holiday inspiration or see the link list below!

I made a Christmas suitcase using my Sizzix ScoreBoard Suitcase die using some great papers by Simple Stories I found in Archiver’s on my trip to Houston last week.

 First, I covered my suitcase with paper- see my tips for doing this on this Sizzix blog post. Some items that fit in the suitcase include gift cards, keys to a new car :-), deck of playing cards, pair of earrings, a small mini album, ATC’s, candy, post-it notes, etc.

As you can see from the pictures, I changed my mind halfway through 
designing this 🙂 That happens quite a bit and I think it make the whole 
process more fun and interesting to see what works and what doesn’t. 
I started distressing with white but it didn’t show up the way I wanted 
so I just went over the edges with brown ink- much better!

 

There are two prizes to win when you check out this hop! (Plus, there may be some blogs that will be offering giveaways so make sure you leave comments along the way.)

  1. 1 winner will receive 2 Sizzix dies designed by Eileen Hull valued at over $35.
  2. A 2nd winner will receive a goodie box filled with a variety of crafty materials valued at over $50.
Eileen Hull Sizzix dies prize Winter Holiday Blog Hop at 100 Directions
How to enter: Check out all of the great project ideas shared by the participating sites. GO back here and tell us what you like more… what project has most inspired you, what holiday festivities are you most excited about or what project are you most excited to try.
The Rules: You must be 18 years or older and a US resident (US shipping address) to enter. Winner/s will be randomly selected after 7pm EST on Monday, November 19th, 2012. If you are selected to receive a prize, you will be notified via email and you will have 48 hours to submit your shipping address or a new winner will be selected.

Don’t forget to click through and see what the other designers made! Here’s the linky party:

Designer Crafts Connection Hop

Today’s hop day! Click on the blue icon on my sidebar to see all of the fun Halloween and fall projects created by my crafty designer friends. 

My Halloween project is a candle screen. Instructions for the project can be found here.I used an orange battery operated tealight that I found at Michael’s… a good alternative to fire when you are making a candle screen from paper :-).

SPECIAL GIVEAWAY! 
If you leave a comment below by 7 PM tonight, you will be eligible to win the Sizzix ScoreBoard Candy Jar die, which I used to make the project.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy October to all!

All Things Altered Blog Hop

Time for another fun blog hop put on by Pam Bray of Scrapbook Flair! Take a look at all of these cool fall projects:

Cut four jar dies from Crescent Bright Core orange/black matboard. (I love this and use it every Halloween. It’s orange on one side and black on the other. The core is orange instead of the usual white. It’s a little thicker than regular matboard which makes it nice and sturdy.)
Stamp a distressed pattern on the jar with black ink. Cut 4 jar lids from black paper and adhere them to the jars. Brush over the lids with silver metallic ink.
Adhere a piece of orange cardstock to black cardstock. Cut four pieces 2 1/2″ x 1″. Score in half down each long side- these pieces will be used to hinge the box together.
 
Fold paper on score lines and add adhesive to the orange side. Place in each corner of the jars until you have a box shape. Distress corners with black ink pad.

Cut the square piece of the Cupcake Stand die from the same matboard. Stamp the orange side as you did the outside of the jars. If you don’t want orange edges, color them in with a Sharpie marker. I also Sharpie’d the sides of the jars where they connect to give depth.


Add spooky embellishments. (I used Jolee’s glitter spiders) On the back jar section, cut a piece of clear packaging and add a spider partway up so it shows through when you look at the candle. What does the key unlock? Find out… if you dare!


Tie jute around the box of the jar lids.


The candle is decorated with a rub-on bat and then inked with black.


The square cupcake stand is used for the base of the project. I added kraft paper krinkle stuff to the inside of the box to raise the candle up a little.
Happy Haunting!
To make this blog hop even more fun, I have a giveaway! Some lucky person who leaves a comment below will receive one of the Sizzix Candy Jars die used in the project!

 Make sure to go all the way through the hop because there are other great prizes all along the way…


Don’t forget to leave a comment- let me know what you would make with the Candy Jar die. You could be the winner 🙂

All Things Altered Blog Hop

Pam Bray has coordinated a fun blog hop with some crafty friends! Our challenge was to create an altered project. Please hop through all of these sites- if you leave a comment you will be entered for a chance to win the grand prize.

Here are the participating designers! Can’t wait to see what everyone has done 🙂
Pam
Pinky
Nicole
Betty
Debbie
Christine
Jess B.
Charity
Laura Evangeline
Eileen – you are here!
Jennifer
Irit
Gloria
Cindi

I mulled many ideas over in my head but decided to alter an item I love to collect- cigar boxes! I found this one I had already spray painted and used years ago at CHA to hold some rack cards and little piece of foamboard candy that I made for giveaways. But honestly, it had seen better days. The die I wanted to use was my Sizzix ScoreBoard Candy Drawer from the Sweet Treats collection (shipping in June). It’s one of my favorites- I love to make a bunch of them and stack them to hold all kinds of stuff. When I placed the drawers inside the cigar box, they fit perfectly! It was meant to be… I have been collecting buttons for a while and these work great to give some character to the piece and also function as drawer pulls!

 
 
Supplies:

cigar box
dictionary pages
Sizzix Candy Drawer by Eileen Hull
Sizzix Butterfly by Eileen Hull
Sizzix Mat Board Pack (6 sheets 6″ x 13″)
Sizzix Big Shot die cut machine
brown dye ink
cool buttons
kraft knife
spray adhesive
ATG gun
glue gun
old drawer handle

 
 

  1. Cut lid off cigar box with knife and ink edges of box to distress.
  2. Coat matboard sheets with spray adhesive and lay dictionary pages on top.
  3. Run matboard through Big Shot  and die cut six candy drawers.
  4. Ink edges of drawers and box fronts in brown.
  5. Pick 6 coordinating buttons and cut off shanks. Glue a small button in the middle of the drawer and glue the larger one on top. (it needs to stick out a little for you to grab the button to open the drawer).
  6. Tape all outer boxes together to make one piece. This is not necessary but it does make it easier if all of the drawers are stuck together to pull them out each time. If you ever wanted to re-use the drawers somewhere else, just tear the paper off and paint it, stencil, whatever…
  7. Glue handle to cigar box. (oops- I meant to glue this handle on top! However, now I can put my business cards on top of it and grab it from the side so easily- it’s better this way after all)
  8. Load up your drawers with fun goodies you want to keep close at hand.
  9. At the last minute I decided to add a butterfly because it just seemed kind of plain. See this post and video tutorial if you want to know how to make the butterfly using recycled soda cans. 

This project will stand right next to my computer to hold office supplies that I use often like sticky notes, memory cards, paper clips, binder clips, stamps and brads. I really like how this came out and it’s useful too!


I am also posting this project over at ScrapScene for WIP Monday (Works in Progress). So you subscribe to ScrapScene? You will love it! It’s a great source of info- lists DT calls, shows pretty projects, new products, artist’s studios, etc.


I will be giving away a Triangle Box ScoreBoard to a lucky winner who comments here too so please make sure you let me know you were here! So glad you could stop by… have a great weekend!

Sizzix Fresh Vintage: Petal Power

Today wraps up the Sizzix Fresh Vintage blog hop with our twelfth and final die! I am so grateful to the amazingly talented designers who created the beautiful projects for us to see twice a week. Many thanks to Sizzix who supported this hop and also to you, our loyal viewers, who commented and encouraged us all along the way. My next collection, It’s a Wrap, just went up on the Sizzix site. Go have a look! Who knows, there might be a another blog hop coming your way again soon…

To view the hop, you can click on the Fresh Vintage blinkie on the sidebar. This will take you around to all of the designers on the hop OR you can click on the linky party below for a look at the projects.

There are three Sizzix giveaways going on right now and you have a good chance of winning some really cool stuff! If you would like the chance to win the Flower, Layers #9 die, answer the question about today’s hop on the Oh My Crafts blog. Go to Creating the Hive, a cool crafting community, and leave a comment for the chance to win the Caddy die (you must be a member to comment but it just takes a minute to sign up!). And visit Julie McGuffee’s blog for info on winning the Caddy die and more!

One more fun thing… I’m not quite ready for this hop to be done. I want to see what you are working on! Do you have a Sizzix project that you would like to share? Join me and the Fresh Vintage designers next week when we do a big final Linky Party (like what you see below with the small pictures of the projects) This will open Monday, 11/7 at midnight and run until 11/11/11! Please stop by and post a link of one of your favorite projects! 

Petal Power is so versatile. You can cut fabric, fleece, paper and recycled materials. It actually makes a pretty big flower- about 6″ if you use the large and small petals. I can’t wait to see what the designers did with this one! Here’s a look:

I decided to make one of those rolled book page wreaths I have been seeing all over the place. 

  1. Tear 16 pages from a vintage book and run through Big Shot using Petal Power die.
  2. Cut a sturdy circle base that is about 6″ in diameter. I used scrap foamboard  but you could also use the cardboard from a frozen pizza. 
  3. Take drapery ring and adhere book page petals all around the ring with Zip Dry glue- large pieces in the back and small pieces in the front. 
  4. Cut a section of a colorful map page about 12″ x 2″. Trim top of map page with scalloped scissors. Ruffle/scrunch with your fingers and adhere to inside of drapery ring. 
  5. Get 5 kraft colored coffee filters. Grab each one in the middle and make a little ruffly poof. Fold the base in about 1″ and staple.
  6. Adhere coffee filters in a ring around the backing circle using double sided tape or glue gun. 
  7. Center a 3″ mirror on top of a large round (5″) recycled jar lid or foam board scrap. Place the drapery ring wreath on top of the jar lid and glue gun in place.
  8. Add a ribbon hanger and bow in the center of the wreath.
  9. Good luck taking a photo that does not include your face, camera or ugly basement ceiling. Mirrors are hard- forgot about that!


Additional Supplies:

6″ cardboard round, drapery ring, map page, book pages, 3″ round mirror