Eileen Hull

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New Dies Released + a Blog Hop = Christmas in July!

It’s that time – time for the Sizzix new dies Chapter 3 releases AND a blog hop! Eileen has two new and festive dies to share with us that are cooler than a pool party in 98 degree weather! Welcome the Snowman and Mitten Box Dies! You will be blown away by all the creative ways the Inspiration and Educator Teams have made use of these new dies.

New dies & a Blog Hop – Hurray!

Christmas in July - New Dies Released Plus a Blog Hop!

Let’s get hopping – there’s a lot to see…

Thanks for joining the Eileen Hull/Sizzix Chapter 3 Release Party Blog Hop featuring the new dies! Did you see up above all those creative ways the Inspiration and Education Teams have used the Mitten and Snowman dies? You’ll get a closer look as you travel along the blog hop. We hope that you will be inspired too and share how you use the dies in the Eileen Hull Fan Club.

But wait, there’s more …

…the Release Party continues! You won’t want to miss the Facebook Live at Eileen Hull Designs at 12:00 noon Eastern time on Wednesday, July 1st! Join the chat – and a random commenter will WIN a Snowman Die. We are so glad you joined us to celebrate the Chapter 3 release!

Please blog hop with us through all of the new dies projects and leave comments on the different designers’ blogs. A lucky commenter will WIN a Mitten Box Die…

Hop Participants:
Madeline Arendt
Julia Aston
Jennie Atkinson
Debbie Bankston
Karen Bearse
Susie Bentz
Pam Bray
Sue Eldred
Anna-Karin Evaldsson
Annette Green
Maggi Harding
Lisa Hoel
Anita Houston
Sarah Lizzie
Jenny Marples
Elizabeth Robinson
Tonya Trantham
Cheryl Bodkin-Waters
Mitsyana Wright
Nicole Wright

Come back next week for more Christmas in July projects using the new dies.

Thanks for stopping by to pay a visit! We are excited to see what new inspiration is in store for us. Stop on by next Wednesday.

Join Eileen on her twice weekly Facebook Live shows at Eileen Hull Designs – Tuesdays at 6:00 pm EST and Thursdays at 4:00 pm EST. Become a member of the Eileen Hull Fan Club-  a friendly, talented and encouraging community of crafty folks that you will want to meet. Please join our group and don’t forget to answer the questions! Additionally, you can also find Eileen on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Eileen’s Release Party Facebook Live is below. We’re ready to celebrate the new dies!! So much versatility as always with the new Snowman and Mitten Box Dies. =)

Eileen Hull Release Party Blog Hop – New Dies Are Here!

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Eileen Hull Release Party Blog Hop

Thanks for joining us for the Eileen Hull Release Party Blog Hop!

Above all, we are so excited to share the new dies with you! You will be totally inspired by the wide range of creations you will be able to make. So, get ready to hop!

Sizzix Bigz Tiny Book

The Tiny Book measures 2 1/4” x 3” and is just the right size for wallet size photos, stamps, quotes, tags or tiny cards. Consequently, it is so quick to make – and great cut using scraps. Of course, when you buy a ScoreBoards die, that means that you can cut from a large range of materials, like matboard, chipboard, leather, fabric and felt!

If you haven’t gotten your hands on a Tiny Book and Tiny Book Case yet, you can find them at your local retailer or in Eileen’s Etsy store.

Sizzix BigzL Tiny Book Case

Eileen designed the Tiny Book Case to perfectly hold the Tiny Book. However, it will also hold a gift card, credit cards, small calendar, gifts, and jewelry. The box measures 3 1/2″ x 2 5/8″ x 5/8″- perfect size for all the tiny things!

Assuredly, the Inspiration Team is excited they can finally share their Sizzix Chapter 2 projects. All throughout April, the designers will be sharing tutorials and videos! Now, please hop down the list to see what the team has been working on. Leave a comment on each of the designer’s posts by April 6, you will be entered to win a Tiny Book die! On Eileen’s Facebook Live on Tuesday, April 7, the winner will be announced. Tune in!

Eileen Hull Release Party Blog Hop

Karen Bearse

Jenny Marples

Pam Bray

Julia Aston

Susie Bentz

Maggi Harding

Elizabeth Robinson

Tonya Trantham

Lisa Hoel

Mitsyana Wright

Eileen Hull

Join Eileen on her twice weekly Facebook Live shows at Eileen Hull Designs – Tuesdays at 6:00 pm EST and Thursdays at 4:00 pm EST. Become a member of the Eileen Hull Fan Club-  a friendly, talented and encouraging community of crafty folks that you will want to meet. Please join our group and don’t forget to answer the questions! You can also find Eileen on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Eileen’s Facebook Live from Tuesday night is right here with a sneak peek at a technique that didn’t go quite as planned 🙁

Thanks so much for joining us for our special event! Leave comments here and on the each of the designer’s blogs on the hop – you will be entered to win the die! Most importantly, be sure to tune in to the Facebopok Live at NOON Eastern. If you miss it, you can watch the replay – undoubtably there will be shenanigans…

Pocket Notebook Release Party Winners!

Thanks for following our blog hop last week- now it’s time to announce the Sizzix Pocket Notebook Release Party Winners! 

The Pocket Notebook is a Scoreboards die, which means it was designed to cut and score matboard to get a perfect result every time. This goes together so quickly! Watch this Facebook Live that I did at Craft Stash while I was in the UK to see how to put it together.

There were so many fantastic projects designed by the Eileen Hull Inspiration and Education Teams on the Pocket Notebook Release Party! Take another look at this impressive collection…

The Pocket Notebook die is so very versatile and who doesn’t like having lots of ideas to consider when creating your own book? Click here to take another look around this amazing collection of projects! And when you’re done, please leave the designers some love. They have worked hard to inspire you.

DRUMROLL PLEASE

The Pocket Notebook Release Party winners are:

  • Rosemary Meadows- you’ve won the Pocket Notebook- woohoo
  • Patricia Zukowski you will get a $25 Etsy store gift certificate!

And for commenting on the Thursday Release Party Facebook Live:

  • Kassandra Tousignant
  • Keisha Siebert- you will both get surprise packages!

Winners, please message or email me (eileenhull@aol.com) your mailing addresses. I will get your prizes out… thanks everyone for hopping along with us!

I hope to see you on my twice weekly Facebook Live shows at Eileen Hull Designs– Tuesdays at 6:00 pm EST and Thursdays at 4:00 pm EST. The Eileen Hull Fan Club is a friendly, talented and encouraging community of crafty folks that you will want to meet. Request to join the group and don’t forget to answer the questions! Visit my Etsy store to find many of the products used in these awesome projects <3

Sizzix Pocket Notebook Release Party

Hi everyone- it’s Eileen here. I’m back from my travels and so excited to bring you the Sizzix Pocket Notebook Release Party! The Inspiration Team and Education Team have been hard at work creating some absolutely fabulous projects to inspire you…

I am so happy to introduce the Sizzix Pocket Notebook Die!

On the die, you get all of the pieces you need to make an entire book- the cover, pages, latch and pen loop! The Pocket Notebook measures 6 3/4” x 4 1/2” with a spine that can adjust from of 3/8” to almost 2”! String it with elastic, hemp, ribbon or twine. So many option for this fun die!

Eileen’s Inspiration and Education teams have combined to show us their amazing Pocket Notebook ideas. Please follow the Blog Hop to see all of the fabulous projects, techniques and videos! 

There are also two GIVEAWAYS- the Pocket Notebook die and a gift certificate for Eileen’s Etsy store. To enter to win, leave a comment on each of the posts. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 8 on Eileen’s Facebook Live show.

Thanks for hopping along with us today!

Susie Bentz

Pam Bray

Julia Aston

Annette Green

Kathy Clements

Cheryl Waters

Ginger Ropp

Mitsyana Wright

Debbie Bankston

Anita Houston

Maggi Harding

Anne Redfern

Jenny Marples

Betsy Skagen

Anna-Karin Evaldsson

Tonya Trantham

Madeline Arendt

Lisa Hoel

Karen Bearse

Sue Eldred

Nicole Wright

Elizabeth Robinson

I hope you have enjoyed our Sizzix Pocket Notebook Release Party! Please make sure to visit all of the blogs and leave a comment in order to be entered in the giveaway. Many thanks to my teams for their beautiful projects and for passing along ideas to use with the new product <3

I will be on Facebook Live today at 4:00 Eastern at Eileen Hull Designs with a couple of special guests 🙂 Please join us!

You are invited to join Eileen on her twice weekly Facebook Live shows at Eileen Hull Designs– Tuesdays at 6:00 pm EST and Thursdays at 4:00 pm EST. Become a member of the Eileen Hull Fan Club-  a friendly, talented and encouraging community of crafty folks that you will want to meet. Join on Facebook and don’t forget to answer the questions! You can also find Eileen on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Winter Wishes Blog Hop

Today Emerald Creek Craft Supplies and Eileen Hull are collaborating to bring you the Winter Wishes Blog Hop featuring lots of Christmas holiday inspiration!

Warm thoughts are unfolding…

as we begin to enter a festive time of year. Eileen, Kim and The Teams have created a fun blog hop challenge to kick off the American Thanksgiving and Winter festivities.
To play along all you need to do is follow along and comment on every blog. If you play along and link up your own creation using Eileen and Emerald Creek products, you will get 2 bonus entries for the draw. Contest Closes on Sunday November 25th, with the Winner announced Cyber Monday!
The prize includes an Eileen Hull Journal Die and a $50.00 gift certificate to the Emerald Creek Shop.

This is a Blog Hop!

You are next… Click here to enter
Check out the hop here!
So on to the project… I decided to create a Memory Box for storing holiday treasures such as 3″ x 4″ Journalling cards, Instax photos, gift tags and notes.  The box is covered with gift wrap- this is a great alternative to patterned paper. There are so many festive holiday patterns this time of year. I find it easiest to adhere the paper to the matboard first, then die cut the whole piece at once.
The Trinket Box is a Sizzix ScoreBoards die which is specially designed to cut and score thick materials so that the end result is a sturdy project. (You can find the die in my Etsy store) It is designed to have multiple uses- books, boxes, frames, shadowboxes, and drawers- all from this one die!

Supplies

Instructions

Here’s a video showing how to assemble this die (it starts at about 36 minutes)

  1. Cover 2 sheets of matboard with Easy Cut Adhesive on the front and back. Add wrapping paper to both sides. Die cut: 1 frame, 1 frame piece with NO oval cut out, 1 binding strip, 2 shadowbox frame pieces, 1 rectangle
  2. Add adhesives on tabs and build shape. Attach 2 shadowbox frame pieces together at end tabs and form into rectangle.
  3. Stamp Merry Christmas with Ebony Blends ink on off-white cardstock and position behind aperture of frame (front cover).
  4. Die cut about eight branches from the Floral Arch die from green paper. Dab blobs of glue on leaves and add embossing powder, then heat. Glue on colored jingle bells. Add a small red velvet bow.
  5. Adhere front cover to back of binding tab. Place binding back tab under shadowbox section of box.
  6. Hot glue glass knobs to bottom of box so it can stand up. Position in the middle of the box so it is balanced.

Winter Wishes Blog Hop

Thanks so much for looking through our Winter Wishes Blog Hop! Don’t forget to leave comments on each of the blogs- you could win the prize! Join me Tuesdays and Thursdays for Facebook Lives and join the Eileen Hull Fan Club on Facebook for the BTS look at what people are creating from these dies- so inspiring! Come back next week and see what the team is creating here on the blog. Happy Thanksgiving, friends!

Christmas Comes Early Blog Hop

The Christmas Comes Early Hop is here!

https://www.katebackdrop.de/collections/weihnachten-hintergrunde

I was so happy when my friend Rita Barakat invited me to be part of this collaboration! Check out the Christmas Comes Early hop and see what these amazing designers have created to inspire us all for Christmas:

Rita Barakat

Eileen Hull

Betz Golden

Joe Rotella

Yolie Burke

Midge and Madge

Susan Hiles

Carolina Moore

Michelle Wells

Candy Rosenberg

 

Christmas Planner

Although every year I try to be prepared for Christmas,  it’s usually not until after Thanksgiving that the Christmas spirit kicks in. But now this year I have a head start 🙂 In order to get organized for Christmas, I decided to make a planner using my Sizzix Journal.

I can keep my holiday calendar, gift lists, recipes, photos and receipts all together inside this handy dandy planner.

Supplies:

Sizzix ScoreBoards Journal by Eileen Hull

Sizzix ScoreBoards Trinket Box by Eileen Hull

Sizzix Little Sizzles, white (2 sheets)

Therm O Web Rebekah Meier Adhesive sheets

Therm O Web 1/4″ SuperTape

Christmas Papers by Paper House Productions

1.5 mm elastic

faux red velvet fabric, embellishments, charms, beads

Instructions:

  1. Cover front and back of two sheets of matboard with desired papers. Run first sheet through Big Shot with Journal die, making sure to rotate paper direction on the second pass. The right side of the paper should be facing the die.
  2. Line up covers with binding strips together. Add SuperTape to end tab of back cover, leaving holes open for elastic, and adhere front and back cover together.  If you don’t have SuperTape, wet or hot glue works too.
  3. String a length of elastic through each of three sets of binding holes. Tie ends together, creating vertical bands down the interior of the journal.
  4. Cover a piece of matboard with adhesive and place faux red velvet on top. Die cut Trinket Box frame die with oval cutout in place. Find a photo or holiday themed text paper and place inside the opening of the Trinket Box frame. Place double sided adhesive on the back and stick to cover of journal. Add ribbon, bells, snowflake metal stamped date to cover. 
  5. Buy or make insert books to fit inside the book. Use cardstock and patterned paper to create the book insert covers and vintage sheet music, ledger paper or copy paper to create the insert pages. See my Facebook Live video tutorial on how to make inserts here.
  6. Add ephemera to inside Journal pages. Add charms to the top outer loops of the Journal.

Please follow me on Facebook at Eileen Hull Designs. Tune in for Facebook Lives every week- Tuesdays at 6:00 EST and Thursdays at 4:00 EST. Join our creative community, the Eileen Hull Fan Club, for amazing samples, inspiration, questions/answers, giveaways and friendship!

Prizes!

If that isn’t enough we have over $100. In crafty prizes including the entire line of Rita Barakat diecuts/ephemera and fabulous paints and glitters from @plaidcrafts! This is going to be awesome!!!

To enter to win you must visit and comment on each post! Bonus, stop by and like the Plaid FB Page!

In one week the winner will be announced on Rita’s Facebook Live show on Monday, Nov 19, 8pm CST on Mixed Media Monday!