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Make it Monthly: Felt Book Box Card Tutorial

2 May

Hey everyone and happy May! This month for Make it Monthly we have Anne Redfern sharing a Felt Book Box Card Tutorial! This is a fun,unique card creation to try your hand at. Who says cards have to be limited to two dimensions right?

Make it Monthly: Felt Book Box Tutorial with Eileen Hull Sizzix dies and Kunin Felt by Anne Redfern

Anne’s project features Kunin Felt and Sizzix dies from my Paper Flower Party and new Heartfelt Sizzix collections along with detailed step by step photos and instructions so you can create your own Felt Book Box Card.

You can check out Anne’s tutorial HERE. Stay tuned later this week for more fabulous Kunin Felt projects as the Inspiration Team and the Kunin DT will be sharing creative projects using this fun felt with Eileen Hull Sizzix dies.

Eileen

HeARTfelt Journal Tutorials

28 Apr

Hey everyone! The Inspiration Team has returned with fresh HeARTfelt Journal Tutorials to inspire you. All month long the Team has been sharing creative ideas for using the Journal die from my new Heartfelt Sizzix collection. We’ve seen all kinds of journals so far. Fabric journals, Prayer Journals, Junk Journals, Garden Journals, Daily Planners and more! The possibilities with my new Journal die are truly endless. Let’s have a look at all the amazing HeARTfelt Journal Tutorials the team has for you this week.

HeARTfelt Journal Tutorials

Susie Bentz starts us off with a gorgeous Daily Goals Journal. This Journal includes daily affirmations within its signatures and is a wonderful way to stay on track while embracing life changes. Each page includes bits of loveliness to help Susie stay motivated and organized!

Visit Susie’s Blog for more lovely details on how she created her Daily Goals Journal.

Anna-Karin Evaldsson shares a sensational Tree Sketch Journal featuring Dark Room Door stamps and Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks. The stamped and scribbled look of this journal is easy to achieve yet provides serious impact .

Take a walk through the trees and explore Anna-Karin’s creative process on her Blog HERE.

Jonathan Fong’s innovative creativity knows no bounds! If anyone could find a use for a journal die that doesn’t involve journaling it’s Jonathan! How stinking cute are these zippered tissue holders?

Bless yourself by visiting Jonathan’s blog for a full tutorial on how to create these cute and clever tissue holders.

Lisa Hoel has a beautiful bird watching journal to share complete with a pretty little birdie perched atop its pages! Lisa’s journal is filled with friendly feathered goodness along with creative journaling tips and tricks.

Fly over to Lisa’s blog for a look inside her Bird watching journal and creative process.

Pam Bray ends our HeARTfelt Journal Tutorials with a botanical journal filled with all kinds of crafty goodness. From stenciling, stamping, paper piecing and placement of embellishments Pam’s Everyday journal has it all!

Stop by Pam’s blog for more lovely details and tips on how to create your own Everyday journal.

Hope you have enjoyed this weeks round of HeARTfelt journal inspiration. Stay tuned next week for new journal creations and a recap of all the AMAZING journals we’ve seen this month.

Eileen

How to Assemble the Sizzix Journal

24 Apr

Just a quick post to show how to assemble the Sizzix Journal die and create inserts. There has been so much interest and chat about this versatile die, I thought it might be good to do a post and keep all of the resources in one spot. Thanks so much for your interest!

Here’s what the Journal die packaging looks like:

The Journal is a ScoreBoards die, designed to cut and score thick material like matboard and chipboard, forming a rigid cover for your book! Matboard is the perfect blank canvas- add paint, ink, stamps, sprays, texture paste, stencils, buttons, beads, and more. You can also cut it from paper, fabric, felt, paper leather, metal or combinations of these materials. You can run the matboard through embossing folders too, creating a rich dimensional cover.

One of the things I love about this die is that it’s so easy to put together. And once you make one… well, you’ll see- they are addicting! There are so many ways to use this die- make art journals, planners, for a special occasion, photos, baby book, guest book, wedding journal, junk journals, and traveler’s notebook. It’s your Journal- decorate it as you’d like in the colors, style and materials you’d like!

In this Facebook Live video, I show how to assemble the Sizzix Journal, after looking at some amazing samples from the Inspiration Team. Please watch and see how easy it is! Skip ahead to about minute 30:- for actual assembly.

The Journal measures 8 3/4″ x 4 1/2″ when assembled. Three to four inserts may be added to the book. Watch here to see how to make Journal inserts and how to thread the elastic though the spine to keep the inserts in place:

NOTE- I admit I am not an expert book maker. Here’s a quick tutorial from my friend Pam Keravuori.

Signatures

The story I’ve heard suggests that the sections, or “signatures”, which are the sets of pages sewn into a book, supposedly got their name from monks. When monks finished hand-writing their section of a book, they signed it and that section became known as a signature. Now it means sheets of paper, or “folios”, stacked and folded in half. A signature may be one folio, or one sheet of paper folded in half to make four pages, but generally it is two or more sheets/folios (and sometimes more folds).

The Pamphlet Stitch

The pamphlet stitch is probably the simplest and most popular binding technique for notebook inserts like ours, because you can stitch the pages and the cover of the signature at the same time. You can use 3 or more holes along the fold, but the trick is to start and finish on the same side (whether inside or outside) and have both ends of the twine end up together at the same hole to tie off. Usually this means having one long stitch go over (rather than through) the center hole.

So, for a 3-hole pamphlet stitch, your needle would go through the center hole from inside to outside (or reverse), then through one end hole from outside to inside, then across the center hole to the other end hole, going through from inside to outside, then back through the center hole from outside to inside. Both ends of your thread would now be on the inside at the center hole, ready to tie around and secure the long stitch that crossed over the center hole.

Alternatively, if you stitch with a back stitch and wind up with one thread end inside and one thread end outside, you can make a loop knot to anchor the thread around the earlier stitch at the hole before going through to join the other thread end. This is called a saddle stitch binding.

I usually use 5+ holes for my pamphlet stitch because I think it makes the spine sturdier and puts less pressure on each hole (to avoid tearing). More holes also help keep smaller sized papers in place, so they don’t slant or settle to the bottom. As I start stitching, I leave a thread tail long enough to reach near the bottom of the signature, where I hold onto it against the paper until the 2nd or 3rd stitch, when it becomes secure (without a knot until the tying off). General advice is to always pull your thread parallel to the spine in the direction you’re stitching, since pulling the thread straight out from the spine tends to tear the holes.

Please follow me on Facebook at Eileen Hull Designs and watch for extra LIVE shows in honor of this new Heartfelt Sizzix release! I hope you have enjoyed seeing how to assemble the Sizzix Journal and will consider getting one for yourself!

If you would like to purchase a die, there are a few left in my Etsy shop!

HeARTfelt Handmade Journal Ideas

13 Apr

Hey everyone! The Inspiration Team is back with another round of HeARTfelt Handmade Journal Ideas. The team is sharing the creative ways they’ve used the Journal die from my new collection Heartfelt all month long. You’ll see all the amazing ways you can use this innovative die with a variety of techniques and materials.

HeARTfelt Handmade Journal Ideas

Diana Hetherington used the Journal die to create a place for weekly inspirations. This 2017 Weekly Journal is inspired indeed! Each page is filled with creative techniques.

Visit Diana’s Blog for more detailed photos and a video!

Anne Redfern has TWO HeARTfelt Handmade Journal Ideas to share with you today. First, we have an exquisite under the sea themed Journal featuring DecoArt Media, my Clearsnap Blends Inks and Ocean themed Sizzix Die cuts.

Next, Anne shares how to create a handsome fabric journal with plenty or pages and pockets for all of your journaling needs.

Don’t miss these two amazing HeARTfelt Journals at Anne’s Blog

Karen Bearse shares a gorgeous garden journal featuring a lovely color pallet. Karen achieved this look with a mixture of Clearsnap Blends inks, glimmer mists and embossing with Eileen Hull Textured Impressions folders.

Stop by Karen’s Blog for more details on how she created her technique filled garden journal.

Mitsyana Wright is giving us the royal treatment with her elegant Faux-Dori Journal Design. Absolutely gorgeous inside and out Mitsyana’s Journal features pretty papers from DCWV’s Mariposa stack. Her cover is expertly adorned with gilded prima flowers and glittering rhinestones.

Add a touch of elegance to your journaling techniques by visiting Mitsyana’s Blog for an in depth look at her creative process.

Michelle Zerull has an adorable Journal project that will take you back in time at the same time it allows you to record moments from the present! Michelle’s journal features a cheerful background created with my Clearsnap Blends and carefully collected vintage images.

You’ll find more whimsical images from the days of yore throughout the pages of Michelle’s Journal and tons of tips and techniques on how to create your own HERE.

Tonya Trantham rounds out this weeks Journal inspiration with an adorable felt Dori Journal! Simple and sweet Tonya’s Journal proves that a few key elements can have a BIG impact! That darling doily really packs a punch don’t you think?

Head to Tonya’s blog for all the details on her fab felt doily dori journal (whew! say that ten times fast!!).

Hope you’ve enjoyed this weeks roundup of HeARTfelt Handmade Journal Ideas…stay tuned for there are many more to come! You can check out last weeks HeARTfelt journal projects HERE.

Eileen

Sizzix Travel Trailer Card with Distress Oxides Technique

3 Apr

Hello everyone! The month of April brings us the first signs of spring and a new Make it Monthly technique tutorial. This month’s tutorial is a Sizzix Travel Trailer Card with Distress Oxides Technique brought to you by our resident Mixed-Media technique guru. Tracy Evans! “Take the Scenic Route” with Tracy as she shows you how to use Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks with Eileen Hull Sizzix dies.

Sizzix Travel Trailer Card with Distress Oxides Technique

Today you’ll be creating a card using Eileen Hull’s Thinlits Travel Trailer combined with the Rick-Rack folder from Eileen’s Dots, Flowers and Rick-Rack set. You’ll also use Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks to color your Sizzix Die cuts and create a cool oxidized background for your card.

Sizzix Travel Trailer with Distress Oxides Technique by Tracy Evans

Supplies:

Cardstock
Thinlits Travel Trailer and Rick-Rack Folder (or Eileen Hull dies of your choice)
Spritz Bottle
Non-Stick Craft Sheet
Distress Oxide Vintage Photo and Broken China (or colors of your choice)
Distress Crayons

STEP 1: Apply Vintage Photo Distress Oxide to a non-stick craft sheet and spritz with water.

STEP 2: Cut a piece of white card 5″ x 7″ and swipe the card through the beads of ink.

Spritz the card with a little more water.

Dry the ink with a heat tool.

Dip the card into any remaining beads of ink and this time add bigger drops of water to the background.

Dry the card with a heat tool once again. Repeat these steps until you are happy with the coverage of ink.

STEP 3: Add Broken China Distress Oxide to a non-stick craft sheet and spritz with water.

Dab the card lightly onto the beads of ink.

Spritz the card lightly with water and then dry with a heat tool and repeat if necessary.

STEP 4: Blend Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink around the edges of the card.

Spritz the card lightly with water once you have finished blending ink around the edges.

Dry the card thoroughly. Here you can see how the ink oxidizes once water is added.

The end result will be a chalky, matte like finish.

STEP 5: Emboss card with an Eileen Hull Embossing Folder (Rick Rack border shown)

Sandwich the card between the Embossing Folder and run through a die cutting machine to emboss.

STEP 6: Highlight embossing by applying Broken China Distress Oxide to the raised area with an Ink Blending Tool.

Spritz the embossed border lightly with water and then dry with a heat tool.

STEP 7: Scribble Distress Crayon around the Rick Rack embossed area to add definition and smudge the crayon with a finger.

I love the shading the Crayon adds to the embossed area.

STEP 8: Die cut Eileen’s Trailer from white card.

Colour the Trailer with the Distress Oxides, applying with an Ink Blending Tool or piece of Cut ‘n’ Dry Foam.

Spritz the ink with water and then dry with a heat tool.

Continue to colour the Trailer parts with Distress Oxides and then assemble.

STEP 9: Add some Tim Holtz Chatter Tape for interest.

STEP 10: Take an old container and apply White Paint to the rim of the container, applying with a finger.

Press the container onto the background of the card.

The circle acts as a spotlight for the focal image.

Add delicate splatters of white paint to add a further layer of interest to the background.

This is the completed card which I matt onto a layer of card coloured with Broken China Distress Oxide Ink. I also added a Quote Chip for added interest.

I love how all the layers are visible in the design.

The Oxides add a total different feel to the background.

I also added a touch of shading around the Trailer to age a little further.

The touches of white really lift the design.

Thanks so much for stopping by, hope you enjoyed the step by steps. Tracy x x

Thanks so much to Tracy for sharing her expertise on creating cards with Eileen Hull Sizzix dies and Distress Oxides. This technique is a must try! Be sure to share your creations made with Tracy’s Tutorial.

Eileen

Sizzix Sale on Eileen Hull Dies

31 Mar

There is a huge Sizzix sale on Eileen Hull dies going on this weekend! Head over here to check it out…

Sizzix Blog

Not only is there a sale, but the team is up on the Sizzix blog today sharing their favorite Eileen Hull dies and awesome projects. Make sure to hop over and be inspired.

Do you have an event coming up? ScoreBoards dies are perfect for party favors and wrapping gifts with just that special handmade touch. And they go together so fast too! What are you doing this weekend? Make sure to take some time for yourself to create for you or someone you love.

Last Minute Blog Hop

To celebrate, some of the Inspiration Team members have gathered up their favorite projects and we are doing an impromptu blog hop! See how good they are? This was their idea! I am so lucky to have them <3. Click on each link and it will take you to their posts with even more ideas for ways to use these versatile dies!

Eileen Hull
Anne Redfern
Pam Bray
Julia Aston
Lisa Hoel
Karen Bearse
Anna-Karin Evaldsson
Donna Budzynski
Diana Hetherington
Nicole Wright (Sunday)
Tonya Trantham
Mitsyana Wright
Julia Aston– Sunday post!

Linky With Prize

We want to see which dies are your favorites! Don’t be shy 🙂 Add your favorite Eileen Hull project(s) in the linky below by April 7. A lucky someone ??? will win a prize!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks so much for visiting and make sure to check out the Sizzix sale on Eileen Hull dies- really, amazing prices!

See you on Tuesday night for another Facebook Live at 6 pm eastern and get ready for a busy month of releases- lots of fun stuff planned! Hope you will also follow me on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.