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Hearts, Flowers and Dragons with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies

Welcome friends! Today we are showcasing projects made with Hearts, Flowers and Dragons with Eileen Hull Sizzix dies. You might notice that one of those things is not like the other 🙂 But check out these awesome projects and see how innovative the members of the Inspiration Team are!

Heart, Flowers… and Dragons?

Can you tell that Karen Bearse is excited about the new season of Game of Thrones? She made an unbelievable cool Dragon Box using the Sizzix Treasure Box and Clearsnap Blends inks– see how here.

Pam Bray has created a Love Treasure Basket using the Birdhouse die and filled with candy and topped with some gorgeous Romance Flowers colored with Clearsnap Blends inks. Visit Pam’s blog for more beautiful ideas…

Tonya Trantham created this Pretty Posies Trinket Box with the Treasure Box die and Journaling Cards- Flowers & Leaves. She added a touch of color with Clearsnap Blends inks.

Thanks for visiting and checking out Hearts, Flowers and Dragons with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies! We will see you soon with another installment of “As the Inspiration Team Creates”…

As always, 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- join on Facebook and don’t forget to answer the questions! See you there friends <3 Have a great weekend!

More LOVEly Eileen Hull Sizzix Projects

Valentine’s Day is over but the Inspiration Team has more LOVEly Eileen Hull Sizzix projects to share! Love should be celebrated all year long, right? So keep these inspirational projects in mind when you are looking for wedding, anniversary, or general “I love you” ideas to make for your friends and loved ones.

Spread the LOVE

Julia Aston made a gorgeous vintage storage box for her paints using the Sizzix ScoreBoards Treasure Box and a whole lot of creativity. See the tutorial on Julia’s blog!

Lisa Hoel created a yummy paper chocolate box (containing REAL chocolate- can it get any better than that?) using the new Sizzix Stacking Drawer die. See Lisa’s tutorial here.

Susie Bentz really pushed the creative envelope with this project, using Clearsnap Blends inks to color and stencil her clever Fragrance Diffuser using the Treasure Box and Floral Cutouts dies <3. Check out the tutorial on Susie’s blog.

Pam Bray created an adorable favor box that could be used throughout the year using Clearsnap inks and the Sizzix Stacking Drawers. See how she made the Stacking Drawer favor box.

Check out this cool pitted enameled finish that Jenny has put on the Treasure Box! Head over to Jenny’s blog to see how to recreate the look…

Anna-Karin Evaldsson made a gorgeous leather Wrapped Journal and embellished it with the Heart & Soul flower, Pansy, Spring Leaves and Journaling Words dies. See her fantastic tutorial here!

As always, 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- join on Facebook and don’t forget to answer the questions! See you there friends <3

I hope you enjoyed seeing more LOVEly Eileen Hull Sizzix projects by my talented Inspiration Team. Have a great week!

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!

Stenciled Embossed Journal

Hi everyone- I am so excited and honored to be part of the Stencil Girl/Emerald Creek Blog Hop and am sharing my Stenciled Embossed Journal!

I was sent some gorgeous stencils and intriguing powders, charms and brads. The challenge was for each designer to combine these products in a unique way and I love that!

My thought always turns toward making books because there is so much you can do with them. I decided to use this gorgeous allover stencil by Janet Joehlin using my ColorBox Blends inks from Clearsnap and add them to my new Sizzix Wrapped Journal.

I die cut the Journal from matboard as this is a ScoreBoards die- designed to cut and score thick material like matboard- anything up to 1/16″. I love working with matboard as it gives a rigidity and structure to books, boxes and folders.

In the journey of creating, plans for what I pictured happening changed 🙂 You know what I mean… I started by tracing the stencil with a Pigma pen- I wanted to give definition to the edges of the stencil pattern.

Then I dragged streaks of Stop, Sunshine, Tutu and Golden Blends inks down the Journal cover

Here’s the front Journal cover.

After positioning the stencil on top, I added my Coconut Blends pigment inks to give the Ancient Amber embossing powder a good base to stick to.

Add embossing powder.

Love the magic of watching the powder melting and changing before your eyes!

I used the same Blends colors to stencil the inside of the Wrapped Journal.

Laced it up with 1 mm elastic…

I then added my insert pages- more photos coming soon!

I finished the edges using a water brush and Stop ink.

I found some foam numbers for the upcoming year and decided to try and emboss them with Oil Rubbed Bronze powder using Mixed Medi Medium as an adhesive. I was not sure how it would work becuse I was afraid that the heat tool would melt the foam, but it worked fine! I then added my insert pages- more photos coming soon…

And there you have the finished Stenciled Embossed Journal!

GIVEAWAY
One lucky winner will receive $50 in Gift Certificates to Emerald Creek
and StencilGirl® Products!
Enter to win by leaving a comment below.
Then be sure to visit the other blogs in the hop and comment to win.
The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!
One winner will be chosen at random from all blog comments!
(One comment per blog please.)
You have until Tuesday, August 21st at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.
Winner will be announced on
StencilGirl® Product’s Facebook page and Emerald Creek’s Facebook page on Wednesday, August 22.
Blog Hop Order:
 

August 15
Thanks so much for visiting the hop and taking a look at my Stenciled Embossed Journal. Make sure to check out all of the artists and prepare to be inspired!

 

Organizing with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies

Hi everyone- this month the Inspiration Team is organizing with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies!  All month long the team will be sharing creative ways to make unique storage and organization projects with Eileen Hull dies. Let’s take a look at the inspiring projects in store for you…

Organizing Solutions

Are you always looking for paper to jot down notes? Maggi Harding has combined the Card Box and Notebook Pocket and added a place for her pen for a creative solution to this problem. Check out Maggi’s blog to see how she made it.

Nicole Wright has a clever way to use the Card Box by making it wider to accommodate her card collection. Check out all of the awesome details on Nicole’s blog.

Pam Bray created this Wrapped Journal Organizer to keep her family on track. Keep an eye out for this fun die coming in June! Get Pam’s tips on her blog.

This mixed media Card Box Organizer by Tracy Evans is loaded with techniques. Not only did she make a box, but also a card using the House Pocket die to put inside. See more on Tracy’s blog here.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned- more organizational tips next week! Don’t forget to tune in to Eileen’s Facebook Live shows on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The Eileen Hull Inspiration Team

The Eileen Hull Inspiration Team is the most talented, generous, caring, kind, smart and savvy group of artists I have ever come across.

Sometimes you get lucky, things click, and a community comes together. I am blessed.

Eileen Hull Inspiration Team 2018

What does the team do?

  • design amazing projects using my Sizzix dies and Clearsnap inks
  • write up awesome tutorials so others can re-create the projects
  • film videos to show project details and more
  • think outside the box
  • provide feedback and ideas
  • create samples for new releases
  • attend the Association for Creative Industries trade show (Creativation) and help demo, market and promote new products
  • moderate discussion on the bi-weekly Facebook Live shows
  • interact, share and answer questions in the Eileen Hull Fan Club Facebook group
  • create projects using my products in magazines
  • share theirs and teammates designs on social media
  • find product partners to collaborate with
  • put up with my crazy traveling schedule!
  • create marketing campaigns and strategies
  • provide jaw dropping projects for three ebooks with Bella Crafts Publishing
  • make me look better than I am
  • much more I am forgetting about…

I can’t thank these inspirational artists, my creative friends, enough for all they do. I am so excited to see what 2018 will bring.

Please visit each of the Eileen Hull Inspiration Team’s blogs to see their work and leave them some love.

Nicole Wright

Anne Redfern

Maggi Harding

Karen Bearse

Lisa Hoel

Jenny Marples

Pam Bray

Jonathan Fong

Tonya Trantham

Diana Hetherington

Susie Bentz

Anna-Karin Evaldsson

Elizabeth Robinson

Michelle Zerull

Tracy Evans

Mitsyana Wright

Julia Aston

Huge thanks to Amy Bowerman, my Inspiration Team Coordinator, for keeping us on track and organized. Amy writes the weekly blog posts and has such a creative way with words.

Thanks for reading and for your support. Please follow me on Instagram and Facebook. I hope you can join me tonight at 6:00 Eastern at Eileen Hull Designs for Facebook Live!