Eileen Hull

January Card Bonanza – More Greeting Card Inspiration

14 Jan

The Team this month are kicking off the year with a Card Bonanza! We always need a card or two through the year so check out our Creative Team’s inspiration through the month for birthday and other occasion cards.

This is such a great idea from Jennie Atkinson! She took a single card design and made it in four different versions. Check out her video below:

Maggi Harding has been busy too and has three different cool cards to share. You can get a closer look in her post! (Lacy Leaves embossing folder, Tunnel Arches, Windowsill Vase & Flowers, Field Notes & Specimen Card)

News from Eileen Hull…

Hi and Happy New Year to all! It has been a busy month already! We returned from our trip to Texas to visit our son and his family – so nice to catch up, see where they live and be part of their lives for a few days. We got back Saturday and then Monday I went in for my D & C. Thankfully it went well – today I feel fine and am back to normal activities 🙂

The next two months have lots going on. I just want you all to know I am allowing myself to take a break and I will not be doing two lives a week. Next week I will be up visiting Mom. At the end of January, I will be in Puerto Rico and then leaving on a cruise till February 11. Please sign up for notifications on YouTube (click the bell) so that you will be notified when I do go live, follow me on Facebook and Instagram or watch here in the newsletter.

Join me and fellow YouTubers on the Cara Brandon Refresh Collaboration! We will be taking a look at our spaces as the New Year begins. Each artist will be sharing a look at their studio – clearing out and making it more efficient to work in. Each week follows a different theme; join us and follow along at home! Episodes are recorded so you can binge watch and clean along with us 🙂 Follow along and share your progress using: #craftspacerefresh2026

My biggest problem area is my desk because it has my computer where I film but also need space to work so it always gets cluttered up with supplies and just stuff! I will be sharing the area where I work and how it is laid out to make it workable and more efficient for me.

The ETSY SHOP is open if you need anything 🙂 Debbie is on the job!

There are some exciting changes going on which will take a little time to put in place – please be patient. I think you are going to love them ❤️

Workshop with Eileen:

Tired of the snow? Come on down and join us in Puerto Rico!

Get connected with Eileen:

Find it on the Sizzix Website – the Eileen Hull Hub! Besides inspiration, you will also find die assembly videos and exclusive content. Check it out today and watch it grow!

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Merry Christmas & Creative Team Favorite Projects

23 Dec

Merry Christmas from Eileen…

The car packing has begun and in a little bit we will be headed off to my daughter’s. But I couldn’t leave without telling you how much I appreciate you all and wishing you a restful, relaxing and inspired holiday season! I will be back in the New Year with some really exciting news… so stay tuned. 🙂 Many thanks to my talented and generous team for supplying us with inspiration all year long 🫶👏! And thanks to all of you for being there – this community would be nothing if you were’t here watching the videos, commenting on projects and sharing what you are doing. Overall, you are awesome and I love what we have built here. Thank you for everything.

I want to thank all who shared input with me during the holiday party 🙂 I will be putting up a poll in the Fan Club after Christmas, asking what kind of content you would like to see. I’d really like to know your thoughts as we head into 2026!

NOTE: The ETSY SHOP is open! My amazing friend Debbie will be here filling orders while I’m gone. I have new products to add when I get back. 🙂

Virtual Holiday Party!

Thanks to all who chatted and appeared on our Virtual Holiday Party! If you missed it, HERE is the link. So nice to see you all and take some time together in this hectic season.

Inspiration Team favorite 2025 projects:

December is the month when the Creative Team looks back over the year and picks their three favorite projects to reminisce over. It’s always hard to pick just a few! We are wrapping it up with more projects and a round up video.

Lisa Hoel created some intricate journals this past year and they made her top three! You can find more photos and video flip throughs in her post.

Jenny Marples’ fabulous journals made her top three as well! You won’t want to miss all the details so be sure to follow her on Instagram @jenny.marples.

Inspiration Team’s Favorites of 2025 Round Up Video:

Classes with Eileen:

Tired of the snow? Come on down and join us in Puerto Rico!

Get connected with Eileen:

Find it on the Sizzix Website – the Eileen Hull Hub! Besides inspiration, you will also find die assembly videos and exclusive content. Check it out today and watch it grow!

Tune into Eileen’s live videos! (You can watch the replays on her YouTube channel or Eileen Hull Designs Facebook.)

Handmade Holiday House Tour & Creative Team Inspiration

17 Dec

Handmade holidays and news from Eileen…

Happy winter everyone! How are you doing on your handmade holiday preps? It’s like Santa’s Workshop here – projects covering every surface here in my studio. I feel lucky to have family and friends I love to make things for. Next week we are headed up to my daughter’s in CT along with my two other daughters and families. So there will be 7 out of 10 grandkids all in one place and it is bound to be chaotic, loud and fun. After New Year’s we will be going to TX to see my son and family in their new place. A couple weeks later I will be headed up to NY to hang out with Mom for a few days. Wishing you time with those you love and all the best at this time of year…

So excited about this event! On Tuesday we will be treated to another tour of Madeline Arendt’s gorgeous Holiday Handmade Home! Madeline has been creating all her life and is very thoughtful in her making – she has a beautiful style and loves to experiment with different materials and pushing dies beyond what you might think is possible! Join me as we walk through with her home and see what she has created for the holidays. Watch HERE.

On Thursday, Margaret and I will be creating some last minute gifts using our favorite dies. Many projects may be used for other occasions by just changing out the papers from holiday to everyday. Get out your supplies and craft along with us! Don’t forget to post what you are making in the Eileen Hull Fan Club! Watch the live HERE.

Party Time!!

Let’s do something different… I am inviting you to a virtual Holiday Party! I will be posting a link the day of this show under this post. All you have to do is click on the link and it will take you to the waiting room, then I will bring you on to the show – we can hold up to 10 people on screen! Get yourself a beverage of your choice, a project for Show and Tell and join me and other community members for (as close as we can get to in person) visit 🙂 Don’t be shy!

Creative Team inspiration…

December is the month when the Creative Team looks back over the year and picks their three favorite projects to reminisce over. It’s always hard to pick just a few! Let’s see what we have this week for inspiration…

Tonya Trantham has her three. She is the Queen of layering and using all those little bits we have laying about. Check out her post for more details.

Christmas project flashback! Here’s a little inspiration from Lisa Hoel, courtesy of the 2023 Comfort & Joy event. She made a whole set of gift tags and card holders using Eileen’s dies.

Take a look through your collection and see what you can use to make tags. A bundle of tags makes a great little gift to give to someone too! Here are the die sets she used:

Keeping up with the Creative Team:

WATCH THESE!

My team is ramping it up for the holidays! Make sure to follow and subscribe to their channels 🙂

Tonya Trantham Watch for her posts HERE

Amy Powers is finishing up her series on Creating a Felt Book on YouTube! So adorable – take a look at the last video HERE.

Teresita of ScrapbookYMas hosts various classes in her beautiful studio in Puerto Rico! I can’t wait to join her on January 31, 2026 for a fun day of creating – you should come!

Tip for gift wrap rolls!

Get connected with Eileen:

Find it on the Sizzix Website – the Eileen Hull Hub! Besides inspiration, you will also find die assembly videos and exclusive content. Check it out today and watch it grow!

Tune into Eileen’s live videos! (You can watch the replays on her YouTube channel or Eileen Hull Designs Facebook.)

Winter Crafting & Final Holiday Village Build Episode

10 Dec

News from Eileen…
Hi everyone! Winter has arrived in Virginia and to me, there is nothing better than spending a snowy day crafting cozily in my studio 🙂 Last week my daughter and I drove to Maine for my niece’s baby shower and it was fantastic! I stayed with my sister in a beautiful coastal town called Brunswick and visited a local gallery where she sells her pastels. Such an amazing inspiration to see these artist’s creations. I am regretting not buying a beautiful seascape and may call my sister and ask her to get it. What better way to support an artist and small business, and also have a reminder of the event I went to celebrate? Of course, the 1300 mile drive in a space of two days was insane but it was a nice chance to catch up with my daughter Pam.

I returned to see the mess in my studio was still there 🙁 But as I returned everything to its place (kind of) I realized how lucky I am to be able to do this and once again how grateful I am to all of you for making this possible.

Crafting live with Eileen Hull:

I have decided it’s time to get that Holiday Village up on the mantel and get decorating, so today I am doing the last video in the series. I’ll be making one more really cute little house using the Post Box die. Unfortunately it is sold out, but you may be able to find one on eBay. I will also be putting the finishing touches on the other houses I have created – it’s time to get out the accessory dies, lace, trim, ribbon and embellishments! You can watch HERE.

Gift cards are a favorite – but they feel so much more personal when presented in a handmade folder, box, or mini book. Plus, they’re fun to make!

Join me on Thursday as I share some creative, die-cut ideas for packaging gift cards in ways that feel thoughtful, festive, and uniquely handmade. Why not create along with me? We’re using these dies: Notebook, Field Notes, Needle Book and maybe a few others, depending on how fast we can craft 😉 I hope you will join me for a busy making session!

Keeping up with the Creative Team…

My team is ramping it up for the holidays! Make sure to follow and subscribe to their channels 🙂

Pam Bray is doing a December 25 Day Countdown with a project every day and if you know Pam – she is up for it! Watch for her projects on Facebook and Instagram.

Amy Powers is doing a series on Creating a Felt Book on YouTube! So adorable- take a look at the intro HERE

Teresita of ScrapbookYMas hosts various classes in her beautiful studio in Puerto Rico! I can’t wait to join her on January 31, 2026 for a fun day of creating – you should come!

Winter Crafting Inspiration from the Creative Team!

December is the month when the Creative Team looks back over the year and picks their three favorite projects to reminisce over. It’s always hard to pick just three! Let’s see what we have this week for inspiration…

Maggi Harding has a trio of colorful projects to share. Fabulous! Check out her post for more details and links to her tutorials.

Jennie Atkinson is showing favoritism for her mini book projects with her three picks! Gotta love her beautiful shabby chic style. More details and links to videos can be found here.

Get connected with Eileen:

Find it on the Sizzix Website – the Eileen Hull Hub! Besides inspiration, you will also find die assembly videos and exclusive content. Check it out today and watch it grow!

Tune into Eileen’s live videos! (You can watch the replays on her YouTube channel or Eileen Hull Designs Facebook.)

Warm Thanksgiving Wishes and a Die Cut Holiday Village series

25 Nov

COUNTING MY BLESSINGS…

Hi friends – we are celebrating Thanksgiving this week in the US so Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends! It’s a good time of year for all of us to give thanks for our crafting community! We are so lucky to have a place to gather and celebrate our common interest – the love of creating. Thankful for my talented team for sharing their inspirational art with us; I am so grateful for each of you and look forward to more fun in 2026!

NO LIVE THURSDAY

I am cooking the turkey this year and am having family over so I will not be going live on Thursday as usual. But you never know – I may be popping in at some time over the weekend. 🙂 Make sure you have signed up to be notified when I go live so you don’t miss anything!

UNICORN DIES

You may have noticed I have been listing some of my retired dies in my Etsy shop – many are hard to find and listed on eBay at outrageous prices! These dies are evergreen – they will not go out of style. Create something unique by combining pieces from different dies. Want to see this in action? Watch my livestreams and follow along with my new series called “Building a Die-Cut Holiday Village”.

On Tuesday I will be getting on the glitz and creating some putz houses using the Notebook, Tunnel Arches and more! Watch by clicking on the graphic below. This will take you to youTube. Facebook has been a challenge lately and dropped a couple videos mid-stream so YouTube might be the better option. And don’t forget to like and subscribe 🙂 Also if you click Notify Me, you will get an alert whenever I go live.

Holiday Village Live!

Are you following the new series called Build a Die-Cut Holiday Village? I love the idea of using the ScoreBoards dies as bases because they are sturdy and will last from year to year. Join me today on the live to get started on this. Don’t worry if you miss one. They will (as always) be available on YouTube.

Inspiration from the Creative Team…

For November, Eileen’s Creative Team is mixing and matching the Home Sweet Home Collection with past products to create any sort of Christmas themed projects – cards, ornaments, decorations or whatever! The inspiration has been awesome!

Pam Bray created a wonderful Christmas Wishes tunnel card. I love Santa peeking through the front window! She used the Tunnel Arches, Windowsill Vase & Flowers and the Home Sweet Home die sets. Check out the details here.

Madeline Arendt has gathered over a dozen different projects, past and present, to inspire you. Here are just two of them – made using the Geometric Box Die and the Wreath & Snowflake Thinlits Die Set and honeycomb ornaments made with the 3-D Ornament Box Die. Head to her post to see the rest!

Lisa Hoel made a passel of cute little gift tags using the Tunnel Arches and Home Sweet Home Die Sets. Love all those little animals! You can find more details here.

Enabler alert!

Eileen added the MEGA Christmas/Holiday Napkin Package to the shop. This is a super huge napkin collection to the shop of 27 different sizes and designs! She packaged it this way so that there is something for everyone. There are lots of winter and nature designs in here, as well as specific holiday ones. All work great for the napkin decoupage technique – she loves the soft effect.

Get connected with Eileen:

Find it on the Sizzix Website – the Eileen Hull Hub! Besides inspiration, you will also find die assembly videos and exclusive content. Check it out today and watch it grow!

Tune into Eileen’s live videos! (You can watch the replays on her YouTube channel or Eileen Hull Designs Facebook.)

Join Our Comfort & Joy Event Plus Christmas Inspiration

12 Nov

The team and I have been creating and have so many projects, tips and ideas to share with you! Our SIXTH ANNUAL COMFORT & JOY EVENT started Monday! From November 10-21, the team and I will be sharing lots of tips, ideas, sales, giveaways and cozy holiday crafts! Just make sure you are a member of the Eileen Hull Fan Club Facebook group because that is where it’s happening. This is a great time to invite your friends to our community so they can be part of it too! AND we want to see what you are making with your Eileen Hull products! Please post them so we can all be inspired and use ideas from each other for our holiday creating.

Last week we explored alcohol inks and a really cool freeform flower technique! Watch here to see what I’m talking about 🙂 Then last Thursday, we explored ideas for embossing folders and created pages to be used in the Notebook die. Watch that livestream here.

Tuesday we put both techniques together to create an adorable Notebook to give, keep or sell!

The Notebook is one of my favorite dies – totally a MUST HAVE! I just put it on sale for 25% off in my Etsy Shop! Did you get your Alcohol Ink Introductory Set? Get the kit and have a play! The kit includes 12 bottles of alcohol ink, 70 sheets of practice paper and a sturdy storage container for just $16! Only three left…

Felt is an under-rated material – it’s not just for kid’s crafts! On Thursday’s LIVE, learn tricks and tips about die cutting craft and wool felt PLUS we will be creating a few quick projects using yarn, felt and some other random materials found during a thrifting trip. Join me 🙂

Christmas Inspiration from the Creative Team:

Jennie Atkinson created this beautiful Vintage Christmas Concertina Mini Book using the Tunnel Arches and Windowsill Vase & Flowers Die Sets. Fabulous and a great project for using up scraps. Check out the video below…

Maggi Harding is getting organized for the season with her Christmas planner. It’s stylish and useful – Love it! More details in her post.

Get connected with Eileen:

Find it on the Sizzix Website – the Eileen Hull Hub! Besides inspiration, you will also find die assembly videos and exclusive content. Check it out today and watch it grow!

Tune into Eileen’s live videos! (You can watch the replays on her YouTube channel or Eileen Hull Designs Facebook.)