Baby Shower Sizzix Projects Archives

Hey Everyone! Are you ready for more Spring Showers and Celebrations with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies? This week the Inspiration Team has everything from centerpieces to invites to share with you. Prepare to be inspired to craft up something for your next spring celebration!

Spring Showers and Celebrations with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies

Lisa Hoel shares a sweet project utilizing several of my Paper Flower Party dies and the 3-D tea cup die. Lisa used the tea cup to create a cute favor box adorned with paper flower die cuts. She then created unique centerpieces from vintage tea ware and filled them with paper blooms using a variety of dies along with my Twist and Style tool.

Spring Showers and Celebrations with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies: Paper Flower Centerpieces and Tea Cup Favors by Lisa Hoel

Head to Lisa’s blog for a tutorial on how to create these sweet centerpieces and favors.

Tonya Trantham shares a unique party favor gift box that you can fill with just about anything. What’s more Tonya’s creation can double as a display piece. Tonya used the make it 3D die along with the Heart and Soul Flower and Honey Comb Embossing Folder to create this lovely favor box all decked out in lace and pearly trims.

Spring Showers and Celebrations with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies: Floral Favor Box by Tonya Trantham

Visit Tonya’s Blog for more details on her gorgeous favor box.

Michelle Zerull shares the perfect project for catching your tears of joy during wedding season. Using the House Pocket Die and Eyelet Lace embossing folder Michelle has assembled the prettiest little tissue pouch!

Spring Showers and Celebrations with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies: Happy Tears Tissue Pack by Michelle Zerull

Head over to Michelle’s Blog for a step by step tutorial on how to create your own Happy Tears Tissue Pack.

Elizabeth Robinson shares a super sweet baby shower invite that you can create using the Card Box Storage die. Elizabeth’s creation features a ribbon attachment that allows the invite to peep over the box containing it with a cute little critter.

Spring Showers and Celebrations with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies: DIY Baby Shower Invitations by Elizabeth Robinson

Visit Elizabeth’s blog for all the details on these DIY Baby Shower Invitations.

Karen Bearse shares an absolutely stunning Sea Horse Trinket Box Project. Karen’s creation is meant for a beach themed wedding and can house memory cards/wishes from guests or anything you can think of!
Spring Showers and Celebrations with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies: Beach Wedding Sea Horse Trinket Box by Karen Bearse

Make a splash over at Karen’s blog where she’s sharing all the steps she took to create this superb Sea Horse Trinket Box.

Diana Hetherington shares a fun photo guestbook project using the Mini Album and Stitchy Flowers Dies. Diana’s project invites guests to snap a polaroid of themselves to include alongside a message in the guest book.

Spring Showers and Celebrations with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies: Polaroid Photo Guest Book by Diana Hetherington

Head over to Diana’s Blog where she shares how to create this unique photo guest book in a snap.

Hope you’ve enjoyed these inspiring makes and DIY projects. Stay tuned next week for more Spring Showers and Celebrations with Eileen Hull Sizzix Dies.

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Anna-Karin Evaldsson is a very special member of the Eileen Hull Inspiration Team. You can see her work on her blog Layers of Ink. Last year there were a lot of changes in her life, including a move from one continent to another and just a few months later, a new baby! Leo arrived weeks ahead of schedule (and just 20 minutes after reaching the hospital!) but thankfully he and Anna-Karin are both doing well.

I first met Anna- Karin several years ago. It seems she can do it all- she is not only a super-talented designer, she creates amazing projects, takes beautiful photographs and writes great tutorials. She is always on top of deadlines and every project is more amazing and detailed as the next!

Here’s how dedicated she is… a few weeks ago, the team was doing a collaboration with our friends at Stampendous! on the blog and Amy Bowerman (our fabulous Inspiration Team Coordinator) and I received an email from Anna-Karin saying that she might be a little late with her project because she was having contractions but that she would post the project as soon as she could. That night Leo was born! Doesn’t that make us all his aunts?

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We want to show Anna-Karin how special she is to us, so we are giving her a virtual baby shower today to celebrate Leo’s birth! Even though we can’t be with her, we send our love and a special crafty surprise. We invite you to visit each team member/shower guest’s blog to see what they created for this new little guy.

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If you have a message for Anna-Karin, please leave your well wishes in the comments- then she can read them all at once. Thanks for being part of our celebration!

Here’s a list of the “shower” participants. You can click on each link and hop from blog to blog to see all of the projects:

My project is a mini-album. Anna-Karin can use this for whatever she would like- it would work for photos, his first words, funny things he says as he gets older, or a mom journal. I wish I had written more down when my kids were little.

This was a fun album to make because I used the new Homemade Thinlits alphabet to emboss the cover of the book. Such a fun feature of the Thinlits dies when used on matboard- if it were paper, it would cut through, but on matboard it just leaves a nice crisp impression. I inked over the front and back albums covers using Clearsnap ColorBox Blends in soft pastel colors (in honor of Anna-Karin’s fondness for ink) I put twenty-four pages in the book and used the Sizzix Mini-Album die to cut the pages. It’s so easy! Fold a sheet of 12″ x 12′ paper in half, then in quarters. Place the big fold just shy of the first score line on the die and roll through your Big Shot. You will get two double fold page signatures and each page fits perfectly inside the album. Tie the pages into the book spine with green and white twine.

The baby’s name was spelled out with letters die cut from matboard and popped up with foam squares. I also added a tiny layered lion (Leo the Lion) from my Cherished collection using burlap to cut the mane and background.

Please feel free to leave some comments for Anna-Karin. Any advice for a mom going from one baby to two?

Anna-Karin, we wish you and your family health and happiness always in your new home!

Thanks so much, friends, for joining our online shower…