Passport Book Die Archives

Fall Flashback Projects with Eileen Hull

3 Oct

Welcome to October! Did you see Eileen’s previews of her new collection coming out this month? The official release party will be on October 22nd so for the first part of the month, we are sharing past Halloween and Fall flashback projects for your inspiration! Let’s check out this week’s selection…

Lisa Hoel combined the Geometric Box and Sunflower Dies to create a Halloween flower arrangement decor piece! Find the tutorial here.

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Pam Bray also made a festive Geometric Box project and turned hers into a candy holder. Yum! Find all the details about her make here.

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Boo! Designer Sarah Lizzie is sharing a spooky cute Halloween journal made using the Passport Book Die (retired, but Eileen’s Notebook Die would work equally as well). Find the details on her blog.

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If you are ready to skip fall and head right to Christmas, be inspired by this flashback from Jenny Marples. She made a pair of vintage styled boxes using Eileen’s Post Box Die. Love that distressing! Find more details here.

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Come back next week for more fall flashback projects!

You can find the September round up 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!

Are you a member of the Eileen Hull Fan Club? Join the 8400 other members to share ideas, inspiration, sources, challenges and make some fabulous friends. Above all, make sure to answer the questions so we know you are legit! Watch her Lives at Eileen Hull Designs Facebook or her YouTube on Tuesdays at 6:00 Eastern and Thursdays at 4:00 to for project ideas, techniques, inspiration and creative community. Additionally, you can also find Eileen on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

If you missed Eileen’s video this week you can watch the replay on her YouTube channel. Eileen shares more previews of her new collection coming out in October. Watch the replay here.

Halloween & Fall Wrap Up – Be Inspired with Eileen Hull’s Dies!

27 Oct

Welcome to our Halloween and Fall wrap up post for October! We hope all the inspiration throughout the month has sparked your creativity. Have you been sharing your projects in the Eileen Hull Fan Club? 😉 There is a packed post here for you this week so get comfy and scroll on…

Sue Eldred created a Field Notes & Specimen Card Die autumn journal filled with all the cozy fall feels. Be sure to visit her blog to see the creative way she bound this album. You’ll want that technique in your toolbox!

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Designer Lisa Hoel created a “Halloween Party in a box” – a Slotted Treat Box that is! This Plus Die cuts a large box that had room to really pack in the festive details. See all the photos, inside and out, in Lisa’s blog post.

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Cuteness overload! Check out this darling little notebook Elizabeth Robinson made by decoupaging a fall napkin onto a Pocket Notebook cover. Eileen sells mixed packs of fun paper napkins in her etsy store that are perfect for all sorts of paper crafting projects. See how Elizabeth created hers (and photos of journal insides) on her blog.

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More Halloween & Fall wrap up projects ahead, keep scrolling…

Jenny Marples has great attention to the details and it shows in this fabulous fall themed box she created using the Slotted Treat Box Die. She ended up hand sewing all the zig zag stitching. Impressive Jenny and worth the effort. The felt leaves add such a nice touch too. Pay Jenny’s blog a visit for more.

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Madeline Arendt has a whole collection of Halloween and fall projects gathered in her post! (Seriously, there are over a dozen makes, all wonderful.) You must go see! This little Shadowbox Frame scene is one of my favorites.

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It’s Harry Potter Halloween time for Susie Bentz! She had previously made a Halloween Tiny Book and decided to keep going by making more little books she imagined would be found in the Hogwarts library. Love them! See all the details in her post.

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Lastly, Sarah Lizzie also had some fun with one of Eileen’s paper napkin lots from her etsy store. She made this spooky little Passport Book that fits the season perfectly. Find her how-to in her blog post!

Whew! That was an epic post to be sure. Come back next week to find out what the November theme will be!

If you missed the last posts, you can find them here, here and here.

Get connected with Eileen:

Found 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!

Are you a member of the Eileen Hull Fan Club? Join the nearly 8000 other members to share ideas, inspiration, sources, challenges and make some fabulous friends. Above all, make sure to answer the questions so we know you are legit! Watch her Facebook Lives at Eileen Hull Designs on Tuesdays at 6:00 Eastern and Thursdays at 4:00 to for project ideas, techniques, inspiration and creative community. Additionally, you can also find Eileen on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Travel Memories with Eileen Hull’s Dies

6 Jul

Happy July Eileen Hull fans! This month the creative theme is “Travel Memories”. How do you like to preserve the memories of your trips and travels? Here we like to use Eileen Hull’s dies and stamps of course! Her various journal dies are perfect for making albums. Over the course of the month, I’m sure we’ll see other very creative ways to document those travel memories too. Let’s jump into this week’s inspiration…

Pam Bray used Eileen’s Full Size Journal Die and a patterned paper collection to create a gorgeous album! It is full of pockets, flaps and other fun elements – plus places ready to add those travel memories. Pay her blog a visit to see all the photos and a video of the fab insides.

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Designer Sarah Lizzie used the Passport Book Die, an old favorite, to create this cute little travel book. It may be small, but you can pack a lot of memories into it! Check out her blog for a step by step tutorial.

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Wow! Karen Bearse pulled out all the stops (and crafty supplies) to create this mixed media Full Size Journal wonder. I also spy parts made with Eileen’s Snail Mail and Shadowbox Elements die sets plus her stamps. Find out all the details for this fab travel journal on Karen’s blog!

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More Travel Memories inspiration next week!

Did you miss the last week’s post with Eileen’s 4th of July centerpiece tutorial? You can find it here.

Get connected with Eileen:

New on the Sizzix Website – the Eileen Hull Hub! Here you can find inspiration, die assembly videos and exclusive content. Check it out today and watch it grow!

Are you a member of the Eileen Hull Fan Club? Join over 6,7oo other members to share ideas, inspiration, sources, challenges and make some fabulous friends – make sure to answer the questions! Watch her Facebook Lives at Eileen Hull Designs on Tuesdays at 6:00 Eastern and Thursdays at 4:00 to for project ideas, techniques, inspiration and creative community. Additionally, you can also find Eileen on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Eileen has a tutorial for these beautiful cards in the summer issue of Bella Crafts free magazine. Download your copy today!

Creative Materials + Sizzix Dies!

12 May

We kicked off May last week with our new theme of using unconventional and creative materials with Eileen’s Sizzix dies. The Team shared some really interesting projects with us and the fun continues this week! Let’s take a look at their creative makes…

Susie Bentz really thought outside of the box with her Harry Potter Monster Book of Monsters ornament. WOW! Fake fur, plastic vampire teeth and eyes are definitely unconventional. What a sensational result! Visit Susie’s blog to see the tutorial with her tips and tricks.

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Designer Jenny Marples shares a way to use wooden coffee stirrers to create a flexible journal spine. I think this would be a great technique to take note of and use in your own projects! Of course the journal she created is in the lovely Jenny mixed media style and full of wonderful colors and textures. Head on over to her blog tutorial and see how she constructed it! She also has a post on the PaperArtsy blog showing how she decorated the inside pages so don’t miss that either.

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Recycling used packaging materials is a great way to “craft green”! Maggi Harding embossed the plastic from some packaging to use for the cover of her Passport Book journal. I think you would agree that you’d never guess she used “trash” to create this beautiful cover. Maggi has the directions and photos of the equally wonderful inside pages on her blog so check it out!

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Pam Bray created a gorgeous Folio Journal with rice paper! She also used the rice paper to make flower embellishments – the lightweight paper is perfect for full and textural blooms. Her step by step photos and instructions can be found on her blog.

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Visit next week for more projects made with Unconventional & creative Materials + Eileen’s Sizzix dies!

Thanks for visiting and see you next week. In case you missed it, last week’s post is HERE.

Are you a member of the Eileen Hull Fan Club? Join over 5,ooo other members to share ideas, inspiration, sources, challenges and make some fabulous friends – make sure to answer the questions! Watch her Facebook Lives at Eileen Hull Designs on Tuesdays at 6:00 Eastern and Thursdays at 4:00 to for project ideas, techniques, inspiration and creative community. Additionally, you can also find Eileen on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest.

If you missed Eileen’s Facebook Live from Tuesday, 5/11 you can watch the replay on on FaceBook. She shared how to make a felt and leather phone case using the Folio Die.

June Journals and Belagio Cork Fabric

10 Jun

We are continuing our month of June Journals and the collaboration with Belagio to use their unique, versatile cork fabric. The team is really enjoying working with it! Durable and user friendly, the fabric can be easily die cut, sewn by machine, combined with fabric, paper or pretty much any substrate you can think of. Thin sheets of real cork are laminated to a fabric backing so it is very flexible and durable. It’s perfect for covering three dimensional projects like boxes, books, and home decor pieces. Additionally, you can also use it to create 3D flowers and other embellishments… Living up to the Belagio motto: You are only limited by your imagination – this fabric will expand your creative possibilities!

So, what does the team have for us today?

Why another quartet of fabulous journals for you to feast your eyes upon! Take a look at this beautiful Pocket Notebook journal made by Maggi Harding. The elegance of the cork fabric really shines through. The insides of the journal are elaborately embellished so you won’t want to miss the video flip through on Maggi’s blog post.

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Created using the Passport Book Die, Lisa Hoel’s sweet little firefly journal is a gift for a new baby in the family. It will be a special place to record all of the baby’s firsts and new family memories made. As part of the design, Lisa layered different patterns of the cork fabric and can attest that it does indeed die cut and stitch up wonderfully. See her blog for the full tutorial and more photos.

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Susie Bentz’s project this month shows how metallic accents really add elegance to anything. The simplest details pull it all together! Her Tiny Book and Book Case combo is gorgeous and her closure technique is easy and clever. All the details are on her blog!

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Julia Aston is spreading birthday love with her pair of twin Notebooks for a pair of twins just turning 17! What a special gift and I love how she colored in parts of the design on the cork fabric. Travel over to her blog to find out all the details.

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Where can you find Belagio cork fabric?

– Hobby Lobby carries packaged cork in 18″ x 15″ pieces in 9 different patterns in the notions department.
– Two types, a natural and a natural with gold, are sold by the yard at Walmart stores that have fabric departments.
– As for the entire collection, many quilt and craft shops around the country carry it by the yard and in packaged 18″ x 15″ pieces.
– Online the Belagio cork fabric is available on Walmart.com and Amazon.com.

Come by next week to see more June Journals cork fabric magic…

Thanks for stopping by to pay a visit! Are you interested in ramping up your journal making mojo? Consider purchasing Eileen’s new Pocket Notebooks e-book, because it will surely spark ideas for your own journal creations. Finally, did you miss last week’s post? Find it linked here.

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 Facebook Live from Tuesday is below. While wearing a snazzy tiara she has successfully kept out of the bling loving hands of little Nora, Eileen crafted a Passport Book using recycled materials. Check out our very own Queen of Crafting and learn some new tips and tricks!

Fall-O-Ween Sizzix Project Tutorials

27 Sep

Hey everyone! Today the Inspiration Team has a batch of Fall-O-Ween Sizzix Project Tutorials that you are sure to “Fall” in love with. We have journals, home decor and more to share with you. Let’s have a look at all of the fabulous Fall and Halloween creations made to inspire you.

Fall-O-Ween Sizzix Project Tutorials

Anne Redfern has a delightful Halloween creation to share featuring fun papers from DCWV. This darling Trick or Treat Journal created using the Passport Book die and DCWV’s Halloween Spirit paper stack is filled with tricks AND treats! From the perfectly placed pages and imagery to the fibers and charms adorning the spine, this journal is packed with Halloween Spirit literally and figuratively.

You can check out all of the spooky details inside and out HERE.

Julia Aston shares a sweet project that can be used as home decor or a spook-tacular gift! She used the Basket Die along with the Spring Leaves die with DCWV papers to create this Boo-tiful basket of Jack-O-Lanterns and topped it off with my Bird Thinlit die. I dare say the bird die makes a fine crow when cut from black card stock.

Stop by Julia’s blog for more hauntingly adorable details.

Karen Bearse shares a Wrap Journal Project sure to make any Poe fan proud! This Raven clad Wrap Journal has it all! Texture paste, Stenciling, Distress Crayon, Dylusions Inks and Tim Holtz Halloween Ephemera are all present on the cover. Take a look inside and you’ll be treated to even more spooky sights and delights courtesy of DCWV’s Spooky and Sparkly papers.

Head to Karen’s Blog where she shares a tutorial you’ll want to crow about.

Lisa Hoel shares a whimsical Woodland Fairy Trinket Box project complete with all the colors of fall. The Trinket Box die is the perfect base for creating sweet little scenes like Lisa’s Woodland Fairy make. Our girl is no stranger to using this die for a variety of sensational scenes.

Take a walk through the woods of whimsy at Lisa’s Blog to learn more about how she constructed her Woodland Fairy Trinket Box.

Jenny Marples shares an absolutely delightful ticking fabric pumpkin project. Jenny’s fun fall creation features my Colorbox Blends inks on Spring Leaves die cuts atop the pumpkin. Vine details were added using wire twisted to perfection with the twist and style tool.

Do not miss Jenny’s Ticking Fabric Pumpkin Tutorial where she takes you through each and every step to create this pumpkin project.

What a fun bunch of Fall-O-Ween Sizzix Project Tutorials. Hope you are inspired to create some Fall-o-ween makes of your own! Stay tuned for more Fall-O-Ween fun coming soon.

Eileen