Eileen Hull

Three dimensional art... with heart

Paper Flower Roundup

Happy Spring everyone! Flowers are the theme for our Designer Craft Connection hop this month. Make sure to hop around and see all of the amazing projects created by the talented designers in this group. Just click on the blue button in my sidebar and follow the webring.


I made an Easter bonnet for the Sizzix UK blog on Saturday using my Sizzix 3D flower dies. For instructions on how to assemble the hat, look here. Here’s a video tutorial on making Coffee Filter Flowers used in the hat.

My son and six year old granddaughter were here for Easter and Trinity just loved this hat and asked if she could wear it to church. I said sure but had not glued in all of the flowers and told her she had to be careful with it so the flowers didn’t fall out. She hardly moved the whole time so I am saving it for the next time she comes to visit 🙂
Thanks for stopping by- hope you had a great weekend!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

St. Patrick’s Day is a fun holiday and one that I celebrated as a kid. My friend Irene’s mother would bring three of us down to the big parade in NYC. One year we got to help carry the largest Irish flag in the parade. We thought she was the coolest mom ever because when we were 16 she took us to a pub! Don’t tell my mother…

I used Viva Decor’s 3D Stamp Paint to ink the shamrocks (which were die cut from this Sizzix flower). Last week I attended a class taught by Cheryl Boglioli– she used the Viva products in really cool ways so they were on my mind.

For a look at full instructions, head over to the Sizzix UK blog. 

Button Pencil Can

You have arrived at one of the stops on the Buttons Galore & More Blog Hop! 
Soup cans are so useful- and they can be dressed up quickly and inexpensively with a little imagination. I cleaned the can well and started wrapping yellow twine around the can. I used Zip-Dry Paper Glue here and there to make sure the twine stayed in place. 

A piece of lace was wrapped around the top of the can and buttons were glued on top. 

I added a 3D flower made from my Sizzix Flower, Layers #9 die. The flower was die-cut from coffee filters and colored with watered down paint just along the edges. I added Leaves die-cut from felt and a utility fabric.

 Visit all of the designers’ blogs and see lots of other inspiring spring and wedding project ideas. Just click on the blue button on the sidebar to hop around to see all the blogs.

To win one of the Viewtainers filled with ribbons and buttons, leave a comment on the Buttons Galore & More blog.  The comment should contain your favorite project from the hop, and the container you would like to win.  Comments need to be made by March 17th, 2013 at 11:59 eastern standard time.

 Check out the fun projects on the FaveCrafts Blog Hop!
http://www.favecraftsblog.com/colorful-spring-crafts-blog-hop-favecrafts/
Thanks for coming by and hope you have a great weekend!

Vinyl Gift Card Folder

Just wanted to share a new technique I just discovered. I saw this vinyl remnant for a couple of dollars at JoAnn’s and had to get it because of the beautiful turquoise color. It sat on the pile for a couple of months waiting for the right idea to strike. 

Here’s a folder I made using the Sizzix ScoreBoards Gift Card Folder die, paper, vinyl and my sewing machine. If you want to know how, check out the Sizzix UK blog here.

This was so quick and easy to put together. The folders are great for gift cards, business cards, credit cards, or use it to tuck a spare key in your purse- lots of possibilities! 

Today is our first Monday Designer Connection Hop. Click on the blue button in the sidebar to visit all of the amazing designers on the hop.  

There’s a giveaway too on Julie McGuffee’s blog, Life in the Craft Lane. To be entered to win, hop through the DCC blogs and leave a comment on the blogs featuring your favorite technique, or a technique you can’t wait to try, then let Julie know which ones they are by commenting on her blog.

Thanks for visiting!

Winner of Square Box Sizzix Die!

I am happy to say that Debbie K. is the lucky winner of the Square Box giveaway! Debbie, please email me (EileenHull@aol.com) with your address- congrats!

 Blogger Debbie K. said…

I love this box die and would use it often. First I’d use it to make party favors for my cousin’s bridal shower. Then I’d make a keepsake graduation book for my nephew. Then I’d make them to present tiny Christmas ornaments I han make. The ideas for this sweet box are endless!
Congrats Debbie!

Square Box Chunky Book

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! 


Today we are celebrating the release of my From the Heart collection over at the Sizzix blog with a Valentine’s Blog Hop! It’s so exciting to see- our fabulous Design Team has gone to town and whipped up some tasty eye candy for you- make sure to head on over and see all their HEARTwarming creations! 


I decided to use the ScoreBoards Square Box die for my project… but in a different way than you might expect. 
When designing a die, I want to give good value for the money, so many of my dies function in several different ways. The box I used today measures 3 1/4″ square and is a ScoreBoards die, which means it was specially designed to cut thick material like matboard or chipboard at least 1/16″ thick. There is a special blade set down in the die  that perfectly cuts and scores all of the fold lines.

The Square Box can work as a gift box that opens and closes (it’s big enough to hold a cupcake!), an ornament for your tree, a photo cube, or for organizing or storage. The box may be embossed, stamped, painted, inked or misted. A set of baby alphabet blocks would be adorable, don’t you think? The possibilities for this die are endless! 
I used the Square Box die to create a chunky little mini-album instead of building a box with it. The die cut pieces were used to make a book cover and page signatures. This is a super versatile die- hope you take some time to explore different options for using it!
  • Tear dictionary pages in half vertically and coat the back of the page with spray adhesive. Place page on the wrong (uncolored) side of a 6″ x 7″ piece of matboard. NOTE: You will only need two of the three panels of the long die cut piece for each book page so you don’t need to cut a full size panel. Place matboard just over the edge of the second score line, die cut, then trim extra off with craft knife). 
  • Cover ten pieces of matboard (I used colored scraps left over from matting projects) and then roll them through Big Shot. Cut one full panel piece for the outer cover of the book and nine smaller pieces for the pages.
    
  • Distress pages with ink and blending tool.
  • Rub Viva Decor Inka Gold (Gold 901) on a soft rag and apply to edges of each book signature and cover. This adds a really rich look to the book (and I also love that this ink washes off with soap and water if you get it on your hands!)
  • Bend the large matboard die cut panel into a U shape. This will be your book cover and binding. 
  • Fold each small signature in half. This would be a good time to arrange and decorate the cover and pages in the order you would like them to appear in the book. I used Glitz stamps, Cosmo Cricket Tiny Text stickers, rick rack, flower and butterfly dies of mine cut from some different materials such as bubble wrap, plastic packaging, old sweaters, and fun things I had left over from other projects.
  • Take a piece of twine and tie each matboard signature securely into the middle of the book. This allows for movement of the pages as the book is opened, closed and moved around. The nice thick binding piece allows you to include all kinds of 3D items.
Here are some sample pages. I’m not done with the book yet but look forward to adding little tidbits here and there as they fit. This is a sampler book of my dies and includes different materials you can cut and techniques to try. 
 Butterfly die cut from packaging, alcohol inked and heated
 flowers cut from Place Card die then colored with Copics
watercolor paper flowers cut from Hydrangeas & Borders and colored 
with Copics. I die cut rickrack from fun foam and used it as a rubber stamp 
on the left page. 
 Flower, Layers with Heart Petals cut from book pages and inked
 bubble wrap Fringed Flower colored with Staz-On
 Label & Buttons die stamped with ImpressArt metal stamps on matboard
Glitz stamps
Fringed Flower, Flower, Layers #9  and DeNami love stamp
I love how this book came out! I hope it helped you to see how much you can do with the Square Box…

GIVEAWAY TIME! Leave me a comment below and tell me how you would use this die- one of you will win a Square Box die for yourself! I’ll announce the winner here on my blog on Tuesday so stop back then to hear who the winner is… And don’t forget to check out all of the DT’s amazing work- head over to the Sizzix blog now- there’s a nice giveaway over there too. Thanks for stopping by!


XOXO Eileen