Eileen Hull

Three dimensional art... with heart

My product is in Michael’s!

The day did not start well and was getting worse. Until I stopped in Michael’s and saw my ScoreBoard Scalloped Box die hanging in the Sizzix section! You could have knocked me over with a proverbial feather! The picture isn’t great- I only had my phone with me- but as you can see I was pretty excited. 🙂

This collection of dies has been in the works for quite a while ago so to finally see this in Michael’s was very cool. I am so thankful to work with a great manufacturer like Sizzix who turned my concept into a product!

Appearing on Cool2Craft Monday Noon EDT

Hope you can stop by for a sneak peek at a really fun new die released at Summer CHA- the ScoreBoard Treat Topper! I’l be demo-ing the Big Shot die cut machine and show how to make this pretty and useful bag topper from matboard and paper too. Click here between noon and 1:30 to enter the room and join the LIVE TV show on Monday.
Last Thursday, the bookmark in my last post was featured on One Pretty Thing. I love that site- have you checked it out? Fun stuff…
I spent the weekend (mostly) working. On Friday, we enjoyed a fun evening with our Shots and Dots friends (we play dominoes once a month and there might be a round of shots consumed from time to time). Today I attended a Crazy for Copics class at Angela’s Happy Stamper nearby in Reston, VA. Laura, our instructor, was fantastic and showed some really cool ways to use Copic markers. I have a bunch and have used them but now I feel like I have the official seal of approval to go to town! We made four fun cards and learned some cool blending techniques. Here’s a look…

Have a great week, my friends!

Happy Labor Day!

OK, I’m back! Had to discipline myself this week to keep off the computer so I could concentrate on getting my next collection finished and off to Sizzix. And now on to the next deadline…

I never realized how much I need to create. How much I look forward to studio time. Sometimes right before I go to sleep, ideas of projects I want to try come to me and I have to write them down. Please tell me there are others of my kind out there?

Here’s a simple bookmark I made with a piece of pretty embossed matboard. Head over to my blog for instructions.

My husband is away for the weekend so I figured it would be a good time to clean up my workspace. Upon surveying the area, I see it’s going to take longer than a weekend. I have recently had the good fortune to receive a Sizzix Big Shot Pro and the new eclips. I told my husband we need to add on a Sizzix wing! These machines take up a lot of space. So out with the old and in with the new!  I am off to a good start.

Hope you can tune in to Cool2Craft tomorrow. It’s always fun to connect with other crafters. Speaking of other crafters, there’s a new site out there called The Hive. It’s a community of creative people who share their projects, tips, blogs and great info. I call it the Facebook for crafters… Click here if you want to join.

Have a great week!

Cool2Craft and The Hive

I am so excited about this new craft community that has opened up. It’s called The Hive and it’s like Facebook for crafters. I appeared on Cool2Craft today and Melissa Marro, the Queen Bee, was also a guest. She explained her vision for this group and also gave practical tips on how to navigate the site and showed us some of the cool features. So after the show, I started a Sizzix Lovers Anonymous group. If you are a member of the Hive and love your Sizzix, please post some of your projects for us all to see. I am always so inspired to see what people are doing with their die cuts. If you are not a member yet, you should be! It’s really easy- click on the link above and sign up today!

Here’s the project I demo’d today. It my new ScoreBoard Pro Frame die. There are so many combinations of shapes and ways you can use this. Great for books, frames, puzzles and albums. Cut-outs of this die and the Pro House will be available as a “Get Acquainted” offer on the Cool2Craft Marketplace so order a set today! If you missed the show today, you can listen to the recording here.

I am now hunkered down creating and will not come up for air until Wednesday when we’re hitting National’s baseball game! Wish me luck!

Sneak Peek

Here’s a quick look one of my new dies that came out at the CHA Summer show which I recently talked about on Cool2Craft. Click here to see my segment on the show. It’s the ScoreBoard Pro House die. This is a new adventure for me- the Pro dies are huge compared to the XL dies so I am liking having some room to work in. You will need the Big Shot Pro to cut the house out. I recently got one and it’s my new favorite gadget! I can also use it to cut several of my smaller dies out all in one pass. Great for doing mass production projects for large events like weddings and parties.

I can think of so many fun ways that this might be decorated, especially around the holidays. This picture shows a very simple version that I did right before leaving for CHA. I just added crystal glitter to the roof and made a small button wreath for above the door. A scalloped oval cutout and more glitter tells whose house it is.