Eileen Hull

Flower card

13 Oct

Working on piles of stuff! Lots of projects soon to be revealed but in the meantime, here’s a card I made for my friend Val. She is such fun and always up for a good time. This pinky-orangish color reminds me of her so I decided to make her a monochromatic birthday card with shades of coral. The flowers were created from one paint chip and the Sizzix 3D Flower by Beth Reames. Beth hit it out of the park with this die! Love it…

Head on over to FaveCrafts blog for an interesting glimpse of where designers see their inspiration coming from and why they create. Thanks Mom, for showing all of your girls how it’s done- creating in the midst of chaos! It has served us well 🙂 Also on FaveCrafts, a review of my book Matboard Magic! Click here to read. Leave a comment for a chance to win it!

Do I detect a nip in the air? Finally! We have a wedding this weekend at a plantation and I am trying to figure out what to wear… something with a jacket I’m thinking… I’ll take pictures. This is a very special wedding. My friend Paula Ann’s daughter is getting married. I plan to take lots of notes because in April, we’ll be having my daughter Jessica’s.

Have a great week everyone!

Terroriffic Tuesday #2 Projects

12 Oct

Silvia Chenault turns a toy bat into an instant neckpiece (but will it bite your neck?)

Phyllis Dobbs shows us how to recycle a t-shirt into a really cool Halloween trick-or-treat bag!

Kate Pullen brews up adorable Paper Cone Witches!

Messy Missy makes a super spooky wreath with Duct tape!

Avalon Potter goes glam with her Halloween Masquerade Ball mask!

Patty Cappelluti goes bat crazy making this spooky bat door decoration!

Crafterella is a ghoul gone wild in her Ghoul Scout Costume. Download the custom patches she made for her costume!

Alexa Westerfield a.k.a. Swelldesigner upcycles a Starbucks bottle into a swell Halloween vase!

Cheryl Ball delights us with yummy candy corn cupcakes!

Pattiewack upcycles an apple tray into a festive cupcake carrier. So inexpensive and easy!

Ann Butler crafts up a boo-tiful holder for your ATCs complete with a black cat!

Glory whips up a super fun and healthy pumpkin-inspired muffin meal for her kids. Love it!

Crafty Chica makes the perfect mask to celebrate Dia de los Muertos.

Maya in the Moment has some face painting fun with her little cousin and of course, hilarity ensues!

Eileen Hull has a ghostly good time creating this cute diecut necklace!

That’s it for this week! If you are interested in playing in the fun Terrorific Tuesday roundup, e-mail Alexa at swelldesigner@.gmail.com and she’ll send you the details!

Terroriffic Tuesday #2

12 Oct

Time for another Halloween project! This fun necklace was made from a piece of black matboard cut from the Sizzix Scalloped Circle die. I added some silver Stickles to write the word “Boo” and filled the middles of the letters with orange paint. I used my Crop-a-dile to punch holes at the bottom of the pendant and glued on a scalloped book page at the bottom which was inked with orange. A tiny white ghost went on top of the triangle. I added an orange eyelet and a jump ring to attach the pendant to the chain. So spooky!

Click here to see all of the scary Terroriffic Tuesday projects.

Have you signed up for The Hive yet? It’s Facebook for crafters. Click here to join!

6 Oct

Kate Pullen shares 3 cute digital stamps Free cute spider digital stamps.

Phyllis Dobbs makes an easy Halloween Decopauge Pumpkin Treat Basket.

Jenna Excell shares her super cute and spooky Bones Halloween Apron.

Korinne Zimmerman a.k.a. Crafterella makes a wonderful spray bleach shirt using an adorable Moon Owl Stencil.

Glory’s Mischief haunts her house with her Faux Cats in window.

Ann Butler makes this boo-tiful Reverse Collage Decopauge Jack-o-Lantern.

Eileen Hull tucks away Halloween cards in this fun SizzixScoreBoard notebook pocket.

Silvia Chenault and Patty Cappelluti share two super spooky projects on Silvia’s blog: Vampire Art and Creepy Mirrors!

Pattiewack shows you how to make this cute and Wicked Pillow.

Messy Missy brings the LOLs with her Mean Kitteh.

Alexa Westerfield a.k.a. Swelldesigner whips up a Cute Candy Corn CD Cupcake Stand .

Kathy Murillo a.k.a. Crafty Chica delights us with glittery Skull Bookmarks.

That’s it for this week! If you are interested in playing in Swelldesigner’s Terrorific Tuesday roundup, e-mail her at swelldesigner@gmail.com and she’ll send you the details!

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Farewell, flip-flops!

5 Oct

Until a few days ago, it was still quite warm here in Northern Virginia. This weekend was rainy, then cool. Tonight I put the blanket on the bed. Next item of business will be switching out summer clothes for winter. That means it’s officially fall and thoughts turn to Halloween. Last year I participated in Alexa Westerfield‘s Terroriffic Tuesday’s, where she gathers her creative buddies and posts a bunch of Halloween projects every Tuesday. I don’t want to say this too loud but Halloween is not my favorite holiday. I think all those years of getting 4 kids in costumes just wore me out. But nevertheless, here I am with a project!

This is a somewhat spooky card holder which I made using one of my Sizzix ScoreBoard dies, the Notebook Pocket, and cutting it from black matboard. The ghost and letters are other Sizzix dies, designed by my friend Brenda Pinnick. I love the expression on the ghost’s face 🙂 I found this swirly thin papery material in my stash and can’t remember where I got it but it was white. I sprayed it with Clearsnap’s Smooch Spritz in purple, green and gold, mixing them together. After towelling off the excess, I sprayed spray adhesive on the back and adhered it to my Notebook Pocket. After inking around the edges in black, I adhered “Eek” and bumped up the little ghost with pop dots. I finished it off with some rust ribbon as a handle and pompom trim. After I adhered the trim, I realized the orange was a little too bright (actually I smudged some black ink on by mistake first). Then I took my black Copic marker and kind of scribbled over the pompoms and I do like the more subtle look. Another happy accident!

The card was one of a batch I found while cleaning. I made them from some fun primitive (and somewhat creepy) paper I found a while ago. Then I printed simple Hallween saying on vellum and adhered them to the front. The card bases were all done in muted fall colors. Stop by next week for another project!

It’s been a while since I asked: Have you joined The Hive yet? It’s like Facebook for crafters. Lots of cool ideas, challenges and ways to get involved and interact with some cool peeps! Click here to join and don’t forget to check out the Sizzix group.

Stay warm!

Virtual Baby Shower

30 Sep

I blog weekly over at the Memory Keeping Collection. Earlier this month, our editor had a baby and we decided to throw her a shower. However, we are located all across the country. So we decided to post all of our projects on the site today and put the gifts we created for Karen in the mail. Problem solved. Some days you just have to love this whole internet thing 🙂

Here’s my project. For instructions and more photos, head over to my post. What fun this was! Many blessings to the Gaulke family on their new arrival…