Eileen Hull

Three dimensional art... with heart

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.

It’s HOT…

…so the thought of slipping down to my nice cool studio and working on some new projects is especially inviting (yes, this is the same CHILLY studio I am cursing in the winter). While at CHA I was given some products to experiment with… and my brand new ScoreBoards are out! I have to test them for myself and make sure that they really work (I am always SO happy/relieved when they do)… and then there are the projects for the book proposal that have to be done by the end of the month. To sum it up, I am a happy camper!

I’ll be sharing some projects with you in the next few weeks. Make sure to tune into Cool2Craft this coming Monday where I’ll be showing one of my favorite new designs.

Here’s a look at the project I created using the Scalloped Box die and demo’d at the Craft Studio at CHA. See my blog at the Memory Keeping Collection for instructions.