travel Archives - Eileen Hull

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.

Pam Bray for Eileen Hull - Travel Memories, creating with Eileen's Sizzix dies! #EileenHull #eileenhulldesigns #sizzix #mymakingstory #TeamEileen

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.

Sarah Lizzie for Eileen Hull - Travel Memories, creating with Eileen's Sizzix dies! #EileenHull #eileenhulldesigns #sizzix #mymakingstory #TeamEileen

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!

Karen Bearse for Eileen Hull - Travel Memories, creating with Eileen's Sizzix dies! #EileenHull #eileenhulldesigns #sizzix #mymakingstory #TeamEileen

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!

More CHA Designers in the Paper Trail Booth

6 Jan

I just arrived in California- so glad to make it alive and in one piece! So here is the last installment of more CHA Designers that will be in the Paper Trail Booth!

Karen Bearse hails from about 30 minutes down the road from me in VA. You may remember her from our exploits on #paprtrail5 to Schaumburg, IL and the Paper Arts Show- read about them here, here and here!

Karen Bearse has been a life long crafter who became passionate in the world of paperarts. A published technique junkie with over a decade of inky experimentation, Karen has been teaching for the last 5 years at multiple local stores. From scrapbooking and mini-books to mix media, encaustic, and altered arts. No medium is safe! She is now expanding into travel teaching showing students how to improve their everyday life with color. A traveler and self proclaimed Executive Minion on PaperTrail#6 she is excited to expand her role to include make’ntake artist for Eileen at CHA2015. Karen’s favorite thing about teaching is when her students say “I can’t believe I made this”. Visit booth #330 learn a few quick techniques & take home these beautiful projects.

Needle Book Mini-Art Journal – Sat-Jan. 9th from 11-12.

Art Journal Page-Tues-Jan. 12th from 11-12.

My friend Cheryl Boglioli is special because our trailers are going to get married someday so that kind of makes us related 🙂

Cheryl is a mixed-media Artist on the leading edge of new products and techniques within the various disciplines of the ever-growing market. As a full-time Artist with an intuitive painting style and passion for teaching, you can find her Living the Art Life ™, traveling and teaching workshops at independent stores and events nationwide with her renovated 1970 vintage trailer, Glinda. If you see her along the way, she even gives tours and appearances with Glinda. See more of Cheryl and her adventures at www.cherylboglioli.com.

Come glamping with Cheryl on Saturday 2-3 and Monday 4-5 to create your own 3D mini trailer using Eileen’s Vintage Trailer Thinlet dies and glam them up with Thermoweb Foil! Someone bring the marshmallows!

Thanks for visiting with us and don’t forget to watch what’s happening at the show in the booth. We will be sharing on social media…

Follow Scotty and I on #paprtrailCHA.

Facebook * Twitter * Instagram * You Tube * Periscope and here on the blog. Thanks!

And tomorrow we have to park that bad boy on the show floor. Wish me luck- it may involve backing up :-0

Lake Placid Ironman

3 Aug

I have been on the go for a week or so and so glad to be at home!

Last week, my family (all except my nurse daughter who could not take off work) drove up to Lake Placid, NY to see my youngest compete in her first Ironman triathlon.

I was not prepared for how inspiring and emotional it was! Thankfully, Maryanne finished with 24 minutes to spare! The race begins in Mirror Lake for a 2.4 mi. swim, then they get on the bike for 112 mi, THEN they finish off with a full marathon- 26.2 mi. The race must be completed in 17 hours or you don’t get a medal. Can you IMAGINE? Here is the new Ironman…

after 110 mi or so…

Starting the marathon…

halfway done with the run…

getting ready to enter the stadium.

My niece Maura and her boyfriend Aaron were allowed to run with her…

had to get the high fives!

Searched all over for her after the race and finally found her in the medical tent getting fluids…

dehydrated but proudly wearing her medal!

Maryanne Hull, you are an IRONMAN!

A great experience…also relieved it’s over and she made it out of there alive! You can read more about Maryanne’s training and experiences on her blog, This Journey begins Here.

UPDATE: Here is a video taken by my son Chris at the finish. I love this and so glad my kids support each other…

#PaperTrail- Day 15

23 Jun

After a five hour sleep in Scotty, I emerged and walked ever the bridge to the restroom. I saw a large crowd of Mennonite folks gathered in line at McDonald’s, so I went into the bathroom and brushed my teeth. When I came out the line had gone down so I got some breakfast and walked back to the truck.

But when I got to where I had parked, there was no Scotty or truck!

WHAT!???

I checked the parking lot twice- just could not figure it out. Could it be that those people who told me not to sleep in the camper were right? Were there really people who had time to sit and wait till I finished sleeping and went into the bathroom, then came over and hotwired the truck and droved it away? Or had it been loaded into the back of the truck and hauled away to be resold on the black market? Many bad thoughts were going through my head as I walked in to report this to the police. I happened to see a truck driver walking in and said, “I can’t believe it but my truck has been stolen!” He said, “Where are you headed?” I said to Erie and he said he had just come through there and that I was probably on the wrong side of the highway.

Oh thank God! I was so happy I couldn’t believe it. And realized how Scotty had become my little traveling buddy. I felt like Tom Hanks and his battered volleyball Wilson…

Much relieved, I continued the 60 mile drive to Erie, PA. I spent the afternoon with my best friend since second grade, Irene.

I had to finish the video for Sizzix so she went and ran some errands. After I finally finished the video, Irene took me out to Beach 11 in Presque Isle State Park. It was huge- just like the lake- and we sat on the beach and ate sandwiches for lunch.

Then we visited a beautiful garden center where she found some flowers to fill in the garden.

At about four, I rolled on to Chardon, OH where I arrived just in time for a delicious (and healthy) meal at the home of Maureen and Kenny, my husband Hayward’s cousins. After dinner we walked the dog around the neighborhood and I retired to my beautiful guest room intending to write a blog post but instead getting a much needed night of sleep.

What I am seeing from visiting all of these kind people who take me in is that my hosting skills need serious tweaking!

Stay tuned for another chapter soon…