Blog Hop with Eileen Hull & Stampendous!

Hello! All week the Eileen Hull Inspiration Team has been hopping along with the Stampendous Design Team to bring you an eyeful of crafty goodness using the Cottage Home and Mushroom Home Stamps and Dies Sets and Eileen's versatile dies. You will definitely want to head on over to Eileen's blog and the Stampendous blog to catch up on the projects shared so far. Comment along the way for a chance to win one of the prize packs!

I made a little fairy house using Eileen's re-released Candy Drawer die and the Cottage Home stamp and die set. My house has a little surprise in it! ;-)

Lift out the drawer by the chimney…

A little flower fairy and her garden are inside!

I started out by cutting out the Candy Drawer from matboard and using Fresco Finish Chalk paints to cover the inside and outside of the house. Paper Artsy has a great tutorial on how to get great visual texture using a brayer to apply the paint.

You can see here I already folded up the drawer. Don't forget to prepare a
piece of cardstock to cut for the bottom of the drawer to cover the glue tabs.

Next up is the stamping and coloring on the outside of the house. I stamped with Archival Jet Black ink and then colored the details in with Distress Markers. I also diecut and inked some grass strips to use in the garden and around the sides of the house.

For the roof, I used bristol paper (like very heavy cardstock) and the roof die that comes with the Cottage Home set. To get a full roof, I folded the bristol paper in half and placed the top of the die just off the edge of the fold. That makes it so the die won't cut through the paper and the fold stays intact. More Fresco Paint and Crackle Glaze finished it off.

I base coated the roof with Green Peas and applied the Crackle Glaze over it.
A top coat of Slate was applied and the crackle swiftly made an appearance!

To fill the garden I made a bunch of mini roses with the Tattered Pinecone and Tiny Tattered Florals dies. The fairy is a free download on The Graphics Fairy website.

I printed and fussy cut the fairy out as well as added some butterfly wings (also from The Graphics Fairy website).

Thanks for stopping by and hopping along with us! Join in and comment for chance to win prizes:

Here is the link list for all the hop stops from the week:

Stampendous Blog

Janelle Stollfus

Kristine Reynolds

Eileen Hull Blog

Shelly Hickox
 Tonya Trantham
 Tracy Evans
 Anna-Karin Evaldsson
 Diana Hetherington
 Anne Redfern
 Donna Budzynski
Michelle Zerull
Lisa Hoel
Nicole Wright
Rina Gonzales

The supplies I used for this project can be found at Sizzix or Simon Says Stamp. Follow the links below and a shopping you may go. ;-)

Box, Candy Drawer	Stampendous COTTAGE HOME Clear Stamps and Die Set CSD06	Sizzix GRASS Thinlits Die Set 660326	*Tim Holtz Sizzix TATTERED PINECONE Die Bigz 657492	Tim Holtz Sizzix TINY TATTERED FLORALS Thinlits Die 660227	Sizzix Little Sizzles - 6" x 13" Mat Board Pack
*Tim Holtz Core'dinations DISTRESS ColorCore 12 x 12 Cardstock GX1900AT	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK AIP31468	*Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival POTTING SOIL Ink Pad AID38979	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad TEA DYE Ranger TIM19510	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad MOWED LAWN Ranger Summer TIM35008	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad FOREST MOSS Ranger TIM27133
*Paper Artsy Fresco Finish METALLIC GLAZE Acrylic Paint 1.69oz FF24	Paper Artsy Fresco Finish SLATE Chalk Acrylic Paint 1.69oz FF84	Paper Artsy Fresco Finish PUMPKIN SOUP Chalk Acrylic Paint 1.69oz FF33	*Paper Artsy Fresco Finish ANTARCTIC Chalk Acrylic Paint 1.69oz FF67	*Paper Artsy Fresco Finish CRACKLE GLAZE Acrylic Paint 1.69oz FF22	Tim Holtz Distress Stickles 1.1 OZ. ROCK CANDY Glitter Glue Jar Ranger TDR35886
Tim Holtz Idea-ology BOTANICAL REMNANT RUBS TH93119	Tim Holtz Distress Markers HICKORY SMOKE Ranger TDM43478	Tim Holtz Distress Markers FIRED BRICK Ranger TDM32540	*Tim Holtz Distress Markers ICED SPRUCE Ranger TDM38214	*Tim Holtz Distress Markers PEACOCK FEATHERS Ranger TDM38238	Tim Holtz Distress Markers WORN LIPSTICK Ranger TDM32779
Tim Holtz Distress Markers PUMICE STONE Ranger TDM32625	Tim Holtz Distress Markers VINTAGE PHOTO Ranger TDM32731

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