Build a Stash – Making Journal Fodder Using Eileen Hull Dies

Hello and good day to you all! For the month of June, Eileen Hull's Inspiration Team has been focusing on making journal fodder for your journal projects. What is journal fodder? It's those little bits and pieces you can add to the pages of your journals to bring them to life. Think tags, pockets, ephemera clusters etc. You can create a fodder stash to have ready to go for your next journal project.

For my take on the theme, I used Eileen's Snail Mail and Mini Slimline & Tickets Die Sets to make stamps! I'll show you several different materials you can use.

You can use the stamps in blocks to add to projects or you can cut them apart and use as singles!

Let's take a look at some of the how-to:

1) Crinoline is a stiffened fabric historically used in millinery. You can dye it any color you like and it die cuts beautifully. For this first idea, I used it as a base and applied rub ons from 49 and Market directly to the crinoline.

I die cut it with the Mini Slimline & Tickets Die and then added some stamping using Eileen's Snail Mail Postage stamp set and Archival Ink. Easy!

2) I used Old Paper Distress Spray Stain to color the white crinoline and then cut squares of felt and fabric to overlay the 'stamp bases'

After tacking down the felt/fabric to the crinoline bases with tiny dots of glue, I used embroidery floss, small die cuts and other bits to add fun details to the stamps.

Stiffened felt from the craft store also makes a great stamp base and cuts easily. This set of stamps were cut from felt and then embellished with squares of paper, rub ons and ephemera.

3) Fun foam is a great material to work with. I've used it in the past to make foam stamps from my die cuts and I thought it would also be useful as a fodder substrate too!

After cutting out the 'stamps' I painted in the backgrounds, then stamped on details with the foam stamp I had made using Eileen's Mandala Die. I followed up with some marks made with a found object and then added some fun brads and other ephemera bits.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to keep an eye on Eileen's blog for more inspiration from the Educator and Inspiration Teams.

You can see some more 'stamp collage fodder' in this post that I made for the Chapter 2 die release earlier this year. Enjoy!

Supplies used:

Eileen Hull Thinlits Die Set - Snail Mail ( Sizzix, SB , FJ )
Eileen Hull Thinlits Die Set - Mini Slimeline & Tickets ( Sizzix, SB , FJ )
Eileen Hull Thinlits Die Set - Shadowbox Elements ( Sizzix, SB )
Eileen Hull Thinlits Die - Mandala ( Sizzix, SB )
Eileen Hull Thinlits Die Set - Journaling Cards, Hearts (retired)
Eileen Hull Die - Mitten Box, 3D  (retired)
Eileen Hull Stamp Sets - Snail Mail Postage

Distress Collage Medium Matte

Distress Archival Ink - Leaf Green
Distress Paint - Saltwater Taffy, Scattered Straw, Picket Fence, Wild Honey, Tumbled Glass
Distress Spray Stain - Old Paper

crinoline
felt
fun foam
embroidery floss
brads

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