Showing posts with label Art with Heart Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art with Heart Challenge. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

It's CHA Time! New Product from Eileen Hull.



Hello everyone! It's time for Eileen Hull's Art With Heart Challenge and we're changing things up a bit this month. With CHA right around the corner (actually I see it right down block now), the design team is focusing on Eileen Hull's re-releases for 2016. These are dies that are being re-released because they are so popular – Sizzix simply had to bring them back! You will see why throughout the month as we share projects made with them. We don't have an official challenge this month but we want to see your projects using Eileen's dies and you can link them up HERE. There is also a prize for one randomly drawn winner – comment to enter. There are also 6 new 3D flowers and leaf dies being released, one of which I included in my project below. Also the new Twist and Style Tool that can be used to make really cool flower stems, jewelry pieces and home decor... Stay tuned for more info on new and re-released dies from Eileen. The CHA excitement is just getting started!


The Suitcase Die is such a versatile one. You could make it a case for a mini book or to hold trip souvenirs. I used it as a stage for fussy cut figures from the Graphic 45 Once Upon A Springtime Classic Collection. I love the imagery of Graphic 45 papers and they are perfect for projects like this. It helps to have a sharp craft knife though! ;-) Be sure to check out the team post on Eileen's blog. My teammates have created so many fabulous Suitcase projects!


Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check back in here for other news and you can follow Eileen on Facebook for the latest news as she makes her way to CHA with Scotty in tow.

The supplies I used for this project can be found at Sizzix, Inspiration Emporium or Amazon. Follow the links below and use my code JUICE at Inspiration Emporium to save 10% if you go shopping there. I will also point out that US shipping is always $5 and international shipping is just $10 at IE.



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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Make It 3-D Christmas Spool

It's not too late! Christmas isn't quite here yet (thank goodness!) and you still have a few days to enter Eileen Hull's December Art With Heart Challenge, "Favorite Things". I finished up another Christmas themed decorated spool.  (See the first set HERE.) This time I used the extremely useful Make-It-3-D die in combination with the Tim Holtz Sleigh Ride die. The Make-It-3-D die works on all sorts of dies, not just Eileen's! It has three different shapes with various score and tab configurations that you can adapt to make just about anything "3-D".

The Make-It-3-D cutting diagram. I'll be using the shape in the upper left
corner to make the sleigh dimensional.

Here we go! First the finished project:


Ta-da! Let's see how I constructed it.
Step 1: Cut two sleigh pieces out of scoreboard and the Make-It-3-D section in the upper left corner. (I just cut the center part of the strip because that's all I needed and I had a scoreboard scrap that fit perfectly.)


Step 2: I trimmed the 3-D sections and tabs to fit the contour of the sled. Tip: cut the shape out of scrap cardstock first to figure out all your folds and scores. Then you won't make mistakes on your final material.

The solid red lines are where I cut and the dashed lines are where I added a score by cutting
part-way through the board with an X-acto knife.

I ended up trimming the front tabs even more.
Step 3: Bend the pieces gently at all the scores. I used a quick grabbing liquid glue and glued one side at a time, holding everything in place while the glue set up. Once it was all dry, I painted and distressed the sleigh. Then came the fun part – filling it! =)




Be sure to head on over to Eileen's blog and check out more seasonal inspiration from the whole team. Join us in the December Art with Heart Challenge!

The supplies I used for this project can be found at Sizzix, Inspiration Emporium or Amazon. Follow the links below and use my code JUICE at Inspiration Emporium to save 10% if you go shopping there. I will also point out that US shipping is always $5 and international shipping is just $10 at IE.


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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Eileen Hull's December Art with Heart Challenge – A Few of Your Favorite Things…


Merry Christmas everyone! It's getting closer and closer. ;-) I still have so many ideas of projects I want to make. We will see how many come to fruition this month. The theme for the December Art with Heart Challenge is "Favorite Things". Basically that means anything goes lol. Show us your favorite themes, supplies, whatever. Unleash your creativity and take some time for it in this busy month. You could be rewarded with a great prize from Eileen for linking up your project in the challenge post!

My project was an idea that I had last year and never got a chance to make. Nativity decorations are definitely one of my favorite things and I enjoy having them set up around the house for the Christmas season. I knew that an ATB tower would be just perfect for the detailed mini nativity I bought from Retro Cafe Art. (They come in three sizes and I was just amazed at the crisp detail. So wonderful!)


Of course it is so hard to photograph but I used lots of metallic paint, shimmer mists and glitter. This ATB really sparkles and shines!

around we go…

turning…

need to get all the sides!
Please head on over to Eileen's blog and check out all the wonderful projects that my teammates have been cooking up. It's inspiration all month long!

Thanks for stopping by!


Dies Used: 
Sizzix:
Eileen Hull - Block/Cube/Bank 3-D (Sizzix) 
Eileen Hull - Blocks/Cubes 3-D (Sizzix) retired 

Other supplies:
Tim Holtz stamps - Joyful Song, Mini Holidays 4, Christmas Nostalgia
Tim Holtz stencils - Rays, Christmas
Wendy Vecchi Layered Tree Stencil
Distress Glitter - Vintage Platinum
Sizzles matboard
Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky, Scattered Straw
Ranger Texture Paste
gold embossing powder
Wendy Vecchi Metallic Embossing Paste - Gold
Tim Holtz Foundations Metal Box Feet


Simon Says Stamp and Sizzix links in this post are affiliate links which do not affect the price you pay but allow me to earn a small percentage of a sale. Thanks! (My husband also says thanks!)


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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Eileen Hull – A Stitch In Time

http://www.eileenhull.com/2015/11/art-with-heart-november-challenge-a-stitch-in-time-with-new-sizzix-stitchlits.html

Hello there and happy Thanksgiving to my readers in the US! There is still time for you to join in the November Art with Heart Challenge. The theme is A Stitch in Time and you can interpret it however you want. Let's see your creativity! Link up a project and you'll have a good chance of winning a prize from Eileen's new Stitchlits collection. (Trust me, you want these dies!!) I used several of them from the collection to create a little sewing themed shadow box:


This started out as a Tim Holtz 6 x 8 in burlap panel. I used the "wrong" side so I could make it a little shadow box! I painted the inside pink and also added some touches of pink paint to the burlap sides. I glued a section of a vintage measuring tape around the side to act as a frame.


To create the stitched background, I used the large Border Stitchlits die to cover a piece of quilt batting with multiple rows of holes.


I just ran the batting through my Big Shot multiple times, shifting the die and lining up the grid of holes to cut each background section. If you are a quilter, you most likely know of the usefulness of freezer paper. It has a plastic side that you can temporarily iron onto fabric. I ironed on a piece of it to the back of the batting to help stabilize it and get a crisper cut. (I did not peel it off after die cutting.)

Freezer paper – it's not just for food!

Then I used embroidery floss to stitch a pattern in the corner before I glued it into the burlap panel. I also used embroidery floss to embellish the Flowers & Leaf Stitchlits cuts. The possibilities are endless for how you layer and stitch (or don't stitch) these little flowers. (This is one of my favorite dies in the collection.) Take a peek at some closeups of all the different ways I used them:

Fun fact: those little cuties in the photo were my great aunts! 



Thanks for sticking with me here. ;-) Be sure to check out the wonderful projects my teammates have been creating all month with the new Stitchlits collection. You can find them on Eileen's blog. We would love to see your "sew crafty" projects, the challenge links is HERE.

Happy Thanksgiving and I recommend spending your time creating instead of fighting Black Friday shopping crowds. ;-) 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!



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