Eileen Hull Stampendous Blog Hop

We're having a Block Party!

Eileen Hull's Inspiration Team has teamed up with Stampendous to share inspiration as well as prizes.

It's a Block Party!

For my project, I created a set of Boho-inspired mixed media blocks that will be perfect for home decor. I used a beautiful Stampendous Floral stamp and my favorite Sizzix blocks die. 

I stamped the floral image on vellum, embossed it, and colored it with pencils. The soft color gave the flower a lovely translucent quality that I found magical. The stamp was larger than the blocks, so I used just a portion of the image on each side. Love that look!

We know this form of crafting will spark your interest and give your mojo a serious boost!That’s why we have prizes!!! We’ll choose three winners at random from the comments on all blogs in the hop. Then from those three we’ll randomly pick a GRAND PRIZE winner! Two of the winners will receive Stampendous PenPattern Petal and PenPattern Flutter cling stamps, just like you’ll see on Kristine Reynolds amazing ATB sample. They’ll also receive enough pre-cut, premium matboard from Sizzix to make two boxes of your own, plus some extra pieces for fiddly bits! The Grand Prize winner will receive the stamps as above, a whole package of matboard, AND the Sizzix die to cut your own ATB boxes! Uh, WOW! If that weren’t enough, eligibility for these amazing prize packages has expanded to include our international fans too!

We know you won’t want to miss a single creation in this hop, and the Eileen Hull Designs Inspiration Team has several members that live outside the United States, so it took a while for them to get their products from us. We need to give them time to post and you time to comment, so the comment deadline will be Sunday, March 8th. A whole extra week! We will continue posting links as we receive them from the Inspiration Team, so be sure to keep checking back. You get one entry for every comment, so you don’t want to miss the chance to leave a thoughtful comment on each project. For those who tend to get lost, we’ll post a “cumulative” link list of links so far on Saturday, February 28th and Saturday, March 7th. Then you can check your progress.

Today's Hop will take you to some very talented designers!

Shelly Hickox

Tenia Nelson

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"O" is for....

This week we are inspired by the letter, "O" at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Being that it is currently the month of October, this should be an easy one. But wait! There's more fun "O" words: Owl, Orange, Oval, Outdoors, Odd, Oak, or ORIGAMI? Yes, I chose origami to jazz up an older Snap Binder that I've been using.

As you know, I love using vintage photos and papers and try to incorporate them in my projects when possible. Here, I used an odd vintage photo with a gold rub-on from My Mind's Eye. I incorporated some stamped origami cranes that I made from Mama Elephant stamps.

Isn't glitter a wonderful thing?

What will you create for the letter, "O"?

Join us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog and your project could win a $50 gift voucher to Simon Says Stamp.  We draw a new winner each week. Your project could also be chosen to be featured in our weekly designer spotlight.

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National Scrapbooking Day

Today is National Scrapbooking Day. To celebrate, I created a layout using vintage photos.  You can see the layout on Instagram at http://instagram.com/michellezerull  Become a follower. I'd love to see you there.

Gold embossing + Vellum = <3

Thank you for giving me a reason to use more fringe....

There is a new challenge at the Avery Elle blog.  It's their  July AEI♥U Challenge , which is based off of an adorable inspiration photo.  This is what I came up with:

I used the Oh Happy Day sentiment set and the Texture Tiles: Be Cool set.  I'm currently going through a "fringe phase". Thankfully, I could use that here because of the arrows in the inspiration photo. Otherwise I would've had to come up with a crazy excuse for putting it there. :)  And here's a closer look:

 

Joie de Vivre

This week I created a card for The Rubber Café with stamped images, vellum circles, and vintage elements.  Roughly translated," Joie de Vivre" means happiness of life.  Don't those little frogs look happy?

 

I also created a paper bow from cardstock that been stamped on with a background stamp.  Many companies are manufacturing dies to make these, but I created this bow by sketching out a rough pattern with a pencil and cutting it out with scissors.