My dear friends just had a baby boy, and I wanted to make a little something for the little guy. Well, it just so happened that this month for Eileen Hull's design inspiration team, we got to play with Kunin Felt, and I thought how fun it would be to make ...
Zippered Tissue Holder Made with Sizzix Journal Die
It's allergy season, and as one who is allergic to all vegetation except for eucalyptus leaves (yes, I was tested), I've been sneezing a lot lately. So when I got a hold of Eileen Hull's Journal die for Sizzix, I decided to make a portable tissue holder t ...
Receipt Holder Made from Sizzix Journal Die
My craft wife Eileen Hull's new journal die is about to come out, and to help preview it at the recent Creativation show, I made this receipt journal. I don't journal, and I don't put photo albums together, but I do collect a lot of receipts. I especially ...
Fashion Illustration Art with Colorbox Blends by Eileen Hull
This month, Eileen Hull's design inspiration team worked with her fun line of Colorbox Blends from Clearsnap. If you've ever used an ink pad upside down to color, you know how hard it can be. But with these Colorbox blends, you get maximum control because ...
R2D2 Valentine’s Card
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi Eileen Hull, you're my only hope — to make a R2D2 card for Valentine's Day. As a member of Eileen's inspiration team, our assignment this month was to create a card using her Sizzix dies. Looking through my stash, I picked up the S ...
Wine Bottle Hang Tags: Winter Wonderland Blog Hop
Not only is it already November, Thanksgiving is in less than a week! Yikes, where did the year go? To celebrate the holidays, Eileen Hull and DCWV are having a Winter Wonderland Blog Hop featuring Eileen's splendid dies and these beautiful holiday paper ...
Convertible Christmas Card: From Clouds to Tree
This month, my friend and craft wife Eileen Hull gave those of us on her inspiration team an assignment of making a card. Well, that's easy, right? I make cards with Eileen's Sizzix dies all the time. But as I frequently do, I overthought it and came up w ...
Thanksgiving Turkey Nut and Candy Cups
I know it's not even Halloween yet, but my mind is already on Thanksgiving. So here's my first project of the Thanksgiving season — nut or candy cups in the shape of a turkey. They would also make cute place cards, too. I made them with a variety of Si ...
Dog Floral Crown
I recently saw the Julian Fellowes miniseries "Doctor Thorne" on Amazon Prime (which I binged in one sitting because it was that good), and the women in it wear the most glorious floral crowns. So of course I had to make one for my dog Fosse. Fosse loo ...
Retro TV Place Cards and Escort Cards
This month, our challenge for Eileen Hull's Inspiration Team was to create a party idea using one of her dies. I promised Eileen when I joined the team that I would try to think of really quick and easy ideas, but the last two projects I did were kind of ...