Eileen Hull - Share a Card Technique

Hello Everyone!

Belated Happy New Year wishes to you!  We have been under the weather in our household so I am a bit late with this post.  This month for Eileen Hull, the DT are concentrating on card techniques.

I have gone for a simple technique, not new by any means but one that is useful for covering up papers that you may not like and a great technique for making quick and easy cards.  Of course, I had to add my all time favourite of Eileen Hull's flower dies - Flower, Heart & Soul - Sizzix 661108.

The technique is very simple.  Using a piece of packaging material and your favourite die, cut two sets of flowers from the same sheet.

Cut your chosen patterned paper to size.

Stencil over the paper, I used some Cut & Dry foam and DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic in Translucent White, but this would work equally well with watered down Gesso, or any chalky paint.  The idea is to create a faint outline and not not a solid print.

The leaves were cut from another of Eileen's dies - Leaves, Spring - Sizzix 661111.

To create the flower I die cut three sets of petals, and used a button from my stash for the centre.

  I die cut a sentiment using a Tim Holtz Thinlits word die and then gathered my pieces together to complete the card.

It was a last minute decision to add some splatting to the card and I did this using Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Picked Raspberry.  In real life the splatting looks beautiful, the light is very poor here today.

It took me less than half an hour to put this card together, the die cutting took the most time but you could have lots of items die cut and you could put cards together in no time - so quick and easy.

As I write this post, Eileen Hull is making her way to Creativation (formerly CHA), in Phoenix, Arizona in her beautiful vintage camper van, Scotty.  Eileen will be taking Scotty onto the convention floor and she will be demonstrating her fabulous new release of dies (they are must haves!!).  I am also thrilled to tell you that my dear and exceptionally talented friend Jenny Marples (Buttons) will be demonstrating for Eileen Hull, in the Sizzix Booth!!  If you are attending, please do try and visit both Eileen and Jenny, they would both love to see you! 

Thanks so much for your visit, I will try and catch up with you all soon. 

Hugs, Anne xx

Perspective Butterfly for Inspiration Journal

The month is nearly over and this is my Project #4 for Inspiration Journal, where the challenge theme is Everything Goes - you only have a day left to enter but there is a great prize on offer of $50 to spend in Inspiration Emporium's on-line shop.

I have a question for you first, have you seen Jenny (Buttons) videos on the British Craft Network TV yet?  If not, you are missing some great tutorials, tips and techniques.  My piece today, was inspired by a couple of Jenny's shows where she used a layered paper technique, dribbles and splats!

The card base is 6" x 6", I cut up strips of Tim Holtz  paper (1" x 6"approx) from my stash, ripped the ends off and glued them down, overlapping in the left top corner as you can see below. 

I added some Tissue Tape  here and there and then painted over the whole piece with a light coat of Picket Fence Distress Paint.  A few dribbles of Chipped Sapphire Re-inker were added along with some builder's scrim for texture. 

Now for the fun bit!  Using several colours of Distress Spray Stain, these were spritzed and dried in turn, over the whole card.  Once dried fully I used a paint brush to add splats of paint all over - it is hard to know when to stop, it is such a fun thing to do - but make sure you cover the whole of your desk/work surface with paper and protect your clothing too!

The butterfly was one I had left over from another project, it was coloured with Distress Stains and then coated in Clear Rock Candy Distress Paint.  I added some gauze I raided from the medicine cabinet and some rusty wire to the background, attached with my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher.  I also added some random stamping to the background using a Wendy Vecchi Vintage Mesh stamp.

To finish off I added some of Tim's Remnant Rubs for some added interest.

So, there you have it, my completed Jenny inspired card.  Apologies for the long post but I wanted to do justice to Jenny's techniques and tips. 

If you do shop for supplies at Inspiration Emporium, don't forget to use my code - Redanne to get 10% discount off your whole order and shipping rates are very reasonable.

As always, thanks for looking, see you again on Friday!  Hugs, Anne xx

Inspiration Emporium Products Used:

Perspective Butterfly stamp set

Wendy Vecchi Vintage Mesh stamp

Tim Holtz Paper Pad

Distress Paints

Distress Stains

Remnant Rubs