A Quick Christmas Gift Box with Eileen Hull's Stacking Drawers Die

 

Christmas is quickly approaching and it's time to start making gift boxes ahead of time. Eileen's Stacking Drawer Die is a perfect size to hold a small gift.

Cut out from Sizzix Matboard it makes a sturdy little box to keep any gift safe and sound.

I painted the inside of mine black and chose some fabulous Christmas paper from Anna Griffin that's been in my stash for years. I found a couple of embellishments in there too, which makes this an even quicker make!

I used the die to cut the front of the drawer from the patterned paper, this makes it super easy to get everything lined up where it should be. then I carefully cut out a piece of paper for the back of the drawer, and a long strip to cover the outside of the drawer case completely. I used double side tape to adhere the paper to the matboard. Again this makes it super easy especially when batch making.

Now all I had to do was to add those pre-made embellishments and it's one gift box completely finished.

All ready for something special to be popped in.

So my Christmas makes have begun, have you started yours yet? Let me know in the comments.

Happy Crafting.

Elizabeth x

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What's in the Box with Eileen Hull Designs

This week I'm sharing a very simple project using Eileen Hull's Treasure Box Die.

I die cut and put together the Treasure Box out of Matboard and created a hinge using my favourite bookbinding tape from CoolKatz Craft. This is very strong and you can decorate over it withpaper, paint etc.

Once the box was thoroughly dry I added small pieces of rice paper to completely cover the outside. The silk fibres in the Cadence rice paper give a wonderful texture, as do the torn edges. Again I set the box aside to dry completely.

I chose to go over the box in some area's with Ivory Lustre Wax followed by a light rub of Charcoal Lustre Wax around all of the edges.

The texture of the rice paper pickes up the beautiful sheen of the Lustre Wax really well.

I added a couple of resin pieces from my collection. The florals across the lid and also a key hole on the front of the box.

I stippled the Charcoal Lustre Wax all over both of the resin pieces, and also a little of the Ivory Luster Wax.

For an extra shine I then decided to add even more of the Lustre Wax, this time I reached for the Silver. This gives a high shine and brings the texture on the Treasure Box to life. It almost looks like a vintage silver box from many moons ago.....

I also love that some of the pattern from the rice paper is still visable, with peach roses peeking through.

And whats in the box.........................

Secrets of course..............................
Happy Crafting,

Elizabeth x

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Stencil Love with Eileen Hull Designs Part Two - The Inside

I decided to add four handstitched signatures to the inside of my journal. They are created with Strathmore watercolour paper in a taupe shade. I thought this would make a change from using white.

I cut the left over flowers in half and added them up to the fold of the spine. I love the clash of the turquoise and red.

I did this to both front and back inside covers and the journal is ready to be worked in.

Happy Crafting

Elizabeth x

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Stencil Love with Eileen Hull Designs

 

This month we are showing some love for Eileen's new Stencils, this isn't difficult as they are fabulous!

I started with a Notebook die cut from Matboard as a base to add my decoupaged napkin onto. I love this bird design it's a little vintage but also a little oriental. I postitioned the bird and branches across the two corners, that would enable me to add flowers later.

Once I'd glued the napkin over onto the inner cover, I let it dry before adding Gold Lustre Wax around all of the edges.

I chose a bright coral/red to line the inside covers as a contrast to the outside covers. It picks up the colour of the blossom in the tree. It's easy to create a lining, just die cut from your chosen paper and trim it down to fit, that way the shaped corners fit perfectly to your Notebook.

Using the stencil I added Inktense through the design to build up the colours on the flowers and leaves. Once these were completely dry I die cut them using the co-ordinating Painterly Blooms Thinlits. So easy to do just a little lining up and the jobs done.

I aadded thoe flowers and leaves to the branches on the front cover, so the original branches and blossom still show through. This gives the illusion of extra depth to the branches.

And to finish off of course I have to create a woven and beaded spine using Eileen's Jewel Loom, which is the perfect size to create a decorative spine for journals and notebooks. And great fun to use!

I used a selection of square glass beads and some deep green DMC thread leftover from a cross stitch project.

Happy Crafting.

Elizabeth x

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Seahorse Treasure Box Re Visited

 

This is a blast form the past using Eileen's Treasure Box Die back in February of 2019. You can take a closer look HERE

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Elizabeth x

 

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Lattice Card Caddy Book

 

This was such an easy and fun journal to create using Eileen's Card Caddy Die as the base for the journal.

I stencilled texture paste though the lattice stencil and once it was dry a painted the entire cover with white gesso. Once dry I added colour using a couple of Inktense Blocks by lightly rubbing over the texture paste in different directions, spritzing with water and letting dry before repeating that process until the colour built up.

I die cut the flowers and leaves from a light weight water colour card, then added colour from the same two Inktense Blocks.

Once they were completely dry I then doodled over the top of the flowers and leaves with a Black Micron pen.

I added Gold Pen around all of the edges of the journal, the book plate and lightly across the raised texture of the latticework.

I found a die cut Book Plate left over from another project which was perfect for the cover of the journal.

I chose to add more flowers to the spine of the journal as thats the part you see the most of once it's on a shelf.

The inside covers are lined with a piece of watercolour paper that I used to clean my stencils on, I added a couple of leaves over the tops with ink, this gives a look of hand made paper. The block inside the journal is hand stitched 120gsm paper which is great for holding ink and doodling on.

Happy Crafting

Elizabeth x

 

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