The Crafty Robins Nest

Wednesday 17 July 2024

Stencil Love with Eileen Hull Designs

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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

Wednesday 26 June 2024

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

Happy Crafting

Elizabeth x

Wednesday 19 June 2024

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

Wednesday 12 June 2024

A Re-visit to the first release of Eileen Hull's Treasure Box and Stacking Drawer Dies

Here's a blast from the past from when Eileen first released her Stacking Drawer and Treasure Box Dies. You can see more over in my blog post from the first release HERE

Happy Crafting

Elizabeth x