Artist Trading Block Tree

Hi all! December is a such busy and exciting month!

If you check on my blog every day this month you will see lots of quick and easy ways to use your dies to help save time with all of your holiday preparations- to wrap gifts, decorate, package food gifts, make cards and 3D decor!

The project I made for you today is a mini-tree sitting on an Artist Trading Block base. This is the perfect little tree to tuck in a tiny niche in your kitchen to remind you of the season. Cleanup after Christmas is so easy too...

I decorated the tree with dies from Kitchen Labels, part of the brand new Vintage Kitchen collection.

The ornaments were die cut from metal sheets from MD Hobby and Craft,

and then I embossed them with the new Sunburst and Waffle Textured Impressions folders. They emboss so beautifully. It would also be fun to color them in with alcohol inks! I have to admit that I was surprised at how well the wafer-thin dies cut through the metal and I only did one pass through the Big Shot!

The pitchers and canning jars were hung on the tree with red and white twine.

The tree is sitting on top of an Artist Trading Block (Blocks/Cubes/Bank die) die cut from chipboard. I doodled some holiday sayings and images on the sides of the boxes and it made a nice sturdy base for the tree.

Underneath I tucked a die cut doily from a red velvety ribbon material from the Doily Medallion die.

I hope you will pop over to my blog for a look at some of the quick and easy ideas featured this week! My amazing Inspiration Team has been crafting up a storm- come and see!

I invite you to like my Eileen Hull Designs Facebook page- check in to see what's new. Or visit me on Instagram to see some behind the scenes looks at getting ready for the Craft and Hobby Show coming up in January. It's coming up quick and guess who is not ready...

Every month we host the Art with Heart Challenge- a place for you to show us what you're making. The theme this month is Holiday Traditions. We love to see what you are doing with the dies... and whoever enters has the chance to win a really nice giveaway. I hope you will stop by and post your latest creations on my blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Paper Trail Tour and more...

Hello friends! I have been off the blog for a while because I took off on the Paper Trail, a two month trip in my vintage camper all around the US. While on the road, I taught classes in stores using my Sizzix dies and Clearsnap inks. I loved it- although there were some disasters along the way. You can read about it here on my blog.

Here's the invitation to the Paper Trail Blogger event that was held while I was out in California at Ellison Global Headquarters! What a fun time...

Take a look at what happened at the party. My camper Scotty is parked in the background...

More exciting news- my new collection, Vintage Kitchen, is now on its way to stores! You can create pretty and practical packaging for food gifts, jewelry and small treasures. See the all of the dies here.

I hope you will check out my blog- every week there are amazing projects created by my super talented Inspiration Team. You are sure to be inspired... here are a few pics from this week. Please click on each designer's name to see the post about their projects.

 Anne Redfern

Pam Bray

Rina Gonzales

Donna Braaten-Budzynski

Tracy Evans

Lisa Hoel

Oxana Moupasiridou

Shelly Hickox

Diana Hetherington

Michelle Zerull

I hope you will add your latest project to our Art With Heart Challenge. Prizes are involved!

Thanks for reading. See you in a few weeks!    Eileen