"Not Just for Christmas" for Eileen Hull Designs

 Hello and welcome!

It is that time in the month for Eileen Hull's Educator Team to share some ideas and inspiration and this month both teams are using the Chapter 3 Christmas Release dies for "Four Seasons Crafting" - showing how versatile Eileen's dies are for all year crafting even though they may be a Christmas release.

I am not a great card maker but I do like to send individually made cards to friends and family and so have been playing around with the shapes of the Chapter 3 dies to see what I could put together.

The way the die is laid out it is easy to cut the truck either on the fold if you are using large pieces of cardstock, or two which can be joined with a flap as I did (I was using 8" x 6" papers). Step by step below.

There are some great areas on the truck to decorate and I think it would make a lovely Wedding or Anniversary Card with added lace and lots of flowers. I kept this for a Birthday as I have someone in mind.

I love making little cards and although these stand up to show off the flowers on the front, they fold flat easily for posting. Again the circle from the Christmas Bauble is easily isolated and I have a tutorial for cutting in this post.

For this card I made it slightly bigger by layering it on the Doily which was released earlier in the year. I have made use of lots of little bits and pieces from the Thinlits die - the garland fits the circle so beautifully and the leaves match wonderfully too. 

This little card stands alone but is quite sturdy and will soon be winging it's way to a family member for their birthday at the beginning of September.

The flowers have been made using one of Eileen's older flower dies and I am hoping to have a tutorial on the blog shortly. 

Changing the way the leaves are curled and adding a different centre makes for quite a different style flower.

Thank you for joining me today and as always happy crafting!

Jennie x

Dies used:

Sizzix ScoreBoards XL Die Box Vintage Truck #665328

Sizzix ScoreBoards L Die Box Ornament #665327

Sizzix Thinlits Die Set Wreath & Snowflake #665326

Sizzix Thinlits Stitchy Flowers #661903

Sizzix Framelits Bookplate, Hinges and Label #662356

Papers:

49 and Market Vintage Artistry Colours Sky 6x6 Mini Collection

CUTTING THE CARDS

TRUCK

Cut a piece of cardstock 71/2" x 31/2" and score 1/2"
down the side for the flap

Fold over the flap and lay the cardstock over the truck
on the die ....

.... leaving a gap at the end for the fold.

This is how it cuts.

Cut a full size truck without a flap.

Line up the two trucks and mark how much to trim
from the full size truck.

The two truck pieces can be layered and the
flap secured with glue.

The finished card!

CIRCULAR CARDS

Cut a piece of cardstock 3.5" x 7" and
score at 3.5"

Cut a circle using the die leaving a very small area on the fold
of the cardstock uncut.

Cut a second single layer circle using the full
area of the die

On the circle with the fold, fold up one of the circles so
all edges meet

It should look like this!

Glue the single circle onto the folded circle ......

So it looks like this!