Blog Hop with Eileen Hull Designs, Seth Apter and Emerald Creek Crafts - Get Wrapped

Hi everyone and welcome to the "Get Wrapped Blog Hop"- a creative collaboration between Seth Apter, Emerald Creek and Eileen Hull using some of their exciting products and featuring projects from members of their respective teams. Be inspired, learn new techniques and celebrate the collective talent in this group! Make sure to check out each post (all details given at the end of this post) as you will not want to miss one...

My project is an Eileen Hull 'Wrapped Journal' using her Scoreboards XL Die from Sizzix. I love that Eileen has designed this die to do the cutting, folding and hole punching in one pass with no need for gluing pieces together. And even though it's pocket sized, the extra depth means you can fit four notebooks inside! And since there's no sticking pieces together you can get straight on with the business of decorating it, which is of course the most fun part!

So here's how this journal came together. I had in mind that I wanted to keep the cover as flat as possible so that it would be comfortable to hold and practical enough to slip inside a bag when on the go. To begin with I used Seth Apter's multi-layer paint application technique with his 'Winter' set of Acrylic Paints from PaperArtsy over both sides of a number of sheets of paper. Each of the four colours were used in random layers, adding additional patterns with Seth's 'Pattern Play' stamp set from Impression Obsession.

Two of these sheets of paper were cut into panels, designed to fit  the front, back and sides of the journal cover on both the inside and outside. After drawing white pen lines onto them and adding hand stitching with embroidery thread, I used Seth's 'Spot Lights' stamps to apply several Emerald Creek embossing powders. The powders used included Seth's Baked Texture 'Ancient Amber' and 'Dirty Sand' Embossing Powders alongside Emerald Creek's own 'Weathered Wood' and 'Oil Rubbed Bronze' Embossing Powders. I love that these powders have a mix of colours and textures built in enabling you to get interesting effects all at the touch of a heat gun.

The journal cover itself was painted a buff colour, after which I stamped one of the images from Seth's 'Solar System' stamp set across it using StazOn 'Vibrant Violet' ink. The paper panels were layered onto scraps of cotton muslin cloth and then added to the cover inside and out. On spare offcuts of the painted paper I used one of  Seth's 'Planetarium' stamps and Emerald Creek's 'Hammered Metal' Embossing Powder to create larger circles. These were trimmed and added to the outside covers together with a die cut word from Eileen Hull's 'Journaling Words' Thinlits die set.

You'll see below how using the same painted paper for the journal inserts gave this little book a coordinated look. Several sheets were trimmed to size, torn along the outside edge, stitched together and secured in place with elastic threaded through the spine. Finally, by punching a hole through the front cover and adding some sari silk I created a tie that could be wrapped around the outside of the journal to keep it secure when not in use.

So that's it for my completed journal. I hope you've enjoyed finding out more about how it came together. Now, as promised at the beginning of this post, here are the details for the blog hop...

Let's Get Wrapped Blog Contest!

We are blog hopping with some amazing people today all in the name of fun, and cross brand creativity.

Of course there will be a prize pack valued over $150 USD from PaperArtsy, Seth Apter, Eileen Hull & Emerald Creek.

To be entered you must pop by and comment on each of the blog posts. 

(We don't want you to miss any of the tips and tricks.)

Contest closes Aug 29th at midnight and a winner will be announced Aug 30th, 2018.

Here are the links to the blog hop participants - make sure you check out each one;

Eileen Hull

Kim Evans

Debi Adams

Josefine Fourage

Susie Bentz

Linda Cain

Karla Yungwirth

Jenny Marples (you are here)

Amanda Pink

Livia Yellowbird

Karen Bearse

Alison Bomber

Nora Paolini

Tonya Trantham

Emma Williams

Peg Robinson

Maggi Harding

Stephanie Eaton

Enjoy the hop and good luck everyone!

Jenny xxx