Eileen Hull Designs Chapter 4 Release Party Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome. Thanks for joining us for the Eileen Hull Chapter 4 Release Party Blog Hop. Eileen has two new ScoreBoards Dies releases from Sizzix! Are you ready for a new Bigz L 'Teacup, 3-D & Spoon' die? Fill it with teabags and other assorted goodies or use the teacup cut out on the front of a card - so many possibilities. Also new is the Bigz XL 'Box, Post', a fun little box that goes together in 10 seconds and has a slit in the top to tuck a gift card. Throughout October, the team will be sharing tutorials with you and today we start with a launch blog hop. We hope that you will be inspired too and share how you use the dies in the Eileen Hull Fan Club.

Please hop with us through all of the projects and leave comments on the different designers' blogs. A lucky commenter will win the 'Box, Post' Die - there's a list of links for everyone's blogs at the end of this post.

And wait - there’s more - the Release Party continues! You won’t want to miss the Facebook Live at Eileen Hull Designs at 12:00 noon Eastern time (that's 5pm UK time) on Thursday, 1st October. Join the chat - and a random commenter will win the 'Teacup, 3-D & Spoon' Die!!!

Now for my first project with one of these new dies - I chose to use the 'Box, Post' Die to create these two vintage post boxes;

Eileen is right when she says this die goes together in 10 seconds so if you are planning on mass producing them then you are definitely in luck - in fact they took longer to decorate than to make! 

After folding the two die cut boxes along the pre-cut score-lines and gluing them together at the sides I die cut some of the floral arches using Eileen's 'Floral Arch & Words' Thinlits Die Set and some letters from different letter die sets. They were glued onto the boxes and allowed to dry before the whole lot was painted with a coat of black gesso. I then rubbed over the surfaces with a clear wax candle to create a resist. You may notice the inside of each box is also black - to make this even quicker I used mountboard that is black on one side and placed it face up on the die when cutting.

I chose to use some traditional post box colours to paint over the black bases. Of course these two just happen to be translucent colours so I did have to add a few layers of PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint. My suggestion for making this more speedy would of course be to use opaque shades. Once air dry I rubbed over the boxes with a clean cloth so that the candle wax resist could work its magic and some of the colour could be removed in areas where there would naturally be wear and tear.

To give the finished boxes a more metallic feel I dry brushed them both with some gold acrylic paint (a gold wax could also be used) concentrating on the raised areas to make them stand out even more. As an alternative I also thought it might look good to paint the whole of the folded lid area in gold.

Thank you for joining me here as part of this Eileen Hull Designs Blog Hop. Here's the full list of blog hop participants - make sure to visit them all and leave a comment on each post to be in with a chance to win a 'Box, Post' Die;

Eileen Hull Designs

Tonya Trantham

Elizabeth Robinson

Julia Aston

Pam Bray

Maggi Harding

Lisa Hoel

Anna-Karin Evaldsson

Karen Bearse

Susie Bentz

Jenny Marples - you are here

Mitsyana Wright

Jennie Atkinson

Anita Houston

Madeline Arendt

Sarah Lizzie Dodd

Sue Eldred

Debbie Bankston