Floral Cards for Eileen Hull Designs

Hi everyone and welcome. This month Eileen Hull's teams are sharing ideas for using Eileen's Sizzix Chapter 3 dies in non-holiday ways. I took inspiration from one of Eileen's most recent FB Live tutorials (also available on her YouTube channel HERE) where she used her Colorbox Blends inks to paint watercolour flowers. By combining a painted floral background with die cuts from the Thinlits Die Set 'Wreath & Snowflake' and one of the products from Sizzix Effectz range I created a couple of Summer floral cards.

After watching Eileen's video I kept it simple and used diluted drops of her Pansy and Leaf Colorbox Blends, painting tiny violet flowers with little green fronds and some splattering. Rather than use foil I grabbed a gold ink pen and drew dots onto the centre of the flowers. This card was then cut in two so it could be used to create the two slimline cards.

At this angle you can see more of the detail. What I would say to anyone who doesn't feel confident painting flowers is just go for it - remember in nature things are rarely perfect so mistakes are fine and since it's a background you can always pop something on top to cover bits you are less happy with.

For the first card I die cut leafy wreaths using Eileen's die and glued them on over the top of the background. The extra bits on the side were trimmed off ready for the panel to be mounted onto a slightly larger piece of watercolour paper painted with more dilute Pansy ink around the edges.

Before mounting the background I used a tracing wheel and purple gel pen to create a faux stitched border. Once the floral background had been mounted onto the painted card and card blank base it needed a focal point. I coloured the label from Eileen's 'Journal' Sizzix Scoreboards XL Die with Gold Luster Wax from the Sizzix Effectz range. The die cut word was taken from an older Eileen set and was coloured with the purple gel pen to make it stand out.

For the second card I kept the background simple, adding the faux stitching around the edges again and mounting it onto more painted paper and a card blank. To create the focal point I die cut another wreath shape from white card, covering the wreath in more Gold Luster Wax before remounting it onto the centre piece. To finish I die cut another of Eileen's words, this time painting it with more of the dilute Pansy ink and mounted it on the centre of the wreath circle.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing how Eileen's dies have been used to create these cards. Make sure to check out the other Chapter 3 non-holiday ideas and tutorials from the other Inspiration and Educator Team members - links to their posts can be found on Eileen's blog throughout the month.

For now thanks for visiting,
Jenny xxx