Sizzix Triple Play Blog Hop - Week 1 Rose Cottage

FINALLY, we got to the first week of the Sizzix Triple Play Blog Hop!

Every Thursday, a new die from designers: Eileen Hull, Brenda Pinnick and Karen Burniston will be featured in very different ways by 62 designers! Click on the Sizzix button at the top right to jump from one design for a peek at some wonderful eye candy!

The first Sizzix design is from Eileen Hull, the 3-D House Die. Cut on a Sizzix machine using mat board, it is a very study form and so much fun to put together & decorate.

Here is my finished design using Eileen Hull's 3D House: Rose Cottage

When I first saw this die, I had fairy tale visions running throughout my head, thus Rose Cottage was created. Decorated with fabric roses, silver foil and scrapbook paper, this little cottage is waiting for a future queen to arrive.

A close up shot at the foiled entrance.

Late at night you can even see the soft glow of the lights from inside Rose Cottage, further beckoning tired wanderers in for a much needed rest.

To create this fairy tale cottage for your own little ones (or big ones):

Materials

Sizzix Big Shot Pro Die Cutting Machine
Sizzix 12 x 12 white matboard
#656836 Sizzix Scoreboard Pro Die: 3D House by designer Eileen Hull
Quick Grip Adhesive by Beacon Adhesives
Zip Dry by Beacon Adhesives
Fabric roses, pink & white
Yellow scraps of yellow vellum
Pink ribbon
Ornate silver foil frame (cut apart)
Silver foil crown
Silver brads
Battery operated candle tea light
Tim Holtz: Vintage Shabby Pink scrapbook paper
Clearsnap ColorBox Pink dye: Razzberry


Directions:

1. Cut house out, instructions on house assembly provided.
2. Apply Zip Dry to house, cover with Shabby Pink paper
3. Cut out areas for door & windows
4. Color all aread to be seen with pink dye: door frame, window frames, roof edges
5. Apply roses to roof with Quick Grip adhesive
6. Adhere yellow vellum scraps to inside windows
7. On small roof top, adhere ribbon & trim edges with small roses
8. Silver foil on entranceway & Crown on house exterior
9. Insert battery operated tealight & mount main roof

Enjoy!

How Old This Year?

Week 4 of the Sizzix Scoreboard Dies Blog Hop has arrived! What a sweet taste this new CAKE DIE designed by Eileen Hull left us with. Make sure you check out all the other wonderful cake inspirations below by other very talented designers then leave a comment here or at Eileen Hull's blog to be put in a drawing to WIN a free scoreboard die!

Ok, be truthful for a minute. How MANY of you back up your birthdays? Sometimes to a point you can't remember your OWN age? Well, this is what inspired this theme for the CAKE die! There are enough numbers on this little cake to make up any AGE you wish! Just pick a number! Any number!



The first cake I "made" was with the scoreboard.....then I thought, lets take it a step further! With some scrap metal plates that were used on a printing press, I cut several sheets & run them them the Big Shot machine using the CAKE die, thus cutting out my pieces. I then used the Cuttle Bug to emboss with the numbers plate. Alcohol inks, winter green, violet, and stone wash blue, were sponged on in a random pattern to create a mottled look. A sanding block was used to sand the ink off the numbers. The side pieces of the cake were taped together with Red Liner tape. Beacon's Quick Grip were used to adhered the top & bottom of the cake. Ranger's Glossy Accents was used to glue the pearls & flowers to the top of the cake. The question mark was printed off my Cricket using the Base Camp cartridge. Heavy clear plastic film suspends the question mark off the cake as if floating.



Here is a closeup of the side of the cake. You can see the mottled look of the inks and the effects of the numbers sanded.



Top of the cake with the little purple flowers & pearls adorning it.

I was very pleased at how this little cake turned out!
This Cake die can be used as a gift box or simply as a cake gift for just about any occasion!
Be sure to check out the other CAKE designs below & don't forget to leave a comment here or on Eileen Hull's blog! Your comment just may leave you a winner of a Sizzix Scoreboard die!

Stay tuned for the Sizzix BOW die to appear in the next few weeks!

Creatively,
Veronica (Ronnie) Goff

Ann Butler

Candice Windham

Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world

Debra Quartermain
Eileen Hull
Einat Kessler
Jen Goode - JGoode Designs
Just a Thought or Two
Karen Burniston
Laura Bray
Life in the Craft Lane
Lisa Rojas, Stampin' Queen Creations
Modern Surrealist Marisa Pawelko
Niki Meiners
Roann Mathias Calligraphy
Sandy Laipply
Bonnie Bruns

Little Lady's Big Purse

I'm excited to be participating in my first Blog Hop! Designer Eileen Hull has been hard at work with Sizzix and what you will be seeing on different blogs, are soon to be released Scoreboard Dies. Instead of regular cardstock most dies cut, these new dies cut & score mat board to create a dimensional works of art. Artists will be posting a new scoreboard treat every other Wednesday and everyone of them will be soooooo different! There will be inspiration enough to go around the block several times!

A special treat: Vote for your favorite project on Eileen's blog and leave a comment on any participating designer's blog and YOU COULD BE A WINNER! The ScoreBoard die used in the project will be given to the designer whose project gets the most votes, and one viewer who leaves a comment will receive a ScoreBoard die from the first Sizzix ScordBoard collection. To qualify to win, you must write a comment on any of the participating designers' sites.

Voting ends the Monday following the Wednesday hop at 6 PM.

This is the first sample to begin the Blog Hop off right.

To throw a challenge in the mix, Eileen had us include some kind of office supply item into our design. To keep you from seaching too hard, the item I used were 2 fastner circles with fastners. When I looked at the blank scoreboard before me, I saw a little girls purse with some of her momma's make up in it. Of course she threw in her pony tail holder as well as her necklace.

Covering the scoreboard with Peppermint Rain Drops textured paper (The Paper Company) with Zip Dry adhesive by Beacon......the little purse began to take shape. Using RockCandy Studios copper Dresden Foil, I trimmed the entire purse, including the scalloped areas to highlight them. Decorative pink beaded trim was added because EVERY little girl deserves BLING. Since copper was my main metal used, I coiled some copper 18 gauge wire and fastened it down with Making Memories flowers. Copper jump rings & chain complete the purse!



Remember to VOTE on your favorite project & you could be a WINNER! Go to Eileen Hull's website & look over the other designers projects & cast your vote!

Eileen Hull

Ann Butler

Bonnie Burns

Candice Windham

Cindi Bisson - Fat Cat Creations

Bee Shay - Craftside

Designs by Roxi

JGoode Designs

Jennifer Ellefson

Just a Thought or Two

Karen Burniston

Veronica Goff - Life Snippets

Mel Designs - Trendy Thank You Gifts

Niki Meiners

Sparkle's Studio

Pink Lemonade

Stampin' Queen Creations Lisa Rojas

Sandy Laipply's Blog

Julie McGuffee

Laura Bray

Marisa Pawelko

Michelle Cummings

Brenda Pinnick

Carla Schauer

FTC: Material Disclosure: I have a material connection to Sizzix and Eileen Hull. I received samples of the product above to use for this blog post.

Big Shot - Blog Hop

Yep, I ordered & just found out I am the proud owner of a "Big Shot" die cut machine. I'm getting ready to be in Eileen Hull's next Sizzix ScoreBoard Blog Hop in which a group of Designers are rounded up in order to create wonderful pieces of art from Eileens new die cuts by Sizzix!

I can't wait for it to begin!!

But in the meantime, it's time to order some of Eileens die cuts I know I already have fallen in love with!