New Year's Eve fun from Anna

Hello lovely Eyelet Outlet Fans, Anna here.

I have some inspiration with the color blue for you today...

New Years is getting closer,
so I made a romantic calendar in a Parisian style.

Using wonderful Dress Form Brads
and some jewel brads...
15mm Pearl Brads - White/Silver Brads  
and 5mm Pearl Brads - Blue.

Together with a New Year's card - makes a nice gift set for my dear friend.

Happy New Year everyone!!!!

Anna

From all of us at Eyelet Outlet.

Inspired by Pinterest challenge

Hello Eyelet Outlet friends. Happy Christmas Eve to you all! Today we have a little challenge for you. I love Pinterest and go there often for inspiration. We even started an Eyelet Outlet Pinterest page here for you to have ideas on what to create with our fun brads.

Our challenge to you...{and yes there will be prizes!} is to create a project using Eyelet Outlet brads that is inspired from something you saw on Pinterest.

 Designer Susie Moore has created her take on our challenge. Here is her Pinterest inspiration.

 

Inspiration credit

Here's her project

Supply List:

Carta Bella Traditions 6x6 paper pad
Silhouette SVG cutting file
Stamps: Stampendous
Eyelet Outlet Brown Pearl Bling
Trivet Frame and Chair Ornament are found objects from a local thrift store

OK...here's the details of our challenge:

 Create a project using Eyelet Outlet brads inspired by and image you saw on Pinterest or around the internet.

Post your project to our Facebook wall and add this tag in the comments #EEPinterestChallenge

Contest ends January 1st at midnight pacific time.

We will randomly choose 3 winners entries from our Facebook wall to win a mix of Eyelet Outlet goodies!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Holiday Card inspiration

Hello Eyelet Outlet friends! Today we are sharing some holiday card inspiration using a variety of our holiday brads.

Each of our talented designers has created a special holiday card today. Let's start with Anna

Hi, Anna here:-)

I made a Christmas card, using wonderful Holiday Tree Brads.

I think that they are so cute:-)

Next up is Susie with a beautiful card.

Wishing you a day of...

 Supply List:

SEI Velvet Paper
Nennah Classic Desert Storm Cardstock
Impression Obsession Fancy Ornament Die
Kaisercraft Just Believe 6x6 paper pad
Eyelet Outlet 15mm Jewel Brad-Clear
MFT Stamps - sentiment

Next up is something cute from Jingle...

Sweet Holiday Wishes

Cardstock:  Bazzill

Ink:  Momento

Stamps:  Neat & Tangled

Gingerbread cutout - Paper Made Bakery Kit

Twine:  The Twinery

Eyelets:  Eyelet Outlet (of course!)

 

Now we have a super cute card using the mustache brads by Nicole.

Stashing thru the snow...

Supplies:

Kraft paper 

ribbon

Eyelet Outlet pearl strip

Mustache brads

And finally a sweet card with our gingerbread men brads

From our house...

Supplies: Patterned paper Basic Grey

Wilton doily

Offray Ribbon

Misc: Jingle bell 

Stamped image Craft Lounge

Gingerbread men brads

Stickles

Copic markers

We hope these cards inspire you to finish up your home made holiday cards!

Happy Holidays from all of us at Eyelet Outlet!

Guest Designer Monday

Hello Eyelet Outlet friends. We are please to have a Alice Carman as our Guest Designer for December.

My name is Alice Carman and I’m super excited to guest design for Eyelet Outlet.  I love making cards so when I was asked to create a few samples,  I was over the moon excited.  I’ve been asked what my card making style is and honestly, I have no idea.  I dabble in everything…after all its crafting and who doesn’t like that!  However, I do like to layer my cards.  I use a lot of product so I guess you could say it’s not clean and simple.  I also use a lot of stickers and alphabets…love them!  Eyelet Outlet has great brads that are perfect embellishments for card making.

We gave Alice some of our favorite holiday eyelets and asked her to create some fabulous cards to share with you. Here's a look at what she came up with.

Ho Ho Ho...

Supplies: Bo Bunny Mistletoe collection, Spellbinder die and Tim Holtz die

Making Things Bright card

Supplies: Hampton Art Stamp, Canvas Corp paper, white pen, Paper Smooches stamp and Stickles


And we asked her to create a little non-holiday card

Eye-Scream card

Supplies: Bo Bunny Mistletoe collection and Taylored Expressions Stamps

We'd like to thank Alice for sharing these fun cards with us today.

To see more of Alice's cards please visit her blog Cards by Alice.

There is still time for you to get your holiday cards in the mail!

Have a great day.

Design Team Inspiration with Nicole

A big hello to all of you from me (Nicole)  here in the North of Norway... which you as you might know is just hop skip and jump from the North Pole!  It is a wonderful time of the year here in Norway and because we are above the Arctic Circle we have the dark time of the year... yep right now we don't have the sun... It comes up to the horizon so we have twilight for about 2 or 2.5 hours but never actually crosses the horizon so the rest of the day is dark.  I don't mind it so much but it is hard to try and get pictures of projects.. really hard! But I try and today I actually have two types of projects to share with you today... a layout and gift tags for Christmas presents.

On this layout I used both the big snowflake brads and the small snowflake brads... Each of the big paper snowflakes I used a clear rhinestone bling

I love to make tags at Christmas for presents and I have found that brads are the perfect thing to embellish them with. I made three different kinds of tags this year.  The first were the same kind I made last year but this time I used the new 2012 Christmas brads... If you would like to see the tutorial for how to make these tags you can click here....

For this year I made two other kinds of tags...One out of buttons and brads and the other out of brads and rub ons...

I used the following brads when making all three types of tags...

Gingerbread boys, Holiday Lights, Holiday Mittens, Holiday Stockings, Pine Trees, and Santa Hats

I also used the Mitten Ribbon to coordinate with the holiday mitten brads. 

Merry Christmas!

Design Team Wednesday with Jingle

Hello! Today I have three fun holiday cards to share with you using some fun holiday brads!


I used the fun gumdrop brads on this one. Instead of going with lots of bright colors, I decided on a homey feel, making the brads the pop of both color and whimsy for this card.


For this one, I hung the adorable mitten brads from the wreath as a fun accent! I love the colors in this mitten collection!


And this last one is just plain FUN! A SUPER cute Christmas walrus ready to play Santa! YAY! LOL! I hope you have enjoyed these fun cards! Have fun creating!

Design Team Monday with Susie

Happy Monday!!

I have three cards to show you today.  All of my cards are birthday themed.  I know it is the holiday season, but we always need birthday cards.  Right?

So here is my first card.  I used some of our new bling on my colored image.  This bling is like no other - because it actually sticks to the paper.  I loved using these pearls because I know they will still be on the card when it is sent through the mail.

My next card is a fun little birthday number for you.  I think these eyeglass brads are super "cool" and I hope you do too. Now this card could be for a cool guy OR girl.

 Here is a closer look:

And now to complete my birthday card spree!  Here is a decidedly feminine birthday card with lots of extra bling on it.  These pearls are just the absolute best!

Here is a close up of the image and the pearls:

Thanks for taking a look at my creations for Eyelet Outlet today. I hope you have enjoyed today's post.  I would love for you to see more of my work at my blog, The Dies Have It.

Susie