Monday, December 31, 2012

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.

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


Happy New Year everyone!!!!

Anna

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Monday, December 24, 2012

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.

 


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!

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

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!

Monday, December 17, 2012

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.





Tuesday, December 11, 2012

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

Merry Christmas!

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Design Team Wednesday with Jingle

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

Gumdrop Christmas

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.

Mitten Wreath

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

Christmas Walrus

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!

Monday, December 3, 2012

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

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Design Team Wednesday with Susie







Hello Wednesday friends! It's another fun day for me here at Eyelet Outlet. I had this beautiful fall-ish paper and I wanted to make something special with it.  What better than a nice fall greeting card?





I cut two circles with a die and then folded in the sides to make squares.  I inked all the edges so that my little banners would show up against the same floral background. Then of course came the eyelets.  I used the Big Flower Brads in green and then added some cute round orange brads for the centers.  These flowers were the perfect embellishment for my banners. 

To finish the card, I strung my banners on twine and then added some of the new bling that Eyelet Outlet is selling now.  I am totally in love with it because the pearls actually stick to the paper!  I know!  Swoon! 

 I would love for you to see more of my work at my website, The Dies Have It.  I hope to see you soon!

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

We are Thankful...

Hello Eyelet Outlet fans. It's the day before Thanksgiving and we'd like to share some fall inspired cards from designers Jingle and Anna.
We want to extend Happy Thanksgiving wishes to all of our fans. We hope you have a wonderful holiday with your families. We are so thankful for all of your support. Thank you for being fantastic customers and fans!

Here's Jingle's card first...



Forever Thankful

For my card, I pulled out the super cute baking brads for a pretty Thanksgiving card. I added just a few pearls to finish it off!

Now it's Anna's turn...



Hello dear Eyelet Outlet Fans, Anna here!
This is my fall inspiration for you:-)



I made this fall, pumpkin card using Leaf Ribbon



and Pumpkin Brads.




Thanks for stopping by, happy crafting,

Monday, November 19, 2012

Design team Monday with Anna

Hello Eyelet Outlet fans! The holidays have officially begun in the US with holiday music playing on the radio and shoppers busily stocking up on holiday foods and gifts to give. With Thanksgiving and Black Friday only days away... it really is starting to feel like the holidays are here.

Today design team member Anna has created a very merry layout using our beautiful pearl brads to inspire you.

This Christmas page is full of brightness....
Her inspiration was our wonderful jewel and pearl brads from Eyelet Outlet


and my favorite Bead Brads.


Stunning touches and design Anna! you make creating holiday layouts and cards look so easy using these beautiful brads. I hope you are inspired to create your holiday layouts with our pearl and jewel brads.

Happy holidays everyone!

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Design Team Wednesday with Anna



Hello dear Eyelet Outlet Fans, Anna here!
I bring some Christmas inspiration for you today,
because the Christmas season is coming...


I love the little Holiday Brads...
They look really great on Christmas cards!


And this sweet deerLooks very cute!

I used them as a Christmas balls on my tree today.


Thanks for stopping by, happy crafting,
Anna

Monday, November 12, 2012

Design Team Monday with Shemaine

Hello Monday! First we'd like to say Happy Veteran's Day to all our Veterans and active military. We appreciate your service.

Today I'm sharing a couple of cards created with our newest brads.

First I created a masculine birthday card with the Army Men brads.
 

For this card I kept it real simple. I used a Unity Stamp image stamped in Army green in by Studio G. Then used a strip of washi tapefrom Love My Tapes and stamped the sentiment which is also from Unity Stamp Co. Finally, I used a Spellbinder die to layer a Jillibean soup tag and added the Army Men brads.

Next the holidays are all down hill from here. I'm planning my 25 days of Holiday Cards on my blog begining Dec 1st so I created a fun holiday card using the Gnome and Lawn Mushroom brads.
 
 
 
 
For this card I used the new Aspen Frost collection from Basic Grey. I also used a tree die from Lil Inker Designs to create a holiday scene. Next I added the brads and then stamped my sentiment.
 
Finally here is a layout I created of my daughter and her soccer team.
 
 
For this layout I used the Vintage Shop collection from My Little Shoebox. It was easy to add our soccer ball brads to this layout.
 
That's it for today. Please check out our Facebook page and post your creations with your Eyelet Outlet brads.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

It's finally here! CKC Seattle




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Friday 10:00-6:00
Saturday 9:00-5:00
Make sure you stop our booth by to check out our newest products!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Design Team Wednesday with Susie


Happy Wednesday! I have three cards to show you today.  I must have been in a blue paper mood, because two of them are lovely shades of blue.  The last one though, is my favorite and it is a holiday card for you. So here is my first card.  I used a 12mm Pearl Creme Brad  to anchor my seam binding bow.  I just love the elegant look this gives to the card.
Here is a close up picture:

Now for my next card.  It has lots of embellishments, but the ones that I love the most are the Anodized Star Brads.  The card itself is masculine and these brads just keep the theme flowing.

 Here is a closer look:

And now to my holiday card.  Yes, it is time for holiday cards!  Can you believe it?   I used the  Deer Brads on either side of my letters.  Don't you just love that there is a left and a right one?  This pack is full of each - both light and dark too.  Pretty clever!!


Here they are ready for their close up:


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