Geared Up for School!

School is beginning soon and it's a great time to send some snail mail to a child in your life to wish them a fantastic school year!

I found this cute little robot in the Cricut image library and used the offset feature to create a shaped card base. I sliced a hole in the center and lined it with acetate to hold my shaker bits. Rather than the usual sequins used in most shaker cards, I took the prongs off the backs of these Eyelet Outlet gear brads and they became my shaker content.

This little card is absolutely "EYE POPPING," thanks to a couple of Eyelet Outlet eyeball brads! LOL!

Here's the inside of the card. If you're a Cricut crafter and would like to create this project, I've shared the link on my Cricut profile. 

 

Time for the Harvest!

Autumn holidays are around the corner!

Check out a few fun ideas here.

First, doctor up a stamp with our Eyeball Brads, Witch Hat Brads,  Mini Spider Brads and Leaf and Mini Leaf brads!   The foil washi tape is makes a nice eye catching border for this spooky squash pile!

Then, have you headed over to the Eyelet Outlet website to harvest

some of our new brads and washi styles?

Here I used our new Profile Cardinal Brad along with Scarecrow Brads.

Sandwiched between are Pumpkin Brads, Mini Ladybug Brads and our popular Sunflower Brads.

Our Paper Flowers are tucked in to fill in spaces and to add interest and color.

And, with the start of fall, there are four more trade shows to harvest

Eyelet Outlet products for your winter time crafting.

Check out our side bar for details for the two in California, one is WA and one in MI!

I've Got My Eyes on You!

Hello everyone!  Happy Fall!  I spent most of the day Thursday putting up my Fall decorations, and then for the rest of the weekend I played with Halloween papers and stamps...I just LOVE these colors!  It has been so much fun! 

I had a package of candy eyeballs that were calling out to be used as a ready-made shaker...all I had to do was cut an opening with a die and glue the trimmed package right in.  This shaker actually peeks through an opening in the card front and is attached to the back of the card.

This was so quick to put together, and looks really cute with some Eyelet Outlet coordinating monster-themed products:

• monster brads
• eye brads in two sizes
• monster ribbon
• monster washi tape
• paper flowers

Have a great week!  I'll see you again soon!

October Guest Designer

Hello Eyelet Outlet fans! We are thrilled to have Amy Tsurata sharing her card making talents with us today as our October Guest Designer! 

Hello!

My name is Amy and I'm thrilled to be a Guest Designer for Eyelet Outlet!

I live in the lovely state of Washington with my Fiance' Darin and my 17 year old son.  My lovely daughter is living in her first apartment and going to the University of Washington.  I work part time in the biotech industry.  I've been actively blogging since 20007 and honestly love every minute.  

Now how fun are those Spooky Eye Brads?!  I just knew they belonged in a jar!  Perfect for a Halloween Greeting!

cardstock:  pti  stamps:  waltzing mouse/candy jar, neat & tangled/creepy cute shadows  ink:  memento tuxedo, wplus9 white, fresh ink red current  other:  project life card, black clothes pin

I had to make the black base panel chalkboard-y.

Next up, I decided to play along with the Eyelet Outlet October

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Check out the Freshly Made Sketches blog for their weekly sketch challenges. 

I had so much fun with the sketch:

cardstock:   pti  paper:  american crafts/hollyday  stamps:  lawn fawn cozy christmas/yeti, set, go  ink:  memento rich cocoa, various copics  other:  eyelet outlet stocking brads

Aren't those Stocking Brads perfect?!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by!