Winter Wonderland Town Gift Box

So, Christmas is over, but the holiday cheer is still flowing! I’m ready for some SNOW!!! For this week's creation for Eyelet Outlet, I wanted to make something extra special that can be used anytime of the year. I made this with winter and snow in mind.

 

As you can see, it is an adorable gift box with a beautiful candy cane and snowflake embossed paper ribbon on top. The front of the box is adorned with three white snowflake brads that match perfectly to the paper I used to make the box.

Once you lift off the lid of the present, two of the sides fall down to reveal a serene 3-D Winter Wonderland Town that awaits you inside.

 

One side of the box has a beautiful sentiment accented by four large clear bumpy jewel bling. 

The other side has a pocket that has a blank embossed square of paper to write your special message.

If you look through the wintery trees in the forest, you will see a cozy cabin surrounded by snowdrifts. The roof has a wreath brad on top where I added some red jewel bling to look like holly berries.

 

It wouldn’t be a Winter Wonderland Town if it wasn’t snowing. The snowflakes are the clear jewel bling mixed with several of the white glitter enamel dots.

When it snows, you MUST make a snowman so our Winter Wonderland town has its very own snowman brad that welcomes all guests that come to visit.

 

The Winter Wonderland town holds another special surprise!  Turn off the lights and our cozy cabin is all lit up!!

This Winter Wonderland town gift box was so fun to make, and it is so versatile. I can make it for any season, any occasion, any event, and I know that Eyelet outlet will always have all the extra embellishments I will need to make it extra special.

 

Shopping List
Snowflake Brads
Clear Bumpy Jewel Bling
Wreath Brad
Jewel Bling - Red
Jewel Bling – Clear
Glitter Enamel Dots - White
Snowman Brad

Have a wonderful week and always be STRATE-UP CRAFTY!

💗Stacy

Snowy Neighborhood Buckle Fold Card

 A few weeks ago I'd never heard of a buckle fold card, but after learning about them from my friend Janet, I'm addicted to them!  They lend themselves so well to Eyelet Outlet products, too! Here's one of my recent ones.

I created this card in Cricut Design Space, but there are many tutorials on YouTube for this type card using paper punches if you don't have a Cricut.  

I decorated the front of the card with a holly brad on the house and a couple of little caroler brads at the door.  On the buckle part of the card I used a snowy tree brad and a snowman.

Here's what the card looks like when it's open.There's so many opportunities for decorating this type of card, I am sure you'll be seeing more of these from me in future posts.

If you are a Cricut crafter and would like to create this card, I've shared the file on my Cricut Profile in the Cricut Community on Design Space. 

Magical Christmas

 I'm making some more magic for you this week with the new Eyelet Outlet gnome brads.  Today I've paired my little gnome with one of our cute snowman brads in front of his little gnome home that I found on Cricut Design Space.  

I altered the gnome home a bit by adding a gingham digital paper to the roof as well as a snow cap on the center roof. The sentiment is set off with a snowflake brad and there's a holly brad over the door.  

Thanks for stopping by today and we'd love to see how you are using Eyelet Outlet products in your projects!  Please share at Eyelet Outlet Fans Facebook Group!

Susan Creech has now used all the gnomes in the package.  I'm off to order more!

Ugly Sweater Party

We call them "ugly" but there is something totally fun and festive about Holiday Sweaters, especially in card form; and Instant Holiday Sweater Awesomeness can be achieved just by adding Eyelet Outlet Holiday Brads!

These particular sweaters are fussy-cut from a Photoplay patterned paper, but this idea would work with any sweater-shaped stamps, dies or SVG files; or swap for t-shirts if you live in a warmer climate! I chose to make mini-slimline cards with three sweaters across, but again, you could make a grid with LOTS of sweaters, or go clean-and-simple and add just a single one to each card. 

My first card features a Candy Cane Brad, a Holiday Light and a Pine Tree; the latter makes another appearance on card #2, along with a Snowflake and an (on sale!) Ornament Brad.

The third card sports a Bell Brad (also on sale!) a handsome Snowman and one of this year's brand new styles a Gift Brad.

There are lots more fun holiday brad styles in the Eyelet Outlet store, why not hop over and take a peek!

Lauren Bergold

loooooves making

holiday cards! 

Designer Susan's Top 3 Holiday Picks

I've been on the Eyelet Outlet Design Team for quite a few years now and it's a little bit hard to pick my top three holiday projects, but after some deliberation, and without further ado, here they are...

NUMBER THREE

In 2018 I created this card using Cricut brand adhesive foil and bling from Eyelet Outlet, which is the most beautiful bling you will ever find!  I made this card in several different colors that year and the bling possibilities were endless. One trip to our bling section at the Eyelet Outlet store and you will see what I mean. This card was a favorite because even though I made several, they were all uniquely different and they practically made themselves!  

Specific bling used for this card:

12 mm Jewel Bling with Clear Edge

Fancy Long Bling Zig Zag

Snowflake Bling

NUMBER TWO

My gingerbread house gift box had to be included in my top three favs! The recipient thought the box was the gift!  I used a gable box from the Cricut image library for this project.  The roof lifts off to reveal the gift inside.  Can you count the Eyelet Outlet products on this one?  

Red and Green Enamel Dots

Sleigh Brad

Prancing Deer Brad

Wreath Brad

Holly Brads

Candy Cane Brad

Glitter Washi Tape

Lollipop Brad

Peppermint Candy Brads

Gingerbread Brads

NUMBER ONE

The sweet smiling face of my granddaughter when she received this Advent Calendar I made for her last year made Number One an easy pick for me! It's constructed from cardstock and the SVG is from My Scrap Chick.  I embellished the drawers with dozens of Eyelet Outlet products.  

I'm sure you'll notice all of the products used above on the gingerbread box as well as these additional products:  

Santa & Mrs. Claus

Horse Brad

Santa Hat Brad

Snowman Brad

Stick On Bling

Truck Brad

Pine Tree Brad

Nutcracker Brad

Thanks for joining us this week as we reminisce on our favorite holiday projects.

Three Faves

 This week,

the design team is showing you some tried and true holiday favorites so you can get a jump on your holiday card making! 

Here are just three of my favorites...with a few tricks and tips for you too!

I love this one b/c it show cases our Bling Jewels and Bling Strips!

A holiday card with glitz and gleam bring warmth to the season!

Also, you can easily cater this card to your private washi tape collection...

or why not buy more. 

Christmas Washi Tape

Chances are you have great stamps in your crafty alcove.

Eyelet Outlet has amazing decorative brads that will coordinate and embellish any theme!

Check out all these snowy brads:

Snowman Brad

Snowman Couple Brad

Snowflake Brad

Thin Washi Tape

If you are a fan of wreaths, check out this tip to create a nice circle.

Here I make the wreath on a card stock circle, of the same background as my base.  

By doing so, it blends into the background.

You are left  with our lovely bling and decorative brads!

Supplies:

Bling Strips

Poinsettia Brad

Bling and Pearl Bling

May all your wishes come true this season

and my you share the joy of of the holidays with everyone around you!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up

Advent Calendar

My youngest granddaughter is the perfect age for an Advent calendar this year - big enough not to swallow little toys and yet little enough to still like Dollar Store trinkets, so when I saw this amazing Advent calendar file at My Scrap Chick I knew I had to have it!  A shout out to Tracy Rushton who designed it!  It's an engineering marvel in my opinion!  The file includes a PDF version in the event you don't have a die cut machine.  

The most fun was decorating the faces of the 25 boxes using various images from the Cricut image library and many embellishments from Eyelet Outlet.  

I'll do my best to spot all of them and link to them at the end of the page!  

Wishing all of our Eyelet Outlet fans a Happy and safe Thanksgiving!

Enamel Dots

Santa and Mrs. Claus Brads

Sleigh Brads

Horse Brad

Peppermint Candy Brads

Lollipop Brads

Santa Hats Brads

Gingerbread Brads

Snowman Brad

Sticky Back Jewel Bling

Holly Brad

Pine Tree Brad

Truck Brad

Nutcracker Brads

After winter, comes spring!

After Winter comes Spring.

Eyelet Outlet has you covered year round with decorative brads,

wonderful washi tape...and bling of all sorts of sizes and shapes!

Hopefully, this is the last round of winter for those in the midwest.

Snowman brad

Broom brad

Snowflake brad

washi tape: regular and wide width with glitter!

In a week of so, we'll be headed into Spring!

Chicken brad

Colored Egg brads

Breakfast brads

Washi tape: regular, Spring, and thin

Check out all of our spring brads which include ducks, chickens, rabbits and of course...

coordinating, colorful washi tape! 

A big thank you to Texas for the fun weekend. 

We are restocking and headed out to Pleasanton, CA next!

Catch all the details here... March 1-2, 2019

or shop online!

 Keep smiling!  

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up!

It's a Wrap!

This is my last post before Christmas.  Decorations are up, gifts have been bought, Christmas cards have been mailed and it's all coming together for our Christmas celebration with family next week!  The excitement is building as I'm doing my favorite part - gift wrapping!  

This year I made initials for each family member's main gift and after spray painting them, I embellished them with Eyelet Outlet brads that coordinated with the wrapping paper.  

I loved the way the poinsettia brads paired with this pretty wrapping paper I found at Kohls!

I found this wrapping paper at Hobby Lobby a few years ago and I LOVE the cardinals on it.  The Eyelet Outlet Cardinal Brad looks like it was made for this paper, too!  

Next up, my granddaughter got the Snowman and Snowflake Brad with her snowflake paper!

I thought the new Pinecone Brads paired with a touch of greenery I made with my Cricut looked so great with this plaid ribbon, don't you?  

And of course, I had to do one with some bling!  Here I've used some red jeweled bling to serve as my holly berries for the holly I cut with my Cricut.  The new Pinecone Brads look awesome here, too!  I've found so many uses for them that I need to get some more!  

And last but not least, Santa's Reindeer can really fly now because Santa's Sleigh is finally empty after dropping this gift off for my husband, Don!  

If you're wrapping presents today, bring out your Eyelet Outlet supplies and have some fun with it!  Merry Christmas from all of us at Eyelet Outlet!

Fair Warning!

Hi folks, Lauren here, with a special public service announcement: It turns out making altered rolodex cards with holiday artist trading coins on top is slightly (ok, a LOT!) addictive. On the plus side, this a super fun, super flexible --and, perhaps most importantly--  super FAST way to create with your favorite Eyelet Outlet brads and washi tape. And of course, this idea would work equally well as package tags, gift certificate holders, small cards, tiny bags or boxes... well, let's face it, a week before Christmas, the prospect of being able to make a whole bunch of useful holiday items is *not* to be sneezed at! So here are a few more ideas for you:

I will mention all the specific products in a minute, but probably the most important thing to tell you is the basic "recipe". I made the artist trading coins first. I started with 2.5" circles cut from scraps of patterned paper. Then I inset circles cut with the next smallest size of my nested circle dies. Then I added two or three holiday-themed brads to each coin. Of course, the rolodex card format could easily be discarded in favor of tags, or A2 cards, but in any case, there's a formula for your "base" as well: a neutral paper (or papers, plural) with strips of holiday tape on top. I like to combine 5/8" tapes with skinny ones, but if all of your washi is the same width, you can get the feeling of variety by adding multiple strips of some tapes and overlapping others. I chose combinations of tape that coordinated with the colors in my coins, paired up each set, and that's IT! Instant holiday festiveness!

Here are the brads and tapes I used on each card, working from the top left of the photo above: Skate Brads, Snowflake Brad, Green Filigree Tape, Silver Skinny Glitter Tape; Pinecone Brads, Poinsettia Brad, Pine Tree Tape, Skinny Holiday Assortment; Sleigh Brad, Prancing Deer Brad, Merry Christmas Tape, Skinny Holiday Assortment; Holiday Tree Brads, Snowman Brad, Green Filigree Tape, Skinny Metallic Tape, Green Dot Tape. And now, starting at the top left of the photo below: Holiday Tree Brads, Snowman Brad, Green Dot Tape, Wide Tree Washi, Skinny Green Stripe, Skinny Holiday Assortment; Holiday Mitten Brads, Candy Cane Brad, Red Tree Tape, Skinny Green Stripe Washi; Elf Brads, Ho Ho Ho Tape, Red and Green Dot Tape, Skinny Holiday Assortment, Skinny Green Tape; Holiday Light Brads, Deer Tape, Skinny Holiday Assortment.

I hope you will be inspired to borrow this "recipe"... or create your own! It really is a fun and fast way to get LOTS of holiday greetings done, with ZERO stress involved! ♥

Lauren Bergold

wishes you the happiest of holiday seasons!

♥♥♥