Design Team Monday with Nicole

Hi Eyelet Outlet fans... It is Nicole and I have two layouts for you today.  The butterflies are from the Eyelet Outlet and are a new release!  You can find them in the shop here.... http://www.eyeletoutlet.com/butterfly-brads.html and here http://www.eyeletoutlet.com/mini-butterfly-brads.html

This is a picture of my daughter and my sister's daughter.  My family lives back in California while we live in the North of Norway so they only get to see each other once or at the very most twice a year.  When they are together they are sooo happy.  God really blessed me with these two little girls... and their happiness is such a treasure!

I fussy cut the jar from pattern paper attached the butterfly brads to it, and wrapped it with a bit of twine... I then couldnt help but add a few butterflies flying out of the jar and sewed a little trail behind each of the brads.

This  second layout features  a lot of the Eyelet Outlet brads and bling...

This was the first snowman that we built with my daughter.  She was 9 months old  and just so excited to sit and play in the snow.  It was a wonderful new adventure for her.

 I used the foloowing  Big Snowflake Brads, Small Snowflake Brads, and a Silver 8mm Stipple Jewel Brad.

I also used all three types of bling that you can find in the store Jewel Bling, Pearl Bling and Bling Strips.

Have a wonderful day and happy creating!!!!

We're back from CHA!

Hello Eyelet Outlet fans! We're back from the Craft and Hobby trade show. We loved seeing our customers and meeting new ones. It was really cold in Anaheim for this time of year. I am sure our owner, Suzanne would tease me for saying that since she is used to the cold and this California girl is definitely not.

The show was lots of fun. We had Andrea come and help out and she was fantastic! It is always nice to see Suzanne and lucky for me our paths are crossing more this year when I head back down to Anaheim at the end of the month to help out for the Scrapbook Expo and teach again at GASC. Here's a pic we snapped at CHA in the booth.

 

Can you believe that Suzanne had just ran a Marathon! She's amazing!

We had fun sharing the new Eyelet Outlet brads and here are a few peeks for you.

Bright balloon brads

Pastel balloon brads

Pastel Bunny brads

Natural Bunny brads

We'll have more peeks here on the blog and Facebook page so stay tuned!

Thanks for stopping by!

Our January Guest Designer

Hello Eyelet fans! We're pleased to announce January's Guest Designer...

 

 

 Kerrie Kung

Here's a little about Kerry:

Hello, my name is Kerry Kung and I live in New Hampshire.  I'm super excited to be guest designer for the month of January.  A bit about myself, I married my wonderful husband on April Fool day (and nope, it's not a joke).  No kids for me yet, but I do have a 15+ years lovebird and a black adorable kitty.   I enjoy making all things crafty, cards, tag, and 3D projects.  I have so much fun using the Eyelet Outlet brads.

 

 

We sent Kerrie some of our product and here's what she created!

Sock Monkey card supplies:

Sock Monkey Brads

Memory Box die Set of Swings and Grove Leaves

Hang in there sentiment from Stampendous

Distress ink pad in peeled paint

Hero Art shadow ink in Cup O' Joe

 

 

 

Wings Supplies:

Wing Brads

Penny Black background stamp (with red gelato)

Obsession Impression background stamp Script

Memory Box die in precious heart box

'you + me' sentiment from Jillian clear stamp set

Memento tuxedo black

Distress ink pad in pumice stone and black soot

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mustache supplies:

Mustache Brads

Mustache embossing folder

Basic Grey Serenade pattern paper

Sentiment from Mama Elephant

Memento tuxedo black

 

 

We love Karrie's creations! For more of Karrie's designs, please visit her blog.

 

Have a great day! 

Design team Wednesday with Susie

Hello Eyelet Outlet Fans! I was so inspired by Anna's beautiful card on Monday!  I know you were also.  It is drab and winetry here too, so I wanted to make a card to put us into the pink of things! 

What do you think?  All of my supplies are from Authentique to help us get into the mood for Valentine's Day. The card really needed to be blinged up a bit...so enter the star of the show - one 16mm pink Stipple Jewel Brad. I also used just a tiny line of our wonderful White Pearl Bling Strip on one of the mini valentines. 

 Perfection! 

 I hope you like today's card.  I am showcasing it on my blog today.  

I welcome you anytime at The Dies Have It. 

Susie

Design Team Monday with Anna

Hi, lovely Eyelet Outlet Fans! Anna here.

Oh it's ugly winter time here and I hate it!
 So, I made two very joyful cards, full of warm bright colors...

 Because I'm dreaming about spring time,
I've used sweet Bird Brads - I love them so much!

Thanks for stopping by,

Anna

Supplies:
Patterned papers and stickers from My Little Shoebox,
embellishments from Pretty Little Studio,
Bird brads from Eyelet Outlet,
vintage ribbons.

A little New Year Inspiration from Jingle

Happy New Year, Eyelet Outlet Fans! This is Jennifer and it is so great to be starting the year out with some fun cards today! Also, keep an eye on the blog over the entire month of January because we have some AWESOME new releases coming out and you will NOT want to miss these!!! Today I want to start with a fun New Year's card I created using a whole bunch of super pretty brads! They are much like little twinkling stars in the sky! 

For this fun New Year's card I used the fabulous pearl brads with the silver edge and the Stipple Jewel Brads with a silver edge. I like how the mix adds interest and even more sparkle to the card! 

For this one, I received these awesome stamps for Christmas and had to use this set! (I used it on the card above, too! SO fun!) When I saw this GIANT gem brad in my stash I knew it would be the perfect fit! I love how big and shiny and amazing it is! YAY! 

 And with that, I wish you a very happy 2013! 

Thanks for visiting!

 Jingle Out!

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!

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