I've Fallen In and I Can't Get Out!

Hello crafty friends!  Happy Friday!  As much as I love fall, it is so hard for me to come to terms with the fact that Halloween is nearly here.  It is still 80 degrees here in the Pacific Northwest, which is just bizarre!  

Anyhow, I made a fun Halloween card and couldn't wait to share it with you!  I started by making a cauldron using my Cricut and set it aside.  

I stuck with the black and orange layers, as I really wanted the brad and cauldron colors to stand out.  I used the Witch Leg Brads upside down to make it appear that the witch fell in the cauldron and added a Witch Hat Brad at the base of the cauldron.  Lastly, I pulled apart one of the Jewel Green Swirl Bling Embellishments so that I could use the jewels individually and scattered them on the card front. 

Shopping List

Witch Leg Brads

Witch Hat Brads

Jewel Green Swirl Bling

Thanks so much for spending a few minutes with me!  I would love to know if you make and send Halloween cards or not!  Please make sure to leave us a comment and share!  

Xoxo, Kim

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A new designer!

We are pleased to announce that 

Designer Leslie Turner is joining the 

Eyelet Outlet Design Team. 

 My name is Leslie. My hubby and I have four grown children, two grandsons (a third grandson on the way) and three granddaughters, scattered around the US. We live in beautiful Colorado. I began scrapbooking about 45 years ago - so long ago that all the fun papers and embellishments we use today hadn't even been thought of. I'm a crafting junkie and really enjoy creating all things paper - handmade cards, 3-D projects, mini albums, gift bags, paper shoes and paper purses. Come visit me at my blog  Love To Scrap 2! Looking forward to designing for Eyelet Outlet!

Once she is up and creating, you will be inspired by her creations every Saturday on the 

Eyelet Outlet blog!

Welcome, Janet Axtman!!

We are pleased to welcome a fresh face to our design team!

Janet Axtman

She is going to inspire you with clever ideas and new ways to use 

your favorite Eyelet Outlet products!

Check her out on social media:

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/SugarShineDesigns FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/SugarShineDesigns BLOG: http://sugarshinedesigns.blogspot.com/ INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/sugarshinedesigns

Hello my clever crafty friends! I’m Janet Axtman aka SugarShine Designs. I am a North Dakota native who now resides in North Carolina. By day I’m a busy professional, wife, and mother trying to live a life in Faith. By night (usually between the hours of 9 to midnight), I am a paper designer extraordinaire! My passion is to teach and inspire just as I’ve been and continue to be inspired by so many talented and beautiful creators. My style is whatever mood I’m in but I am drawn to bright and energetic colors so often my creations fall into the cute and happy category. I especially enjoy making cards and 3D home décor but I’m always trying new things to expand my skills. I often take advantage of electronic cutting machines to make projects but I also have a large collection of steel dies too. I love options! I also like to get my hands dirty. You’ll usually find me with stained fingers from inks and other mediums. With Eyelet Outlet products, your creations are only bounded by your imagination and who doesn’t love that? I’m truly honored to be here with you to share what takes me to my happy place and hope I can pass a little of that on to you too! 

A new designer!!

Eyelet Outlet is pleased to announce that we have a new designer joining our ranks.

Susan Matthews is a fan of Eyelet Outlet products and is very excited to design projects that will inspire other fans!

A little about Susan...

Susan has decades of crafting experience from needlework to scrapbooking to card design. Although a knitter from age 7,  in 2010 she became a certified Expert Knitter and enjoys designing and knitting custom sweaters. A few years later she transitioned from scrapbooking to card making and loves the creativity of card design.

Originally from the Midwest, Susan currently resides in Massachusetts.

Supplies used:

Bumble Bee Brads

Mini Bee Brads

Bling Strips

Buzzzz by on Fridays to see a new project by Susan!

Thank you!!

It's our last day of the design team term. We have enjoyed having these designers design and create with Eyelet Outlet brads, washi tape, bling and flowers!  Some will be staying, and some will be crafting at other art tables.  Thank you for all the inspiration and fun, ladies!!

Jeanette

Kel

Rebecca

Sherry

Susie

Dawn Mercedes

Kim

Lauren

Susan

The Big Announcement!

Eyelet Outlet is pleased to announce its new 2018 Winter Design Team!

Jeanette

Kel

Rebecca

Sherry

Susie

Continuing on the Eyelet Outlet bling-ified path are:

Dawn Mercedes

Kim

Lauren

Susan

We are so thankful for the inspiration and creativity shared by our outgoing team members.

Deb

Stephanie

Announcements!!

Washi tape makes card making quick...interesting, flat for mailing, colorful...and fun!

Are you kinda, sorta, pretty much thinking about upcoming trade shows?

Eyelet Outlet is stocking up our booth for the first trade show in 2018!

March 2-3, 2108

Pleasanton, CA

Thank you to all designers who applied for the Eyelet Outlet Design Team.

An official announcement will be coming out shortly.

In the meantime, a big thank you to Deb and Stephanie, who are stepping down from the team.

We have been inspired by your designs and styles and tutorials.

You will be missed!!

Enjoy today!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up

Release Your Inner Kitten

Hi folks.  It's Kim from Katydid Cards; happy to be with you today.

The Knitting Brads at Eyelet Outlet are adorable and I really like the colors of the yarn.

I was eager to use them, so I made a card based on my last experience with yarn...and my cat!  It was when I decided I wanted to learn how to knit, so I was working on my project with the yarn on the floor in a basket.  Suddenly, there was a tug and off went my yarn in the cat's mouth.

It's a spinner card, which was pretty easy to make in my Silhouette.  But you could do this with circle dies as well.  I have a template for you on the Freebies page if you'd like it.  Here's a video (as best as I could provide with one hand on the camera and the other on the card) of the blissful kitty as he rolls around with his yarn.

I picked my cardstock to match the yarn.  The patterned paper is digital from a kit called New Found Happiness.  I recolored the dots, though.  Believe it or not, I scanned the balls of yarn so I had an exact color match.

The kitty was made from a cut file I purchased in the Silhouette store, but I doctored him so he could hold a ball of yarn in his paws.  The remaining yarn and a pair of knitting needles sit nearby in a basket made using the Basket Builder Framelits.  There are two layers to the basket...the open weave top layer in Crumb Cake and the solid back layer in Early Espresso.

And here's a close-up on the kitty.  I added some embroidery floss to make it look like the yarn is trailing.

The sentiment inside plays off the greeting and another ball of yarn and knitting needles finish it off perfectly.
 

I enjoyed sharing my card and my story about my little cat, Pumpkin, with you.  She passed away some years ago now but the great memories she gave me still make me smile.

Kim from Katydid Cards

Who provided the inspiration for these cards?  Katy did!

Go Fish!

Hi!  It's Kim from Katydid Cards.  Happy to be with you today!

Did you ever wonder how the card game, Go Fish, originate?  Well, it was invented by two bored fish.  Think I'm kidding?  Nope!

Here's the proof:

These Playing Card Brads are brand new in the Eyelet Outlet Store and they're sure to be very popular.  Click here to check out all the new brads.

A number of Silhouette cut files were used in the creation of this card.  For the fishbowl, I used item #28038, #9021 for the fish and the banner was one of the 50 free files with the software.  Of course, I wouldn't be me if I didn't change the files up a bit...so I did!  I raised the patterned paper on mounting tape after placing acetate on the back of it so it appears as if you're looking through the glass at the fish.  The banner with the greeting was applied with mounting tape, too.

Here's a picture of the card, opened.   The fishbowl was turned into a print and cut.  I added the sand at the bottom of the bowl with some scrap cardstock.  I attached the fish bodies, then the cards and then the fins and the speech bubbles.

And here's a closer look at the fish and their cards!  I'm thinking the fish on the right will win.  For a bit of dimension, I sponged the edges of the fish and speech bubbles and also added a bit of Wink of Stella in the dots. 

Next time you walk past a fishbowl, take a closer look you just might see a spirited game of "Go Fish".

And Happy New Year to all of you!  Resolve to visit us at Eyelet Outlet every day to see what our Design Team has created for you! ;-)

Kim of Katydid Cards

Who provided the inspiration for these cards?  Katy did!