WE CHICKS NEED TO STICK TOGETHER!

I don't know about you, but I have a group of best friends that are the craziest, funniest, each unique, and the most loyal group of women I have ever met in my life. We love to craft together, go shopping together, cry together when things are rough, have holiday parties together, all gather around to protect an injured flock member, and sometimes we even just go out for afternoon tea and scones. We even have a “callout” word we use when we are shopping and get separated….”CAW CAW”…yes, like a bird….hahaha. These women are my peeps and I choose them to be park of my flock and am more than honored to have them in my hen house. This card is dedicated to them – I love and cherish you all so very much and cannot thank you enough for your friendships.

 

To create this card, I die cut all the pieces out and colored them in with alcohol markers to give them their own personalities and, of course the maximum sassiness available! I’m not going to say which chicken is based off which friend, but I think they will figure it out.

For example, one chicken has beautiful blue eyes made with Eyelet Outlet’s blue jewel bling, crazy-fun hair and she is sporting some sassy cat-eye glasses from the Women’s Eyeglasses Brads that show us her true inner diva! LOVE!

Another one of my chicks, of course, is wearing a tiara from the Crown and Tiara brads because… why not! And you can't go shopping without a designer handbag from the Shoe and Purse brads collection.

The last chicken has beautiful golden jewel bling eyes that highlight her poppin’ pink glasses. She, of course, in raisin’ the roof to get the party started!

The hen house has a little egg in there from the Egg Brads just reminding us there is always something waiting for us to tend to at home.

 

When you have a group of crazy friends like I do, you have to stick together and never let them clucking go! They are priceless, precious, and make your life so much more of an adventure than you could ever imagine.

Find your chicks and stick together.

Shopping List
Crown and Tiara Brads
Shoe and Purse Brads
Egg Brads
Easter Bubble Brads
Woman’s Eyeglasses Brads
Jewel Bling - Blue
Jewel Bling - Orange 

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

💗Stacy

Faux Leather? YES PLEASE!

We all know that Eyelet Outlet has the cutest and largest selection of brads, but did you know that they also have the most fabulous faux leather pieces? From character themed pieces, embossed pieces to duo chrome-colored pieces, their faux leather selection is amazing. 

To highlight the awesomeness of faux leather this week, I decided to make a very simple yet beautiful everyday greeting card.

 The background of the card is the Iris duo chrome-colored faux leather that I glued onto a purple foil card stock which was then glued on to a black background card base. You should see how beautiful the colors are in the light!

 The large floral embellishment in the middle is from the floral duo chrome-colored faux leather. I wanted to highlight the beautiful flowers on this piece of faux leather, so I cut out just one section of three flowers and their attached leaves.

I glued that onto a piece of blue foil card stock which was glued on a piece of white cardstock which I inked to have a purple hue. To finish off the card, I added several Blue Jewel Bling as well as Blue Pearls and a resin flower.

Make sure you check out the selection of faux leather the eyelet outlet carries when they come to a Scrapbook Tradeshow near you.

SHOPPING LIST

Blue Jewel Bling 

Blue Pearls

Faux Leather

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

💗Stacy

Bling it On Baby!

I find it funny how my creative process works. It changes all the time! Although I do have some tried and true methods that I use, like waking up from a crazy dream and creating that wild thought I dreamt of or when I see an everyday item like a drinking glass and suddenly, my mind can see it transformed into a handmade gumball machine.  A lot of these inspirational moments tend to look better in my mind than they do after I create them, but that’s not what it is about. It’s the trying to create them…that is the best part. 

When I sat down to create something for this week’s project, I was having a bad creative block moment and was stuck! I couldn't find inspiration anywhere and let me tell you I tried. As I was sitting there in my craft room, with my pen in one hand paper on the table ready to write or draft an idea, the crafting Gods smacked me upside my head and I had it! I actually think a literal light bulb appeared over my head.

My inspiration was there the whole time, literally in my fingertips. It was the ballpoint pen I was holding!! That boring, plain and just blah ink pen was about to go on the adventure of its little ballpoint life! I knew what needed to be done. It was time to BLING IT UP BABY!

 

I took that ballpoint pen, grabbed my box of EyeletOutlet bling, and just went to town. The first pen I created was using Blue and Purple Jewel Bling Strips alternating the colors as I went up the pen. This was super easy and surprisingly, took about 10 minutes to create since the bling already had self-adhesive on the back so no gluing was necessary! LOVE!

 

For the second pen, I wanted to try something a bit different, so I decided to try to bling on a diagonal. Using the same Jewel Bling Strips, I chose the bright and cheerful colors in light green, light pink, blue, purple and clear and alternated them going from bottom to top. Believe it or not, this one took me about 10 minutes as well because the EO bling is so easy to work with. 

I was so excited to see how cute these actually turned out and that they matched what my vision was! I’m not sure if this is good or bad but I am now looking all around my craft room at different items that are calling my name just begging to be blinged! 

I see you, TV! You are on my Bling List! 

Shopping List
Jewel Bling Strips - Multiple Colors

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

💗Stacy