A Final Walk with EAD Designs

 Recognize these ?

It's what got me hooked on a company called

 And now what a bittersweet post to share.

Today bring us the final day we will be blog hopping

together as the designers of EAD Designs.

EAD has decided to close it's doors as new opportunities

are on the horizon.

It has been my pleasure to be a part of such a fantastic

company and a very creative team.

If you are here by way of the hop, you will have made

your way here from

Judith's blog Jay Gee's Nook

If you would like to say farewell to each designer,

you'll want to stop by the

EAD Blog

and make sure you leave a note along the way.

For my final post, I thought I would take a walk

down memory lane by revisiting some of the

projects I created during the past 10 months

as an EAD Designer.

Technically, this collection of cards and tags was created

just prior to coming on board as a designer, but they've always

been some of my favorites.

You can read the original post HERE

Here are some fairly Clean and Simple designs that were created

along the way for a variety of occasions.

To see the original posts, you can click each of these links:

Shake Rattle & Roll

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

Fall

It's Tea Time

Here are snippets of some fun and very different designs

using a variety of EAD Stickers.  I always enjoy adding embellishments

to my cards and these designs were perfect for that.

I created this one during the London Olympics and loved adding

the bling to the Eye.  The original post is HERE

I added a lot of elements to these sweet little Stickerz

and created a very flat, but dimensional card.

You can see how it was all completed HERE

Finally . . . I can't finish off the day without something for

Halloween.  Even though these projects were shared most

recently, I thought it would be great to end with these.

Who wouldn't love this colorful guy outside their back window ?

You can read more about this card HERE

and finally . . .

Everyone's favorite little green guy trying to escape

just reaching for that big blue gem !  You can find this card HERE

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !

I've appreciated all the Mondays you've spent during our

Designer Blog Hops with EAD Designs.

I'll miss our dates, but I'm sure something will fill those

days soon.

Until then, please make sure you stop by my creative teammate

Rose's Blog My Happy Place

I know she has something pretty fabulous for you !

Thanks for coming by and walking down memory lane

with me and I hope you'll leave a little love before you go . . .

Celebrate!

It is Monday indeed and time for this week's

If you are hopping with us, you will have come by way of

Judith's blog Jay Gee's Nook

If not, it's only a few steps back to join us from the start at the

EAD Designs blog

Last week, the sad announcement was made that EAD

would be closing their 'web' doors this month.

I will miss my Monday visits via our blog hop  : (

This is such a fun, geometric Stickerz set from EAD called

'Your Birthday'

I love the idea of bold, black graphics with red, don't you ?

I kept this really clean and SIMPLE for sure, as I used

Bazzill's swiss dot cardstock, so no embossing for me !

I embellished with the additional gems and that's it !

I also used this set on my Halloween card a couple

weeks ago and thought I would share it here, just in

case you missed it.  I love the 'bubbles' !

You can read all about it HERE

Here is the terrific set I used

 

It's time to send you on your way to

Liz's blog Liz's Paper Loft

I hope you enjoyed your visit and I hope

you'll stop by again soon

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Gina K Designs & Bazzill

Embellishments: Your Birthday Stickerz by EAD Designs

gems by Recollections

 

 

Halloween Make a Wish

Happy Monday and welcome to this week's

You may have heard the sad news that EAD Designs will

be closing at the end of the month, so our design team is

savoring each week as we wind down our blog hops.

Hopefully, you joined me from

Judith's blog Jay Gee's Nook

If not, I invite you to join us from the beginning at the

EAD Designs Blog

I have had so much fun this season creating Halloween cards

and EAD is a BIG reason . . . just LOOK at this guy ! ! !

To create this card, I focused on the fun Stickerz set called

'Halloween Owls'

I just love that star hanging and thought it would be great to

add dimension by adding star gems and tiny rhinestones.

The sparkling stars next to the owl magician are from the

'Hocus Pocus' Stickerz set.

The sentiment is from the 'Birthday Sentiments' Stickerz set.

The final day to place orders is October 21st

so make sure you get your order in quickly!

Remember . . .

It's time to send you on your way to

Liz's Paper Loft

I hope you enjoyed your visit today and

I look forward to seeing you again soon !

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Gina K Designs

Embellishments: Hocus Pocus, Halloween Owls & Birthday Sentiments Stickerz 

all by EAD Designs

star gems from White Blossom

Hocus Pocus!

For some very *JUICY* news
scroll on down !

Happy Monday!

It's time for our usual get-together with the designers of

If you've come by way of

Judith's blog Jay Gee's Nook

then you are in the perfect spot.

If not, we'd love to have you go back to the

EAD Designs blog

and get started there.

I haven't made many Halloween cards yet and it's one of my

favorite things to make during the season.

I love the colors and the fun themes and for this card, I mixed

two sets of 'Stickerz' from EAD . . .

'Hocus Pocus' and 'Your Birthday'

The only additions to the card is everyone's favorite

 'Drippy Goo' punch from Martha Stewart and a

few tiny rhinestones.

Here are the sets I used . . . 

It's time to send you on your way to

Liz's blog Liz's Paper Loft

Hope you enjoyed your visit.

It was lovely to see you.

Make sure you leave a little love before you move on

and you could be this week's winner !

Project Recipe:

Embellishments: Hocus Pocus & Your Birthday Stickerz by EAD Designs

gems from Recollections

Tools: Drippy Goo border punch by Martha Stewart

Egg-Citing!

Hey hey everybody!

I am so glad to be back here at The Open Window.

I've been W.A.Y. under the weather for about a week

and have missed being creative, so it's perfect timing

for a brand new color challenge from

This week, we are sponsored by the great folks over at EAD Designs.

Our design team was able to play with collections from EAD

and I chose to use 'Just Chicken In'.

I was so happy to find this week's colors in the beautiful fall

paper from FarmHouse Paper Company purchased from

StopandScrap.com

I cut 'eggs' using my Spellbinders Standard Oval dies

and it was all pretty simple.

Here is the fun set I used . . .

and here is some GREAT news . . .

So come check out all the fun designs from our team

and play along! We would love to have you!

Project Recipe:

Patterned Paper: Sugar Hill by FarmHouse Paper Company

from StopandScrap.com

Embellishments: Just Chicken In Stickerz by EAD Designs

Tools: Standard Oval dies by Spellbinders, Big Shot

Just 'Chicken' In

Hey there !
It's certainly a busy day here at The Open Window
and an inspirational one as well.

The designers of EAD Designs

are getting together with the designers of

Hopefully, you came by way of
Crazy About Cricut's Blog
so you can hop right along with us.

If not, we would love for you to join us a few stops back at the
EAD Designs Blog
because we always offer a fabulous prize to a lucky winner!

I absolutely adore this set of Stickerz from EAD called 'Just Chicken In'
I used one of Martha Stewart deep edge punches to create the fun
border background using paper from Cosmo Cricket.
I then cut two Lacey Circle frames using my Spellbinders dies
and placed the Action Wobble spring between the two.
It was difficult for me to capture the actual 'wobble' with my
little camera, but take my word for it . . .
When you 'flick' the fun little chicken,
it TOTALLY wobbles !
You can sorta see it below where the shadow is . . .

Here is the set I used today

and the best news is . . .

You can place your order HERE

I'm so glad you stopped by today.

Make sure you leave a short note 
before you go so you'll have a 
chance to win 
the terrific prize on the hop.


It's time to get you on your way to
Trisha's Blog 
Little Scraps of Heaven Designs


Project Recipe:  
Cardstock: Pure Luxury by Gina K Designs

Patterned Paper: Tea for Two by Cosmo Cricket

Embellishments: Just Chicken In Stickerz by EAD Designs

black pearls from Recollections

Tools: Celtic Loop border deep edge punch by Martha Stewart

Action Wobble Spring, Big Shot, Lacey Circles die by Spellbinders

Fall ...

Welcome back to The Open Window.

I hope you had a lovely weekend.  The temps took a real 'dip'

the past few days and inspired me to create using a lot

of fall themes, beginning with today's project for

I hope you will hop with us today because there is always

a terrific prize at the end.

If you made your way here by way of our

September Guest Designer

Wendi's blog

If not, just a couple stops back is the

EAD Designs blog

where you can get started !

This week, I enjoyed playing with the 'Fall Harvest' Stickerz from EAD.

I pulled out some beautiful paper from last season from 

Little Yellow Bicycle called 'Hello Fall' and layered

all of my elements on top.

I twisted three different baker's twines from The Twinery

in Mandarin, Honeydew and Cappuccino and tied my

tag with a 'rag' knot.

Here is the set I used

and don't forget . . . 

So great to have you come by today.

I hope you will be inspired to create for the autumn season.

It's time to send you on your way to

Liz's blog Liz's Paper Loft

Project Recipe:

Patterned Paper: Hello Fall by Little Yellow Bicycle

Embellishments: Fall Harvest by EAD Designs
baker's twine in Mandarin, Honeydew & Cappuccino

from The Twinery, gem flourish from Want2Scrap