Calling All Angels

 The lovely and cherubic new Eyelet Outlet Angel Brads have arrived just in time for Christmas in July festivities! This card features both shapes from the set, hovering near the sentiment, which is backed by two strips of gorgeously glimmering Glittery Tape in Copper. Below are a few golden diecut baubles, decorated with a Pearl Brad and a Snowflake Brad.

Shopping List:

Eyelet Outlet Angel Brads

Copper Glitter Tape

6mm White Pearl Brad 

Snowflake Brad

In addition to these beautiful Angel Brads, the brand new July Release also includes colorful Retro Trees, yummy Candy Corn and mischievous Black Cats. Check them all out in the EO Store.

Lauren Bergold

makes holiday cards all year round at Jingle Belles!

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TREE-Mendous!

The TREE-Mendous new Eyelet Outlet Retro Tree Brads have arrived just in time to celebrate Christmas in July!

 This card features a cluster of said Retro Trees layered over Snowy Trees for a feeling of depth, creating a little forest glade in which the vintage-inspired deer from our Santa and Deer set feels right at home. The background consists of neatly aligned strips of Holly Jolly Washi in traditional red and green.

Shopping List:

Retro Trees

Snowy Trees 

Santa and Deer

 Holly Jolly Washi 

In addition to these fabulous Retro Trees, the brand new July Release also includes vintage-inspired Angel Brads, Candy Corn and Black Cats. Check them out in the EO Store.

Lauren Bergold

makes holiday cards all year round at Jingle Belles!

Blog * Instagram * Facebook

Christmas Card(inals!)

Cardinals are some of my (Lauren's) favorite birds and also some of my favorite Eyelet Outlet Brads. We have Cardinals, Female Cardinals and Cardinal Profiles and I've used the first two on this card. To make the male Cardinal's vivid feathers stand out even more, I've clustered some of my favorite holiday washi tapes: Vertical Red Tree Tape, Heart Tape, Poinsettia Tape and Red Foil Striped Washi. My sentiment is one repeat of Merry Christmas Tape, stuck to a piece of cardstock and popped up on foam for extra dimension. 

If Christmas in July isn't your thing, check out our Bluebird and Robin Brads, Seagulls, Owls, Penguins or Flamingos in the Eyelet Outlet Store!

Lauren Bergold

loves to watch the backyard birds 

at her feeder and birdbath!

Christmas in July: Ho Ho Ho Edition

There's something about making holiday cards in July that helps to offset the hot and humid temps, don't you think? Eyelet Outlet's Santa and Mrs. Claus Brads are happy to celebrate all year long, and on this card they've brought along one of their Deer friends, a Santa Hat Brad and Santa Washi, with a sentiment out of Merry Christmas Tape.

Whether you're making cards for Christmas, Hanukkah, Back to School, Birthdays or "Just Because", Eyelet Outlet has all the brads, tapes, sequins, bling and paper flowers you could possibly want.

Christmas in July: Snowy Woods Edition

I (Lauren) don't know about you, to me the time that snow and ice really start looking good is NOW... when New Jersey's hot (90F) and humid (75%+) weather makes Christmas in July seem very appealing indeed. Luckily Eyelet Outlet's frosty, glitter washi tape, Snowflake Sequins and winter critters are happy to be featured on cards and tags no matter what the temps happen to be!

I saw some mini shaker tags on Instagram and immediately knew what I wanted to make. I used a set of Sunny Studio Tag Dies and my trusty 1.5" square punch to create homes for my Polar Bear Brads, Deer Brads and even a Handsome Snowman; plus a few Snowflake Brads, of course.

I backed the insides of the shaker windows with Glitter Tall Tree Tape, Glitter Star Tape and Glitter Tree Tape; then filled the shakers with Snowflake Sequins and Gold Star Sequins. After I sealed up the shakers, I backed the tags with contrasting cardstock, added some jute twine, a few sticker sentiments and called it good.

Whether it's hot or cold where you are, this is definitely a good time to get started on some Winter Holiday makes with your favorite EO items!

Lauren Bergold

would settle for a snowcone

in the absence of snow! 

It's Time to SHELL-abrate!

Christmas in July is winding down, but there's still time for a few more holiday cards with just a little touch of the beach!

I made a loose wreath of diecut foliage to fit my 5" square card and decorated it with Shell Corner Brads and Shell Brads, then added a couple of handsome Nutcracker Brads to flank my computer generated sentiment. I scattered a few small blue Pearl Bling around for extra interest.

For my second card I used the foliage to create more of a spray shape on which to scatter more Shell and Shell Corner Brads and this time I threw in a few Snowflake Brads too.

Definitely not the most traditional cards I've ever made, but I think I know a few beach-lovers who'll be pretty happy to see these in December.

Lauren Bergold

loves the beach...

even in the winter!

Santa's Summer Fun

Online papercrafters seem to embrace the "Christmas in July" phenomenon a little more each year, and I (Lauren) am all for it. Because let's face it, the job of making fifty or more holiday cards is just too big to do in December. Here are a few smaller cards I've created, using premade tags plus lots of adorable Eyelet Outlet goodies!

I designed this trio of cards to fit in 4-bar envelopes, so they measure just a hair under 3.5 x 5". I made the backgrounds and sentiment/accent borders by neatly lining up strips of Eyelet Outlet Washi Tape on plain white cardstock, then trimming them to size.

One of my best holiday "brad tricks" is to add majestic Antler Brads to sweet little cartoon reindeer stickers or stamps. They always look adorable and make me smile. I also added a small Snowflake Brad (the packs contain both small and large flakes) and two large ones to my background, which is made of Gingerbread Tape. The border band features one of my favorite Merry Christmas Tapes.

 

My second card has an Ornament Tape background that I especially love because it's printed so that you can line up the half ornaments at top and bottom to increase the illusion of looking at one solid sheet of patterned paper. I added a few gold Star Sequins to the star ornaments, as well as the background of the tag on which Santa and Mrs. Claus Brads are standing in front of the tag's tree. I added a Star Enamel to the top and made a band using scripty Merry Christmas Tape plus Ho Ho Ho Washi.

The last card features a tag with a super-cute Santa to whom I've given a Candy Cane Brad and a Holly Brad to decorate his hat. I added a few white Snowflake Sequins and mounted the tag on a background of fun Red Tree Tape whose pattern runs vertically. I used Christmas Tape with white, green and red lettering for a whimsical sentiment.

If you'd like more Christmas in July inspiration, please tune in to a special feature this weekend via FaceBook Live in which our own EO design team darling Janet Axtman of Sugar Shine Designs will be showing off many more beautiful cards and greetings. All the details on the Eyelet Outlet FaceBook Page!

Lauren Bergold

makes holiday cards all

year long at Jingle Belles!

♥

A little Jingle for July!!

We are still laying low...so it's a great time to get those holiday cards made up!

Eyelet Outlet is here to help.

Supplies:

Washi Tape

Bling

Holly Brads

Pinecone Brads

Gold Brads

Join us at one this Saturday with Janet for more ideas!!

Dreaming of a white Christmas...

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up!

Christmas in July (...technically, a week early...)

But these days there are TONS of awesome events and challenges surrounding the making of holiday cards all throughout July, and what better way to prepare than by stocking up on all your favorite Eyelet Outlet Holiday Brads, Washi Tape and Bling?! Hi folks, it's Lauren here again, with (seriously!) a couple of fun Xmas cards:

You may know that my craft bestie Stephanie and I have a fortnightly Christmas card blog called ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ so I am no stranger to making Xmas cards through the year. In fact, the only month I absolutely do not want to make holiday cards is... December! So any time that inspiration strikes me, I will happily sit down and make a couple of cards. In this case my first card was built around these sweeeeeeet Peppermint Candy Brads. In January I had picked up a super-cute gingerbread house stamp set in the post-holiday sales, and when I came across it again the other day and realized I *still* hadn't used it, I got right to work. I stamped the house in white, (thanks to Hero Arts' amazing Unicorn Ink!) added some gel pen details and a few sticky-back Pearl accents. I flanked the house with a Holiday Tree Brad and a Candy Cane, then built a little hilly little landscape, in which it is snowing candy! :)

My second card features these lovely Ornament Brads, which I'm embarrassed to say I don't use nearly enough. Or at least, I haven't until now. But seeing as all I needed to make this card was five Ornaments, portions of one Pearl Bling Strip and a stamped sentiment... I think this is an idea I will be revisiting over and over!

It's never too early to get a jump on the holidays, so I hope you'll be inspired to check out all the fun stuff in the EO Store. And of course we'd love to see you at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ as well! ♥

Lauren Bergold

will never go back to making 

50+ cards in December!!!

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It's a Wrap!

The Design Team and I have sure enjoyed bringing you our Christmas in July posts this month!  For our final post in this series, we thought we "wrap it up" with a focus on gift wrapping for the holidays with Eyelet Outlet's amazing products!

First up here's a easy tag featuring one of our best sellers, the beautiful Cardinal Brad perched on a pine branch from Cricut's 3D Floral Decor cartridge.  I flipped when I found this wrapping paper at Hobby Lobby after Christmas last year because it looked as if it was made for my tag!

Next is a simple tag using one of our sweet little Snowman Brads.  I attached him to a chipboard circle that I inked up in red which really added dimension to the tag.  And don't forget to add our eyelets to your tags!  They come in lots of sizes and colors!

Eyelet Outlet's Holiday Brads & Washi Tapes are amazing, but here's a little Christmas tag that features our Rifle Brad and our Glasses Brad!  I had so much fun putting this "Christmas Story" themed tag together!   I used the Cricut Explore to draw the crack for the glasses.   

I thought this grumpy looking Santa from Cricut's "Santa's Village" cartridge was perfect! He reminded me of the Santa that Ralphy visits in the movie. 

And lastly, this cute little Santa Suit from Cricut's "Christmas Cheer" is embellished with Eyelet Outlet Black Pearl Bling for buttons and then hung on an Eyelet Outlet Hanger Brad.

Thanks for stopping by and we hope you have lots of fun creating for the holidays with Eyelet Outlet products!

No one ever has to ask me (Lauren) twice when it comes to fancy giftwrapping, lol! it's one of my favorite ways to use my Eyelet Outlet goodies!

I love gift bags., because they're sooooooo convenient and easy to customize--especially if you happen to have lots of lovely Eyelet Outlet Washi Tape, which I do. Sometimes I decorate a little panel to go on top of the bag, but this time, I've applied the tapes right to the bag itself. I've used Merry Christmas Washi, Wide Tree Tape, Music Note Tape, Merry Christmas Skinny Tape, Heart Washi (not all the tapes have to be official "holiday" ones; music notes and hearts add to the vibe of any celebration, don't they?) and strips of Skinny Washi Tape in pink and green.

Once I had a nice base for the bag, I thought I'd add a tag; or in this case, a cluster of tags. I chose three different sizes and shapes of tag to combine, and I made one of them from a holiday themed transparency, so that you could see through it. I decorated the tags with a sweet stamped snowman from Pretty Pink Posh, to whom I've given a smart Bowler Hat, Pearl Bling Eyes, Tiny Brad Buttons. Then I added... you guessed it... more tape: Heart Washi, Holly Tape, Merry Christmas Washi, Skinny Heart Tape and a few more shades of solid color Skinny Washi Tape, some of which I overlapped, to get even more variety of widths!  

I couldn't resist adding a small Paper Flower with a Candy Cane Brad before I attached the whole cluster to the bag's handle with a bit of twine and called it done.

I hope you've enjoyed Christmas in July as much as I have! If you've missed any of the awesome Saturday posts they are all collected under the "Christmas in July" label... just click the link to see amazing inspiration from all of the designers! ♥

Lauren Bergold

and fellow EO designer Stephanie Severin

will also be celebrating Christmas in August... 

on the Jingle Belles blog!

Eyelet Outlet Embellishments & Christmas Papers come together to make quick and easy cards.

An enamel dot for the ball on the top of his hat ... a holly brad to embellish the corner of my panel ... and thin brown glitter washi tape to help ground the design ... TADA ... another super-cute holiday card for my stash.

You can visit me in blogland at Ingenious Inkling

and you can find Lauren & I making holiday cards

all year long at Jingle Belles

I am so happy to be able to join in the final Saturday in July with a couple of tags I made with some Eyelet Outlet products.

On the tag on the left I (Barbara) used a super cute snowman brad and a wreath brad, since I didn't have snowflakes or enough white enamel dots I used shiny blue enamel dots

 On the tag on the right I used silver animal print washi tape for the background red rhinestone swirly bling for the ornaments on the tree and a super cute sock monkey with a santa hat on. He is on clearance if you want to stock up on your Christmas sock monkeys

Please comment on our five Christmas in July posts...

two lucky crafters will receive an Eyelet Outlet Prize package...

drawing will be next weekend!

Christmas in July Week #4

Merry Christmas in July!!

Two lucky blog commentators will receive an early holiday gift from Eyelet Outlet.

Please post your comments on any of the July Saturday posts!

Splendid Saturday crafty friends!  Time for another "Christmas in July" inspiration for you! Today's project features a reindeer who's extra cool in his Eyelet Outlet Sunglasses!

The file is from LoveSVG.com.  They have wonderful free SVG's and if you purchase their affordable license you can have fun modifying the design with Eyelet Outlet products like I did with this design.  

In addition to the Eyelet Outlet Sunglass Brad, which also come in pastel shades,  I added an Eyelet Outlet Enamel Dot in red for the nose, one of our beautiful Snowflake Brads and our adorable little Snowman Brads!  A strip of some Pearl Bling for a little more texture and this card is ready for one of my extra cool friends!

Thanks for stopping by today and be sure and check back next Saturday for our final "Christmas in July" special Saturday post!  

Hi!  It's Kim from Katydid Cards; joining Susan for Christmas in July.  

I'm sharing a card featuring a herringbone pattern using one of Eyelet Outlet's many Christmas themed Washi Tapes.  Today I'm using the Merry Christmas Washi Tape.  

 

The bold colors in this washi are great for creating a herringbone pattern.  Here's a slightly different version on one my favorites of Lauren's cards.  If you want to try it for yourself, there's a tutorial on the Freebies page.  Washi tape is perfect for this technique as it's so easy to work with; it's sticky backed and easy to maneuver because it's low tack.

After I completed the pattern, I embossed it with Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder; an overall poinsettia pattern.   I matted it on a slightly larger mat of white and then on a base of green.

  I pulled apart an old embellishment and put it in a pot adorned with Gold Glitter Washi.  To complete my focal point, I added three tiny jewels from the Swirl Bling pack.  I colored them with a yellow Copic before adding them.

A little tag tucked in the planter and the card was finished.   

 

Kim from Katydid Cards

Who provided the inspiration for these cards?  Katy did!

 Hi it's Barbara and I'm so happy to be able to join Susan and other members of the design team for the Christmas in July Saturdays.  I love those ornament brads from the Eyelet Outlet Store.  they are the perfect size and come in beautiful colours to use on holiday cards.  Look at the adorable candy cane brad also from the Eyelet Outlet store. they look good enough to eat.  I hope you are enjoying the inspiration from  Christmas in July at the Eyelet Outlet.

It's Lauren here again with my Jingle Belles Christmas card for this week, to which I've added some of my favorite NON-holiday items from Eyelet Outlet. Yes, you read that right, this time I've chosen to accent a beautiful reproduction of a Thomas Nast illustration with Paper Flowers, a Pearl Brad and some Wide Flower Tape and technically none of those are even Christmassy! They look pretty festive though, don't you think?

In addition to not being a holiday tape, this gorgeous Wide Flower Tape is actually entirely black and white! But I liked how it looked with the vintage flora on the postcard, so I decided to add my own hand-tinting to the design with an alcohol ink marker, and I *love* how it looks!

I'm sure you have some pretty black and white tapes AND plenty of pens... how could you add color to make them YOUR OWN??!

Lauren Bergold has her own blog 

and shares Jingle Belles with Stephanie Severin

A simple card can be glamorous with Eyelet Outlet bling, brads and foil washi tape.

This foil washi tape is amazing!  

Thanks for joining us again for this Christmas in July post.

Remember, two lucky blog commentators on our Saturday blog posts this month will receive

a prize package!  We want to spread a bit of mirth early this year!!

Dawn Mercedes of Sunnyside Up