A Love-ly Valentine Card

 Hello everyone! I hope you have had a great weekend so far. Today I wanted to make a romantic card for Valentine's Day. Eyelet Outlet had just what I needed to create this elegant beauty!

I started by applying a strip of some of the prettiest washi tape I've ever seen on a white mat sized at 4" x 5 1/4". It's called Rose Washi Tape and it's very wide at just short of 1 1/4". It creates a beautiful  border at the top and bottom. Centered between the washi tape, I glued in a strip of 4" x 1 1/4" pink cardstock. Then I placed a strip of Love Washi Tape so that it slightly overlapped both the rose washi tape and the pink cardstock. To add additional glam, I used gold spray on the panel. The washi tape tends to repel the spray so I dabbed the excess and let it dry. Then I got to work on the gold wax seal. After melting the seal, I sprinkled Pink Heart Sequins on the center and pressed it with a flat circle stamp head. It isn't the neatest circle but I think the unusual shape actually looks great inside the White Paper Flower.

To finish the card, I wrapped gold thread across the center of the pink panel and glued the Flower in the center. Last, I added White Pearl Bling around the flower. The finished panel was then adhered to a gold A2 card base. 

Shopping List
Rose Washi Tape

Love Washi Tape

Heart Sequins

Paper Flowers

Pearl Bling - Multi Size

I hope you agree that this created a pretty card for someone special on Valentine's Day. It's very soft and sweet.

I'll see you next week but until then please visit the EO store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!

Happy Creating!

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GEAR UP for a Great School Year!

I like to make shaker cards and I like to made shaped cards, so how about a shaped shaker card? I created this for my granddaughter to wish her a great school year, but this card could easily be adapted to a birthday card, too, with a little switch to the sentiment.

I filled the shaker with Eyelet Outlet gear brads (prongs removed for this application so they would shake) and some Eyelet Outlet heart sequins.

I also added some of the Eyelet Outlet eye brads and I think they are absolutely EYE POPPING!

Here's the inside of the my shaped shaker card.

I created this in Cricut Design Space and if you're a Cricut user as well, and would like to make it,  follow the links in the post to find the Eyelet Outlet embellishments used and follow this link to my Cricut Profile where you'll find the file.

Susan Creech

loves to craft

You Nailed It!

 If you're in to shaker cards, you need to check out Eyelet Outlet's sequin selection!  We have every shape and color you can image to fill your shakers.  It's fun to mix them up, too, like I did in the shaker card I have for you today.

My nail polish bottle is filled with all three colors of our heart sequins and round sequins in white and, pink.  I've also added some of our white paper flowers and I used a colored daisy brad in the center and a leaf brad as well.  

I hope you'll stop by and see us in person at a Trade Show soon..  See where and when we'll be in a town near you on our web site under the Trade Show tab.  

Susan Creech

Beating the brutal Texas heat wave 

in an air conditioned craft room

You Float My Boat

We added to our nautical themed collection this summer! You'll love the new sailboat brads and light house brads that are part of the summer release.  

I created a shaker card with a bottle from the Cricut image library and the slice tool in Cricut Design Space.  In addition to the sailboat inside the bottle, there's also some Eyelet Outlet sequins.  I used the shell mix sequins and a few of the hearts sequins.  The light house brad was perfect near the sentiment of my card and the anchor brad was the perfect touch in the center of the twine.  

I'm sure the new Boat and lighthouse brads will float your boat, too!

 

29 AGAIN?!

As I get older, birthdays become a little more of a sore subject. For years I used the line that I was 29 again when someone asked my age. This shaker card makes fun of those of us who want to celebrate our birthdays but don't really want to get into the details of the exact number. I'm not quite as old as this young lady but some days I sorta feel this old!

This was a fun project. As usual, the Eyelet Outlet products take it up a notch. You can find all the details on how to make this on my personal blog.

EYELET OUTLET SUPPLIES:

Candle Brads

Balloon Brads - Bright

Birthday Washi Tape

Heart Sequins

White Enamel Dots

  Janet - SugarShine Designs

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Celebrating You!

Once again, I've got a fun little shaker card for you today using the fabulous sequins available at Eyelet Outlet.  

I created the window in this card with one of the birthday cakes available in the Cricut image library and sliced it into the card base to created the window that holds the pink and white round sequins as well as a few heart shaped sequins.  The scalloped frosting on the cake provided an opportunity to use a few pink pearl stick on gems, too. For some extra fun I've added a few birthday candle brads to the cake.  I can't wait to send this card to someone I love!

Thanks for being with us today!  Enjoy the day with those you love.

 

Loving Hearts

I have love and valentines on the brain lately. Shaker cards are fun to make and I made one on today's slimline card. 

The slimline card base is 3 1/2" x 8 1/2". I cut a bright pastel striped cardstock from a slimline postage stamp die. Then I cut out a heart and circles with dies. Behind the shaker, I put a piece of metallic white cardstock so that the new Love Sequins and the new Heart Sequins would stand out. I added a few white and pink sead beads to the well also. The sequins come in sets of different colors and are so pretty! The Love sequins are large so I decided to use them as sentiments as well as shaker bits. I spaced pink and gold Love Sequins and glued them on the card front. I did the same with several pink Heart Sequins. 

I wanted to have a couple little characters peaking out of the circles so I colored and fussy cut them and mounted them so they would be peaking out.

I hope you enjoyed today's card. Thanks for stopping by!

  Janet - SugarShine Designs

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