SHORE Thankful For You

I've had my beach themed brads out on my craft desk the last few weeks and have had a great time creating different projects with them.

Today I have a thank you card to share with you featuring Eyelet Outlet's amazingly realistic shell brads and sea shore brads. I created sort of a shaker card with a window in the card base with my Cricut and covered the opening in the bottle with acetate. I fastened the brads in the bottom layer. There's a little crab brad passing by, too. I topped it off with a few clouds floating by in the sky and I love how this turned out!

 

Life's a Beach!

Summer is on its way and even if you can't get to the beach, you can create a tiny sandscape of your own in card form! This one features Eyelet Outlet Shell Brads, Sea Shore Brads, Sun and Clouds, Sandcastles, Tall Palm Trees, Seagulls and Sunglass Brads. The postage trend is awesome for combining a bunch of related items and Shell Washi Tape makes the perfect backdrop.

Sunny Sea Shore Shopping List:

Shell Brads

Sea Shore Brads

Sun and Cloud Brads

Sandcastle Brads

Tall Palm Tree Brads

Seagull Brads

Sunglass Brads

Shell Washi Tape

Whether your perfect summer day is at the beach, on a camping trip, in the garden, or baking up some yummy treats, the Eyelet Outlet Online Store has all the brads, tapes and bling you could possibly need!

Lauren Bergold

wishes you a summer full of sunny days!

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Seashore Garden Gift Set

 Eyelet Outlet Brads, Washi Tape, Flowers and Bling are ideal for making cards and so much more! This gift set features Seashore Garden Washi Tape, Glitter Gold Tape, White Paper Flowers, Swirl Bling, Pearl Brads and more.

The square card also sports Sea Shore Brads, Shell Brads, Shell Corners and a yellow Pearl Swirl.

The rectangular card has all three sizes of white Paper Flowers held on with large (12mm) gold-edged purple Pearl Brads and accented with Swirl Bling in champagne. 

Whatever theme, style, colors or mood you're considering for your next card or project, Eyelet Outlet has all the embellishments you need!

Lauren Bergold

is dreaming of the beach!

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Life Really is Better in Flip Flops

Amongst the new Eyelet Outlet Summer Brad release are Flip Flops, which come with three colors in each pack: brown, black and hot pink. Amazingly enough for me (Lauren) I didn't use the pink ones first??!

Rest assured that pink is still my favorite color, but in this case, as I worked on the card, these ancient cork alphabet stickers, plus our beautiful Shell Brads, Shell Corners and Sea Shore Brads meant my card was becoming distinctly neutral and natural, so I opted for the brown Flip Flops this time. A scattering of pearls finishes off my slimline shoreline card design.

Other new releases include our Boat and Lighthouse Brads, White Daisy Brads and Dragonfly Brads. Be sure to check back often to see inspiring ideas from the design team!

Lauren Bergold

loves the beach!

Happy Tide=ings

 

Summer is in fun swing! 

Who is adding these fun new nautical brads to their paper crafting projects?

Supplies:

Thin Washi Tape

Sea Shell Brads

Seagull Brads

Metallic Anchor Brads

Boat & Lighthouse Brads

Trout Brads

Bling Strips

Bling

Aye, aye, Matey!

Dawn Mercedes of Sunnyside Up

Summer Attire!!

 

Summer Attire must be sun, beach and flip flops!

Check out Eyelet Outlet's FlipFlop Brads in new colors...just in time for those vacay photo layouts.

Supplies:

Flipflop brads

Flamingo brads

Sea Shell brads

Palm Tree brads

Crab brads

Sand Castle brads

Sunglass brads

bling strips

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up

Happy 4th of July - East Coast Style!

Hi everyone and Happy 4th of July! Today I've made a card celebrating the East Coast side of the country. 

To make this card, I put a strip of Red Sparkle Washi tape on the edges. On top of that I place a white frame made with the largest die in the Spellbinders Candlewick Rectangles set. I love how the red glitter tape shows through the triangle openings on the edges of the die. In the corners I placed seashells from the Sea Shell brad set. 

With the bottom layers done, I worked on the scene in the center. The main image is from an 8 x 8 pad from Graphic 45 called Catch of the Day. It's an image on one of the pages and it works great here as the main focus. I used Glossy Accents to cover the sign and give it a clear shiny look. I added more themed brads from the crab, sea shore, star, anchor and mini butterfly brad sets.

Sometimes the quickest and easiest way to make a card is to start with a great graphic like this one and enhance it with brads and other accents. Eyelet Outlet has all the supplies you need to do this. Even better, they have just about every theme covered!

SHOPPING LIST:
Shell Brads
Sea Shore Brads
Star Brads - Red, White & Blue
Mini Butterfly Brads
Crab & Lobster Brads
Anchor Brads
Sparkle Red Glitter Washi Tape

 Happy Creating Everyone!

 Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest

Gulls Just Wanna Have Fun

Eyelet Outlet Seagull Brads, that is. And in this case, they're having their fun on two three-inch-square Inkbox Cards I (Lauren) made especially to hold them. I love that the Seagull Brads have two poses, so I decided they should each be the star of one card. And since I was dying to use my new softly metallic Ocean Tape, I'd pair it with Script Washi and some Glitter Skinny Tape to make a foreground for both.

The first card features the distance flying seagull up in the "sky" of the card and down on the washi tape beach I've clustered a Shell Corner Brad, as well as both the starfish and sand dollar from the Sea Shore Brad set.

The standing up seagull is the star of the second card, and he's standing next to a cluster of all three Shell Brads. I felt like it needed one more thing for balance, and you'd be surprised how often our Sun and Cloud Brads fit the bill on that score; which is why they are consistently on my "most used brads" list; along with Hearts and Snowflakes! 

Lauren Bergold's

star sign is Cancer, which explains 

her love of all things beachy

A beachy Christmas!

How do you like your Dec 25th?

Supplies from Eyelet Outlet:

Santa Hat Brad

Sea Shell Brad

Flamingo Brad

washi tape (various)

Palm Tree Brad

 

Crab Birthday

 There's some humor today at Eyelet Outlet with the Crab Birthday card featuring the recently released Crabs and Lobsters Brads.  

The yummy Crab Cake is decorated with with Brads familiar to the crab such as:   Seashell Brad, Seashore Brad, Lobster Brad, and a Palm Tree 2 Brad.   The card is triple-matted with Hunkydory Adorable Scorable Matte Cardstock and the cake is make from the Stamps of Life Die Cake2Stamp.

Whether your young or young at heart, this card will bring a chuckle and a smile to your face.  

Eyelet Outlet Supplies Used:

Crab and Lobster Brad

Seashell Brads

Shell Brads

Palm Tree 2 Brads

Orange Swirl Pearl

Grey Pearl 

Be Safe, Be Well, Happy Crafting

Spring Break

It's that time of year for Spring Break.  What's better than the sun, sand, ocean, and warm weather?   How about adding some flip flops, sea shells, and a flock of flamingos!  Yes, we have them and they are so fun to work with.

One of my favorite things to do is create cards that evoke emotion and this card definitely does that!  Can you feel the warmth of the sun and a bit of ocean at your feet?

This is a great card for parents who have college students bound for a spring break vacation.  Some wise words of wisdom on the inside of the card would be a great send off!  Change out the sentiment and lettering and the scene could also be a retirement card or a have-fun-on-vacation card.

The Eyelet Outlet Shell Brads and Seashore Brads are so realistic, detailed, and colorful as are the Flamingo Brads and Flip Flop2 Brads.   These brads make the card come alive!

The palm tree and sentiment are from Maymay Made It and the lettering from Impression Obsessions.  The background is created using Distress Oxide Ink, however, there are also beautiful beach scene papers that may be used.

Eyelet Outlet supplies used:

Shell Brads

Seashore Brads

Flip Flop2 Brads

Flamingo Brads

Go on, give this card a try!  Head on over to the Eyelet Outlet site and shop for your brads, bling, and more.  

Happy Crafting!

Waving Hello

My sister just returned from a week at the Jersey Shore, and thanks to the wonders of technology and social media, I (Lauren) was able to follow along while she and her family had fun at the beach, thus I was properly jealous! Alas, I don't have a seaside trip scheduled any time soon, but luckily I do have Eyelet Outlet Shell Brads and Pearl Swirls, so I was able to make my own little ocean scene, in card form!

I get cardmaking inspiration from all sorts of places, but it's not very often that a whole entire idea pops into my head fully formed. This was one of those times, though, so I was very excited to get to work. My thought was to make "waves" of torn paper that would overlap a neutral colored beach on which lots of Eyelet Outlet Sea Shore Brads, Shells and Shell Corners had washed up. As I was getting out my supplies, I spotted some white Pearl Swirl Bling and it sort of reminded me of the way seafoam makes little designs on the sand. So I tucked some snippets in and around my shells, starfish and sand dollars.

Here's a little behind-the-scenes process that typically doesn't make it into my post, but I've talked about "dry fitting" the elements of a card fairly often, and this pic really shows what I mean. Before I've poked a single hole to set a brad, before I've even touched the adhesive, I lay out every element I'm going to use, in the place I think it should go. And then... (this is vital!) ...I snap a photo with my phone, so I remember where it all went. As you can see, I've trimmed all the papers (which are from various Prima Marketing collections, including Georgia Blues, Misty Rose and Havana) roughly to size for my 6" square card. I've torn the "waves" so they overlap nicely. I've snipped my letters from their backing sheets and arranged them --for size rather than correct spelling lol. Now I am ready to assemble the layers for real!

You can see that I did make one or two changes during the assembly process. As I was sticking down the letters I realized that "comes in waves" would fit on one line, rather than two, and I liked it better that way. When I decided to add machine stitching to the layers of waves, I knew the sewing process would be much easier if all the pearls were on the beach. I also decided that a little more sparkle was in order, so I made a mat by adding strips of Glitter Gold Tape to the edges of plain white cardstock cut just 1/4" larger than the central panel.

Whether you are headed to the beach, the farm or the zoo this summer, Eyelet Outlet has brads and tape that will work for ANY destination! ♥

Lauren Bergold

could really use some Vitamin Sea!

By the seashore!

Eyelet Outlet's decorative brads will make your papercrafting just a bit more "specschell" with

these summery Sea Shell brads.

The pearl bling strips make great frames and boarders!

Hope today you are on a beach...or at least dreaming of one!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up

Message in a Bottle

Hi there.  It's Kim from Katydid Cards.

The calendar says it's officially Autumn, but here at the Jersey Shore, it's the very best time to walk on the beach.  With the weather still beautiful but fewer people out enjoying it, it's like having your own private beach.  It's on those walks you find little treasures the tide has brought in.  Something like this message in a bottle.

To create this scene, I used the Mail, Seagulls and Shell Brads and a combination of hand and machine cut components.  To add the white caps to the waves, I added some Marvy Snow Marker.

To create the bottle, I cut a piece of pale blue cardstock.  Then I created an offset of acetate to wrap around the cardstock and envelope brad.  I even popped a little cork in the top of the bottle.  It tucked between the two layers of "sand" perfectly.

Inside, on a mat of light blue, I added a strip of Script Washi Tape and another of the Mail brads with lots of room for a personal message.

I created another card celebrating the beach back in my early days as an Eyelet Outlet design team member.  Here's a link if you'd like to see it.

Kim from Katydid Cards

Who provided the inspiration for these cards?  Katy did!

Summer time fun!

Life IS better in Flipflops...

and with a pile of fun embellishments from Eyelet Outlet!

These shell brads and shell corner brads are super popular among our fans.

Summer isn't complete with out a bit of bling strips!

Come visit us at the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo in 

Kansas City, MO

June 29-30, 2018!!

Have a great summer! 

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up!

Summer Fun with The Project Bin

Eyelet Outlet is hopping along with The Project Bin over on Instagram and we invite you to join in, follow along and comment for the chance to win prizes!  I will share the details at the end of this post.

TGIF crafty friends. My project today is a little out of the box. Okay, actually, it is a box!  Turns out if you take a really cool stamp set and mix in some themed washi tape and brads you can create a pretty sweet little trinket box!

I started with Anchors Away from The Project Bin, a set of 5 clear stamps with nautical sayings ranging from inspirational to humorous on a 4"x6" storage sheet!

The sailing theme made me want to work with natural materials.  I had some adhesive cork sheets in my inventory so I adhered it to mat board before I die cut and assembled my box and then inked the edges with brown ink. I almost did a happy dance when I realized the Wide Land and Sea Washi Tape was the perfect size to cover the sides of the box!

When I started playing with the stamps I realized the "eat SAIL sleep repeat" sentiment fit perfectly in the opening of the trinket box (time for another happy dance!).  I love every opportunity to add dimension  so I accented the stamped sentiment with a pair of  black enamel dots before sprinkling Sandcastle Brads and Seagull Brads around the oval opening.

Here is a good view of the sides of the assembled box with the Wide Land and Sea Washi tape. I used the Ship Wheel Brad as part of the closure, looping elastic cording over that and then hooking it onto a hitch fastener I had placed on the side.

Just like a card, it is always nice to make the inside look as special as the outside.

On the reverse side of the lid I added a 3"x4" card.  This time I stamped on the cork and the image is still nice and crisp!  I added Shell Brads and more washi tape - do you see the Rope Washi across the top?

And finally, the bottom of the box holds another sentiment stamped onto cork.

So what should I put in this little trinket box?  Perhaps a little salt water taffy?

And now it is time to head over to the 

Instagram Hop with The Project Bin!  

You will find the Hop lineup and all the details HERE. 

Susie Bentz: My Time to Play

Supplies Used for Anchors Away Trinket Box:

Eyelet Outlet Ship Wheel Brads
Eyelet Outlet Seagull Brads
Eyelet Outlet Sandcastle Brads
Eyelet Outlet Shell Brads
Eyelet Outlet Wide Land And Sea Washi Tape
Eyelet Outlet Rope Washi Tape
Eyelet Outlet Enamel Dots - Single Color, black

The Project Bin Anchors Away Stamp Set

Sizzix Scoreboards XL Dies Trinket Box by Eileen Hull
DCWV Adhesive Cork
Ideology Hitch Fasteners
Clearsnap ColorBox Blends - Nutmeg
Archival Ink, elastic cord, card stock