Good Morning!!

Every day should start with a good breakfast and a cheer note from a good friend!

Supplies:

Breakfast Brads

Strawberry Brads (retired)

Breakfast Clear Stamp set

Washi Tape

Our washi styles change often...keep checking back for more options!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up

Have a sun, shiny day...and one that's crafty!!

Hooked On You

Valentine's Day is fast approaching and the Design Team at Eyelet Outlet is hard at work to give you lots of inspiration for your Valentine projects, but no need to wait on Valentine's Day to let your special someone know how you feel!  Here's a card perfect for just that!

This awesome fishing lure card stock was just what I needed to pair with Eyelet Outlet's new fishing lure brads, don't you think?!  And they go so well with our popular fishing pole brads, too!

And speaking of Valentine's Day and since it is Thursday, how about a little Throw Back Thursday?

Last year I had so much fun creating these little punny Valentine cards for my great niece to share at school.  I actually put together a little kit of all the parts and brads she would need and she assembled the cards herself.  The fishing pole brads are pretty versatile, right?!  

As 2018 comes to a close, we want to thank you for following Eyelet Outlet on our blog, Instagram, and Facebook this year and we're looking forward to bringing you lots more inspiration in the year ahead!  Happy New Year!

Under the Strawberry Moon

This Friday, the ninth, will be the full moon for June of 2017, and thus it is known as the Strawberry Moon. I (Lauren) am planning to celebrate by eating as many delicious strawberries as possible... and of course... I've made a card! It features some beautiful Eyelet Outlet Strawberry Brads, and a few varieties of the gorgeous new Wide Washi Tape!

Have you seen the new tapes? They're at the top of the Washi section in the Eyelet Outlet store... the new ones all have an asterisk before their name, to make them easy to find. There are loads of styles, of course, but the ones that look like Watercolors are some of my favorites. I've mentioned before that I really love Wide Washi and Skinny Washi; when you mix them together with standard-width washi, it just makes any design more dynamic and interesting. But also --in the case of Butterfly Wide Washi and Flower Wide Washi --they are just so very beautiful! You probably know that my lovely design team sister Stephanie is known as the "Washi Queen" in these parts, and the way she is always devising new ways to use her tapes inspires ALL of us in the DT to try to do the same.

In this case, I thought I'd choose to highlight just the pink sections of the Flower Tape design, so I cut those bits from the main roll of tape, measured and marked very lightly where I wanted them to go, then applied them in two neat rows, about half an inch apart, on my card's background panel. I trimmed the edges with Skinny Pastel Pink Tape for a more polished look. I added my focal point, the Paper Flower stacks with Strawberry Brad centers, then adhered a strip of Butterfly Washi to a scrap of white cardstock so that I could fussy-cut the pink butterflies and use them as stickers!

I hope you'll be inspired to find new ways of using your Eyelet Outlet Tapes! If you need more inspiration, be sure to check out Stephanie's amazing creations (don't miss the light switch covers!!!) Then scroll down and see what my Wednesday partner Carri has been up to!

Lauren Bergold

prefers the title "Washi Enthusiast" 

rather than "Crazy Tape Lady"

(...but technically both are true...)

Under the Strawberry Moon

Inspiration is such an interesting thing, don't you think? It can come from absolutely anywhere! For example, just over a month ago, I (Lauren) had never heard the expression "Strawberry Moon" (referring to a full moon in the month of June; traditionally thought to be the best time for picking strawberries) but as soon as I did, all I could think of was strawberry-themed papercrafting projects. Luckily I had nearly a whole package of luscious Eyelet Outlet Strawberry Brads to help me out!

I made a card first, mostly because I thought of a fun/punny sentiment, and I can never resist those, lol. 

I scattered Strawberry Brads and strawberry flowers --made from the smallest White Paper Flower Layers with Yellow Oval Bling centers-- in a cascade down the front of the card, surrounding the sentiment, for which I combined die-cut letters and a few tiny alphabet stickers. 

Next I decorated a little cardstock box with more White Paper Flower Layers held on with a Strawberry Brad. Gift-wrapping is probably my favorite "alternate" use for crafting supplies; because really, we all secretly want to receive a very fancy package now and then, don't we?

Were you inspired by the Strawberry Moon, as well? If so, I'd love to see what you made, leave me a link in the comments! ♥

Hi, I'm Lauren, and my blog is called, "...all the good blog names were taken..." 

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