Falling Leaves

In this case, some of the Falling Leaves are Eyelet Outlet Leaf Brads and Mini Leaf Brads. Tiny golden 1/16" Round Brads are excellent for uses both practical (holding the corners of things) and decorative (scattered around randomly) on any project; they come in LOTS of other colors, too!

Lovely Leafy Shopping List:

Leaf Brads

Mini Leaf Brads

1/16" Round Brads

The Eyelet Outlet Store has embellishments you'll fall for in EVERY season of the year!

Lauren Bergold

would only play in the leaves if her chiropractor was nearby!

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On My Fourth Draft!

Eyelet Outlet has all the brads and tapes you could possibly need to create custom cards for your friends and family. Just choose a fun sentiment, format, print, and embellish! This cute Beer-centric greeting features a free font called Dear Sunshine, EO Beer and Book Brads, some tiny tan 1/16" Round Brads and a background of beautiful Beer Tape.

Beautiful Beer Shopping List:

Beer Brads

Book Brads

1/16" Round Brad-Brown Mix

Beer Tape

Check out all of the other delicious Food and Drink Brads in the Eyelet Outlet Online Store!

Lauren Bergold

does not actually care for beer, irl!

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Holiday Sampler

Nothing says, "Warm Holiday Wishes" quite as well as a Nordic Knit cover stamp studded with Eyelet Outlet Brads! This card has thirty-seven (37!) brads from eight different brad styles... can you spot them all? Scroll down for a hint!

Working from top to bottom: 1/16" Round Brads (Brown Mix); Poinsettia Brads; more 1/16" Round Brads (Brown Mix) as reindeer eyes; Heart Brads; Pine Cone Brads; 1/16" Round Brads (Red Mix); Cardinal, Cardinal Profile and Female Cardinal Brads; Snowy Trees and finally 1/16" Round Brads (White). And in case you're wondering, "Did you really pierce a hole, place the brad, and secure the prongs for every single one?" Check out the photo below, which shows the back of the design panel.

Shopping List:

Poinsettia Brads

Heart Brads

Pine Cone Brads

Cardinal Brads

Cardinal Profile Brads

Female Cardinal Brads

Snowy Tree Brads

1/16" Round Brads (in multiple colorways)

Check out the Eyelet Outlet Store for all the holiday embellishments you could possibly need!

Lauren Bergold

sends you warm holiday wishes!

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Masculine Birthday Card

I hear many card makers express that masculine cards are the most difficult.  Eyelet Outlet has lots of great products to inspire you though!  Today I've got a card for you using the Eyelet Outlet Screw Brads.

I used four different Cricut cartridges for my project today.  They were Fabulous Finds (hinge), Ornamental Iron 2 (rectangle border), Gypsy Wanderings (keyhole), and Cricut Classic Fonts (Happy Birthday).  Each image was cut from plain white card stock and then I applied Metallic Gilding Polish in graphite and red bronze.  I loved how it made my images look like real metal with a beautiful patina!

The two wood grained papers are from Stampin' Up.  They Eyelet Outlet Screw Brads worked perfectly to attach my metal looking elements to the wood!  I used mini 1/16"  Eyelet Outlet Brads to attach the key hole.  These brads are the tiniest I've ever seen.  You may not need this size often, but when you do, Eyelet Outlet's got them in lots of colors!

Thanks for stopping in today! 

What's Brewing?

Generally, at my (Lauren's) house "What's Brewing" is coffee or tea, but it occurred to me the other day when I saw that sentiment in our Coffee Stamp set, that *beer* is also brewed. You may know that Beer Brads and a coordinating set of Beer Stamps were part of the newest release in May. But it's entirely possible to use the former without the latter, so of course I had to make a couple of cards to celebrate!

My first card could not be more simple: Beer Brads and the "brewing" sentiment inside a label shape, on a great coordinating piece of ledger style paper, and a few coordinating washi tapes (Love Tape and this fab Skinny Plaid that I adore) are really all you need!

I confess that I have been wanting this Pizza Tape since I first saw it, but held out because I honestly wasn't sure what to do with it. Once I saw the Beer Brads, however, it seemed like a match made in heaven. The "Everything I Brew..." sentiment is also from the Coffee Stamp set, but again, it multitasks really well here. I set off the sentiment panel with some teeeeeeeny but truly useful 1/16" Mini Round Brads in the corners.

I hope you'll be inspired to think of alternate ways to use your own EO Clear Stamps, and that you'll brew up some creative cards of your own.

Lauren Bergold

has to confess that she enjoys beer more 

in brad form than as a beverage.

It's Somebunny's Birthday

And we are celebrating here on the Eyelet Outlet Blog! Hi guys, it's Lauren again, with a couple of uber-cute birthday cards featuring loads of super-fun Eyelet Outlet birthday-themed brads!

Before we get to the cards, I want to answer the question I get asked the most when I put oversized Eye Glass Brads on an undersized critter, "How do you get those to stay on?" It's actually really easy, you just have to plan ahead a tiny bit. Set the brads BEFORE you cut out the bunny... (who's from a stamp set called Holiday Pals by Pretty Pink Posh) ...and cut out AROUND the glasses, so they're supported by the "extra" cardstock that you've left intact. In the case of the rectangular glasses, I left the area inside the frames white. Since the round glasses show a bit more background, after I chose my patterned paper, I took a soft blue brush marker and tinted the area around bunny's head to make it coordinate and thus disappear.

Oh and one more trick: sometimes I bend the prongs of a brad INWARD instead of outward; they grip the paper equally well but take up less space. So now you know!

For the first version, I went vertical with my A2 card and added the Party Hat, Cake and Candle Brads in little thought bubbles I cut from colorful paper scraps. Once again, to make them fit *perfectly* I set the brads before I drew the thought bubbles, then cut out neatly around them. My sentiment is made with my trusty Dymo labelmaker; I trimmed the labels slightly and stacked them to balance the design.

On my second card, I went horizontal, and changed the wording of the sentiment slightly to make the label portion of it fit on the inset 5.25 x 4" panel of my card. Then I added "Somebunny" in glittery alphabet stickers and assembled my birthday thought bubbles which this time include a Cupcake, a Birthday Sock Monkey and a Heart Brad. On both cards I "connected" the thoughts to the bunny via tiny 1/16" Mini Round Brads, which come in a variety of pretty colors.

Of course this idea would work really well for practically ANY occasion, with a variety of critters wearing all sorts of accessories! I hope you'll be inspired to make your own version using your favorite Eyelet Outlet Brads... and be sure to tag me so I can come and see it! ♥

Lauren Bergold

automatically loves any occasion 

that involves CAKE!

Many Multi-Layer Mandalas

Hi folks, it's Lauren here again! I was lucky enough to receive some incredibly cool layered mandala dies for my birthday, from my friend and fellow Eyelet Outlet designer Stephanie Severin, and of course my first thought was: how cool they would look when paired with Eyelet Outlet brads, washi tape and paper flowers! Here are a couple of cards that I think prove my point, lol:

My first idea was to cut each layer of the mandala in a different color, and reassemble them all using classic small 1/8" Round Brads and teeny 1/16" Round Brads as accents. Luckily both varieties come in loads of beautiful colors, so I had plenty of choice. As I was stacking up the embellished layers, I noticed that the smallest and largest of my Purple Paper Flowers were the perfect size to be incorporated into the design, and they added even more color and texture! When I was assembling the finished card, I realized that the one thing that was missing was *SPARKLE* so I added a border of Skinny Glitter Washi Tape to the mat under my mandala, and it was the perfect accent!

My second card was inspired by the leftover mandala layers, and how much I loved mixing them with the Paper Flowers. I started stacking them in different combinations, and instead of using the center from the die, I grabbed these fun Daisy Flower Brads, which are rather mandala-like, don't you think? I added Champagne Swirl Bling (though there were actually quite a few colors which looked equally cool!) and some Foil Dots Tape and called it good.

I hope you'll be inspired to look at your dies --and your EO Brads!-- and see lots of new possibilities. Meanwhile, there are always loads of ideas here on the Eyelet Outlet Blog. Why not scroll down and see what my Wednesday partner Carri is up to today? ♥

Lauren Bergold

has a bit of a thing about mandalas, 

as you can see from even a brief visit to her blog!

Alien Brads: Out of This World!

Absolutely all of Eyelet Outlet's new Spring brads are awesome, in my opinion, but none are more fun than the Alien Brads, which are both adorable and otherworldly... so clearly I (Lauren) had to use them on a couple of different cards!

Scientists have recently confirmed that there *IS* life on Mars, but alas, there are no bakeries. So it turns out most of the UFO's sighted on this planet involve Little Green Men who have not enjoyed cake in far too long! 

I was happy to build these guys an appropriately-sized chocolate cupcake, then frost it with the help of two different sized cloud punches. I added a couple of Star Brads to make them feel at home. And obviously no cupcake is complete without a Cherry Brad on top!

One of my favorite ways to add a funky sentiment is with my trusty old-school label maker. In this case, I trimmed the labels down a bit, and affixed them kind of randomly, to fit the fun vibe of the card. I used another Alien Brad and the same set of supplies to create a sentiment inside, as well!

I often use funny quotes as inspiration for a card design, and I wish I could remember which comedian said, some years ago, that Area 51 didn't particularly worry him, but the thought of 50 OTHER such places made him a bit anxious! I typed the sentiment on clear labels which I affixed to a cloudy sky over a bit of patterned paper desert. Then I filled in the scene with another adorable Martian and a funky space ship made from paper, Glitter Silver Washi Tape and tiny 1/16" Mini Gold Brads.

Meanwhile, here in this galaxy, you'll have noticed that we now have even more fun for you here on the Eyelet Outlet Blog... some days there will be more than one post! That means lots of great ideas to make your cards and projects out of this world! Be sure to scroll down and see what awesomeness Designer Georgiana has thought up to inspire you! ♥

Lauren Bergold

 can be visited by blog-readers of all planets at

"...all the GOOD blog names were taken..."

♥♥♥

The Valentiniest Valentine of All Time! :)

Hi guys, it's Lauren, celebrating the fact that it is EXACTLY one month until Valentine's Day, so if you haven't ordered yourself some heart-ful Eyelet Outlet goodies, or started sampling dark chocolate candies to see which ones will make the best gifts*, today's a great day to start! I've made a really traditional card, just to show you just a few of the many cool heart items from which you could choose in the Eyelet Outlet store:

For the record, there is NO patterned paper on this card, I've used three different tapes to make my heart squares: Heart Washi, Skinny Heart Washi and the Stripey Hearts which, alas, are out of print, but luckily there are LOTS MORE varieties in stock! I've got some pretty Pink Paper Flowers attached with a Heart Brad and a tiny (1/16"!) Mini Round Brad. Black is admittedly not a traditional Valentine's Day color, lol, but it surely does make the red and white *POP* don't you think? In addition to the black ink of the sentiment and those uber-skinny black mats, the black enamels from the Vacation Heart Colorway really tie everything together.

Stay tuned to the Eyelet Outlet blog... I happen to know my fellow designers have more great ideas to help you prepare for Valentine's Day!

*Lauren Bergold 

hopes her Valentine appreciates 

just how much candy she has 

selflessly sampled on his behalf! :) :) :)

Woohoo!

It seems a bit of a shame to be posting a completely non-seasonal card just when Mother Nature is providing the Eastern United States with picture-postcard Autumn weather, but the brand new Eyelet Outlet Banner Brads were burning such a hole in my creative pocket, that I (Lauren) just couldn't wait one more minute to use them on a card.

I'm not exactly known for my CAS sensibilities when it comes to card-making. Au contraire. But these Banner Brads are just so fun and so colorful, I found that I really didn't need much more to round out my card. I've used the Pastel selection but they also come in Brights. I sketched the "path" of my bunting very lightly in pencil before heading to the sewing machine. I happen to enjoy machine stitching, and I love the texture it adds to my cards, but you could get an equally cool effect with hand- (or faux!) stitching. There are also loads of great stamp sets that have pennants of a similar size that I think would work wonderfully well!

You could personalize the sentiment with a name or an occasion (new baby, promotion at work, stellar report card) but sometimes a general "Woohoo!" kind of says it all, right? And that way you can have a few pre-made cards in your stash for an unexpected celebration. I stamped and colored the letters in a fun font and added some colorful 1/16" Mini Round Brads between the pennants... and my card was complete.

I hope you'll be inspired to help someone celebrate the big --or little-- triumphs of life with a banner card of your own!

Lauren Bergold

can mostly be found outside in the garden 

when the weather is as lovely as it is right now!

(...and on her blog the rest of the time...)