Always Believe In Yourself

 We have a lot of cats in our animal collection at Eyelet Outlet, but this little orange cat is my absolute favorite because he looks exactly like my Sonny Boy! 

Memes are such an inspiration to me in my card making and when I saw this meme recently, I couldn't get to the craft room fast enough to put my spin on it with amazing Eyelet Outlet products! I started with a strip of our popular wood washi tape for my counter top, I used a few Cricut images in my scene and flanked them with our mixer brad, a wooden spoon brad, and measuring cup brad. I added a mini stitched flower to the pot plant and of course, center stage was the orange feline brad!

My cat, Sonny Boy is well trained and stays off the counter. 😉

Yummy Pumpkin Cake

Recipe scrapbooking is where my paper crafting journey began back in 2009 and when I started looking for cute embellishments for this craft, my search led me to Eyelet Outlet. Browse our awesome food, drink and cooking themed brads and don't forget to browse the washi tapes section for more great cooking themed products.

This is the time of year we often take a dish to holiday gatherings and when I do I like to take along the recipe for the host. This little recipe pocket is embellished with Eyelet Outlet pumpkin brads and a little wooden spoon brad.

This recipe didn't want to fit well on one card, so I ended up with two cards, the first card is done front and back.

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Eyelet Outlet!

 

Bless This Kitchen

The madness of Christmas is past and I feel like it's time to hunker down at home to cocoon a little. In my house, that always means some cleaning and cooking some of our favorite foods! I'm also always in need of some all occasion cards that I can use to send hellos or thank you notes. The card I've made today is perfect for that and it gives you the warm and fuzzies - or at least it does me. 

This is super easy to make with a pre-printed tag and some EO washi tapes and brads. I extended a tag I had in my stash with a few strips of Dot Washi Tape. The extension gave me a place to build my scene with two Canister Brads, a spoon from Baking Brads, and a pot and mitt from the Cooking Brads. The background was made with three other washi tapes as listed below. The blue borders were something I've had in my stash for a long time so I was glad to find a good use for them. Finally, I added a mat behind the tag and the main polka dot panel and boom! Card done! Gotta love it when a simple card comes together.

SHOPPING LIST:

Canister Brads

Cooking Brads

Baking Brads

 Macaron Washi Tape

Cooking Washi Tape

Strawberry Washi Tape

Dot Washi Tape

Thanks for joining me here today to see some of my favorite cards of the past year. I hope you all enjoy a peaceful and restful holiday. Please visit the EO store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!

Happy Creating!

Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest

Let's Bake Memories!

 It's July and that means card makers have a great excuse to celebrate the holidays six months early. Like many card makers, I love making holiday and Christmas cards. Any excuse is a good excuse for me! Eyelet Outlet makes it easy with so many holiday brads and washi tapes. 

Two new holiday brads have been added to the store. They are delightful Retro Tree Brads and Angel Brads. Aren't they precious! The first thing that came to mind when I saw the tree brads was cookies. I knew immediately I would make the card I'm sharing with you today.

I found the cookie pan die pattern in Cricut Design Space. Once I constructed it, I attached Gingerbread Brads and the new Retro Tree Brads. This was glued on the card at an angle. I made the sentiment and glued that to the card too. Then I added Canister Brads, Mixer and Cup Brads, the new Angel Brads, and the spoon comes from the Baking Brads Set.

There is a lot on this card but I think it all works together well. It's so cheerful and I hope it brings a smile to you. 

SHOPPING LIST:

**NEW** Angel Brads

**NEW** Retro Tree Brads

Canister Brads

Baking Brads

Mixer and Cup Brads

Gingerbread Brads

Thanks for joining me here today. Please visit the EO store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!

Happy Creating!

Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest

What's Cooking

 

This card was inspired by Eyelet Outlet's stamp set called
Cooking Stamp Set. It comes with the oven, different sentiments,
gloves and other kitchen-related items.

I started by stamping the oven, mitts and sentiment. These were
colored with Copic Markers. I added the muffin tin brads
 and the cooking spoon brads along the side. Of course, I had to
 add some bling from Eyelet Outlet that I even used for the knobs
on the oven.

Your Shopping List From Eyelet Outlet
Cooking Stamp Set 
Baking Brads 
Jewel Bling Strips Pink

See you next week and have fun creating.

Elizabeth - Blog

Holiday Gnome Baker

Hello EO friends! I hope those of you in the U.S. enjoyed your long Thanksgiving weekend with family or friends. My family had a quiet day. There were only three of us but we cooked a good homemade meal with turkey and all the fixings. It was a very good day for the Axtman family!

 I've started on my Christmas cards and this cute little Baking Gnome card is a nice start. This gnome is holding a Gingerbread Brad and a spoon from the Baking Brads set. A red Heart Pearl decorates his bowl and a holly spray from the Holiday Bling pack. The background of the card is Glitter Silver Washi Tape. Finally I added three of the larger white pearls to the tag from the Pearl Bling Multi-Pack.

SHOPPING LIST:

Gingerbread Brad

Baking Brads

Holiday Bling

Pearl Bling - Multi

Heart Pearls Sticky Back

Glitter Silver Washi Tape

All of us on the Design Team laugh about this, but we are always looking for dies and other products that would be perfect with EO brads and bling. This gnome is a great example. When I saw it, I knew it would work great with the gingerbread and baking brads. This die cut is from CottageCutz and it's called Holiday Gnome Baker. 

I hope you enjoyed my card and I thank you for stopping by today. Please visit the store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!

Happy Creating Everyone!

Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest 

Mrs. Claus Cookie Company

When I finished this buckle fold card I had the biggest craving for some gingerbread!  

Mrs. Claus is so cute and her kitchen is so perfectly adorned with fabulous Eyelet Outlet products!

I created this card with my Cricut and if you're a Cricut crafter, too, I've shared the file for this card on my Cricut profile so you can recreate it.  

 

Recipe Scrapbooking

 My journey with Eyelet Outlet began when I was introduced to recipe scrapbooking back in 2009.  I discovered their amazing selection of cooking/food related brads and I was hooked!  Over the years I turned to card making as my predominate craft, but now and then I take some time to return to my first love-recipe scrapping.  

This week I decided to make a page for a holiday favorite in my family.  It wouldn't be Christmastime at my house without one of these rum cakes!

I'm so happy to have replaced my tattered 1977 recipe card with this fancy page in my recipe scrapbook!  I used the wooden spoon, mixer, measuring cup, and saucepan brads on the recipe. All of these and many more all found in the Food, Drink, & Cooking Brads tab at Eyelet Outlet. 

I also added some beautiful Eyelet Outlet bling and gems, candy brads and holly brads and I'm so thrilled with how fancy this page turned out!

Thanks for stopping in today! I hope I've inspired you to scrapbook some of your family's favorite receipes!

Flour Power

Nothing says, "Happy Birthday" as well as cake, but since that's kind of hard to fit into an envelope, how about a card featuring Eyelet Outlet Cupcake Swirl Brads and baking accoutrements like Mixer and Cup Brads, Pan and Rolling Pin, Baking Brads, the oven mitt from our Cooking Brads set, a Heart Brad and coordinating vertical Heart Washi Tape.

Whether you're into baking, fishing, driving, camping, eating or... well, pretty much anything else, Eyelet Outlet has all the brads, tapes and embellishments you need!

Lauren Bergold

does not actually bake, but is available to test the baked goods of others!

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Housewarming Card

Eyelet Outlet's Food/Drink/Cooking collection is what first attracted me to their awesome brads waaay back in 2009!  Today I've put brads from three of those sets to work in a housewarming card.  

I know it's a little snarky, but I think the recipient will laugh and especially enjoy the Door Dash Gift card that will be tucked inside!

The boxes I used for this card are from the Cricut image library and I used brads from the Cooking Brad Set, Baking Brad Set, and the Pan & Rolling Pin Set.

If you happen to be in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area this weekend, stop by the vendor are at the Creating Keepsakes Convention and see us in person!

Whisking You A Happy Birthday!

 

Welcome to the first post of 2023 on the Eyelet Outlet blog! I don't know about you but I'm welcoming a new year with gusto! Looking forward to lots of good things this year (hopefully)!

Today I'm bringing you a little different twist on a typical box card. This is a box card tucked into a z-fold card. It's fun because it allows me to build a scene around it. This is a file from Silhouette called 3D Box Card Oven. There are lots of EO goodies in this card. Let's go through them!

SHOPPING LIST

Mixer & Cup Brads

Canister Brads

Baking Brads

Cupcake Swirl Brads

Matt Finish Enamel Dots

Thanks for joining me on New Year's Day 2023. I wish you all kind of good things and creativity this year. Please visit the store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!

Happy Creating Everyone!

Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest

Let's Bake

 

Nothing is more fun than baking at the holidays. My neighbor makes
fabulous cookies for everyone on the block and the basket they
come in is all decorated. She has a little red wagon she delievers them
in and I can assure you we get so excited when we see the wagon coming.

So, I got busy with a baking card using the wonderful stamp set that Eyelet Outlet 
sells called the Cooking Stamp Set. I colored the stove with Copic Markers
then left room on the sides to add the super adorable girl and boy
gingermen. Plus Eyelet Outlet has other adorable brads I added such as the 
baking pan and spoon.

The card could also be easily into a tag to attach to a "sweet"
gift during the holidays.

 Shopping List at Eyelet Outlet
Cooking Stamps Set
Gingerbread Brads 
Baking Brads

Elizabeth - Blog

My Punny Little Tags - Final 3

Hi Ai Fans! Today I'm showing off my last three punny tags. I created a series of six. Check out the post from last week to see the first six HERE.

 The puns were taken from the Think & Grin section of the October 2022 Scout Life magazine. They're silly and remind me of the days when the two most funny words to my son were, "Dirty Underwear!" The mere mention of underwear alone would send he and his friends into hysterical giggles. Those were the days! All the puns were submitted by Cub and Boy Scouts across the country. As I read the puns in the magazine, my mind automatically went to thinking about what brads would go with the jokes.
These tags are a result. 

In this one I've use the Baking Brads and Feline Brads. Gold Glitter Enamel Dots are also used.

In the next tag, I've used the Mail Brads and Blue Glitter Enamel Dots.

And in my final tag, I've used the Trout & Bass Brads and the Fishing Pole Brads as well as Purpll Glitter Enamel DotsRed Glitter Enamel Dots.

SHOPPING LIST:
Baking Brads

Feline Brads

Mail Brads

Trout & Bass Brads

Fishing Pole Brads

Glitter Enamel Dots

Thanks for stopping by today. Please visit the store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers! Stop by next Sunday to see three more tags. It'll be a punny good time!

Happy Creating Everyone!

Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest

Easy as Pie

June is wedding season, so I thought I’d share what I do for the happy couples I’ve gifted.

I always like to browse their gift registry and choose something for the kitchen and then, using one of my recipes, I create a recipe card in a pocket envelope that goes with the gift. For example, if I’m gifting a rolling pin I'll share my pie crust recipe.

On this project I used the Eyelet Outlet flour canister brad and rolling pin brad on the front. Eyelet Outlet has so many wonderful food/cooking brads that you're sure to find one or more that will complement any recipe you'd like to share!

Our little wooden spoon brad from our baking brads set is so cute and really adds some fun to this broccoli cheese soup recipe card.

Happy Crafting!

Box Card For The Kitchen Cook!

Hey everybody! I hope you had a great week and have something fun planned this weekend, like crafting perhaps?! I'm a huge box card fan and when I found this oven box card cut file online I automatically thought of my daughter because she loves to cook! Me... not so much, lol! This card features our Cooking Brads, Baking Brads and Mixer & Cup Brads and was so much fun putting together!
I cut the card base from bright yellow cardstock, and all the remaining pieces from red, light yellow black, gray and white cardstock. I always say that the greatest satisfaction I get is putting these box cards together and watching them come to life! 

I drew markings on the clock with a black pen. I adhered a mixing spoon brad and measuring cup brad to a piece of acetate so they would stand up on the cook top. I added two cookie sheet brads to the oven along with two oven mitts to the stove front. 

I stamped a large all-occasion sentiment in red ink on the back layered circle. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today - we'll see you next time!

Leslie Turner
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Let's Get Baked with Eyelet Outlet Gingerbread & Baking Embellishments!

 

Hello Ai fans! I'm just not able to stop Christmas crafting so I guess I give up! I'm going to keep throwing in a Christmas card or two each month until the big day arrives! 

I started this card by cutting the doily and phrases for this card with a file in Cricut Design Space. I cut the doily in a beige cardstock but decided to ink it up with Vintage Photo Distress Ink to give it a more "baked" look. I sprayed the inked doily with Glitter Dust and white iridescent spray. As it dried, I covered a 6 x 6 card panel with black and gold foil washi tape. On the doily, I placed the words and inserted the brads from the Gingerbread Set and the Baking Set. Then I glued the doily to the washi panel. To finish the card, I placed several different sizes of Black Pearl Bling on the card.

SHOPPING LIST

Gingerbread Brads

Baking Brads

Gold Foil Washi Tape

Black Pearl Bling

Thanks for stopping by today. Remember, it's never too early for a good baking!

Happy Creating Everyone!

 Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest 

Baking Spirits Bright

Have you seen Eyelet Outlet's newly released gingerbread boys and girls?  They are so darling!  Today I'm bringing you a cute Christmas card that features these little cuties along with our mixer brad, rolling pin brad, and cookie sheet brad.  

The cute vintage cookie cutter box is an image from KB and Friends Etsy Shop.  They have several of these vintage boxes that I've been having so much fun mixing with various Eyelet Outlet brads!  The little cookie cutters inside the box are from Cricut's Gingerbread image set.  

I hope you'll pick up some of new gingerbread boys and girls and show us the creative ways you use them on our Eyelet Outlet Fans Facebook Group!

 

What's Cookin'?

Good Thursday, crafters! As mentioned a few weeks ago,  I recently re-discovered the beautiful retro graphics of Velma and Kathryn Balint of KB and Friends having first purchased from them many years ago.  I've gone completely wild over their adorable collection of boxes that pair so perfectly with Eyelet Outlet products.  

Today I'm using a little box reminiscent of a 50's area play cooking set.  I used my Cricut to create a window in the box and attached some clear acetate and attached the box to the card base with foam tape. Behind the window are wooden spoon brads and a pan brad from Eyelet Outlet's Cooking Brads set and Baking Brads set.  

The refrigerator and stove are from Cricut's Suburbia image set.  A few enamel hearts finish off the card adding more texture.  Thanks for stopping in!  Enjoy the day with those you love!

 

Pizza Party

Each time I take an afternoon to scrapbook I come away thinking I should do it more often!  Recipe scrapping actually was where my papercrafting journy began in 2009 and also when I first became acquainted with Eyelet Outlet.  I was scrapbooking family favorite pie recipes for my daughters at the time and was in search of great cooking themed embellishments and I sure did find them at Eyelet Outlet!

Recently my granddaughter and I made a family favorite - homemade pizza and after her visit, I made a two sets of these scrapbook pages - one for her book as well as one for my own cookbook.

The images I used for my pages came from the Cricut image library. Since we topped our pizza with both red and green bell peppers, I used one of each color from Eyelet Outlet's Vegetable Brad set on the cutting board.  The knife is from Cricut's "From My Kitchen" image set.  

I love that Eyelet Outlet's got so many different colored enamel hearts and shapes. There's always a color that compliments my project.  Here I used yellow and white.  

The cute pizza themed digital paper comes from PrettyGrafic's Etsy shop.  There's 12 different patterns in the set, but this one with the little pizza chefs was perfect, don't you think?  

I used Eyelet Outlet Flour Canister brad (Sugar is in the set, too), the Wooden Spoon brad from the Baking Brads set and the Rolling Pin brad from the Cooking Brad set to embellish my recipe card.  

If one of your goals is to preserve your family's favorite recipes with a recipe scrapbook, be sure to check out the Food, Drink, and Cooking brads at Eyelet Outlet!