Hey Chickie!

It's still fall and the cooler days remind me that on the farm, the season brings the harvest of the bounty. This card features a farmland scene with a rooster and his hens, a goat and a cow. A farmer is busy in the fields and it's a sunny day with light clouds. 

This card was easy to make with hills made of gold and green cardstock and a stencil and inks to make a sky. All the brads are of course from Eyelet Outlet.

Shopping List:

Rooster Brads

Chicken Brads

Cow & Goat Brads

Tractor Brads

Sun & Cloud Brads

 

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

Happy Creating!

Happy Mother's Day to All the Amazing Moms! ❤️

Happy Mother's Day, everyone! I hope all the wonderful moms are being showered with love and attention today – you deserve it all!

To celebrate, I wanted to create a card with a bit of fun and a whole lot of heart. Imagine a little gathering on a brick wall (thanks to the fantastic Brick Washi Tape!), all set against a sunny Wide Sky Washi Tape background.

Above this adorable scene, little word bubbles of thanks float in the air – stamped and carefully cut out. And right there on the wall, a festive Mother's Day Banner proudly proclaims the occasion.

But the real magic comes from the five little critters lined up on the wall, each one a tiny messenger of love for Mom! The Polar Bear, Feline, Chicken, Acorn & Squirrel, and Rabbit Brads each have their own charm. To top it all off, I added two Sticky Back Pink Heart Pearls to the banner for an extra touch of sweetness.

Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing moms! May your day be filled with joy and love.

SHOPPING LIST:

Polar Bear Brads

Feline Brads

Chicken Brads

Acorn & Squirrel Brads

Rabbit Brads

Sky Washi Tape - Wide

Brick Washi Tape

Heart Pearls-Sticky Back

Thanks for joining me here today. Please stop by the EO store for all your brad, washi tape, bling, and paper flower card making supplies.

Award for EGG-cellence!

An adorable Eyelet Outlet Chicken Brad is the star of this EGG-stra special (and EGG-stra silly) card. Set atop a pile of Egg Brads (they're on sale!) she is justifiably proud of her achievement. Super-cute Chicken Washi Tape makes the perfect background for this MATHEMACHICKEN to strut her stuff!

Poultry in Motion Shopping List:

 Chicken Brads 

Egg Brads

Chicken Washi Tape 

Visit the Eyelet Outlet Online Store for more animals, birds, bugs and everything else you need to bring your next card idea to life!

Lauren Bergold

can literally NEVER resist a diabolical pun!

Blog * Instagram * Facebook 

Take Me To Your Cake

Recently I was going through some older stamp sets I have and I came across the Beam Me Up set from Lawn Fawn. I thought it would be good fun to have the aliens try to beam up farm animals. Looking around, I came across the farm background stamp so decided to combine the two sets together with several EO brads to make this humorous take on an alien abduction.

After stamping the farming scene, I colored it with markers. Then I colored and cut out the UFO and beam. I also stamped and used white embossing powder for the sentiment strips. Next I cut the background with a stitched slimline die and cut a slightly larger mat in silver. I placed the UFO pieces in the scene and then added all the monster and farm animal brads. I also added a cupcake swirl brad. Then I glued the two slimline pieces together and glued it on to the front of a slimline card base. 

SHOPPING LIST:
Cow & Goat Brads

Monster Brads

Pig & Sheep Brads

Cupcake Swirl Brads

Chicken 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

Have An Eggs-tra Special Easter!

 It's always fun to create farm scenes and in this case I have used it to create an Easter card. I created this Easter farm scene using Cricut Design Space and a chicken coop .svg pattern I had in my library. The grass and fence are patterns available from Cricut.

This is a 5" square top-fold card. Once I made the scene with cardstock, I added Colored Daisy Brads, Colored Egg Brads, Chick Brads, and Chicken Brads. I added an "eggs-tra special" sentiment to finish it. This will be fun to pop in the mail to my Mom who always enjoys cards depicting the farm life she loves.

SHOPPING LIST:

Colored Daisy Brads

Colored Egg Brads

Chicken Brads

Chick Brads

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

Happy Creating!

Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest  

Hogs and Kisses!

 It's a farm fresh day here on the blog. I grew up on farm that didn't look a lot different from this one. I enjoy getting back to my roots by evoking farm life once in a while. Fortunately that's really easy to do with the large selection of farm animal brads that EO carries. 

Here I used a variety of animals and birds. There are many other options available such as Horse & Pony, Cow & Goat, Chick Brads and more. There are also Tractor Brads. There's definitely everything you need to create farm scenes like mine. In fact, there is so much available in the EO store when it comes to animals that Noah himself would be proud! Check out all their animal brads for your card making.

Supply List:

Pig & Sheep Brads

Rooster Brads

Chicken Brads

Heart Enamels-Bright

Green Pearl Bling - Multi

Thanks 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

The ABC's of Eyelet Outlet

A couple of years ago, I (Lauren) made a little ATC-sized book with as many Eyelet Outlet brad styles, arranged alphabetically, as I could fit... which turned out to be quiiiiiiiite a few! That project was so much fun, I decided to do it again. So here are the letters A through E:

Here's a complete list of the brads used, I tried to change it up and add some lesser-known ones in addition to all my favorites!

A: Mini Ants, (Vacation) Arrows, an Ambulance (from the First Responders set), Aprons (from the BBQ set, which also has a Grill), and both styles of Apple Brad.

B: Bicycle Brad, Brown (Teddy) Bears, (School) Bus Brad, Bottles and a mug of Beer (all found in the Beer set), plus one handsome Bluebird from the Bluebird and Robin set.

C: Candle Brads, a Swirl Cupcake, Crown (from the Crown and Tiara set), Computer, Classic Cars and a Chicken Brad.

D: Doggos (including a Puppy Brad a Paw and the supper dish from the Kennel Mix), Dinosaur, Donut Brad and a Deer plus a Prancing Deer.

E:  Eagles, Eye Glass Brad, Emergency (technically the police car from the First Responders set), Eggs (and a Fried Egg from the Bacon, Egg and Toast set), Elephant from the Jungle Mix set.

ABC's headline: one of our two styles of Sunglass Brad, Butterfly Brad, Classic Car, Crown, Bus, Bluebird, Ring (from the Wedding set), Mini Ladybug, Beer Brad.

Stay tuned for the letters F through J, coming next week to the Eyelet Outlet Blog!

Lauren Bergold

is a big fan of

alphabetical order!

Just Chicken In

I really enjoy the view from my craft room window.  My crepe myrtle trees have never bloomed so abundantly and there is always a bird or two splashing in my back yard bird bath.  Beyond my yard I have a perfect view of my neighbor's large flock of free range chickens and they're the inspiration behind today's project.

I cut the window for this card with my Cricut and welded some hexagon pattern into the cut out to create the door of a chicken coop.  I used foam tape to mount the chicken coop door to the card base and I love the dimension and depth this technique offers.  Of course, behind the chicken coop door are a couple of amazing Eyelet Outlet chicken brads as well as a strip of extra wide sky washi tape.

Check out our chicken brads as well as our roosters and chicks to round out your flock! And don't forget the eggs!  

Keep on Trucking in Chicken Lingo!

Hello, Eyelet Outlet fans! I hope you've had a great week! Leslie here sharing a fun friendship card pecked out in chicken lingo, lol! I paired some favorite brads and bling with an all-time favorite stamp set, and had a great time putting this CAS design together. This simple design would be easy to mass produce to create a set to give as a gift!

I cut an ivory A2 size top-folding card base and rounded the bottom right corner to add some interest. I printed some digital chicken wire on ivory cardstock and trimmed the panel with the wire at the bottom. I added a strip of yellow cardstock to separate the wire from the white space. I stamped the sentiment in black ink, added three Chicken Brads and layered the panel on yellow cardstock. I adhered the piece to the card base and added some White Pearl Bling to the yellow strip along with a few tiny pearls from a White Pearl Bling Strip to the background. I colored the bling with an alcohol marker to match the chickens. 

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

Leslie from Love To Scrap 2

Little Chick Baby Congrats

Hello, Eyelet Outlet fans! I hope you've had a great week! Leslie here sharing a fun baby congratulations card featuring some of my favorite products! This was a fun one to design and definitely isn't your ordinary baby congrats card!

I created a standard A2 size top-folding white card base and a slightly smaller white panel for the front. I adhered some yellow and white dotted paper to the bottom of the panel and then added a strip of Glitter Black Washi Tape and a narrow strip of red cardstock. I stamped the sentiment in black ink, added a Chicken Brad and then layered the panel on red cardstock. I adhered the panel to the card base and added several Black Enamel Dots.

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

Leslie from Love To Scrap 2

How are ewe doing?

Our little blue and green planet is having quite the adventure these days.

Show your concern with a little punny card featuring brads from Eyelet Outlet.

These barn yard animals will bring a smile to your friend's face...even across the miles!

Supplies:

Chick Brad

Pig Brad

Chicken Brad

Sequins

Washi tape (thin and regular)

Just "chicken"on ya, 

from Sunnyside Up

Two for Monday!

Here is a sweet spring card showing of Eyelet Outlet's new Chick Brad.

It's coupled with fan favorites: Rooster and Chicken Brads.

The enamel dots are a nice, flat, eye catching embellishment for your scrapping and stamping projects!

Here is another example using regular and thin washi tape.  

We have so many colors, styles and themes...

you are bound to find a dozen that you NEED for your personal card making/papercrafting/journal 

style!

Peeping for spring!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up

It's In My Jeans

I live in the midwest, where it's impossible to ignore farming. It's all around me. Cows. Corn fields. Barns. Grain elevators that reach to the sky. 

This year hasn't been good to the farmers here. The rains came and came and came when they needed to be planting. Then when they finally got the crops in the fields, drought. It's yet to be determined what harvest will be like.

Even with the adversity, they don't give up. After all, farming is in their jeans genes.

Eyelet Outlet Products Used:

Chicken Brad

Horse and Pony Brads

Jeans Brad

Pig Brad

Summer Tree Brad

Tractor Brads

Heart Enamel

Farm Animal Washi

Skinny Washi

and 3 other Washi Tapes

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!

Be sure to check the Tradeshow List 

to see when Eyelet Outlet will be close to you. 

And head over to the online store, too.

Jeanette

Mooing with delight!

Last year's release of the barn yard animal brads continues to be a big hit.

Now, we've paired it with some custom washi tape designed to match

the animals you may have already purchased!

This year's Sunflower Brads are a big hit with Eyelet Outlet Fans!!

Remember, we also have chickens and llamas to match our

Pig &  Sheep Brads

Cow & Goad Brads

Roosters Brads

Also used:

Sunflower Brads

Green Paper Flowers

Check out all our trade show dates and locations HERE.

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up

Farmyard Animals on a Sunny Day

My grandparents were farmers and I have many fond memories of spending time with them on the farm. They were a small operation that did not specialize in one thing. No, they had cows (milk cows and beef), hogs, chickens, and a even some cats and dogs. My sister's horse was kept at their farm, too. It was quite the menagerie and that's part of what made it so fun to spend time there.

I've tried to recapture those memories with the card I created for today's blog post.

Eyelet Outlet Brads:

Chicken

Duck

Pig & Sheep

Rooster

Sun/Cloud

I used Washi Tape from Eyelet Outlet to create the blue sky and green grass in the background of my card. Eyelet Outlet has an amazing variety of Washi Tape and its potential is only limited by our ability to think outside the box. I'd suggest you look at the Washi Tape in the Eyelet Outlet store with new eyes - thinking of ways you can use it creatively.


Thanks for stopping by the blog today.

Let me leave you with one word of Barnyard advice that my grandfather often told me - 

Watch where you step!

Jeanette

Dinner and Cocktails

It's Kim from Katydid Cards today!

It's been a while since I've worked with the Chicken Brads so I just had to make another card using them.  I call this card, "Dinner Invitation" and you can see why.  These two chickens have been invited to join their neighbor for dinner.  Here they are at the front door.

And here they are inside.  What's that on the menu??  Uh Oh!  I used the Cooking, Baking, and Mixer Brads as well as Brick, Color Wheel, and Flower Washi Tape. The door handles are Black Enamel Dots.

If you're interested in recreating this card you will find the card base, kitchen, and cleaver in the Silhouette store.    The chef is from My Favorite Thing's Recipe for Happiness.  The chalkboard is free clip art I imported into the Silhouette and typed what's on the menu...inspired by my DT Sister, Susan's, Wednesday meal postings.

Here's a closer look at the brads and washi.

Winner, winner chicken dinner!

No dinner would complete with cocktails, so I'm sharing another card adding the Rooster brad.  I showcased him in a shadowbox card.  Each layer uses a different digital paper from the Cocktail Party collection by JazzyPatterns.  I also used the Cocktail brads on either side of the greeting.

On the reverse of the card are my favorite chicken brads again!

I'll see you next week with another card...there's no shortage of ideas what with all the brads, bling and washi in the Eyelet Outlet store.

Kim from Katydid Cards

Who provided the inspiration for these cards?  Katy did!

A Penny For Your Thoughts

Or in this case, maybe better than a penny... Artist Trading Coins! I (Lauren) have been seeing these 2.5" circles of artsy fun all over social media, and I've been dying to try out the format. It turns out, they're VERY fun --and a bit addictive-- to make. Plus, Eyelet Outlet brads are absolutely the perfect sized embellishment. I made a set of six coins for my first time out, but I already know I'll be making more!

I've mentioned before that I come from a punny family, so I always have lots of random word play in my head. Since this is quite a small format (ATCoins are generally 2.5" circles) just a line or two of text is the perfect fit. I formatted my puns in a free font called "Tahoe" but set off a few key words in a chunky, funky script called "Cry Kitty". I generally print my text on clear inkjet labels, which I trim down and adhere to scraps of patterned paper for a little more emphasis. I made the backgrounds using scraps of more neutral papers, in torn layers, with an accent of Wide Flower Tape in an understated henna shade.

For "All's WOOL That Ends WOOL" I was able to employ both a sheep from the Pig and Sheep set, plus a ball of yarn and needles from our Knitting Brads, while a pair of lovely Chicken Brads illustrate "Just WING It".

This one's a bit of a liberty, because I've actually used a Llama Brad on my "ALPACA" card... so shhhhhhhhhh... don't tell, ok? I couldn't resist adding a couple of Mini Ant Brads because it's a picnic!

I couldn't decide which style of Fox Brad (the packets contain both) to use for "Crazy Like a FOX" so I didn't choose... I added one of each!

Another tiny cheat: technically, these are Duck Brads, but I just couldn't resist the phrase "I've Got GOOSE Bumps"!

My original idea for "Don't Worry, Be HOPPY" was to use one of our adorable Frog Brads (the set has lillies and cattails in it, too!) but as it turned out, all of the other coins were more or less neutral colors, and the bright green frogs realllllllly stood out. So I swapped them out for a pair of handsome Rabbit Brads, instead. I probably shouldn't leave them alone for long though...

I hope you'll be inspired to try your hand at a few Artist Trading Coins, starring some of *your* favorite Eyelet Outlet critters! ♥

Lauren Bergold

loves a pun...

the more diabolical, the better!

I Can Never Resist a Pun...

...and seemingly the more diabolically bad the pun is, the less I can resist it! Hi guys, I'm sure you're already guessed it's Lauren here. This week's card may set the record high (or low, depending on how you look at it?) for puns: "Just CHICKEN in", hahahaha! Ok, sorry, but it made me laugh and gave me an excuse to break out my adorable Eyelet Outlet Chicken Brads and Rooster Brads, so obviously it had to be a card.

As soon as there is any kind of farm theme, I want to break out the red gingham... so I did. I considered making an entire landscape for the Chicken and Rooster to inhabit, but I wanted the sentiment to stand out most, so I abbreviated down to just the diecut fence, grass and clouds, on a tag. I think you still get the feeling of a scene, but without too much detail.

I dotted the "i" with a Heart Pearl, and placed my chipboard letters pretty randomly, for a casual look. I attached the Chicken and Rooster directly to the fence panel, then raised it up on foam tape for a little extra dimension.

Don't like constructing your own sentiments? Check out our new line of EO Clear Stamps! They're full of fun (and punny!) greetings for all occasions, and designed especially to work with so many styles of our fun Brads!

Lauren Bergold

comes from a family who love 

puns as much as she does.

(sorry ...or... you're welcome, whichever seems most appropriate!)