Con-GRAD-ulations!

This month, in my (Lauren's) family, we have two nieces graduating from college, and a nephew graduating from high school. Which called for a single flexible design that could be customized for three different personalities. As it turns out, I have *NO* graduation stamps or dies. (HOW is that possible?!) But... large numeral dies and colorful alphabet stickers on notebook paper make an excellent base, and I personalized each version with lots of Eyelet Outlet Brads. Since there are 42 brads from 18 different sets across the three designs, I'm going to just mention them below in the Shopping List section!

Big Bad Grad Brad Shopping List:

Graduation Hat Brads

Sunglass Brads

School Bus Brads

Computer and Headphone Brads

Heart Brads

Book Brads

Unicorn and Rainbow Brads

Ice Cream Brads

Tall Palm Tree Brads

Dinosaur Brads

Flamingo Brads

Beach Umbrella Brads

Compass Brads

Reptile Brads

Popcorn and Ticket Brads

Mini Bee Brads

Fairy Brads

Cactus Brads

All the embellishments you need to customize YOUR next card are available at Eyelet Outlet!

Lauren Bergold

cannot believe how QUICKLY her nieces and nephews have grown up!

Blog * Instagram * Facebook

Con-BRAD-ulations!

It's that time of year when kids (and adults!) are graduating, and luckily Eyelet Outlet has the perfect brads to make easy, adorable cards! Print a sentiment in a fun typewriter font, affix a Graduation Hat and a colorful Sunglass Brad to a stamped sun, attach it to a background of Cloud Tape, add a cloud from the Sun and Cloud set, a Heart Brad and the rainbow from our Unicorn and Rainbow set et voila... the future's so bright, you gotta wear shades!

BRAD-uation Shopping List:

Graduation Hat

Sunglass Brad

Sun and Cloud Brads

Heart Brad

Unicorn and Rainbow Brads 

Cloud Washi Tape

Eyelet Outlet has the brads and tapes you need for any of your cardmaking occasions, all year long! ♥

Lauren Bergold

congratulates all the grads... of any age!

Blog * Instagram * Facebook

"The Future's So Bright...

...You Gotta Wear Shades"! If there's a better sentiment to put on a graduation card I (Lauren) do not know it, especially when the "shades" in question are Eyelet Outlet Sunglass Brads!

I used a free font called Mom's Typewriter to make my sentiment strips and Lawn Fawn's Stitched Rainbow Dies with LOTS of colorful cardstock scraps to create a background of rainbows and clouds. I adorned one of the clouds with a Graduation Hat and the aforesaid Sunglass Brads, and couldn't resist adding Sun and Cloud Brads, as well as a few Heart Brads. Since I have not one but two beautiful nieces graduating from high school this month, I made two versions of this card, then kitted out a pair of envelopes with their names, as well as more Graduation Hats and Sunglass Brads; all on a background of Rainbow Washi.

Whether your family are celebrating graduations this June, weddings or anniversaries, Father's Day, birthdays or any other milestone, I'm pretty sure the Eyelet Outlet Store has brads and tape that will make your beautiful handmade cards even more fabulous!

Lauren Bergold

especially loves making cards

for nieces and nephews!

To a Special Teacher

Hello EO Fans! Today I'm celebrating a special teacher for these challenging times. Most of our kids across the country are in virtual school but as with all adversity, there are some teachers who continue to amaze for their flexibility, dedication and love for their students. This one is for them!

The new Mask, Soap and Hand Sanizer brad set was perfect for this one. I also used a Graduation Hat brad and two apples from the Apple brad set. The stamp set used was Peek A Boo Pals from Avery Elle, So Owlsome from Lawn Fawn and the polaroid frame is a die from Jillian Vance Design.

EYELET OUTLET SUPPLIES:

Mask, Soap & Hand Sanitizer Brad Set
Graduation Hat Brad Set
Apple Brad Set

Have a great day!

  Janet - SugarShine Designs

YouTube Too!

A Graduation Toast

Not enough graduation toasts include ACTUAL toast, imo; a fact I (Lauren) have set out to correct, in card form.

I saw a cartoon somewhere with kawaii toast wearing a graduation cap and of course being a good Eyelet Outlet gal, I realized it would be even better with our Graduation Hat Brads and the Toast from the Bacon, Egg and Toast set. 

If you prefer your toasts a little less punny, the champagne glasses in the Eyelet Outlet Wedding Brad set might be more to your liking. Because YES, we do literally have a brad for EVERYTHING!!! :) 

Lauren Bergold

prefers bagels to toast IRL,

but agrees that toast is better 

as a brad and as a pun.

Hat's Off to the Graduate!

Today I have a really fun graduation card to show you.  This fold is called a wiper card, because as the card is opened, an interactive mechanism swipes up like a windshield wiper.  I learned this fold from my fellow Eyelet Outlet design team member, Janet.  She demonstrates the technique on here on her YouTube channel, SugarShine Designs.

The sentiments and graduate images I used for this card are all from the Cricut image library. 

What really adds to the fun and dimension of this card are the awesome Eyelet Outlet brads!  I used the graduation cap brads both on the outside sentiment as well as the pop up wiper.  By accentuating the sky patterned paper with Eyelet Outlet cloud and sun brads, it really gave the illusion that the graduate was tossing his graduation cap into the air! I also added some of Eyelet Outlet's new sequins for some more sparkle.  

Thanks for stopping in today!