A Love-ly Valentine Card

 Hello everyone! I hope you have had a great weekend so far. Today I wanted to make a romantic card for Valentine's Day. Eyelet Outlet had just what I needed to create this elegant beauty!

I started by applying a strip of some of the prettiest washi tape I've ever seen on a white mat sized at 4" x 5 1/4". It's called Rose Washi Tape and it's very wide at just short of 1 1/4". It creates a beautiful  border at the top and bottom. Centered between the washi tape, I glued in a strip of 4" x 1 1/4" pink cardstock. Then I placed a strip of Love Washi Tape so that it slightly overlapped both the rose washi tape and the pink cardstock. To add additional glam, I used gold spray on the panel. The washi tape tends to repel the spray so I dabbed the excess and let it dry. Then I got to work on the gold wax seal. After melting the seal, I sprinkled Pink Heart Sequins on the center and pressed it with a flat circle stamp head. It isn't the neatest circle but I think the unusual shape actually looks great inside the White Paper Flower.

To finish the card, I wrapped gold thread across the center of the pink panel and glued the Flower in the center. Last, I added White Pearl Bling around the flower. The finished panel was then adhered to a gold A2 card base. 

Shopping List
Rose Washi Tape

Love Washi Tape

Heart Sequins

Paper Flowers

Pearl Bling - Multi Size

I hope you agree that this created a pretty card for someone special on Valentine's Day. It's very soft and sweet.

I'll see you next week but until then please visit the EO store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!

Happy Creating!

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Shy Valentine Girl

 

Time for a lovely Valentine's Day with a perfect card.
The embellishments from Eyelet Outlet are perfect
for Valentine creations! 

The image is from Mo Manning and is so sweet.
I loved working with the love washi tape -
so great on this card.

There are also pink gems coming down her dress and 
pearl hearts on the side.

Your Eyelet Outlet Shopping List:
Love Washi Tape
Jewel Bling 100 count in Pink
Pearl Hearts with Sticky Backs

See you next week and keep creating!

Elizabeth - Blog

Happy Day

 

Love this cute Valentine Scene. Lawn Fawn has
an entire set that is so adorable with these little beavers.
I was hoping they would fit in my scalloped paper punch 
and that worked out so well

It was really fun to embellish this card with Valentine related
 embellishments from Eyelet Outlet. I used some of the "Love"
washi tape to begin. I started adding four different types of hearts
including the white pearl which is a fabulous sticker to use.
Check out below the other hearts I used in the
shopping list below.

Eyelet Outlet Shopping List
Love Washi Tape
Enamel Heart
Heart Pearl Brads (gold and white)
Large Heart Pearl Bling
Heart Pearls (sticky back)

Elizabeth - Blog

Mice in Love

 

Time is approaching for Valentine's Day. I have made sure to 
be ready with some sweet cards adorned with Eyelet Outlet
embellishments. 

This card features an image of cute mice by Hetty Claire.
I colored the image with Copic Markers then came the 
fun part of adding the embellishments. The first was the
love washi tape from Eyelet Outlet which is so cute and can be
used for other cards like Mother's Day.

I added the pearl hearts at the bottom and small enamel
dots at the top of the card and around the ring box. 
Now it is ready to send out to that special someone.

Shopping List for Eyelet Outlet
Love Washi Tape
Heart Pearls (sticky back) 
Enamel Dots (light pink)

Elizabeth - Blog

Honey, Bee Mine

Puns and brads make for the BEST Valentines, and if there are a few styles of Eyelet Outlet Washi Tape in there too, so much the better. This card features Bumble Bee Brads, Heart Brads, vertical Heart Tape and Love Washi, all of which adds up to a HONEY of a Valentine a cardmaker can BEE proud of!*

The Eyelet Outlet Store has lots more brads, tapes, sequins, bling and other embellishments to give your Valentines ...and ALL your papercrafting projects... your own unique style!

Lauren Bergold

*apologizes, but she can NEVER resist a diabolical pun!!!

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Jar of Hearts

 

Valentine's Day is approaching soon. Everyone always loves to
receive a valentine be it from a family member, friend or neighbor.
I loaded this one up with lots of great embellishments
from Eyelet Outlet.

I stamped the jar and lightly shaded the inside. I then stamped some
hearts and added the Eyelet Outlet enamel stick-on hearts (pink). The package
comes with multi-colored hearts which is perfect

Next I added the Love washi tape to the card. Bling clear gems adorned the 
top of the card and I used the white flowers that come in packages
of multipe sizes that can be layerd. I added a brad to the center
of the flower and now my card is ready to send off.

Shopping List From Eyelet Outlet
Enamel Stick on Hearts (pink)
Love Washi Tape
Jewel Bling (clear)
White Paper Flowers
Pearl Brads with Silver Edge (hot pink)

Elizabeth - Blog

Whole Lotta Love

Something I (Lauren) didn't realize until I was loading up my photos, is that I have not used any Eyelet Outlet Brads this week. *HOW* did that happen?! I have, however, used plenty of bling, tape, and enamels along with a super-useful mason jar stamp and die set, to make two fun Valentines.

I don't make nearly enough shaker cards. Which is weird because any time I do make them, I really love the results. In this case, I used the mason jar die to cut the shape from my top layer of paper and backed it with clear plastic that I saved from some packaging. I used several layers of foam tape to make an extra deep pocket, so that I could use Heart Jewel Bling as my shaker contents. To do so, I had to carefully peel the adhesive off each heart, so they'd be able to move around without getting stuck. An alternative is just to cover the adhesive backing liberally with powder or cornstarch, thus neutralizing it. (FYI: This works on stickers, too!) I "labeled" the jar with clear Heart Bling, made a mat with my favorite henna-inspired Wide Flower Washi Tape and called it good to go!

For my second card, I used Staz-On ink to stamp the mason jar onto a piece of plain cardstock which I'd made into a fun patterned paper by neatly lining up strips of Love Tape. I filled the jar with yellow and red Heart Enamels and mounted it on another tape-centric "paper" which is composed of Heart Washi and Skinny Red Dots Tape, placed at regular intervals on a piece of graph paper. 

I hope you'll be inspired to find fun new ways to combine your favorite stamp and die sets with beautiful Eyelet Outlet embellishments!

Lauren Bergold

thinks she might be the first designer 

to use a Led Zeppelin song 

as an EO Blog post title...

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.

Maybe I'm a-MAZE-d

Happy New Year, Eyelet Outlet fans! It's Lauren here again, with some fun and a-MAZE-ing ideas for Valentine cards!

But first, a shocking true confession: somewhere in my home there is a small book of maze puzzles that I got at a garage sale last summer for making exactly this sort of awesomely punny card. Alas, I could not find it anywhere. So I did the next best thing, I googled "copyright free clipart maze" and was spoilt for choice. I sized my favorite maze to fit an A2 card and printed out several copies on plain white cardstock, along with a few different sentiments, so I could experiment with multiple ideas. In the end, my two finished cards use one of my all-time most loved free fonts ("Mom's Typewriter") with the "MAZE" in the first card highlighted in good old "Arial". Once the nuts and bolts were taken care of, it was time for The Fun Part: playing with my Eyelet Outlet goodies.

I decided to make my own patterned paper background using this beautifully bold and graphic Love Tape. I cut a panel of plain white cardstock to 4 x 5.25" and set about covering it with neat strips of tape, staggering the words a bit to make an attractive pattern, and folding the ends of the tape around to the back of the panel to make a nice neat edge.

When my background was completed, I used a template to trim my maze into a heart shape, backing it (and my sentiment strip) with a skinny mat of glossy black cardstock. Then I outlined a white Heart Brad with thick black permanent marker to make it stand out more, and affixed it to the center of the maze, with some Car Brads driving along towards it, and a few bright Heart Enamels scattered throughout the design.

My second card also started out as an A2 but eventually I decided I wanted this one to be more symmetrical, so the finished card is actually a 4.75" square. (I'll either mail it in a slightly oversized A7 envelope, or tuck it into a package or gift bag.) I used the same technique as above to cover a panel in Red Dot Tape, then combined my printed sentiment with just one word from the Love Tape, which I adhered to white cardstock, trimmed neatly and affixed with foam tape for a bit of dimension. I added the gorgeous red Heart Jewel Bling, added a couple of mats, et voila!

Be sure to check back here on the Eyelet Outlet Blog each day, for more brand new, freshly made inspiration from my awesome fellow EO designers!!! ♥

Lauren Bergold

hopes that your 2018 

is off to a great start!