Wishing everyone who is celebrating a calm and peaceful Christmas Eve, followed by the happiest of holidays! This card features a wreath sporting Eyelet Outlet Poinsettia and Holly Brads, and is set on a background of beautiful Holiday Garland Washi Tape.
Poinsettias are one of my favorite flowers. They take me back to when I was a little girl and I'd get the occasional opportunity to visit my aunt at work at the local greenhouse. At Christmas time there were hundreds of potted poinsettias waiting to be delivered to churches and homes all around the area.
In the middle of creating fall themed cards, I decided take a quick detour to make my first Christmas card of the season. Eyelet Outlet has so many holiday themed brads to choose from. Today I used some of my favorites!
This card was created with a card kit. I put it together and then added lots of brads and bling to make it pop. First, I used 8 mm Cut Bling in Red. I also added red Jewel Bling in a two sizes. But the stars of the card are the female and male cardinals sitting atop of an ornament. I also added a Red Cut Bling on the jute bow, two Holly Brads, and a Poinsettia Brad.
You can create a similar look with these EO products:
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!
One of my favorite things about card making is making scenes. EO's washi tapes, brads, bling and other accessories really give us a lot to work with for making scenes. I created this one located at Santa's workshop in the North Pole. It looks chilly but warms my heart!
I used Glitter Winter Washi Tape, one of my favorites, to create the winter tree scene in the background. I used Aleene's True Snow with glitter sprinkled on the top for the snow part of the scene. While it dried, I stamped, colored and cut out Santa's Workshop and the light pole.
I added the stamped images to the card front and then all the brads. The true charm of this scene comes from Santa, his sleigh, a deer, a poinsettia on the light pole and snowy trees, and a Merry Christmas saying. It looks like Santa is ready to leave for his big night!
Today I’m sharing two pop-up cards with a Christmas theme. The stamp and die sets I used are from Diamond Press. In the first, Santa is peaking out of the chimney on a house roof. When the tab is pulled, he pops out.
Who doesn't love a decorated gingerbread fresh from the oven.
This card represents the sweet side of the holidays with these
cute gingerbread brads from the Eyelet Outlet. The
packet comes with both girl and boy gingerbreads.
The scene was framed in silver glitter washi tape.
Also included were clear gems and a poinsettia brad
on the cook's apron.
Your Eyelet Outlet Shopping List
Gingerbread Brads
Poinsettia Brads
Skinny Glitter Washi Tape
Jewel Bling Clear
I will see you next Monday and keep Creating.
Elizabeth - Blog
When you love Eyelet Outlet products like I do, you are always thinking about how they can be used to upscale stamps and dies. Here I used a set I recently got from Spellbinders to create a pretty wreath. It makes a great wreath but I think you'll agree that it so much better with the brads and bling I added to it!
I used two circle dies to cut a donut shape out of white glitter cardstock and then I cut and arranged all the basic wreath pieces using brown and three shades of green. I also cut and put together the bow. Then I added Bell Brads, Poinsettia Brads, Candy Cane Brads and Holly Brads to the wreath. I perched a female and male cardinal on the bow and added red Jewel Bling from the multi-pack. To create a stopper for my easel card, I added Green Cut Jewels to a red glitter border. I adhered a pre-printed foiled sentiment, "Tis The Season," which spreads across the wreath. All in all, this turned out even better than I expected!
Today, as we close out 2022, I am sharing my top three favorite
projects that I made with Eyelet Outlet products.
The actual Eyelet Outlet materials used are listed at the end.
Santa Down the Chimney
I selected this card (which I adore) because of the cute pilgrim hats.
On my blog I received many comments especially about the
pilgrim hat brads.
Your Shopping List of Eyelet Outlet Products
Card #1 - Santa Down the Chimney
Santa Suit Brads
Poinsettia Brads
Enamel Dots (black)
Card #2 - Holiday Tags
Caroler Brads
Poinsettia Brads
Santa and Deer Brads
Silver Glitter Washi Tape
Glitter Winter Washi Tape
Fancy Long Zig Zag Bling (blue)
Fancy Long Bling (red)
Card #3 - Thanksgiving Pilgrim Mouse
Pilgrim Hat Brads
Glitter Enamel Dots (gold)
Enamel dots (black)
Happy Holidays and I will see you next year.
Elizabeth - Blog
...with a fun ornament card! Ornament shapes make a wonderful home for pretty much ANY style of Eyelet Outlet Brad you love, but our Poinsettia Brads look especially pretty on a background of tiny flowers (some diecut from our Sparkle Red Glitter Tape!) and foliage. Music Note Washi instantly puts a holiday tune into our head, and a stamped plaid background set off by mats of more Sparkle Red Glitter Tape really shines!
Or rather, it's ON the bag! And, for that matter, other surface you'd like to decorate; because Eyelet Outlet brads and washi tape are wonderful for adding a festive holiday vibe to so much more than just cards! Like, for example, this plain white bag from the big box store:
The Eyelet Outlet Store has brads, tapes, bling, enamels and sequins for literally ANY occasion you'd care to celebrate!
Do you feel the spirit yet? Nothing says Christmas more than a decorated Christmas tree! In this 5 x 7 card, I began by die cutting the word tree die cut out of green cardstock. I layered a rectangle of white cardstock with the Ho Ho Let It Snow Washi Tape and cut it with a die. Then I layered Sparkle White Glitter Washi Tape on another rectangle and glued the green tree to it. I fussy cut around the tree shape and attached it to the red washi tape background. This allows the die cut to stand out on the red background.
Next I cut the larger background shape in white cardstock and adhered the main images together. I chose to use a dark red premade 5 x 7 card base from Michaels. I thought it needed more to fill in some of the blank spots so I added a strip of Tree Washi Tape and a strip of gold metallic washi tape. That is one of the rolls in a set of Skinny Holiday Washi Tapes.
It was time to decorate the tree so I added all the various brads and bling shown in the Shopping List below. I love how this turned out. The brads enhance the tree die cut but don't overwhelm it.
Thanks for stopping by today. Please visit the store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!
Thanks for stopping by today. Please visit the store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!
