Sew Each Day

 I've been trying to improve my sewing skills lately.  I'm not sewing every day, but I'm definitely sewing more often!  So here's a little card for other sewing enthusiasts.  

You name it and Eyelet Outlet has a brad for that!  Our little dress form brad, thread and scissors brads bring this one all together.

Thanks for stopping in today and if you'll be near the Pleasanton, California area this weekend, stop by the Scrapbook Expo Vendor area and see us and our products in person!

You Are SEW Amazing

What's cuter than mice who can sew? Mice who can sew and are surrounded by Eyelet Outlet Thread Brads, Dressform and Dress Brads... with accents of Bright Stitched Flower Brads, of course! 

Check out ALL of the amazing Brads, Washi Tape, Flowers, Bling and more in the Eyelet Outlet Online Store; then check out our Tradeshow Schedule to see when the Eyelet Outlet Booth will be visiting a town near you!

Lauren Bergold

hopes your day is SEW amazing!

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Words of WisdomAnd

This retro woman on an old time telephone I discovered in the Cricut image library was a perfect opportunity to use one of my Eyelet Outlet telephone brads.  

And she is offering some excellent words of wisdom!  Be careful what you use your fabric scissors for!  I added a little Heat & Bond to the back of this scrap of fabric and used my iron to attach it to my card.  Positioning it partly under the scissor brad really made it look like those scissors were cutting the fabric!

Eyelet Outlet will be at the Scrapbook Expo March 1-2 in Pleasanton, California, so if you're in the area, stop by the vendor fair!  See the rest of our tradeshow schedule here.  

 

Miss You SEW Much!

If social distancing has kept you away from someone you love, here's a sweet way to let them know how much you miss them.  

I created this shaker card using images from the Cricut image library along with the slicing and hide contour tools in Cricut Design Space.  

I filled my jar with random buttons from my stash as well as colorful Eyelet Outlet sequins.  I love the way the content of the jar is spilling and bouncing out!  I added a couple of spools of Eyelet Outlet thread brads and the popular scissors brad.  The space beneath the sentiment was calling out for a heart, don't you think?  I love the Eyelet Outlet enamel hearts available in all kinds of wonderful colors and sizes!

I hope you're inspired to make a card for someone you're missing SEW much, too!  Have a wonderful day!

It's Been a Long, Long Time...

...since I (Lauren) have made a scrapbook layout! But my niece Maddie turned sixteen last week, and since a party (or any other social activity) was obviously out of the question, my sister came up with the idea of compiling a surprise scrapbook. She sent blank pages, a few supplies and postage-paid return envelopes to family and friends, and got back unbelievably beautiful and touching results. I was surprised, not only how many ideas I had... but how many of my ideas involved Eyelet Outlet Brads! Here's maybe my favorite of the pages I made:

I love using brads as a frame on cards, but it turns out they're even cooler around a photo! I took this picture of Maddie and her Nana (who also happens to be my mom!) in 2004, when Maddie was one day old, and it is still a favorite. To surround it, I chose brads and bling that either had a baby theme, or were pink, or both. I've got Heart Brads, Teddy Bears, Safety Pins, Ducks, a Colorful Lady Bug, a Butterfly, Flower Jewels, Heart Pearls, and tiny Pearl Bling.

One of the great things about making a scrapbook for an older kid in the year 2020 is that they (and their parents) have their own social media feeds, full of pictures you know they like. So it's possible to do a bit of lurking and photo-stealing, to get shots you might not have thought to take! This beautiful selfie records the day that Madeline got her braces off. As soon as I saw that smile --and the white space above her head-- I started thinking "thought bubble". I used a combination of stickers and brads to make a little collage of a few happy things I thought she might be thinking about, like school, treats, the beach, etc. I scattered a Computer Brad, Spring Bubble, Selfie Brad, Light Bulb, Scissors, Sun and some Mini Emotion Brads around my sticker sentiment, #Sixteen.

Whether you make layouts or cards, Eyelet Outlet has the perfect embellishments for all of your projects. Check out the huge selection of Brads, Bling, Sequins, Washi Tape and more!

Helping Others Through Crafting

These crazy times require us to think outside the box for ways to help others who are struggling.  I hope you'll consider reaching out to your hairstylist about paying in advance for services.  I decided to create a card to hold my advance cash for my stylist. 

This pop-up card is designed to hold a check or cash. The patterned paper and salon chair is a digital set from ScrapbookGems Etsy shop and the awesome scissor brads and swirl bling is, of course, from Eyelet Outlet.  The blow dryer is a Cricut image and I gave it a little extra texture with some enamel dots.  

I hope all of our followers are staying safe and well and finding ways to stay busy with crafting while you're social distancing.

Take What You Need

It's Kim from Katydid Cards with you today.

I love being able to combine various Eyelet Outlet brads to tell a story.  That's what I tried to do with here:

I think this is a great idea for a card.  When I'm having a bad day, I would like nothing more than to come across a bulletin board offering up all sorts of emotional support along with the ads and notices.  I've made several versions of this card, but I really like the dimension created by adding the Car, Binder Clip, Eye Glasses, Thread and Scissor Brads with a Silver Glitter Enamel Dot and a Winter Mix Brad.  Here's a closer look:

Take a look at your collection to see what other brads you could incorporate into a card like this.


Inside, a simple but sincere sentiment.

If you like this idea, there's a template on the Freebies page.  There are many goodies there if you haven't checked recently.

Kim from Katydid Cards

Who provided the inspiration for these cards?  Katy did!

SEW Thankful!

A couple of years ago my old sewing machine stitched it's last stitch.  When I say, "old," I DO mean old!  It had been passed down to my mom from my her mom, then to me and I estimate that it was at least 80 years old.  I didn't sew a lot, but I knew that machine and could thread it with my eyes closed.  My husband bought me a new machine for Christmas a few years ago and I have been so intimidated by it! Recently I decided I was going to conquer this by getting it out and practicing!  So far, so good! I even used it to add some dimension to the card I'm bringing you today!

I just loved this sewing machine image from Cricut's Makers Gonna Make image set!  It's so fun and cheerful with the flowers on it and when I added Eyelet Outlet Enamel Dots in shades of pink and purple to it, it really made me smile!  I decided to snip off the spool of thread that is on the image and replace it with an Eyelet Outlet thread brad and added a black spool to the card as well.  The thread brads package comes with black, white, pink, blue and yellow spools.  

The cute little scissor brads are a perfect compliment to the thread brads and so I attached a small piece of loose thread under the scissors.  I've really been reaching for this checked skinny washi tape lately and thought a strip of it looked great next to my stitching.  Eyelet Outlet has lots of brand new washi tapes in the store, so I hope you'll follow this link and go have a look!

A couple of enamel hearts added the perfect touch next to my groovy sewing machine!  Check out all the great enamel shapes at Eyelet Outlet!

Thanks for stopping by today and keep on crafting!

When Life Gives You Scrap...

I really love Eyelet Outlet sewing themed brads and when I saw this sentiment recently, I knew I had to create a card with it using Eyelet Outlet products and the quilt image from the Cricut "Country Life" cartridge.

The little pair of scissors and spool of thread were the perfect addition to my sentiment!  The thread has 12 spools in a mix of rose, black, white turquoise, and yellow thread in each package.  The strip of Eyelet Outlet Pearl Bling was the perfect compliment to my colorful quilt-look card stock.

Carrying on with my sewing theme today, I have a second card for you.  Even in the best of relationships, it's sometimes necessary to apologize and here's a sweet way to do with this little card.  

This cross stitch heart comes from the Cricut "Valentine's Day" cartridge.  I added some white thread to it that appears to have come from my Eyelet Outlet Thread Brad and my little Scissor Brad has snipped it off.  

I'm glad you came by today!  Be sure and follow us on Facebook and Pinterest, too!

Sew Far, Sew Good

I (Lauren) come from a family of quilters. And I think, secretly, my mother was a tiny bit disappointed when I grew up and showed no interest at all in sewing. Until, that is, I discovered papercrafting; because whereas I still have no interest in sewing fabric, I love to sew on paper... especially cards! And what could possibly enhance a sewn card more than Eyelet Outlet Thread Brads, Scissor Brads, and Tape Measure Washi?

I started by formatting a sentiment (using free fonts called Vogue and Mom's Typewriter) in just the right size to fit within my favorite heart punch. I traced around the heart shape very lightly in pencil to give myself a guide, then machine-stitched around it using the highest number of stitches per inch possible on my machine. I used white, pink and blue thread because they were the closest color matches to the spools in the Thread Brad set, which also contains a pretty bright green and black, as well. When my stitching was complete, I set my thread spools at one end, and a Scissor Brad at the other, then added my heart shaped sentiment inside the stitched frame.

I was happy with how my first card came out, but the other sewing themed item I wanted to use was our Tape Measure Washi, which just didn't work for that design. So for my second card, I traced the heart again, but simplified my swirly thread line a bit, and stuck with just one black Thread Brad. This time I punched a heart from plain white cardstock, then covered it with strips of tape, without bothering to line them up at all... I wanted it to look like a measuring tape that's just been thrown, mid-use, into the bottom of one's sewing basket. I added a Scissor Brad next to the spool of thread, and finished off with a cute sewing machine sticker from my stash.

There are lots of other puns that would work well with these brads, such as, "Miss You SEW Much", "Hope Your Birthday is SEW Happy" or "You Are SEW Awesome" so I'm pretty sure you'll see me revisiting this idea again in future!

Hope you've enjoyed this SEW much that you'll stop back again tomorrow to see what new ideas my design team sisters have to inspire you! ♥

Lauren Bergold 

can be found here each Wednesday, 

and on her own blog the rest of the week!

Sew Happy!

Hello crafty friends!  Ready for the weekend?  I am tremendously looking forward to it!  

Most of the crafters I know have their go-to craft but are enthusiastic about other crafts too. I love card-making but lately my heart has been drawn to the first craft I really remember learning...sewing. I am so grateful that my mom and my home-ec teacher, Mrs. Farley, taught me to sew!   It's a very useful skill set to have in the tool box!  Since I have been spending time lately planning some garments for historical reenacting, these sewing stamp sets and the Eyelet Outlet embellishments that coordinate with them were calling out to me.  ;)  I even used a set of paper pinking shears that I haven't used in aeons!  

I love that so many of our EO products come in multiple colors so you can perfectly coordinate with your designer paper and other project elements.  These spools and paper flowers were an exact match for the spools and flowers in this busy, fun sewing print.  

Here are the EO products used for today's project:

• paper flowers in several colors
• Tape Measure Washi Tape
• Thread Brads
• Scissor Brads

I'll be at my sewing machine this weekend sewing up some garments for the Victorian era! I hope to squeeze in some stamping time, too, especially since here in the U. S. we have a long weekend in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

Enjoy!

In Stitches!

Hello friends!  TGIF!  I am SO ready for the weekend!  I am here today with a super simple card that was inspired by a scrap of white "dotted Swiss" paper.  It brought back lots of warm memories and gave me the idea to reach for the tape measure washi tape, scissors brads, and a sewing machine stamp for this quick design.

I love kraft and black and decided to try out a relatively monochromatic scheme with just a couple of pops of color, repeating the color in a couple of places to tie things together.  There's the yellow tape measure and the yellow enamel dot flower center, the black spool brad and the shimmery (glitter pen) black spool atop the sewing machine, the Copic warm grey sewing machine and the metallic scissors, and finally the green leaves and green ribbon.  The colors cause your eye to travel around the visual triangle of the various elements, the neutral background colors make the yellow and green really pop, and the black grounds everything so that it all works together.  

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Fashionista!

Hello again and happy Friday!  I hope you're gearing up for an exceptional weekend, and for my American friends, a nice long Memorial Day holiday as we pay tribute to those who gave their lives for our freedom. 

I'm back with another card-upon-request, this one for a fashion school graduate.  I think this vintage kraft, red, black and ivory is one of my favorite color schemes!  My friend asked for a dress form image and some toile paper or fabric, and with that as a starting point, this is what I came up with.  

In addition to fabric, fitting a pattern requires a measuring tape, some straight pins and scissors, a spool of thread and some machine stitching.  Once the garment is completed, it is tagged and hung on a rack...you can see the thought process behind the choices for this particular design and these embellishments.  :)

Since I used to make most of my own clothes, I really LOVED making this project!  It was a lot of fun!  I was pleased with the way it turned out, and I hope you like it, too!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Sew in Love with Eyelet Outlet!

 This weekend, we are in Novi, MI

for the Great Lakes Mega Meet.

Three days of shopping and cropping with your favorite pals!

Be sure to stop by our booth!!

Here's a card for someone who sews!

Supplies:

Thread brads

Scissor brads

Pearl bling

washi tape

We also carry Dress Form brads...

which you might be interested in as well!

or...if you need an idea for Father's Day, this measuring tape washi does double duty!

Pair it with our construction brads;

Saw brads

Tool Chest & Nail brads

Tool brads

Screw brads

Thanks for visiting today!

Dawn Mercedes, of  Sunnyside Up blog

Hello!

My daughter will graduate from the Paul Mitchell School this August, and I made this card in honor of all the cosmetology students and barber students that will graduate too!

I started with the Barber/Beauty Shop Washi Tape and built my colors and card around that. I added two silver Scissor Brads in the top corner and a gold sticker sentiment in the bottom corner.

I added both silver and gold in the middle of the card to balance out the metallics. I love the look of the vintage washi tape!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Judy

Joy in a JAR