Good Friends Pass the Popcorn

Going to the movies requires popcorn, right? After all, movie theatre popcorn is AWESOME! But it's also pricey... so GOOD FRIENDS Pass the Popcorn!

This card was so fun - and easy - to make THANKS to Eyelet Outlet Brads and Bling!

Black Pearl Bling Strip

Movie Brads

Popcorn Ticket Brads

Thanks for stopping by today!

And remember to Pass the Popcorn!

Jeanette

Love and Butterflies

I (Lauren) had the very great pleasure of meeting Suzanne Marchesano, the owner of Eyelet Outlet, and my design team sister Kim Venezia at the Stamp and Scrapbook Expo in Edison, NJ last week! Let me just say this: if you ever get the chance to visit the EO booth in person, TAKE IT, because seeing that many cool brads, washi tape varieties and types of bling all together in one place... not to mention ALL of the amazing samples made by the EO designers... is just sooooooooooo very cool! I guarantee you'll come away with loads of inspiration as well as fantastic products; though I confess I did get some really cool goodies, too! This week I'm all about butterflies!

 
I was inspired by the gorgeous Butterfly Music Wide Washi Tape, which I've paired with Butterfly Brads, Butterfly Profile Brads, and Mini Butterfly Brads, to make a card and a tag in two different colorways. I should mention that all of the butterfly varieties come with an assortment of colors in the same packet, so you don't have to choose just pink or just yellow... you can have the whole rainbow on one card if you like!

At the show on Saturday, Suzanne told me a really cool idea she had for using our Long Bling Strips to frame silhouetted shapes, so I definitely wanted to give that a try. I've used them on straight outlines before, but it didn't occur to me that I could bend them into softer lines, around curves?

It worked really well, though. I took a Pearl Black Bling Strip, started at one end of a butterfly diecut I'd fashioned from cardstock covered with Music Note Tape, and kept following the contour all the way around. I *LOVE* how this came out, so you'll definitely be seeing the technique again!

To finish up the card I framed the Butterfly Music Tape with some Pink Argyle Tape and loads of machine stitching.

For the tag, I used most of the same ingredients, but in a scaled down version, and with yellow butterflies instead of pink. This time I used the leftover Pearl Black Bling Strips as a border to the Butterfly Music Tape, which is one of the fastest ways to get totally elegant dimension and texture on any project.

Of course, since the Bling Strips are 12 inches long, come four to a packet, are available in both gem and pearl versions, and sport LOTS of colors...there's sure to be a variety that's perfect for whatever you'd like to make today! ♥

Lauren Bergold

will never, ever, turn down the opportunity to 

learn something new to do with *BLING*!

Graduation Day!!!

Hello there, it's Tuesday and my day to post on the Eyelet Outlet blog. Along with Weddings in June there are also graduations so since I had some graduation caps from Eyelet Outlet Store in my stash and I designed  a card around them.

I used a couple designs of washi tape, the black with gold stars and the narrow arrow along the bottom, Of course I used the graduation hats and black bead strips, they come in all colours and there are 500 in a package.

Close up of the beads and hats.

Eyelet Outlet products I used

Graduation Hats

Black & Gold star washi tape

Skinny arrow washi tape

Black pearl beads.

Thanks for visiting today 

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You Rock!

I think it's likely the former band & choir geek in me that makes me love all musical-themed craft supplies ... so when I saw the cool new Headphone Washi Tape it went immediately into my cart.

And as I was rummaging through my Eyelet Outlet Stash, I noticed how well the rainbow of headphones coordinated with the Rainbow Striped Washi Tape to create a fun background.  The background cardstock is Candy Corn from Taylored Expressions.

I used black accents to go with all of those bright colors ... Music Note Brads, Dark Sunglass Brads (ala Risky Business) and a row of Adhesive Black Pearls.

The fun sentiment is from Reverse Confetti Inner Rock Star.

Products used:

• Headphone Washi Tape
• Striped Washi Tape
• Sunglass Brads - Dark
• Music Note Brads
• Pearl Bling Strips / 500 / Black

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Floral Sympathy

I love this new wide Washi Floral Washi Tape ... the wider tape makes it much easier to cover the front of a card ... and the transparency of this tape allows it to have lots of different looks depending on your background paper.

This is how it looks on a darker blue cardstock.  I added a lovely row of black pearls to accent my sentiment.

This is the same tape on light blue cardstock.  One trick when you cover cards with washi tape is to burnish it with a bone folder to allow the background color to show through as much as possible.

So many possibilities for creating with this gorgeous tape.

Products used:

• Wide Floral Washi Tape (soon to be released)
• Black Pearl Bling Strips

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Steampunk Hearts w/Video

Fun little steampunk hearts for Valentines day, an easy little embellishments made with Eyelet Outlet black stickyback pearls.

Here is a video tutorial on how I made these fun embellishments.

Here is the full set of embellishments, I made 12 total.

These fun little hearts can now be used as embellishments for cards, scrapbook pages, mini books, on planner clips, and so much more!!!

Supplies Used
Clay - Makin's Clay
Texture Sheet - Makin's Clay
Clay Tools - Makin's Clay
Paint - Tattered Angels
Pearls - Eyelet Outlet
Cutter
Adhesive - Beacon Adhesives

 

Erin Reed - Designer & Artist

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