You Can't Have a Party Without Cake!

 Get your cupcakes while they last at the Eyelet Outlet liquidation sale! Even one cupcake brad adds interest to your birthday projects, but when you add most of the whole package, you've got a party!

Add some pink bling for some extra sparkle!

Be sure to add several packages to your cart!

Egg-Cellent Birthday!

 I've never been particularly fond of eggs, so when I saw this phrase in Cricut Design Space, I knew right away it was for me! Cake is most certainly my favorite way to consume eggs!

For this card, I naturally used a couple of our egg brads and paired them up with a few of our cupcake brads. I chose a cute mixing bowl image from Cricut Design Space and it had a row of cut out hearts on it. After I cut it out, I realized the hearts were the exact size of the smallest hearts in our Heart Brads package, so I used the opportunity to add more texture and interest to the card by adding 5 little white hearts to the mixing bowl.

I'm looking forward to giving this card to my dear friend next month!

Let's PAWTY!

 I'm back with another birthday card featuring the wonderful little dog brads from Eyelet Outlet's Clearance Section! Today I've paired my dogs up with a party hat, balloon, cupcake and a paw brad that really gets the PAWTY started!

Here's the link to each of the Eyelet Outlet products used in this project:

Dog Brads

Party Hat Brads

Balloon Brads

Paw Brads

Cupcake Swirl Brads

Celebrate!

Eyelet Outlet's huge selection of birthday-themed brads and tapes is definitely reason to celebrate! This card features Candle Brads (with Heart Pearl flames); an Old-Style Cupcake (they're on sale!); a Rainbow from the Unicorn and Rainbow Set; Sun and Cloud Brads, Lollipops and Pastel Banner Brads (both also on sale!); plus fabulously festive Happy Birthday Foil Tape and Green Sprinkle Washi.

Check out all the brads, washi tape, bling, pearls sequins and more at Eyelet Outlet.

Lauren Bergold

hopes you have something wonderful to celebrate this week!

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2, 4, 6, 8!

 Belated birthday cards are something we all need now and again, but that doesn't mean they can't be colorful and fun! This sentiment, "2, 4, 6, 8... Guess whose card is really late?!" is made visual with the use of oversized vinyl numerals, a computer-printed sentiment in a sturdy typewriter font and two Eyelet Outlet Cupcake Brads, four Party Hats, six Balloons and eight birthday Candle Brads.

The Eyelet Outlet Online Store literally has brads, washi, bling, flowers, eyelets and sequins for EVERY occasion, so whatever sentiment you're dreaming up for your next card, we've got you covered!

Lauren Bergold

thinks she received a card with this sentiment, circa 1980!

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NOT Just for Cards!

Eyelet Outlet Washi Tape, Paper Flowers and Brads, that is. You can also use them to make customized gift bags, like this one. Just cover plain white cardstock with neat strips of tape (this variety is Happy Birthday Foil Washi)... print out an initial in your favorite font (this one's called Chicken Pie and was free on dafont.com)... trace and cut. Embellish with a few shades and sizes of Solid Color Paper Flowers held on with Candle, Party Hat and Cupcake or Cupcake Swirl Brads. For even more color and pizazz, diecut hearts from a coordinating tape, like Pink Checked Washi and use one repeat of the Birthday Tape to create your sentiment strip. Scatter a few Round Sequins and you're good to go. And yes, all of the above looks pretty good on a matching birthday card, as well!  

There are brads, tapes, flowers, sequins, bling and more for every style, theme or occasion you can possibly imagine in the EO Store... you should probably check that out!

Lauren Bergold

now only buys plain gift bags!

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Let's Have Cupcakes!

When I finished this card I was ready to get in the kitchen and make some cupcakes!  I created this cute tiered cupcake stand in the Cricut Design Space software using free basic shapes.

After I added the delicious looking Eyelet Outlet cupcake brads to the cupcake stand, I attached it to my card base using a generous amount of foam strips to support the weight. I also added a few pink stick-on gems to complement my background and add some sparkle.

If you're also a Cricut crafter and would like to create this card, I've shared the file on my Cricut profile.

Thanks for stopping in today!  If you need me, I'll be in the kitchen baking cupcakes!

 

Birthday Balloons

Nothing says "Happy Birthday" quite as well as a big bouquet of balloons, does it? In real life, you couldn't actually adorn the balloons with Eyelet Outlet brads, but in card form you can, and thus, these diecut balloons are decorated with Lollipop Brads (they're on sale!), Birthday Candles, Unicorn and Rainbow Brads, an Emotion Brad, a Cupcake Brad (also on sale!), on a background of Happy Birthday Washi, matted with Orange Fan Tape.

Of course balloons are awesome for plenty of other festivities besides birthdays and the Eyelet Outlet Store has brads, tape and bling that will enhance any occasion!

Lauren Bergold

loves making birthday cards!

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HB to a T!

Here's a really fun and EASY birthday card idea that can be adapted to use your favorite Eyelet Outlet Brads and Tapes, customized for any recipient! In this case, I (Lauren) used a bunch of older birthday themed brads and the best news of all is that a lot of them are ON SALE! Including Pastel Balloon Brads, Birthday Sock Monkeys, Lollipop Brads and Cupcakes. I've also used Candle Brads, Party Hats and Bright Balloon Brads. My background is made from Wide Calendar Tape and my sentiment is Happy Birthday Washi. 

The tiny shirts were made with a set of nested T-Shirt dies and a bunch of colorful paper scraps, but you could use any small punch or die of a similar size: hearts, stars and tag shapes, for example, would be really fun! And I'm quite sure you can find the perfect Eyelet Outlet Brad and Tape combination for EVERYONE on your birthday card list!

Lauren Bergold

loves making colorful

birthday cards! 

Happy Washi Tape Birthday Treat

 

Hi friends! It's Janet here with a happy card you can make in a jiffy! You just need a border punch, a bunch of your favorite washi tapes, pearl bling and a brad or two. I made my letters by layering 4 separate letter cuts. You could also do this with chipboard letters or with stickers. Either method works well.

There are 8 washi tapes in this card so if you like these, follow the links in the shopping list to pick them up. Note: I substituted a few that are out of stock with some other options.  

SHOPPING LIST:

Checked Washi - Pink

Rainbow Pride Washi

Cloud Washi 

Pink & Purple Zig Zag Washi

Striped Washi

Macaron Washi

Heart Washi

Pencil Washi

Color Wheel Washi

Pearl Bling - Multi; colors of your choice

Cupcake Swirl Brad

Silverware Brad

Thanks for stopping by today. Please visit the store for all your brad, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!

Happy Creating Everyone!

Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest

Frappe Birthday!

There's new brads at Eyelet Outlet and I've used two of them in this birthday card perfect for a coffee lover in my life!

I modified a candy shop from the Cricut image library with some other Cricut images to transform it into a coffee shop and paired the new cupcake brad with one of the new iced coffee brads to wish my coffee loving daughter a "Frappe Birthday!"  

See all the new brad releases at Eyelet Outlet and be sure to follow us all week as we debut them!

Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother!

Spring is the time to be honoring our precious mothers...and our dear ol' dads! With the snappy decorative brads and a great selection of washi tape from Eyelet Outlet,

you'll have something whipped up in no time!

Here, I added a Cupcake Brad and wooden spoon from the Baking Brads set. (This set comes with muffin tins AND wooden spoons!)  

Our Hanger Brads are a fan favorite.

I prefer the metal looking ones..but we also have a Wooden Hanger brad set.

Use your favorite washi tape...to create the tie! 

Wow...what a great duo.

What fun ideas do you have for Mother's or Father's day this year?

We'd love to hear about them!

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Made with Love!

Supplies:

Baking Brads

Cooking Brads

Cupcake Brads

Glitter Dot Washi Tape

Enamel Dot

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Birthday Pun(s)

As you know, I (Lauren) am always excited about pairing Eyelet Outlet brads with diabolical puns OR awesome pre-made journaling cards. So imagine how excited I am to be able to do BOTH... simulataneously!

I'm definitely crushing on Doodlebug Designs' "So Much Pun" collection, especially since it works really well with a lot of different EO brads and washi tapes. For one thing, they don't just have any old frog, they have a super cute one who could definitely be the elder brother of our adorable Frog Brads! Since we're celebrating a birthday on this card, I decided not to stop there, but to also add a Party Hat and a Cupcake as well. For the background I used one of the coordinating prints from the paper collection with a few neutral solids and a nice strip of Green Dot Tape because they're frogs, lol!

I guess it wasn't too shocking that one of the other 2.25" square minicards featured some birthday candles; but what are the odds that those candles would be EXACTLY the same size as our Candle Brads? (and yet... they were!) In this case the colors were just right to feature all three shades of Sprinkles Tape too!

Of course you don't need any particular papers to make the many styles of EO Birthday Brads shine on your own cards. We've got everything from Balloons to Birthday Sock Monkeys... and a whoooooooole lot of great stuff in between! ♥

Lauren Bergold says, 

"Let's put SPRINKLES on EVERYTHING!!!"

Newsflash: Cuteness of Sock Monkeys Definitively Confirmed!

Hi guys, it's Lauren here. And whereas it might not actually be news that all sock monkeys are cute and Eyelet Outlet Birthday Sock Monkey Brads are especially so, I'm not sure it's ever been on television until now. See:

I was lucky enough to win a flash prize from The Stamps of Life for my EO Coffee Stamp cards in the latest Coffee Loving Cardmakers' Blog Hop, and one of the items I chose was the TV2Stamps set and coordinating dies. Apart from just how cool it is generally, I thought the tv set would be a great size for making little scenes with my brads, and I stand by that decision. I made a little cluster of birthday brads... in this case the Birthday Sock Monkey, a Cupcake and a Candle Brad... but really the possibilities are endless.

In case you need more *FLASHES* of inspiration, remember that the Eyelet Outlet Blog, Facebook page and Instagram feed have daily doses of inspiration from my awesome fellow designers! ♥

Lauren Bergold

confesses that at real life birthday celebrations 

she loves cupcakes more than sock monkeys! ;)

Let's Get Cooking

Hi!  It's Kim from Katydid Cards.

One of the new clear stamp sets by Eyelet Outlet has a cooking theme.  It coordinates with quite a few brads including Cooking, Baking, Cupcake, and Cookies.  I bet you could think of a few more, too.

On this card, I stamped the image on the scalloped rectangle with purple ink.  I stamped it again on turquoise and gray in black. I cut around the outside of the colored cardstock ovens.  To provide some dimension I cut the center from the turquoise piece and layered that over the gray.  Do you remember the good old days when stoves were actually made in this color?

I attached the cookie tin on the oven rack and filled it with Pink Pearl Bling.  I thought a cute touch would be to attach the oven mitt on the tray and Black Pearl Bling as the knobs.  To adorn the sides of the panel, I used two sizes of Pink Pearl Bling.  On the lower corners of the center step card, I added cupcake.  I didn't share the inside of the card as I wanted to showcase the stamp, but it says, "one cupcake at a time"

With the second stamp, I paired it with the oven mitt and cookie tray.  I think it would have worked equally well with the pan.  I think the Cactus Washi Tape would be a cute combo with it as well.  If you're interested, the card base I made was from a cut file in the Silhouette store.  I reminded me of an oven rack.

I'm looking forward to using the remaining stamps in the set and also seeing what the rest of the design team does as well.  Stay tuned for future posts featuring the other new sets!

Kim from Katydid Cards

Who provided the inspiration for these cards? Katy did!

The Best Cupcakes

I like to bake but rarely do it. We certainly don't need the calories.... but the card I baked up today doesn't have any calories in it. That's one of the nice things about Eyelet Outlet cupcakes. ;)

Just look at all of the awesome Eyelet Outlet Products:

Bling Strip

Cooking Brads

Cupcake Brads

Mixer/Cup Brads

Washi Tape

I even added a wee bit of the Washi Tape to the inside of my card:

Now that's what I call baking!

Jeanette

Believe in Miracles!

Hello to one and all!  Susie here today and TGIF!

So last week I started my ATC Greeting Card Series and I have another to share today!

I stamped a sentiment on an ATC sized (2.5" x 3.5") piece of cardstock...

...and added some washi tape.

Next I adhered a couple of pieces from the black Pearl Bling Strips and one super cute Cupcake Brad! 

To turn it into a card, I matted the ATC with black and chose some coordinating papers from my stash. Done!

As with last week, I stamped off a couple extra of the cards.  If you leave a comment for me over on my blog, My Time to Play, or my Facebook or Instagram pages, I will draw names and send them out next week.  I would love to see how you finish them off!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find some time to play today!  Susie

Susie Bentz:  My Time to Play

Eyelet Outlet Materials:
Cupcake Brads
Pearl Bling Strip - 4mm
Washi Tape

Other:  Taylored Expressions Pitch Black Stamp Set, cardstock, designer paper