From Drab to Fab!!

Even if you do not have a stash of craft supplies at your disposal to create handmade cards, you can still have all the fun using Eyelet Outlets brads and bling!

For this week’s creation, I didn’t make any cards…nope…I BOUGHT them from my local Dollar store!! I bought the three plainest looking cards I could find knowing Eyelet Outlet would come to my rescue to help jazz them up!

Check these out!

For the Happy Birthday card, I used a variety of colors from the Lollipop Brads, multi colored pearl bling, and two different washi-tapes in the corners – the Dot Washi Tape and the Glitter Chevron Washi Tape.

For the Baby Boy card, I used a Safety Pin Brad, several Water Splat Brads, three of the Train Mix Brads, blue Jewel Bling, and two different washi-tapes – the Silver Foil Washi Tape and the Glitter Dark Blue Washi Tape.

For the Baby Girl card, I used a Safety Pin Brad, several Heart Brads, pink Jewel Bling, white pearl bling and some white Pearl Swirl Bling.

You don’t have to make handmade cards from scratch to use EO’s goodies.  As you can see, any store-bought card can be transformed into a handmade card that is cute enough to be the gift! 

Shopping List
Lollipop Brads
Jewel Bling
Swirl Bling
Glitter Dark Blue Washi Tape
Heart Brads
Train Mix Brads
Silver Foil Washi Tape
Water Splat Brads
Safety Pin Brad
Glitter Chevron Washi Tape
Dot Washi Tape
Pearl Bling

Have a wonderful week and always be STRATE-UP CRAFTY!

💗Stacy

Christmas Card(inals!)

Cardinals are some of my (Lauren's) favorite birds and also some of my favorite Eyelet Outlet Brads. We have Cardinals, Female Cardinals and Cardinal Profiles and I've used the first two on this card. To make the male Cardinal's vivid feathers stand out even more, I've clustered some of my favorite holiday washi tapes: Vertical Red Tree Tape, Heart Tape, Poinsettia Tape and Red Foil Striped Washi. My sentiment is one repeat of Merry Christmas Tape, stuck to a piece of cardstock and popped up on foam for extra dimension. 

If Christmas in July isn't your thing, check out our Bluebird and Robin Brads, Seagulls, Owls, Penguins or Flamingos in the Eyelet Outlet Store!

Lauren Bergold

loves to watch the backyard birds 

at her feeder and birdbath!

Elegant Flowers

If you stopped by yesterday, I posted a casual floral card.

Today, we go to the elegant side of Eyelet Outlet's Paper Flowers.

Bling them up with multiple layers and bling!

Supplies:

Paper Flowers

Fancy Bling Strips

Foil Washi

Bumpy Bling

Swooning

Our Cardinal Brads have been so popular.

First came the Cardinal brads then Cardinal Profile brads...

and now...

Female Cardinal brads.  So these guys have their mates.

Check out the sweet Valentine Card!

Supplies:

Cardinal Profile brad

Female Cardinal brad

Swirl Bling

Valentine Washi Tape Set

I've been swooning over the new brads this week.

Which is your favorite?

Glad you fluttered by!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up!

 

Fall Friends!

Fall is quickly approaching!!

Time to get out the pumpkins, sunflowers, owls and...all sorts of fall textures and colors.

Eyelet Outlet has you covered.

(Who is ready for apple cider and donuts?)

I LOVE the foil washi tape!!  

Supplies:

Pumpkin Brads

Paper Flowers

Sunflower Brads

Mini Ladybug Brads

Sketch Owl Brads

Pearl Bling

Foil Washi Tape

Colorful ATCs

I (Lauren) love making Artist Trading Cards with my Eyelet Outlet Brads, so this seemed like a good time to make some featuring the newest Spring 2021 Releases: Felines, Kennel Mix, Colored Daisies, Tropical Birds and Reptiles.

"Feline Groovy" features the Feline Brads, obviously, as well as some colorful wide Geometric Tape.

"Bloomin' Awesome" has only one of the three shades of Colored Daisy, but it's colorful enough to keep our attention. I've added some Flower Tape, as well as two older styles of Skinny Tape.

"Doggone It" pairs the doghouse from Kennel Mix with a Long Dog (who's on sale!) and an accent of two plaid washi tape styles as well as some Skinny Heart Tape.

"Squawkward" stars a one of three very handsome parrots from the Tropical Birds Set, as well as boldly spotted Dot Washi Tape and Skinny Tape.

"Birds of a Feather" features a pair of adorable toucans from the Tropical Birds, because TWO toucans are even better than one! I love how they look against thet bold black and white Floral Tape (which is out of stock, alas but This One is quite similar).

And finally, "One in Chameleon" has the eponymous half of our Reptile Brads against some Foil Tape.

There's inspiration all week long on the Eyelet Outlet Blog, stop back often and see!

Lauren Bergold

loves making ATCs!

Furry Greetings!

 It's never too late to start those Christmas Greeting Cards!

Here's one for the animal lover featuring our new Feline Brads

from Eyelet Outlet.

Supplies:

Feline Brads

Holly Brads

Santa Hat Brad

Wreath Brad

Christmas Washi Tape

Have a Great summer...dreaming of the holiday season!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up!

Precious and Few

Supplies:

Colored Daisy Brads

Swirl Bling

Copper Foil Washi

I love how the green Swirl Bling makes a great floral background for the new Colored Daisy Brads from Eyelet Outlet!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up

 

Prancing on Sunshine!

 Now that Spring is here, who is prancing on sunshine?  

I sure am!!

The Unicorn & Rainbow brads will make your cards FABULOUS...

and all our many styles of washi tape will make them beautiful! 

I'm a fan of the Foil Washi Tape!

I (heart) those Enamel Hearts!

Enjoy today!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up

Wonderful Idea for Washi Tape!!

Check out this fun idea on how to use Washi Tape on your greeting cards.

Start with a simple card base...and add your washi.

I used a metal ruler to "cut" the edges cleanly when the washi was already laid on the card base.

Then, I added fun stickers for the image and sentiment.

But you know that background is the highlight of the card!

Head on over to Eyelet Outlet and fill up that cart with your own choice of tapes!!

Eyelet Outlet Washi Tapes

We also have subcategories:

Glitter

Foil (My FAVORTE)

Christmas

Easter

and

Valentine

Feel free to mix and match the styles, widths and textures!

Dawn Mercedes, Sunnyside Up

 

Uniquely YOU!

Make someone's day with a cheery slimline card featuring the Unicorn & Rainbow brads.

Other supplies:

Enamel Hearts

Foil washi tape

Rainbow Washi Tape

Unicorn & Rainbow Brads

These embellies will make your cardmaking "one of kind!"

Uniquely, Dawn, Like Sunshine, Mercedes

of Sunnyside Up

 

Love Always

 

Eyelet Outlet Swirl Bling and Enamel Hearts will have you in a Valentine swoon!

Be sure to add your favorite Foil washi tape too.

Supplies:

Swirl Bling

Enamel Hearts

Foil Washi Tape

Glitter Washi Tape

Love Always, from 

Dawnmercedes, of Sunnyside Up

Be Mine!

Valentines are some of my (Lauren's) favorite cards to make, especially since I have a niece whose birthday is February 14th. Like me, she loves lots of color and sparkle, so I have pulled out all the stops for this card and used eight different Eyelet Outlet brad styles with ten varieties of (pink!) washi tape!

I started by choosing a center point on my 6" square card to be the connection for my starburst of different tapes. Then I somewhat randomly layered a bunch of my favorite Valentine-friendly designs, concentrating on those which had lots of pink in them, including: Tiny Heart Tape, Glitter Heart Tape, Glitter Pink, Macaron Washi, Unicorn Tape, Foil Rose Tape, Heart Arrow Tape, Pink Dot Washi, Checked Pink Tape and Gold Foil XO Tape, which is technically not at all pink, but worked well anyway.

Then I added my diecut heart, a Hello Kitty cut-out, and glitter alphabet sentiment over the place where all of the tapes met. Finally, it was time to add the brads. Again, I went mostly by color, but luckily there were lots of things that matched which I know Miss Riley loves, such as: Heart Brads, Donut Brads, a starfish from the Sea Shore Brads, the pink glittery tiara from the Crown and Tiara set, an Ice Cream Brad and a Stitched Flower.

Whatever color your Valentine loves best, I bet there are a bunch of fun Eyelet Outlet Brads and Washi Tape Styles that will coordinate perfectly! ♥

Lauren Bergold

wishes you a very 

Happy Valentine's Day!

My little COVID Valentine

You don't need Valentine's Day to miss YOUR PERSON.

COVID makes us miss those we are sweet on every day...for months!

Send them a pick me up with the new Mask, HandSantizier & Soap Brad set from Eyelet Outlet.

When you pair it with valentine and foil washi tape, sequins and bling strips,

you will bring a smile to your person across the miles!

Smiles from Across the Miles!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up

 

Looking ahead to Christmas!

Supplies:

Holly Brad

Ornament Brad

Glitter Washi

Thin Foil Washi

Thanks for jingling by!

Dawn Mercedes of Sunnyside Up!

 

Cacti for Everyone!

Last week I (Lauren) treated myself to a fun Lawn Fawn Mini Stamp Set with a cactus in it, entirely because I knew I had not one, but two, beautiful styles of Cactus Tape from Eyelet Outlet!

My first card features this slightly kawaii version of Cactus Tape with sweet little cacti in their pots. I chose all of my colors specifically to coordinate with the tape, including the addition of Fall Stitched Flowers and Minis (the latter are on sale!) in that pretty mustard yellow. I neatly lined up three strips of the tape on plain white cardstock, then flanked them with two strips of Star Gold Washi. To give a slightly more dynamic feel to the accent panel, I trimmed it at the top and bottom so that it appears my Star Tape is a slightly narrower width.

I made a similar panel for my second card, using Cactus and Flamingo Washi and Green and Gold Foil Tape. This time I rounded the corners on one side, as well, and added the accent panel towards the left, rather than centering it on my A2 card. I added a Flamingo Brad, some pink Heart Pearl accents and a sentiment trimmed from XO Gold Foil Tape.

There are so many cool and interesting ways to incorporate Washi Tape in your cards, and luckily Eyelet Outlet has *hundreds* of fabulous styles to choose from!

Lauren Bergold

loooooooves washi tape!