Happy 4th of July!

I love celebrating our Independence Day with family and friends! What a blessing we have been given! It is a time to reflect, honor and celebrate!

The Star Spangled Banner, Our National Anthem

by Francis Scott Key

"O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, 

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight

 O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"

I enjoyed creating this card and adding fun patriotic elements! I added the red, white, and blue washi tape to white card stock then stamped my large number 4 to create a fun new layered element!  

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget to shop at Eyelet Outlet for your crafting needs!

 SHOPPING LIST:

Flag & Hat Brads

Star Brads (Red, White & Blue)

Grass Washi Tape

Red, White, Blue Stripe Washi Tape

Happy Crafting!

Michelle ~ The Craft Market SC Facebook Instagram

Celebrate Independence!

Do you have a fun celebratory BBQ or patriotic event to attend in celebration of  July 4th? Here is a fun tag you can easily create to add to your hostess gift!

I loved stamping various patriotic stamps in blues and reds to create my tag! Adding the red, white, and blue stripe washi on top and bottom of my tag gave a border to the top and bottom. Lastly, I enjoyed embellishing with the "Uncle Sam" hat and USA flag and star brads to finish it off! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget to shop at Eyelet Outlet for your crafting needs!

 SHOPPING LIST:

Flag & Hat Brads

Star Brads (Red, White & Blue)

Red, White, Blue Stripe Washi Tape

Happy Crafting!

Michelle ~ The Craft Market SC Facebook Instagram 

Proud to Be an American

Hello - it's summer! Right? At least it's warm enough now that it's making me think of summer. And with summer comes picnics, parades, and patriotism - the three P's. 

I absolutely love the Eagle brads!

Eyelet Outlet Products used:

Eagle Brads

Patriotic Enamel Stars

Red Star Washi Tape

Wide Skyline Washi Tape

If you haven't been to the Eyelet Outlet online store in a while, check it out. The newly released Brads and custom Washi Tape (the Eagle brads are one of the new items) can be found HERE.

Jeanette

Happy Fourth of July!

This seems like a really good day for me (Lauren) to show off a few patriotic cards using some of my favorite Eyelet Outlet brads and tapes:

It's no secret that I love a big, chunky sentiment and that I often build an entire card --or in this case, two entire cards, lol-- around one. I love alphabet stickers and dies of course, but I also like to make my own custom letters using the ultimate resource for that: the font library on my computer! I just format the text I want to use to the correct size for my card, print it out, staple it to the patterned paper I want to use, and cut around the outline. For even more flexibility, I can make my own paper by adhering my favorite Eyelet Outlet washi tape to some plain white cardstock. In this case, a I've stacked a combination of red, white and blue tapes, to make the letters even more dynamic.

I love these Flag and Hat Brads, I especially love that you get 6 hats and 6 flags in the same pack. I made a little border using two flags, a hat and a couple of Enamel Stars, and flanked the "happy birthday" text with dots from the same set of enamels. My "USA" letters are a free font called "Intrepid" from dafont.com and the tapes I stacked are: Skinny Red Dots (from a great set of five skinny tapes), Red, White and Blue Stripe, Skinny Blue Hearts (from a set of three heart tapes).

My second sentiment is in another free font called "Roland" and features Skinny Blue Dots Tape, Skinny Silver Stars (from another great three tape set), and my beloved Heart Washi. I've made a little bunting using light blue Banner Brads, White Hearts, plus red and blue stars from the Red, White and Blue Stars brad set. It might take you a minute to notice that there's actually no official patriotic themed product on this one, I've just combined the right colors and added in some stars and things. In fact, most of my blue elements are baby blue rather than navy, which I think looks kind of fun.

I hope everyone who is celebrating today will have a wonderful time with family and friends! ♥

Lauren Bergold

would really like it if someone 

could invent quieter fireworks, please?!

Ahoy, Summer!

Can you believe it's the middle of May already? I (Lauren) find it hard to imagine we're only a couple of weeks away from Memorial Day! I was feeling Nautical-but-Nice (lol!) and decided to make a card which celebrates that fact. There are some awesome patriotic products in the Eyelet Outlet store and here are a few of my favorites:

It's no secret that I'm a bit of a Washi Tape enthusiast (I don't think it counts as "hoarding" if you USE them, right?!) and one of my favorite tricks for making a bold sentiment is to combine a few coordinating tapes, the diecut or hand cut my title from the resulting decorative border. In this case I'm rockin' the Red, White and Blue Stripe with Nautical Tape and Skinny Stars tape, though I confess I had difficulty choosing when I also had Blue Stars, Cruise Tape and Hearts; I've traced some oversized chipboard letters to form the word "Ahoy" and then mounted them on foam tape on my card so they'd stand out even more.

A bold red panel on a field of white makes everything pop, don't you think? And how adorable are those Red White and Blue Anchor Brads?! I'm definitely ready to sail off into summer now, and I hope you are, too!

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you'll scroll down to the post below and see what my lovely and amazing Wednesday partner, Miss Carri, has to inspire you even more!

Lauren Bergold

loooooooooooooves summer time almost as much as she loves Washi Tape!

(Which is a really, really, lot!!!)

♥♥♥

Pullup, WA

We sure enjoyed meeting excited crafters last weekend in Novi, MI 

at the Great Lakes Mega Meet! Whoa! What creativity under the same roof!!

Our next booth will be set up in Pullup, WA

with Stamp & Scrapbook Expo.

Want free tickets to the show or any other Stamp & Scrapbook Expo show in 2017 (excludes NJ)?

 Tag a few friends on our FB page.

The more the merrier!!

One crafty winner will receive two vouchers!

Here is a patriotic card...so simple to make with Eyelet Outlet red glitter washi tape

and Star brads (RWB) and a few blings for added interest!

Hooray for the Red, White and Blue!

Here in the United States where I --Lauren-- live, the early summer is time for a few different patriotic holidays: Memorial Day (5-30) is coming up, not to mention Flag Day (6-14) and Independence Day (7-4). I have to confess that these are not holidays for which I always send cards, but Eyelet Outlet has so many cool patriotic products, I found that this year I couldn't resist!

If I was going to pick a favorite, the Flag and Hat Brads might be it. They're just so fun and festive! On the other hand, the Blue Nautical Washi is really pretty, and somehow when I was looking at those jaunty flags and thinking about summer, the idea of making pinwheels just seemed totally natural. I have to confess that mine don't actually SPIN... they're just decorative, but they're so easy to make and I love how they came out.

I took a square scrap of thin patterned paper, covered the back with washi tape (I've also used the Music Note tape) and drew lines connecting the opposing corners to each other, but leaving about half and inch at the center intact. I cut along all four lines, then bent one point of each triangle in towards the center, securing it with a glue dot.

When all four "petals" of my pinwheel were complete, I added a White Paper Flower and a brad to secure it. For my card base, instead of patterned paper, I cut a square mat from an old pair of jeans (if you don't have "extras", ask a friend to save their kid's next stained, torn and outgrown pair!) tacked it lightly to my card base with a tape runner, then sewed around the perimeter with my sewing machine, to add texture and interest.

But back to those Flag and Hat Brads-- as much as I like them separately, I love using them together even more, so my second card features a whole line of them! I used my vintage typewriter and favorite alphabet stamps to create the sentiment on a scrap of stripey blue paper... which made me think about what other fun embellies I could add in stripes? 5mm White Pearl Strips and 4mm Red Pearl Strips make this a bit flag-like, I think; and a little more Blue Nautical Washi rounds things off nicely!

 

I think my in-laws will be a bit surprised to get a Memorial Day card, but in a good way, lol! I bet you know someone who could use a little lift, or maybe there's a veteran you've always wanted to thank... grab some red, white and blue and have fun creating! ♥

Hi I'm Lauren, I love making cards and also making friends! 

Come visit my blog if you have some time, I'd love to see you!