Let's Talk Turkey!

 Hi everyone! It's almost time to Talk Turkey!

These two birds are trying their best to blend into the Thanksgiving table without giving away that their true identity! I love the look on those faces made possible with Small Eye Brads. Read the caption and you'll know why they look a little bug eyed!

I wanted to add feathers to one of these turkeys and I found the perfect solution in EO's Pastel Leaf Brads. You never know how your brads can be reimagined. 

Utensil Brads are placed near the caption and I used Orange Pearl Bling to further decorate this card. I think it'll bring a little mirth into Thanksgiving Day!

Shopping List:

Silverwear Brads

Leaf Brads - Pastel

Small Eye Brads

Orange Pearl Bling Multi

 Thanks for joining me here today and please visit the EO store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!

Happy Creating!

Candy Corn: A Celebration

For those who love the idea of candy corn more than the taste, help yourself to some Eyelet Outlet Candy Corn Brads! Same iconic look as real candy corn, won't attract ants, and attach easily to any Halloween card, treat bag or journal page! Here they're strung across the top of the journal card as bunting, above some super-spooky Small Eye Brads and surrounded by a background of gorgeous Ghost Tape.

Super Spooky Shopping List:

Candy Corn Brads

Small Eye Brads

Ghost Tape

♥♥♥

All the embellishment tricks and treats you need can be found in the Eyelet Outlet Store!

Lauren Bergold

is one of the aforementioned folks who doesn't enjoy eating candy corn!

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Happy Halloween

What's better than an Eyelet Outlet Halloween Tape with adorable spooky icons and gold foiling? An Eyelet Outlet Halloween Tape that can be lined up seamlessly to connect the images and make your own gorgeous patterned paper, that's what! Add some Bat Brads, a Black Cat, a Broom, a Witch's Hat, some googly Eye Brads, and a wee Ghost and your super-fun design is complete!

Boo-tiful Halloween Shopping List:

 Bat Brads

Cat Brads-Black

Vacuum & Broom Brads

Witch Hat Brads

Small Eye Brads

Ghost Brads

Halloween Tape

If it's creepy, kooky, cute or spooky, you'll find everything you need to make the best Halloween cards ever, in the Eyelet Outlet Store.

Lauren Bergold

cannot be trusted with your stash of Halloween candy.

Sorry.

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Stay Creepy, My Friends!

The Halloween season is creeping up on us, and nothing is creepier (in a very CUTE way!) than Eyelet Outlet Monster Brads! On this colorful card they've brought along some diecut monster friends sporting Small Eye Brads and a couple of Bat Brads have swooped in to join the party.

Monster Mash Shopping List:

Monster Brads

Small Eye Brads

Bat Brads

If you'd like to make your cards more creepy, kooky, mysterious or spooky, visit the Eyelet Outlet Online Store!

Lauren Bergold

was working in her lab, late one night...

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Scaredy Cat?

There's no need to fear! Fun and fabulous Halloween cards are easy as (pumpkin) pie with Eyelet Outlet Small Eye Brads, Spider Brads, Spider Washi and Glitter Black Tape!

Shopping List:

Small Eye Brads

Spider Brads

Spider Washi

Glitter Black Tape

The Eyelet Outlet Online Store has all of the Halloween goodies you could possibly want. (There's great stuff for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Birthday, New Year and Anniversaries, too; plus an inspiring Idea Gallery!)

Lauren Bergold

is looking forward to Halloween!

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Trick or Treat!

My husband and I used to live in a town where Halloween was a very big deal! We loved sitting out in lawn chairs each year passing out tons of candy to the kids who entertained us with the most creative costumes we've ever seen.  We miss those days now that we live way out in the country on a private road and the trick-or-treaters don't come by. 

Today's make reminded me of those happy times.  It's a side edge card that I created in Cricut Design Space.  The mummy image was cute on it's own, but when I added the Eyelet Outlet eye brads, it really took him to a new level.

Inside his Halloween treat bucket is one of the new black cat brads going along for a ride.  I also added a bat brad to the moon in the background.  

If you're a Cricut crafter and would like to give this project a try, here's a link to the Design Space file. I'd love for you to follow my Cricut profile, too!

 

Got Candy? (YES!)

 Be sure to stock up on Eyelet Outlet's new Candy Corn Brads, just in case some adorable Trick or Treaters show up a little early this year. These monsters have donned Witch Hat Brads and can spot any stray candy from far away, thanks to their two (or more!) Eye Brads.

Shopping List:

Candy Corn Brads

Witch Hat Brads

Eye Brads

There are Ghosts and Monsters and Scarecrows galore in the Holiday Section of the Eyelet Outlet Online Store; check them out today... if you dare!

Lauren Bergold

is now craving CANDY!

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These Valentines Will BLOW YOU AWAY!

 Classroom Valentines often need to be non-food treats and I have two cute ones for you today that will "Blow You Away!"

First up is a cute little felt tissue holder that I embellished with a funny face and Cricut infusible ink transfer sheet. Infusible ink works great on acrylic felt, by the way!  The tissue holder fit perfectly into a regular zipper snack bag and I created a little topper for the bag that I embellished with a heart brad and a tissue box brad from Eyelet Outlet.  I created this entire project on my Cricut Maker and if you're a Cricut crafter and would like to give it a try, too, Here's the link to the file that I shared in the Cricut Community.  

Next up is a funny little Valentine with a bookmark who's embellished with small eye brads and eyeglasses from Eyelet Outlet.  I also added a little black enamel heart.  I've shared this file on my Cricut profile as well.  

Thanks for stopping in today and be sure and stay tuned because coming soon there will be new brads revealed that we're super excited about!!

Welcome to Booville!

 I have been thinking about my Halloween cards lately and I knew I wanted to do something with a haunted house. I didn't want it to be a scary house though. I think I succeeded with this shaped card. The house is from the Cricut library. I adapted it so it could be a shape card. I used some black Stickles to give the house a little sparkle. It helps I think to make it even less scary.

I used many Halloween products on this card from the store and the Vacuum and Broom Brads which are definitely not typically Halloween. It works though! I even used two Pumpkin Sequins on the stoop.

This was really a lot of fun to create. Notice that the homeowner left her vehicle on the step. I guess if you drive something compact enough, you really don't need a garage! Ha ha ha!

SHOPPING LIST:

Pumpkin Brads

Candy Corn Brads

Vacuum and Broom Brads

Ghost Brads

Mini Spider Brads

Small Eye Brads

Pearl Bling Multi - Orange 

Pumpkin Sequins

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

Happy Creating Everyone!

Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest

I Like You A BOT

It's time to get it in GEAR, crafters and start your Valentine projects. I had so much fun creating this robot treat box for the little ones in my life who I "like a BOT!"  

I created this little guy with two different boxes from the Cricut image library and borrowed a couple of other parts from other Cricut robots for his arms, mouth, and antenna. 

I love that he has moveable arms with the help of some Eyelet Outlet round brads and both the head and body opens to hold plenty of treats.

Products Used:

Gear Brads

Screw Brads

Round Brads

Pearl Hearts

Small Eye Brads

Glitter Enamel Dots (Silver)

Thanks for stopping by and we can't wait to see the Valentine projects you create with Eyelet Outlet products. Please show us over at our Eyelet Outlet Fans Facebook group.  

Spooky Halloween Scene

Hi everyone! It's Janet with a fun, sorta spooky A2 sized Halloween card for you today. The spooky tree is accented with Ghost, Eye, Mini Leaf and Spider brads. I love how the eyes give the tree a real personality! 

What Halloween cards are you making this year? Check out the EO store for all your fall and Halloween embellishments!

SHOPPING LIST

Small Eye Brads

Ghost Brads

Mini Spider Brads

Mini Leaf Brads

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Happy Creating Everyone!

 Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest 

Time to Snag a Sale Item!!

If you don't have a couple of packs of Eyelet Outlet's

Spook Eye Brads, creep on over to the online store.

They are on sale this week!

While you are at it, might as well pick up some

Small Eye Brads and glitter washi tape in a rainbow of colors.

Here I used a black and turquoise for the main panel.

The black was run through a texturizing folder for added interest and looks

amazing IRL!

Who are you haunting this season?

Thanks for slinking by!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up!

 

Halloween Fun!

Hi everyone! If you celebrate Halloween, now is the time to start planning for the cards you want to give. Today's card shows how quick and easy it is to put together a Halloween card that mixes a little scary with a little whimsical. I personally love using a Small Eye brad on the paper bow on this card. It makes it perfectly clear that the design doesn't take itself very seriously. 

I used two skinny glitter washi tapes on either side of the Halloween Washi Tape. I embossed a piece of gold cardstock with a web embossing folder and used a little gilding wax to add some shine. The Mini Spider brads go perfectly on the embossed webs and they blend in nicely with the web and spider sticker. A Ghost Brad and Green Pearl Bling are the finishing touches.

SHOPPING LIST:

Mini Spider Brads

Small Eye Brads

Ghost Brads

Skinny Glitter Tape-Green

Skinny Glitter Tape-Black

Halloween Wide Washi Tape

Green Pearl Bling

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I invite you to visit the store and stock up on your own Halloween stash. Don't forget that all these embellishments work fantastic on treat bags, tags and other Halloween crafts.

Happy Creating Everyone!

 Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest 

Cute as a Bug

Happy Thursday, crafters!  Today I have a couple of cards that are cute as a bug!  It was hard to decide between Eyelet Outlet's mini ladybug brads and the mini ant brads, so problem solved!  I made two cards!

The magnifying glass is from Cricut's Classroom Icons image set.  I just love the little chubby fingers on this hand image which is from A Child's Year image set.  The smiling ladybug and wide eyed ant images are Miss Kate's Cuttable images and available in the Cricut image library. I used foil iron-on and my Cricut Easy Press for the sentiment.  I've really been having fun lately using iron-on materials on card stock!  

I love the way the mini ant brad and mini ladybug brad look under the magnifying glass, don't you?  I embellished the smiling ladybug with Eyelet Outlet heart brads on her antennas and I used Eyelet Outlet eye brads on my big-eyed ant.  Those eyes really popped!!  He's holding an Eyelet Outlet enamel heart in his hands, too.

See all the Eyelet Outlet Bugs & Critters at EyeletOutlet.com!  Until next week, happy Valentine's Day!

Three Eyed Monster

I decided to play around a little with a shaped card today.  They are really pretty simple to make with Cricut Design Space!  For this monster shaped card I used a monster from the Autumn Celebrations image set.  I used Eyelet Outlet Small Eye Brads to really add some EYE POPPING interest to the font of my card!

To create the card base, I ungrouped the layers in the image and duplicated the bottom shadow layer.  I flipped the duplicated image vertically, then lined the two up until they just touched one another.  

Then I selected both images and used the weld function to join them together. 

 

I couldn't resist embellishing the inside of my card with a couple cute Eyelet Outlet Monster Brads!

I also used a drawn image from Cricut's Monster Icons & Printables image set to add my greeting.  

Thanks for stopping in today! 

Implied Reindeer

Christmas is coming and Eyelet Outlet has fun holiday themed products that will light up your paper crafting projects!

Our washi tape comes in a variety of widths, textures and patterns.

Mix and match for a festive look!

Dawn Mercedes, of Sunnyside Up

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

The days are getting shorter and Halloween is getting closer, but there's still time to make and send cards... a job which is much easier with some creepy cute seasonal brads from Eyelet Outlet on hand! The brand new Ghosts are of course the stars of this year's Halloween season, but that doesn't mean that I (Lauren) should neglect my old favorites:

I was excited to find these cute potion bottle diecuts in a pack of Halloween goodies, they really inspired my whole card. The bottle with the eyeballs clearly needed some Small Eye Brads, but the others just had bubbling liquids, so I was able to get a bit creative. I will confess right now that the bottle of frogs, starring the adorable Frog Brads are my favorite thing on this card. Maybe even my favorite thing on ANY Halloween card I've ever made? I added Mini Spiders to one of the small jars and a full sized Spider Brad has clearly escaped from... somewhere... (*shiver*) I made my sentiment using a free font called "Sweet Hipster". A little cluster of purple clouds, positioned slightly behind the sentiment, with a pair of Bats completes the design.

I hope you will have as frightfully fun a time making your own Halloween cards as I did making mine! ♥

Lauren Bergold

likes any holiday that has 

CANDY 

as a central feature!

WITCH Way... to the Candy?

Halloween is fast approaching, but there's still plenty of time to grab some awesome Eyelet Outlet goodies to make your cards even more BOO-tiful! There is a spooktacular selection of seasonal brads in the shop, of which I (Lauren) have used only a few, including: the brand new-- and utterly awesome-- Witch Leg Brads, Witch Hats, Mini Spiders, Mini Candy Corn, Bats and Small Eye Brads.

Of course it didn't hurt that I unearthed an ancient sheet of patterned paper that had the sweet circle icons of witches, spiders and monsters, all ready for me to embellish!

But the ideas in this card would work with loads of papers and stamps. ANY small witch (or other animal, monsta or person) could wear the Hats (the packets contain all four styles); the Small Eyes have both sizes together and could be swapped out for the eyes of many stamped creatures.

In addition to the brads on my card, there are also Monsters, full-sized Spiders (to go with the Minis), Kitten Brads (they come as a mix of black and white, each in two positions) and lots more!

There are so many good Halloween choices in the Eyelet Outlet Store it's almost *SCARY*!

Lauren Bergold 

...does not recommend inviting Monster Brads and Kitten Brads to the same photo shoot,
especially if there are unattended Candy Corn Brads on hand!

Scaring Up Some More Halloween Inspiration

Hi!  It's Kim from Katydid Cards with a few more Halloween cards to share.  My first card provides the "perfect recipe" for some Halloween fun.  We have Monster Mash, Pickled Eyes, and Spider Legs on the menu today!

I used the Monster, Small Eye, and Spider brads as well as Medium Jewel Bling Strips and Jewel Bling Strips and Glitter Black Washi.

To make the card, I used a cut file purchased in the Silhouette store.  I used card stock from Stampin' Up and a digital patterned paper was used to fill that panel behind the potions.  Speaking of the background, I placed the Jewel Bling randomly on the stars.  The Glitter Washi was used on the bottle corks and as the shelf on which the potions sit.

And here's the sentiment I created for inside the card:

Next up, we have a nighttime walk; which can be pretty scary, especially around Halloween.  This card was simple to put together; so if you like Halloween cards, but don't feel like you have the time to make them, this would be a good option.

I used the Spooky Eye brads for this card as well as the Small Eye brads...'cause you just have to have a cyclops or two on Halloween.  You'd need two packs to duplicate this look.  In fact, I want to go back and add another set of eyes in that open spot I didn't notice until I looked at the picture.  If you'd like the template for this nighttime walking pair, you'll find it on the Freebies page or just link from the toolbar above. 

Here's what I did inside the card; another set of eyes and a little poem.

Well, that's it for today!  

Kim from Katydid Cards

Who provided the inspiration for these cards?  Katy did!