Washi 4 Ways

Good morning!  This is Rebecca, and I'm always happy to start the weekend with a "Welcome to Saturday" here on the blog!

This week I decided to get back to some page making.  The last page I made for the blog (my first project a few weeks ago) showed 5 ways to use bling strips. So today I thought I'd go with that theme and highlight another favorite with Washi 4 Ways.

1. First I used washi to make the border all around the page. I used a mix of wide, narrow and regular widths, but I also tore some of the pieces to create some irregular edges. I added dots and brads for embellishment clusters around the border, too.

2. I used a couple of the same tapes to make a coordinating matte for the picture.

3. I used a die to punch the "city" letters from strips of Foil Rainbow Washi . 

4. And I put these cameras on some scrap white paper, fussy cut the shapes, and then stacked them (with foam tape between the layers) to make a raised embellishment. The cameras on this tape have various sayings, and this one, "You smile. I smile.," went along with my title.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!

Items Used:

Camera Washi

Ticket Washi

Another Ticket Washi

Red Heart Glitter Washi

Red Circle Washi

Love Story Washi

Foil Rainbow Washi 

Skinny Arrow Washi

Fancy Heart Glitter Brads

Taxi Brads

Heart Enamel - Vacation

Matte Enamel Dots

Glitter Enamel Dots

Watercolor Baby Card

Hello one and all!  Susie here today and TGIF!

 When I joined the DT at Eyelet Outlet I received a handful of miscellaneous brads.  One of those brads was this sweet little lady.  She obviously belonged on a baby card so I searched through my extensive collection of stamps until I found a sentiment that worked.  As far as design goes, my style is Clean And Simple (CAS) which is why I almost always start by creating an ATC.

 

I stamped a 2.5"x 3.5" piece of watercolor paper with Archival Ink.    

I added a small "splotch" of blue watercolor centered above the sentiment...

...then used my paintbrush to spatter droplets across the whole card.

I added the Pregnant Lady Brad to the center of the "splotch" and then created a pretty simple card as the base.

As with last week, I stamped off a couple of extra cards that I would love to share!  If you are interested please leave a comment for me over on my blog, My Time To Play, or my Facebook or Instagram pages and I will draw names and send them out next week!

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

Susie Bentz:  My Time to Play

Materials:
Eyelet Outlet Pregnant Lady Brads
Cloud 9 Stamps - Simple Thoughts - Baby
Archival Ink, watercolor paper, designer paper, cardstock

Stick with Me

This Cactus Washi Tape grabbed  my attention as soon as I saw it. I just had to have it. (Do you ever feel that way about something or is it just me?) The good news is the prices at Eyelet Outlet are so reasonable that I could have it without stretching my pocketbook.

You really should check out the Eyelet Outlet Store if you haven't done so in a while. WOW! There's a lot of great stuff there.

When my awesome Cactus Washi Tape arrived I couldn't wait to create with it.

I actually used it on a piece of designer paper that looks like a wooden board so you can see the color of the paper through the tape. To give it a more polished/finished look, I added a skinny strip of green checked Washi Tape on the top and bottom and then added a strip of black pearls, too. Of course both of those items came from Eyelet Outlet, too.

My card also has two butterfly brads - from Eyelet Outlet on it.

The cactus image is holding a sign that says "Stick with Me" but I'm thinking it really should say "Stick with Eyelet Outlet". ;)

Jeanette 

who loves to shop at Eyelet Outlet

where you can find these products

featured on today's card:

Black Pearl Bling Strips

Cactus Washi Tape

Butterfly Brads

Easter Eggs

So glad you've stopped by today to see an Easter card I've made for you!  This card brought back some fond childhood memories of coloring Easter eggs with my family.

I used a coffee cup from Cricut's Love You A Latte cartridge, but instead of "coffee" I filled my cup with "food coloring" to match the Eyelet Outlet Easter Egg Brads and then adorned my cups with some swirl bling to match. The pretty basket and sentiment are from Cricut Easter 2010 cartridge.  Final touches were a beautiful Stitched Flower Brad and sweet Chocolate Bunny Brad.  

Thanks for coming by today!  If you're in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, we'd love to meet you at the Scrapbook Expo March 23 & 24.

Old MacDonald Had Some Brads

(Warning: This post contains many diabolical Farm Puns. Please accept the author's hearty "You're Welcome" or "Sorry", whichever is most appropriate!)

It seems to me (Lauren) that people either *LOVE* puns or hate them. At Eyelet Outlet almost all of us really love them. If you happen to be a person who does not, let me sum up the salient points of this post right now: we have lots of cool Farm Brads, including Cows and Goats, Roosters, Chickens, Eggs, Pigs and Sheep, Trucks and more. And I'm sure you can do other things besides make pun cards. But I did not do other things. I made pun cards, lol, and here they are:

The stamps in this post are by Art Impressions and I've colored them with Prismacolor Pencils. The sentiments are formatted in a free font called Mom's Typewriter and I used two sizes of cloud punch for the shapes.

The first card is an A2 and features two adorable Cow Brads and a Sun peeping out from behind the punched clouds. I love how it came out, but when in doubt, my policy is to, "Go BIG", lol...

...so my second card is an A7, which I think fits the scale of the brads a tiny bit better. This time I have a Cow, a Goat and a Sheep Brad, grazing away happily.

I hope you'll agree my farm cards are Outstanding In Their Field! :) :) :)

Lauren Bergold

loves the Eyelet Outlet Farm Brads...

and that's no bull!

Busy, Make that Buzzy Bees

Kim from Katydid Cards with you today.   I'm sharing two cards with a bee theme.

The Eyelet Outlet store has a number of bee brads and I've been drawn to them like, well, like a bee to honey.  Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.

For my first card, a Center Easel, I used the Mini Bee, Bee, and Stitched Flower-Bright Brads.

In addition, I used a Penny Black Stamp, "Bee-have".   The name of the stamp works really well for the greeting, too!  I created my own version of the Center Easel card with honeycomb side panels.
Here's another view from the side so you can see how the easel props up on the sentiment panels.

The card folds flat for mailing.

Next up, is a beehive-shaped card using the Bumble Bee Brads and Purple Paper Flowers accented with Gold Edged Jewel Brads in Purple.

Inside, I created the sentiment using the text to path option in my Silhouette design screen.

 

I'll see you next week with a new project.  In the meantime, "bee" well!

 Kim from Katydid Cards

Who provided the inspiration for these cards?  Katy did!

Butterflies!

Did you know that Eyelet Outlet has several versions of butterfly brads?  Not only are there different versions, there are also minis and butterfly corners!

These winged creatures look great with our paper flowers..or washi tape...or pretty much anything!

Glitter washi tape pairs well with Glitter enamels!

We hope you all had fun in CA at the 

We will be back in our booth in 

Grapevine, TX

on March 23-24. 2018

Heads up...the location has moved:

500 West Las Colinas Boulevard
Irving, TX 75039

Swing by...and pick up your favorite critters in brads!!

Christmas Washi Tags

Hi Friends! kel here again today to share another fun project with you!!

Today's project is a set of monogrammed Christmas gift tags featuring some of the super cute washi tape in the Eyelet Outlet store! And yes, I know it's February, and Christmas is waaaaay off, but it's never too early to start stocking up on either Christmas crafting supplies or Christmas tags and cards so you're ready to go once the season hits!!

For these tags, I laid out strips of the Santa Washi, Tree Washi, Ho Ho Ho Washi, Holly Washi, and ZigZag Washi in Red on a scrap piece of white cardstock that measured 2" wide. Then I cut the tags down to 3.5" tall and then punched the scalloped tag top and threaded some red twine. 

I used the initials of my oldest son's good friends (and they're common enough that I can use them for other people if we end up getting his friends something that doesn't need a tag!)

Super easy peasy and a great way to use up both scrap paper and a handful of rolls of washi tape that I know everyone is stashing in their craft supplies haha!! Thanks for stopping by today and see you again soon!!

lovies, =o) kel

Shades of Spring

It's my pleasure to welcome you to the weekend! This is Rebecca, and I have a couple of cards to share today.  An extra warm welcome to anyone visiting from the Eyelet Outlet booth at the Pleasanton, CA Scrapbook Expo!

I saw my first Reese's egg and Cadbury bunny commercials on February 15th, and now I'm obsessed with thoughts of spring and Easter candy.  Is that normal?  All the Girl Scout cookie tables aren't helping, either.

But instead of eating a giant Easter basket's worth of sugar, I dove into my washi and brad stash and crafted a little spring sunshine!






A bright mix of washi, brads, dots and paper flowers, all circling a bling strip....not as tasty as a bag full of Starburst jellybeans or some caramel-filled anything, but the work kept me out of a box of Girl Scout cookies, so there's that.



I liked it so much, I tried this second version for an Easter card.



I added some gold Sharpie marker on a chocolate bunny to make them looked wrapped and to match the card sentiment.  I just can't stop myself - now I'm dreaming of Lindt!

Eyelet Outlet Supply List:

Shine On
Paper Flowers in Dark Pink
Dot Washi in Blue and Pink 
Flower Washi
Coloring Book Washi
Variety of Skinny Washi
Rainbow Foil Washi
Rainbow Glitter Washi
Jewel Bling Strip in Champagne
Fawn Brads
12MM Stippled Jewel Brads in Clear
Daisy Flower Brads
Heart Pearls in White
Heart Enamel Dots in Pastel
Glitter Enamel Dots in Pink

Happy Easter
Paper Flowers in Yellow
Dot washi in blue and pink 
Flower Washi
Variety of Skinny Washi
Jewel Bling Strip in Pink
Daisy Flower Brads
Chocolate Bunny Brads (I colored my brown bunnies with a Gold Sharpie marker)
Sitting Bird Brads
Easter Egg Brads
Jewel Bling Strip in Pink
Heart Enamel Dots in Pastel
Yellow Enamel Dots from Star Enamel - Vacation

See you next week!

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

Thank You For Your Service

I don't think we say it often enough... so today I want to give a BIG shoutout to ALL of our military personnel. Even though the little Eyelet Outlet Army Men Brads are the focal point of my card today, the sentiment is the same for all of the men and women who serve in every military branch.

THANK YOU for your service!

Eyelet Outlet Products Used:

Army Men Brads

Enamel Dots (Glittery Gold)

Foil Washi Tape (Gold/Stars)

Pearl Strips (Black)

One of the things that is nice about the Army Men Brads is they are flat enough that you can even add them to the inside of your card...

Be sure to check out all of the products in the Eyelet Outlet online store... and check out the Tradeshow Schedule to see when Eyelet Outlet will be close by so you can visit the booth and see the awesome products in person.

Jeanette

You can also find me on my blog daily

Just Breathe

Thankfully, the fashions featured on Eyelet Outlet Fashion Washi Tape are no longer in style!  Looking at those tight fitting corsets made me wonder how the women who wore those garments could even breathe - which gave me a great idea for a card!

I've always wanted to create something with one of the lovely ladies on the Cricut Victorian Romance cartridge and I knew this was my chance!  The antique look of the Eyelet Outlet Corner Brads really set off the card and added the perfect touch of texture.

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you're making plans to see Eyelet Outlet in person at one of the many trade shows we'll be at in 2018!  Check out our Trade Show Schedule for a city near you!