Hooah! US Army Induction Card

 One thing I love about Eyelet Outlet is that no matter what the topic, there are brads and washi tapes that will help you create a special card for the topic you want to recognize. 

Today I have made a card to give to a young man who is entering the US Army. The die cuts were made using Cricut Design Space. The letters are cut out of black vinyl. On the front, I've used Army Men Brads, Anodized Star Brads, Red Skinny Holiday Washi Tape, and Silver Stars Foil Washi Tape.

Once the card is opened, the inside displays well wishes. Accents of Silver Stars Foil Washi Tape, Army Men Brads and a Flag & Hat Brad continue the theme.

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Army Men Brads

Anodized Star Brads

Flag & Hat Brads

Red Skinny Holiday Washi Tape

Silver Stars Foil Washi Tape

There's no better way to make a custom card than to use products from Eyelet Outlet. No matter the theme, you can create something special that's unique and all your own. You can't get better than that!

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Happy Creating Everyone!

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Memorial Day

 Memorial Day is coming up on the 29th My Grandmother always called it Poppy Day when I was a child, so when I saw Eyelet Outlet's beautiful Poppy Washi Tape, I knew right away that I'd be using it on a Memorial Day card.  As stated on the American Legion web site, "The red poppy is a nationally recognized symbol of sacrifice worn by Americans since World War I to honor those who served and died for our country in all wars." 

Above the Poppy washi tape, I added a strip of skinny red washi tape and above that I embossed the cardstock with Anna Griffin's "Poppies" embossing folder.  To the sentiment I added two small stars brads.

National Poppy Day Honors the Fallen and Supports the Living.

Veteran's Day

 Veteran's Day is coming up on Friday, November 11th and Eyelet Outlet has just what you need to create a beautiful card for the service members in your life.  Today I've created a card featuring a few of our beautiful washi tapes, one of our eagle brads, and some small star brads.

I built a frame for my featured sentiment by adding red star and skinny blue glitter washi tapes just to the corners of some white card stock.  The sentiment is an image from the Cricut Design Space.  I modified it a bit with the hide contour function so I could add 4 mini stars and an eagle brad.

Susan wants to wish the Marchesano Family a Happy Veteran's Day.

Fun With Felt

I've been having quite a lot of fun with felt lately and have found new ways to incorporate Eyelet Outlet brads into my felt projects.  A few weeks ago and shared my a fall themed banner and today I've got some Christmas ornaments to show you.

I iron fusible webbing to the back of the felt that I use in the designs.  I peel off the backing and then cut the shapes with my Cricut Maker and rotary blade.  Once I have them layered like I want them on one of the round pieces of felt,  I cover the design with a damp pressing cloth and iron.  The fusible webbing adheres everything together perfectly.  Then I embellish the ornaments with Eyelet Outlet brads and sequins and blanket stitch the rounds together adding a little bit of batting before taking the last few stitches.

Eyelet Outlet sequins are amazing for this project and they are available in lots of shapes and colors.  I stitched round ones on the Christmas tree and wreath and the pretty star shaped ones surround the angel.  

I used a round jeweled brad in the center of my snowflake.  There's dozens to choose from at Eyelet Outlet.

In addition to the multi-colored round sequins, I added a gold star brad to the top of the tree and a few of our brand new gift brads underneath.

I have several more ornament designs on the drawing board, so check back in and see how I'll be using even more Eyelet Outlet products on them!

Revved Up Gift Set

It is a fact, universally acknowledged, that masculine cards and gifts are harder to make than those with a feminine theme. Or maybe I (Lauren) am the only one who used to think so? But thanks to Eyelet Outlet I'm now definitely an Equal Opportunity Embellisher. For this gift set, I combined lots of EO Gear Brads, Compasses, Anodized Stars and manly washi tapes with papers from Prima Marketing's "Craftsman" collection. I think it's a bit of a match made in heaven!

I made the bag first. I added a nice thick band alternating layers of torn paper and Brick Tape, Circuit Tape, Map Tape, Road Tape, and Wheels Tape; but really ANY combination of tapes which work well together would be equally good. I adorned the picture wheel with tiny 1/16" Round Brads in gold, and added some old-school Brushed Brass Eyelets to the corners of the label shape. Finally I added the fabulous vintage car (snipped from an old falling apart book I got at a garage sale) and a few Anodized Stars. The extra eagle-eyed will notice that in with the gears I've slipped a few Film Cans from our Movie Brads and Faucet Valves from the Pipe Brad Set; because they both look like they belong, and you don't always have to just use things the way they were originally intended! ;)

When it came to making the card, I basically made a pared down version of the same design, but I added a sentiment. It's a combination of small foam letter stickers and my own larger diecut alphas, made from cardstock covered with Map Tape! The background again uses the Map Tape, Brick Tape and Circuit Tape and I've thrown in another Compass and some Anodized Stars.

When it comes to creative embellishing, Eyelet Outlet *always* has your back!

Lauren Bergold

has never been a "less is more" 

kinda gal!

Paris is Always a Good Idea... or Two!

The only "problem" with Eyelet Outlet Eiffel Tower Brads is that each pack comes with six bright silver Eiffel Towers and six anodized copper ones. And since I (Lauren) can never decide which to use, I nearly always wind up making two cards. Like these:

This time I used one of the copper brown Eiffel Tower Brads first, because I knew how beautifully it would pair with the Vertical Eiffel Tower Tape I've used in the background. I couldn't resist adding a strip of this pretty new Gold Foil XO Tape, as well as a couple of Anodized Stars and a Compass Brad.

Obviously, I couldn't leave out the pretty silver Eiffel Tower Brads, so my second card features one of those on top of a trimmed down journal card that reads, "Paris is Always a Good Idea". I added a few strips of pretty pink foil Rose Washi Tape on the pink notebook paper panel, and a couple of Heart Brads to finish off my design.

Of course, both of these ideas would also work really well in a travel journal, or to scrapbook a trip to Paris; but until I have occasion for either of those, I'll just keep making cards! ♥

Lauren Bergold

has not been to Paris...

yet!!!

Here's to Beer

It's Kim from Katydid Cards with you today.

I have so many projects using Eyelet Outlet's newly released brads and brand new line of clear stamps, I have a hard time waiting for Tuesdays to roll around.

Today I'm sharing cards made using the new Beer Clear Stamps.  These are so much fun with which to work when paired with the new Beer Brads.

My first card uses the beer mug brads as my color inspiration.  I found some digital patterned paper on Etsy called Oktober Fest to match and then combined black, gray, yellow and white cardstocks.
After I attached everything, I realized I should have done something with the rather stark gray background so I blinged the card up a bit with Black Pearl Bling.

Next up is a card that combines another image from the set with the beer bottles and the Anodized Star Brads (which I colored black).  There are stars on one of the beer bottle labels so adding stars coordinated really well.

The card base is a cut file from the Silhouette store.  I reminded me of the beer foam.  A few of the holes I cut out were just sitting there so I added them to the empty space at the bottom of the card.

I shared a card with the beer brads previously.  I added a bit of Liquid Applique to the mugs to simulate foam and it worked really well.

Kim from Katydid Cards

Who provided the inspiration for these cards?  Katy did!