Sunday, December 22, 2024

Janet's Five Faves of 2024

  It's been quite a year at the Eyelet Outlet blog. We've had some great projects in 2024. This week, the team is taking a look back and showing us their five favorite cards and projects of 2024. I've picked mine but it's always hard to look through over 50 projects and choose your favorites. If you would like to be reminded of how to make these or if you wonder what products were EO's, just clink on the post links and it'll take you to the original posts. So - without further delay, here are my top five favorites of 2024!

This goofy looking snowman is tricked out with many holiday themed brads included a hat, wreath, ornament, and much more!

Skating Snowman



Everyone needs a little encouragement from time to time. This card has a lot of color and patterns for the dresses made with washi tape, hanger brads, and heart pearls.

Hang In There



There are two things I love from the EO store and that's the Girl Gnome Brads and the many Flower Brads. This thank you card also has added color from washi tapes.

Thank You With Girl Gnomes


These mittens are so cute on this card. They're decorated with Retro Christmas Tree Brads, Snowflake Brads, and Holly Brads. Snowflake bling adds a fun touch to the cuffs.

Mitten Magic


This card features many food brads and washi tapes. Looks good enough to eat!

Have an Egg-Cellent Birthday


Thanks for joining me here today to see some of my favorite cards of the past year. I hope you all enjoy a peaceful and restful holiday. Please visit the EO store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!

Happy Creating!


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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Holiday Sampler

Nothing says, "Warm Holiday Wishes" quite as well as a Nordic Knit cover stamp studded with Eyelet Outlet Brads! This card has thirty-seven (37!) brads from eight different brad styles... can you spot them all? Scroll down for a hint!


Working from top to bottom: 1/16" Round Brads (Brown Mix); Poinsettia Brads; more 1/16" Round Brads (Brown Mix) as reindeer eyes; Heart BradsPine Cone Brads1/16" Round Brads (Red Mix); CardinalCardinal Profile and Female Cardinal BradsSnowy Trees and finally 1/16" Round Brads (White). And in case you're wondering, "Did you really pierce a hole, place the brad, and secure the prongs for every single one?" Check out the photo below, which shows the back of the design panel.


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Check out the Eyelet Outlet Store for all the holiday embellishments you could possibly need!

sends you warm holiday wishes!

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Santa's Ready to Sleigh!

One of my favorite things about card making is making scenes. EO's washi tapes, brads, bling and other accessories really give us a lot to work with for making scenes. I created this one located at Santa's workshop in the North Pole. It looks chilly but warms my heart!

I used Glitter Winter Washi Tape, one of my favorites, to create the winter tree scene in the background. I used Aleene's True Snow with glitter sprinkled on the top for the snow part of the scene. While it dried, I stamped, colored and cut out Santa's Workshop and the light pole. 

I added the stamped images to the card front and then all the brads. The true charm of this scene comes from Santa, his sleigh, a deer, a poinsettia on the light pole and snowy trees, and a Merry Christmas saying. It looks like Santa is ready to leave for his big night!

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

Happy Creating!


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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Nutcracker Card

I really like the Eyelet Outlet Nutcracker brads and today I paired one with an Eyelet Outlet gift brad and pine tree brad.


 I used images from Cricut Design Space to create a little border for my card that mimics my brad grouping. I added some gold glitter washi tape on both sides of my border. 


After embossing the blue cardstock with a snowflake embossing folder, I decided to bring the snowflake touch forward with a few snowflake brads.  




Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Happy Hanukkah

Hanukkah begins at sundown on December 25th and here's a card that celebrates the Festival of Lights featuring Eyelet Outlet Blue Tear Drop Bling as candle flames; a Heart Brad on the Menorah; blue and white Star Brads in the background; and 1... 2... 3... 4 EO Tapes: Sparkle Gold Glitter Tape; the beautiful blue and gold snowflake tape from the Holiday Washi Set; Sparkle White Glitter Tape and Glitter Tall Trees Tape


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The Eyelet Outlet Store is full of beautiful embellishments to make all of your holiday cards extra special!

wishes you a very Happy Hanukkah!

Sunday, December 8, 2024

Blinged Out Angel Ornament


Hi everyone! I recently was gifted a set of dies that make a few different Christmas ornaments. I am entranced by this angel. It requires no glue. It just folds into a cone shape and the wings have slits that allow them to crisscross and that's what keeps it together. So clever!

Of course, I had to bling up an angel and EO has everything I needed to make this one gleam! I decorated her skirt with Swirl Pearl Bling in gold and used Holiday Bling at the top of the skirt. Then I applied Jewel Bling Strip in clear along the skirt's edge. Her wings are accented with Snowflake Bling and Red Snowflake Bling. Finally I placed a 12mm Bling Jewel as her face.

She turned out nicely and will match in nicely with some of my other homemade ornaments that I've created over the years. Simple but sweet!

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

Happy Creating!


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Thursday, December 5, 2024

Beautiful Bling!

I can say with complete confidence that Eyelet Outlet offers some of the most beautiful bling I've ever seen!  See all our bling under the "Bling & Sequins" tab on our home page. Today I'm bringing you a card that features a couple of my favorite bling products.


I created this card in Cricut Design Space using the slice, offset, and weld tools to create the base of the card then I added some stunning Eyelet Outlet bling to the ornaments on the front. The ornament on the left is embellished with a 1.5" snowflake and I used some fancy long bling on the smaller ornament. The fancy long bling is my absolute fav and it comes in several colors, but today I opted for clear.

I hope you'll add some of our fabulous bling to your holiday projects and don't forget to tag us on social media when you share pictures of how you've used it!




 

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Peace On Earth

Can you hear the Eyelet Outlet Angel Brads singing a joyful holiday tune? 


These angels have a sweet, slightly retro vibe that's perfect for adorning a diecut Christmas tree backed with Sparkle Gold Glitter Tape, studded with Pearl Bling and topped with a Star Brad. A mat and sentiment made from Music Note Washi completes the design. 


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The Eyelet Outlet Store has all the embellishments you need to make your holiday cards SHINE!

is looking forward to decorating the Christmas tree!

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Skating Snowman

 

Hello EO fans! It's suddenly very cold here and it made me think of snow and one of the things I have fun doing with my family - ice skating! In the Carolinas, there's only a few places to do that in the winter but I think a visit is due.

To make this card, I used a snowman die from Spellbinders and then decorated with many brads and some bling from the EO store. The background was embossed and the blue doily is from another die set in my stash. I had a lot of fun deciding what to put in this snowman's hands but settled on the wreath and ornament brads. I put a jaunty santa hat brad on his head to give him a little more personality. To bling it up a bit, I added two strips of clear jewel bling to the hat trim and pompom. His buttons are black pearl bling. The Snowman, Prancing Deer and Gift Brads were the final touches for this simple and fun card.

SHOPPING LIST:
Wreath Brads

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

Happy Creating!


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Thursday, November 28, 2024

Sweet Holiday Wishes from the Gingerbread Kids

Ever since Eyelet Outlet introduced the Gingerbread Boys & Girls a few years back, I always look forward to using them in some of my holiday projects. Today I used them in a sweet little Christmas card. 


The gingerbread house is from Cricut Design Space. I cut the white layer from white glitter iron-on and used my Cricut Easy Press to adhere it to the brown card stock layer of the house. Iron-on works amazingly well on card stock, by the way.  


I added a few red enamel dots to the house and of course, the gingerbread kids are at the door. I added a few of our brand new retro Christmas tree brads to either side of the house, too.

Be sure and check back soon, because I have another fun project I'll be sharing soon that also uses the gingerbread kids.






 

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing a very Happy Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating tomorrow! This pretty wreath consists of several neutral shades of diecut cardstock, creating a grapevine-like base that can be embellished with all your favorite Eyelet Outlet autumnal brads. Yellow Paper Flowers are topped with Sunflower Brads, clustered with Colored Daisies, Butterflies and Leaf Brads.


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Happy Thanksgiving!

is looking forward to turkey, stuffing and broccoli casserole!

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Holiday Pop Up Greeting!


 Hi everyone! Happy Thanksgiving week! With it being so late, I'm feeling the need to really kick my holiday card making into high gear. I need to make cards that are quick and look like it took more time than it did. I have a die set that makes an easel card and I have some nice quality holiday ephemera. Using the die set and ephemera makes quick work out of a complicated looking card base and the ephemera means I don't have to do any coloring or other time consuming prep. 

This card folds flat but then pops up into an easel card which reveals more decorations inside. I used three different patterned papers in the same color way to further add interest and color. It's embellished  with several Christmas brads, glitter washi tape, and lots of bling from Eyelet Outlet. Using EO embellishments adds a lot to your cards without adding a lot of time. You can't ask for more! The washi border and mat for Santa was easy to do with the included dies in the card set. My short cuts still made an elegant card that I'll be proud to give it to any of my friends and family.


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

Happy Creating!


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Thursday, November 21, 2024

MEOWY Catmas!

The designers and I have had so much fun late recently with the newest cat brads in the Eyelet Outlet litter. You saw these little guys peeking and climbing all over our Halloween projects, but you'll find fun ways to use them all year round. Today I've got one of them mischievously climbing up the Christmas tree!


I created this tag in Cricut Design Space and used the slice tool to cut the little paw prints into the tree.


I added some enamel dots to the tree. These are from the red/green holiday pack. I also used one of our kitten brads at the base of the tree. He looks like he's ready for trouble with his little paw in the air, doesn't he?  


Thanks for stopping in today and we hope you're having fun using Eyelet Outlet products in your holiday projects. Be sure and tag us when you share your projects on social media!




 

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Give Thanks

It's a week before Thanksgiving, but there's still time to send out some quick, easy cards! This super-simple CAS design features Eyelet Outlet Leaf and Mini Leaf Brads layered over stenciled leaves in fall colors. The background and diecut sentiment are made from beautifully neutral Nature Washi Tape. Change up the greeting and this design could be used for literally ANY autumnal occasion.


Shopping List:

Visit the Eyelet Outlet Store today for brads and tapes that'll work perfectly for EVERY season of your cardmaking year!

definitely prefers stenciling leaves to raking them!

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Pop Up Christmas Cards

 
Today I’m sharing two pop-up cards with a Christmas theme. The stamp and die sets I used are from Diamond Press. In the first, Santa is peaking out of the chimney on a house roof. When the tab is pulled, he pops out.

The second card has an elf and reindeer that are busily wrapping presents. 

When the tab is pulled, the elf pops out.

Here are the insides of the cards.

I decorated these cards with several brads and bling from the EO store.

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

Happy Creating!


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