Valentine's Day Down on the Farm

Love is in the air at Eyelet Outlet as our udderly adorable farm animal brads are having a field day pairing up to celebrate their favorite holiday. This pun-tastic set of mini greeting cards features the moo-velous cows from our Cow and Goat Brads, the Pig and Sheep set, Horse and Pony Brads, as well as four washi styles: Farm Tape, Red Dot Washi, Wood Tape and Brick Washi. 

Barn to be Wild Shopping List:

Cow and Goat Brads

Pig and Sheep Brads

Horse and Pony Brads

Farm Tape

Red Dot Washi

Wood Tape

Brick Washi

Check out all of farm-tastic brads and tapes at Eylelet Outlet, so you too can be outstanding in your field! :)

My Gnomie Valentine

Eyelet Outlet Gnome Brads and Girl Gnome Brads are celebrating Valentine's Day in their Sunny Studio Home Sweet Gnome. EO's extra-wide Sky Washi and Grass Tape are perfect for making a little scene that also features Heart Brad, a Mini Ladybug, Mini Leaves, a Sunflower Brad and a Mini Bee.

Love is in the air, so the Eyelet Outlet Store has all the brads, tape, bling and sequins you need for Valentine's Day and the rest of the year, as well; and adorable Sunny Studio Stamps are the perfect size and scale to use with your brads! 

Happy Valentine's Day

The Eyelet Outlet Bear Brads (and their admiring humans) wish you a BEARY Happy Valentine's Day! On this card they're joined by a few Heart Brads as well as Vertical and Horizontal Heart Tape, Skinny Heart Tape and the Gold Foil Tape from our Valentine Tape Set.

Eyelet Outlet has all the Brads, Tapes and Embellies you LOVE; check out our 2024 Tradeshow Schedule to find out when we'll be visiting a town near you!

Trading Hearts Layered Embossing Cards

There's a pair of bear pairs on the Ranger Product Page today, celebrating the fact that, here in the Northern Hemisphere, Valentine's Day is a winter holiday. Though, for that matter, in places where polar bears live, Easter is also a winter holiday... and sometimes Memorial Day, too! Luckily, there are FIVE different Ranger Embossing Powders in play here (Blue, Green, Turquoise, Snowflake Tinsel and Black) and all that heat gun action is bound to warm it up a bit, right? Stamps from Simon Hurley create Winter Woodland set; layering stencils from the Dazzling Diamond and Winter Scene Maker sets. Archival Inks in Seafarer, Emerald and Jet Black also play a part. Hop over to the full post for step-by-step details!

A Valentine Toast (with Eggs!)

Breakfast, we're told, is the most important meal of the day, possibly because it's the most pun-worthy? Eyelet Outlet Bacon, Egg and Toast Brads are always ready to add their special charm to birthday cards, anniversary toasts, or, as in this case, adorable mini Valentines!

Here's a TOAST to all the awesome brads, tapes, bling and embellishments in the Eyelet Outlet Online Store, just waiting to make your next card EGG-stra special!

Valentine Sweets

To make the perfect Valentine all you need is a fun sentiment, a cute color palette and of course a few sweet treats... in Eyelet Outlet Brad form! This trio of mini cards features our Cupcake Swirl Brads, Donuts and Ice Cream Cones; as well as Wood Washi, Pink Dot Tape and Strawberry Washi.

It's the best way to send your Valentine a sweet treat that fits into an envelope! Check out the Eyelet Outlet Store to find brads, tapes and embellishments perfect for all your cardmaking needs.

You're Tops in My Book

Hearts, flowers and books are ALWAYS in season! Here's a card featuring Eyelet Outlet Book Brads, Book Washi and the adorable bears from Lawn Fawn's Den Sweet Den stamp set. This could be a Valentine, a Galentine, a Birthday Greeting or a Just Because Card. A label shape made of Book Tape is framed by a larger diecut of Wood Washi and the whole thing is framed with Script Tape. Book Brads, a Colored Daisy and a few Hearts finish off this sweet scene.

Whether your next card is for a reader, a sportsperson, a classic car enthusiast or a knitter... Eyelet Outlet has the brads, tapes and embellies you need!

Wendy Vecchi Floral Valentine

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so I'm getting extra inky using Wendy Vecchi's Flower Pot and Let's Shop Stamp, Die and Stencil Sets with a rainbow of pink and orange Archival Inks on a variety of Ranger specialty paper styles, to create a floral celebration perfect for any loved one. I hope you'll head over to the Ranger Project Page and read all about it!

SOS489: Love is in the Air

It's two weeks before Valentine's Day, so you will likely not be shocked to find that this fortnight's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to make something with a looooooooove theme; whether that be a Valentine, Galentine, Wedding or Anniversary card. Mine looks a bit like this: 

I love (and collect!) vintage typewriters, so when I saw this Penny Black "Just My Type" mini set at Paper Anthology a couple of years ago, OF COURSE I had to have it. Slightly more puzzling (and embarrassing, lol) is the fact that it is only just seeing ink NOW. But that's what's great about SOS challenges, they're specifically designed to make us look through our older stash items and actually USE them! I've paired the stamps with a bunch of XOXO's diecut with Tim Holtz/Sizzix Typo Lowercase Die from a scrap of pink and red gel print set on top of a piece of text paper from one of my somewhat-falling-apart vintage typewriter books. The background is another gel print (I'm totally inspired by the way Stephanie uses her gellies!) and the heart was pre-die-cut from a piece of ancient patterned paper which just happened to match pretty well. 

There's a whole lotta love awaiting you at Shopping Our Stash, in the form of beautifully inspiring cards from the design team. I hope you'll go have a look, then start planning what you'll link up with us this fortnight.

Honey, Bee Mine

Puns and brads make the BEST Valentines, and if there are a few styles of Eyelet Outlet Washi Tape in there too, so much the better. This card features Bumble Bee Brads, Heart Brads, vertical Heart Tape and Love Washi, all of which adds up to a HONEY of a Valentine a cardmaker can BEE proud of!*

The Eyelet Outlet Store has lots more brads, tapes, sequins, bling and other embellishments to give your Valentines ...and ALL your papercrafting projects... your own unique style!

*apologies, but you know I can NEVER resist a diabolical pun!!!

♥♥♥

Valentines Down on the Farm

Valentine's Day is just a month away, but luckily Eyelet Outlet has all the brads, washi tape, bling and enamel accents you could possibly need to make cards that are uniquely yours. This pair of punny valentines feature our Pig and Sheep Brads with hearts of Pink & White Dot Tape and diecut X's and O's of Tiny Heart Washi with computer generated sentiments (the very useful free font is called Bohemian Typewriter).

Check out the Eyelet Outlet Store for lots more embellishments, as well as the always inspiring Ideas Gallery!

Just My Type

Eyelet Outlet has the KEYS to your heart in the form of Typewriter Brads and not one but two beautiful styles of wide Typewriter Tape! Perfect for cards, envelopes, journals, and in this case, some super-cute mini Valentines, thanks to the addition of a few sweet pink Heart Brads.

 There's lots to love in the Eyelet Outlet Store, and lots of inspiration on the EO Blog!

A Toast for Valentine's Day

Breakfast is not only the most important meal of the day, it's also the very best for puns! When these EGG-citing cards pop up in your Valentine's mailbox, it is sure to be BACON their day! 

Eyelet Outlet's Bacon, Egg and Toast Brad Set pairs perfectly with colorful Striped Washi and some white Enamel Hearts for a pair of cards that's FRIED and true! 

Wendy Vecchi Chippie Valentine

I'm very excited to be on the Ranger Blog today, showing off some brand new Wendy Vecchi Chippies in a fun (and colorful) Valentine. What are Chippies? They're sturdy, pre-primed chipboard embellishments, ready to customize with inks, stamps, stencils, pens, paints or any other media you wish. I hope you'll hop over and see the completed card and read all about it!

Chippies come in Blossoms, Bases and Frames (both of which I've used in today's card) as well as Lots of Leaves, Beverages and Wreaths.

So Hoppy Together

I can never resist a pun, but for some reason they're even more appealing for Valentine's Day. If one happens to have Eyelet Outlet Frog Brads and/or Rabbit Brads, any greeting which would ordinarily read, "Happy" can now be, "Hoppy"! If one also has the amazing super-wide Sky Washi, an instant landscape can easily occur!

To flesh out the scene I added border-punched layers of grass, Sun and Cloud Brads and some adorable Mini Bees. For the Frogs, a Cattail from their set (they come with Water Lilies as well!) is peeping out in the background; for the bunnies it's a Colored Daisy. Be sure to hop (sorry, for once it was unintentional lol) over to the Eyelet Outlet Blog for more inspiration!

Valen-TINY

Valentines come in all shapes and sizes, and these are definitely of the smaller variety. Artist Trading Cards are 2.5 x 3.5" (modeled on the average playing card) which is big enough for some sweet Eyelet Outlet Chameleon or Turtle Brads (they're on sale!), plus Sun and Cloud Brads, and a silly sentiment. Everything you need to wish your Valentine a happy day.  

Be sure to check out the Eyelet Outlet Blog, where the design team are always cooking up something fun to inspire you!

Outstanding in Their Field

Sheep are shear magic and I think you wool love Eyelet Outlet Sheep Brads! I've made a farm-themed Valentine, although really this idea could work equally well as a birthday or encouragement card at any time of year. 

I've watercolored Art Impressions' Old Barn mini stamp set with Tombow Dual Brush Pens and added LDRS' Country Fence diecut in the foreground. My farm yard features the sweet sheep from our Pig and Sheep set, as well as some Mini Butterflies and the Sun and Cloud set. 

In addition to the Pig and Sheep Brads, Eyelet Outlet has Cow and Goat Brads, Horse and Pony Brads, Roosters, Chickens, Chicks, Eggs, Pick-up Trucks, Cowboy Brads and Tractors, too! So FARM, so good!

Lauren's Valentine Favorites

Isn't it fun looking back at the Eyelet Outlet Design team's favorite Valentine cards and projects? I've had a great time scrolling through my cards from the last few years; and I also *love* seeing what the rest of the team have picked, as well!

With 45 brads from 29 different styles, this two-piece, maximalist Valentine from 2019 has to be my all-time favorite, right? I'm not going to re-list them all here, but if you click the link it'll take you to theWholehearted post where you can find every single brad linked to its page in the EO Store.

My second choice is a fun (though fairly specific, lol) card. Featuring one of the three colors of yarn from our Knitting Brads (they're on sale!) and a few Heart Brads on a background of Blue and White Dots Tape, this More Than Yarn card is from January of 2017

I've used the same diabolical pun three different ways for my Hoppy Hoppy Hoppy trio from February of 2020; with Rabbit and Heart Brads and some Tiny Hearts Tape; with Frog Brads with Heart Pearls on a background of Cloud Tape; and finally Beer Brads and Beer Tape with some yellow Heart Enamels.

Last year's Valentine's Breakfast is another trio... (what can I say, I like making sets) ...this time pairing a punny breakfast stamp set with our Bacon Egg and Toast Brads as well as the waffles from our Chicken and Waffles Set (also on sale!) and more Heart Pearls.

I hope you'll take a little time to scroll around the Eyelet Outlet Blog and see ALL the favorites from the wonderful Design Team!

It's the 14th of February!

I hope you'll receive your fair share love and treats today, whether they be from a Valentine, a GAL-entine, or something special from you to you! Here's a "HEART-y" shaker card featuring Avery Elle's Oval Burst Elle-ments Die which I talk more about on The Ink Pad Blog today.

Hogs and Kisses

Valentine's Day is Sunday, but there's still time to make a funny, punny card, especially if you have some Eyelet Outlet Pig and Sheep Brads!

I made a fast background with Tiny Heart Tape and then chose cardstock colors to coordinate. I made my "Hogs and Kisses" sentiment using chunky foam alphabet stickers and added two adorable Pig Brads to the letter O. Finally, I scattered a few Heart Brads and I was done! Super-fast, super-fun and super-cute; what else do you need?