What can you do with brads?
by Jummy
Brads are fun little embellishments. A common scrapbook and cardmaking material, I really don’t have any non-paper recommendations for brads. Without further ado, here are some good uses for brads:
- to join or hold two sheets (or more!) of paper together (if you were making fancy invitations you could use one or two pretty brads to hold together a plain sheet of cardstock and a sheet of vellum, printed with the invitation details)
- as the center of paper flowers, like I did here:
- as buttons, eyes, a nose, anything on images of people, things or creatures
- to frame images on a sheet of paper (depending on the detail and shape of the brad: less is definitely more when it comes to brads)
- brads shaped like objects (like the maple leaf) can be used to give dimension to art that would ordinarily be flat
Hit me with your best shot: what novel or well known uses for brads have I left out?
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June 6th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
here are a couple of uses. for decoration on a cork bulltin board
cut the brad ends and glue them to flat wood picture frames
as closers for paper gift bags or goodie bags for a party (lunch bag kind) fold the top of the bag over punch a hole and insert brad. (I do that one a lot)