Suggestions for Using Eyelets and Brads

1. use as a spider and paint a face on it with the legs behind it or use wire for it's legs
2. dots on a ladybug
3. use as nails on wood (like haunted house windows)
4. Christmas Bulbs on a tree paper piecing
5. eye on a frog
6. use to embellish the corner of tags, borders, titles
7. Attach fabric, twistel or lace to paper
8. use star brads to replicate a night sky
9. ends of a hammock
10. use on butterfly wings
11. oval nail heads as Easter eggs
12. Buttons on a dress
13. shoe buckle
14. dots on a clown suit doll or paper piecing
15. sprinkles on an ice cream cone
16. sprinkles on a cupcake
17. use seashell nail heads on paper torn sand paper to create a beach look
18. Cut cardstock or very subtly patterned paper into 1/4 inch strips (the paper shredder is ideal for this) Then assemble making stick letters.  Where the papers intersect add an eyelet or brad to hold the letter together.  This would be a great handyman layout, looking like construction.
19. Cut or punch tiny circles or squares, and set with an snap or brad.  This will make a great string tie envelope if you place one on the outer flap on the right side, and one on the envelope back to match up with the front one.  Then the envelope can be folded down and add a length of string from one snap or brad to the other, and wind the string between the two.
20. Black eyelets make wonderful spots on ladybug wings.  Red eyelets make great chicken pox!
21. Use eyelets or snaps for body parts for small insects, and use your Zig writer to give them arms, legs, and smiles.
22. Mat your photo on cardstock, and trim the edges so that one is wider than the rest, by about 1/4-1/2 inch.  Set a straight row of brads, eyelets, snaps, rivets, etc. to the one wide side.
23. Cut holly leaves, enough for a border.  Then arrange them on the layout, but use red mini buttons or brads instead of the die cut berries
24. Use eyelets to layer paper it will give a contemporary look to your projects, and offer clean lines.
25. Use eyelets to adhere photographs to memory pages.
    With all of the different colors available you can find complementary eyelets for your scrapbook!
26. Use eyelets to secure punched-out images. This technique is very fun.
    Take a flower punch (or stamp a flower and cut out).
    Adhere the flower to a piece of cardstock using an eyelet as the center of the flower!
    Use a different color eyelet than the cardstock and your flower will really "punch".
27. Use eyelets as eyes or polka dots in a dress.
28. Anything where you would have a circle, use an eyelet.
29. Use eyelets as a way to bind mini books.

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