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new...70 Ways to Use Brads

Last Updated 04/08/08

1. Connectors on paper piecing for moveable parts

2. Attaching vellum

3. Accents on journal blocks

4. To "hang" things from

5. Center of flowers

6. Center of letters

7. Spell out words (outline letters)

8. Corners of picture mat

9. Eyes of paper dolls

10. Nails in a fence

11. Earrings for a paper doll

12. Belly button jewel for a paper doll

13. "Stone" in a ring

14. Buttons on a snowman

15. Decoration on a child's ball

16. Stepping stones on a garden layout

17. Attach a fiber to a brad to make a yo-yo

18. Attach elements on a page by wrapping wire or fiber

19. To form "bullets" for a list of things

20. As an accent on the tail of a letter

21. In the hole of a tag

22. White - as stars on a black or navy blue sky

23. White - as dropping snowflakes

24. Light blue - as falling raindrops

25. Orange - as pumpkins

26. White - as moonbeams

27. Jeweled belt on a paper doll

28. Brown - as chocolate chips on a cookie

29. Toppings on a pizza

30. M & Ms

31. Buttons on a shirt

32. Decorations on an Easter egg

33. Decorations on a Christmas tree

34. Purple - grapes in a cornucopia

35. Lights on top of a police car or fire truck

36. Center of a pinwheel

37. Center of tires

38. Tires on a toy car

39. End of antenna on a bug

40. Center of fiber spider web

41. Hair ornament on a girl paper doll

42. The "dot" on an i or j

43. Attach handle to a basket

44. To attach fibers lacing something together

45. Attach a sign to a post

46. Rocks

47. Center of propeller on an airplane

48. On serendipity squares

49. Sesame seeds on a bun

50. Jeweled skirt on a paper doll.

51. Use as a spider and paint a face on it with the legs behind it or use wire for its legs

52. Dots on a ladybug

53. As fillers

54. Use as nails on wood (like haunted house windows)

55. Christmas Bulbs on a tree paper piecing

56. Eye on a frog

56. Use to embellish the corner of tags or

57. Borders or

58. Titles

59. Attach fabric, twistel or lace to paper

60. Use star brads to replicate a night sky

61. Ends of a hammock (saw that on a layout at the lss using Brad-Dazzled brads)

62. Use on butterfly wings

63. Oval nail heads as Easter Eggs

64. Buttons on a dress

65. Shoe buckle

66. Dots on a clown suit doll or paper piecing

67. Sprinkles on an ice cream cone

68. Sprinkles on a cupcake

69. Use seashell nail heads on paper torn sand paper to create a beach look

70. Use your imagination!!!

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