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Feb '03 Kewlpiggy7

Hello you all, i am a newbie...i recently started scrapbooking. I am confused about the eyelets, brads, and snaps. What are the difference between them. Can anyone care to explain it to me???
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Ericka
Feb '03 Inkiepinkies

RE: Kewlpiggy7: Hello you all, i am a newbie...i recently started scrapbooking. I am confused about the eyelets, brads, and snaps. What are the difference between them. Can anyone care to explain it to me??? ------------------Ericka

All three are metal. The simplest to use is the brad. Remember in school when you did your three page report on the Pilgrims? When you had your pages together, you took this round metal thing with two long "legs" sticking out behind, put it through the hole in the paper, and spread the "legs" apart and flat to hold it in place. That is a brad. Today they come in all sizes, shapes, and colors, but they are all applied by cutting a bitty slit in your layout, and sticking the "legs" through to the back and opening them. Eyelets are the little things up the top of your tennis shoes that are rings to reinforce the hole to hold the shoe string. To set eyelets in a layout you need an anywhere hole punch in the same size as the eyelet (most common sizes are 1/16, 1/4, and 3/8 inches) You punch the hole where you want to place the eyelet by tapping the hole punch on a firm, steady surface that has been protected with a piece of acrylic, cutting mat with a hammer. Then put the eyelet through the hole so the front is on the front of the layout, turn the paper over, and with the setting tool, tap a couple of times with a hammer to flatten the back of the eyelet. Eyelets can be anything that is round--dots on lady bugs, wheels on trucks, centers of flowers, or even just to hold vellum to cardstock without using an adhesive. Snaps are applied by punching the hole, putting one side of the snap on one side of the paper, and the other side on the back side of the paper, and pressing together to close the snap.
Nancy
Feb '03 Kewlpiggy7

RE: Inkiepinkies: All three are metal. The simplest to use is the brad. Remember in school when you did your three page report on the Pilgrims? When you had your pages together, you took this round metal thing with two long "legs" sticking out behind, put it through the hole in the paper, and spread the "legs" apart and flat to hold it in place. That is a brad. Today they come in all sizes, shapes, and colors,...

Hey Nancy, many tons of thanks!!!!!!!!!! I will start off with brads for now, see go from there, i am excited about starting my first scrapbook. When i finish some layouts, i will post it sometime soon...hopefully i do well...
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Ericka
Feb '03 Meggie

RE: Kewlpiggy7: Hey Nancy, many tons of thanks!!!!!!!!!! I will start off with brads for now, see go from there, i am excited about starting my first scrapbook. When i finish some layouts, i will post it sometime soon...hopefully i do well... ------------------Ericka

Nancy,
That was a really great, simple, clear answer!
Kudos!
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Megan:
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