Hello! Hope everyone had a great National Scrapbook Day weekend! For today’s blog post I am going to be a little nostalgic and pay homage to one of my first scrapbooking supplies. Brads! I still have lots of them and once in a while I have to remind myself to use them more often. Here on my page (inspired by PageMaps, and Just Nick’s cutting files) I used some star shaped brads along the little border strip as a subtle accent.
A really simple way to dress up brads is to tie a few loops or twine or jute and anchor them behind the brad before adding them to your project. Easy peasy!
I hope this inspires you to dig into your stash and use a brad or two, have a wonderful day!
Thanks for reminding me to use up my brads.
Nice LO, thanks for the reminder to use some of my brads on my projects. I like the looping idea!
That is a good way to dress up plain brads. I’ll be putting that tip to good use when I do layouts for my grandsons….who don’t want flowers or glitter on their pages…but a twine bow behind a brad would be acceptable…boys are just miniature men!!!!
Very creative way of decorating a page with brads. Thank you for the tips :)
I miss some of those really neat embellishments that aren’t in vogue right now like buttons, brads, bling, ribbon, eyelet brads and a few others! They still can really make a difference in a layout!
I don’t have many brads.. but they are fun to use when I have something that matches :)
Love love love these layouts! Great use of shaped brads!! Thank you for sharing these!
I love my brads. I’m going to pull them out again. Thanks.
SUPER CUTE WAYS TO GET THE STASH OF BRADS ON THE PAGE!
Gorgeous layouts! Brads really do finish off a layout. Thank you for sharing. Take care, Kim :)
Beautiful layouts. I love brads and still use them sometimes. I love the idea of looping around the bow. Love the look with using brads.
Love the layouts
Love the idea of twine and brad!
Love what you did you the brad/bow.
FABULOUS layouts!!!
LOVE my brads!!!
Great idea to dress them up, THANK YOU for sharing :)
I love brads :)
I love some of the new twists on old favorites. Thanks for always providing current content for your many admirers!
Soo excited for this class! What a great idea!!! Such beautiful layouts!
Great LO and awesome use of brads! I gotta get my old brads out. :)
Thanks for the inspiration as always Virginia! Your work is so beautiful. I especially love the nostalgic theme of going back to basics and using up our stash of brads. Lord knows I have a ton of my own I need to use up!
Virginia, I love your layout and my brads!! TFS!
Virginia, your two layouts are splendid!! Thanks for the great reminder that I need to take my brads out for a play date. :)