Help...first Time Scrapbooking

[kayc86]

This is my first time scrapbooking,i always love the way scrapbooks look but i am clueless!i have a bunch of goodies so i want to get started.How do you use Eyelets??how do they stay in place??help??TIA
Alison

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

This is my first time scrapbooking,i always love the way scrapbooks look but i am clueless!i have a bunch of goodies so i want to get started.How do you use Eyelets??how do they stay in place??help??TIA
Alison

there a few tools out there to use. The loudest is a hammer and setter, you can get them in a kit.
This is the hole punch, you tap it with the hammer to make a hole where you want it. There are 3 tip sizes:

this is the setter, you hit the back side of the eyelet til it fans out flat.

Hammer:

then there is the silent setter, same concept as above but you twist and push down instead of using a hammer:

then there is the Crop-a-dile (CAD)!!!! this is a dream tool!! It even goes through the mickeyhead eyelets without messing them up. 1 down fall though is you can't use it in the middle of a page, it does not reach very far.

I have the Silent setter and the crop-a-dile. I rarely use the Silent setter but I do if I need something where the CAD does not reach. The eyelets stay in place when the thin metal on the back breaks and fans out.

 

[kayc86]

Thank you so much for all the info,your great!

 

[Faerie]

Second vote for the CAD. I bought one a few months ago and I haven't stopped using eyelets and brads on stuff. For some reason, I could NEVER get the hammer thing to work so I gave up on using eyelets.

I got my CAD with a Mike's 40% coupon, which makes it an even better deal

 

[PrincessNancy96]

I use the hammer.. only because the kids know I'm working so they don't bother me!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I use the hammer.. only because the kids know I'm working so they don't bother me!

yeah but you can't take them to crops!