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Hi - I've been lurking for a while now just really enjoying the website but now I need some help. How do I get brads attached to card stock without completely messing up the back or the front of the brad.....Help!
Yes, I do make a small hole first, position the brad in place, turn the cardstock over, place the tool in the open end of the brad "stem" and then hammer the end of the tool. But often the brad seems to flatten out and lose it's shape and not look very attractive from either the back or the front.
If its eyelets sounds like you might be smacking it too hard.
Make sure you have something underneath the eyelet before you hammer and give it 2 good smack, then turn it over to check to see what it looks like.
I know I had problems when I first started using then that I was just hammering them too much into the card. HTH
Until last week when I bought a Silent Setter! It's a tool that has the different tips for making the hole then flattening the back (in 3 sizes); Instead of a hammer, you just press down on it (with a little weight behind it!), twist & you're done! I'm using lots more eyelets already; I got mine for only $12.50 (1/2 off w/a coupon) at Joanns! :smile:
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The shape of your eyelet setter might have something to do with it too. The one I use has a cone shaped tip and it works fine with any eyelet. I had one with the little nub and I couldn't get that thing to work to save my life!
Take your little pointy eyelet setter and pressing on the back of eyelet, do a few little circles pressing down as you rotate the setter,,, This kind of stretches the eyelet and starts it on it way to laying down or going the right direction when you hammer it with the setter. Pound just enough to flatten it down with the setter, then pound the eyelet with out the setter on the back side to finish flattening it,,, be gentle of course so you get the job done enough but not too much to destroy all your eyelet. This seems to work for me and my demo gave us this tip when setting eyelets.... hope it helps and you can understand what I meant,, it is hard to describe....
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If the eyelets are Stampin Up! brand(this only workd with S.U.), I punch the hole with the 1/8th inch hand punch, put in the eyelet, then position the 1/16th hole punch(handheld one) and squeeze! This is silent and fast! Ilove this technique! Taishea ;-)
I notice sometimes that it depends on the brand of the eyelet. I have 2 kinds of tools-the one w/the hammer and the one with the springs. I think hammering works better than the one with the springs. I am working on getting the "silent setter". Good Luck
Did you know that there are two different tools? Eyelet SETTERS and eyelet FINISHERS. I only learned this a few minutes ago. Thanks to Melissa I now know how to attach eyelets "properly." Yee.. Haw!!!
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Thank you very much everyone for all your responses - I'm going to practice, practice, practice....on some old card stock, not using my prettiest eyelets....
I'm determined! lol :cool:
I had a terrible time with eyelets when I first started, I was setting them on a piece of wood and the front always distorted, kinda oval-ish but not even, and not pretty. Then someone told me to use a left over piece of counter-top, the kind with malamine on it, the local craft store even sold 6" x8" chunks for this purpose. Apparantly the plywood I was using wasn't a hard enough surface for what I was doing. This is even more important if you use larger or shaped eyelets.
Now they set fine as long as I don't pound to much. I also found that there are two kinds of setters, one has a pointed end, and one has a kinda little half sphere with a trough thingie around it. I don't like the pointy ones as much
Brads....Help!
eyelet problem solved!
