Some Base Metal Charms
and how you can use them

Base metal charms are inexpensive charms that you can purchased for a few dollars a dozen. You often see them on costume jewelry and cellphones accessories. They are also great for decorative uses like embellishing a wrapped parcel or as embellishment on handmade greeting cards.

Here are some in my collection :

A Pair of Slippers Charms - a casual fashion charm which is great for a bracelet to go with jeans and t-shirt.

A Shoe Charm - a fashion charm for any fashion conscious women or young girls. I love shoes so I collect pictures of shoes from magazines and advertisements and compiled them into a shoes scrap book. So this shoe charm came in very handy as an embellishment for the cover of my little book.

A Bicycle Charm - I like this charm. It looks like a bicycle I have which I use to cycle all over my neighborhood running errands.

A Set of Lock and Key Charm - Anyone coming of age? Since this is made of base metal, I use this on my gift wrapping for a present to someone who has come of age - in my country, it's someone's 21st birthday.

A Handbag Charm - A fashion charm that goes great with shoes, and hats. How about attaching it to the zipper on a handbag?

A Hat Charm - Great with the shoe and handbag charms above. Since this has a flat base, you can use it for card making to embellish a handcrafted card for a fashionable young lady.

A Beach Sandal Charm - Could goes well with anything to do with the beach; beach ball, sea-shells, etc. Add this to your beach theme charm bracelets.

A Dragonfly Charm - A garden theme charm that would be most suitable for anyone who loves gardening.

A Baby Pacifier Charm - Use this to tie up a baby gift. Wrap the gift with handmade paper, insert a ribbon into the loop and tie a knot. Then tie the parcel with the ribbon.

Various Uses for Base Metal Charms:

* charm bracelets

* earrings

* cellphone accessories

* key chain

* greeting cards

* bookmarks

* decorate journal's covers

* pendants

* gift wrapping

* party favors

And here's a charm bracelet I created for my niece using base metal charms.

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