Many Uses of Wire

How do you curl the wire? Suggestions include twisting it on a lollipop stick, a small diameter pencil or a small piece of dowel rod.

Uses for the wire:

• Basket handles
• Wrapped around packages
• For stringing PolyShrink and other charms on pencils, etc.
• Jewelry making
• Hair – make curly-haired images “have” curly hair
• Use them as hangers for Christmas tree ornaments
• Country styled items with raffia, Kraft brown paper, or with a corrugated layer are especially cute
• For small, layered ornaments
• A really cute dragonfly shaped out of wire – or maybe a little butterfly.
• Wrapping around a pouch for the Christmas card
• Give a 3-D effect to swirls
• Stems for some really whimsical flowers
• Arms for snowmen
• Stamp a floral set then curl your wire around a narrow dowel rod and add it to the card. It will add a springy accent to an otherwise dull floral scene.
• Halos for angels
• Long & short curly-cues used to embellish any sets that have grapes, grapevines or other vines
• Different colors of short curly-cues “exploding” from a gift box like confetti in a birthday set
• Balloon strings on any set with a balloon. You can curl and bend them rather than drawing in the string.
• Stamp and cut out a bee, small butterfly, or other bug (cute sets would work best).
• Attach a piece of the wire, which has been curled around into a “flight pattern” to the back of the bug and attach the other end to the card.
• It could hold on a small tag or a small flat section of the wire could have a small, layered cardstock saying glued over top of it.
• The kid sets would be great to use for curly wired hair.
• Add beads and use as embellishment
• Green wire twisted and used with Grapes or vine sets with cut out leaves, to look like the tendrils
• Antennae for every bee, butterfly and bug out there
• Spider legs