Card making adhesives are essential.......
to make the magic stick!

There is a vast choice of card making adhesives on the market, from foam pads to glue dots, and it is trial and error until you find the ones you enjoy working with.

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Try different kinds, until you find the ones you prefer.

But it needs to be a good glue as the last thing you want is bits dropping off your card, especially if you want to sell them!

Here are some useful tips.

When you are placing paper onto the card, then a wet glue is easier to re-position, should you make a mistake.

PVA is useful but you will need to allow the card and paper to dry before you continue.

It's a permanent, general purpose glue that holds well and it dries clear, but it does tend to pucker the paper. Not one of my favourites.

Contact glue can be worked with straight away and is the one I use. You don't need a vast amount of it.

Just run a line down each edge and some dots in the centre. Place your paper on and then run your hand all over to set the paper in place.

Spray glue is another good adhesive. You will be able to peel the paper off again, for a short while, if it's not quite straight, and then press down firmly when you are happy.

Double sided tape is less messy, and comes in lots of sizes.

It is a good choice if you are crafting with younger children, but they will probably need your help in positioning the paper straight, because once your paper is down ....it's stuck ....permanantly.

Glue sticks, are useful for sticking on small elements to your cards.

Matting and layering needs adhesives to, and this can be done with any of the types of glues mentioned.

Foam pads are an ever popular card making adhesive and can be used to give each mat and layer a different level, very effective if each layer is in a lovely colour, to contrast or blend.

When you are adding toppers to your cards, then use the foam pads to raise them from the card, giving a 3-D effect.

These useful little card making adhesives come oblong, round, square, big, little, black, white, thick and thin, the choice is yours.

Decoupage also benefits from the raised effect, and for this I use either the foam pads or silicone glue.

I usually put a large blob from the tube into an old plastic lid, and then use a cocktail stick to pick up small amounts, and place it on the card.

Once the silicone has set it is very reliable, and the remainder left in the old lid can be peeled out and the lid re-used.

These flowers have been built up, and then attached to the card with silicone glue.

The Dragonfly is a peel off mounted onto acetate, and has a small piece of foam pad behind the body. The wings are then bent up, slightly, to give movement.

One of my favourite card making adhesives is a Sakura Quickie Glue Pen

These are indispensible when you want to add small gemstones, or glitter up some words. This goes on blue, but dries clear and un-noticeable.

Folllow the outline of the words you want to use with the glue pen and then sprinkle on the glamour dust for instant sparkle! Fabulous.

But my absolute favourite is the very versatile "Pinflair" Glue Gel.

This amazing glue sticks anything to anything and is just brilliant. It comes in a tube with a syringe. You decant the gel from the tube to the syringe and use small amounts as you need them

It stays in the syringe for up to six weeks without setting, and up to five years in the tube. And you will find it is the best glue to stick your toppers to glitter card.

With the Sakura Glue Pen and the Pinflair Glue Gel you can cover just about everything you need in cardmaking

And last but not least in really useful card making adhesives, is the humble glue dot. These again come in all sizes, fabulous for forming bows, or attaching lace or ribbons to your creations.

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