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Adhesives
I have a cupboard full of adhesives and usually end up
using double stick tape for my projects. How about you? What's your favorite adhesive? And why? -- Snow removal required before sending email. |
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What's your favorite adhesive? And why?
Tombow Mono-Adhesive. It is convenient, easy-to-use and can be used for just about anything. Cecelia |
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I love to use my Xyron for gluing stuff. I have the 850, the 5 inch and the
little X. I find using these makes a lot less mess for me. -- Connie K Pages done for this month= Total pages for the year so far= "Sally Minnesota" wrote in message ... I have a cupboard full of adhesives and usually end up using double stick tape for my projects. How about you? What's your favorite adhesive? And why? -- Snow removal required before sending email. |
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Sally Minnesota wrote:
I have a cupboard full of adhesives and usually end up using double stick tape for my projects. How about you? What's your favorite adhesive? And why? Depends entirely on the project. I'm a big fan of using the right adhesive for the job. I use Yes! paste for book projects, for instance, because it's archival and sticks flat without the paper buckling. I use 3M spray adhesive when I'm doing cards and other quick projects that don't need to last forever. PVC glue for collage, glue dots for some sorts of embellishments, etc., etc., etc. -- Pat Kight |
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just wondering Pat, how do you spread your YES glue ? I have some and make
quite a mess when I try to use it. And I must put too much as it buckles a bit, vbg. Hugs from France, Joanne Depends entirely on the project. I'm a big fan of using the right adhesive for the job. I use Yes! paste for book projects, for instance, because it's archival and sticks flat without the paper buckling. I use 3M spray adhesive when I'm doing cards and other quick projects that don't need to last forever. PVC glue for collage, glue dots for some sorts of embellishments, etc., etc., etc. -- Pat Kight |
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Jo wrote:
just wondering Pat, how do you spread your YES glue ? I have some and make quite a mess when I try to use it. And I must put too much as it buckles a bit, vbg. Yes, it's a bit on the thick side, isn't it? I use a flexible metal cake-frosting spatula (one of many kitchen implements that have found their way to my studio) like this one: http://makeashorterlink.com/?B1FA21D17 Lay the work face-down on a piece of waxed paper or scrap, trowel a dab of YES paste on the back, and then use the spatula to spread the paste in an even layer over the work, the thinner the better. -- Pat Kight |
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Isn't it amazing how our kitchen stuff keeps disappearing into the
stamp/craft room? I also use my stiff acrylic spatulas to spread the YES. It really holds well. Once, I also used a putty knife borrowed from my husband's storage cabinet. Just wondering what other uses for kitchen or common household items we all may have found useful in the stamp room? Please share. TIA Cheryl "Pat Kight" wrote in message ... Jo wrote: just wondering Pat, how do you spread your YES glue ? I have some and make quite a mess when I try to use it. And I must put too much as it buckles a bit, vbg. Yes, it's a bit on the thick side, isn't it? I use a flexible metal cake-frosting spatula (one of many kitchen implements that have found their way to my studio) like this one: http://makeashorterlink.com/?B1FA21D17 Lay the work face-down on a piece of waxed paper or scrap, trowel a dab of YES paste on the back, and then use the spatula to spread the paste in an even layer over the work, the thinner the better. -- Pat Kight |
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Wait until you discover that makeup "tools" (grooming kits) and eye shadow
goes a long way in the crafting world to. :-) ARTEMIS http://www.xenaholic.com "Cheryl" wrote in message ... Isn't it amazing how our kitchen stuff keeps disappearing into the stamp/craft room? I also use my stiff acrylic spatulas to spread the YES. It really holds well. Once, I also used a putty knife borrowed from my husband's storage cabinet. Just wondering what other uses for kitchen or common household items we all may have found useful in the stamp room? Please share. TIA Cheryl "Pat Kight" wrote in message ... Jo wrote: just wondering Pat, how do you spread your YES glue ? I have some and make quite a mess when I try to use it. And I must put too much as it buckles a bit, vbg. Yes, it's a bit on the thick side, isn't it? I use a flexible metal cake-frosting spatula (one of many kitchen implements that have found their way to my studio) like this one: http://makeashorterlink.com/?B1FA21D17 Lay the work face-down on a piece of waxed paper or scrap, trowel a dab of YES paste on the back, and then use the spatula to spread the paste in an even layer over the work, the thinner the better. -- Pat Kight |
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At a liquidator store, I picked up some plastic things that are supposed to
be used to put Bondo on car bodies - 3 different sizes from about the size of a credit card up to about 5x7, thinner on one edge (kind of like an ice scraper would be). Paid a dollar for them, husband laughed and laughed (was I planning to start doing body work on our old station wagon, perhaps?) I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have used these for spreading glue thin & even. Because they are flexible plastic, you can let the glue or whatever dry on them, and then you just flex them back & forth and it flakes right back off. And I got the last laugh - shortly after I bought these, hubby appropriated the largest one for some putty work he was doing! -- Cheryl in Wisconsin "Cheryl" wrote in message ... Isn't it amazing how our kitchen stuff keeps disappearing into the stamp/craft room? I also use my stiff acrylic spatulas to spread the YES. It really holds well. Once, I also used a putty knife borrowed from my husband's storage cabinet. Just wondering what other uses for kitchen or common household items we all may have found useful in the stamp room? Please share. TIA Cheryl "Pat Kight" wrote in message ... Jo wrote: just wondering Pat, how do you spread your YES glue ? I have some and make quite a mess when I try to use it. And I must put too much as it buckles a bit, vbg. Yes, it's a bit on the thick side, isn't it? I use a flexible metal cake-frosting spatula (one of many kitchen implements that have found their way to my studio) like this one: http://makeashorterlink.com/?B1FA21D17 Lay the work face-down on a piece of waxed paper or scrap, trowel a dab of YES paste on the back, and then use the spatula to spread the paste in an even layer over the work, the thinner the better. -- Pat Kight |
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Cheryl wrote:
Isn't it amazing how our kitchen stuff keeps disappearing into the stamp/craft room? I also use my stiff acrylic spatulas to spread the YES. It really holds well. Once, I also used a putty knife borrowed from my husband's storage cabinet. Just wondering what other uses for kitchen or common household items we all may have found useful in the stamp room? Oh, my, where to start. Things that have been permanently relocated to my studio: * The icing spatula I mentioned * Blender, used for recycling junk mail into handmade paper. * Toaster oven (moved to garage for better ventilation) now dedicated to polymer clay and shrink plastic * Rolling pin, also used for poly clay and ... flattening things. * A couple of cookie sheets * An old strainer (useful for draining paper pulp) * Kitchen tongs, very handy for holding cardstock while heating EP, etc. * Ice pick, pressed into service as an awl and never returned upstairs * Rubber husband (jar opener) which got turned into a background stamp. Rubber gloves, ditto. * A couple of potholders, for dealing with hot stuff * A chef's apron (I'm as messy in the studio as I am in the kitchen, and I had two) * Numerous boxes of toothpicks, waxed paper, zip-lock bags, etc., or partial contents therefrom * Empty spice jars with shaker tops - I like them for embossing powder and those teensy beads-without-holes and such. * Um ... what else? Several spoons. At least one table knife. A few of those Glad kitchen containers. A plastic mixing bowl with a tight-fitting lid. For the most part, these have been one-way relocations. It's not a great idea to move utensils back and forth between kitchen and studio (a lot of what we use to make art should *not* be ingested). But, heck, it's a good excuse to get new kitchen gadgets! Not to mention all the coffee mugs and drinking glasses that tend to gather in the studio while I'm working. Those go back to the kitchen ... eventually. -- Pat Kight |
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