Adhesives And Tapes

What Adhesives And Tapes To Use For Your Card Making Projects

Adhesives and tapes are one of the basic card making supplies. You need adhesives, tapes or paper glue for most card making projects. Whether you do collage, work with rubber stamps, quilling, paper punch art, or just a simple photo greeting card, you will need one of these items to affix or assemble your projects.

Having and using the right adhesive, tape or glue will ensure that your handmade greeting cards are well assembled and not falling apart in the envelope on its way to the recipient.

Glue Sticks

You definitely need glue sticks. They are very convenient for adhering punchies (punchout pieces). Great for kids crafts too. Not messy and no sticky little fingers.

Foam Tape

Foam tapes are great for a 3D effect. They are doublesided usually with a green backing paper. I use a lot of foam tapes for my rubber stamping project cards. These come in rolls of different width. The narrower width tape is great for attaching stamped images onto cards.

Double Sided Tape

Doublesided tapes are great for layering cards. Just cut out to the right length, attach to your paper. Peel off the paper on the tape and paste onto another layer or your basic blank card. No mess!

I love UHU glue. No affiliate but just find that it sticks better than others. Just my preference. Sometime when the glue got onto the card, I'll wait for awhile and rub it with an eraser and it usually comes off neatly. (Make sure that you use a clean eraser for this task.) UHU glue comes in both tube and stick form.

Card Making Tips: It is not necessary to buy acid free glue if you are just making greeting cards unless you are also into scrapbooking. Anyway, because of the growing interest in scrapbooking, you will be able to find acid free glue and paper supplies almost everywhere. Just look at the label on the product to check if the glue is acid free.

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