Have you ever wondered what you’d do with some of the many adhesive products you see on the market today? Like you, I often think, “I’m sure that product’s really cool—if only I knew what to do with it.” We’ve put together a few techniques using adhesive to get you started. Hopefully, they’ll answer a few questions for you, and get you playing to find some of your own great techniques.
Adhesives Stickers
These fun adhesives will help you add a little sparkle to any project quickly. And they’re super easy to use!
Simply remove the backing from the sticker, place the design on your cardstock, peel away the cover paper, and apply glitter.
It’s that quick! If you want to use a couple different colors of glitter, simply peel away only a portion of the cover paper, and apply your first glitter.
Then peel away the remaining cover paper, and apply your second glitter.
In just moments, you’ll have a fun, sparkly accent for your page. Our cute cupcake came from Baby Cakes Design Adhesives by Clearsnap.
Glue Pens
We all have a glue pen in our stash of tools. But your glue pen can do more than just adhere cardstock and photos to your page. It’s also the perfect tool to apply glitter to a small area, adding that little bit of zing to your page. I used my glue pen to add glitter to one of the flowers on my patterned paper.
To create this effect, simply trace the outline with your glue pen,
add glitter and shake off the excess glitter. I loved this paper before, but the glitter just added that little something extra.
You can also use your glue pen to add dimension to your page by applying flock to buttons or brads.
Apply glue directly to the brad,
dip the brad in flock,
rub the flock into the glue with your finger,
shake off the excess, and you’ve got a colorful, flocked brad!
Try using the Zig 2-Way Glue pen by EK Sucess for this technique.
Glue Pads
The best invention since white bread! Oh yes, I was that excited when I saw glue pads hit the market. They’re just like ink pads, but they’re glue! What a great way to apply glitter and flock to you pages. You can use them with stamps or to cover whole pieces of chipboard. For these projects, I used the Essential Glue Pad from Tsukineko.
To stamp an image, simply “ink” your stamp using the glue pad,
stamp the image,
and apply glitter or flock and shake off the excess.
Tip: One thing we found while using flock is that it works best with less intricate designs.
Another technique to try is covering an entire piece of chipboard with glitter or flock. First, simply press the chipboard onto the glue pad,
then apply glitter or flock and shake off the excess.
It’s that easy. And once it’s dry, the glitter stays in place!
Adhesive Sheets
Perhaps you couldn’t think of a use for a full sheet of adhesive, but I’m here to tell you, this is one product you’re going to want in your toolbox. It’s great for adhering those tiny or intricate elements your page, such a little letters.
Cut the sheet of adhesive to the desired size.
Then apply the adhesive sheet to your patterned paper or cardstock.
Cut out your letters or shape.
Remove the letters or shapes for the backing,
and adhere to your page.
Using adhesive sheets is so much easier than trying to apply adhesive to tiny pieces. And if you’re using an alphabet die, you’ve got extra letters to use another day.
While adhesive sheets make light work of adhering tiny embellishments, you can also think big when it comes to this great product. Using a sheet of adhesive is also a great way to cover a large area of your page.
Here I’ve created a quick border for my page using a strip of adhesive and flock. Trim an adhesive sheet to the size of your page and apply to the edge. You’ve covered a large area of your page in no time! Give the 12″ x 12″ Adhesive Sheets from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L a try for these great project ideas.
We hope this quick look at a few adhesive techniques gets your creative juices flowing. Leave us a comment and let us know how you’re using these great adhesive products. We’ll select two winners from the comments to each win an adhesive grab bag.
Lara Penrod
Senior Editor
Thanks for the great tips! Never thought of embelishing my own brads- fun!
Thanks for the wonderful tips and info. It’s really amazing all the things you can do with adhesive once you start creating and using it.
Thanks so much!
wow, great ideas. I’m always trying to figure out how to use the glitter, etc…
Thanks for all the great tips. Hope to find some time this weekend to try some out!
Wow! Those glue pads are neat, never knew they existed gotta try them!
Lots of great ideas! Thanks for sharing them.
thanks for the tips! I am really learning alot this week.
Wow! No excuses for not having beautiful embellishments anymore! So easy (so it seems anyway). Thanks for the great ideas!
Wow great tips! Have to try out some of my adhesive in a different way now
looks like i’m going to have to go buy a glue stamp pad – too cool
great adhesive ideas! I need to use my glitter now!
And I have some of that Zig glue. Will totally have to try it!
I love using my Zig glue pen to get glittered hand drawn doodles on plain card stock. I also use it for adhering very thin intricate embellishments because I can “draw” the adhesive on the back and get just the right amount for delicate items (no big globs of glue from a bottle)
I just had my 2nd child, and I am out of all adhesives except glue sticks…pick me pretty please! : )
Loved the glue pen idea to apply glitter to a design on pp. I use my glue pen for other things, but never thought of that one!
I dont know what I would do with out my glue pen. I use it for just about everything. Example: To adhere lil chipboard letters or shapes to a project. Also to add a touch a glitter to projects. Thanks for sharing these techniques.
Love the idea of applying the flocking to the brad. I wouldn’t have thought about that, but think I will give it a try now. I just bought some new glitters too!
Renae
rpcrafter
I absolutely adore those sheets by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L – they are so versatile. I also enjoy using the Xyron sticker makers for smaller items as well.
awesome ideas–thanks!!
Fabulous post as always! I love the flocked brad and I’m going to have to pull out my glue pen and start glittering some paper!
These tips are great! I can’t wait to try them.
Great ideas! I love to use the Sakura Quickie glue pen in the pen tool of my Pazzles Inspiration–I can write any title or “draw” an image, then cut it out and add glitter or perfect pearls–looks sooo cool!
I learned so much from this post!!! Thank you for the awesome ideas, I haven’t used my glue pen for ages and your idea for jazzing up patterned paper is one I am going to try next time I scrap!
Tons of great glitter ideas! I never would have thought to use the glue pen with patterned paper. I’m going to start doing it tonight.
Love that glue pad.
Thanks for doing a week of adhesives. I have only used tape runners and the xyron.
Thanks for the great tips! It’s nice to have a refresher.
love the flocked brad technique. I’ll have to try it, too. I love trying new techniques. And I think I might nieed to get a Xyron.
love the flocked brad technique. I’ll have to try it, too. I love trying new techniques. And I think I might nieed to get a Xyron.
I loved the idea of using a glue pen to outline part of a patterned paper and then adding glitter – so cute!!
Thanks for all of the wonderful tips!! Some I have used, others I will use now!! Can’t scrap without adhesives!!
Lots of great information – thanks for this post!
I’ll be buying some glue sheets with my next scrapbooking supply run.
I’ve wondered how the glue pads worked. It seems like it would leave your stamps or whatever you use a sticky mess. Thanks for the information you posted. I think I may have to try one and see if I like them.
Eileen
Thanks for the ideas!
My current favorite is to take a diecut or chipboard shape and use my gluepad to coat it with glue. Then I like to sprinkle glitter on top. I can’t ever have too much sparkle
Oh, my. I never thought about adding my very own glitter to my patterned paper! I LOVE that idea. Going to try it now.
Thanks! I can’t wait to make my pages sparkly!
never thought of using glue on a brad before thanks for the idea
Great ideas and tips. Can’t wait to try them!
glue pads were the best invention ever!!
Great techniques!
I’ve never seen a glue pad, but I’m going to have to keep an eye out for them as they seem like a pretty cool tool. LOVE the ideas for ways to use the glue pens too!
I’ve never seen a glue pad, but I’m going to have to keep an eye out for them as they seem like a pretty cool tool. LOVE the ideas for ways to use the glue pens too!
Great ideas & techniques! I can’t wait to try these!!
Wow! This is great stuff I had no idea about! Thank you!
Thanks for the tips!! I can’t wait to try them!!
Thanks for all the tips!
thanks for all these techniques… I never though of using glue on a brad… clever idea
I love to use glue pad with my stamps and with glitter… so beautiful