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DIY Invitations - best way to make them stick?

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    SaraFoxy0328    03/28/2010   Dallas, TX

    We are DIYing our invitations - ordered pocketfolds, but the backing for the invitation and then the actual wording part will need to be glued to the pocketfold.  What adhesive do you recommend?  I want something fairly easy to work with because I can be somewhat of a klutz, and I don't want to have to constantly stop to clean up spilled glue.

    Any recommendations are welcome, thanks ladies!

     
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    JoJo Bananas    August 21, 2010   Santa Cruz, CA

    I will be using Scotch brand tape runners. I think they are fool-proof and definitely not messy at all.

     
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    toothfairyb    September 4, 2010   Vancouver, BC

    I used the Scotch double sided tape pen. I found it on sale at Michaels and it works fantastically. You just need little spots of tape and it sticks really well :)

     
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    Lovespearls    June 13, 2010   New York & DC & Austin

    Getting a xyron is a really great option.  They will 100% stick with that because it applies adhesive to the entire peice of paper.  If you use a coupon at michaels or ACmoore you can get them 1/2 off and they are more reasonably priced.  You can use the coupons on the refils too.  I use mine all the time and loooove it!

     
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    grace8367    September 6, 2009   Chicago

    I LOVE my xyron and bought it for the exact same project.  I ended up using it for a million other projects as well.

     
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    AzinAugust    August 2010   Sedona, AZ

    I love rubber cement, but if you are klutzy it's probably not for you, I agree with the above bees and say DOUBLE SIDED TAPE :o) It's great for everything

     
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    rabbit    September 3, 2010   Milwaukee, WI

    glue dots and glue lines are great to perma sticking paper to paper! I am also a fan of archival scrapbooking glue sticks- they're spongy on one end with a very fine point on the other end. It've been able to do really small, delicate projects with it without mess or fuss.

     
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    Chartreuse    March 6, 2010   Belize

    I used a regular old glue stick

     
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    amariem25    October 2009  

    I used a tape runner that I bought at Michael's.  I think the brand was memory craft or something like that (I didn't like the Scotch brand because it always got jammed).  But if I could go back and do it again I would have used the 5'' Xyron machine.  Xyron is awesome!

    I was initially going to use glue dots on each corner of my invite to adhere them, but I didn't like how they raised the invite up off of the pocketfolds (and the invite still sunk down in the center unless I put a glue dot there too).  Using 5 glue dots per invite would have been pretty expensive.

     

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