Adhesive Removal

Adhesive removal can be a lifesaver for papercraft projects and maybe even for your photos

"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking ball at the site
~Frank Lloyd Wright"

What does this little piece of plastick-y stuff have to do with paper crafting?

Have you ever tried an Adhesive Removal tool? Let me ask you something else as well: Have you ever had one of those days where everything you stuck down wasn't in the right place? I sure have and it can be very upsetting when there is still some residue left on my project from the adhesive I used.

One brilliant solution to this problem is to use Stampin' Up!'s Dotto or Repositionable Glue Dots on your projects while you are planning them out. Dotto gives just enough tackiness to keep something in place long enough for you to decide if you want it there permanently, yet it allows you to move your item over and over again without fixing itself fast to the cardstock or designer paper.

Another product you can use is Stampin' Up!'s Two-Way Glue Pen. Remember once it is allowed to dry, it becomes a non-permanent fixative too. You can just roll it off your page when you no longer require it to be there.

What if you have used snail adhesive or double-sided tape on your project instead though, and you have to move it after all?

First, use a thin bladed item such as a finely made envelope opener or knife to remove the two bits of stuck cardstock or paper from each other with the minimum of damage. Ease off the wrongly stuck stuff and see if you can get all of the residue from the tape to come with it.

Is there is still a bit of the sticky stuff left on the project, take out your Stampin' Up! Adhesive Removal tool. It looks like a lump of square resin but it is in fact a lifesaver in a situation like this.

Use the corner of the eraser and press it firmly onto the leftover stickiness. Now carefully roll and lift the tool off the paper. The stickiness (or part thereof) should now be on the resin.

Roll or pull the sticky stuff from the resin and discard it, and if there are any more bits that need to be removed from your project, apply the tool again, rolling and lifting the unwanted stuff off.

This tool is really best to be used with Stampin' Up! Snail Adhesive. I have personally found it to be effective with removing unwanted residue from photographs as well at times. You can even try it when removing that tacky stuff left from old 'magnetic' photo albums. It could work, and you will have saved your photographs in the process.

If your eraser grows sticky bits, trim them off with your paper snips and start afresh.

By the way, the photo shows my own personal Adhesive Remover tool. I use it a lot, as you can probably tell from the state of it! Lol!

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