Best adhesive for invitations?

dc*prep

I'm mounting our invitation panel on cardstock, and I'm wondering what kind of adhesive works best. Glue stick? Glue dots? Double-sided tape?

stacelace22

I used the double sided sticky tape on the handy plastic roll outs. Worked great!

Bimbi284

Ditto! I know scotch brand makes one, as does tombow. You can pick 'em up near the scrapbooking stuff at any craft store pretty much.

dc*prep

So is that different than regular double-sided tape?

Bimbi284

Yup! it looks more like those white-out rolls where you roll it out and a strip of white-out remains...except in this case it is a strip of adhesive that remains. It is stronger than regular double-sided tape and also won't weigh as much as double-sided tape.

blondie424

We used this and it worked great for us.  We had regualr ivory cardstock invites that we attached to stardream cardstock.

http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog/productdetail.jsp?CATID=cat2782&PRODID=prd21823

LittleSweetie

Depending on what type of cardstock it is, you could try photo squares (easy to apply) or 3M double-sided table (messier).  We had a Petallics paper (similar to Stardream), and the photo squares wouldn't work.  We used a 3M industrial strength double-sided tape that came on a giant roll, and you had to cut it apart (it would stick to the scissors...!), then stick and remove the backer paper.  But if your paper doesn't have a shimmer/shine/sheen to it, you could probably get away with photo squares or a lower grade tape.  HTH!

Bimbi284

We used this guy:http://www.scotchbrand.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/ScotchBrand/Scotch/Products/ProductCatalog/?PC_7_RJH9U52300LM30I87QR3ES18H7_nid=D8DFXLPX4Xgs9JKGGNXP95gl08MN1B6M9Rbl

And also this guy:

http://www.restockit.com/Mono-Adhesive-With-Dispenser-Permanent-1-3-x472-(TOM62201).html?source=googlepla&utm_source=googlepla&utm_medium=affiliateprogram

FYI: The Tombow ones broke pretty easily, but the 3M one was awesome, and I felt it was a bit stronger than the Tombow adhesive. However, both worked kept stuff stuck together! All of our papers were stardream too.

TriSaratops10

Anyone use a Xyron?

Steph0871

oohh thanks for this! I was going to ask the same question in a few weeks.

I was really thinking of doing those photo squares, LS.  Our actual invite is on paper with a cardboard backing... but then there's a "gate" thing that holds it all together.  I think it'd be better to have the guest be able to separate the invite from the backing.